Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-02-09
'ALLAS SEES START OF
STATE MOVEMENT
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mems clothing, confined his remarks
for the most part to the difficulties
in selling goods to Ore
gon dealers in competition with |
Eastern made products. He had no
fault to find with Dallas dealers, he |
said, but, in many cases, while by |
figures and price quotations, he could |
show the dealer that he could sell |
them as good goods at prices equally |
as low as Eastern manufacturers, he
found a disposition to discriminate
in favor of the latter output. Since
the dealers themselves would not ed
ucate the people in the buy at home
idea, the Oregon Manufacturers asso-
citation had undertaken to do so, and
create a demand for oregon products
which would result in requiring deal
ers to handle them and thereby every
dollars worth os capital invested in
manufacturing enterprises would be
benefited. Every dollar you spend
for Oregon made goods, said Mr.
Hoag, ''helps some oregon man or
woman to, make a living in this state
and every dollar you spend for East
ern made goods takes just that much
away from some resident of your own
state oregon manufacturers buy your
raw material. They offer you a re-
munerative market near by and in
return ask you to buy their manu-
factured materials. How can you ex-
pect them to buy of you unless you
do not return the favor? oregon
manufacturers are not, however, ask
ing you to buy goods simply because
they bear made in Oregon" tag
but rather because they offer you as
good materials and at as reasonable
price as the Eastern man"
Urges Consistency.
A. Huckestein, of Salem, made the
subject of his remarks the need OF
consistency among business men. the
buy at home idea was for their ben
eft and they should not only talk it
on all occasions, but they should
nractice it also There should be no
rivalry between business interests ex-
cept that of legitimate competition.
Towns and cities must work together.
Time was when every business man
in the valley cities believed that the
only way was to paddle his own ca
noe" and give no heed to the welfare
of ANYBODY else. That policy had re-
suited in retarding the development
of this state, and oregon for many
years had been merely a flag station
between Washington and California
it's hustlng neighbors on the North
and South. Merchants We're atralo
of competition and discouraged al
new institutions until they found tha'
every new man who came and MADE
his home among them added just tina
much to the prosperity of the com
Emunity and the property of all wa
, Increased. "The most prosperous
time in Dallas" declared Mr.. 'HucK
J estein 'is in the fall when the far
mer markets his crops, but the ore
gon Manufacturers association want
Z to make every month of the IL equal
lv as prosperous and, if this Made u
: oregon slogan and the buy at nom
2 movement receives the encourage
ment it is entitled to, that end VII
( he accomplished. What Dallas need
10 new industries and new factorie
in order that she will not have TO ue
mend alone upon the farmer Tor ne
T nrosperity and the farmer VIII ais
he benefited. There Is no need
give large bonuses for such instltt
- tions. the better way is to give thei
e announcement by purchasing the
outnut in preference to any othe
n and the factories will come oil the
Is own accord. Get back OF your lact'
rios and thus build up your city"
-e Home Goods Better.
q In closing the meeting Col. Hot'
j. declared that it was just as easy
?. ask for oregon made products as Il
Il the Eastern brands. DO not acce
l. anv other" advised Col. Hofer'' al
3 remember that the home manufactu
re ar makes a better article than u
N foreign man, because he does n
IS have to pay transportation charg
es unon raw materials for long di
ID tance, and you do not have TO p'
is freight charges upon the manufactu
a ed article"
J. on behalf of the oregon Manufa'
il ,rers association Col. Hofer thank
t. the Dallas people for attendance a
declared that this, the first meeu
for the organization of the "oreg
First Consumers League" had De
~ an auspicious one and pointed
stm greater successes in the sta
wide movement