Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06
How to Make Boise Prosperous

The state, county and municipal de-
partments of government also send out
of town many orders for printing, book
binding and office supplies. Even such
small articles as rubber stamps, seals.
stencils and kindred supplies used in
nearly every office are purchased from
foreign concerns, and the buyers know
that all of such articles are procurable
right here in Boise.
And so on, up or down the line, in
almost every industry or enterprise.
Boise has a broom factory. soap fac
tory. canning factory. sash and door
factories, glass works, stone cutting
and monumental establishments, brick
yards, cement pipe factory, sawmill
planning mills, creameries, candy fac
tories: firms making soft drinks, har-
ness. tents, awnings, clothing, wagons;
food products are manufactured here in
various forms and there are many other
manufacturing establishments besides
those hereinbefqre mentioned. The
writer specifically mentions the cigar
industry and the printing industry
merely because these enterprises come
directly under his own personal obser-
walton.
Lack of Loyalty.
Few II any of our local industries re-
ceive the patronage which should be
accorded them in order to insure "a
bigger and better Boise
1t Is difficult to place the RESPONSE
bility for this condition unless we place
it upon the corporate city as a whole.
There surely is lack of loyalty to home
enterprise. Collective and individual
CO. operation must be deficient, other
wise such a condition would not con-
tinue to exist.
Governor Alexander hit the bulls eye
when he said: What we now need is
cooperation, to forgive and forget and
to get in line, not for the purpose of
boosting Boise the beautiful, but to
make Boise the aggressive commercial
center between Portland and Salt
Lake"
The majority OF our citizens do not
believe we need campaign for the ac-
QUESTION of eastern homoseekers. 1t
Is stated there are three people leaving
Boise for every on who comes in. How
true this is we do not know. but con-
ditions point plainly to the fact that
our population is not increasing to any
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Homes Where Industry ThriVes.
There are three cigarmakers employ
ed in Boise when there should be so.
| The printing payroll in Boise is $780,
900 per year when it should be 100000.
If Boise consumers demand Boise pro-
ducts, we will acquire the population
without further effort. Homes are built
where industry thrives. Idaho City had
a population of many thousands when
there was work to perform in the
mines, Silver City likewise. New York
City is the metropolis of the world to-
day because it is an industrial center.
Prosperity is most evident when the in
dustrial dynamo is maintained in per-
| feet working order.
operation Spells Success.
Cooperation is the word that spells
success for a bigger and better Toise.
Let us forget ou- political and religious
differences Let us forget our various
sects, isms and creeds long enough to
buy Boise made goods. Let individual
dissension and petty strife be elimn-
ated, and let us work for municipal
loyalty first, last and all the time-re-
clprocating and cooperating, both col
lectively and individually in the pat
ronage of home MISUNDERSTANDING
Boise made goods. dealing with Boise
] business houses and employing Boise
labor at all times. whenever and where
ever possible.