Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-26
Letters From the People
PatroniEs Home industries.


Sunday Capital News | notice by
your paper that from April to April .
is to be Western Consumers week In
Idaho and that a careful observance of
the week is urged by all citizens OF
the state.
] have been a resident of Idaho a.
great manx.years and have seen prom
Using industries here start and fail be-
cause they did not receive the patron
age which should have been given
them. 1t appears to me from careful
observations, that the patronage Of
home Industries should not be urged
and limited alone to the consumer, but
that the wholesalers and retailers
should make 1t their business to handle
and push the sale OF local manufac
tured products. even though they aid
not make within two or three cents as
much on an article as they can from
similar goods shipped from the east.
am told, and ! believe rightly, that
the local manufacturers are informed
to create a market for their goods and
| then they will be handled. know in
several instances where foreign prod
ucts shipped in here, have been pushed
by statesmen of both wholesale and re-
tail establishments and a market Gre
ated for them and IL the wholesalers
and retailers can do that for foreign
goods, they should be able to do it for
home manufacturers.
Boise has a broom factory which Is
turning out good quality OF brooms.
would like to ask how many whole
salers are handling those brooms and
pushing their sale on the outside Boise
has a soap factory which is manufac-
turing soap as good as large majority
OF the soap shipped in here. would
like to know how many wholesalers and
retailers are selling and pushing the
sale of that soap.
Boise had a canning factory which
turned out as good products as could
be purchased in cans anywhere and
yet 1t had to close down for lack Of
patronage while canned goods from
California and other states continue
to be shipped in here In car
load lots. Boise had a candy COM
pany. which recently quit business and
1t can be presumed at least that it was
lack of patronage. Boise had a soft
drink manufacturing company which
also bottled catsup and other goods Of
that line. This concern had TO quit,
again lack of patronage.
Now it cannot all be blamed on the
consumer if the wholesaler and re-
taller are not patronizing home prod
ucts and pushing their sale, not only
in Boise but on the road as well to
help Boise build up a manufacturing
business, they are curtailing the
growth Of the city. II the wholesaler
and retailer prefer buying from big
manufacturing houses in the east be-
cause they can save aefew cents by so
doing then they should not make any
Kick II the retailers purchase from the
big mail order houses where they can
make small savings.
Again / would like to know how
many local merchants are handling the
magnificent products Of the wooden
mills at Pendleton, which is a western
manufacturing company, using raw
material of the west. Seattle has a
shoe manufacturing company, which
turns out good shoes. again a western
manufacturing concern. How many
stores are handling their goods. or from
the shoe manufacturing company at
Salt Lake?
II every wholesaler and retailer in
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