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Show LABOR AND SUPPLY BUREAU SERVICE """ "t . Help Of All Kinds Can Be Supplied By This Bureau The Bureau has been requested to touch upon the "Buy At Home" Idea with a view to showing wherein It is to our advantage, henco our duty, to support home manufactories and local retailers. Hero are just a few reasons to that end: 1. Three years ago a great many of our needs and luxuries were supplied sup-plied by European nations; three years ago tho United Sta.tes was a debtor nation, now sho Is the greatest great-est creditor in the world. Conditions forced us to patronize ourselves, therefore this financial shifting. 2. Having an abundance of raw materials, ir we Insist on foreign made goods It means that we send our raw materials abroad, pay foreign for-eign labor and foreign manufacturers for their work and Investments, pay freight both ways, and support a greater number of middle men who get the goods to our doors. 3. The Inventive genius at homo remains undeveloped and unencour-aged unencour-aged If tho results of their labors are riot profitable. And this Inventive genius is one ot the greatest assets of the nation. 4. Tho city with large pay rolls is the live and prosperous city. How can we have pay rolls If we do not buy tho goods of the factories nnd plants that create these pay rolls? G. What Is now quoted at $2.20. Where? At Chicago. If Utah had thousands of bread eaters who were not wheat growers, but paid laborers in converting our raw materials Into manufactured products, the quotations quota-tions on wheat would be at home, and not at Chicago. 6. It Is poor economy for our manufacturers to have to seek markets mar-kets elsewhere while wo seek our goods of tho same kind from elsewhere. else-where. Here is a costly duplication of freights, and we pay for It. 7. If this useless duplication of freights is eliminated there would bo ample cars for coal delivery and other legitimate purposes. 8. It is absurd for Utahns to demand de-mand Louisiana cane sugar In this center of beet sugar Industry, or to call for condensed milk, knit goods, breakfast foods, etc., when tho very best of these nro manufactured right here where wo need their laborers la-borers to furnish a market for our agricultural products. 1 9. Utah raises an over abundanco of perishable products. Can we expect ex-pect great Industries to grow up In our midst if we do not demand ot tho grower canned goods, pickles, Jams, jellies, etc., . manufactured from these homo grown stuffs? Tons of them go to waste every year bo-causo bo-causo wo think thoso from elso-whero elso-whero aro better. 10. Wo grow an abundanco ot wool, but we send It East to have It cleaned and manufactured Into yarns and cloths, only to pay tho freight both ways aud support consumers con-sumers who should bo on tho pay rolls of Utah and eating Utah products. pro-ducts. 11. Six Utah companies have established es-tablished fifteen sugar factories In this state, giving employment to about 3000 workmen for olovon months each yoar, and furnishing a suro market for ono of tho most abundant and profitable crops wo have. They aro one of tho greatest sources ot rovonue in tho stato and hnvo dono as much ns any ono factor fac-tor to bring us prosperity. What would havo been our condition wlth- out them? This Id only ono cxamrlo of what wo would attain If wo had dozens ot largo 'manufactories paying pay-ing for our products and our labor nnd supporting consumers for our othor stuffs. 12. No stato In tho Union has a greater abundanco and variety ot undeveloped un-developed resources than Utnh. How can wo expect theso resources to bo doveloped If wo support Industries from outsldo at tho cost of our own? 13. Whon taxes, rents nnd donations dona-tions nro to be paid, we immediately look to tho business Interosts to carry car-ry tho burden. When wo want an accommodation by way of credit, wo aro very "pleasant with tho local merchant. Isn't it only fair and Just thon when wo have a dollar to spend that wo continue to call on him that wo may all prosper together? II. Itemombor, "The Lord helps thoso who help themselves." |