Show SUPPORT M INDUSTRY IT is a deplorable fact said one of provos progress citizens that a building boom is really an injury to the country if engaged in too extensively because 75 per cent of the cost of building is sent out of the territory in this are embodied truths that cannot be gainsayer gain sayed we import too many essential components of a house from abroad these days and to the detriment of homo industries the lumber that is prepared in our homo forests may not be BO tine grained or apparently so cheap as that brought in from oregon or the forest in the youth and still a builder who has abo welfare of utah at heart should give home lumb er ahe preference every time by such a practice in many instances where house material can be obtained the money expended serves in various ways to build up the territory not only ia building material but in many other instances do we patro nize foreign markets to the exclusions of our own A few years ago our home industries were better sustained than today to day and with as much money in circulation then we got along much better than jn those boasted days of progress A mans labor was honored by his neighbor and a mutual exchange of the products of toil resulted in gen oral prosperity an immigrant from europe a skilled shoemaker shoe maker came from his native land last september and settled in provo he is a thorough and energetic workman but finds himself short of patronage in conversation with the writer ant yesterday the gentleman remarked that his trade served him here to bad advantage people all buy imported shoes never once thinking that by expending their money for homemade home made shoes they will get belter service and help to support an honest laboring man in the community the testimony of this shoemaker shoe maker was that ho is actually suffering want through the indiscrete practice of those who should bo bis friends and who ho had been taught in foreign lands would aid him in his adopted country and lome good readers the question of supporting home industry is a serious one and requires more than your sympathy abo principle must be carried out in actual practice As yon love your home and neighbors so lend your support and encouragement to home artisans and homo institutions |