| Show DOME CLUBS the merchants marcha ata of salt lake are talking of organizing a home consumption club whose aims shall be to encourage 7 e tho the use of utah made products pre ducts As repeatedly mentioned in these columns utah is every year sending out hundreds of thousands ot of dollars that could be retained in circulation at home if the consumers were wise in their purchases and gave homemade home made products the preference fe ronce any organization which will tend to promote such purchases ought to be encouraged ve believe a home consumption club could be profitably organized r an in overy every cit city find and town of the territory while all of our citizens may not agree as to the expediency of giving bounties and bonuses there can be no difference as to the policy of giving the tha preference prefer pre forence onca to homemade home made articles such as would be ba arg urged ged by home bome consumption clubs the spindles and looms of the provo woolen mi mills Us tire are idle the deseret woolen mills at salt lake are foon eoon going goin 11 to close down the mills at beaver andRi and kingston naston and orderville derville Or and brigham city have been doing nothing for many months the excellent plant at beaver having been ifyu for more than two years many 0 of f our best mines are lying yin 0 idle the prospects for wool are not flattering and yet the dram on the money of me territory tory from the outside Is is something appalling ap in provo city there is invested at least five hun dred thousand dollar of eastern money the ho interest on which will average 10 per cent making fifty thousand dollars sent out from this city yearly as interest money then there are the enormous ius insurance urance po carried the money for which is also nearly all sent out of utah fifty thousand dollars at least in life aid fire instance ins mance tance policies are sent out ot of 11 J ernp J amu manually anu ll 11 u 1 all ally 7 rm I 1 i aling al ing 8 a I 1 r i I 1 I 1 thousand dollars f alt Y alone that goes to swell I 1 the coffers of foreign capitalists Then when we consider the enormous sums sent out for woolen goods and other foreign articles which might as well be produced here at home it is plain to be seen that this little city la is paying an enormous tribute to foreign industries and capitalists Is thero any wonder that the homes of the people are being mortgaged more mare and more every year the drain on us from the outside is too heavy and our income too small to meet these outside demands and therefore the people seek relief by mortgaging their homes thinking all the time that better times wi will T corde conae every year however we buy more and more from the outside and loan more and more money from eastern capitalists which all tend to mako make times closer ZIE THE E quller would like to know if the people do not think now nov that it is ia about time to retrench if they do not believe that we on ought ht to look more to our horne home interests no industry in utah such as the provo woolen mills should ba be allowed to languish for the want of patronage patro aage if the people sli slight ht their home inter ests they sin am against themi themselves elves and retribution is sure to come therefore let home consumption iou duos claus bo be organized and aad a healthily hoalt health bly ly Benti sentiment ment be ba en engendered en dered in favor of supporting home industries |
