| Show prove woolen mills of the of the woolen mills co who by the way is not a republican langha at the way the republican party talks of encouragement to home industries daring a campaign and ignores that principle in practice now there are the woolen mills for example he goes on to eay giving employment employ mant and support to some two hundred fannies close down the mills permanently or remove them entirely and provos laon would decrease one thousand it is about tho only industry ind of importance of which the city can boadt the mills have suffered in the general depression he continues and the company was also caught in the provo boom it expended twelve thousand dollars in putting in an electric light plant for the progress of the city that has been little or no profit to the company in fact the mills have barely paid expenses for two years and it has been a tian at ames if the company had not better celoso tha mills down until after the depression were our well provided for that it would surely be done with these facts before it the council elected on a platform of en to home industries cees no advantage nf having its streets lighted when the rat has been put down to the same basis on which the mills are run barely paying ex pen seaTha money thus paid out does not go from the city but is kept circulating among the provo people by means of the companas comp anys water rates salaries and taxes very little goes in dividends we the provo milla oo 00 as a home company and what is spent in patronizing it goes to build ap the city were the electric light plant owned by a foreign syndicate we would not ba eo anxious to see it illuminating but this is a time when utah people should taka a pride in patronizing homo M eions the more home work that ie furnished in a community the more oTis it is republican city councils especially should remember this principle and seek to encourage in every legitimate way the home industries of their constituents |
