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Show THE PKESS AM) HOAIE 1SDUSTKY. We are just in receipt of a letter from Mr. Jas. B. Bloor of Salt Lake city, dated March 26, 1894, soliciting an expression ex-pression on the eubject of the policy of the home industry movement now bo vigorously urged all over this territory. terri-tory. To say that we are in hearty accord ac-cord with the entire idea, but faintly expresses our feelings on the subject. There can be no doubt of the soundness sound-ness of the policy and it ought, by all means, to be broadly accepted and practiced. prac-ticed. It can but be provocative of good, and patriotic Utonians can do nothing better than to sustain it upon juBt and equitable principles. We have many and varied manufacturing manufac-turing interests, nearly all of them eelf-suetaining. In view of all this and the furtner fact that nearly all business men and citizens generally fjrget that the newspapers are also manufacturing enterprises themselves, may we ask why it is that the newspapers news-papers alone ; - called to work in this cause at their o a expense? Why the Herald, the Trlnne and the News should each couu ibute $1,000 without a correspond t tee fit, or any recog. nition other h&n a perfunctory expression ex-pression of tt Lkt v annot Bee. The worth of the u?ij.ita;ii of the press is incidently acknovlec'pt 1. That is all Has it ever ente.tx I'.r. Bloor's mind, or the manufacta.'ji-i' iither,that there is a oetter mode of expressing their obligations ob-ligations than this formal way? And one which would, in t.nd of itself, prove a very valuable ttyle of advertising the merits of the how e manufacturing policy as Euggested, belter even than anything else, and in adopting it, while serving their own purposes best, they would at the same time help out those other home manufacturing enterprises, the papers. Let the Manufacturing Exchange prepare a eet of advertising cuts, or type advertisements "with cut illustrations, illustra-tions, and pay a descent price for them according to the fair value of the mediums, make a yearly contract with the papers to pay this, one half in goods of their own manufacture and the other in cash. Th? policy the Ex change proposes to launch cannot be made a success unless it has the cordial and united support of the entire press of the territorj . This is the only equitable equit-able way it can be asked. No set of papers on earth are more freely ridden than those of Utah, and yet we doubt if there is a single one of them which is making money, and many of them are Bteadily loeing. It is a poor rule which requires that one party to a contract con-tract shall have all the profit while the otner has all the trouble, all the worry, all the expense and all the risk,and betides be-tides must pay its own expenses. The press of Utah does not rank, as a rule, with the papers of other western west-ern states and here is the cause of it: Too much "thankye work" is expected of them and done by them, If the churches, schools, benevolent societies and enterprises, etc., etc., paid but five cents a line each insertion tor the complimentary com-plimentary advertising they receive, each papei could pay its way and make at least a decent living, whereas, as it is, they toil and spin but other more f rtnnate enterprises wear the robes and are filled sumptuously each day-We day-We submit to Mr. Bloor and the manufacturers' manu-facturers' bureau if this is fair, or if it encourages the papers to put forth their ItBt efforts or to do their beet work. The papers cannot support by their own efforts alone, every principle of hich they may approve. If one use ful manufacturing enterprise deserves home eupport, home patronage, and Lome consideration why may not another? Why should all the gratuitous gratuit-ous work be placed upon the already overburdened shoulders of the papers and all of the pay work be enjoyed by ther lines of manufacturing workers? If Mr. Bloor can answer us this riddle xe will see what we can do. |