Show j MOVE TO REOPEN t MILLS AT PROVO r- r Capital Already in Hand Says f President Joseph F. F Smith in fh Signed Sighed Article ASKS FOR HOME SUPPORT A IC L Confident p Project Wo Would ld be f f- f Sd Success ss If Were v t. AsslI Assured red r. r I r- r Patronize home industries Is tho the F SI spirit J. J It of OF the thc loading loading- editorial signed 1 b Joseph 1 r. r Smith president of or tho j Mormon church In the Improvement i Eras Era's January nuary Issue which appears to- to It dr day y In this article Mr lr Smith V. V e the opening of or tho the Provo woolen K t mills nn ned 1 states that the capital capitol Is II ready and waiting to start the Industry Industry Industry Indus- Indus try again as is soon as assurances are aro that tho the will receive recelo given enterprise I th the of or Utah r. r Orson P. P Hewlett president of or tin the c Manufacturers Manufacturers' rs and Merchants' Merchants asso- asso k elation commends commend the tho movement to open tho the Provo Trovo mills and favors orR tho tIli establishment of n it clothing factory as ns aswell s well so that titi product of or the thc mills ma may bo be made Into clothing In Utah In Instead instead In- In st stead d of or ln bl bing sent to eastern castern facto facto- t. t rles ries 2 The Thc resumption of or operations at tho the Provo woolen mills would he be a n boon to the whole state 1 said 1 Mr Ir Hewlett last night night- It Is particularly opportune tune tunc at ot this time when work for or tho coming winter prom promises 1st's to be he so 80 scarce j Most people In Utah know of nr the tho ex excellent excellent ox- ox quality q of or wool woolen n goods that have been made At nt Provo and If it a n at t cOln company compan ln could he bo formed to manufacture r r- ture clothing either cither nt ot Provo or Salt Lake employment would bo be given to toi i i. hundreds Th The announcement that cap can Hal Ital is read ready to open the tho mills should be he followed allowed b by Immediate assurances 4 that lo loyal l patronage will Ill bo be given b by bythe the citizens n ot of tho the state Following in part pOrt Is the article p printed TIn teil In tho the Era Encourage II Home m J- J The leaders of or tho the church have havo from the thc first favored and encouraged od V t. t home manufacture The They do so today r A AST AS- f early ns S EWer Elder J John JQhn hn Taylor C. C afterward president of or the church brought from En England the machinery for a n beet sugar plant which Wll va was man- man In Liverpool at a n cost east of or El Elder er A. A 0 O. Smoot was about that time timo mado made bishop p of or the tho Su Sugar nr ward so at named for the sugar works established there and he raised b beets ets for forthe the manufacture mant of sugar on tho the Church farm torm arm afterward Pres President Voting's lorest farm fi Subsequently shen he was called to Provo he lie and others ethers built bunt the Provo Pj-ovo woolen mills f for r many years achieved 11 a splendid splendid splendid did sue suc success ess There wan wai the Wasatch woolen mills on P Parleys Parley's rJ y creek built b- b by-A. by A. A O. O moat Smoot James I Sharp and R. R T. T Burton which for years manufactured d cloth and which was established Randall anti and In early d days s 1 Neal a I built and operated the Ogden woolen mills and conducted It Il for several several sev SC sev- sev cr eral l years It has always as been a difficult task however to con convert rt the to tho the thoi I i peed need of n patronizing tho the r pr products du l manufactured at at homo through Jh tho the energy y an and 1 thrift of ot pub PUb- li spirited lic-spirited men who w were re thus IS willing willingto to to- Invest their money mone Even with Provo vo woolen goods made I superior to cloth the mills were compelled com corn to sc seek k their main patronage In tte East and West cst Only a A. few Utah pe people were willing to wear r homemade homo homo- made clothing Capital I Is II i Tho Ogden and Wasatch asa woolen mills live lire only In memory The Provo Prove 1 mills ore are silent while we are ore today spending hundreds of or thousands of ot dollars dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars for having our OUt own wool made f Into cloth and returned to us v with Jh 1 much Inferior material mixed it to r clotho lotho ourselves and our families All this while hUe we have havo a a first class factory factor lying Idle at nt our doors Is it s this thin thina a wise policy The community ma may j nn answer for Itself V If Jf tho people were willing today to V V support s Ja a homo Institution and wear ear home mado goods these thousands might be bo f saved cd to lQ build up LIP our own V people veople and state Capital Is la ready to 10 toV V start tr the Um mills we ha have anti and with V proper encouragement to build addi additional V ones With the assurance of loyal loal SUPport SUP support support sup sup- port from front the tho public th the work could V be begin ln at once It would gl o gl employment employ employ- meet ment to many laborers boron and would be bc bei beono i ono one more mOlO LId aid toward making Jho people pee peo- V plo of the mountain inter west t self olf- supporting and Independent There If It V no flO reason no-reason reason V In V tho ho objection which V V a doubtless omo some would matte make as tho they thoy have done to all n new w on enterprises It V will not nol va pay Capital Is II at nt our comI com com- I 6 0 nand mand all that hat 1 l Iff asked of us is to lo do V our part purchase part purchase the Iho clothing anti and wear it it It ha has been domo demonstrated that thal tho the home lome goods arc just as nf good t as 19 an any wo we mL may Import from other r quarters V V. V People Can IJ He lit- When the sugar R and canning tac- tac nc- nc cV tories lories were established tho the people I were asked to grow row beets and toma toma- f V toe toes After Arter much p persuasion they have learned to tb do no o O. O l few rew would WO beV be bo V V willing to have havo this immense e source V. V of revenue rc with withdrawn lt by tho the closing r of the tho factories It If tho the people could couii V ho be persuaded dell to fia fiS 1 as loyal to homo home r V manufactured manufacture l J by wearing it a results would follow follows r rc tho the same speedily t. t s- s In that t line The capital Is III ready are arc aref f the tho people V I |