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Show Wake Up! Wake Up! As this paper has lcpeatcdly urged, this town and county need those Industries, In-dustries, factories, etc., that consumo the raw material of this northern country and cause them to be exported export-ed as finished products. There is llttfo reason for sending the wool of this country to outside factories to be worked up into fabrics and returned here with the increased cost of freight, handling, etc.; there is little reason for slipping beef and hogs away from here to Chicago -and Omaha packing houses to be returned in canvas can-vas bags or as corned beef; why should wc ship away our hides and have them made Into shoes and returned tous over two thousand miles of railroad? Why should wc not have woolen mills that supply our own needs largely, and at the same time export for other consumers? Why should wc not have a packing house, and a tannery? Couldn't shoes be made In this valley as well as anywhere else? If this clty'and county want such factories, and want them bad enough, they certainly can be located here. Very few towns or cities get such advantages unless they really want them, and hang out a sign. Dresden, Ohio, a town of 1,800 inhabitants located an immense lion mill thero by giving a $20,000 bonus and site forsame. This mill's payroll was $24,000 per month. Logan with a population of only 7,000 can not do this much of course, but It can do as much as Hammond, Indiana, to say tho least. Hammond recently ollcied the American Steel Foundry Co. of Chicago an exemption of taxes for tlve years and a reduced water tax if It would locate Its plant In that city, and the company decided to do so. The W. 11. Conkcy printing establishment, employing moie than 1,000 people, was located In Hammond by this method, likewise the great Hammond Packing Co.'s plant. Could not Logan or some of the outside out-side towns offer some Inducement to local or foreign capital to promote Industries In-dustries that will furnish a home market mar-ket for pioducts of this country, and employment to laborers? It would be much more preferable If the valley's needs wcie supplied by local capital the people hcie have a right to the advantages that arc here in this valleybut val-leybut they should also bo alive to their oppoitunlties. "There comes a time in the tide of man which when taken at its tlood leads to success," you know, and that time has now arrived In this valley. The ball has been started lolling but It will take some pushing to keep It going. And that brings us around to organization again. The Latter-day Saints must know that their perfect organization as a religious body Is responsible In a measuie for Its marked success, and why can they not see the advantage ad-vantage of organization In a commercial com-mercial way. Every movement needs a head, and it makes little difference how much a thing may bo desired hy a large number of people, it is seldom that that thing can be secured unless there Is a united effort guided by some pel son or persons at the head. |
