Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-02-03
ENCOURAGE YOUR OWN"

ENCOURAGE YOUR OWN"
Passing recently shop which young me-
chanc of good trade, had been occupying, we
found it closed. The sign was down, and all
was silent as the tomb. The cause was natu-
rally asked.
Was he temperate Yes Was he atten-
tive and industrious Yes. Were his prices
reasonable! The same as others asked. Was
he DESTROYS to locate at home He was. Then
why had he closed his shop! Because patron
age was not extended to him. He waited for
months, but received scarcely work enough to
keep soul and body together--while some of
our citizens we're at the same time procuring
their work from other towns,--no better eXecu-
ted than he was able to furnish at lower price.
Encourage your own" said we. But our
train of thought was disturbed by an invitation
to step into a cabinet makers warehouses;
Here was as fine supply of furniture as deco
rated Faneuil Hall at the great Fair. Sofas,
bureaus, chairs and hundred etceteras, were
displayed around the room. And where do you
find purchasers for all these said we to the in
dustrious manufacturer.
Oh, they 90 to the New York and Boston
markets.
To the Boston market, we exclaimed, why
eighbor-has just purchased some articles
from Boston at great bargain he thinks-a So
ia much like that for forty dollars--some splen-
did chairs too--he did not know there were any
like them in town, until now see you have
some here so much like them that l suppose
you have taken the pattern.
That sofa and those chairs too, were of my
own manufacture--aDd he has paid for them in
addition to the price ask here, two freights and
commission, besides a small bill for repairs of
injury by moving
Is it possible said we, then full sure our
motto, Encourage your own" is not only pa.
triotic but also economical.
Mr.. -has all his coats made in the city
no tailor Of his own town can ever make fit
they are only convenient to call upon when a
button gets of, or the elbow needs stitch
lie handed in an old coat to one of our estab-
llslied taors, with high co nmendation upon
the workmanship and wonder that none OF the
town tailors could do so well.
'Who made this coat sir! inquired the tail.
or, as he cast his eyes over the work.
A Mr.. -, of the city.
Oh yes, he is a very good workman--he
served his time with me, and has just establish
ed himself in the city. | see however he has
not paid quite the attention to stitching the col.
lar used to require OF hm--and suppose a
pressure of work has compelled him to make a
little longer stitches than used to let pass
However he will no doubt improve.
Encourage your own thought VIC if you
wish to save yourself from the chagrn that was
manifested in the patrons countenance.
There is no smoke from that brass founders
furnace--his door is open to be sure and he is
standing in it. but his lathe is still. Well neigh
Dor, how is business Dull--had no orders
from Boston for three months. Don't you find
town work! Scarcely any, it is all procured
from Boston. Have they any better faculties
fr doing work cheap in the city, than in this
town! None: we have every facility they pos
sess in Boston for manufacturing, and cheaper
rents: bnt still the work goes there. and we are
idle.
lfthis policy drives the honest and industrious
mechanic to the aims house how much better il
will then appear to Encourage your own.
What fine toned piano. Only listen. 1t is
better than Giibert's-it must be imported
Who made it 1t was made at our organ fac.
tory: and yet while there are more than hun.
dred pianos in use in town, there is scarcely
enough support given to the industrious and in.
genious manufacturer, to insure them living
What fine and useful tune might be made Of
the words Encourage your own
Here is new store Just opened for "ten days
only" with the fag end Of some stock which
city purchasers will not look at. "Great Bar.
gans--at less than cost" are hung--and oul
regular dealers have the modification of seeing
their counters deserted, and all the custome RS
taken in at the new store. In ten days the
stock is distributed in town: spotted cloths
rotten cIoths-defectve clothes, &c. &c. are
found too late, have been to dearly paid for
Had they been purchased at our regular dealers
they would have been returned, but "Mr. Ter
days >" is among the missing, and they must peck.
ct the loss. How much better it would have
been to have followed the motto Encourage
your own
Sir, shall furnish you with pair Of these
French shoes--cheap indeed, for those who
made them live on frog soup, and can therefore
work cheaper than our beef eaters.
And can you tell me how much was paid fol
imported shoes last yesr!
Only fifty thousand dollars, sir.
No sir, my family shall not wear the foreign
article, SO long as the Yankee beef eaters neet
my patronage to make the pot boil. Give me
the brogans first; and, sir, in future, we will bu,
all our shoes OF you, fyou will put on your shoe
stamp, Encourage your own
Here are some hats sir, right from New York
ifthey have not crossed the Atlantic.
Who are those half dozen men saw idle in
your shop on Saturday
oh, they are some hatters who are out of EN-.
ploy.
Just get one ofthem to make me hat if it costs
ten dollars-and put on the tip, just under his
name, Encourage your own Let there be
over his name the American Eagle, with this
motto
sour country aganst the world,
,'Our State before any other in the Union"
I Our Town in preference 10 any other in the State
And thus it is with many Printer in some
country town for the want of patronage they are
obliged to wind up and quit the business--his
Dejghbors all round him say, they can't take his