The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-04-24
Weighhorho0d Trade.

IL 10 lac careful attention OF our read
ers:
While we favor that wholesome rule
in trade, that, as general thing, men
should, as they will, buy where they
can buy the cheapest, and sell where
they can sell dearest, we, nevertheless,
think it the worst sort of policy TO pass
The shop Of the village mechanic, or the
country storekecper, for the mere sake
Of buying from home, when no advan-
tage in price or quality is obtained. BY
prohtng our neighbors, we in some de-
gree advantage ourselves. The more
our storekeeper sells, the better store
he is enabled to keep. The more the
carriage maker, the blacksmith, the
shoemaker, and all the other occupa-
tons of a village can do, the more they
prosper; and the richer they become,
the better for the reputation of the vii
lage, and the lighter will the per cent
age of taxation be. Our proposition is
distinctly this: The inhabitants of a
town consult their own true interests by
employing, for the support of their ne
cessities, or their luXuries, the laborers,
mechanics, merchants and people of
their own town, in every instance that
they can without material loss; and in
determining the matter pro and con,
liberal allowance should be made for in
ciiental advantages resulting from
building up a good neighborhood at
homes The city where a man lives has
some claims upon him, for some equiv
acnt for the many necessary comforts
he perpetua!ly derives from it, as we'll
as for the daily and nightly protective
shield which the neighborhood holds
over him. A proper feeling needs no
argument to prompt the citizen TO fur
nish his table from the markets and gro
ceries of his own town, and clothe his
family from the shops he passes in his
morning walks. A man Of true home
feelings will be gentleman Of gener-
Gus public spirit, and, SO far as bis do
nestle trade is concerned, viii centre it
at the place of his birth, Of his residence
at least. Such, an individual will be
ashamed to pass the workshops Of the
artisans around him, and never feel the
thrill of delightful consciousness that
he contributed to their prosperity with
out any injury to himself. The jobs he
gives his neighbors enrich them, and
makes him none tho poorer.-Do not go
out of town, then, men of wealth, and
men of business for what you can With
any thing like equal advantage procure
to be done at or near home. Make a
point through life Of setting to work
those who live about you. They are
neighbors, and by strengthening them,
you are but fortifying yourself. A
shrewd calculation O! the advantages of
encouraging the people of your own
town will be sufficient to convince an
intelligent person that he will be in the
end gamer by not going from his own
village to the large cities for what he
wants, end for what he can just as well
get at home. That ga man may often
90 father and fare worse" is proverb
as true as trite. The cost of doing bus
mess at arms length is one item, the
danger Of icing cheated, where You are
unknown, is another. The maintenance
and encouragement of the inhabitants
Of place, of coulse augments Its bust
mess; that increase promotes population,
which, in turn, enhances the price of
land and buildings. This rise of prop
erty enriches more or less every one.
Wealth cndows valuable institutions for
education and philanthropy, builds
churches, reacts on industry, and be-
comes the author of all sorts OF good
plans and enterprises. All this, and
more, may be the consequences of acting
on the information that our neighbor is
one OF our household, and entitled to
our business as well as our charity.