Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-11-15

SUPPORT Your Own MECHANICS. The following
sensible remarks, which we find in some of our ex-
changes we transfer to our columns, and would
earnestly commend them to readers in this city,
and the State at large:
There is no truth more undeniable than that it is
the bounden duty of every community to support
its mechanics They are worthy and indispensa-
BILE class of men, and we find no town village
fourshing without their aid Indeed their presence
absence is always true index of the condition
of place-whether it is advancing in wealth and
importance, or sinking into decay. Whenever we
pass through village and hear the frequent sound
of the carpenters hammer, the clink of the black
smiths anvi-that village, We say to ourselves is
Hourishing. 1t cannot be otherwise, for the produ
GERS are actively employed, and outnumber the
sumers. Whenever and wherever this is the case,
the people are growing wealthy, and at the same
time training up the rising generation to habits of
industry and morality. Where if a city or village
pursue the opposite of this course-negects its
chancs and supports those of some foreign town
those who can will be compelled to go to other
place, and those who are compelled by the force of
circumstances to remain, will become idle and pro-
hgate-they will cease to produce and be consumers
in q few years they become beggars, and their
children ignorant and vicious
If there is any truth in the assertion, that we
ought as nation to give the preference to domestic
manufacture the fact is equally true with regard to
the community; both are sustained by the same
arguments. If q merchant would have around him
substantial customers let him by every means in his
power support and foster the mechanics of his village
and as they become more wealthy their custom will
increase, especially in those articles on which he
makes the greatest profits for it is undeniable that
as men become more wealthy, they also become more
luxurious and merchant will deny that articles of
luxury always afford the greatest profits The habit
OF importing large quantities of cheap and hafmade
articles OF competition with our village mechanics
is short sighted and wrong, both as regards the
mechanic and consumer; and if the merchant would
look further into the operation of things he would
find that he crossed the path ofs own nterestby do
ing so.
Let the merchant bring the case to his own door,
and he perhaps may better understand it suppose
that every individual who possesses the means and
who uses in his family four five hundred dollars
worth Of goods per annum, should, instead of buy
ing OF him at retail, go to some city wholesale estab
lishment and purchase his years supply-would hi,
not in bitterness condemn such an iliberal course
and would he not say to him with truth that he wa ,
warning against his own interest by destroying the
business of his town and giving it to another and
that his ittleness would react upon him in douB
fold by the decrease of his property and business !
So, in the case above instanced could the mechani
say the same to the merchant We say, then, Il
all classes support each other, and by mutual ex
changes keep that wealth at home which. if unne
cessarily expended abroad tends to destroy the bu
siness of your neghbor, and which in turn destroy
your own.