Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-30

SUPPORT Your MECHANICS-Ihe following SenSi-
BILE remarks which we find in some of our exchanges,
we transfer to our columns, and would earnestly
commend them to our readers in this place 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 find town village
fourishing without their aid. Indeed their presence
absence is always true index of the condition of
the place-whether it is advancing in wealth and
Importance or sinking irto decay. Whenever we
pass through village and hear the frequent sound
of the carpenters hammer the clink of the black
smiths anvil-that village, say to ourselves is
Aourishing. 1t cannot be otherwise, for the produ
GERS actively employed, and outnumber the con-
sumers. Whenever and wherever this is the case.
the people are growing wealthy, and at the same
time training the rising generation to habits OF in
dustry and morality. Where, if city or village
pursue the opposite of this course-ncglects its me-
chanics and supports those of some foreign town
those who can will be compelled to 60 to some 9th
er place. and those who are compelled by the force
of circumstances to remain, will become idle and
profigate-they will cease to produce, and become
consumers-in few years they become beggars,
and their children ignorant and vicious.
If there's any truth in the assertion that ought
as q nation, to give the preference to domestic
ufactures the fact is equally true with regard the
community; both are sustained by the same argu-
ments. If merchant would have around him SUBJ
stantial customers, let him by every means in his
power, support the mechanics of his village and as
they become wealthy, their custom will in.
crease especially in those articles which he makes
the greatest profits for it is undenable that as men
become more wealthy they also become more luxu-
rious, and no merchant will deny that articles of
luxury always afford the greatest profits. The habit
of importing large quantities of cheap and half made
articles of competition with our village mechanics,
is short-sighted and wrong, both regards the
chanic and consumer; and if the merchant would
look further into the operation of things he would
find that he crossed the path of his interest by
doing so. Let the merchant bring the case to his
own door, and hc perhaps, may better understand
it. Suppose that every individual who possesses
the means, and who in his family four or five
hundred dollars worth of goods per annum, should,
instead of buying of him at retail, go to some city
wholesale establishment ard purchase his years
supply-wou.d he not in bitterness condemn such
an illiberal course, and would he not say to him
with truth, that he was warning against his own in
terest, by destroying the business of his town and
giving it to another; and that his lttleness would
react upon him in double fold by the decrease of his
property and business! So, in the case above in.
stanced, could the mechanic say the same to the
merchant. We say then, let all classes support
each other, and by mutual exchanges keep that
wealth at home, which, if necessarily expended
abroad tends to destroy the business OF your neigh
Dor, and which in turn destroys your own.