The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-08
Local and Miscellaneous.
Patrontze Homo Labor.


tits difficult to impress people with the
advantages of patronizing home labor and
giving employment to our own citizens
One simple fact should ever be borne in
mind, when sending abroad for thing that
can be made at home. When dollar is
paid out for an article made at home to-
day, the dollar and the thing it has produc-
ed are both in the community, and remain
its property. Tomorrow the dollar is spent
again--or is invested in labor--and produces
another thing worth q dollar, and still the
dollar is unconsumed. II goes on from day
to day stimulating the man who is to get it
at night for his days labor, to produce its
equivalent The holder of it can't make
any profit out of the dollar except by in
yesting it in productive labor, and so self
interest prompts each one who gets it to
invest it, or " pay it out" Thus the gold
dollar circulates within a community every
day producing its own value and at the
end of the year, it will have created $500
in property and still remain, unconsumed,
an active agent of further values.
Suppose that instead of investing it at
home in the first instance, it had been sent.
to New York for the purchase of the thing
wanted, what a material difference it would
have caused to the people who had sent it
away. The labor that it kept in motion
during the year, would have been idle for
the want of capital to employ it, and the
product of $500, which it was the agent of
bringing into being here, would have been
created In another community. Such is the
power of capital kept at home. Buy, there
fore, no labor from abroad, that can be found
at home. Our mechanics, in all branches,
complain that a great many things are
bought abroad that could be produced as
cheap and of as good quality, at home. -
Our carriage makers, painters, bonk binders,
jewelers., tailors, piano makers, hatters, and
various others, say that almost as much
money is sent away for articles in their
lines, as is paid out to our own labor for
similar ones. Not one wheel in ten that
rolls through our streets, but came from
abroad, Six coats in seven that are here
worn, had every stitch, but the patches, put
into it on the other side of the mountains
large share of the bill heads and bills of
lsding used in our trade were printed in
New York or Philadelphia, and the same
remark may be made on long catalogue of
articles, to buy which one hundred thousand
dollars is taken from our own labor, and
carriedaway to employ distant hands, while
our own are idle '. "'+
Thcae principles We're strongly pressed
home to our conviction in buying a coat at
Anderson's Out of the $50 paid him, SO
was paid to home labor and his profits of
IS also remained TO be invested here If it
had been a N. Y! made coat, the so paid to
the Evansville tailor would have been trans
ferred to New York, and the $4,000 which
the $40 retained here is going to create
according to the above theory-by being
employed in our own town during the next
year, would not be gained by this commu-
nifty. By arguments like this, Anderson fit
his customers daily TO new suits. Some O
his opponents answer him by pointing to hi!
costly and elegant velvet and silk vest pat
terms and cloths, as proof of the amoun
Of. money he is sending out of the eountr,
to support French labor. @fs ri A7G