Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-12


ENcouRAoE HoMR PRoDucTs.-A recent num-
Der Of the Baltimore american had very good
article headed, "All about Bell" 1t was so
called. because of recent dispute and discus
sion between tho authorities Of Charleston, s.
C.. as TO whether they should procure new
Arc. bell from their own homo artisans, or
whether they should send off to New York ana
get one. The American makes this dispute tho
text for a very good article upon the foolish ana
suicidal habit which people of small cities nave
for sending off TO large cities toget almost every
little extra they want, when it is often the case
the article reonired. could be furnished them at
holno--if not so good or so nice, at least, good
enough. The continents of the AmeTIcdR are
lust as applicable to ms, here in wheeling, aS
,bey are to Baltimore, or anywhere else we
know many people who send off for big ana
LITTLE articles which can be had-yes. which are
made in this city. They have an idea that
what they get abrnad is a tritie more iancy thah
whit they would be apt to get at home. Ihey
never care to stop and ask themselves what
would be the consequences to themselves ana
their friends and neighborS, if one and all OF
them we're to do as they themselves do. In
CITY or town every branch of the general indus
rial interest is eIateC on depressed pros
porous or unfortunate as parts and pieces oil
mn indivisible whole. We always look upon
the misfortune or failure Of any branch oil the
mechanic arts or professional science III our
midst, MS a general calamity, and upon the same
principle VIC look upon any diversion OF pat
ronage--legitinatc patronage, by any one
fcfa n
detrimental to all our common interests, and
as sure, TO greater or less degree, to recoh
upon the offending branch itself, as well as
npon its peers We have noticed the effect
of these diversions, not only upon our own
business but upon other branches OF bn-
siness. with which, in our business relations,
we have become more or less familiar 40
question. for instance, is more common within
our hearing than that relating to the patronage
of home newspapers. Our carriers and our
friends very frequently ask persons why they
do not take their own home papers. The reply
~ "Oh. take so many other papers that
cannot afford it" We say that such tax rom
certain Kinds of people is by no means rare
We hear OF it every dny-and "e always iee'
both pity and disgust for such people
They live III our midst are SUI 'SN :"
midst by patronage awarded to them, ana they
Law up noncy-yet they arc so lind-yeS' 80
nnriilind. as to expect their business, and the
osnerol business to flourish without any con-
fribution from, them. We do not, we would he
understood, adduce the case of newspapers as
,nytbing more than an example with which we
Aro more familisr than with other similar de-
linouencies But we do say, that in no respect
does a town or a city fail more suicidally than
il does in falling to lend hearty support to its
own press--the mouth-piece of whatever adj
vantages it may possess for the attention of the
world without.
We have in this city the capacity to furnish
very much, if not most of what is furnished
from other cities, Cqs thar product y and he or
she who withholds preference for any home
product, is, to that extent and in that respect,
social suicide.