Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-05-19
support your Mechanics.

ooyo snos PoPSss VIC pass SuSSo
and hear the frequent sound Of the carpenters ham,
mer the clink of the backsmiths anvil-that village
we say to ourselves, is Aourshing" True. Dr.
Franklin once held debt against brother mechan.
ic, and being put of from time to time, he determn
ed at length to push him but passing his shop late
at night, he heard the sounds of his debtors ham,
mer, and he changed his mind and gave him further
indulgence. He saved his debt with interest.
But our mechanics not encouraged they
should be. We purchase many things at the North,
from our bitter enemies, which could be Is we'll
purchased here. And in addition to this, we put
our mechanics on the credit SYSTEM which hinders
them in their business and cramps their energies
Cash is the life of trade, and especially of the
chanic arts. We would as soon ask q man to trust
US for piece Of beef or bushel of meal as to ask
mechanic to trust us for a pair of shoes, or for
making coat, or for mending . wagon or q car.
riage. Pay as you go is the philosophers stone,
which turns all you touch into money; and this is
what the mechanic is entitled to expect at the hands
of his customers. If you do not pay him the cash,
he cannot lay in his stock 10 advantage but is forced
to purchase on credit, and thereby incur interest
higher prices, and the cost of exchange You force
him, too, to depend upon the Banks for aid, which
tueh ouSut, u ~ au possible, 10 avoid
Neither, unless you pay him, he pay his hands;
and thus the honest mechanic, who works week in
and week out for his employer. is compelled often
to 60 without his wages-to purchase on credit the
necessares Of life, and is kept down and kept poor
living credit half the time and the other half from
hand to mouth. This is ovcrdrawn picture II
is true one We have the reality time and
again. Let no one who pay, but who neglects
refuses to pay the mechanic the workingmap
the money he has honestly earned, say that he is a
friend to industry or that he wishes workingmen
well. People judged by what they do rather
than by what they say 1t is fashionable with some
to put off the mechanic and pay him last, If at all
but these same people always first at places OF
amusement or pleasure, spending their money-is it
theirs? ?-as complacently as il no was suffering
for his wages. by them thoughtessly dishonesty
withheld. But we will not dctan readers longer
from the article from the Age, which is q follows:
SUPPORT Your MEcHANIcs.-There is no truth more
undeniabe than that it is the bounden duty of every
community TO support its mechanics. They are a
worthy and indispensable class Of men, and VIC find
no town or village 6ouri>hing without their aid
Indeed, their presence or absence is always true
index Of the condition Of the place-whefher It is
advancing in wealth and Importance sinking into
decay. Whenever We pass through a village and
hear the frequent sound Of the carpenters hammer
the clink of the blacksmths anvil-that village we
say to ourselves. is hourshing 1t cannot be other.
wise, for the producers are actively employed, and
outnumber the consumers. Whenever this is the
case, the people are growing wealthy, and at the
same time training the rising generation to habits of
industry and morality. When, if city or a village
pursue the opposite of this course-nesects its me.
chanics and supports those of some foreign town
those who can, will be compelled to 60 to some other
place. and those who are compelled by force of cir
cun,stances to remain, will become ide and profit.
gate-they will cease to produce, and become con-
sumers-in . few years they becomes beggars and
their children ignorant and vicious.
there is any truth in the ron that we ought,
as a nation to give the preference to domestic manu-.
factures the fact is equally true with regard to the
community; both are sustained by the same argu-
ments. II a merchant would have around him sub.
stantial customers, let him by every means in his
power support the mechanics of his village. and as
they become wealthy, their custom will increase
especially in those articles on which he makes the
greatest profits, for it is nndenable that men be.
come more wealthy they also become more lu xurious
and no merchant will deny that articles of luxury
always afford the greatest profits. The habit of i'm.
porting large quantities Ct cheap and made articles
Of competition with village mechanics, is short
sighted and wrong, both regards the mechanic
and consumer if the merchant would look further
into the operation Of things, he would find that he
crossed the path Of his own interest by doing so.-
| Let the merchant bring the case to bis own door
| and he. perhaps, may better understand it. Sup
pose that every individual who possesses the means
and who uses in his family four or five hundred dol
lars worth Of goods per annum, should, instead o.
buying of him at retail, 60 to some city wholesale
establishment and purchase his years supply
would he not in bitterness condemn such illiber
/ al course, and would he not say to him with truth
that he was warning against his own interest, by
destroying the business of his town and giving il
to another and that his ttleness would react upor
him in double fold by decrease of his property ant
business! So, in the above instanccd. coult
the mechanic say the same to the merchant W,
say then lei oil classes support each other and by
mutual exchanges keep that wealth at home, which
If necessarily expended abroad, tends to destroy th
business Of your neighbor, and which in turn des
troys your own.
The CLAYTON. .BuLwER TREATY--We copy from
the Boston Post the following just and sensible re
marks in relation to the abrogation Of the Clayton
Buwer Treaty:
"THE CLAYTON AND BULwER TRATY.-Presiden
Buchanan advised in his annual message 10 Congress
the annuiing Of :hc Clayton Bulwe- treaty; ant
the more this proposition is considered the sounde
do all parties regard it to be. This step is in accor
dance with provision of the treaty itself; which
to the effect that peaceful abrogation can be mad