The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-10-13
HOME INDUSTRY.


relative to Home Industry, and the
encouragement of such industry. We
herewith copy most all of the article
believing its sound views will meet
with general approval. The News
says:
1t is our sincere belief, that if all the
wealthy in and Immediately around
Nashville, could be induced to divest
themselves of only two besetting sins,
blind avaricc and ovcrweening vanity.
they could and would, by the cncour-
ascmcnt Of home industry, give an
impetus to our increase OF population,
and to the consequent increase of val.
uc in their own possessions, which all
the railroads in the world cannot give,
without such fostering care of our own
industrial interests. When any great
job of mechanical work is to be done,
Avarice steps forward and says, at
can be done so much cheaper East"
and Vanity says, at will be so mach
grander to bring il on" and before II
calculation has been made, the rich
man has gont on, and returns with
his big job. The large outlay of
money has gone to sustain the me-
chanics and iaborers of some other
city-Ecrhaps some of those same
misguided fanatics who strovc to steal
his negro as he went on to the Falls,
a few years since. lie returns brag.
ging about his glVat achievements
Has driven the best bargain ever
heard Of, and the work is the finest he
ever saw. The brag goes out like
wildtire among the mIkspoons of fash.
ions, and 'on east" is the place to get
your work done. Perhaps in few
weeks, or months at iarthest, the great
mystery of"how in the world the man
could make any money on the job"
begins to be solved. Things begin to
crack and split, and break, and bend;
and the rich pumpkin damns "the ras-
cally Yankee" who manufactured his
far-lamcd cheap job. His damns do
not 60 out among the tablespoons of
fashion. When these smart gentry
are in high spirits, they brag aloud;
when they find themselves bit, they
"curse easy, to themselves"
But the vain and foolish habit OF
running of to other cities to get work
done which can really be done better
and cheaper by our own cliow,citi,
zens, and Of carrying vast amounts Of
mcncy beyond our circulation. is as
suicidal to the very men who do it, as
it is detrimental to those they thus
deprive olthe means Of likelihood. 1t
is II curse sent out by them upon the
community, which will sooner or later
come home to roost. Every flourish
ing manulactory which grows up
among US, increases the means Of good
invesmcet Tor the rich mans money,
and furnishes an additional guaranty
Of good profits on the labor of his
slaves. Nothing can, in fact. ever
make Nashville what these rich men
would like to see her, but the pros
perIty Of manufacturing interests; and
our manufacturing interests cannot
flourish, unless our people patronize
them.
We have among us most of the
elements Of llourishng industry y--in-
tant manufacturing establishments,
under the control ofenergetic, deserv-
ing men, who only want the liberal
encouragement o! those who have the
money and wish work done in their
several branches. Here arc skiIllul
manufacturers Of steam.engines and
boilers, prepared thoroughly for the
outfit of almost any kind Of steam
power except locomotives for rail
roads, and for the construction and
complete finish of all manner of iron
fixtures for architectural purposes,
such as columns, cornices, door and
window facing, stairways, fences,
galleries, etc, aud for the moulding oil
water. pipes, stoves, cauldrons, and
other articles innumcrable. Here we
have, too, large establishment for
the construction OF railroad cars, and
several firms employed in the manu-
facture of agricultural implements,
numerous workers in marble and
stone. carriage manufacturers, and
makers of saddles and harness, in
abundance; builders, and manufactu-
rers of building matcrial-in fact, men
engaged in almost every branch OF
industry, needful to the supply Of those
who dwell in the city and those in the
country. But many Of them are
slighted by the wealthy purchaser,
when he has large contract to give.
With false notion Of economy. or an
impression that he can get his work
done better sewhere, he wastes his
time in needless trip to some other
city, and puts his money in circulation
where it can never return to him, in.
stead of giving employment to those
among us whose means are spent here
and whose wealth is an Improvement
to his own property, And we are led
to believe, that in many cases of thi,
kind, those who go from home to ge
what they could procure in Nashville
really lose in the isolated transaction
For example, take the item OF steah
engines. We are told that men vii
approach our manufacturers with a
propo ,ition for an engine of so many
horse power, with the special require
ment that it be made of Tennessee
iron, which is known to be as good as
the world produces, and would Cost
for that purpose, 6 to u cents per ip.'