Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-11-30
Home First--The World After.
wards.

The policy of encouraging home
enterprise is one that should be
promptly adopted and strictly carried
out in every town where even the
slightest natural advantages exist up
on which to predicate its future wealth
and greatness. To encourage homo
industry-hOme mechanics, home mer-
chants, home manufactures, home bus
mess of all legitimate kinds, tends to
enrich the community in which YOU
live, and to benefit your neighhors and
yourself Your patronage, however
inconsiderable it may seem 10 you, or
however trivial it may really be, plays
4 much more conspicuous pa-t in the
establishment Of home business uEon
q firm basis, than ''grains of sand'' in
the formation of the earth, or '.drsps
of water in the formation of the
ocean.
One Of the surest methods by which
to lock the wheels of the car of BRO,
gress in your town and leave it f1oun-
dering in the s'ough of old fogyism-
if you please-is' TO partially disrp-
gard, or worse, it entirely ignores the
business interests thereof, by with
holding your encouragement from
those who are striving to drive it
ahead with proper spirit, or, by GO
ing from home 20 purchase articles
such as can easily be had i'll the com
munity where you live. The money
you spend abroad III this manner new
er finds its way back, and neither your
self nor your neighbors are benefited
by its circulation at home Spend
your money in other towns and it is
gone, but set it adrift upon the cur
rent Of commerce" at home, and it
floats from hand to hand, helping this
neighbor to liquidate his indebted
ness, and that neighbor to buy the
comforts of life, and your merchants
and manufacturers to enlarge their
stocks and increase their business, all
| of which has a direct and important
bearing upon the growth of your
town. Every dollar-nay, every dime,
we might say-speLt elsewhere for
goods and wares and manufactured
articles, when the same are kept for
sale or manufactured at home, by
home people, aids just as much in
| holding your business men back from
assuming that solid position in the
commercial world which would place
them beyond the reach of adversitv /;
and if greater improvement in that
direction is possible, imbue them with
even a greater spirit Of liberality than
they now possess.
In some towns of moderate size and
modest pretensions, can be found peo
pie who go to larger towns to buy
certain articles under the impression
that they can make selections from a
iner-class of goods; and this because
| business houses are conducted upon Il
larger scale, and with much more glar-
ing display than the establishment al
home. Does it ever occur to this class
ofpeople that they are treated as tran
sient, fitting customers, and that the
pompous dealer in the .'big town" has
no occasion to strive to retain theiI
custom, and generally acts according
ly? You know how it is YOURSELF
Reader, 'thome frst-the world af
terwards." Buy from home dealers
encourage home enterprise, let you
mite go to the fostering OF home bus
mess and home mechanism By thes
means you will prosper, your neigh
3. bors will thrive, and your town vii
grow andprosper.
Farmers, as the spring rains ant
summer sunshine are essential to th
maturity of your crops, even so is you
patronage necessary to the building
up of home business, home wealth
and home prosperity.