Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-12-27
PatrOniZe Home Industry.

Nearly every town in the State has
its merchants, its mechanics of various
kinds, its tailors, it's milliners and
dressmakers, its physicians, and its
lawyers, all persons who add more or
less to the business of the town, and
who have located themselves in the
town OF village that they may be
mutual helps to themselves and to
the place. The physician finds what
he supposes to be an opening for the
exercises of his vocation, the healing
art, and settles among the people with
expectations that they will encourage
him in the practice Of his chosen pro-
fession, and when they need the SER
vices of physician they will patron
ize him. Or if lie be the only ply
sician in the town or the village they
will encourage him to remain, and
grow up with them. So the black
smith, the tailor, the wheelwright, the
shoemaker, and other mechanics, locate
in a village with the expectation that,
all things considered, the people will
patronize them il. preference to those
of an adjoining town. They have
learned their several trades, have
purchased their tools and stock, and
located where it was evident the
people needed and must have just
such work as they were qualified to do,
and they have a reasonable expecta-
ton of employment. So, too, the
merchant brings into the village q
large stock Of goods, just such as the
people want, and just such as they
need, and displays them for sale, with
the just expectation that the people
will select from them from time to
time such as their necessities shall re-
quire. And it is a convenience to
have in every village all these various
occupations. They are kind of
necessity. They are an accommoda-
ton to the community. They increase
business. They give life and activity
to all the industries of the people.
They build up the village. They add
to the value of real estate. They
promote the growth of the town.
They attract others to come in, to buy
houses and farms and merchandise,
and to make for themselves a per-
manent location. They tend to pro-
mote the intelligence of the people,
for where those occupations are all in
active employ, there are schools and
literary institutions, and churches,
and all the organizations which pro-
mote The welfare, good order, and NOR.
atty of the people. They are there.
fore both necessity and an accom-.
mediation, and it is the duty of peo
pie to sustain them. The merchants
the mechanics, the physicians, the mil
liners, in fine all the necessary trades
and occupations of the town OF vii
lage, should I've patronized by the PEG
pie. In no other way can town OF
vii age be built mp, or its wealth OF
r prosperity increased. Home industry
should be patronized first The sur
plus only of patronage should be Car
ried away from town. The merchant
can ill afford to invest his capital in ;
stock Of goods merely for he occula
inspection of his townsmen. Thu
shrewd business man will not do it
He buys that he may sell again. ii,
locates in place that his capital may
net him some return for its outlay
If, therefore, he finds that who ough
to be his customers are constantl,
j passing by him to the next town, h
, will ere long be discouraged and dis
heartened, and remove to plac
where his efforts TO accommodate th
people will be better appreciated. 81
with the other branches ofmdustry W
J have mentioned. II they are no