Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-15
pATRoNIzE HOME INDUSTRY.

kinds. It's tailors, its milllners and dress
makers, its physicians, and its lawyers,
all persons who add more or less to the
business of the town, and who have To-
Gated themselves in the town or village
that they may be mutual helps to them
selves and to the place. The physician
finds what he supposes to be an opening
for the exercise of his. vocation, the heal
ing art, and settles among the people
with the expectation that they will en-
courage him in the practice of his chosen
profession, and when they need the SER
vices of a physician they will patronize
him. Or if he be the only physician in
the town or the village they will encour-
age him to remain, and grow up with
them. So the blacksmith, the tailor,
the wheelwright, the shoemaker, and
other mechanics, locate in village with
the expectation that, all things consid-
cred, the people will patronize them in
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 reasonable expectation of
employment. So, too, the merchant
brings into the village 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 necessi-
ties shall require. And it is a convent
ence to have in every village all these
various occupations. They are kind
of necessity. They are an accommoda-
tion 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
permanent 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 promote the welfare,
good order, and morality of the people.
They are therefore both a necessity and
an accommodation, and it is the duty of
the people to sustain them. The mer-
chants, the mechanics, the physicians,
the milliners, in fine all the necessary
trades and occupations of the town OF
village, should be patronized by the peo-
pie. In no other way can town or vii.
lage be built up, or its wealth or pros.
perity increased. Home industry should
be patronized first. The surplus only
of patronage should be carried away
from town. The merchant can i'll aforc
to invest his capital in stock of good;
merely for the occular inspection of hi:
townsmen. The shrewd business mar
will not do 1t. He buys that he may
sell again. He locates in place tha
his capital may net him some return fol
its outlay. If, therefore, he finds tha
those who ought to be his customers ar,
constantly passing by him to the mex
town, he will ere long be discouraged
and disheartened, and remove to plac
where his efforts to accommodate tn
people will be better appreciated. S
with the other branches of industry W
have mentioned. If they are not encour
aged and patronized by the people who's
wants they seek to crafty, whose in
frmities they would gladly heal, ant
whose interests they labor in va1ou
ways to promote, of course they mus
seek other localities And what is tn
result ? The business of such towns j
Frustrated. The village becomes prema
turely old and dilapidated, the building
, decayed and moss covered, and the stree
as desolate as if death had stricken ever
, household. All enterprise is ended, an
men of business and energy shun such
E place as they would the pestilence.
[ There are many towns in Vermont
which this description will apply, an
r which can trace their desolation to thos
| causes. And we venture the assertio
, that in all those towns or villages whel
enterprise and thrift are displaye,
r where business is increasing, and pop,
5 lation growing, the people not only we
y come to their midst the merchant, m
| chanic, artizan and professional ma
e but encourage them by their patronag
) They do not go out of town for the
f cottons or their groceries, for their hors
It shoeing or their grist mill, for their ia
; lor, milliner, physician or shoemake
y when all these are located within the
e own limits. And thus it should
These all need encouragement, nay. mu
n be encouraged if the prosperity al
e growth of any town or village is desire
They are necessary elements in tn
:. prosperity and growth, and in proporti
,r as they are encouraged and fostered, ju
e in that proportion will the whole int
IS ests of the people be promoted. Patro
V Ize home industry. If you have me-