Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-29
Where to Purchase.


When Won have occasion to make
purchases, do not 90 away from home
to lay in Your needed supplies. En-
courage home industries, business and
professions, for on them you mainly
depend for the support derived from
Your own pursuit. Besides, in what
ever degree you aid them in upbuild-
ing their fortunes, in some degree in
directly enhances the value Of Your
own property. In this way our inter
ests become social, and dependent
upon each other, so that whatever
stimulates one is shared by all the
rest. A community in fact thus be-
comes a sort of Joint stock company
whose interests, though diversified,
have the inevitable object-the mu-
tual benefit Of all. The dividends
show themselves spontaneously, not
awaiting stated declarations, but as
sert themselves in every sale Of real
estate.
On the contrary, every dollar spent
abroad for articles that may be obtain
cd on as favorable terms at home, is
equal to taking 30 much capital out
of the business interests of the town.
In this loss the purchaser shares
somehow, because he thus depreclates
the trade of his fellows, and through
them hi, action ultimates in his own
material disadvantage. 1t also breaks
the tie between the support and its
dependencies, and, instead of stimulat
ing depresses local circulation. The
town is thus divided against itself;
trade that should be mutually sustain
ed is discouraged, and a factious spir-
it instituted, the profits of which, if
any, are divided to other communities
Now, we havei in FrostburS several
manufacturing institutions which
should be sustained, especially by our
own citizens. They are encouraged,
it is true, but it is that SOFT of favor
which we may style negative; 1t
does not partake of the vim which
should characterize our support nor Of
the cordially with which we should
recognize their claims to maintenance
Our friends, ROBERT C. PAUL. and
THOMAS II. PAUL, machinists and
founders, have creditable establish
ments, and turn out good work, yet
when an engine is wanted, we too Of
ten pass them by and send our humid
reds of dollars to some distant manu-
factory for work not a whit better
executed. The result is so much loss
to the capital and labor of the town,
to say nothing of the sad lack Of re-
ward to home manufacturers for the
investments they have made
Engaged in the manufacture of
Rakes and Brooms are our friends, the
Messrs. RIGGS. As to brooms we know
no community who have more use for
this homely article than we, yet, in
stead Of patronizing a town manufac-
tory, assisting it in building up and
enlargingits trade, our merchants will,
as usual, send their money hundreds
of miles away to confirm the establish
ment of similar enterprises elsewhere.
Then, there is our friend, Mr.
GEORGE HILL, whose "Excelsior" and
windsor Soaps are equal to any III
our market; yet, hundreds Of dollars
60 annually to Wheeling and Balti-
more that should be disposed to favor
the larger development of a local man
ufactory. Now, suppose these humid
reds annually were turned over to
Mr.. HILL, how long before he would
be enabled to so enlarge his establish
ment as to make it mandatory Of
great local value? But, as though
we rested under some perpetual obi
CATION to Baltimore, Wheeling, etc,
to expend our money to the promotion
Of their business enterprises, and the
neglect Of our own, we attend to this
fancied duty with unremitting pune
tuahty.
1t is useless, probably, to say where
the blame for this suicidal practice
lies, but it exists to the certain detri-
ment of the towns material veal. 1t
is one that may be easily corrected by
the exercise of q little effort to talk
up and patronize home institutions
a policy which keeps money in circu-
lation where it belongs, invigorates
business activity, enlarges property
Galues and local Importance.
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