Middletown transcript., 1877-09-15
rNcoljRAcF HOME INDUSTRY.


and villainous conduct
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY.
Now that the business season for the
fall il about to open, we would earnest
II commend to the citizens Of Middle
town and vicinity a perusal Of the adj
vertisements of the merchants and 9th
eli business men Of Middletown in the
TRANscRIPT. No town on the penin-
sula can boast Of more or better stores
than MiddIetown, and no where else
can better or larger assortments Of
goods be found than upon the shelves
Of our merchants We have seven
frst-class stores Of general merchan-
disc, where almost everything from .
needle to a secondhand pulpit can be
obtained two excellent hardware
stores, where anything and everything
that anybody need want can be had !;
two large stove and tin-ware stores,
where an assortment Of these goods
sufficient to crafty the tastes Of the
most particular, can be found two
firms who will furnish coal, lime. fer
tilizers and such needed articles in
abundance, and on most reasonable
terms drug stores, grocery stOres, IlII-
linery stores, tobacco stores, etc.
Among al these it i very seldom that
persons cannot get all, or nearly al,
that they want Yet there are people
who, whenever they want any Of these
things which they could readily obtain
at home post Off to the city for them,
without even, in many instances, stop
ping To glance at The goods 20 literally
supplied by their friends and neigh
bors, forgetting che eindisputable aphor-
ism that ITO encourage home industry"
il the true policy and true economy.
But say some Of these persons: eve
can't always find what we want in Mid
dIetoMn." NoI You can't find it
simply because, in many cases, you
don't Try, and secondly, because you,
and such as you, discourage your home
merchants from keeping the very
things that you complain about. There
are persons who make their boasts that
they never buy anything at home if
they can avoid it. They prefer TO 60
to the city-it has q grander sound
for everything they want. When they
want to make any purchases, and have
the money to make them with, they
don't 60 into the stores Of their own
town, but bolt off at once to Philadel-
phia, Or some other city, to spend their
money among strangers. Some do this
not because they can buy better goods
than they could get at home, or get
them cheaper-they don't know any
thing about that, for they have not
tried-but just simply to Be able to
say they @do all their shopping in the
city" Such people are Of no account
in town They nothing whatever
to aid in building il up, but rather
hang like heavy incubus upon its IN
dustries, and drag it down rather than
aid in its progress. They seem wholly
devoid Of the natural instinct Of love
Of home, and pride in their own local
institutions, and act as if they would
rather aid anywhere else than the place
Of their own residence but let them
get into trouble, and they turn to their
neighbors for assistance and sympathy
and never think Of going to the 'city''
for them These people forget that in
aiding Others they aid themselves.
Whatever tends to build up town or
neighborhood, tends to increase the
value Of the property therein, and no
body is 50 dumb as not to know that
property near thriving, growing,
prosperous town Is worth morethan the
same kind Of property near a little
one-hcrse village, or dead and decay
ing town. The true policy, then, Is to
give all the aid and encouragement you
possibly can to every kind Of honest
business Or calling that i started ID
your native town, Of where you reside,
If you can't get suited in one place, try
another, and at least exhaust the re-
sources at home first, then if you cant
get what you want. nobody will have
the right to complain Of you for going
elsewhere.
Our space being limited this week
we cannot pursue this subject any
further at present, but viii refer to il
again on future occasion.