Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-06-08
THINGS AS THEY ARE.
A Look Before and After: The Virtue
Of Home Appreciation and Home
Patronage. A Lesson for Goldsboro

VI nome appreciation ana nome
Patronage. A Lesson for Goldsboro
The Chattanooga News quotes the
representative of an Eastern house,
who passed through that city re-
Gently, as saying hat he coa d do
better business in any Southern city
than he could in Atlanta In giving
the cause he said that Atlanta peo-
pie were ciannish and patronized
home industries in preference to
buying the same line of goods from
outside concerns, in consequence of
which fact, the manufacturers in
Atlanta were all doing we'll and max
ing money.
Commenting on this the Ne us
says:
Atlanta is certainly to be COM
nIended for wise and considerate &C.
ton. No city a eyer hope to sue
coed where the people are not unit ed
in their interests, aud there is MOTH
ing SO discouraging TO a concern that
is striving to build up a trade as to
have home people ignore their pros
ducts.
Whereupon the Atlanta Journal
remarks:
"The statement of the Eastern
drummer is as true as the comments
of u Chattanooga contemporary
based thereon are correct. The ses
cret of Atlanta's success consists
in large measure of the disposition
her citizens have shown to 'sticl+a
gether' for mutual benefit. InL~l
cradle small industries have been
started here, and have succeeded be-
cause they found a market for their
products right at home. The prejs
udice against buying homemade
articles, which exists in some cities
does not prevail in Atlanta.
There you have it. It is the whole
secret of Atlanta's wonderful pros
gross and prosperity in a nutshell,
They have simply pursued the pol
ICY that has been daily urged by The
ARGUS upon the people Goldsboro
since it's first issue. We must all
help to support each other and pull
together.
The people of Atlanta, in all its
various branches of business, rich
and poor, merchant, professional
man, mechanic and laborer, are de-
voted to public and personal aggrand-
izement and naturally find pleasure
and profit in giving support to At
lapta industries, instead "of pursu-
ing the disastrous policy of endings.
abroad for what may be manufac.
tured or purchased at home"
It is a sad reflection on any city tc
have men in its midst who have
grown wealthy IN the enterprise and
cooperative zeal of others and YET
will contribute nothing to the
greater growth of the city that has
given them their prosperity.
But to whatever extent this be
true in Goldsboro, We take pride in
: the inspiring fact that, nevertheless,
we have the best all round town OF
any we know; and though We sym.
, pathize fully always with those
whom misfortune oFertakes,'we note
l with pride the fact that,
. while in the North and West
and East, and all around us
in the South great CONNER,
cial and financial wrecks have
scattered despair and disaster during
2 this first half of the year 1898,
) Goldsboro's bank and mercantile
firms and manufacturing enterprises
!, have stood as solid as the everlasting
rock of Gibraltar.
Let Wall street tighten its reins
; and the gamblers of Chicago stamp
the price of farm products down te
the lowest notch, but ldsboro,
cramped though it may be by the
!, great but artificial pressure, will
. still bid defiance to it's foes and
come forth a victor. Let not your
spirit be trouble, but let US all rise
up and strike hands and sing, "We've