The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-11-11
HOnE INDUSTRIES.
The Importance of Patronizing Local
EnterDriSeS

Inc importance OF PatrOniZing Local
Enterprises.
We often hear good and honest peo-
pie speaking Of home industries and
expressing deep and heart-breaking
sorrow, when they see thousands and
millions of dollars yearly leaving our
State and lodging in the vaults and
banks of Northern cities.
Year by year this drainage contin-
ues, sapping as it were the very life
blood from the State we claim to love.
We turn from contemplation of this
condition of things and look with
amazement at the rapid growth and
prosperity Of the New England cities,
and wonder how they flourish and grow
SO rich while our people become poorer
and our cities smaller.
1t can't be that the gods Of the har-
vest have favored them with more
abundant crops, or that nature has
given them better resources, for no
part Of the Union can boast of better
climate than North Carolina.
Our soil and climate are suited to
the production Of almost every vegeta-
Bile grown in the United States.
Our farms yield large crops Of rich,
yellow and waxy tobacco. The great
staple, cotton, is grown from North
Cardinals soil and manufactured by
North Cardinals skill. The vegetable
farms of Eastern Carolina are yielding
their bouutiful crops year after year.
Our natural resources are unlimited
and unbounded. Rivers with abundant
water power are left to flow undis-
turbed to the sea with nothing to break
the monotony Of their course save the
cheerful song of the spring birds and
the lonely boot Of the midnight owls.
Gold, silver, iron and other minerals
are left hidden in the rocks and under
the hills all for the want of money and
industry.
Why is it after having these and
many other natural advantages we are
still tagging far behind other States
that can boast of no such blessings?
1t is because we patronize trusts,
combines and syndicates instead of
being loyal to home and home indus
tries. 1t is because we send money
out of the State every year that should
be kept at home and used to start new
enterprises which would give work to
the laborer, bread to the hungry, bust
ness to the merchant and a demand
for the manufacturer goods.
The people all over the State should
emulate the business men of Green's
boro, who are recognizing home indus
tries and patronizing home enterprises
by insuring their property in the South
ern Stock Mutual Insurance Co., there
by keeping their money at home. The
company Of which l speak is a home
enterprise composed of North Carolina
capital furnished by some of the best
and most conservative business men in
the State.
They give the people as good protec-
ton as any Northern company and at
the same time they allow their patrons
to participate in the net earnings of
the company without being subject to
any assessment whatever.
To doubt the above statement would
be to doubt the honesty and integrity
of the best business men in the State.
This is only one Of the many home in
dustries that should receive liberal
patronage from our business men and
the public at large. My attention was
called to the above mentioned insurance
company by the admirable loyalty of
the Greensboro people. They have
manifested a spirit of loyalty that was
characteristic of North Carolina in days
gone by. If this same spirit was man
ifested as emphatically in every town
and village in North Carolina as it
was in Greensboro. we would soon
have many other enterprises Of which
we could justly feel proud. The old
North State would soon be the manu-
featuring centre of the South.
The hum of the spindle, the roar of
business would be heard from break Of
| dawn to close of day. There would be
no cause for idleness and loafers would
be unknown. Y. y. L.
The three-year-old boy OF j. A. John
son, of Lynn Center, H., is subject to
attacks Of Group. Mr.. johnson says he
is satisfied that the timely use Of Cham
| berlain's Cough Remedy during a severe
attack, saved his little boys life. He is
| in the drug business, a member OF the
firm OF Johnson Bros. OF that place and
| they handle great many patent medi
cines for throat and lung diseases. lie
| had all these to choose from. and skilled
physicians ready to respond to his call
| but selected this remedy for use in his
own family at IL time when his child
life was in danger, because he knew it to
be superior to any other, and famou: