Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-08
BUILT UP BY A PULL IO>
GETHER.
A Lesson in Home Patronage
A Long Pull, A Strong Pull
and a Pull Altogether.

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quires a full understanding OF
conditions, of necessities, OF
| available material and of aids
abroad. Cities have been de-
veloped by 70 innate railroad
connections. Others, like Au
| gusta, Ga, and Charlotte, have
been greatly and chiefly pushed
| forward by manufacturing,
aided, of course, by easy rail
road communication with the
markets. Wide-awake people
are quite apt to be on the alert
for opportunities. They are
| prompt to seize the epochal
hour, and to grasp the means
presented for reaching wider
and greater fields. They arc
ready to invest in whatever plans
that promise good to the city.
and to place money in such in
vestments as seem to business
understanding to present guar
antees of success. Lately IN
several newspapers in and out
of North Carolina, the Messen
ger has noted editorials urging
the people in the towns to keep
their money circulating at home
and to make purchases of thei1
fellow citizens and shares IN
burden bearing. The Messen>
ger had something to say on
this matter some month or two
since. 1t has many times i'll
sisted that the people living in
any community should as far as
possible make their purchases at
their doors instead of ordering
what they buy from the North
and whenever possible to do so
to be sure to patronize home en-
terprise and town industries
We try to practice what we
preach. Begging pardon for a
personal reference, we can say
that we have not bought cents
worth Of personal wear since we
reached Wilmington i'll 1876,
outside of the town. 1t is only
in books that we have gone
from home, and that was very
infrequent, and partially neces>
sary, but have purchased Trough
a Wilmington house.
1t is only by keeping your
purchases at home that bust
ness can be built up successfully
to meet all your demands and
give you the best advantages as
to prices Doubtless by judlclous
ordering you can save some
money, but you are injuring
home business and cutting off
prosperity all about you. If
every body should do as so many
do-order whatever you need
from aliens, and sometimes even
enemies, the grass would grow
in the streets OF all southern
cities, business would complete
| ly stagnate, stores would be
closed, people would have to flee
10 escape starvation. DO unto
others as you would be done by
under like cirCum stances. That
is a golden rule and follow it
How much cash goes out
from North Carolina i'll year
to support and enrich strangers
and to the injury of home PEG
pie seeking to make a living,
we do not know, but doubtless
some millions of dollars. We
suppose Wilmington does an
active business in ordering from
Northern dealers instead of buy
ing fl ON friends and neighhors
and frJm them you know. Turn
over new leaf and quit this
way of unfriendly and unjust
discrimination. Give dealers at
your doors living chance and
demand IN turn fair dealing and
living for yourself. Not only
buy your goods at home, bu!
buy whatever is manufactured
in your town where the pro-
ducts are satisfactory as to equal,
lty.
The Augusta Chronicle dis
cusses intelligently the benefits
of patronizing home industries
manufactures. This. too, like
purchases from home dealers, is
important The Chronicle gives
this to show what benefits would
accrue
LET us glance at some OF the
effects of such policy? First.
it would insure the success of a
home industry, giving employs
meut to skilled worklnen. Third
the wages paid these laborers
and the profits made by the
manufacturers will be expended
for living expenses in this com
munity or invested in local prop
erty, and last but not least, the
object lesson of this industry's
success will induce similar in
vestments in other lines. lust
let it become established that
Augusta is a community TIL A,
patronizes home industries and
there will be many new and di
versi6ed manufactures spring
ing up in the city"