Year: 1859

Home Industry-Cause and Effect.


Railroads and Telegrophs haye tendency


to concentrate business in the larger cities, and


consequently, to draw away portion of it from


the interior towns. But if no other element


entered into the success Of trade than these


two great auxiliaries to the larger cities, the


inland towns would not suffer SO much from


these facilities of travel and correspondence.


The great secret of success is much better and


more generally understood in the large cities,


than in the country towns. When we, from


the country, go into large city, we are often


induced to buy things that we did not think of


when We left home. We see them displayed


with so much prominence and taste in the show


windows, and on the counters, aud in the ware


rooms of the city trader, that the desire often


becomes irresistible to possess them, and SO we


often buy abroad what we ought to buy at


home. The city mechanics aud the city mer-


chants understand this thing, and that other


thlng-AduertiSing so well, that they leave


no opportunity unappropriatcd in this way


They even invade the very threshold of the
country town manufacturer, because they know


that the spirit cf ''Old fOgyism" is just as ex-


tant in the country, as the spirit of progress is


in the large cities.


There is a remedy for this in towns like
Smyrna, and the remedy must begin with the
business people first then the consumers and
purchasers will follow. There are several OF
our establishments that are finding out the
secret, adverse opinions to the contrary not
withstanding. In the first place, our manufac-
turers and merchants must produce as hand
some and cheap goods as can be procured in
other places, and then they will put down the
pretext for going abroad to buy. The pretexl
is the cause, and the buying abroad only the
eftect-remoVe the cause aud the effect will
follow. The competition is so strong among
our merchants that there is 10 doubt, from their
little expense in comparison to the city retailer,
that they can sell at nearly as low figures
The same remark will apply equally 10 mach
nlsts, carriage manufacturers. shoema kers, &c
There is another consideration in this matter
Communities are mutually, reciprocaIly bound
ed In a commercial point Of view. The old
fable of the bundle of sticks is the ley to it,
" United we stand, divided we fall" This
principle, properly understood by Community.
never fails to bring about good business results
New York and Boston understand it phl1sephl.
cally. They reap its richest harvests. What.
ever benefits their trade they go in for, aud
hence anything emanatlng in those cities has
ihoIr full 4 !
their city is going to be benefited by it
Herein lies the great secret of their newspaper
success, for it is known that those cities do
publish the most influential journals in the
Union. They know that whereve their papers
extend, their places of business are made
known and trade invited to the town. and hence
every man feels it his interest to circulate hi.
own paper. They have a keener eye to busl-
ness than many of the smaller towns which
are blindy sending the trade that egitlmately
belongs to them, away TO other towns, by
spreading their neighbors' business (ihrough
their papers), when their own is left quietly te
sumber at home New Workers don't do that
way. Look TO your own town, county and
State before going elsewhere: let any communi,
ty do this and its interests cannot but prosper
There is a blind business selishness warped
into our business fibre that must be warped
out and experience is steadily warping it out
ing manifested but it yet wants spOntaneity
and conviction Of it's necessity before we shall
fully feel its cheering influences.