Jeffersonian Republican

Sustain your Own.

Home industry, home enterprise and home trade, in the hands of worthy and competent men should always be nourished and supported by the community of which they constitute a portion.— Many reasons can be adduced for the justice of this position. Do we propose to sustain men of integrity and high moral qualifications? In what soil do the moral sentiments flourish and grow with more vigor than in the hearts of toiling human beings, in the various branches of laborious industry or in the drudging professions? Who so richly deserve support as those who depend upon their daily labour for sustenance, and are always the submissive agents of the will of communities and individuals? An answer would be superfluous.

If you wish to break down and ruin any country village, go to the city and purchase such articles of various kinds as are made at home by your own hard working neighbors, and leave them to receive the wretched depreciated patronage of such as are compelled to make exchanges to get along, and subsist upon mere barter deal. This is one excellent mode of ruining a place. But there is another road which leads you straight to the precious pool of conscious and active benevolence. Go to the weary Artizan of your own town and buy his wares and articles, and pay him. Cheer his labours with a just compensation: Give him a chance occasionally to see the light of hope through the clouds of care and poverty. A wife and children perhaps cling to him for the necessaries of life. He may have wandered the weary journey of life until the sun of his existence has passed its meridian; his locks may be "intermingled with gray," and still he has no "shot in the locker." Most assuredly the good citizen and philanthropist will appropriate his influence, patronage, and money at home, in support of all the Mechanic Arts and Professions as much as is practicable or consistent. Example has its wonted effect in this matter, consequently we look to our townsmen of standing and character to give permanence and direction to the "Ball" of home industry and enterprise. It is for them to indicate by their acts, the success or failure of our stores, shops, Presses, and professions, and whether itinerant persons of unknown and doubtful reputation, should possess so peculiar a charm as to secure their regard as well as money-patronage, while the worthy and qualified are among our number at home.—Lackawanna Journal.