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Show when you can have it done in your own town is both foolish and wrong. It is your duty, as a good citizen, to encourage your own mechanics. They need all the work they can get, and by patronizing them you keep money at home, assist the worthy, and in almost every case have just as good work done as could have been done for you abroad. Giving your patronage to home institutions is the only way to make your town prosper. You must, if you desire to do your whole duty, support your own schools, your own press. Where there is a general disposition to send a hundred miles for an article that could be manufactured as well at your own door, there will always be a little or no business done. The churches will be thinly attended, and all kinds of labor extremely dull. Wherever mechanics are the best I employed prosperity is seen; the social virtues predominate, and kindly brotherly feeling is experienced, exper-ienced, which is the source of unspeakable un-speakable happiness. Whatever you have to be done, look around and see if your own mechanics cannot do it. If you have a house to build or a shoe to tap, a saddle to be made, tinware to mend, a house to paint, or a pack of cards, bill -heads, letter-heads, circulars, or anything of that kind to print, or anything else to be done, just look among your home folks before you send abroad, and if you find there are none in your town capable of doing do-ing the job, it will then be time j enough to look elsewhere. We know of instances where men have refused I to purchase work made by their neighbors, and have sent to a distant city for the articles they needed, and paid a third more for them, when, behold, they were the very articles manufactnred and sent away to sell by the same neighbors of whom they refused to purchase. Let the motto of all be: "I will encourage my own mechanics." In turn you will be encouraged also, A natural feeling of good will and kindness will spring up in our midst, and prosperity will be observable in every street and in every dwelling. Encourage Home Mechanics. In every country there is a class of people who seem to think that nothing noth-ing can be done so well in the region where they live as it could be done at some other place. As a consequence conse-quence they do not patronize their home industries, if they can help it, and as a further consequence they are of very little advantage to the community in which they, unfortunately unfortun-ately for the better class of people, have their location. This sending abroad for work t |