Show HOME manufactures why send abroad for what wo can produce at home we have frequently had something te gay in favor of encouraging home manufactures fac tures and of the many slights and tricks eliat are frequently played on alie brav and perser vering pioneer of manufactures that it is with pleasure eliat we clip from an exchange the following defense we do not fay aliis in any insidious seme but rather would beek to call at leation t the fact that wa are fast be a great manufacturing community and it would seem the height of lolly to po abroad for that which can be produced t a greater advantage advant aga at home for a community to shut up within iseff and try to boycott every person and everything which comes from a didian e is contrary to the better spirit of to think more highly of that which comes from a distance simply because it is farfetched far fetched is equally ridiculous and most like so we say take everything upon ts merits and give all possible encouragement coura gement to enterprising spirits who are doing level best to build up manufactures ef various descriptions in our midst to alie manufacturers we would say go on in your good and useful work and endeavor to produce articles of such excellent quality eliat merchants will be proud to deal in them and consumers delighted to use them in preference to goods from the mountains or across the seas we all knoer or ought to know tl e pacific brates abound in raw material of every description only requiring the industry af alie miner and the ingenuity of the mechanic to transform it into usefulness of late we bobsene a growing disposition to invest money in manufacturing i i anies and trust no incapacity on the part of the managers may develop itself and no lack of patronage tend to lie best movement hns been set on deot in our fair land for many a day |