| Show GOOD PAY IT waa remarked to us in connee tion lion with a brief article on home manufacture manufactures published in it the NF NEWS ws a few days clays ngo ago that one important in and very discouraging alg 1 point was the common practice of refusing 4 to pay cash for home manufactured articles but instead the payment for them in other kinds and as far as could be in the most afife inferior bior kinds there is too much truth in this observation it has lias been tilo tile custom for our citizens generally to refrain from paying pasing t cash wholly or even in part for articles made at home and it lias has been the custom for stores to adopt tilo the same practice until in many cases it has been impossible for tile the manufacturers to realize from the sale of their goods ishill sufficient cien clen t cash to reimburse th them eai cal for their actual necessary current cash outlay ilithe in the production of those goods the of ot currency especially in former years induced among all the community a habit of offering any kind of ibay pay before they would offer cash and generally the worst arst pay was offered first and tile the policy came to be to buy the best articles you could and give the poorest pay that would bo be taken this policy has not only been followed by the poorer people but in many cases with quite as great persistency by the tho richer who can well afford to give good pay well afford to give cash in making their purchases of or late years the increased amount of currency circulating ili in the community Fauril ty has weakened the force of this policy and habit babit considerably still they are yet clung to in many instances with that wonderful tenacity which characterizes most old world peoples in regard to old notions sand and habits and the present temporary stringency in the money market has a tendency to renew the force of the tile particular habit and policy in it question to buy in the tilo lowest market and sell in the highest and to buy the best articles and pay in the poorest kinds hinds of pay have been considered good ninan finan ciering cardinal business princ principles i by many people but the pushing of those principles to extremes is a most effective ivay way of cultivating the vices of greediness grabbing brabbin g and avarice until the community comes toa to a condition of perfect commercial wolfishness a with gold for its god and moneymaking for its creed this is not riot a condition to attract tile the admiration of any person who has a spark of the nobility of even human nature only in him it is not a condition favorable to the development of the material resources or to the greatest advancement of the material prosperity of the community but it is all an ad admirable mirable condition for the production of tile the greatest possible number of shylocks Shy locks who will have their pound ot of flesh without batin bating BO so much as the tile shadow of a scruple and who will live upon each other with the most perfect greediness A general rule very much more nearly approaching the highest 0 and nud purest and best policy would bo be for a man when purchasing or paying pyoug r to consider that tha the person with whom he is dealing whether rich or poor needy or well to do has a right to a just proportion of cash or other good hayand pay and not that it is right to put him off with the poorest kind of pay that lie can bo induced to accept in tho the c case se of trading for articles of home manufacture when those articles are really marketable and serviceable i instead of or paying for them in the poorest dorest kind would it not be better would it not riot be mor more ejust just and honorable honarable would it not bo be more patriotic would it not conduce more to tile general welfare to be even a little more liberal in ones feelings and to give a little larger proportion of good pay of cash if pos possible han ban to give less of such pay than s lip lid ia ill most ather purchases ii ini might i slit plit bo ua ered that in the edfort effort to establish home manufactures ur actu res on a successful srul and fairly paying aying abing basis many experiments tave eave hava lava to be made much expense lias has to be incurred some losses a are re tr unavoidable n and a lim JIM i liberal assistance in the shape of cash for the articles produced dould would prove a great enc encouragement and ta powerful stimulant to perseverance and to renewed endeavors to attain to a satisfactory degree of perfection of manufacture this thia would certainly be lic the case and the community would be bene fitted thereby in the end for a t irid manufactory mui wil of useful articles cannot be successfully established d and maintained in any community without adding correspondingly 1 to the prosperity of that community it may be all very well to make money but he who thinks thatto chatto that to scrape together as much cash as possible and to pay out as little as possible is the chief end find of man mannis mantis Is one ono of the most poverty stricken of or ilum lium human in kind it may be urged that much may be eaid said on both sides of this question true enough but this is the side we are talking about today to day |
