The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-03-07
TEEE HARD TIMES CRY.
Where do the Causes for Conn
piainI Come From.

epLlN ~ com pam OF naGu tunes on TIE
smal est possible pretense. "a il is 10 eat.
but how seldom. very seldom do we. even
when business is at its best hear Of any one
admitting that they are or have bee do
ing well. We have for the past four years
been listening to the cry of hart times
and at the close OF e Gu wear we have
heard our business n, say that il the
ieAt year Goes not promise something
Letter they viii be ruined. We have been
lOONing around to see WHIT eft cts I'll
these hard tim, have wrought and where
81 the causes tor complaint came from.
-Four years ago, the good times some are
CHING Tor the return OF, We had but one
rIIlroad and we absolutely declared we
must meet inevitable ruin if we did not
yet more. We were weighed down by an
c&ces i've reght rate and the city was liza
bic 10 be forced into bankruptcy any day
by that one rdiIroadi held in the nei2 hbor
hood Of $4,000 OF the city's bonds with
about seven Years accrued interest. AZ
that time the far hest limit OF busiaess,Or
Austin street. was at the corner. Wh"rr ID.
>. Woods gro cry house now stands.
No one dared u take Horace q: eeley
advice and 40 west" beyond thai point.
Green's livery stable winch stood on the
corner opposite. up 10 the tine Col. Tay-
Tor built his not. was considered "Out in
the country" We had no Central eXten-
sion and all communication with
the west save by wagon, 10 compress
oil mill, pow factory, etc. were runnlnG
cotton factory was iIle ard we were IN
fact depending mainly on our cotton pro
duct and he trade Which it brought. tor
a living. II is it WIS secn would not do,
and when the railroad excitement came
along we paid out about $4,000 in cash,
besides giving TWO OF them right-ot-way
through the city. and DEPOT grounds, rtc..
to one To-day we see "a nat h bu-iuess
and as good buildings beyond ID. 5.
/ Woods store Us there was previously from
the square to where he now is, besides
the building no Otnorth and south Fourth
street kcllum & ROtan's new building,
/ the erection OF the oil nj | and plOw factO-
/ ~. and in TACT including buildings and
/ business we have increased between one
ard TWO millions OF dollars in the last ,wo
ears outside OF the immense ammount
Of taXabe property the railroads have
added 10 the city and county. The city
has compromised her railroad bond d in
/ d.todness and is now rapidly paying it OFF
without BURDENS Q the taxpayers. Our
trade has been extended TO fields VIC
never could command before, and the
lldllNttNJ lidNtt 'IiU lItNtl We G!iION II hpN
tenIold more than it ever HIS been be-
fore. Weshave made gain OF fully one
third In business lie. population and gen
e-al social and commercial prosperity.
viii any one look around the city, corr
slider facts and figures and deny this
Are not the new faces. capital and popu-
latiun We have acquired proof that We
have built up strong cOntfdenre and
added 10 our material wealth
and prosperity And few weeks
duiln s. in business because the elements
have been against us has suiiiccd to make
people settle down to chronic complain
/ ing. They forget that Waco is not the
/ only place thus afflicted. 1t has extended
/ oyer the entire state OF Texas, Arkansas,
! Missouri and others. In the great com
/ mrrcial city of 81. Louis, trade is and has
/ been almost paral} Zcd and failure after
failure Is the result. Has waco sIStair Ell
/ OF does she expect anything ~ bad MS
! thar! We ass ri that natural advantages
/ wealth. population and ability generally,
/ Waco has acquired rs much. ii not more,
rev Improvements AID capital in the last
/ three or tour years as any city OF her size
/ in the south. Why then this complaint
/ from year to ycal! True some have sui
/ tered in that time. as some will always
. sun ana 90 To the wall III the very /, s.
OF times, but they have Teen few in com
! palison. Our complaint can lee raised on
no other ground than that the American
. people are chronic cOmpiAiners even in
. prosperity. ana being OF thai progressive,
ven urSOmc spirit thcv GeSiie and nee
/ constant change ard when monOtOny
comes upon tn, m il ii can be relieved in
no other way that great specific, complaint.
i resorted to. This is the reason thai We
hear So much hard times cry and so many
ploGno~ ticaticns about The future. 1t is
AL the result OF feeling and not from any
actual cause for it and "a few weeks pleas
anJ weather ana the prospect of u gooC
crop would make those who are now
complaining want to build twJ or three
more railways and extend the clty ovel
the entire county. Such arr our pecmi-
ariticS and a part OF our daily lite,