Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-30
COMMERCIAL.


ditions of the Fort Worth of the futura
IL is an suspicious omen TO observe thaf
that element of the population indis-
criminately alluded 70 MS "the work.
ing classes are maniicsting disnnsi.
ton and desire 10 bero,na
property owners and acouire
competency, or ut hest a.
reserve fund.- for future exjgenc;es
or future ease. 1t is the commonly ~.
ceived opinion abroad that Texans M
q whole are reckless and improyident
needing not possible wants so that
positive needs were supplied. While
Fort Worth has not, like many cities
and towns in the East and
North, institutions known ms savings
banks for the deposit and
security of the earnings of the people.
the city Is well supplied with substan
tial banking houses where deposits
are received. The GAzErTE had occa-
sion to inquire, u short time ago. and
was rewarded with the information
that the business of small deposits by
mechanics, artisans, laborers, etc.
WAS very large indeed. All
of the banking institutions
in the city kept accounts for this
class OF depositors. This fact seems to
illustrate what has been hitherto as
serted, that the poorer people of Fort
Worth are in prosperous condition,
and their prosperity doubtless signifies
contentment. 1t is not under such
circumstances that the germ of
socialism and kindred isms
are implanted. These vicious princi-
Piles have been almost eradicated in
Chicago, with its mosaic humanity
aliording the conditions Of such social
heresies, by the acquisition of small
holdings by the working people. In
Texas the workingman is oppressed in
nothing, while ON the contrary
the laws sanction the EXTREMIST
latitude of individual effort.
But it is incumbent upon the people to
see that these propitious conditions
are not perverted. Henry George, the
American philosopher, while n
journalist in California, observed the
development of that state of affairs on
the Pacific coast which gave
rise to his favorite the
DRY of progress and poverty.
Progress, according to Mr.. Georges
theorizing, begets poverty in the course
of events, and the argument, iIlustra-
ted with the history OF California, is a
v
state has evolved few men from the
extreme of penuriousness to the eX-
trenle of opulence, and there
of all the states in the
American union the spec
tacles of plutocracy and hoodlum-
ism are brought into absolute contra
distinction Let no citizen interpose
himself rs an obstacle to progress, but
lui nnoh ono nrHaaupr 10, ani1nliya
much rs social economy admits, the
benefits and accruments ofthe progress
which moves forward with gigantic
strides throughout Texas. Our COM
merce will magnify and our social con-
ditions become more secure than IL we
are permitted to lapse into the extreme
popular distinctions that prevail in
the golden state.
Commercial Notes.
Estimates and computations of the
crop of cotton raised in Bell county
during the season OF lSS2-S3 place the
sum total at fifty thousand bales.
Supposing that forty dollars in round
numbers was realized for each bale Of
cotton the sum for the entire crop agre-
ductiveness of Bell county is maxim
with those familiar with Texas agri-
culture 1t is unfortunate that her
resources should be exhausted in
growing a crop for which there is so
small margin of profit.
The legislature of Arkansas has
passed n memorial addressed to con-
grees asking the refunding of the cot
ton tax levied Immediately after the
! war. An effort has been made to secure
the refunding of the money collected
on account Of this tax, but the effort
failed very decisively. One great
difficulty to he overcome before the
proceeds of the tax can ever be OBJ
tanned, lies in the fact the rightful
| claimants cannot be established.