Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
southern Genius for Trade Recognized
In Northern Business Circles.
Barriers Of Stctionalsm Broken Down
by Railways aud Telegraphs.
Lanham and the Wool Tariff Healing
Party Discussions.

w,su',,.r' o',as",e .. ,n' =, S'te's,
80 1Ni.'" Neep
shirts are known the world over,
Keep was a rollicklng Confederate SOL
der from Vicl.sb,rg Io ca,,,.. o,,, 80
~ .,.,ss '"s y.
wy ~ penn'iess anu shir'iess' and
was therefore easily induced to 70 to
New York that his empty wa&robe
might he replenished. He was soreIy.
distressed to find in New York thai n
sing shirt cost s.. 80. 1t occuric cd to him
when be had hsukrupted himself by
the purchase of a pair of shirts. that the
price of this neither intesument was
intolerab!e, and he patented a process
by which q hundred or more shirts
We're cut out by asort of edged trip.
manner coming down by steam power
upon many thicknesses OF domestic or
linen. He employed countless women
TO .baste" the parts together and thus
sold them. that wives might finish
them for husbands, Mt a thrilling adj
vance on the cost of the material. He
bought vast quantities OF cotton and
linen, and began the manufacture Of
Keeps shirts and lessened the cost of
the garment more than ono.half and
Keeps name Is blessed the world
over wherever the best shirts, costing
the least money, are worn,
III a missionary can only get savage
into one OF Keeps shirts, the wesrer Is
NJ once deemed convert and baptized
into the church. Keep has prosnered.
The wretched rebel soldier OF 1865 Is
now millionaire. And New York
abounds IN Keeps. Many OF the best
lawyers and Spectators and bankers
and merchants of Gotham are eS.
reoels. l nave told Keeps simple
story only to illustrate the fact that The
forces OF Southern genius are confessed
In the great commercial center OF the
Union.
THE DRuMMERs.
But Southern genius In trade Is dis.
tlnguished and its potency confessed
not only in New York but IN Wash.
ington. | am told that two-thirds OF
ali drummers employed by New York,
Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are
Southerners. They are the adroitest,
! most efficient statesmen and most trust
worthy representatives of great mills
and mercantile establishments, The
South. once famed for lis genius in pol.
tiles, has been forced by blows of pov.
erty and fepulsiye eucroachmepts OF
Ethiopian forces in local government,
TO enter new fields of ENTERPRISE, and
Southern commercial, intellectual and
moral capacity is confessed by this
universal preference Tor Southern com
mercial travellers Southern drum
mers are not confined to Southern
states. They pervade New YORK and
New England and the middle states
Their salaries are highest, and con.
1idence reposed In them Is greatest, aud
they soonest become interested
as owners in establishments they rep
resent Meanwhile, the senate VII
adjourn Saturday to celebrate the oh
seques of Malone and Sherman 10 b'
gently laid away, sbrouded In the
bloody shirt and Northtrn toll ano
capital, with greater rapidity and II
greater volume than ever before, vii
invade the South; and 1t Is curious
fact that the tendencies of the migfa
ton are in opposite directions. North
ern populations yearn for fertile farm
and sunshine of the South, whil'
son 1 pankers anu traces peo on'
r Nraaa pl.o ~ H. Sn,th ,ra,,,ta,e ~
pvards nav yorlr and c,,,caco and
m",uS nem hssnrs n,a ta,Is ,hat mr.
Erarip Ei.tcbnr Rantist d;vine !
Nnn,,at n " ~ asmipahie is,rnin
~ al,;iit, a,arts n oh,,roi, avn
: IN Az " sam,i,' ""''
Vow 1870 go se,n ,,s,,,rs
!. '''"'''p
This adlnlxture OF N"ftnern u,l
I; Southern populations ny progrsssis
railway systems Is so Iiipioly perieg,ts,e
thst eNponem.s o. ,,, se M.%nma Ore i an
+ tombed alive beneath steer raiis, te.t
: phones. Telegraph anu newspaper
! and Jay Gould ~ mus cnleiess oi gray
+ diggers. | hear " stated oy NorsheT
: people every day thai II the benencen
+ tasks of Jay Gould had Deeh periects
prior to 1860, the interstate war woul
8 have been morally impossible, roc
/ Sherman, statesman though he b'
r never thought OF all this. The resistie'
4 tide of progress has overwhelmed an
: destroyed him, and IN spite OF u
i wicked policy of the ltepuplica
4 party. the restoration OF the Union b
), comes a moral as Wei as physical lac
a THE CHALMERS AND MANNING CAS-
II Gan Chalmers was first, / believ
l. Isil. Sna, an,dis IN scale The nnl
Il Eort pI,low n has been sought
e ~ ~. h,nrra.,,. fame because Il
d niianad ,haH tha Mack garrison of tb
l. alegeI tha' une a J,aN ierad ofter the
svrongnolu was Sl'aIn,ars w.s faremo
surrenue,eu ,Iafsairs and var no
OF rofresIs cn' ~ n,,asi Ranmhl;ce,
tnat Cnai.ners - I 49,, "a 90 IN
4. MS sins OF twenty sc"'s -Sv a's =,