Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-29
Fort Worth and the Gazette.

Several Of our esretmed c0mtempora-
ries, in discussing the aspects OF Texas
JOURNALISTIC, arrive at the conclusion
that the piess is far in advance OF the
state. This is a. it may be. If so, 1t |
shows their faith in the future of the |
state. They must believe that the
state will grow up to them, else they |
would not, as business concerns, in
vest so much money in the business.
AS an example and conspicuous in
stance in which 1t is asserted that a
n e wspaper is far in advance of liz To- |
cality, the GAZETTE is constantly |
pointed out. The Austin Statesman says |
| of II: "rhe ID alias Herald and the Fort
| Worth GAZETTE are such papers, MS in
the older states, would not be pub
lished with profit in n community
with less than 100000 inhabitants,
while the combined population Of the
two cities in which they are published,
probably, is not 3O,000-'
This is mainly true, and while the
GAZETTE feels n little bit fattered to
note the est eem in which it is held by
a rival newspaper, il must protest That
the comparison is not just TO Fort
Worth. Population, merely, does not
make IA town. The absence ola great
aggregation of people, huddled to-
gether in tenement houses, does not
give evidence that "A city is lacking
MI. &c a. md taln.
: graphs, and by them the people OF
thousands OF square miles Of adjacent
territory are made component business
> parts of the city to which they pay
tribute. If Fort Worth's 10000 o.
: busy inhabitants looked for snstenta
: ton in business and employ mept t.
J. the local trade of its outlying country
they would soon have to pull NJ
y stakes and q good many
IS thousand OF them look to other source
. for their daily bread. If the GAzETrl
. were confined for support to the limit
u of Fort Worth and TaIrant county, IL
IA immense expenditures OF money 4
= give the people metropolitan dali.
D. would so overbalance its rtceipts as 4
IL soon compel It's publishers to cut Ia
~ paper down to the business of In
ns place. But happily the Fort Wort
." business men and the GAZETTE hav
- other fields TO conquer, and they hay
- conquered them, and are still cor
'" quering. The railway and telegrap
III 1 pF 1DOnnag
NJ The whole Western, NoTthwester
'"- and Southwestern parts of the stat
III nav tribute to Fort Worth. A hui
e' bred prosperous country towns an
~ villages are suburbs OF Fort Worl
"" Thousands of tradesmen who do N
,"' vote In Fort Worth are Fort Worth
-, :. supporters, The hundreds
,o' thou,ands OF farmers and stocl
~ men who make and keep Y
=" these tributary towns also Indirect
W advance Fort Worth This IS the 3
Wv crct OF our success. The GAZErrEgo
~ every day TO lis constituency in Il
~ towns along the railroads that radia
-, from this point, carrying its messag
nn ofnews, collected from all quarters
the world, To thousands of Gag
friends, into whose hands the paper
49, put ere the ink on its pages are dr.
~, II these conrributcrs TO the GAZETTE
success aud prosperity, whose snppo
and patronage have made possible
marvellous SUCCESS, are counted In,
Re they should be, the GAzErrE's co
am stituency is swelled To a, large POI
rolt latlon as many of the big cities Of I
udi- older states, who do not give birth