The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-06

Fort worth and Waco.
In recent well-written, but lily
considered article, the Fort Worth
Gazette concludes that there will be
tour or five great papers in this state
ultimately, but that one of them will
not be published at Waco, and one OF
them will be published at Fort Worth.
This is monstrous piece of exagger-
ton, as IL is bit of real pleasantly,
and almost as laughable as u real COM
edy. We have not now the space to
enter broadly into the general ques-
ton, but "a between Fort Worth and
Waco we have room all the time, and
the disposition to strip the preten-
tions from our neighbor, but to do it
as painlessly as possible, and if we
wound the "amour propre" of the Ga
zctte as a part of the Fort, let it re-
member only that we do il in kind |
ness, not in anger; not TO make in
vidious distinctions but solely in the
cause of truth. Newspapers are built
up only where there is commerce. A
newspaper is great only ms the COM
mercial significance OF the plao. in
which it is published, is great. Gal
weston, Houston and San Antonio
papers are on the wane, because the
commercial superiority of those cities
is passing away. With the develop
inent of the state and the supply of
rail facilities, the commerce whicl.
once flowed in to enrich these cities
aud build up their papers is given 70
points nearer the scene of production.
Austin will always have good paper,
or ought to have, because, being the
political capital of great aud
growing state, there will al
ways be enough of political
: interest TO maintain one of the great
papers of the state. The development
of the rail system OF Texas has placed
all of west Texas open to markets
which compete with San Antonio, aud
r of course her papers suffer with the
decadence of her commercial pre-emi-
nence.
With Fort Worth and Waco the
case is this. Waco is over 100 miles
from Dallas, the Fort is but thirty.
Two suns cannot shine in the same
, heavens at once. Ultimately, either
the Fort or Dallas must succumb, and
the chances are that Dallas will wear
the other out because she has vastly
more advantages than the Fort. Wa
, co is in the very center of the densesi
population of Texas, and the richest
She has as many railroads as has the
Fort. These reach out in every direc-
ton and tap all the country which the
Forts roads tap, and much which
hers can never touch. The proof OF
this is that we handled over sixty-five
, thousand bales OF cotton last year
while the Fort handled only little
: over twelve thousand. The cause OF
, all this is apparent in our better iacil-
E tiles, and in very short time the
, causes which operate to give us this
:, excess OF business over the Fort must
logically operate to give us greater
paper, aud one with wider range OF
, patronage and influence. The Fort
holds up now in journalism only be-
cause within the last few years she
has bravely sunk nearly two hundred
thousand on her paper, while Waco
has never put forty dollars
into one, for which she
did not receive quid pro quo
in commercial advertising at fixed
rate per inch. All excellence finally
finds its way to the metropolis, or
rather, we should say, to, the metrop-
oil in this case, aud that will inevita-
bly, side-track Galveston, Houston,
Fort Worth and San Antonio. The
proposition is as plain AS the nose on
your face.
Waco is by no means nervous as TO
her future. Her rich soil, her dense
population, her central location, the
enterprise and intelligence OF her
population, her grand railroad facili-
ties and her present and rapidly in
creasing commercial superiority will
most assuredly bring her pre.emi-
nence, and also give her one Of the
leading papers in the state.