The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-05
what some People say.

If a man is engaged in buying cot
ton, he will say to the papers: Don't
publish the reports of receipts, be-
cause 1t brings in outside buyers to
compete with us, and we should by
all means support home enterprises;
but the farmers say: Publish them,
because the more buyers we have, the
moro connefition for our Gotten 20
will have, and, per consequence, the
better prices we win secure. The
merchants, mechanics and business
men say: Publish it all, because where
large amounts of cotton are handled
the greater will be the volume of
trade, and when Waco has the rcputa-
tion for handling the cotton business
of considerable extent of country,
others outside will be induced to
send here to market, and thus will the
volume of trade be increased and the
range of our trade territory be ex-
tended indefinitely. The EXAMINER
has but one desire in this connection
after supplying its readers with the
news of Gotten operations, and it is
this; to serve the largest number of
people, the good ofthe greatest num-
ber." We shall vote and work with
the majority in this thing, because the
majority is unquestionably in the
right. We need the business. Bust
ness is what makes the city. 1t affects
for good the values of the place, both
real aud personal, and that is what
we are here for. That is the mission
of the EXAMINER. Since the present
management took charge it has been
able to work wonders in
in the way of increasing not only the
cotton trade of Waco, but all other
kinds and character of business.
This is the general remark of all eau
did aud honest observers. We can
well afford to rest on their verdict
while smiling at the helpless ,ntor-
lions OF some who damn anything or
anybody who is not pulling stroke
oars in their own service, We work
for community interests; they, for
selfish, individual purposes.
Some mon who own mills say TO US:
For Gods sake why do you demand.
and why are you always advocating
the erection of roller Touring mill!
We have mills already, why do
YOU want more? One man says: /
see you encourage Mr.. Smith to open
q livery stable. Don't you know thst
we have more enterprises of that
character now than are making salt
fol- their porridge. One merchant
says, see you advise the opening OF
another dry goods store, while it Is
well known that we have more now
than can make living. ItIsthe same in
groceries, in boo is and shoes, in black
smithing, in machine works, in car
pentry, aud in fact and in short, in
everything. But what can paper
do? We only recognize the fact that
population makes cities, and we strike
for population and the enterprises
which bring people and business
here, and cannot assume to stop short
off and say who is or is not q desirable
citizen, or what business will be bene
fitted or injured by the presence here
of any man or any class ofmen.
II is the same with crime. We car
only condemn crime, no matter by
whom committed. II is the principle
and not the individual that the Elk
AMrNER is at war with. Some excel
lent men say: "You had no bushes,
taking sides against prohibitiOD;'
while others equally respe ctablc
equally patriotic and equally
moral and religious say: "You did
not make strong enough fight" and
still others: "You are a yeritable Ro-
man; go on and on because you are
right" The simple fact is, mons
moral views aud their business, po-
litical and social purposes are as va
ried as are their faces, and the paper
which seeks TO please all these varied,
diverse and complicated Interests will
''get left" TO dead moral certainty.
All conscientious paper eau do IL to
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