The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-11-19
WALKABOUT,


carry the heaviest stocks, seem willing
that the trade should be equally d.
vided, as much so as if this were done
by common consent. There are in
Dallas not less than twenty houses, and
perhaps an equal number in Fort
Worth, either one of which do more
advertising and exhibit more
vigor and push than all of the
leading business houses in Austin
combined! Are we not right then in
saying that the leading business men
in Austin are conservative set? The
facts will justify the assertion. But,
you may say, conservatism in trade is
better than push. That depends upon
your aspirations. If you are content
with the slow shilling; if you desire
only very moderate competency and
are not anxious to heap up a fortune
beyond that of your neighbors; If
your philanthropy and notions of
equity are such that you want to
make a fair division of trade, then
you are right in keeping in the chan
mel you are now in; but ii you want
to do more business than you are now
doing, and augment your wealth to
greater extent than at present, you
have got to get up and get; you
have got to shake the dust from your
feet aud the mold from your shelves.
Gentlemen, if Chicago man, for in
stance, were to come down here, with
no more capital than some of you
have and go into business, In six
months time he would compel all
others now here in his branch Of bust
ness, to purchase an increased supply
of whiting sticks to keep themselves.
busy. Fort Worth is no larger than
Austin, and Dallas but trifie larger,
and yet, gentlemen, you permit COM
mercial travellers from those towns to
come down and cover your territory
with their sales, and they draw their
supplies from sources that are open to
you. Why is this? 80, we are con.
sentative people, we are, and do not
believe in push. They have to pay
for the goods they sell and we would
have to do the same thing If we sold
them. Let them do the business
if they want to, we don't
want it. We are more conservative
business men, we are" Well, gen.
tlemen, you are the architects of your
own fortunes, and have right to do
business in YOUR own way, and if you
dol not prosper and accumulate, it is
none of our business. If you are
content to remain sleepers in "Sleepy
Hollow" be it SO: Some day, how
ever, there will be rustlins among
the dry bones of Austin, for, as sure
as you are alive-or dead, rather-a
class of business men will come in
here and take charge of the business
of this burg. You will then wish you
had made fortunes while an oppor-
tunity offered.
On the morning Of the day the enlarg-
ed STATEsMAN makes its appearance,
WalkaboUt is going to put on a clean
shirt, and otherwise look respectable,
so that he will not be mis-
taken for Major Dan McGary,
of the Houston Age, and he, w,
on that day will present you with a
full column OF little Walka5o;sSS. 81
if you have any good things you want
served up on that occasion, send them
in without delay and they will be put
in soak.
Ct looks now as if the Dallas end of
the Galveston News was going to be-
The Dallas End of the Galveston
In
running alone through the town.
pitching into it, and with its tail
the gauntlet. AS newspaper the
Fort Worth Gazette lays over it and
when the Herald gets on its new war
paint, it too, may prove to be another
Nothing yet ever went from the south
to fY1I1 off
competition. 1t is contrary. to the es-
tablished order of things. Enterprise
tends towards the equator, not from
| it:
1t is astonishing how great minds
will run in the same channel. Last
Sunday morning, as the STATESMAN
readers will no doubt recollect, there
appeared in Walkabout's column this
paragraph:
eff nature had intended human be-
ings to wear rings in their ears, ears
would have been born with ring holes
in them.-Picayune.
| Ergo: IF nature had intended hui
man beings to wear clothes, they
would have been born with clothes on
them"
Sunday evening, when the Dallas
News arrived, it brought US the fol-
lowing:
If nature had intended human be-
iDgs to wear rings in their ears, ears
would have been born with ring holes
in them. "-Picayune. Most assuredly
And If nature had intended human
beings to Wear clothes, they wst4lt
have been born with clothes on"
AS no other paper, or either O.
US, so far as we know, had expressed
the SAME sentiment, the COINCIDENCE
is remarkable, particularly as there il
only a variation of but one word
That beats anything that Walkabou
ever saw in journalism. He begins t.
think that the Dallas News is no
such poor paper after all.
1t il very seldom that Austin In
dulges in anything sensational, blu
when she does start in she just lay
over all you other fellows, Here
Austin's last-as a shoemaker woul
say. On Sunday last. as DR.. Smoot
of thePresbyterian church, was preach
ing, his text being, 4 am not yet pei
feet" as. uttered by Paul, in Phillip
plans, chap. 8, verse IL, he said, n