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

Fort worth and Nacn.
In recent Wcll-writtcn but lily .
con-i tered article the Fort worth .
Gazette concludes Tint there will bc
tour or five great papers in thi- state F..
but that one of them will
not Unpublished at Waco, and one OF
them will he published at Fort Worth.
lhi, is a mon>trou, piece of cNa9gcr-
lion, n it is hit Of real pleasantly,
and almost ~ laughahlc ~ real com
cdy. We have not now the space to
enter broadly into the general qucS-
lion. but rs between Fort Worth and
Waco we have room all the time, and
the disposition to strip the prctcn-
lions from our nrighhor, but To- do it
rs painlcssly n possible, and if we
wound the "amour proprc' of the ia
lcttcn> part OF the Fort, let it re
member only that we Ito it in kind
mess, not in anger not to make i'll
Vidiou- distinctions but solely in the
cause of truth. Newspapers are built
up only where there is commerce. y
new, papcr is great only a. the com
mcrcial significance OF the place in
which il is published, Is great. Gal
/ weston. Houston and san Antonio
! papers are ON the wanc, because the
/ commercial superiority of those cities
is passing away. With the devotion
mcnt of the state and the supply of
rui facilities, the commerce which
once flowed in to enrich these cities
aud build up their papers is given 10
points nearer the scene of production.
Austin will always have II good paper,
or ought to have, because, being the
political capital of II great and
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 TcNa, open to markets
which compete with san Antonio aud
of course her papers suffer with the
dccadcncc of her commercial prc-cmi-
hence.
With Fort Worth and Waco the
case is this. Waco i, 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 ,uccumh, and
the chances are that Dallas will wear
the other out because she has vastly
more advantages than the Fort. Wa
60 is i'll the very center of the dcnscst
population of Texas, and the richest,
She has rs many railroads rs has the
Fort. These reach out in every dircc-
ton and tap all the country which the
| Forts roads tap, md 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 ouly little
| over twelve thousand. The cause of
| all this is apparent in our better iacll-
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 II, n greater
paper, and 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 braycly 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 nt - fixed
rate per inch. An excellence inally
finds its way to the metropolis, or
rather. we should say, to the mctrop-
oil in this case, and that will incNita-
bly, sidc-track Galveston, Houston,
Fort Worth aud san Antonio. The
proposition is Us plain rs the nose ON
YOUR face,
Waco /, by no means nervous n To
her future. Her rich soil, her dense
population, her central location, the
enterprise and intelligence of her
population, her grand railroad acili-
tie, and her present and rapidly in
crcasing commercial superiority, will
most assuredly bring her pre-cmi-
ncnce, and also give her one of the
leading papers in the state.