Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-27
l.nnali,m and journalism.

Wednesday Is pleased 10 refer 10 GER
tain circumstances as justifying the
'suspicion that the News might not
object to attaching Dallas as tail
10 it's Galveston kite.p From the
standpoint OF this suspicion THE GA.
zETTE IL pleased to remark: THE field
OF the News 10 circumscribed; the re-
vlval Of the Houston Post restricts yet
more that field, and Southern Texas
lags far behind Northern Texas In the
race for population and wealth. For
these reasons IL is not unnatural that
the News should seek to establish
branch or feeder in Dallas, at which To-
cal patronage does not seem sufficlentto
maintain first-class paper" The COM
parsons here presented, however
casual they may seem, are ingeniously
invidious. The local disparagements
which they convey are quite gratui-
tous. Northern Texas can afford to
stand upon It's own merits, 1t does
not need 10 be exalted by belittling
illusions to the relative progress Of
Southern Texas. Equally invidious
and gratuitous are the illusions TO the
News and to Dallss--to the News as
paper that Knight not object to attach
ing Dallas IA a tail to It's Galveston
kite,n and to Dallas as a city the local
patronage of which docs not seem
sufficient to maintain a tirst-class pa
per Such illusions proceed upon a
radically fulse theory as TO the princi-
plies which should govern the relations
| between a daily press, aiming to
he metropolitan in circulation, in in
| fluence and in usefulness, and local
| communities which are interested in
| the existence, the maintenance and
| the development of such O press.
! Whether the News company Should
| issue daily editions from one place,
from another place, or from several
places in Texas, Is simply, from a
strictly newspaper point of view, a
| question of business eXpediency as TO
the best mechanical facilities for reach
ing speedily the reading public, which
IL was proposed TO serve. The less II
daily press, OF more than contracted
provincial aspirations, Is entangled
with any besetting localism, rife
with narrow prejudices and pal
try jealousies. the better it is for
that press, the better IL is for
the general reading constituency, and
the better IL Is for every legitimate,
substantial and intelligently enter
prising local interest which seeks TO
rise aud expand with the general
progress and the general prosperity
not TO maintain small factitious Inn
portance by standing still and opposing
such progress and such prosperity
The spirit of localism, such ~ here in
dicated, 1t is hardly too much to say,
has been the greatest bane OF Texas
journalism, and, it may be added, one
Of the greatest drawbacks upon an
even, symmetrical and prosperous de.
velopment of the state with respect tc
it's industrial resources and CONNER
cial possibilities. But for this OBJ
structive and deleterious influence,
Texas would be incompatible
better equipped with railroads and
all sorts Of public improvements
than she now Is, and the problem o
deep water on the Texas coast would
ere this have been pushed toan abund
antly successful conclusion-a con
clusion comprising in the vast sum o
It's practical results outlets and inletl
within the bounds of Texas for al
the trade Of the state, and commercial
, financial and manufacturing centers
interior or seaboard, within the bound
OF Texas, for all the produce and in
dustrial enterprises Of the state. Texa
~ llblcu III INSptCl
, for n metropolitan journalism imbue
, with the spirit and prophetic of tn
accomplishment of this large progress
r aud OF this rounded development
o Only the obstacles and trammels OF
!. miserable localism, with it's wors
than dog-in-the-manger despitefu
ness, stand in the way Galvesto
, News.
The Catholic spirit and broad
gagged view OF journalism espresso
in the above article will find heart
Endorsement by every Texas newsps
per which, like the News and TIL
j GAZETTE, deplores localism in I'll
y iournalism-of other cities. 1t go'
without saying that every Texi
/ newspaper should be in favor of "a
e even, symmetrical and prosperous d
velopment of the state with respect
q It's industrial resources and CONNIE
u cisl possibilities. If there Ia any OF
: thing that Texas, aud especially Sa
II Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas, Denise
IA and other growin0 towns, needs, 1t
u IAN even. symmetrical development
70 1.-THE spirit of localism, such as thi
" indicated" by the News has been IL
10 greatest help to the uneven and VI
u symmetrical development of Texa
IL rs shown by the followiI
q figures from the United States census
IL POPULATION or TEXAS.
D. COUNTY. 1850. 1870 1860 Is
-
" Galveston. .,......-.2t,l2l 1920 1920 lh
Dallas .,,..",.,..,.....,B,iS 1854 1858 81
AZ Iarrant. 6,7SB 600 *
ID Now, If the journalism of Dallq
and Fort WORTH had been "less Ell
rs tangled with Its besetting locs
1t isms," these two towns would not
10 day be the best advertised cities
le Texas, and the disparity of progres
a. as shown by the census returns quot,
a above, would have given way to
+; more "even, symmetricaW growth,