Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-12

good, are a forgiving brotheri seventy
times seven we shall condone-only,
Sterett, let this not (should you get welD
prove repentance to be repented OF. Go
and sin no more. Aud now, for the edit
cation Of others who would deny
the greatness OF Fort Worth, aud
who shut their eyes to the fact that It Is
the men Of Fort Worth who make Fort
worth and who fail to see that Fort Worth
makes The GAZETTE, and who have not
understood why from Fort Worth must
come the best paper in the state, we APP
pend the confession Of our eve lamb Of
wickedness and contrltion, as made In
the following paragraphs from the Dallas
Times OF Saturday;
TaB expected and usual editorial comparison
between D Has aud Fort worthwill, OF course,
be made.
BUT the unoxpec,e cd and unusual course win
be aiken OF emitting to tally Dallas. The plain,
blunt truth shall be told.
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IN Dallas, with hrr opportunities, only had a
dozen OF the men Of Fort Worth she would be
the Chicago OF the South.
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IT may be that Fort Worth win not succeed
In winning fret place In commercial Importance,
because Dallas as greater natural advantages
and better artificial facilities, but 1t viii not be
for want OF effort on the part Of the Forts pub.
ic-splrito citizens. No city, North or South,
East or West, amid the many marrels IN mod
ern city growth, ever exhibited such set Of
dashing, cntorprisng, busting, persistent,
"gamy" men rs those who In the city west OF us
untlringly put their shoulder to the wheel.
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JOSEPH H. BROWN, the wholesale grocer, Ia
a prince among merchants; Walter Hoffman,
he agricultural implement dealer; sidney
Martin, the wholesale dry goods dealer; Casey
q swasey and Charles 4. scheuber & Co ,
Who'll ale liquor dealors Fakes& Co., furni
ture dc iers; Max Elser, the fancy store
keeper; Lake Co., hardware men, a. NJ.
Brtton, w. j. Boaz, Capt Harrison, bankers.
and a dozen others may be selected as types
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THEY have always pursued bold free
handed policy in local affairs, and--what par
tlcularly interests us-they are not merely
small stockholders OF but advertise In and cor.
daily support their local papers to an extent
that would appal IA Dallas man. And their
good example is contagious as the pages and
books OF the papers prove.
JOE brown, as he Is iamilinrly and affection
ately called, has probably spent ten thousand
dollars on the Fort Worth morning newspaper
ct finds Il TO his interest and his inclination to
advertise In the afternoon paper to the amount
Of slGo month.
one hundred dollars month! His great
rival in Dallas who, by the way, is one OF the
best men here, pays the evening paper SIS a
month. Yet, by comparison, he is the most gem
erous among all his follows.
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TAYLOR * BARR, the b. c. Evans Co., the
Chase Trading Co.. all retail dry goods men oi
Fort Worth, pay their afternoon paper from s.;
to $40 month each The highest price paid
here is $50, and that is by house which IS pho
nomenally liberal TO the Times.
"a
YET comparison between the two is in favor
of the Dallas paper.
NEARLY every bank in Fort Worth pays $40 to
SD month to support its local paper. The
highest price paid by any bank to the Times ip
$3.50 month"; and even that small amount is
too much for the City National and American
National. IsIt not preposterus that j. o'Con.
nor or w IL. Thomas, or Q. @. Slaughter IS 70
poor that he would take an undue risk Of max
ing proht by supporting a local paper TO that
extent?
THESE are not isolated cases, and If the edit
or ever gets sick or goes on duck hunt, and
We get such chance as this again we will de
monstrate It In detail by equally candid rove.
lati MS OF newspaper inner life, from the
practical standpoint.
"Ir WILL hurt somebody's feelings. you say.
But 1t viii be relief to ours we reply Our
feelings" are not taken much into considera
ton when man takes our paper for two
we Ks free and declines to pay Is cents ebe-
cause he didn't order it."
Goop.RyE storott win be back on Monday,
and he win sootne you by telling you what Il
grand, pubic-spirited, generous people YOU
are lie VIII light your battles, trumpet the
fame OF your town, maintain your supremacy
over all 9th + cities In the state. He Will laugh
at poor Galveston, deride Houston, pat san An.
tonic on the back, snoer at Fort Worth--all Ia
the interest OF Dallas.
And thea he win go to another desk and toll
I'll o'clock In The morning because he can't
mako enough money ON his own paper TO live
upon.
What? ITO There, Steretti