Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-30
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FORT WORTH Ten iJct. ., 1855.
To the Gazette.
ID sour jssu9 OF to-day, page 9,
"L0uie3sLisa" sagE:
Canada is a free trade eau .try, anG Windsor,
Canada. lies just across thea river from Detroit,
Michigan.
Being ia Detroit, with my brain full oi
sucl ts1cieg t0st $40 protected over
coat could be bough. in CAnsds for SO
bill, crossed over and sought. to make
the purchase. Nov marx the resalt. In.
siezd of getting the coat for hsit- prize l
actually purchased in Detroit, after Try
ing the free trade City Of Windsor I go: 9
better coat for less money iii Ode
troit. -
You must recollect that Il yeu bny
clothipg 10 Windsor that by putting il on
SAD wesriEz It yoa can eVsde any duty,
or you can put your wearing apparel IN G
trunk AMI if it 10 for personal use it comes
in free.
l was born i1 Michigan, snd lived in
Detroit Six years preceding September,
1888. Am always glad 10 hear from my
old home. Should visit Detroit again
the pleasure derived from such visit
would be greatly enhanced could 1 have
ss my companion TIVE gentleman from
Louisiana. l would Ike TO walk around
snd talk with hin. This nay come to
pass, SO plesse Imagine the following to
to be history OF the trip we have not yet
made.
We sre in Detroit. We take the ferry
and go to Windsor, buy he SO overcoa',
put 1t on and weer 1t while returning to
Detroit, and thus evsde apy duty. The
trunk echeme would be little too cum
Orous for every day use. Arrived sgain
n Detroit ne go 70 that large clothing
store on Woodward avenue snd there, SC
cordir g TO Louisiarial's opinion, "buy 6
better coat for less money!" but POSSESS
ing such opinion, he would not be en- rap
port, so to spesk, with Detroits votirg
me jo-ity. II costs 10 cent? 20 cross the
river either Ha7 and return between De-
tioit and Windsor, when the ice is out,
and when the river is irczan over 1t costs
still less to make the round trip stoc.;
therefore 1t Is feet thst prices are not
far apart IN Windsor and Detroit, upon An
article which one can "put on and wear
and evede sDy duty" That is tree trade
transaction, is 1t not? But why in the
world did No. Louisianisn buy thresh-
irg machine, or portable saw-miil, in.
stead OF an overcost?, Because he could
not gut ssw-mill on and wear 1t snd evsde
suY duty, and therefore be could not get
better saw mill for less money In De-
srois than in Windsor. It seems 10 be the
"poverty-stricken farmers Of Canada and
the poems Of Mexico" who alone are
privileged to purchase American
machinery and tools a. prices not en-
hsnced by the protective tsri6. ;;
But let US go back to the woodward
.venue clothing store. Say it May,
June, July or Auguss-during the tex
cursion season." See the picard in the
store window: "Excursionisss' head
fdsSEters." There ia sn excursion train
lin from Kalamazoo, another from
M3Q18giac. Podunk and Ssugstuck.
Hreds Of excursiorists every day visit
that store, buy their winter and next
sumner supply OF cloth and clothing
Fthefvseee the city sights, and return to
! their Distant homes in the night.
the excursienists snd "Louis-
ffah!sh" purchase goods in De'rQi. rathe,