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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
Southern Pig-Iron Production.
New York Star.

A change has taken place in the way
northern ironmasters regard Southern
iron industries Not long ago the:cOmpeti-
ton of cheap pig iron in Northern mark
cts was regarded with Indifference. In
deed, one favorite explanation of it was
that Southern furnacemen under esti-
mated the cost of production. 1t was ar
gued that as long as new capital was GO
ing into Southern furnaces they would
be able to compete with the North. When
this process was checked the unprofita-
BILE nature of the competition would be-
come apparent.
1t is needless to remark that such pre-
dictions have not in any way been borne
out by facts. The South has gone on in
creasing its iron production and adding
to the number of its furnaces. Since
1885 the producing capacity of the nine
Southern states increased over 80 per
cent. At the same time the competition
with the North has continued and in
creased in vigor. The latest manifesto
ton of this kind is reduction, by the
leading Northern producer, of the price
of pig iron to SIS per ton, the lowest fig
ure in some years. The avowed object
of this move is to meet the troublesome
rivalry OF the Southern article.
One of the highest authorities in the
Northern iron trade makes remarkable
admission. He says in substance that
the Southern producers are enabled to
show such striking results and to sell iron
at such low figures because their terri
tory has only commenced to be devel-
oped. Ore banks and coal mines are, so
far, worked close to the surface, thus re-
dueing the cost of material, while they
have an advantage in the point of cheap
ness of labor. Taken in connection with
the tendency of Northern iron interests
to transfer some of their capital and ae-
tivity to the South. these facts have an
important bearing on the future develop
ment and permanency of Southern iron
Industries
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15

THE Fort Worth GAZETTE rejects the efforts of
the Times Herald in behalf of the Texas Spring
Palace, and we now extend apologies for the OBJ
trusion. The Times Herald was moved at the
spectacle of THE GAZETTE trying to make sue
cess Of a grand undertaking by urging. mite
sociabIes and catchpenny devices and simply de-
sired to remind the money magnates'' of that
city of their duty Dallas Times-Herald.
Well, we held our "mite sociables''
and got the money needed to start the
Spring Palace. Now raise the money in
your town TO continue the Dallas state
fair. If you viii do your duty to Dallas
THE GAZETTE promises to take care of
Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15

insure its usefulness and success. The
Austin convention was composed of
number of representative farmers from
all portions of the state. They were in
session several days discussing questions
connected with the development and
prosperity of the greatest industry in the
state. The range of subjects included
such topics as would most inter-
est practical farmer whose
chief concern is to make OF his business
a success. 1t is proposed to hold
these meetings frequently, changing the
place each time in order to accommodate
the convenience of the farmers in differ
ent sections of the state. The movement
is one that deserves encouragement from
every quarter. Industrial lethargy is
the bane of Texas and any movement
that promises to infuse new energy into
her farming classes, to improve and TO
systemic their methods of labor and to
encourage the full developments of the
agricultural resources of the state is of
general concern and should receive the
moral support of those engaged in every
vocation
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
A Negroes Opinion of 1t.
Galveston Freeman's Journal.

CfaIVeSCon freeman journal.
It is un-American to ask for or be deprived of
a cabinet position on account of ones color or
nativity Washington ID. G. } Leader.
The Journal thinks that the negro
should not be TOO forward and exacting
in wanting cabinet place. The colored
man, as a ''colored man, has no
rights, and no race, is, by reason of
race, entitled to representation in the
cabinet, or in any branch of government.
Every man should be excluded from po-
litical preferment or privileges in this
land, who claims them on the ground OF
peculiar complexion or distinct nation
atty. The colored man, so long as
he accepts that distinctive designa-
ton as claim for recognition, ought al
ways TO take back seat, or be sent TO
the rear if he goes not voluntarily, He
should be welcomed to the front when
his own manhood earns its place in the
ranks of Civilization. If he gets any
thing in this country, he must take it
with the strong right hand of that man
hood which achieves place and re-
spect by Its own merit, regardless of
Grace, color or previous condition. - g A
man IS man, for a that, - in the con-
test for popular honors and political
office. In politics the negro should dis
card his complexion and assert his rights
as man and a voter.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
HEN AND WOMEN.

Mrs. Langtry has made three purchases
of lands in California, and has combined
the various tracts into one ranch of 5000
acres. She viii raise sheep and cattle.
Cassius NJ. Clay has presented the re-
volver given him by President Lincoln
for his defense of Washington, d. c.. in
1861, to Col. j w. Caperton of Rich
mOnd, Ky.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
author of little Lord Fauntleroy re-
ceiyes each week a check for $1,000 as her
royalty from the dramatiZation of her
famous novel.
George w. Cable has six children. One
of them, Lucy, is particularly quiet and
shy. 81 really believe, - said MIR. Cable
one day, Lucy gives us less trouble than
ali the others put togetherl''
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the English
novelist, is expected soon to visit this
country, which is the only one in the
globe that she mas not explored. She is
well known as an antiquarian and Egyp-
ologist.
A Washington correspondent says ex-
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Charles b. Coon is more frequently men
toned in connection with that office than
any other man, and predicts that he will
be reappointed.
At the sessions of Mrs. Emma Ewing's
cooking schools the fashionable ladies of
Indianapolis bring their cooks along and
sometimes their husbands. Mrs. Ewing
is teacher in Perdue university and her
new venture is creating. Juror in In
dianapolis society.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, whose house has
been overrun by lion hunters, writes to
the New York Sun to say: ''Wil you
kindly open your columns to me while
speak of much needed reform in a
growing social annoyance? A great many
hostesses who receive each week upon
some stated day are, TO my personal
knowledge, imposed upon by the
intrusion of strangers into their homes.
This is especially true of ladies who
are in any way before the public in
literary OF artistic work. They send out
their cards to their personal friends, and
to the people whom they desire to know
better among their acquaintance. They
confine the list to those whom they
especially wish to cultivate. What is
their surprise to find men, and some
women, entering their doors whom they
are not expecting.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
RAn NHESTmRNTS.

The futility of popular remedies for So
cial diseases is illustrated in the history
of the board of arbitration established
several years ago in New York to settle
disputes between employers and en-
ployes. 1t was rushed through the legis-
lature as a ''labor'' measure, and its
advocates confidently predicted that they
had put an end to labor troubles.
Last year the cost of the board was
over SIS, 900, and it did what it has al
ways done: nothing. No one pays any
attention to it; strikes occur with as great
frequency as ever, and they are settled
in the usual way, by defeat or victory
The papers that clamored for the board
of arbitration are now elamoring for its
adjustment.
This small bit of demagoguery has cost
the state of New York many thousands
of dollars in the aggregate to no other
purpose than furnishing few men with
easy berths. There are very few invest
ments more dangerous and costly TO the
state than domagoguery, yet they are
being constantly made and regretted.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
NEWS IND NOTES.

A Baltimore tailor is the father of
twenty-five children.
A gas well at Kingsville, Ont, throws
out nearly eight million cubic feet daily.
OF the q, 725 people arrested in New
York city in the last three months only
seventeen were editors and reporters.
Professor Graham Bell says that deaf
mutes are increasing at a faster rate than
the general population. This is possibly
due TO the noises of modern civilized life.
And now comes man forward and
states that he has been counting the mo-
tions made by barber 5 hand while the
barber is shaving a customer. The sta
tistician reports that the motions num-
Der 67S Thus day by day the magnifi-
cent area of human knowledge is
widened What an age it is we live in.
1t depends on where you live as to what
you do, says the Pittsburg Chronicle If
you quarrel with somebody in Paris,
Vienna or ST. Petersburg you fight a
duel; in London you cut him dead at the
club; III New York you dun him for an
old debt, while in Cleveland you build
houses at each other on Euclid avenue.
The discovery of remnant of the race
of cliff jewellers in New Mexico is Of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
4 NEGRO, s SOL TI0N.

Bishop Hood of the African Methodist
church has written letter to the New
York Tribune discussing the causes of the
political separation of the two races in
the Sonth that is full of significance.
He declares that the whites and blacks of
other, and that 1t is only when an cleo
ton approaches that antagonism appears.
He thinks that the people of the South
are sincerely following "their faith in
standing soIidly for white mans gov
eminent, and that they are actuated by
no unfriendly feeling for the blacks. -
The logic of the letter is that the whites
could have the cooperation of the ne
groes if they desired it on any terms that
might be made outside OF the Democratic
party. "'I am perfectly sure, says the
writer, ''that even where the blacks are
largely in the majority they would be
ready to give the whites the lion IS share,
if the better classes would unite with
them - The objections offered to De-
mocracy go chiefly TO the Northern ele-
ment of the party, which is represented
as being in league with the South for
revenue only. Bishop Hood thinks that
many of the Southern people did not
start out to become Democrats but that
they stumbled unconsciously INTO the al
lance with the Northern Democratic fac
ton. He indirectly appeals to these to
head new movement in which race dis
tinetions will be forgotten.
presume that would be regarded poor
physician, to find the disease and yet suggest no
remedy. It seems to me that the remedy is sug-
gested by the situation. The better classes of
the South have always had it in their power to
lead the blacks anywhere except into the Demo-
cratic party, as they well know. When they
start in that direction the blacks refuse to fol-
low. It ought now to be clearly seen that the
seal of divine disapprobation has been fixed upon
that party as national organization 1t ought
also to be seen that the incoming president will,
if permitted, know no North, no South. This,
think, is about all ought to say, by way of sug-
gestion. 1 feel fully assured that there is a
travail now in the Southern mind which will
bring forth brighter future for both races.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15

MR.. MUDD, who is contesting the seat
more, Nd. district, expects to GUST his
opponent on the ground of intimidation
of negro voters. The Republican bounc-
ing committee should not stop at Mudd.
Why not take the census returns and on
the basis of such indisputable proof turn
out every Democrat who happens to rep
resent a constituency a majority of which
are negroes. What right has Democrat
to claim to represent black constitu-
ency anyway, or negro voter to sup
port Democrat for Office? These evils
should be suppressed if it requires the
entire power of the government to do it
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
THE new liberal ministry in Spain has

THE new liberal ministry in Spain has
greatly improved the conditions of Cuba,
but much yet remains to be done to adj
vance it to a state of conformity to mod
ern civilization. The civil, political and
religious rights of the people are reeeiv-
ing definite and liberal Interpretation and
the government itself has been greatly
modified in accordance with popular
ideas. For a century the Inflated island
has been the victim of lordly misrule and
the seeds are deep-rooted; bands of guer-
rilIas and brigands are scattered through
out the country and greatly hamper the
efforts of the progressive element. Con-
tinuous good government would in the
end effect a revolution, but it is too much
to hope for the perpetuity of liberal adj
ministration in Spain
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15

THOSE who think Fort Worth is dead or sleep
ing should note the spirit of activity that pre-
walls among her people. Another new railroad
ton of fifteen miles of electric railway,
''Spring Palace, - which will draw TO her gates
tens Of thousands of strangers from Texas and
all over the country, together with other extern
sive enterprises either under way or in contem-
plation, does not by any means imply a de-
pressed or paralyzed condition of affairs at the
Fort. Dallas is large city, with ten-fold the
advantages of Fort Worth, but this fact should
not be construed into belief that she is s-eom-
pleted' that her municipal proportions have
reached the apex or eliminating point.-[Dallas
Journal.
The Journal is wise in its warning to
Dallas. This city is neither dead nor
sleeping; it has never slept; it is more
fully awake than ever at this blessed
moment, and if all signs do not fail,
there is coming to Fort Worth a boom
the like of which was never seen in Tex
as. Should Dallas, at this juneture take
any step backward, that city would have
cause to mourn its folly. THE GAZETTE
gives its neighbor fair warning that Fort
Worth is up and doing and the slightest
retrogression on the part of Dallas az
this time would be irretrieyable If Dali
las would keep its place in the procession
it should raise that $50 600 for the fair.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
SPRING PALACE.
What 1t Is and What 1t Is to Do for the state
of Texas and Its People.
Waco Trade Peviexv

waco Trade ReVleW.
The ''Spring Palace scheme now on
deck at Fort Worth is not as generally
understood in this part of the state as it
should be. While it is a Fort Worth idea,
to certain extent, it is, if successfully
carried out, dead morally certain to ben
eft Waco and Central Texas, as well as
the Fort and its territory The programme
is to erect a huge structure entirely Of
Texas products. There viii be Texas
lumber, Texas brick and tile and terra
Gotta work, Texas stone and everything
else Texan that can be worked IN; posi-
bly, coal, gypsum, rock salt and various
ores Inside will be on exhibition more
Texas products, and there will be a world
of them. Grains, corn, sorghum, sugar
cane, cotton, vegetables, fruits, nuts,
flowers, vines, shrubbery and trees;
much of them alive and growing Be-
sides fruits canned, dried and preserved;
vegetables picked, evaporated, boxed
for shipment, etc.
There viii be fine and extensive lot of
ores, for Texas can make magnificent
showing in this respect The animal
world viii also be well represented, and
it will be safe to say that thousands of
Northerners viii gaze upon their first an
telope, buffalo, pelon dog, horned toad
and jack rabbit and go away happy Few
Texans will attend this exposition without
being amazed at the greatness of their
own state. The excursion rates given
will bring thousands of Northerners to the
state and these will see Texas at
her best, in the glorious month of
June. 1t is safe to say that no
community viii stand back a moment
when invited to send its samples to the
exhibition. And, although we under
stand that the space inside the main
building will not be divided up among
the counties, still there viii be a great
many county and town buildings in which
special exhibits will be made. It is TO be
hoped that old McLennan viii be on
hand, under her own roof, with the blue
ribbon exhibit, and she easily can be.
The affair is stock concern, and the
Fort Worth people are putting good
hard cash into it and deserve abundant
success
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15


special interest to ethnologists. 1t is not
always necessary to go to the center of
Africa or of India to find people whom
civilization has passed by, and whose ex-
istence shows how narrow after all is the
space that divides us from the days of
primitive ignorance.
The revival of beard wearing in En-
gland is said to be due to two circum-
stances. An impulse was given TO it by
the example of the throngs of heavily
bearded Germans and Russians who
fiocked to the first great exhibition, and
another by the return OF the British
soldiers and officers, entirely unshayen,
from the Crimean war.
In the naval service of the United
States there are u ,20+ persons, main
tanned at a cost of SIT 900 900. The gov
eminent provides twenty-four chaplains,
representing the following denomina
tions: Protestant Episcopal, II; Meth
odist, 5; Baptist, 3; Presbyterian, 2;
congregational, L. These chaplains are
scattered through ninety-three vessels,
nine navy yards, one or more hospitals
and one academy.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, COM
menting on the fact that steel can be
turned ont in Alabama at SIC so per ton
says: The prosperity of Alabama, Ten
nessee and Kentucky is not due to tax
of S6.72 ton on pig iron-whieh does
not operate against our Pennsylvania
competitors to the fact that while
iron costs from S13 to $40 in Pennsylvania
it costs from 81 30 TO $40 in the South.
Any state which can make
iron at SO and steel at SI7, has nothing
to fear from any nation on earth.
Quite number of the young ladies of
Reading have taben.a decided stand on
matrimony They have formed an asso-
citation whose constitution forbids, among
other things, the marriage of a member
to any one who is not in the enjoyment of
perfect health; who is not of good moral
character and member of. the Young
Men s Christian Association or some
branch of the Christian church; who
drinks anything stronger than light
wines; who uses tobacco in any form, or
who is not engaged in some trade or pro-
fession. The ladies say they viii marry
no young men who fail to come up to
these requirements.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
southern Republicans.


Washington is now the political Mecca
towards which the eyes of all Southern
Republicans are longingly turned. Four
years of Democratic ascendency in
national affairs hes told heavily on the
ranks of the faithful, and aside from the
colored brothers, the grand old party
has litGe left in this section Even the
old earpet-bag element has been dwarfed
to almost harmless proportions.
Now, however, that change IS soon
to take. place in the government, and the
Republican party win again be IN power
in Washington, the Southern Republic
cans are once more showing their heads,
and are beginning to revel u anticipation
of the fun enjoyment of the Federal
patronage, the lack of which for four
wears hes well nigh annihilated them.
one of the most striking features Of
this rush for Office IS che disposition of the
white element to ignore the colored
brothers in the distribution of the spoils,
although willing enough to use him for
election purposes. influential colored
men have made President Harrison
understand very plainly that the exelu-
sion of negroes from ea.ee would work
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15

THE Indiana state senate has passed a
bill declaring unlawful "an trusts,
pools, contracts, agreements, arrange
ments and combinations in restraint of
trade, production, manufacture or sale, -
and fixing as penalty for the violation
of the law a fine of not less than $1,000
nor more than $40 900, and imprisonment
in the penitentiary of not less than two
nor more than five years. The offense is
also made to work a revocation of the
charter of any company engaging in a
combination. If laws and eloquence can
bust the trust, the trust will go.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
The Cigarette Habit.
Atlanta Constitution.


There is bill pending before the Penn
svlvania legislature to prohibit the sale of
tobacco to persons under sixteen years OF
age. The act is evidently aimed at the
cigarette traffic, which is chiefly support
ed by boys who believe that it is an evil
dence of manliness to puff away at a wad
of paper favored with morphiDiZed to-
bacco.
Tobacco is a very good thing in its
place. It is soothing to the nerves, and
is really in the nature of a
medicine: some temperaments demand
it, others reject it; but the fact re-
mains that the cigarette is the worst
and most poisonous form of tobacco.
Grown men do not smoke it, and sensible
men are Disguised when they smell it.
The cigarette habit, however, should not
be confused with the tobacco habit. The
tobacco habit is bad enough, no doubt,
especially for boys but it is not to be COM
pared with the cigarette habit, which is
so filthy that it partakes of the nature OF
immortality.
We do not know how the proposed
Pennsylvania law would, operate, even if
it were passed. 1t seems to be a very
vague affair at best. Probably
tuo Uest HSthOu u preventing OO9 >
from running their health by
indulging in cigarettes would be to pro-
hibit the sale of cigarettes in the state.
Such law might hurt the feelings of
manufacturers and retail dealers, but it
is better for these persons to have their
feeling ruffled little than for our boys
and young men to grow up sallow-faced
and pigeon breasted as a result of rice
paper and morphine poisoning.
We trust the Pennsylvania bill will be
adopted, but we are not sure it viii be
effective
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15

CONGRESSMAN BRECKENRlDGE refuses
to make a reply to the publication of the
Claytons, with reference to the
causes of their brothers. death. The
course of Mr.. Breckenridge in the deli
cate position in which he has been placed
reflects credit on his discretion and judg-
ment. Under the fierce and senseless
ire of angry partisanship he has borne
himself with the firm and quiet dignity
of conscious rectitude. The country at
large will think all the better OF the
Arkansas congressman after the sound
and fury of the fre-eaters have sub
sided.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15

Mr.. SPRINGER is hopeful of the success
of his omnibus bill proposing to admit
New Mexico to statehood with Montana
and the two Dakotas. He says that
enough Republican senators favor it to
insure its passage through the senate.
The danger that menaces, the measure is
a Republican caucus, in which the sena-
tors who are friendly to the admission of
New Mexico viii be coerced into giving
hostile votes. It is evident that the
fails of sisterhood now, she will probably
stay out of the Union until the restora-
ton of Democracy in power.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
4 FARNER,s MoYFafEYr.

The inaugural meeting at Austin of the
Farmer 5 institute which was adjourned
last week, was notable event in the
history of agricultural organization in
Texas. The movement received its
impetus in the championship of that
faithful exponent OF the farm interests of
the state, Farm and Ranch, and has
already grown to such proportions as TO