Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-05
FORT WORTH CITIZENS.
Will We at this Late Hour Fail to Unite
and Secure the Spring Palace
Other Cities are AnxiOusly Waiting for Fort
WOrth's Failure that They May Take
Up the Enterprise.

! Here stock yards, beef packeries, manufacto-
ries and mills viii be erected, whose smoke
stacks viii point heavenward as indications of our
! prosperity. Here wholesale houses and distrib-
uting depots will be established that will control
the trade of territory larger in area than any of
! the Eastern or Middle states of the Union.
THESE are no vain llnaginings; they are stubborn
| IatuIe' IL IS only necessary that our people
should be true 10 themselves, true to each other,
! and true to the best interests of the city
/ weekly Democrat, October 80, 1919.
The Democrat has watched carefully the pro-
! greSs of events, and noted the movements that
have been made, and has not taken alarm. when
many OF our best citizens have been in the depths
of despair,s and whose countenances wore
cerulean hue, and whose faces could be meas
ured with nothing shorter than yard stick. It
oel!eYes, and that sincerely, that If our people
Will contribute of their means as God has
| proSpered them that the end of the next decade
VIII see Fort Worth city second to none IN this
great eonmonwealrh.-lW Weekly Democrat, May
-, 1875.
Fort Worth may look proudly forward to an
era OF unexampled prosperity. The time is COM
ing, and that speedily when her streets will
TEEN with the busy masses who will come hither
10 ana IN building up the city and share in the
ward. On her beautiful streams factories viii
spring up, and mills, shops, cotton congresses,
me streets VIII be paved and underlaid with
water and gas mains and sewer pipes. Lines of
street railways win traverse the city from the
utmost limit, and the beautiful hills that
round the city win be decked with stately dwell
ings and lovely cottages and our people will be-
come rich powerful and happy -fWeekIv DEM
ocrat, May 30, 1874.
There are persons still living in Fort
Worth who were wont to give the writer
when the above lines were penned and
taunt him with the possession of vivid
imagination that controlled and impaired
his judgement. Without laying claim to
prescience l am willing to submit the
case on the testimony presented, without
argument. It IS with no desire of self
glorifeation that | am constrained to
reproduce the utterances of nearly fifteen
years ago. It is to call the attention of
those who were then residents of Fort
Worth and those who have since cast
their lot with our city, to the ''condi-
lions upon which our prosperity was to
be secured That ''our people be
trne 20 themselves, true to each other
and true to the best interests of the city, -
and to contribute Of their substance as
as God has prospered them, was a con-
ditiOn precedent to the attain
ment of much desired prosperity.
Fort Worth has made rapid strides in the
direction indicated, but there remains
much to be done, and one of the things
necessary to be done now confronts
them,
1t viii not do to allude to what has
been done in the past, it is the living |
present and the future in which we are |
interested. 1t will not do for one to |
decline to assist because another has not |
done his duty. There are men in Fort |
Worth whose wealth is measured by the /
hundreds Of thousands who never assist /
In any public enterprise. They are con-
tent to be the benefciaries of other men g
public spirit; but there are hardly a /
score OF persons who would accept their
wealth and assume with il the unenvi-
able reputation they have justly earned
for penuriousnesso parsimony and selfish
ness.
The establishment of the Spring Palace
will do more to benefit Fort Worth than
any public enterprise ever yet inaugurated |
within its gates. The money asked is
not gift or donation, it is an invest
ment. Properly managed it will repay
the investment dollar for dollar when the
exhibition closes and the balance sheet is
made up. The benefits to accrue are in
calculable, and will be clear profit.
Other cities are waiting for Fort
Worth 5 failure that they may take up
geographical location and its railroad
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prize. A few thousand dollars stand be-
tween Fort Worth and tine contamination
IF the enterprise. viii not our people
be true TO themselves, true to each
other and true to the interests of the city
and contribute of their means as God has
Drospered them, - in this emergency, as
hey have done in the past, and let the
prize be secured to Fort Worth?
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