Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18
HOME INDUSTRIES.
A Pertinent Question as to What the
Lone Star State Is Doing.
Texas Can Keep Her Money at Home and
It-Hon. Barnett Gibbs interviewed.

fresh from the North, and as full of en-
ergy as ever. When seen by q GAZETTE
reporter yesterday he was feeling excel
lent and in just the humor for talk.
Governor, what Is going on politically
or otherwise?
don't care to talk about politics, the
majority for Hogg and the commission
will be such jumbo affair, and the Re-
publicans claim of possible gains so ridic-
ulous in face of the force bill and Mo
Kinley bill, that there is nothing to dis
cuss or fight over. If the Republicans
had put the Lords prayer in their San
Antonio platform they wouldn't have
caught three Christian votes. A Repub-
lican platform means nothing in the
South, III the face of
THE FIXED POLICY
Of the national Republican party, and
see they are still trying to hold Hogg and
the commissioner amendment responsible
for hard times. 1 was in New York
when they had the panic there last
month, and saw brokers running over
ench other to pay per cent. interest per
day, and looked all up and down Wall
street for Jim Hogg, but couldn't find
him. l also learned from reliable sources
that foreign capital WAS seeking invest
ment in all sorts of American securities
except railroad bonds. The Dutch say
that the railroads are always in the hands
of receivers. but that they never receive
any principal or interest on the bonds.
MANUFACTURING.
Let us leave off politics, for the United
States government is going to get all il
can out of the people for years to come
and spend it as fast as it comes in.
They say in Washington that "this Is
what the government is here for If
Texas is going to get one half of the
she is entitled to, we have got
TO trade more among ourselves, and
manufacture to supply our own wants.
If we could get III Aelliances to declare
in favor of using Texas manufactures
where they could be had and
organize clubs in every town, pledged to
further the interests of
HOME MANUFACTURES
by using the goods, we could soon quit
borrowing money East, il not altogether.
One dollar in an Eastern state Is worth $50
i'll Texas, for 1t keeps circulating until We
go after it and pay big interest for it.
They get our money East for goods at
big price, and in addition to this big
profit they send it back here and lend it
TO us on mortgage aud live off of the
interest on 1t, while we sweat it out. No
matter how successful the Democrats
may be, the protective tariff will remain
4 fixture for years to come, as the senate
will remain Republican and the McKin-
ley bill
WILL BE THE LAW.
hoDa V,up q .7rTTr will esuoooa5 L, q,
move to get manufacturers conven-
lion. Texas gets large sum of money
for her cotton, but we never get to rattle
The money more than twice, once when
received for cotton and again when we
sign mortgage-the majority of arti-
,les we consume can be made IN Texas
IS cheap as elsewhere, and when it is
lone we will soon have money 20 loan.
# we could keep the proceeds of our
cotton crop circulating in Texas, home
'apital out of years profits would
build railroad
ACROSS THE STATE. |
If our people would swear off for two |
'ears from eating, drinking or wearing |
lnything made outside of the state that !
III the money it would need. OF course, |
elbows did that until they get rich of of |
he South. We are the poems of the
Cast; we ought to cut loose ourselves
ur poems. If our city capital would go
nto manufacturing 1 am sure our couu-
~ merchants and farmers would see |
hat
HOME MADE GOODS
nf 70 hnr hnr L. haf 1Nr,f
S dollar stays in the country they have
ne more show at it. From the birth of
he world our agricultural people have
My been one remove from the serf or
lave. 1t was the observation of this
act that led the wise Jews to despise ag-
Eastern men who make their
money out of US by manufacturing,
with shrewd class legislation
GU can't blame them. Their smile on
s in business way, is the smile of the
arlot
ON HER GREEN VICTIM.
They sell their goods to foreigners
heaper than they do to us, because our
wn want OF enterprise and their legisla-
on make US victims. A city ought TO
Q blotted out that relies for its prosperi-
SASaoSAfSAy aPon cShAuS W lie |
hose things made elsewhere. L dom
elieve that there is a Alliance. or
ven farmer or country merchant who
ouldn't, all things being equal, give a
reference to goods made in Texas.
here is nothing more ridiculous than to
ear man cussing Yankees when every
ing he has on, from the sole of his foot
, the top OF his head was bought from
lem,
AT TWO PRICES,
nd when he is paying them interest on |
Is own money From an Industrial
andpoint the average Eastern business
ian looks upon the Southern people as
pale-faced asses. They say the
eero runs to US for rations and we run
them.
just in proportion as q state manufac-
res and becomes independent do those
astern fellows lower the rate OF inter-
It and the price of goods. We are
as much
THE SLAVES OF THE EAST,
the negroes were our slaves. Our mer- /
rants are practically only orerseers
II Eastern manufacturers. We can |
cot new men to office every year, and
1 the land with political eloquence, and
ganize an Alliance In every school /
,use, and still bs as poor as Jobs tur-
y, II We don : make at home more of |