Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-13
A Pertinent Question as to What the
Lone Star State is Doing.
Texas Can Keep Her Monty Mt Fome AMI
It-Hon. Barnett Gibbs Interviewed.

reporter yesterday he was feeling excel
lent and in just the humor for talk.
Governor. what Is going on politically
or otherwise?
l don't care TO talk about politics, the
majority for Hogg and the commission
will De such q jumbo affair, and the Re-
publicans claim of possible gains so ridio-
ulous in face of the force bill and Nc
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 IN the face of
THE FIXED POLICY
of the national Republican party, and I
see they are still trying to hold Hogg and
the commissioner amendment responsible
for hard times. l was in New York
when they had the panic there last
month, and saw brokers running over
each other TO pay per cent. interest per
day, and l 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 of politics, for the United
States government is going TO get all it
can out of the people for years 10 come
and spend il rs 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
prosperity she is entitled to, we have got
to trade more among ourselves, and
manufacture to supply our own wants.
If We could get III Aelliauces to declare
in favor of using Texas manufactures
exclusively. where they could be had aud
organize clubs in every town, pledged to
further the interests of
HOME MANUFACTURES
by using the goods, we could soon quit
borrowing money East, If not altogether.
One dollar in an Eastern state Is worth $50
in Texas, for il keeps circulating until we
90 after it and pay big interest for it.
They get our money East for goods at a
big price, and in addition to this big
profit they send it back here and lend il
to us on a mortgage aud live off of the
interest on it, while we sweat 1t out. No
matter how successful the Democrats
may be, the protective tariff will remain
q fixture for years to come, as the senate
will remain Republican and the MoKin-
ley bill
WILL BE THE LAW.
1 hope THE GAZETTE will succeed in its
move to get a manufacturers conven-
ton. 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 q mortgage-the majority of arti-
cles we consume can be made IN Texas
as cheap as elsewhere, and when it is
done we will soon have money 90 loan.
If we could keep the proceeds of our
cotton crop circulating in Texas, home
capital out of q years profits would
build railroad
ACROSS THE STATE.
If our people would swear of for two
years from eating, drinking or wearing
anything made outside of the state that
could be made in it Texas would have
all the money it would need. OF course,
they won't do this, but those Eastern
fellows did that until they got rich of of
the South. We are the poems of the
East; we ought to cut loose ourselves
and make the people to the south of US
our poems. If our city capital would go
into manufacturing l am sure our couu-
try merchants and farmers would see |
that
HOME MADE GOODS
got fair show. They know that gs long |
as dollar stays in the country they have !
one more show at it. From the birth of |
the world our agricultural people have |
only been one remove from the serf or |
slave. 1t was the observation OF this |
fac; that led the wise Jews to despise az |
riculture. Eastern men who make their |
money out of US by manufacturing, |
combined with shrewd class legislation, |
have a contempt for US as people, and |
you CAM blame them. Their smile on
Is in business way, is the smile of the |
narlot
ON HER GREEN VICTIM.
They sell their goods to foreigners |
cheaper than they do TO US, because our |
own want of enterprise and their legisla-
ton make us victims. A city ought 10 |
be blotted out that relies for its prosperi- |
" exclusively upon selling to the farmer |
those things made elsewhere. l don't !
believe that there is a sub-Alliance, or |
sven a farmer or country merchant who |
wouldn't, all things being equal, give /
preference to goods made in Texas.
There is nothing more ridiculous than to |
hear a man cussiug Yankees when every
thing he has on, from the sole of his foot .
TO the top of his head, was bought from |
them,
AT TWO PRICES,
and when he is paying them interest on
his own money. From an industrial
standpoint the average Eastern business
nan looks upon the Southern people as
'pale-faced asses.'' They say the
negro runs to US for rations and we run
to them.
Just in proportion as a state manufac-
/ res and becomes independent do those
Eastern fellows lower the rate of inter-
est and the price Of goods. We are
as much
THE SLAVES OF THE EAST,
ls the negroes were our slaves. Our mer-
,hants are practically only overseers
Tor Eastern manufacturers. We can
,lect new men to Office every year, and
Ill the land with political eloquence, and
organize an Alliance In every school
house, and still be as poor as Jobs tur-
sey. if we don { make at home more of
What we eat and wear. The world is
pound to have our cotton and pay us cash
'or il, and if we could only furnish each
,ther from home factories what we con-
ume or one-half OF It, Texas would in
an wears more than dcuble her wealth |