Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02
R5rSTvFSSLJEE ACTION.

wbereas. Texas contains and produces within
her limits and at POINTS acc6sSloie 10 our Irade
centers cotton wool and tides, iron, coal and
lumber sufficient to operate the factories OF the
civil lied world; and whereas, it is OF measure
less Importance TO the STATE tnat ~
he encouraged and that capital be invited TO In
vest in manufacturing plants IN Iexas:
And whereas, the state OF Texas IN me proper
exercise of it's sovereignty as q state SHOULD ad-
vance the development OF the state by legisla-
tive action in the premises. therefore, De IL re-
solved that the next iegisl AZURE OF Texas be re-
spectfuliy but earnestly requested to submit to
,tt,,, peoue of the state constitutional amend
ment eXempting designated line OF the ieailhS
aud most important manufacturing industries
from all state, county ana municipal taAa'ion
for the period OF ten years
whereas to this end that the products of
fields. mines and forests may have reader ac
cess to the market and manufacturing centers OF
the state 1t is OF vital Importance that the couu'
ties of the state be authorized and permitted to
construct better systems OF roads. and TO the
ACCOMPLISHMENT Of this end ask the next
legislature to enact such road law as VIII ena-
BILE counties at their option to issue bonds. I'M
der proper and conservative limitations, Tor the
construction OF such roads.
Resolved that we recommend that the next
legislature make an adequate appropriation 10
exhibit the resources of Texas at the World
Columbian EXPOSITION TO be held at Chicago.
Resolved, that we recommend to the voters of
the state of Texas the ADOPTION OF the proposed
amendment TO the constitution known as the
dirt road amendment, TO be voted on at the NO.
vember election.
The above is the result of the work of
the convention held in Fort Worth this
week 10 devise ways and means to pro-
mote manufacturing in Texas.
This work as crystalized into the above
propositions should meet public consid-
Grafton freed of sentimentality or dema-
popery and founded in deliberaton and
patriotism.
! To secure factories, of which it has
none practically, Texas must offer some
| iuducement that will attract the atten-
| ton of those who have factories to locate.
| All the Southern states, to say nothing
| OF the West and Northwest, are in the
field for factories; Texas is long dis
| lance from those to whom IL presents its
adnptability, and between this state and
the factory owners are communities Offer
ing every inducement conceivable to
needs. To persuade men TO pass
through Virginia, Georgia, Alabama aud
other states, Texas mus. offer induce
meuts of least equal TO those proposed by
| the states named; and 1t must never be
forgotten that the same inducements 1:
offered Of at alD to every man, and the
result would be the Investment of large
amounts OF Texas money in manufact-
ures that now 60 into lands.
The convention at Fort Worth proposed
the only inducement that was feasible
and of general application ana benefit
Exemption temporarily from taxation
is not class legislation. since now there
is no such class as that we hope to create
by the inducement; and when created II
will be subject 90 taxation on the value:
created by itself and which would nevel
be but for such class.
The values to be exempted brie