Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-16
The Big Fort Worth Brewery.

| Editor Gazette.
AS quiet, taciturn citizen of Fort
Worth, and regular reader of the best
daily paper in the state-Fort Worth
GAZETTE-I am enjoying the prospect OF
every enterprise looking to the CONNER
ciaI, social and moral advancement of
Fort Worth, the Queen City of Texas.
The proceedings and later developments
of the cattlemen g convention the Spring
Palace, the Sam Jones meetings, the
| Veterans association, the Southern
BaptistS convention, as well as Mr..
Gould g visits TO our city, have eficited
much concern AMI afforded much pleas
uFe to this Insignificant scribe. IN con-
/ trasting F0rFNVorth with other Southern
citfes4 have thought shat our citizens
have much to be proud, of. But must
confess that the action of the. citizens
meeting, at the Spring. Palace office on
Monday night, looking to the
erection in our midst, Of algreat brewery
is a painful surprise to me. 1 pro-
foundry regret that q brewery Is to be
established IN Fort Worth. - regret it
for many reasons: -.
!. The damage it will do our noble
young men and the injury it will infiict
upon the morals of our city. The high
moral status of Fort Worth has for the
last two years, especially, been a subject
of remark throughout the state. The
genuine refinement of our young people
is boon of which any city ought,to be
proud. Very many of orr noble young
men scorn the very thought of entering
saloon or house of i'll fame. No doubt
this prevalent feeling is due to the fact
that the citizens of our city have built
up public sentiment in favor of the
good and against the bad. II pains me
to know that Fort -Worth-or at
least many good citizens of Fort Worth
propose now to give substantial encour-
agement to concern whose inevitable
tendency is downward-whose success
depends upon the inebrlety of our citi-
Zens. When the brewery is erected it
will prosper IN the same ratio that our
people drink and encourage beer drink
ing. The more drunkards we have the
better it will be for the brewery. Then
it will be to the brewery's interest to
turn as many as possible of our good
citizens into beer drinkers. And Fort
Worth welcomes such a ooncernl Yes,
and offers it bonus of $40, 900 to come!
For what purpose? That Fort Worth
may have the name of being the great
beer center of the state?
2. regret the coming OF this great
brewery because 1t will insult the
u.
city has shown through a ma
jorlty of its citizens, and that in
q very emphatic action. that 1t is in favor
of sobriety and against drunkenness.
From that day until this we have been in
the hearts OF the people of other states.
Capitalists of high moral standing of
other states have turned their eyes to-
wards Fort Worth, as good place TO in
vest their money. Religious denomina-
tions and moral fTaternities of different
orders have come to feel that, as a mat
ter of course, Fort Worth is the proper
place to hold great conventions, associa-
tions, etc. When the great, inimitable
and wonderful Sam Jones was booked for
Texas, it seemed natural and proper that
his grandest triumph should be in Port |
Worth. Well, he came, and did mar
velous work. But right on the heels of |
said work the great, moral, sober, elite, |
refined city of Fort Worth offers brew |
ing company $50 200 to come aud |
set up a drnnkard factory in |
her .midstl VIII the great evangelist |
say ttAmeho when he reads of this |
mover, Wonder if any of his recent con-
verts-those who publicly acknowledged |
themselves indebted TO him for his manly |
assault on drinking, profanity and gen. |
eral Worldliness-are among those who |
invite and welcome the great breweryP
8. L regret the coming of the brewery |
on account of the auxiliaries it win bring |
along with it. Beer gardens, with Sum |
day evening games and disorderly |
earousaIs, are the inseparable and ine- |
vitable adjuncts of the brewery. Citizens |
of Fort Worth, do We need such things |
in our midst. Merchants, lawyers, doc |
tors, mechanics, Masons, Odd Fellows, |
Christians and moral men OF al legiti- |
mate vocations, do you think We need g /
brewery? Respectfully, SUBSCRIBER.