Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-24

get the worth of our money spent for ad-
vertising, for that man is satisfied with
what he has read and is ready to cast his
lot with US. Fully three-fourths of our
advertising matter goes to cites anu
towns, and very little of it ever reaches
the farmers homes. 1t is almost IN
variably the case when you receive
letter from a Northern farmer that he
| asks for advertising matter. Judlcious
| advertising pays, and l will guarantee
that by the plan 1 have mentioned, II
100 200 pamphlets of this kind are put
directly into the hands of 100, 900 farm
ers IN their personal mail, that next year
Texas will have two farmers coming here
TO where one comes now. l sent out 100
pamphlets the last month in this waJ,
and will have fifteen prospectors here
from them in few weeks.
Well, for fear you will think l am try
ing to assume the editorship of THE GA
ZETTE, and wishing to say q word about
the city, l will leave farmers, trusting l
have done no harm, If no good.
As our text reads ''People is what we
want. " Now the question, how to get
these people. Two words express the
fwhole thing; employ them
5@onder how many of our merchants have
kboring men IN Fort Worth are now en-
Eoyed at, and how long is this employ
Kent going to last. III venture to say
Wv few have gave 1t any serious thought,
fo&es is natural, q hungry COW in
cloTE patch eats with a greed until it is
all gone, never thinking how long will
this last, and will get any more when
this is gone. We all know Fort Worth
is now full of people, and all employed,
but will this last? We have been doing
an immense amount OF public improve
ment that has furnished a great deal OF
work, and the laying out. plating,
grading streets, building street car lines.
etc. in the numerous additions has en-
ploysd hundreds of hands for months at
good wages. But this cannot continue,
for II is impossible. We also find hun
dreds of houses built, supplying hun
drsds of men with work, but hundreds of
these men who are doing this work are
occupying these houses paying high rent.
Now, when this vast amount of outside
labor stops how are you going to keep
this class in these houses paying good
rent? By giving them some other
employment, or what is bet
ter. giving another class of
trade employment, which will continue
the employment of the class now here
by settling up these additions, still keep
ing up demand for building houses,
grading streets, enlarging the city limits
and making room for more public i'm
provements. Then we will go marching
on. Now what kind of other trade to
give employment, factory hands.
Manufacture and utilize our own pro-
duct, not by building five or six at
q time and start them going. When one
Is in operation turn our attention to
another, start it, aud by this method it
will not be hard on any one,
aud we not only hold but increase
the tin bucket brigade, the bone and
sinew of any city. Cut the laboring
class ali off from us to-day and what
would our town be morrow? 1t would
be like walking through grave gard.
The merchants would need no clerks, the
street cars no conductors. We are now
just where the hoy was who was climbing
the tree to get nuts. 1t was large tree
and hard climb but he started up with
the determination to climb It. About
twenty feet up was limb and if he
could only reach that he could go from
there to the top easy enough. He
worked his way up within a few feet
of the limb and was almost giving out,
so he clinched his legs around the body OF
the tree and stopped to rest. Presently
he discovered that he was gradually
slipping down the tree, his legs being too
weak to hold him up. He looked down
at the ground, then up at the limb. 1t
seemed almost impossible to get up to it,
but with logged deter ination and set
teeth he began to struggle up inch by
inch, and with one mighty effort grasped
the limb and swung himself into the fork
of the tree where he could rest with ease,
as he then had the nuts at his mercy and
could proceed to gather them in at his
leisure.
Just so with us. We are ready to grasp
the limb, but like the boy we have not
attained the size and Independence to
stop to rest. If we do just that sure we
will begin TO slip backwards, our legs be-
ing too weak to hold us up. But by o
few more. hard struggles we will have
IS. 900 people. Then and not till then
can we swing ourselves on the limb and
take our own time TO gather the fruit.
No, sir. AS Col. Hurley SAID the other
night, we must get ga hump on our
selves. Yours truly,
W. c. ROGERS.
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