Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-30


| hearty sympathy of
vt the matter in the
ofNWildcat that will n
we Allgh-wang Tho many
facturies from taxati vfrs may sound
very drawing. but Ii Tine freight rate
from the East to Tex ~iil sovern the price OF
all manufactured articles in Texas. 1t governs
in every branch OF business. Just rs the import
tax governs the price Of Am erican manufactures.
You will find upon tris that the price of cot on
In Texas to Texas manufacturers VII! be Just high
enough as to compete with prices offered By
Eastern buyers, AMI that the price Of Texas
manufactures viii be Just low enough to COM
pete with similar goods manufactured in the
East or across the water. l have mai some ex-
perience in this busine IS, and think that know
little about it. You take for example. -four
Is the price any lower in Texas relatively speak
ing than it was before the era OF Texas roller
mills?
l noticed last year that when the cut in flour
came from Missouri river points q moan the
freight rates were cut of sixteen cents per 100
pounds. The Texas mills imneiia.ety lowered
their prices sixteen cents per 100 pounds and
Immediately raised the price when the West
e-n rates we're restored. refer you to Cameron
& ratum for the truth of this assertion. We
might have Texas full of manufac cries of all
kinds, but that does not mean cheaper goods; it
only means that there will be closer trade re-
laton existing in the South. You will see that
your Fort Worth pack ng company Will deliver
their products TO Texas points just the same as
is done by Armour or Others from Kansas City.
The Texas manufacturers will have extra profits
in proportion as The rate is high low, from
outside points. You will ind the Texas pa ckers
will ship their products into Missouri AMI KIN
sas at lower prices than they will sell to their
home trade. just as our American manufacturers
export their products at - per cent. less than
they sell them for right here at home. You
can't buy yellow domestic from the Allan
mills any cheaper than you can buy the same
grade OF gooGs from Eastern manu- facturers
laid down in Atlant p. Well now, if this is
and you can't deny 1.-THE home manufacturer
pockets all freight money saved extra profits
on mis- goods; Ill am to be robbed prefer
being robbed by strangers from whom could
expect no favors. This is why favor free trade
amongst the nations; because your own home
producers rob on to the same per cent. that you
paw import taxes on what you buy. Again, if
expect to sell surplus produce to
the East or any other section, why do wish
to boycott their manufactures? Suppose that
Texas was full of all kinds of factories and
were dependent upon Texas marke.s for our
surplus produce, where would prices go to?
You are well awaresthat they go low, just as our
foreign demand is fessened, and If foreign
market is shut out the farmer will be in fix. If
it were not for the Godsend that we in East
Texas have-the Kansas and Missouri cornfi-lds
we would now be paying 81 per bushel for
corn, but you see how it is that the roads are
giving q thirty-five cent rate to Texas common
points, which enables US to get our corn at
sixty-four to sixty-six cents delivered. You
see, the railroads save Us from "our friends
1t is exactly the same way that 1t will
Siayden of Waco will rise Np aud be
sworn, I think he will confirm what say, as he
knows very well that Boston hrm will buy San
Angelo wool and pay eight on it to Massachu-
sets and return and then deliver it in Waco
cheap as the Slayden- Kirksey wooden mill. In
view Of the inevitable results OF manu- .actures
being established here, think they are clearly
liable for tax Just the same as other interests.
and it would be discrimination OF the worst
kind to exempt them, unless are assured
that our manufactured articles will be sold TO
that We will save the freights to and from.
Yours truly, y. K. Y.