Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-13
THE FUTURE GREAT.
KANSAS WANTS HER GRAIN
SHIPPED VIA THE BRAZOS.
She Believes in VeIasco-The Kansas Peo-
pie See the Advantage OF Deep
Water to the Agricultural.
Kansas City TIMES.

Kansas City TIMES.
We derive a good deal of merriment from
the ignorance the English exhibit when
ever they talk about America and Amer
leans. Their making Chicago suburb Of
New York and people the enyirons of Gin
cinnau and St. Louis with scalp-seeking
savages excites our most contemplate IS
amusement. l have Just returned from
New York. and thinking of the talk of the
brokers on Wall and New streets, which I
heard while there, about the West and the
great wheat crop, and the wonderful
agricultural promise of Kansas acclaimed
with such an astonishing exhibition of most
arrogant knowelge, 1 am provoked into a
most pleasurable good humor, which shall
mildly temper my criticisms.
Sixty days ago the stock market in New
York, which is the heart of the markets of
the United States; whose every pulse-beat
is felt, strong or light, in every city in the
Union, was dead as mackerel. Stock ex-
change brokers, usually SO busy that they
forget whether they have their hats on or
of, were nerVously chewing gum for occu-
patton. They hoped for coming activity,
but had nothing on which to pin their
hopes. If asked why stock exchange seats
should ever again sell for s35, 600, the price
of year or two ago, they answered: BE
reason (0. On Saturday, August IL, wheat
touched the mark OF 81. 10. 1t was an cleo
trio stroke and its influence was felt by
every brokers' ticker in New York. The
Western word ''boom" just expresses the
buoyant feeling which dominated every
stock operator in New York.
Entirely Western in my feelings and in
clinations, | was acutely amused at the sud-
denly acquired spontaneity of boom actions
displayed by these ''bnow-all' brokers.
Another thing prominently noticeable and
just as amusing to Western man was the
readiness with which they accepted the rise
in wheat as thing theirs in every particu-
lar-tne most confident proprietorship.
1t occurred to me, being Western and
from the West. to ask how much wheat the
East had to sell, and now that the demand
for wheat was revivifying every dead and
half dead financial interest in the East, how
smuch proprietorship the brokers of New
York could rightfully claim in this new life.
Sentiment and business will mix no more
than oil and water. The dependence of the
West upon the East is as much thing of
the past as yesterday. The West, child,
mas grown to stalwart manhood; the East,
parent, has aged into senile reliance upon
its offspring. 1t is beautiful to see
the offspring feed the parent with
the fruit Of his industry and say.
Father, great art thou: | thank
thee for this righteousness. That is SEN
%iQent, but sentiment is not always truth.
.StrfsSsd 10 nudity, the situation to-day is:
AN ovefsxpduction of everything manufac-
tsued and Msmple production of the fruits
of ste earth hassStifed trade into a coldi-
tiolaf pitiable hsetivity. Providence or
t,orttaatus elevated Nc mouth of the horn
OF plenfs, while passing e<er Europe, and
of this coAGtry. Small dripNngs did it
give 10 the East, but in the Westit has had
bounteous oTssiiow. To-day Europe must
buy bread; America has bread to sem For
bread thee can be nossQbstitute. EvehS the
American hog will notsatisfv the German
hunger for bread.
Europe must have 200, 0oe,aQQ bush els
more of wheat than all the rest~Uf the
world has to sell The Transmississippi of
the United States, after }35, 900, 900 bushels
for home demand and seed, will have 200,-
000.00O bushels to sell.
1t is estimated under the new Spanish
treaty that the West Indies will buy So, 000,-
COO worth OF our -four this year. Has the
vain-glorious East the flour to sell or must
it come from the West, Germany now
wants American hogs. France will also
want hogs. Has our most revered Mother
East hogs to sell? At the risk of being
called ungrateful, would like to ask my
readers to contemplate the situation.
The East depends on the West for hay,
corn, oats, wheat. butter, beef, bacon, fur
niture, lumber and raw material for her
factories. OF not one of these does she
raise enough for her own use. The East's
largest income is derived from manufacture
ing the raw material produced in the West,
and from the business of transporting the
Vests products to factory, market and sea-
board The producer pays for this trans
portation. 1t comes out of the price of the
article trans ported
If a farmer should pay n freighter 10
cents bushel to haul his wheat twenty
miles to market, when he could reach
market paying the same price per bushel in
fifteen miles. and have TO pay the freighter
ouly :; cents q bushel. all his neighbors
would call him a fool.
This supposed case is exactly in point.
The Vests products of grain and meat for
export go on IN average SIS miles further
to the Atlantic ports than they would have
to go to gulf pOrts.sAIt costs 1924 cents a
buShel to haukprfieat 565 miles
Of the 2l1g00, 600 bushels of wheat which
WI tbesssxported this year. $50, 900, 600
bEshel will pay 12sI cents i bushel more
A3Feit should, for the West now has deep |
SSkfer at the port of Velasco, Tex. The |
mouth of the Brazos river has been deep !
cned by private enterprise. The secretary |
of the treasury Of the United States de- |
clared the port of Velasco open July I, 1891, |
and instructed the collector of customs at |
Galveston Us follows: in view of the fact |
that the water over the bar at your port is |
not Of sufficient depth for vessels Of GER
tain draught, such vessels, although for
eign, may be allowed to go to Velasco."
The freight bill on 100000, 900 bushels of |
wheat at l2$4 cents bushel is Si9, 1875 600.
The farmer pays it, and the farmer would
save it if his wheat was exported via the
Doft of Velasco. The cry of the West has
osen for deep water. 1t has been answered.