Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-25

to ask any thoughtful man II these general
unfavorable conditions to manufacturing
enterprises within this state are not even
more unfayorable to the railroads of the
state I would like to ask any thoughtful
man If it does not cost railroad 10 do
two million dollars of business a year far
more in price Of labor paid than
il does manufacturing firm TO do
a like amount Of business. Does It
not require from thirty TO sixty times more
capital to build and equip railroad of four
or i've hundred miles to do a s., 000, 900 bust
ness than it does mandatory to do 4 like
Volume Of businessE With over eight
sh6nsand miles OF railroad within the state
wo0ia like to ask if the tonnage of the
Texas r5ffsoads is not even far more re-
stricted in aec6Tdance with population as
compared with the nlileage and population
in other older states, shan even manufact-
uring Enterprise woeldBel Can any man
for @these sSeeuara& unfavorahle condi-
TICS whicT bear 80 heavily uBoa them
elves? Nw. if tie railway commission OF
Aexas areA lot xeed OF these truths, they
are working in gross ignorance. II they
are advisefsS4 hem, they are prostltuting
intelligence, Tor they have boldly ANNOUNCED
il as their province toireverse these general
enterprises within the state at the expense
of the railroads of the state, thus relieving
e.burden of one interest in the state at
the exnes.aes OF. doubling the burden on
another Interest," aRd s.this interest the
states honor is pledged 20 flsofeat ~ w hat.
is the states honor but the honor OF us
citizens.
SUGGESTIONS N CONSIDERING THEIR EsTAB-
LIsHSfEST.
I have endeavored ipswlsst has preceded
this to show the favoFaAae and advssse side
to stating of manufacturing entexbris Al
Tex& Certainly II would app Ghss the,
faqsfable conditions. are moIs# thaaf sufii-
Gent TO Offset the unfavo1eole o5es, ana
stIsat suehfs in fact the Qe in Some K
! stances we have eyAen9d moSf conyife-
Asls IN the success Of the Ea e. Worth
Pse iIa no rd T3E 80 eMerE,
and in many Other ssseeessful home
enterprises. Two ofstf1ese concerns men
toned have fouRszeft necessary to double
their capacitssfTithin the past year, and the
the otheTscWill soon have 10 do so. In many
otherSffasses of manufacture, especially
whgfe the foreign competitor has to i'm
Fhome, the conditions should be overwhelm-
iuply in favor of the home enterprise
against foreign competition, and are so,
and there is room enough in these partic-
uIar classes alone to make the state. re-
nowned for its manufactures. What
backed by confidence TO put up
works ranking in capacity and equip
ment any that would be met in competi-
ton, thus insuring a safeguard against
every leakage in manufacture other than
those which would come under the head of
general unfavorable conditions which en-
brace increased cost of labor and living.
Some days ago in conversation with
the managing editor of the Fort Worth
GAZETTE the question of home manufac-
tories came up, and many of the Meas con-
tanned in this letter Mere Unrestricted, and
even at the expensaED one,s sci hich such
statemsfts often acur,N dASf$ TO state
thats entlemal fnopS wiz q I'd receive
se1dIlsef or Haorf apsBl lie OF iHg 1t thapl
sthj EentieneE Is sfEdgIa felSA6 Mr..
If NE a cakessh peSA wheras 4ft
4fneago a Faper Gan sd to
Tart works in Eigfs Worth. But uf5sa look
sing over ting ground abandoned the inten-
Stion as not feasible. Now 1 will fill in be-
low method which appears to me practi-
cable in arriving approximately at the diff
cult features to overcome as well as the
favorable features existing in starting
home manufactures, presuming that APP
proximately the cost can Away be reduced
INTO dollars and cents per 100 pounds.