Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-29


was started in this city which soon
built up Il largo and remunerative busi-
ness. As this increased it attracted
the attention Of the large cracker fac
tories of the East, which decided that
It was menace TO their bust
ness and must DO got rid OF.
The familiar game Of Greece out"
was envoked to accomplish their pur-
pose, the price OF the product OF our
little factory was lowered far beneath
the cost of production, the home trade
abandoned the home institution to save
few pennies It's machinery was soon
brought 10 standstill, its managers
abandoned the field in dispair and the
cracker trust soon recouped its losses
on account Of q few weeks of cutting
prices out Of tho pockets of the very
people whom It had deluded into the
destruction Of one OF their most promis-
ing industries.
Mr.. Adolph Busch, the mil lionaire,
brewer OF st, Louis, Is now in Texas in
his palatial private car. His brewing
company, tho Anheuser- Busch firm,
has been selling about one-third of its
total product, or 80, 900 barrels Of beer,
to the Texas trade. There has been Of
late a heavy slump in that patronage.
The Fort Worth brewing company,
W hich began operations in May, 1880,
with capacity Of 40, 600 barrels, has been
compelled by the rapid growth Of It's bus
mess to enlarge It's capacity to 10000
barrels. 1t has become an active COM
petitor with the Anheuser- Busch people
in every town OF Importance in Texas,
and its product is rapidly superseding
that of foreign manufacture.
Mr.. Busch has come to Texas to see
about the matter, and the result is that
the fat has gone forth from tho big
millionaire brewer that the,Fort,Worth
enterprise must DO "squelched," that it
must go the way OF the poor littlo
cracker factory, which the st. Louis
cracker trust decided should die. 1t is,
so says the big brewer to be killed right
at home and by the assistance of home
people.
Yesterday the two large foreign
brewing companies doing business here
announced a cut in the price OF beer to
sl.OO per keg, which is far below the
cost OF making and marketing it. This
is the last OF II series of cuts" limited
to Fort Worth and avowedly designed
to cripple the home institution. Here
tofore, every effort Of this sort has fail
ed, and driven to desperation, alarmed
at the progress Of the Fort Worth en-
tcrprisc which monancss his hold on
the trade Of the entire state, the great
brewer makes a last appeal to the Gu.
pidity Of the dealers Of the town which
has produced his formidable competitor.
Itwon't work, Mr., Busch,
Though the dealers in beer should
desire to take temporary profit
from your attack upon Fort
Worth institution, the people Of
Fort Worth would not have it.
so. They will give you an example OF
fidelity 10 home enterprise that will
surprise you.
The people understand very we'll that
this is test OF the question whether
manufacturing is possible in Fort
Worth. II the brewery, representing
an Investment Of over sGO0,OoO with a
heavy and growing demand for its pro-
duct, can be crushed out because It
chances to be in the why of foreign
millionaire, then we might as well
throw to the dogs our hopes
of industrial development, A for
eign millionaire will always
be found to object to tine growth of any
factory OF consequence. Every dollar's
worth OF product manufactured here
cuts of that much, of course, from the
amount imported.
1t remains for the people OF Fort
Worth to say whether this foreign as
sault upon Its most important industry
shall succeed. Happily, they can make
the decision without expense to them
selves, They pay tho same for the beer
they drink, whatever may be tn,
price to tho dealer. Let every
man who drinks beer insist
that he he given the Fort Worth arti
Gle, and since the fight is on, let it b
mado to finish. AT present about one
fourth OF the beer consumed i'm For
Worth is produced abroad. Let's stoI
tho importation entirely and drink no
a drop Of any but the home article.
That's the sort of lesson to give tn,
fellows who begin crusade agains
Texas manufactures.