The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-11
HIGGINS WRITES A LETTER
Fall OF Hot Rocks ana 'Glves Inc
Idea" to some waco seats
and Swell FOOLS.

SoU,UVU Loss AM II Il INA
McMiNNviLLE, TENN, Aug. :.
EDITOR NEws:-lf ever forge, te
"get the idea" for Waco-then yor
can tell the people ihai-rklggins /;
the very fellow he talks about"
The citizens OF this town OF some
5000 people lost $4,000 by the
failure of the bank OF Commerce OF
Nashville, Tenn. As soon as we were
told Of this we said: Good for
them!" Here in McMinnville you
have two sound solid banks-home
in stitutions managed BY men you all
know well-all know personally; yet
these men who have made that money
right in this town and right out of
these people, actually rob this town
out of $4,000 by sending it away to
Nashville to be used there. Such
men out to lose their money! They
are both thieves and traitors to their
own town. Again McMinnville Is
finely situated for manufacturing most
rything-factories here; few are
doing well, yet these men rob the
town by sending $4,000 away to
Nashville! When that money invest
ed in factories would have supported
over 100 families, besides paying the
owners well Yes, | am glad such
men loose their money; 1t does them
good We have few such rascals
in Waco. know of few men who
have their money on deposit outside
of Waco, and even out side OF Texas!
Such men made that money in Waco
and are robbing Waco!
Waco banks and Waco bankers are
as solid and honest as any banks or
bankers! DO we not know them per
sonally? Do you not know them?
Again Waco factories pay-as well
as any other place with the same
management, and men who have sur.
plus of money should build up facto.
ries-in Waco; or buy large tracts of
land and divide into small lots and
sell to men who could cultivate them.
Two big F's. MUST make our country.
FACTORIES and FARMING.
The day ought to and will come to
these men who rob their own people
by their failing to do what is their
plain duty! There are men in Waco
this applies to, and Waco people know
them
AGAIN WE KICK.
There are those in Waco who send
away for printing, for advertising, for
iron and wood work, for dry goods,
for tailor made clothes, both male and
female-aor jewelry, carpets and fur
niture! All these are traitors to
their own town; robblng their own
people. They don't get such things
any cheaper, but simply buy them
from people they don't know, and
believe any lie these unknown people
tell them. That is just how these
fellows lost their $4,000; and is the
way Waco looses money every year,
BY fool people who think themselves
SMART
The Waco Trading Co is for Waco
first, last and all the time. A barber
should not shave me who did not buy
MS leather razor strap from a Waco
nan-if he could. j. w RIGGINs.
AGAIN WE KICK.
Whose fault is it that Waco does
aot get the same advertising other
towns get?
MIR EDIToR:-After that rain last
week | saw in two daily papers of
his state "the rain fall in Texas"
Great many places like Bolton, Cor
icana and the like were reported, but
lot zone word about Waco Yet |
lad a letter and the Waco papers
aging: I'VE had a good rain"
Take press reports! We notice this
n that about many points in Texas,
tut marry word" about Waco. There
a small town in this country "with |
store and blacksmith shop" Smoutt |
its name, where people get off to 90 |
o small spring, which about so /
'eople year visit. This place has
EXCURSION rates from most "every.
where"
Ask Gillespie for ticket to ''Smoutt
nd return"and then ask him! Where
Smoutt at3" Yet Waco. the center
# the best country on earth, with her
- flowing wells; the only "Geyser
jlty" does not get the consideration
i a BLACKSMITH shop way stationn'
Why are things thusly?
AGAIN WE KICK.
Notice any railroad man or roldA