The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-20

Fnr,har conn, IN Waco ana"
RaaSer UvMn IN That thu aa
Ae oa may at Once RI.
coRnlze the Photo.
graph Of ths
Moss-bsek. "'
A young lady said to ~. !.
other day, "Mr. was o. ,ls Inc
house and l refused to shake ks I h,o our
with him, saying to him, Il '' ~;,s
not shake hands with snv w w.ll
whose name is not down @sn
Cotton Palace list, | do n un .ns
yours there, l am not shaking h.a 'ss
with moss.backs.'" Poor fsllo ouus
IN, M lldles have "got the ide,s
Men and women come to sss
every day and say, els Mr., $50 Us
Moss backT" OF all men in w..
who are really to be pitied il i " ".
Moss-back. 1t is true that :, thug wy
have lots of business blocks ' ss!
brick stores, and bank stocks som s
of them, and while am a noo'
mar, comparatively speaking. p snd
have not much, l would not tod .a
take all the property that soma y
these moss,backs own and be talksd
about, referred to, and pointed ~,
by the people of this town
as they are, for all thss
have! for all they will EVER hsv:'
The good book says: "The libe,.l
soul shall be made fat" If this !.
the case, can you imagine what
SMALL thing mossback's soul NM,
be? AS proof of the proposition
above take the men in Waco TODAY
who are appreciated and WHOSE
business has grown up; look around
over this town and see who tbev
are. 1t is true we have several
men who are rich, own LARGE
property, and whose names are not
upon any list which is proposed for
public good. A clerk in one Of our
dry goods stores remarked to me
Saturday: 81 recently walked
down the street with ole of these
mossbacks who owns large property
in Waco and said to him. i do mt
see your name in the paper as tax,
ing any stock in the Cotton Palace.
you have lots of property in Waco,
all rented, paying good rent why
are you not DOWN. The mossback
replied, Il don't think there is any.
thing in it TO. me-. This came
party made what he has, as l was
informed shortly after I came to
Waco, by buying the laboring
mans scrip for about 40 cents 90
the dollar. Is there man in town |
who envies man who gets 80 oar
row, who moves 30 slow, whoMw
so narrow that he cannot do any,
thing for the good of the city with
out asking: "ls there anythingn
it for me?" This man feels like
Cain, that every mans hand !.
against him.
ONE EXAMPLE.
Do you believe that any moss-bacs
could ever feel the pleasure that's
certain merchant felt? This mer
chant was in the south of Europe
for his health; he was sitting on
the terrace one morning in his lnVal'
idism; he saw rider flung from biz
horse into the river, and without
ever thinking of his own weakness
the merchant flung off mis- invallds
gown, leaped into the stream, swan
:, to the drowning man and clutcaea
him as he was sinking for the lss'
time, brought him in safety@
. the bank, and when glanolag
into the face of tns
g rescued man he cried: 80 my e5oa'
, | have saved my own son. NOW
Q is there a moss back in Waco VINO
! would have ever been moved .!
j such impulses? No sir, he woula
have sat there and said: There y
. nothing in it for me-. lie Soul ..
, have drawn his invalids garmea9a'
etill closer around him and salu'
"Let some other fellow save NV
drowning man." Can this conI u
nifty have any respect for su Gu
man? Your homes furnished l'ou
kitchen to parlor.
GENERA INVITATION ,,.
We ask everybody who is While u
to throw off the invalid's RODE -: