The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-05-20
POOR OLD "sHREvE. "
The Citizens::Of Sport" are Now En-
gagged in Doing THEMSELVES Up.

was taking big dose of suicidal
medicine, when it wanted a dozen
railroads to build into that city on
promises of a big fat bonus, but
my this is not starter. The towu
has special correspondents there
who have brains and manhood
enough to give "old sport" away,
and the name it is getting abroad
from these correspondents is any
thing but flattery. We have before
us an article dated at Shreveport
to the Item from a special CORES
pondent, ana make few deductions
therefrom. 1t starts off with this
text: shreveport is in about the
position Of an eighteen year old boy
not yet a man and refusing to be
called a youth, 1t is not a city and
refuses to be styled town" The
correspondent then tells that the
town is two large to be run by one
man and they have divided it up
into cliques and are running it on
the clan-negale plan. IF | cannot
have my way you shall not have
yours" In regard to the X. G. 2.
& G. road, these clans and cliques
are divided and each clan wants his
foot in the trough or the thing don't
go-that is, the bonus don't go. 1t
seems that everybody In Shreve-
port, who has lot as large as a
pocket handkerchief, wants to sell
it to the railroad for terminal pur-
poses, and if the railroad don't give
them castiron assurances that they
will buy, they swear by the muddy
mud" of which that town is built
upon, that they will vote against
the ten mill tax, and defeat it even
if they have to run a boycott on all
whom they deal with. This cores
pondent brings out the following
facts as regards Shreveport as a
mart:
Credit prices are charged for farm
supplies and those prices are from
% to 30 cents higher than cash
prices, and the cash prices are from
two to five hundred per cent higher
than those charged by retail mer-
chants in New Orleans. This state
Of facts forces our town people to
watch the daily retail quotations of
the New Orleans merchants and it |
is known that our ladies send off to
that city for the most inexpensive |
articles of wearing apparel and have
them shipped in by express and
mail, They can send to New Or
leans, says the correspondent, for a
pair of shoes, and pay the postage,
and then make a good saving in the
difference of price, The cores
pondent then tells how it used to
be before the railroads came there.
He says;
Before the railroads came the .
merchant could Figure" upon a low
river every third year, According
ly he would fill his store and ware
house with goods and mark up his
prices 500 and 600 per cent--on a
low water basis. For instance, salt !
at $40 and $l2 Il sack Consequent
ly the planters were kept poor and |
impoverished, and finally many Of !
them were dispseossed of their fine
Red river plantations by these mer-
chants, Necessarily hard times
prevail and the merchants are seek
ing new territory by inviting other
railroads to come in, They pursued
the same blind policy of the physi-
clan who keeps his patient i'll 50 that |
he may make continual fees, instead
of letting him up so that he may 90
to work and recuperate, financial
ly,
Now this the same cold Sport"
that Is inviting people to settle
there It Is a game of "walk into
mr parlor," or in other words came
here and hold up your hands while
we go through you.
Texarkana can offer better in.
to home seekers than
this "Old Duller Shreve," for 1t is
now known of all men that cheaper
goods can be bought here than in
almost any retail mark! t, Our
at one time did charge
and make an enormous per cent but,
they soon learned that the order
houses at st, Louis and New York |
were getting the cream of the
trade and they came down and are
now selling goods at prices that are
as low as can be procured in any
retail house in the country For a
verllcation Of this see advertised
prices Of Lingold Turner Co.,
0'Dwyer q ,Ahern, James McShane,
Winter ~ Schott and Others who
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