Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-15
SOMETHING NEEDED
Is TO INSPIRE THE PROPER SEN
TIMENT IN THE MINDS OF
THE PEOPLE.
An Unfortunate Disposition Exists
20 spend Money Abroad That
should lie Kept mt uomca

One OF the principal designs in the
formation of the Fort Worth Promo
tive League was to encourage the cit
liens OF Fort Worth to patronlze home
Industries and this was the subject OF
resolutions passed at meetings OF the
league
Anent an editorial in the Gazette OF
yesterday morning entitled For Fort
Worth Only" Mayor i. II. Paddock
sends In the following timely and per-
tinent communication:
10 the Gazette--your editorial In to-
days paper under the caption For
Fort Worth only" was Timely and
making against Fort Worth today as
much MS the disposition manifested by
some OF Its citizens to spend money
abroad for articles that can be as we'll
purchased from our home manufacture
ers, Few persons stop to reflect how
much our local trade could be incrcas-
ed II every person would spend their
money Mt home.
The instance you cite or one industry.
which now employs only twenty men
and could use two hundred. IN but one
OF many. This would add one hundred
and eighty to the Tin bucket
brigade" and II they were men Of
families. as they should be, II would
add eight hundred to our population.
But the people are not alone to
blame, The manufacturers are not
wholly blameless. They do not let
their light shine. There are many in
dustres IN the city that the people
know nothing about
The promotive League have tried,
without success to obtain the names
OF the manufacturers aud the articles
manufactured, 1t seems impossible to
AhtNin fhtu inf aptII
greatly aid the league and Fort Worth
business by stirring up the manufact-
urers along this line.
Fort Worth people are usually pa
trlotlc and loyal TO the town. and
when their attention liz directed to
their mistake, they VIII be quick TO
correct II, Let us eat Fort Worth
bacon and Fort Worth flour; smoke
Fort Worth cigars, and use Fort Worth
brooms. and Fort Worth sauces and
extracts. and sleep on Fort Worth
mattresses for while and note the
difference. Yours for Fort worth.
b. d. PADDOCK.
Mr.. ]. Il. Mitchell, president of the
Promotive League, was asked to eN-
press an opinion on the subject matter
! OF the editorial, referred to. ana after
pcruaing II carefully, he replled: "Thnt
is Just along the line OF the resolutions
pnased by the board OF directors OF our
Promotive League, ana | can hardly
! say anything further that would not
( be a repetition OF the ground already
( gone over However. you Gun put me
I down as saying that thorc IL n large
need OF populor education In Fort
I Worth In this direction our people
should be taught to patronlzc home I'M
| duatries, and yet II IL not always the
| fault OF the purchaser either We have
| number of manufacturers here who
{ do not come out and let II be known
! who thHN "a what fNpN n anI
| That was Illustrated recently when we
| endeaNored to obtain a list OF the Fort
! worth manufacturers, together with
| certain particulars. and the responses
| TO our request were very few Indeed.
You may take the Fort Worth brew
| cry, for Instance. almost the only
| Fort Worth institution that advertlses
! itself extensively, and In consequence
| Its products are widely known and
| popular, because they have come for
ward and let everybody know what
they have. If the Fort Worth manu-
facturers viii come forward and let
| Va know who they are we will surely
| help them all we can.
THE neglect does not apply only
to the manufacturers. but to the retail
dealers OF Fort Worth, who. every
| year, lose hundreds OF dollars In Gus.
tom, merely because they do not keen
In stock the lines OF goods the people
want. ] know this to be so from my
| own experience
Again the retail dealora here do
not push Fort Worth manufactured
| product" ns they should do: II you no
| IN and call for some article. though
| tho same thing IL made In Fort Worth.
| yet the dealer will frequently hunt
you up something made elsewhere
II commend the position the Gazette
has taken In the matter and hope the
paper VIII not let 1t drop here, hut
VIII keep II In the minds OF the peo-