The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-28
WE PLEAD GUILTY,


Beaumont POSSESSES as many wealthy
mcn as any city in Texas 0f a third
prcalcr population, These men oi
wealth ar good business men aud
have accumulated thol wealth honest
l. 50 far as the public knows and 50
lgr as the Enterprise believes, There
arc some Of these men however who
tllnl. that beaumont ought Ia x NV
and flourish without their help, that
tie common people Ougnt to hustle oui
ard pUt M their small change "a Sc
euro enterprises while they hold on
e. their real estate ana watch It in
. onso In value when Beaumont was
n sawmlll town lh'rr was no such
thing as the men of wealth sh!rking
thelr responsibility, Co, W, A. Flctch'
cr was n leader who carried the 2lho
men Of wealth with him, He had valu'
nIlc assistance from Captain William
Vicgs and Cot. John n, Gilbert They
formed n trio that was equal Of any
ANYTHING In the South, When they
wanted something for Beaumont that
cost s5O. 600 they called the people to-
rcthcr and said, I'VE need this for our
town. you give 100000 and wen give
$500 OO." Their wealth did not repre-
sent three nfths Of that Of the city
hut they felt that they would get thee
G.ths Of the benefit and they were
wiling t0 shoulder their whole share
# Is so entirely different now that the
Enterprise feels tnat we must plead
guilty TO the following fom the Port
Arthur News.
The Beaumont Enterprise remarked
Sunday that If any business or man
uiacturing enterprises were looking
for location in place where they
would receive the moral support OF
the people, that Beaumont was will
ing. That's the trouble. The county
seat has been so blamed lavish with
its moral support that it hasn't any
morals left to speak of, neither has 1t
attracted anything of much conSc'
uucncc. Try something else, ncighbor;
saw "A substance that Is visible to the
naked eye and sensible to the touch.
That will bring "csults.
The men whose names the Enter
prise has mentioned above are stiIi
more than willing to do their share in
getting more for Beaumont but they
very properly feel that the initiative
is now due from some one else. There
are men in Beaumont today VINO are
ia cc times as wealthy as those men
were when that $4,000 incident oc-
CURED but these men do not volunteer
ia invest n portion of their means 10
dc ub'c the value of their propc ty here
and near by. We need factories hero.
They give employment TO labor. Fac
tories can be built here with very
small percentage of local capital and
thc Investment need not be considered
n. lost either There is money in the
east TO he had Whenever we show
disposition to help ourselves. This
moral support is IA very empty affair
The Enterprise did not feel authorized
however to offer any other kind of sup
port. beaumont has grown so rapid
" and is still growing so rapidly that
we arc feeling too much like it viii
so without our own pushing.
We arc enjoying prosperity now and
are going ahead but to keep going
ahead it will require an expenditure of
energy aud some of the many dollars
now deposited in the banks and doing
no one good. No city was CVer built
v 'thOut getting hours and hours OI
Hbur and dOuarS after dollars Of m pn"v
fl ON the men who have grown up with
/; We must send out a d0llat if we
would get two back We arc not send
'ng dollars out aftc; bad ones when
vc induce factories and railroads tnI
rome here We are sending good dol
las after good dollars. The Port
Arthur News gave us thrust perhaps
without knowing they were striking
50 Iorcibly at tho quick"