Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-01
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
To the People Of Bryan and Brazc

County:
1t is an old but true saying: "A
prophet is not without honor, save II
his own country
u While 1t is not my intention to tel
, |you many things you do not know,
wish more especially to get you tc
thinking and to see how very incon
sistent some of you are.
Since Bryan first organized bust
ness mems club one of their funda'
mental principles has been that OF
patronizing "home industries" Do
you practice what you preach?" Are
you truly doing unto others In a
business way, "as you would have
others to do unto your
/ | was born in Bryan, Brazos county,
in 1884. For ten years | attended the
Texas School for the Blind at Austin,
acquiring an education and profession
which would enable me to go out into
the world and crush the old banner
borne by the blind of Dependency"
by earning an honest and respectable
living. In the year 1900 entered the
professional world as piano tuner.
Not for months, but years, struggled,
trying to build. myself up among the
people. Because many Of you had
known me all my life you thought 1t
impossible for me to ever be anything
else than a little old boy notwith.
standing the certificates which l held,
proof sufficient to convince any right
thinking person of my ability to do
work of this sort. Even until today
there are few who are still preju-
diced and who would much rather
have q stranger come in and do their
work than one whom they have known
a lifetime and whose work and replt
tation they know to be good and first
class. But this Is not ALL For the
past five years I have been represent
ing some of the leading piano houses
of the South, and while not connected
directly with them all of the time, you
have known by my announcements in
this paper that | was in that business
and able to fill your demands, if not
with one line of pianos / was in a
position to offer you some other. Not
withstanding these facts, there are
people right here in Bryan and in this
county who had much rather buy
piano from a stranger, paying just as
much as | would have charged, and
oftentimes the same kind of piano, |
rather than buy from one whom they
knew to be honest and who was try.
ing to make his way through the |
world.
And what shall l say about the way /
some of our people do when they need |
good music? First, they try to get the
negro; If unable to get him, then they
try to get the Mexcans; if they can
secure neither of these, as last re-
sort they send for me to help them \
out. Is this loyal citizenship? Is this
lpholding the "home industries"
which you have been talking for these
many years? Is this rejecting any
honor on the state school for the
blind, of which you are a stakeholder
by reason of the taxes which you
,ay to maintain this noble institution?
t its graduates and holders of certif
'ates are to be treated with such a
'egree of insignificancy, then, why
lot do away with the school and
hereby decrease your taxes? If not.
hen be true and loyal, one TO the
'ther, stand together and forgetting
he things which are behind. let us
un with eagerness the race that is
Jet before u.s. until some day we shall
ind our little city and county to be
he very best in this grand old state
# Texas. I'm union there is strength"
BY all pulling together it will not bel
ong until our town shall have at
aimed that place among the leading
titles of this state, but until we are
III willing to pull together, just SO
ong are we to expect our town and
ounty to remain just where it is.
hen, do you wonder why have not
wed in Bryan all of the time? Isn't
really a puzzle, in view of all that
las happened-I say, isn't it wonder
hat | ever came to Bryan to live at
ii? And why did come? Because /
that by holding on, and pos
IDLY by reminding my fellow citizens
+ some of their obligations, / believed
gu would and will do the right thing.
When | can serve you remember I
hat | am here, and it will not cost Q
on anything to telephone me nor 7,
cry much to write.
ResnpptfuIIvl vourc n