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-31'SIRS,
YOU KNOW THAT BY THIS BUSINESS WE HAVE
OUR WEALTH."
(Acts 19:25.)
EXTRACTS FROM SPEECH DELIVERED BY GOVERNOR PAT M. NEFF AT
LIBERTY, JANUARY 3, 1922, URGING TIIE ESTABLISHMENT OF FACTORIES
IN TEXAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TURNING OUR RAW
MATERIAL INTO THE FINISHED PRODUCTS.
Governor Neff spoke in part, as follows:
From the days of the Apostles when the silversmith that manufactured
silver shrines for Diana's Temple said to his fellow manufacturers
and craftsmen, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our
wealth," those who have turned the raw materials into the finished
products have been the accumulators of the world's wealth. Through
;all the ages the countries which have manufactured the natural products
and made them ready for the consumer, have gathered in the
silver and the gold, while those countries which have been content
merely to bring forth from the earth these natural resources have
gained but little of the wealth of the world. The manufacturing business
is age-old. Texas, however, furnishes a striking example that
this. big business, the business that brings wealth, has never been
established in this State. We have been prodigal of our productions
and wasteful of our resources. We have never realized or appreciated
the matchless possibilities Texas offers to the business world for manufacturing
within our own borders the natural resources and productions
of our State. The textile industry has greater possibilities in
Texas than any other country in the world.
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COTTON MILLS SHOULD BE BUILT IN TEXAS.
One-fourth of the cotton of the world is grown in Texas fields, yet
we operate only a few small cotton mills. Above all things, cotton
manufacturing should be developed in Texas, and established as one
of our foremost industries. Why should we ship our three million
bales of cotton a year to the New England States, and, after it is
manufactured there into the finished product, ship it back to the
people of Texas who grew the cotton? The Texas farmer raises a
bale of cotton and sells it for a hundred dollars, and then buys it
back in cloth for not less than a thousand dollars. There is no reason
why Texas cotton should not be turned into finished products in Texas
mills, and these products, after supplying our own demands, should
go through Texas ports along our southern shores, to be carried by
the ships of commerce to every harbor upon the broad seas.
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Neff, Pat M. Speeches delivered by Pat M. Neff, Governor of Texas, discussing certain phases of contemplated legislation, book, 1923; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5835/m1/31/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .