San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-02

uebllItu very uaNtllhllJ W DChCit jan
Antonio, it is in order to rtir up the
pure minds Of our people by way OF re-
membrance Of past mistakes made by
those who have property to sell. 1t Is
not quite a semi-decade since English
were in this market seeking
location for cotton mills. There was
an abundance Of money and experience
behind the proposed enterprise to guar
antee its success, and its planting here
would have been worth tens Of thou
sands OF dollars annually to the trade OF
this city. A price was agreed upon and
all seemed fixed, but before the bargain
was sealed the price of location was
raised twenty-five per cent and the capt.
talists w.disgusted. The property
selected some time since for smelling
works was raised fully twenty per cent
In valuation over fair rate, because
the capitalists who proposed coming IN
were wealthy, and 1t was supposed that
they would not stick at few Thousands.
1t is also In the memory OF many that
$500 per acre was asked on another oc-
casion, for a considerable tract of land
lying way out on the borders, beyond
the region of city settlement, and that
this property would have been utilized
for valuable manufacturing Industries
could 1t have been procured at reason
able price. These repeated attempts
to realize off of those who mediate es-
tablishing industrial works of any kind
are only so many attempts, unfortunate
ly successful, to kill the goose that lays
the &C Iden egg The true policy would
be TO help the goose make comfortable
nest and take your profit out Of the eggs.
Capital will not readily commit itself TO
any community that sees hte more
clearly its own interests than such
course rs we have hitherto taken in san
Antonio demonstrates. Manufacturing
Industries are at a premium in the south.
They are not begging locations, and
now that railway lines are opened in
every direction, no one location is indie
8 ensible TO the establishment OF profit
able plants. ltIs time that our people
that this whole land is full OF
embryo cities come 10 an untimely end
through the premature haste OF those
holding landed property to realize from
those seeking TO plant manufactures in
stead OF assisting to secure the plant
and then realizing from the advance
which would inevitably follow. Shall
our stock yards go elsewhere because
those owning eligible property for such
a plant double prices as soon as the loca-
ton is spoken of? We sincerely hope not.
A word to the wise.
The wOud-be smarties who vent their
fasor at Pasteurs expense because
of two or three failures, forget the i'm
mense successes that have attended his
peculiar treatment of an ihcurable dis
ease. At least incurable until he at
tackled 1t in Its stronghold by those very
methods which are made the ridiCule OF
fools.
TIE green glass blowers in six local
assemblies in New Jersey have surren-
dered their knights of Labor charters
sooner than strike at the demand Of dis
trict assembly No. l49. The green grass
blowers some time since abolished the
system, and the glass COM
panies by whom these glass blowers in
the six local assemblies were employed
refused to discharge their apprentices.
Hence the order. The men claim that
they are carrying out former agree
ment with the companies an refuse to
recede from their position. In this they
do wisely. The bounds must be set by
the general assembly against forcing
men to quit labor without cause. II
the assembly does not set limit to this
thing. workingmen whose families are
the victims of injudicious orders will
set bounds to it themselves.
The Examiner has put on its war
paint and feathers hunting for the scalps
Of those PARKWAY editors who. having
read the account OF that S25,OO0 libel
suit against the Ex., believed what they
heard under the impression that moth
ing could lie in the truth-telling, God
fearing neighborhood Of the pious Ross
organ. This, 1t seems, was a delusiOn
and snare, and the Examiner obeys
not the Injunction to restrain his wrath
before the sun drops behind the west
ern bills. Let us have peace.
That proposed steamship line be-
tween New Orleans and Rio Janerio is
great attention in Brazil. and
every encouragement is being given the
project at the southern end of the route.
New Orleans will gain more by he pro-
posed line than by any other that could
be established. Trade with South Amer
lea offers more inducements to Ameri-
can commerce than with any other
country. This trade is legitimately ours
and should be turned into home chan
nels.
THE colored member has gro wn small
er by degrees and beautifully less until
in the coming congress he will be soli-
tsry and alone with only one represen-
tative. Abbott of the second North
Carolina district Is the sole representa-
tive of his race in the halls of congress