San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-07
ghe daily Eight.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER. 7. 1888.
A 0RATUIToUs INSULT.

The Galveston Tribune, in recent
issue, makes the following editorial
comment upon possible occurrence,
which may or may not affect this city,
but which in the mind of the Tribune
is supposed so to do. The Tribune
says:
Now come rumors of an impending
strike of the employees of all the trunk
line railways in the country. Should
present fears be realized Galveston
could get supplies by water. San An
tonic could not. Poor old San Anto-
nio.n
This seemingly unimportant utter
ance of the Tribune has whole
spoonful OF meat in it. Reading be-
tween the lines, to one familiar with
the whole history of this deep water
controversy, it means that Galveston
being the only port in Texas, has the
bulge on all other sections of the state
and proposes to keep it by fair means
or foul. 1t means that Galveston
above and beyond and before all else
desires no change in the harbor situa-
ton on the gulf of Mexico.
She is pledged by her own self
interests to main tain the statu quo.
Could Galveston have her own way,
no deep water harbOr would, could,
or should ever be established upon
the gulf coast of Texas. A shallow
harbor and shallow entrance, over
which the commerce of the port must
be lightered i'm order to reach it's in
land destination is what suits Calves
ton so long as that Tightening pays
tribute to her revenue and increases
her wealth. Galveston can get sup
plies by water now, and what comes
to Texas by water must come by way
Of Galveston, pay tribute TO her
wharf company, pay tribute
to the necessities of lighter
age over her impossible bar, and thus
pay tribute to the eXactions of I'M
favorable and inadequate harbor con-
ditions. This satisfies the greed of
Galveston and this is but natural.
The present condition is one in which
she has everything to gain and moth
ing to lose ahd it is to her own inter-
ests to main tain it. OF this there is
not now nor ever has been any ques-
ton. "Poor old San AntOniO,n and
poor old everywhere else in Texas it
will be, so long as this "old man of the |
sea-" the Galveston monopoly lays its
claws upon the coast and pre-
vents the opening of a deep
water harbor at some point |
where such harbOr can be maintained. |
That it is not at Galveston that such |
harbor can be secured, that it is not
over Galveston bar that such entrance |
can be made to Texas wharfs as will
accommodate her commerce, is pretty |
generally understood by those who
have made inquest into the condition
of the inlets along. the coast, and by
no one is it better understood than by
Galveston capitalists, Like the silver
smiths of Dian's temple at Ephesus
they would find their occupation gone
were the effort to create deep water
harbor OH the Texas coast pushed to
it's completion, for that harbor could
not be found nor an entrance thereto
at Galveston. so they re-
peat the old cry, great is Calves
ton of the Wharf company and poor
old San Antonio" The mills of the
gods are grinding out way to give
Texas the benefits of deep sea COM
merce, through outlets to the sea that
can be maintained and which will ad-
nit the largest sea going vessels.
That grinding may be slow, but the
turn, and some of these !
days Texas will be eG franchised, and
it will no longer be shut out from the
sea by the old man desperate who
croaks out his monotone from the deck
of the lighters of the Galveston Wharf
ooponanu