San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-04
NOT VERY APPRECIATIvE.

NOT VERY APPRECIATIVE.
The Improvement committee Of this
city seem to have very little idea Of the
value Of home newspapers, judging
from the way in which they per.
sistently give them the cold shoulder.
1t is currently reported that since the
organization OF the improvement COM
mittee some $500 have been disbursed
by the committee, no light proportion
of which has been spent in advertising,
and of this amount the press OF this city
have hardly received enough to ink
their forms. This may be the best
method of securing the hearty oo-opera.
tion of the CITY papers in booming the
town, but to a man up a tree there is
far-away-Moses look about that kind OF
encouragement which does not promise
more than about ten cents on the dollar
as a healthy financial investment. 1t
may be that by completely ignoring the
local journals OF this city the publishing
contingent OF the improvement commit
tee show their metropolitan wisdom and
the superior nature of their work as adj
vertisers of the oity's advantages, but to
a small boy 1t looks very much like set
ting a dumb lad to declaim the beauty OF
his daddy's truck patch. Do the very
sspient, and very sagaoious and very
public-spirited gentlemen who compose
that committee ever consider how many
columns of these local journals, by them
80 systematically despised and ignored
as channels of communication, have been
gratuitously devoted to advertising San
Antonio, and not San Antonio
alone, but themselves as well.
Do they understand that with
out the mention made by these
repudiated city journals that their work
az committee men would not be heard
of outside of the little Off es in which
they devise 80 wonderously and mys-
teriously for the spreading abroad Of a
knowledge of our resources VIII some
one who has been drinking OF these
sealed fountains of inspiration inform
q curious public if there is any connec-
tion between this very unique way of
doing business and the utter deafness
which seems to enshroud all attempts
to make San Antonio known abroad?
Other cities in Texas use the nine
teenth century method of making facts
known, the press, and are heard OF and
sought and invested in, but San Antonio
continues to follow at the tail end of the
procession, in her advertising as in her
base ball enterprise, and 1t would be
hard to say which were the baser of the
twain. This Is free country, and the
committee are responsible only to them
selves for their methods, but men who
have fair excuse for brains will con-
tinue to inquire why it is that the San
Antonio journals, that have ever been
as loyal to the city as the press Of any
municipality on top of dirt, are 80 COM
pletely side-trscked in this matter of do
ing the work which none others can do?
Why are others paid for doing what the
home journals are doing gratuitously,
when only the work of the home jour-
nails avails 10 do whatever is done? 1t
looks as though there was large sized
mice in some ones meal bag, and that
subsidies 80 senselessly bestowed must
have as a reason for their bestowal some
motive not apparent to the public eye.
The Houston Age Ia somewhat Of
sarcastic ouss. Dilating upon the pre-
tensions of Dallas, 1t says:
"We have before us the first copy we
have eyer seen of the Texas Land and
Immigration Journal published at Dial
las, and, like most Dallas publications
and Dallas people too, we may say. 1t ia
distinguished for modesty. 1t modestly
puts the population at $1,000. If it was
a cheeky journal and disposed to exag-
gerste, 1t could easily have put the pop
ulation at 100000 or 100000.
Does Uncle Daniel insinuate that the
claim Of SCOOPS as prepOsterous as a
claim for double that amount? Dallas
and all north Texas for that matter, Fort
Worth included, are death on statistios,