San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-05
THURSDAY, JANUARY, 5, 1888.
THE CASE STATED.


The mass meeting to be held this af-
ternoon will not convene until after this
issue goes to press. The LIGHT has said
lts say concerning the railway projects
to come before that meeting, and cor
corning the organization Of southwest
err Texas for her own improvement,
outside Of yet as an adjunct to the work
Of the State immigration committee. 1t
is sincerely TO be regretted that some
hastily spoken words In public Dleet-
ing in this city, and come stopping over
by one Of the city journals should have
created the impression that San Anto-
MO is hostile TO the work Of the State
immigration committee and proposes to
sutagOnize it. This does not represent
the state of feeling in this city and is as
unjust to San Antonio as It is misead-
ing to the other sections OF the state.
The representations of the LIGHT
have done somewhat to correct
that erroneous Impression, and
within few days there has been wis.,
BILE change in the tone OF the daily press
concerning our proposed convention for
the interests Of southwestern Texas. 1t
Is unfairly and enormously called an i'm
migration convention, and yet the reso-
lutions passed by the board of trade,
forming the very substance and founda-
lion of that call for southwestern
Texas convention, do not authorize any
such appellatiOn. The convention Ia
called to see after the railway interests,
the manufacturing interests, the mining
interests, the agricultural interests and
the stock interests OF southwestern
Texas. For this action the journals OF
this state have opened the food gates of
their hostility to this city and have
poured upon rs all the OpprObrum to
which they have, grown accustomed
through long years OF practice, This
matters not San Antonio is too seIf-re-
specting 10 be drawn into any measures
or words Of retaliation. She does not
in any sense consider it her province to
dictate to other sections OF the state.
Profoundly impressed with the belief
that she has too long neglected her own
Interests, and permitted less fortunately
situated rivals to cut her trade and
limit her operations, she now proposes
to care for herself and make every effort
to secure for herself every advantage
which lies either nearly or remotely
within the compass of her possibilities.
In the accomplishment Of this work she
will not ask the consent OF any COM
munity, nor suffer herself to be handi-
capped by the weight of her insotion.
The state immigration convention had
nothing to do with the matter OF aD-
pointing delegate for this senatorial
district. That appointment was exclu-
slvely the work OF the district itself and
San Antonio was left out In the cold
because in that district, which stretches
from the San Antonio river almost TO
I'll Paso, there were more representa-
tiyes from the western and of the dis
trict than from San Antonio, and in
their selfishness, being connected with
north Texas by rail, they would not per-
init the representation on the state COM
mittee to come this way. The conyen-
ton was not responsible for what the
twenty-eigth district did in its own ses-
sion for the election OF district repres-
entative, and San Antonio is placed in a
false position when she is represented
as sntagonizing the state committee.
All that San Antonio and this region of
Texas can secure through cooperation
with the state committee they will Sc
cure; what they cannot thus secure
they will organize to secure for them
selves in some other way, and these
two are in no sense aDtsgonistIc the
one to the other.
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