San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-17
TUESDAY, JANUARY, II, 1888.
KICKING TAMALEVILLE.

1t hurts and 1t seems to hurt bad. The
attempt made by San Antonio to look
after her own interests In the southwest
have provoked all north and northeast
Texas. This city has been 30 long salts
fed to take back seat, that when she
asserts her right to take pew little
nearer the pulpit from which the gospel
of progress is preached, there is gen
eral demur on the part Of those who
have been monoPolizing them. San An
tonic has been so long con-
tent to let north Texas walk I'M
impeded over her PROSTATE industries
and undevelOped resources, that when
San Antonio shows any rigorous symp-
toms Of business consciousness and
desire to make for herself name among
the Industrial centers OF the great south
west, she is Immediately assailed on ev-
cry hand by those interested In her
supineness and inactivity, and an effort
exerting her natural and legitimate
energies.
1t having become quite patent to the
most cursory observation that San An
tonic has actually determined to assist
her claim and prove title to the vast
commercial ard industrial empire
which OF right belongs to her, all north,
northeast and southeast Texas is In
arms over that determination and the
abuse that is poured upon the chill air
OF north Texas lie sultry enough to thaw
across that region. The Dallas con-
vention was all nicely manipulated TO
secure the cooperation OF southwest
Texas in general and San Antonio In
particular in committing this city and
section to policy as ruinOus and self
destructive as could well have been
conceived. That policy was the urging
upon congress, as the sentiment OF all
Texas, the GENERALIZATION OF all harbor
appropriations for this state at Calves
ton. Because San Antonio would not
lsmely submit to this arrangement, and
also because she would not consent TO
be practically unrepresented in
the state committee OF i'm
migration, howl OF dis
appointment, finding vent In ungen-
erOus reflections upon this city, has been
raised from Fort Worth to Galveston.
The subjolned extract from the Fort
Worth Mail is introduced into the edi-
torial columns Of the Galveston Tribune
as rebuke for "TamalevIlle's fit OF the
sulks." The Mail says:
''San Antonio has set the pattern OF rebellion
because she didn't get as much at the immi-
grafton convention as she wanted, and she Is
calling upon the southwestern counties to
come up and help boom her by starting an
Independent immigration movement. Will
the Southwest counties be any better of as a
tail to San Antonio's kite than they are now,
with their welfare In their own hsnds2 And
If one of them gets dissatisfied with what 1t
gets in the new deal, has 1t not as much right
to withdraw and start an immigration move
ment of its own as San Antonio had2 The
kicker cannot complain If 1t is kicked, and will
get mighty little sympathy"
This extract speaks for itself. 1t evil
IDENTIFY shows that the waking up OF San
Antonio hurts the good feeling Of Fort
Worth, or so much Of 1t at least as is
represented by the Fort Worth Mail.
San Antonio would be 10th to bell eve
that the general feeling through out
north Texas is as hostile towards this
city as is that expressed In the columns
OF the Fort Worth and Galveston
journals. Be 1t so, or be 1t otherwise,
San Antonio can not afford to sbate one
jot or little OF all the energies she pos
sesses to center 10 herself all the
advantages that lie within the compass
Of her possibilities. No city Is 80 deep
ly interested in keeping San Antonio
under foot as lie Fort Worth; no city so
deeply interested in preventing her
entry into the Panhandle, as Fort
Worth; no city that sees any more clear
ly than does Fort Worth, that the open
ing Of the Arkansas Pass to deep water
means the turning Of the stream Of west
Texas industry, and business into San