San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-09
che Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 9. 1859.
The international Fair.

Few enterprises have been sub
mitted to the public of San Antonio
that so thoroughly commends itself to
the favorable consideration of our
business interests as that of the In
ternational fair and exposition. Apart
from the annual benefits that will
accrue to this community from the
permanent establishment of this
great concern its international feature
will ultimately prove of incalculable
good to San Antonio. For years the
United States has been steadily OBJ
tanning a business foOthold in the
Republic of Mexico, with the
building of the through railway
lines frorl various points on our
frontier to the Mexican capital,
thus affording an outlet for American
commerce in that direction. Great
Britain, France, and other European
nations, were the almost exclusive
markets of supply for that vast coun-
try. But with these long and multi
plying lines of railway built, mainly
with American invention and manu-
facture and operated with American
talent, an impetus to American
methods and American investment
has been supplied, that is today draw
ing the Two republicans together in
commercial fraternity and laying the
foundations of an Americana Mexican
inter-trade, that will grow and ex-
pand till the United States
shall step up beside her
rivals from across the ocean and sue
cessfully battle for the mastery in
this new field. The growing in timacy
between the two powerful republics
constitutes one of the deep and silent
forces now operating in behalf of
southwest Texas. Somewhere in this
section is to spring up a mighty city
through which will flow, as through
a gate way, back and forth, the strong
current of International commerce. 1t
may or may not be San Antonio.
Pluck and enterprise always make
business and business in it's turn be-
gets the great city. Local advantages
unaided by these agencies, rarely,
if ever, produce such results.
But if San Antonio will be wise and
generous in her course towards the
San Antonio Fair A ssociation, she can
be the city of the future on the divid-
ing line OF commerce between the two
vast empires as she is the city of the
present, is obvious to the thoughtful
citizen. With the international fea-
ture widely advertised throughout
the country, by the management, and
o competent man kept for several
mon this in Mexico soliciting exhibits
and awakening interest in the great
exposition, San Antonio will become
not only the best known city in this
country, but a great market for the
Mexican trade, and an annual meet
ing ground where the most satisfac-
tory social and commercial relations
can be prOfitably cultivated
by the two peoples. Undoubted-
ly this fair and exposition
is as the opportunity of life time to
our vigorous city. Let it pass and our
progress is delivered a disastrous
blow. This is no one mans enter
prise, nor is it the enterprise of any
set of men. 1t ought to be, and the
LIGHT confidently believes will be,
prominently a San Antonio enter
prise-for the good of all the people
and the upubilding of the entire south
west. Whatever may have been the
experiences with past enterprises this
one appears to even the selfish inter
ests of our citizens as we'll as to that
broad and generous public spirit that
always abides with progressive peo-
pie, and should not await your sup
port but receive it promptly and will
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