San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-07
TIE srocKMAN,s TALK.


does not bank very heavily on the
average San Antonian, judging from
the following concerning the Fair and
the Citizen and the Stockman:'
1.-THE management of the San An
tonic fair, failing TO get any encour-
agement from the average citizen of
San Antonio, decided not to hold
fair this fall, since when the average
citizen has been rending his tunic
about it, The average citizen of San
Antonio is in favor of anything that
will help the city, provided, always,
that it does not cost him anything.
He Is glad to have the city improve at
somebody's else expense. The rea-
son the StOckman and Farmer is per.
mitted to be published at San An
tonic is because it does not cost San
Antonio anything. Dallas, Fort
Worth and other cities do much to
support papers that do not amount
certainly to more than does the
Stockman. 1t is the misfortune OF
the fair people that they must de-
pend upon San Antonio. 1t is the
luck of the Stockman that it does
not"
1t was the failure of the manage
ment Of the fair to secure, through it
self or others, any adequate transport
tation franchise at the hands of the
city council which determined its
course adversely to holding the Fair.
Simply this and nothing more. The
San Antonio moss-back is nu-
merous, and his moss is thick, and
his back is wrinklei as a Spanish
Merino butter, but he is not RESPONSE
BILE for the action of the Fair manage
meDt. 1t was not because the Fair
people failed to get encouragement
from the citizen, but because the
council failed utterly and repeatedly
to give franchise privileges IN time to
enable the Fair management to carry
out their projects. Had the council
granted the land and improvement
company that rs I-2 track which the
council insisted should be feet. there
would have been no securing this city
for Sl5, 900 bonus in order TO prevent
San Antonio being the laughing stock
of a state and the derisiOn of CONT
nent. And now, behold, comes his
honor the mayor himself,Of all others,
and says that having got as far away
from home as Kansas City and peeked
over the rim of the saucer, he sees
that only As 12 guage is used any
where for rapid transit. The council
had been labOred with in this matter
on more than one occasion. All that
words could do to enligh ten them
had been done. They were told that
rs ID feet track was needed because
the rolling stock for that gauge was
in the shops and could be procured in
time for the fair, but all in vain. The
council knew. There was no Difficult
" about the route, that was granted.
the only question was width Of gauge.
This the council would not grant,
thereby preventing the fair manage
ment from going ahead with their
work, and now comes the head of the
city administration saying that a
As 1-2 gauge is the thing. The fair is
stopped, the city is pillOried from one
end of the state to the other, the citi-
zens are begged for a 49, 900 bonus,
the few public spirited men that are
interested in matters are running
themselves to death endeavOring to
hedge against this ignorance of the
council, and all because of lack of
real ability in the council chamber to
legislate wisely for the interests OF the
city.