San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-25
n SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS TUERDAY, JUNE 25,
WILL SAN ANTONIO TAKE PART?
A Manufacturers Movement Look
ing to Reduced Freights.

A Manufacturers Movement Look
ing to Reduced Freights.
The LIGHT has been requested TO
give publicity to very strong appeal
issued i'm the form of circular letter,
from the Manufacturers association of
Dallas. This circular sets forth in no
uncertain language the fatal disad-
vantages under which it asserts that
Texas farmers, merchants, manufac-
turers, and mill men labor on account
of ruinous freight charges and I'M
friendly freight schedules in Texas.
The circular arraigns the railroad 8
doing business In Texas and charges
them with eXacting an unjust tax from
the people which is paralyZing the
producing powers. 1t asserts that the
railways have turned a deaf ear to all
remonstrances, representations and
| pleadings, whether from individuals,
! corporations or cities. 1t asserts that
| millions of bushels of grain are locked
up from market by high rates for
| carriage, that every cotton bale pays
an enormous freight tax, that every
merchant is overburdened, that the
railway policy is to build up foreign
| cities at our expense, and that local
freight rates hedge up every manu-
facturer: Also, that the mines and
minerals of the state remain unutil-
lied, and all these riches undevelOped,
| and that other countries inferior to
Texas but favored by railway conces-
sions, are distancing us in material
| progress.
The remedy is alleged to be in the
! enforcement of the constitutional pro-
visions which provide that "the leg
| islature of Texas shall fix reasonable
| freight aud passenger rates govern
! ing railroads. The circular promis-
es startling facts and figures at the
convention which is called to meet in
| Dallas, July Sth, and take into con-
sideration the evils complained of
| and their remedy. The circular is
| issued to secure the attendance OF
representatives from all organized in
dustrial and business bodies, and the
| opinions of all sections of the state
| upon the matters involved. A press
ing request is made for the attend
ance OF interested individuals as well
| as of representatives. from individual
bodies and business corporations, and
merchants of all classes and business
guilds are urged to meet and forward
some expression. of their views by
post If they cannot be represented by
delegates.
San Antonio has made loud and
repeated complaints OF the very evils
complained of in the circular alluded
to. These complaints have found
vent in the columns of the daily press,
and facts and figures to show the dis
examinations made against this city
and in favor of other Texas towns
have been cited. 1t is now in order
for the Board of Trade of this city to
make movement in consOnance with
the call from Dallas, or antagonistic
to it, as their JUDGMENT shall decide.
This is question not for newspapers
to decide, but for commercial and in
dustrlal organizations, the newspaper
presenting the matter. for considera-
ton.
If San Antonio board of trade is of
opinion that the circular of the Dallas
Manufacturers Association speaks
truly concerning the disabilities of
Texas business under ruinous or op-
pressive freight eXactiOns, let them
send strong represen tatiOn to DaI-
las, to devise with other sections of
tne state a remedy. If the board of
trade dissents from the views therein
set forth, let that dissent and the reas-
sons therefor be plainly set forth, to
the end that the erroneous views held
by the Dallas cOnvOCatiOn NAV be cor
rected and the railways of the state
purged from the charges made against
them.