San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-13
WHAT WE NEED.

| uOW san AIlOnlO Sudll uo duNoEtSCu
ought, by all means, to have the adj
vertisement made as comprehensive
as possible, so as to have it include
all the advantages of our city.
1t is not enough for US to draw to
San Antonio regiment or two Of in
valids, suffering from some form OF
lung disease, and have them pass
their winters here. OF course, they
would expend good deal of money
here, first and last; but, it is not
mere birds of passage, mere
migratory birds, that will
build up San Antonio as
she ought to be built up in solid and
permanent manner. No, let all the
invalids come that want to be re-
stored to heaIth-come by thousands
and tens of thousands but there
would still be an "aching void which
they could not FILL" and this "aching
void" would NOT BIZ in our .cemete ries
An influx of invalids would expend
their money only among very small
segment of the population of San An
tonic, hotels, boarding houses, doc
tors and drug stores would gobble up
the bulk of the money expended by in
valids, and il in case these favored few
should happen to be close-fsted and
misery, they would tie up all the pick
ings from the irvalids Gin napkin"
and bury them in the ground, as the
fellow spoken of in the scripture did
with the talents" entrusted to him
by his master.
Let us go in for something of gen.
eral benefiit-something that will
help all of our people and benefit
san Antonio now, and for years to
come. We want capital and popula-
tion-We want fairness in all the con-
tiguous country. We want men Of
vim and enterprise in all the
branches of business. We want mills
and factories, tanneries and shoe
factories, mechanics laundrymen, ar
chitects, working men, cooks and
house servants. But we do NOT want
tramps, dead beats, mossbacks ,drones
and croakers, as the supply Of men of
this breed is already superabund ant
The publication of pamphlet de-
failing the advantages of San An
tonic, would help the printer to
small extent the profits of printers
are always smalD but 1t would, other
wise, be throwing money away, as
such pamphlet would not be seen
or read by one person out of ten
thousand in the north and west.
Why, DIR. Joseph Jones. some years
back, published at his own expense,
most capital pamphlet, showing the
advantages of San Antonio rs health
resort, and sent them to all persons
in the north whose addresses he could
obtain, and, perhaps, half of those to
whom he sent them flung them into
the waste basket, without reading
them. The age Of pamphlets has long
since gone by. People now
turn from pamphlet with
disgust and utilize 1t in kindling q
fire in the kitchen. A pamphlet!
Fiddle sticks. Don't dig up flesh
less skeleton from tho mouldy grave
yard of the dead post, and pinning
sophomore and high falutin discrip-
tons of San Antonio to it, send 1t
forth to drum up capital and popula-
ton for our city amid the hsunts of
people who act on the theory that,
"timeis money"
The LIGHT will unsolicited, suggest
that any write up OF San Antonio
should eschew the tawdry shetoric
of the mere school boy the style of
the patent medicine man. landing his
nostrums and of an auctioneer crying
off pinck beck jewelry, and be plain
sensible readable, business-like paper.
No other sort will be worth a copper
among business people such as are
those of the north.
TEXAS is already the seventh state,
in point of population. having moved
up four points, but in the year 1900
she will occupy the third rank. Hur'
rah for Texas? In 1893 she will turr
away from the worship of stocks
and stones and take her place In the