San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-27
GOT NO INVITATION.

( senger agent of the Arkansas Pass
railway, and the good work he had
done at the Fort Worth spring Pal
ace for South west Texas, mention
was also made of the Chicago and
BostOncapitalist who wereatthe Fort
and who turned their feet away from
| Southwest Texas and went to
the Panhandle instead because,
| they had received no invitation
| to come to San Antonio. Not only SO,
San Antonio was the point of all
others in Texas which they were most
DESTROYS of visiting, as they informed
Mr.. Andrews. Austin was there with
open arms, but it was not an invita-
ton from Austin but from San AntO-
Mo for which they were looking, and
failing to receive this they turned
their faces toward the northwest and
vert out into the Panhandle.
It will no doubt strike the ordinary
mind as very singular, that If those
men were 80 anxious to visit San An
tonic they did not come the last
three hundred miles after having come
five or six times that distance. This Is
their business and not ours. What
concerns US is that they would have
come had they received an invitation;
that they had already heard so much
of us they wanted to see us, and
were somewhat disappointed because
we had not invited them to come.
These men were capitalists, looking
for investments, tourists examining
the country, and it may be that they
did not come without an invitation
because they thought that if we did
not have business pluck and fore
thought enough TO invite them,
we did not nave enough push to
commend investment. However, that
may be- San Antonio has missed a visit
from some gentlemen whose coming
might have proved decidedly advan-
tage0us to US. The LIGHT took occa-
sion some time since to point out the
need OF a live organization, having
for its object the invitation of stran-
gers seeking investment, and parti-
cularly of manufacturers seeking To-
atoms for manufacturing plants
Had this city possessed such an or
ganizatiOn, these gentlemen who
have turned their backs upon Us
because they were not formally
invited would now be examining
into our resources and acquaintlng
themselves with our advantages, and
would go home tOspread a knowledge
OF our growth, progress and promise,
instead of returning with no special
love for US, to say the least. THE
LIGHT emphasizes the suggestions
the need of live board of trade or
kindred organization with wideawake
committees, and among them CORES
pOndence committee 20 whom shall be
entrusted the work of doing that
which these gentlemen from Chicago
ana Boston complain was not done
This little incident teaches two truths.
First, we are not unknown abroad,
and the eye and thought of capital is
curious concerning US. Second, cap
ital is not so curious but that it may
pass Us by unless we take some
steps to welcome it. 1t is unfor-
tunate for San Antonio that such
things happen, and it would be
that such oversight would soon be
a thing Of the past. There is not a
desirable party of capitalists coming
to any city of Texas that cannot be
induced to come to San Antonio if
proper measures are taken therefor.
We have suffered IN the past from
our neglect, we are suffering now, and
unless some change of base is taken
we will continue to lose much that
by our natural advantages we are
justly entitled to expect.
WARDEN Of the Illinois State peni.
Tertiary will be called to account in
court for his violation of state law In
leasing more convIcts to certain Chi.
| cago firms than are permitted by
st atute. Leasing convict labor out.
side of penitentiary walls is an Offense
to free American wOrkmen and should
| be abolished.