San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-13
MOVEMENT is NEEDED.

broadens, deepens and grows more
rapid from week to week is very ap-
parent 10 every one who devotes
even casual attention to the growth
of southern industries. Every week
shows an aggregate of 8 million in
vested In manufacturing enterprises
in a region that thirty years ago was
practically outside the pale of manu-.
featuring possibilities. The rapid
development of such industries as
have created the wealth OF Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, in the states of Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
and other southern states, has taken
the north by surprise. This develop
ment has naturally directed atten-
ton to the inexhaustible resources of
the south, her vast ore beds and their
superior quality, the cheapness with
which creative industries can be car.
ried on, the ready market for&all
such manufactured goods and the
ease with which she can COM
pete with all the older manufacturing
districts in feeding the metal markets
of the world. 1t is inevitable destiny
that the states, and the sections of
states as well, which lead in this race
for industrial organization will out
strip those who lag behind in the GEN.
tering of population, capital, trade
and wealth within their borders. 1t
is not the more distant north, and
the still more remote New England,
that Texas has to fear in planting
manufacturing enterprises, and so
providing a market for her raw ma
terisl, profitable employment for nom
agricultural labor and a home market
for agricultural products. 1t is the
nearer and more dangerous competi-
ton of southern states, where the ad-
vantages arc more nearly balanced
and where a good lead in the race
counts for much in the final
outcome of the contest. Other
states, not entitled to lead Texas
either by virtue of commercial posi-,
ton, or natural facilities for manufac-
turing, are leaving us behind and it
is not to our credit or to our advantage
that this is so. Other sections of the
state, too, no more tavorably placed
if as favorably as are we, at the head
of this beautiful valley, in the very
center and seat of what should be
manufacturing and commercial EN-
pire, are leading us in the march for
industrial place. Already have we
az city lost millions in the way Of
investment that would have been
placed in manufacturing plants in
this city had we been as alive to the
needs of the hour and as ready to en-
brace opportunity as we snOuld have
been. The greatest steel ore fields Of
this continent have been asking our
aid in opening to them an outlet to
the Carrying trade Of the state, and
asking for years in vain. The invita-
ton which We have disregard
ed has been needed elsewhere
and now what might have
been exclusively our own becomes to
US at the best but divided empire,
and our share in this divisional terri
tory is not as yet assured. Cotton,
wool ana paper manufactures have in
turn solicited our aid, all have been
coquetted with, but with noue of
them have we made common cause.
This thing cannot exist for long. The
attention of the whole nation is being
directed towards Texas as it never
was before. This winter and next
season more prospeCtors will turn
over the probabilities Of successful
ventures in Texas manufactures than
were ever dreamed Of a few years ago
The community that has made be-
ginning viii find capital always
ready to second its efforts. Manufac-
lures are sociable institutions. Where
one is established more are ready to
take root. One successful brewery
here made two others possible, and
all enlarging their plant and growing
more and more profitable. 1t will be
the same with all other manufactures.
Now is the time for San Antonio to
move, and>to move energetically. To
move for Llano and manufactures.
at is easier for rich man to 60