San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-11
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was WH6u h DdTTel VI uOuT COSU 90
and $40. This Is indefens!ble In
principle.
The loaf OF eighteen ounces, at
present sold for 5 cents, should be
sold for y cents, IL the price OF q |
barrel OF -four Is taken into consid- |
GRAFTON as it certainly should be-.
In New Orleans the price OF a
loaf OF 36 ounces is five cents, while
here In San Antonio loaf OF Is
ounces Ia sold for five cents, What
causes this wide difference? II the
bakers OF New Orleans can make
money by selling SO ounces Of bread
for five cents why cannot San An
tonic bakers make money by sell.
ing Is ounces for q cents? That
is the price Of Is ounces Of bread in
New Orleans, since &c ounces Of
bread are rold for five cents.
Cheap bread and cheap meat
benz I the entire population, since
they constitute the necessaries OF
life and are OF general consump
ton. But cheap bread and cheap
meat are d0ubly b neticial to per-
sons OF scanty means, who are
forced to practice the strictest
! economy.
AS a general rule, wage workers
in San Antonio, do not receive
such liberal wages as to make the
price OF bread matter Of indiffer-
ence to them. and, for that reason,
they should demand, that bread be
sold at the same price, that it
fetches In New Orleans and other
cities.
II a loaf Of bread, Weighing Sc
ounces, sells for five cents In New
Orleans, Is 1t not extortion to ask
five cents for a loaf of Is ounces
here in San Antonio? Is there
any shadow OF reason why bread
should be dearer In San Antonio
than it is in New Orleans? None
whatsoever.
Occasionally you will hear a man
say bread Is cheap enough now,
since five cents will buy enough to
supply family for a day, and
that a larger loaf would become
hard and stale before it could be
consumed. This is the wrong way
to look at the question Of cheap
bread.
The exaction of cents for just
half the quantity Of bread, that Is
sold for cents in New Orleans, adj
mits Of no defence, whatsoever.
There ia no necessity for increas.
ing the size OF the loaf, when a re.
duction in the price will be all that
Is needed But cents are not In cir.
culation In San Antonio, and peo-
pie could not obtain q cents to
pay for a loaf. There is nothing
in this objection. None at all.
When a person buys q cents
loaf-lS ounces-let the seller take
his five cents and give him in
change ticket for a q cents loaf.
This is an easy and ready way OF
making the change.
In New Orleans a person can go
to retail grocery store with ten
cents and buy q cents worth Of
sugar. q cents worth Of coffee, or
tea, 81 cents Of lard, and obtain a
ticket for the remaining q cents.
He can hand the ice man a nickel
an 1 get q cents worth OF ice and a
ticket for the same amount Of ice.
This system is exceedingly handy
and convenient to the poor, who
have to make their money go as
far as possible.
The same system would be ham
DIV and convenient in San Antonio
and would not be disadvantageous
to retail dealers.
At the existing price for eigh-
teen ounces of bread, it requires
cents to purchase days supply Of
bread, for small family, whereas,
if it was sold at the New Orleans
price d cents, he would get two
loaves, enough for two days con-
sumption. Here would be real
gain to the consumer Of bread.
The visit of the Wisconsin edi-
tors to San Antonio showed the
necessity OF organizing club, or
board, whose special duty 1t shall
be to advertise the climatic advan-
tages of San Antonio as a winter
residence and a health resort and
to receive and look after such capt.
talists, public bodies and visitors
as may come to our city.
But for the energetic efforts OF
Capt. Mackey on the day Of the ar
rival Of the Wisconsin editors no
steps at all would have been taken
towards showing those editors over