San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-21
NOW HE'S sHoUTIN'.
San Antonio People Must Get on a
Quick Move.

vantages which San Antonio will
reap from the location Of the shops
and general offices of the Gulf rail-
road in our city, there is scarcely a
doubt but that the bonus Of 100000
would be subscribed. We must
concentrate public opinion on this
momentous question, in order to
insure concert of action, and to eff
feet this, the advantages to accrue
from the location of the railroad
shops and general offices here,
must be set forth and explained to
the people.
Who will be benefit by such To-
cation? The wholesale and retail
merchants, the grocers, the bakers,
butchers and the mechanics.
Landlords and owners Of real es-
tate will he very considerably
benefited. Let us estimate that
from $4,000 to $4,000 a month,
will be paid out here by the Gulf
railroad and we all know the en-
ployees, to whom such a sum
would he paid, would spend every
dollar of their wages right here in
San Antonio, and that it would en-
ter into circulation Immediately.
The "tin bucket brigade" the
workingmen, build up city more
rapidly and solidly that a dozen
rich men, for the reason that neces-
sity,compels them to expend their
wages in the purchase of the neces-
saries of life, and the result of this
is the money enters at once into
circulation, stimulates trade and
benefits every citizen directly or
indirectly, Is it not perfectly clear
that the putting of $4,000 into cir
culation in San Antonio on the
first of May, would lessen the pres
sure of the hard times and enable
hundreds to pay their debts? This
proposition is so plain as to re.
quire no labored argument to sup.
port it.
If EVERY citizen, who should re-
ceive any of this $4,000 for provi-
sions, goods, wood, milk, butter,
poulty and rent was to utilize such
sum in paying his own debts, and
those to whom he paid would APP
ply it to the payment OF his bebts,
this $4,000 would conCel, in one
day, debts, amounting to 100000.
or $3,000,0OO per month. What ef.
feet would this have? 1t would
ease up things and remove the
pressure of hard time. AS it is, A
cannot pay B, nor can B pay G, and
this is what produces construction
OF the circulation. The historian
Allison employs a most happy
comparison in illustrating the con
strictive effects of a monetary panic.
He says there is the same quantity
of blood in the arteries and veins
of a dead man, that there was when
he was alive, but it does not cirCu
late, and that in the midst of n
panic the amount of money has
suffered no diminution, but its cir
culatiOn has been checked like the |
blood in the dead mans body.
We want to add To the amount |
of money in circulation in San An
tonic, and in order to accomplish
so desirable a result, we must in.
crease our tin-bucket brigade. The
LIGHT disburses most of the
money, which it collects from its
patrons, to It's employees and it,
and this money goes al
once into circulation, and pays
hundreds of small debts. ! cite the
course of the LIGHT to illustrate
my meaning. Newspapers pay of
their employees, weekly, and this
money enters at once into circula-
ton, and is of signal benefit TO
trade.
San Antonio people must realize
the absolute necessity of manifest
ing vim, enterprise, energy, liber-
atty and concert of action. This
is emphatically an age of push, en-
and energy, and our peO-
pie must keep up with the process
sion or plod along hopelessly in
the rear. No city in the Union sur
passes our picturesque city in nat
Iral advantages. Our climatic
are unequalled. Here
health is the rule and sickness an
exception. We are happily exempt
rom miasma and 1malarial dis
eases. Our water supply is derived
rom artesian wells and is the pur-
EST water in the world. Now. let us
ak and act for San Antonio. Let
is secure all the advantages posi-
Die, and obtain all the railroads,
shops and offices possible. Move
Onward must be our motto.
JACOB.