San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-04
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The zone thing needful" for San
Antonio is perennial fund OF
hopefulness, pluck, enterprise, and
liberality sufficient to back them
up. But it is a lamentable fact,
that San Antonio is deficient In
the above qualities, who are so in
dispensable to her future growth
and prosperity.
Our city needs club, or society
for the purpose of advertising the
various advantages possessed by
San Antonio, as a winter and
health resort, and of corresponding
with capitalists and manufacturers
in other states. All admit the alb
solute need of such a club, but
there they stop stock-still, like a
mule who has taken the studs.
Nobody has set to work to or
ganize such club. Our business
men, real estate brokers, hotels,
boarding houses and street car
companies could and should or
ganize such a club, but they are as
hard to move and thaw out as is a
torpid snake in winter.
Each one waits for some one else
to "start the ball." and thus is real
lied the old saying, that "what is
everybody's business is nobody's
business" since nothing is done in
this important matter.
Self interest should impel our
business men, hotels, street car
companies, etc, to strain every
nerve to increase the business, pop
ulation and wealth of San Antonio.
The policy Of "masterly inactivity"
may do in diplomacy but it will
kill a town or city in a few years.
San Antonio owes it to herself to
grid up her loins and to go to work
in earnest to secure the building Of
the projected railroad to Browns
vile and the completion of the al
ready graded railroad from Com
fort to Llano. These two roads
could largely extend and increase
her trade as well as make her the
greatest railroad centre in South
west Texas.
The present moment is the prop
er time for making the necessary
arrangements for fair here in
1895, but no step in that direction
has been taken. Have our citizens
given up the idea Of holding a fair
in our city, and made up their
minds not to make any effort to
push San Antonio ahead in the
race for population, business and
wealth?
The supineness and Indifference
shown by our citizens to the
growth Of our beautiful city is
hurting and will hurt it for years.
A live and progressive town at
tracts population and wealth, be.
cause such a town gives promise of
future growth with all the advan.
tages flowing from 1t, but supine
and unprogressive city repels pop.
ulation and wealth more than PEG.
pie imagine.
San Antonio should spare no
pains Ito secure the location of a
wooden mill, a cotton mill and a
tan yard in her midst, With pro-
per effort, she could undoubtedly
obtain them. She wants to increase
her tin bucket brigade. The pay ing
out.of 100000 a month to wage
workers would have the happiest
effect on the business and growth
of our city.
The LIGHT has been diligent, in
season and out of season, in exploit
ing and backing up all projects cal
culated to contribute to the growth
and prosperity of San Antonio,
from a conviction that the LIGHT
would itself be essentially benefit
ted by such growth and prosperity
The present is critical time in
the life Of San Antonio. Vim.
pluck, enterprise and liberality
will give powerful impetus to her
growth in business, population and
wealth, while the lack Of them will
check her growth for years to come.
Are there not to be found, in our
city, half a dozen gentlemen OF
vim, public spirit, enterprise and
liberality who will take the lead
in pushing forward everything
calculated to stimulate the growth
of the city in business population
and wealth? If so they might
leaven and quicken those who are
supine, unprogressive, and be able
to atone for the passivity and in