San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-20
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advantages of San Antonio as a
winter and health resort than all
the clubs and other organizations,
supposed to have been gotten up
for that special purpose.
The LIGHT has numerous eX-
changes in the north and north
west, and no doubt many persons
in those sections read the LIGHT
and see what it says in behalf of
San Antonio.
When thing is printed in a
newspaper, it is Sown on the wings
Of the wind and is borne to every
nook and corner of the country.
1t is high time steps were taken
to fully advertise the unequalled
climatic conditions and advanta-
ges of San Antonio as a winter
and health resort. Our city would
now be several millions of dollars
better off had this advertising been
done sometime ago.
But "it is better late than never"
and the matter should be attended
to at once. Let our business men
and real estate owners combine and
raise a fund for this specific pur-
pose, and if they really want to
have our city fully advertised, let
them appoint a COMMITTEE to see it
done. "What is everybody's bust
ness is nobody's business"
1t is vitality important that San
Antonio should shake off her
lethargy and act with vim and
energy.
1t is possible for her to obviate
the injurious consequences of her
past lethargy by her present activ-
ity and energy. AT any rate she
should make the effort to counter
act the i'll effects of her past
| Stupor.
While dozens of counties in
Texas have held quite creditable
fairs this fall, San Antonio has
not had fair for five years, and
has not had one this fall. Yet she
is the largest city in Texas and ex-
ceeds all her rivals in the amount
of the assessAble value of her
property.
Does this state of things proceed
from the closefistedness,or from the
disunion of our businessmen and
capitalists? Or does it arise from
the neglect or apathy of the public
bodies to which the care and super
vision ofsuch enterprises was dele
gated. Without doubt, there is a
screw loose somewhere in the
machinery.
Dallas has fair every year;
while San Antonio has not had
one in five years and does not APP
pear likely to have another. Let
us find out the cause of this condi-
ton of things and pull of our
coats, roll up our sleeves, grit our
teeth and go to word to remove
such cause.
Who is to blame for San Anto.
MOS not having had a fair since
1890? Has it come from the close
fistedness of our business men, or
from their want of concert of ac-
ton and unity Of purpose.
1t is the duty of every citizen of
San Antonio to talk for this city.
to work for this city, and to cham
pion every scheme and enterprise
likely to push his city ahead.
There is work for every citizen
to do.
Why could not San Antonio
have an exposition just as well as
Atlanta? If the truth must be
told, and it has now become neces-
sary to have plain words, plainly
spoken, we have not the same de-
gree of unity of purpose, concert of
action, vim, pluck, and enterprise,
which Atlanta can boast of. Nor
have we citizens with vim and
energy enough to carry such a
scheme into execution.
San Antonio must move forward.
To stand still is to be distauced in |
the race.
Place new men at the helm
We run no hazard in taking such |
set of men can doze |
What we need is push,
vim and energy, and in order to
obtain them, the train must have
a new fireman, a new engineer and
a new conductor.
Our public.bodies should be re-
and vim, energy and
be infused into them. Any
body can lie on his back, with
hands folded, and do nothing. San
has had a surfeit of do
and "masterly mac
tivity," and needs the opposite
policy.
The paramount object is to push,
shove and drag San Antonio out of
the nine hole and start her on n