San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-02
DALLAS IS SLIPPING

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Is slipping rapidly as trade and popu-
iation center, it is furnished by the et-
forts apparently put forth to invade San
Antonio during trade week in an at
tempt to divert buyers from this city
to Dallas
!. 1t has been apparent to business men
of San Antonio for some years that the
Dallas jobbers were supporting Dallas
organ in San Antonio under the guise
of an alleged San Antonio newspaper
publishing therein, special Dallas sec
ton as prelude to San Antonio Trade
Week. When in addition, Dallas bust
! 'css men find it necessary actually to
wade San Antonio with offers of free
transportation, hotel expenses and other
Amoluments in order to get business, it
fairly indicative that business in Dali
S9taasss.s in a hard way.
) The San Antonio Light has never
Believed in rivalry between cities and
towns other than a friendly sort of COM
petition which stimulates industry and
development. But when it comes to
Standing for the commercial interests
and the fair name of San Antonio, this
Newspaper is never loath to do its duty
without fear or favor. Hence it has
no qualms in telling Dallas and Dallas
business men that they are playing a
losing game. Not only is San Antonio's
Trade Week we'll attended by mer-
chants from San Antonio's trade terri
tory but they are finding that they can
buy here to better advantage than they
eo,ld buy in Dallas or anywhere else.
Moreover they are being entertained i'll
San Antonio as guests OF the city with
out shabby ostcntation or cheap induce
fnent. They are not that class of people
as Dallas probably will discover even
fually.
& 1t might interest the business men OF
Dallas to know that San Antonio has
prged ahead quietly, sanely and fairly
10 position not only first in popula-
tion which she always has been. but first
Il commerce and industry. From oil
to merchandising, San Antonio ranks at
fhe head OF the list today in Texas, a
metropolis in fact as in name
sSan Antonio was a city before Dali
Is was dreamed OF; San Antonio will be
a city when Dallas is forgotten. San
Antonio dominated the routes of south
western trade before Dallas was borr
md San Antonio will dominate the
5rteries OF southwestern commerce after
Dallas has withered and died
"a great natural strategic, business To-
cation called San Antonio into being
hack in the dim days OF pioneer Amer
ia. Dallas was put on the map by
artifice in an attempt to make a rail
road terminal where nature never i'll
tended commerce should flow
San Antonio stands today as always
the great center of trade, traffic, com
1nerce and population for all that vas
cxpanse of country from the Red Rive
at the North to the far southern mesa
Of Mexico We have builded her
through generations, the greatest cdu
cational center of the South. San An
tonic is a, city OF peerless climate, beau
tiful homes, wealth, refinement and in
dustry. The commerce OF San Antoni
has been built upon generations OF fai
dealings and honest merchandising
ample capital and capable merchant!
The trade that San Antonio invites her
on Trade Week is not the cheap, tinse
migratory commerce with which Dalla
is accustomed to dealing. 1t is a trad
built upon reputation, association