The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-17
Wednesday, May II, 'S2.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
THE Comanche Chief wants "lberal,
conservative representative" from the 10Th
district-a sort Of big Ingun-heap fellow, we
suppose.
Bob INGERsoLL went on Still. Russelrs
b ond Bob has his hands full these days
vouching for people who get into trouble with
the government.
THE Galveston Civilian notes its ''two score
and four" anniversary. The Civilian is the
only paper in the state that keeps the last
democratic state platform standing. 1t is
regular old bourbon.
THE Comanche Chief thinks that COL Ter
reD deserved rebuke for knocking Buck Wal
ton down, and adds if Terrell can't control his
temper he isn't fit to hold an Office. This
closes Terrell out of the contest for congress
evidently.
IT is announced that Governor Roberts has
stated authoritatively that he will not be
candidate for reelection. This might be
source of some encouragement to other asplr-
ants, were it not that in declining Roberts
puts himself in the strongest position possible
for the nomination as a dark horse. He may
be sincere but his refusal may be, on the other
hand, only master stroke Of strategy. Thrice
Caesar refused the crown, but took it finally,
all the same.-[Waco Examiner.
1t is now quite certain that the o. a. is work
ing like badger for the nomination.
THE coroner of St. Louis has compiled an
official suicidal record of interest to the public
By the tests of two successive years he proves
that German-Americans are most given to
suicide. The fact is, religious sentiment seems
to have very little to do with the cause. 1t is
not the future life that loads the mind with
anxiety it can not bear, it is the tireless, I'M
renting struggle with this one. In the stag
gering walks of drunkenness, and amid the
squalor of neglected homes, comes the weired
singer Of the dirge. 1t is pitiful that even age
can not wait for time to do its Office, that
youth, in life's morning, finds all the glory of
the world faded and gone. Much is wrong in
the way of living and much in the motive-we
do not live with the right purposes in view.
THERE need perhaps be no serious alarm
at the aspect Of the woman suffrage question.
The senate committee promise a report in its
favor. But the probability is that the promised
report is mere signal of surrender on the
part Of the committee, with their backs to the
wall. But every question, even woman suf-
frage, has its positive elements. We do not
believe that the measure has its source in pa
triotism or is going to advance good morals.
We are not going to give away the country
even to the republican party. The one use
which should not be made of our women is to
make voters of them. OF those who are frugal
wives and happy mothers it will not be posi-
BILE to make voters. 1t is the grosser element
lowering on the confines of sex that the re.
source of the politician seeks to find converta-
BILE. And it is no doubt the direction in which
to look for whatever lower abasement, not YET
discovered, party politics is likely to find. The
senate will doubtless adjourn shortly, and
sleep for season on woman suffrage.
The statement that there is large class Of
people who exult in long mortuary lists, on
account of their apprehension that the world
may become over-peopled, will be received
with incredibly by many. Yet there is. nc
doubt of the fact. We have known physicians
who reconciled themselves to the disasters
always happening to their patients, by the re
Election that the world will not be overstocket
through their agency.
We are not without some recognition o
such possibility, although the present popula
ton Of the earth might be many times multi
piled, with advantage to all, before We should
tread upon the threshold of such danger
PROFESSIONALLY as science progresses, ant
human intelligence improves the conditions G
living, there will be diminution of the rati
of deaths. The population of the earth wi
double and quadruple in the centuries ahead
famines, epidemics, casualties becoming NOR
rare; yet just in the degree of such improve
ment will the human race have improved. be
coming more refined, and requiring proper
tionately less to support life. 1t may not be
bad thing for all persons to do the best the
can for themselves and their neighbors, an
leave as much as possible to Providence tn
supervision and care Of mortuary events.