The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-23

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Friday June %. 1882.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
"RoBRRTs BY ACCLAMATIoN," is the war
CIV of the Galveston News.
THE bill to extend charters of national banks
has passed the U. S. senate.
THE Mason county democracy have de-
clared in favor of free trade. Democracy
should do so in every county to be consistent
If HUTCHINSON or Nancy will run against the
democratic nominee in the Seguin district for
congress, we believe the r. d. N. can be
beaten.
THE Express is not regular democratic
organ like the Times, hence its introduction OF
Judge Devne to the public can be declared
unauthorized.
THE Express brings out Judge Devine for
governor He lives further west than Ireland,
but his my policy is said to be located fur
Their east Anything to beat Ireland, is the
motto of the Express.
THE Colorado Citizen is not at all compli-
mentary to Miller and Moore for contesting
for the congressional nomination against
Wells Thompson. The fact is, better man,
one more honorable to the people can be
found than all three of them put together.
THE Times, of our city, takes Mr.. Finlay to
task for his tariff ideas. The Times says:
"His assertion that to remove tariff on wool
would cause all the sheep to be driven out Of
the country within one year is too absurd to
need any refutation. To assume as much is
equivalent to the assumption that our people
who handle the sheep and wool business are
worthless and not capable of succeeding with
out the aid ofgovernment, in business which
the people of other nations have grown rich in
without the aid of tariff. Such argument is an
insult to the intelligence and manhood OF Fin
Laws constituents, and the use of such extra
VACANT declarations not only proves him quite
ignorant Of the subject of tariff but it also
proves him to be demagogue.'
Then Epson is a demagogue, too. You
will have to swallow tariff or defeat.
THE despairing moralist and friend of hu-
manity who has been for some time catching
at straws must not let himself be duped into
accepting the failure of the Mrs. Jesse James
lecture as a token that depravity has lost any
of its attraction, or the taste for vicious deeds
and displays, its prevalence; or that it prom.
Uses any fruit beyond the disappointment that
has befallen Mrs. Jesse James. Nor may he
enen gather comfort from the thought that the
spectacle of the widow and children of no.
torious murderer posing with such serene au'
dacity before the public disguised anybody
The simple fact is, that the lecture which the
lady delivered by her proxy, youth of some
literary expectations in the line of the new
novelette, warranted to provide murderer il
every chapter, was tame compilation of The
mans felonies got from the newspapers witt
a striking absence of the sensational, and M
more life than is found in police annals. Th
despairing moralist and friend Of humanit,
will find nothing to tie to in the Mrs. Jess
James discontinue.
The Buffalo Express tells the following stor
Of Mr. Simon Wolf, the late American Consu