The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-05
Friday, May 5. 1882.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

independents.
THE old alcalde is accredited with the as
sertion that he will retire from public lie with
the close of his term of office. 1t seems too
good to be true.
THE star route cases are coming INTO no.
toriety in consequence of Bob lngersoll calling
prosecuting attorney Bliss "a liar IN open
court. Ingersoll failed to produce Dorsey as
he had promised to do, and Bliss called attcn-
ton to the fact.
THE special Washington correspondent OF
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, OF the 27th
ult, says last night the president and
party of higher officials started down the river
to attend the graduating exercises OF the Ar
tllery school at Fortress Monroe" which
would signify tina, the president being the
HIGHEST official is a constitutional fiction. We
don't believe it.
TIN Rrenham Banner remarks: "The
Galveston News, very correctly, condems the
action of the San Antonio officers in timing
CITY official on SIS for making what apparently
seems an unprovoKe ed attack upon the editor
of the LIGHT for crticising his official acts.
If the newspapers can not be allowed to crlll-
else the official acts Of public servants, things
have certainly come to pretty pass.
NEW YORK has up now the perpetually re-
curing issue between bienniel and annual ses-
sions of state legislature. This question has
been always being decided somewhere during
the last forty years, and yet no question Is
more thoroughly undecided everywhere. The
rule seems to be to change, as New York
doubtless now will, adopting the bienniel syS-
TEN which will be the best til il is tried. One
convenience of It is that it can be made annual
by adjournment of the sessions. This is done
in several states.
THE railroads of New York are thrown
into an animated furry on account of the
proposition Of the anti-monopolists to create
a state railroad commission as an advisory
board. Although it is not proposed that the
board, as in Illinois, shall constitute an execu-
tive body the corporations have yet shown
signal ALARM This is a plain confession that
they are afraid of admitting the public TO
knowledge of their affairs; and the reformers
should the more earnestly pursue heirpurpose
until the situation is thoroughly canvasSed. Ii
is hoped that when the political net unwndS
it will catch these fish, and place them under
such control as will remove permanently the
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perpetual menace.
WEArpREMEND that young Belmont, just
before that wild Long Island constituency
sent him to congress, had taken up Dsraelli's
last political romance with his other light read
ing, and is now engaged in preparing for the
world a new "Endymon' in the person of the
Jewish bankers son. He is said to studious-
ly avoid society and wears the air of man Of
great responsibilities. As an attachment to
the Foreign Relations committee he has drawn
largely on the patience of everybody in and
out of congress; and when Mr.. Blaine appear
ed on the scene, from the little singing pest
that worries society he became winged CEN
taur-we call it gallynipper. His father had
better take this young man home and do some
thing for him.
Now after near half century occupied in
female dress reform which was to consist in
abolishing the female skirt and substituting
the Turkish trouser, and which has been final
Iy resolved into single pair Of trousers to
which the angular limbs Of the original Mary
Walker are consigned, along comes a new So
ciety of dress reformers who propose to divide
the female skirt.
Well, what the divided skirt means is to re-
veal glimpses, as we see stars through riffs Of
cloud. of what is behind the skirt the meas
IRE meets with opposition because the unre-
formed woman is not willing 10 keep step TO
the music of now you see it and now you
don't. That is to say the secret and the mys-
terry that lie behind the skirt are not be thus
profaned, dragged from the locked drawer OF
the female mind and tilted on pavements.
II is woman's valuable secret and she will
not give il up till she suTenders her liberty
with il. The new reformers will have to get
out Of the tangle.