The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
Monday, April II. 'S2
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

reported in Florida, where Bishop falne, OF
the African church, was put Oft a tram at MD
night after having purchased iIrSt-class
ticket. Fred Douglass and delegation OF
ministers called on Mr.. Brewster, attorney
general, to complain of the outrage.
IT IS an inquiry of pith and moment what is
to be done to take from that waddling piece OF
fustian humanity, designated Jay Gould, ao-
solute control over the telegraph privileges of
the United States. This man is to-day, where
he stands in New York, master OF every wire
in this country and of the two cables winch
have their termini here. No one who knows
the unscrupulous monopolst, or realizes the
extent of his greed and rapaclty Will doubt the
eaeerness with which he will use every apPh-
ance at his command in the interest OF selfish
ness and oppression. He is buying up every
thing, mines, press associations and ne"sPa-
pers with a view to consolidating his control,
and will stop only when he is shut down upon
by some herculean power competent to daze
his unfaltering insolenCe, and his undy-
ing faith in the perfect frailty of every man and
corpora,ion that can be baited with the shining
ineots from his house of gold. There is but
one power that can stay this overreaching hand
that would grasp all, and that is the power o.
congress. The telegraph is part OF many OF
our municipal, why not of our federal govern
ment: Let it be run as an adjunct to the post
office and keep this monster from his spoil.
OLIVE LOGAN resides with much apparent
permanence in London. In whatever burg
Olive resides there is sure to be agitation IN
the brain centerS that hove! about her, and
cover the face of society with little intellectual
pot pouris of delight and fashion. 1t is thus
that Olive has taken to reporting social mama,
of which a notable kind is having ones hand
photographed, and mold made of it; and
not of hands only, but bodieS-the human
form divine. These remain with the uphols-
terers, whatever called, who fit G loves and
garments to them without the very trying
.strying on" and thus abreviate the dlstresseS
Of the social maniac.
But to change the subject, is Olive aware
that Anna Dickinson has got out OF her Ham
let's male gear, and has thrown herself wildly
into Anne Boleyn, producing sensation un-
paraleed for the depth and vigor OF its dis
gust. 1t is said that Anna makes OF Anne a
virago unrvalled in fact or fiction, and the
stage problem is how to get it of without
bringing Hamlet back. If the social maniaCs
OF London town can spare Olive she ought to
come home. That's the truth.
THE ST. Louis Post-Dispatch deals roughly
with the governor OF Missouri. 1t has pulled
out the corner stone of American liberty to
perch on. while it calls loudly for the indict,
ment of the governor by the next grand jury Of
the county, and his impeachment by the leg,
islature. That the governor in his private
capacity has over-stePped the bounds Of Off
cial action is not as we see it, an asSumpSi
that supports the P.-D. in its demand for i'm
parchment. The grounds for Impeachment
must be found within the circle of his oficia
acts. And as for indictment We are not aware
that the offending governor has done more
since the killing by the Fords, than to excus,
or Justify it. fit be not excusable or juStiha
BILE homicide it is somebody's murder, anC
the governor has not made it more or less 81
by what he has said. 1t has single point t
it, which is whether Jesse James could hav
been taken alive; and as a legal point, it j
enough to say Of it that all pretenses that h
could not have been tai en- alive are idle wher
cast in the face of obvious legal facts. "
proof is legally admissible on the point ex
cepting of an attempt and failure to take him
He had disarmed himself before the eyes O
his assailants. Why might they not hav
been his caprors-they had his pistols In tn
absence of any effort to take the man pris
oner which IS the evidence demanded, a
secondary evidence is bosh and all argumen
but CANNON. The governor seems to Us t
be implicated only through the passages of
Iabuinthine and very intricate hypothesis.
remains as a surmise, and is not an admiSsabl
one under the egis of his proc amatior
that he deliberately bargained for the KILN
of lanes without an attempt to take him. Tn
Law itself sits down on all such presumption