The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-10
Monday, April 10. 'S2
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHs.!'

THE beekeepers hold convention at NC
Kinney on the 18TH inst.
THE fight over the admission of Dakotah
will be genuine party struggle in congress-
LEGISLATION tending to the equalization OF
taxation is the real panacea Tor all the Ills Oh
government.
THE telephone is to be improved SO thai
the voice can be heard loud enough to dc
away with the call bell.
EVEN the blind institution at Austin under
democratic rule has become rotten and nde-
cent.
In VIEW of the length of the o. as message
we might exclaim, in the language OF the good
hook. elbow long, Oh Lord. how long
THE governors message fills seven columns
in Sundays Express and is the largest amount
of original matter that has appeared in that
journal for several months.
A SUITABLE reward will be paid for every
man of sense who will acknowledge to having
read over carefully, line for line, and word Tor
word, of Gov. Roberts message.
THE Express is fearful that Mr.. Wurzbach
intends to bankrupt our county government
by introducing bill to reduce state taxation
to 20 cents. Well, we had better bankrupt
the county than to keep on bankruptns the
people.
THERE is a splendid opportunity for our
legislature to do some good work in the tax
question. The present regulations are oppres-
sive and unwieldy.
In revising our tax laws the Legislature
should consider the question of the burdens O.
policing cities and allow them to have all the
revenue derived from saloon tax and gambling
fines in the limits.
THE custom Of Indians visiting the Great
Father at Washington and having apow-wow,
is disapproved. They don't know what they
want and think more Of the spree than
anything else.
If OUR legislature is going into tax legisa-
ton, let them take the experience OF older
states as guide. The law that works so well
in Vermont would apply to Texas. 1t is an
iron clad assessment law.
A spIENDIpLY dressed woman saw Edwin
Booth in Hamlet She turned to her companion
and asked in the first act, (Which is Shaks-
perez She was told that Shakspere was the
name of the one who had written the play.
H., ubile with air Of in ifferepce
as to the whole thing, she inquired "Well
what is it all about, any way" She didn't
want to see Hamlet without Shakspere in it.
THE Weekly Councillor, homeopathic
publication of Chicago, in commenting upon
the recent action of the New York state med
ical society, says it marks a new era in the
history of medicine. 1t has declared for that
absolute freedom of opinion which will secure
full professional recognition to every legally
qualified practitioner of medicine leaving him
at perfect liberty, so far as the treatment of
the sick is concerned, to follow the dictates of
his own conscience, and to avow publicly, in
such manner as becomes medical gentleman.
his preference for what is called an exclusive
dogma in therapeutics"
Have we no native American Party among
Us? Every generation from time immemori
al, has had its native American Party in some
part of the country. The Native American
Party is not 80 much national, but it is al
ways an outspoken party. 1t springs up If
places where the ''blasted furriner" show!
himself, composed mostly Of the younger pol
iticians, just out Of their teens, who settl,
down to a little business for little while. il
the way OF reforming every vice in the coun
try, abating all the nuisances, establishing il
the public mind a proper recognition Of tn
superiority OF the native American as an oflIc
holder, and after great deal Of condense ed et
fort, having failed to attract anybody notice
it puts out its light. And that is all, till
pops up in some other part Of the big home
stead over which the American eagle spread
himself
Now here comes the Chinaman boundin
over the Pacific, the regulation bill vetoed, T
pitch hot, and no Native American Party.