The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-11-24

Business Manager.
Entered at postoiiice at San Antonio, Texas,
rs secOnd-class matter.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER "a. 1883.
THE Galveston Print is responsible for the
statement that, without counting the members
Of the Legislature, there are 1000 lunatics out
side the walls OF the asylum.
WE HAVE received the first number Of the
the new Republican paper started at Calves
ton. 1t may improve with age, but the initial
number shows but little CRASH and vigor.
SoMR WICKED fellow has started the report
that the fence cutters are hired by the manu-
facturers Of barbed wire to cut fences so that
they can sell wire. Monopoly is target for
everybody.
THE Houston Age enjoys reputation,
which is utterly disproportioned to the dis
play of brains in its columns. 1t is about as
"dull as the lake that slumbers in the
storm"
A POWERFUL influence is being brought to
get Morrill, to withdraw his resignation, and
the old man informs his friends that his health
is steadily improving. So we may have had
much ado about nothing.
THE Democratic party in Louisiana is
divided into the McEnnery and Ogden fac
tons, and are in fierce struggle, which will
leave many scars behind. II they would only
make "Killkenny cat fght' Oft, we should
break into the doAology.
LET the battle cry be free thought, free
speech, reform honest elections, and "a
Government of the people, by the people, for
the people," and then bosses, cliques, eau
cuses and rings will have to ''retire into their
holes and pull them in after them"
Mr.. JRFFERsoN's motto was, terror Of
opinion may be tolerated, while reason is left
free to combat it," Modern Democracy saws;
Critic Using the Democratic party and oppos-
ing machine politics is disloyalty and treason.
Quite wide gap between Mr.. Jefferson and
his putatiye followers Of 1883.
Tom BOWERS, in the Pamela Watchman,
says: 1.-THE university fraud at Austin now
numbers 1875 students. This is los rich Oh
well to do students that are being given q
finished education at the expense Of the poor
hard-working boys OF the State. In Texas
the poor labor to educate and make sof
places for the rich"
THE FIRST sprighty runnings" from tn,
barrel of the Texas Siftings have been ex
hausted, and the bees have about beer
reached. The humorous fund in men is /
pool, not perennial spring, and consequent
ly is soon dried up, where it is dipped from
constantly. Farce and caricature, without tn,
dissolvent Of humor, soon pail on the taste o
degenerate into malignity.
PLANTING pecans would pay handsomel,
alter the trees commenced bearing. Eros
and drought do not hurt them. An orchar,
of 50 acres Of bearing pecan trees would bea
an orange orchard of the same size all hol
low ; indeed would be more profitable tha
most stock ranches. Men who own Ian
adapted to their growth should plant pecan
every year-they would enrich their children
AN oLIGARcHY is the deadly enemy o
public and private liberty, and should not b
tolerated by free people. A minority i
the Democratic party through convention
machinery and fraud in elections, rules an
governs in every Southern State, and is i
reality an oligarchy in the proper sense {
the term. We believe the majority of tn
Democrats are as patriotic as any people, an
are opposed to machine politics." but the
submit tamely to the bosses and their rings.