The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-11
VOICE OF THE PRESS.


mony in the Russell trial smacked OF Star
route villainy.
Fort Worth Democrat The most dis
tinguished liars of the age have rallied to the
assistance Of Dorsey in the Star route trial.
The Pearssll News says nothing would con-
than direct railway communication with the
gulf.
| Waco Examiner: The Legislature ought
at least to be able to adjourn prettily soon.
1t seems to stumble at everything else that is
important.
The Brazos Pilot thinks that grand juries
and petit juries are indispensable and will
always be needed in the enforcement Of GRIM
inal laws.
Cleburne Chronicle The lobby ought to
be killed out at all hazards. A good plan
would be to do the opposite of what the
lobby wants done on all occasions.
Austin County Times: Now that the
Legislature has refused to ratify the peniten-
tiary lease, it remains for action to be taken
relative to their management, and syste-
matte method Of working them be prescribed.
New York Times: If Judge Gresham
shall fulfill the promise which his previous
career holds out. he will contribute to the ad-
ministration precisely that strength which
the country will be very glad to see it pos
sess.
Texas Siftings: The refusal of the Texas
Legislature to reduce the tax on occup a tons,
from which one third of the entire State rev.
enue has been raised is likely to prove an
uniavorable advertisement for a State Of such
vast and growing resources.
Galveston News With the advance of
Southern agriculture in variety of products
more persons and greater capital will be occu-
pied with special husbandries and relatively
fewer persons and less capital engaged in the
exclusive production Of cotton.
Lampasas Daily Globe: The prospects
for another good fruit crop in Texas are
promising at present. The late season has
greatly retarded the opening of fruit buds,
and gives the young fruit better chance to
escape the frosts that often occur in March.
Gainesville Independent: Our solons at
Austin might give additional testimony of
their devotion TO grateful constituency by
giving black eye to the tariff robbery. A
little memorial for instance, in the shape of
an expression of their views on the subject to
Congress.
Atlantic Constitution (Democratc): Kel-
logg is getting along in years. He is still try
ing to prove that he is honest. With two
dozen Louisiana witnesses at his back. ready
to swear anything on earth, il is little singu-
Ia hat X sll0oc should he al 70 t.
Geographic cards.
Mexia Ledger: We were astonished to
see the efforts some of our solons made when
the appropriation bill was up for considera-
ton to cut down to the smallest ratio the APP
preparation for the care of the deaf and dumb
and the insane, who, heaven knows, have
suffered enough already on account of the
neglect or avarice of somebody.
Boston Herald: The old Puritan Sunday
is gone, and it cannot be restored by arresting
concert singers for "Sabbath breaking or by
any other legal device. Sunday laws, like
other enactments, must be sustained by the
moral sense Of the community or they will be
dead letters. II is for Connecticut to say how
far the old laws shall be modified in the interest
of the greatest good TO the greatest number.
Washing on Republican: Where was Pre-
sident Tilden while the alleged usurper Hayes
was sloshing about, as our morning neighbor
charges, in a stolen Officer Did he ever
make move to assert his title If he was
elected, as is claimed, he was a traitor to his
country to allow his place to be occupied I'M
challenged for four years by pretender. We
owe our neighbor one for SO fresh and savory
a topic.
New York Herald: England has her
Nihlists and the sooner she recognizes that
they are an infinitely more dangerous and
venomous breed than those of Russia the
sooner she will take effective measures to get
rid of them. For our own part we believe
they are so safely intrenched behind the real
grievances which afflict their country they
will never be destroyed until those grievan-
ces are righted. The war has now been
fairly begun and must 60 on pitilessly to the
end.
Cincinnati Times-Star: By summarily
breaking up the Socialist Congress at Copen-
hagen, and warning the delegates to gather
their grip sacks and 60, the King Of Denmark
takes his place among the crowned towards
OF Europe. These men had gathered peacea-
hip, and, whatever incendiary acts or Lam
guage they may have meditated, they are not
reported to have INDUCED in violent threats or
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