The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-08-24

THE Greenvlle Banner coTecls the LIGHT
in the statement that the only Greenback
paper in Texas suspended, and says " "The
Cass County Sun, which was the first paper
in Texas to espouse Greenbackism, still lives
a nd seems to be healthy sheet"
THE New York Tribune, in an article on
money in politics, says "The Democrats
are merely making themselves ridiculous about
the Indiana campaign OF 1880. They used all
the money they could extort from Mr.. Eng
lish, candidate for Vice-President, for the
purpose Of commanding large sum of money
for use in Indiana. They used all the money
they could get from any quarter, as Mr..
Seven Mule Barnum can testify. They did
not carry the State because its majority of
voters did not want to put the free trade
Democracy into power and because the Re-
publicans had as good or better arrangements
or bringing out full vote. Thereupon, ac-
cording to their cry baby custom, the Demo-
Gratis complained Of fraud.
A PEKIN correspondent of Calcutta paper
says there is in China powerful and rapidly
growing party that advocates the making Of
yet another gigantic excursion toward the land
OF the setting sun. The Celestial empire is,
no doubt, immensely overpopulated, and will
probably, ere long, seek some new outlet for
her surplus citizens, but it is difficult to believe
that she will attempt, save by peaceful means,
to attain the desired result. The great I'M
known country has been quiesceDt for SO long
that it is almost impossible for European to
contemplate that the sleeping myriads should
ever again put forth their hercuean strength
Yet, if China were to awake; if she were to
look westward with covetous glance, and
were to once more burst her bounds, in re-
Spouse to that mysterious impulse which, in
the East, occasionally seizes upon whole
people-how could she be resisted Accord
ing to the last edition Of the Bevolhkerung der
Erde, she has population of 434, 600 900, and
supposng that estiT ate--for it is only an esti-
mate-to be even approximately correct, China
could put into the field more soldiers than
there are souls in Germany, and, If she SO
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all the civilization OF Europe beneath her feet.
COMMANDER exert, of the Western
Union, strong in power and privilege, but,
like most tyrants, signally weak in discretion,
was called upon by committee appointed at
ageneral meeting Of operators and linemen,
held at Clarrindon hall in New York, on the
18th instant, to ask upon what terms an adj
justment could be had, or, in their own words,
what conditions of re-eDgagement there were
for any men disposed to return. The money
despot, always the meanest and most ignoble
despot in the world, slaughtered and came
Immediately to his natural level. lie stated
arogantly the intention OF the Western
Union to avail itself Of all appliances for
establishing such control over its employees
as would prevent future strikes, as had been
done in 1870, when the "iron-clsd oath" was
administered. BY this oath members who
were constrained to submit, bound themselves
never again to participate in any strike or like
measure of hostility towards the monopoly. In
other words, they were made to swear ava,
the indeieasable right Of all men which had
then been invoked, to resist tyranny and CD.
preston. President Eckert declared that nc
man who had taken that oath "a years age
'sshould ever again darken the doors" of the