The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-11-26

figures, the complains has a solid foundation.
The persons who will be content with reason
able profits, who will act on the rule Of olive
and let i've" would very soon draw all the
trade and custom and grow rich.
Wa ARR at all times for giving the devil his
due, since he has many slaves but no friends.
The unearthing Of the siekehing rascalities
and peculations Of the Tweed ring was not the
work Of either Samuel ]. Tilden or Charles
O'Connor, but OF the newspapers Of New
York. and they should not be robbed in order
to deck the brow Of Tilden with unearthed
laurels. The New York Times and the
Herald fshed out the frauds and rnscalities Of
the Tweed ring, and should have the credit
Tweed was a Democrat and the chief OF
Tammany, but the Democratic papers do not
mention this damaging fact, nor the further
fact that in 1861 Tilden, though now worth
$1,000, 900, was a poor man. How can a
lawyer make such a pile He is the only
lawyer in the United States who has done so
well, and that is the trouble.
THERE is not particle Of doubt but that
San Antonio requires drainage and sewerage.
Boh health and prosperity depend on these
two things, and we cannot believe the citizens
Of San ;Antonio are penny wise and pound
foolish" or are stolidly indifferent to the
future growth and prosperity Of their city. 1t
is a self-evident proposition that the healhiul-
ness Of our city will have much to do with its
future growth. In order to secure sewerage
the city must issue bonds to mature in ten or
twenty years, and this can only be done by
preliminary vote Of the people. The growth
Of the city will render the payment Of these
bonds an easy matter, for, at the end Of
twenty years, San Antonio ought to have
population OF 6o,ooo souls and the value of
property will be quadrupled. When a meas
ure is palpaby necessary men OF common
sense do not shut their eyes TO the facts around
them, and hence, our opinion is that the
people will vote TO issue bonds to secure the
health Of the city and put malarial. diseases
out Of the question. The LIGHT has faith in
the good sense and patriotism OF the people,
when they are left free to think and act for
themselves, and are not misled by dema-
gogues and machine politicians. No more
bonds than are absolutely necessary should
be issued for we do not want TO enrich the
leeches that generally suck the life blood out
Of the people, and hang around municipal
corporations TO pick up "iat takes" to speak
in printers language. While the sewerage
should be planned and considered as an en-.
tire system it need not all be executed at
once, some Of the branch sewers might be left
for future construction.
THE newspapers of Texas will compare
most favorably with those in other States, in
ability, decency, enterprise and good taste.
or course they lack the facilities enjoyed by
Northern papers and often are scant OF both
money and printers, but after making allow
ances for these disadvantages, which are incl
dent to all countries, situated as Texas is, the
press Of Texas is a credit to the State. Every
editor should have high sense Of dignity Of
his profession and Of its power for good, or
evil, and should labor to maintain this dignity,
unimpaire1. We have a poor opinion of
man who depreciates and disparages his pro-
fession or calling. Some newspapers in
Texas lower the dignity Of the press and cor
rupt the taste Of the public, by ndulging in
billingsgate towards their brethren upon &C.
casion of the slightest difference. The gen.
tleman has his dialect, and the BLACKBOARD
also has his, and the speech of each 'be-
trayeth him." When the LIGHT discovers
that newspaper is edited by backyard,
it acts towards 1t just as il would do towards
skunk it happened to encounter-avoids it.
Then, some editors are touchy, testy, con-
tentous, thin-skinned, presumpdous, vain
and self-conoeited, and morally sure they
have more knowledge, wisdom, wit and hu-
NOR than all the rest Of the world, and, Of
course, they resent every alluson to them,
and grow abusive over every difference Of
opinion, even upon irifing matters. Such
men are out ofplace in journalism and greatly
detract from its dignity and usefulness. Edi-
tors should write like gentlemen, and not like
blackguards and rowdies. Because a person
differs from US, is no reason for our regarding
him as fool and knave, and drenching
him with bilge water and mud.
The city Of San Antonio being already sup
piled with National banks and wealthy private
bankers, and as banks give employment to
but handful Of men, we regret that Mr..
Harrison, of Jefferson, did not invest his half
million in wooden and cotton factory, near
our city, on the San Antonio river. They
would have paid as good dividends as bank
and, moreover, would have given employment
to hundreds who are now unable to obtain
wages. Poor women and children find il very
difficult to procure employment suitable for
them, and are often warped out of the path Of
rectitude by poverty and want. Human
charity very often comes too late to save, or
to really assist, and people of any pride shrink
from applying to persons whose own observa-