The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-10

not recognize but little more than score OF
patrons by reason Of its political faith. There
is plenty OF room for the LIGHT 10 Texas, and
II will at all times endesvor to merit the good
esteem Of It's neighbors.
MAYOR FRrscH's reply to the report of the
grand jury, censuripg the city officials, is
very plain and sensible statement Of the facts,
and throws considerable light upon subject
that every citizen is interested in. 1t in sub
stance is very much the experience peculiar
to newspapers, where some one rushes in and
wants the paper to pelt some fellow over the
eye for some fancied shortening, and then
leaves the editor to take consequences. The
county officials are as much interested and as
deeply responsible for the enforcement OF the
law as are the city officials, and they should
bear just proportion Of whatever blame is
attached for the non-enforcement Of any
statute relating to crime or misdemeanors.
The Mayor is right when he suggests that the
city authorities are not the only ones at fault.
A square deal Is all tnat Is neeueu.
THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in an
article on the development aud progress OF
Texas, says: 1.-THE rapid development Of the
State is the best argument that can be brought
forward in favor Of Texas, and it is powerful
one. 1t furnishes the most remarkable spec
tacle in that direction that is supplied by the
world. Chicago as an illustration Of sudden
metropolitan growth is not more notable than
that Of Texas as commonwealth. Railroads
have multiplied in the State with unparalleled
celebrity. The population has more than
doubled in 10 years. The last apportionnent
gave her II members Of Congress, when pre-
viously she had but six, and as this increase
was based on the census of 1880, she certaisly
is entitled to more now. So that notwith-
standing the occurrence Of occasional out
breaks there 10 a very large residum for the
Texans to be proud Of. And no set Of people
can regard the growth Of the State with greater
satisfaction than St. Louis, for it means also
the business growth Of the latter. The central
point Of the Texan system Of railways is here.
ST. Louis is the entrepot between Texas and
the North and East. We certainly have a
warm side for Texas"
UNDER the head Of "a Strayed Idea
Found" the Navasota Tablet philosophers as
follows: "'To err is human-to forgive is
divine is an old adage that has had some cur
rency, among mankind, for an age or more,
and the very dignity OF its longevity shows
how long rank and glazing error may live in
the world. This erroneous idea, masquerade
ing in a glittering garb OF words, has survived
the ravages and corrections of time and the
revolutions Of thought, in the immediate
midst Of human experiences and observations,
while its antithesis the true idea, was appar-
emily forever lost, havisg strayed off under the
cover Of the dark ages, int some secluded
nook in the bleak realms OF oblivion. 1t re-
quired but brief excursion Of thought to re-
cover it. 1t is difficult, however, to divorce
from humankind an error to which il has been
matrimonially allied ever since cleaning an
tiquity. 1t may not, therefore, be reasonably
expected, in the light Of historic logic, that
the new recovered idea will displace its beauti.
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