The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-29

THg Wool Growers convention at St.
Louis was very certain TO make some
remarks on the subject OF n protective
tariff, considering the fact that ex-Con-
gresham Converse. OF Ohio, Is in at
tendance. The question will he some
thing more than side issue in the com
paigns. and especially so in couple Of
Texas districts.
DEMocnNr1c papers, in abiding to the
national iubilation over the election Of
General Logan as Senator from Illinois,
say that State will be- taken out OF the
Republican column in ISIS. The proof
of the pudding, it is alleged, Is in chaw-
ing the bag, and the Democrats will do
well to remember the 3lth district where
Democratic majority of 200 was wiped
out entirely.
TuAG party of Boston capitalists who
have been investigating the question of
establishing n refrigerator company in
san Antonio can verify the natural
query as to whether II would pay by the
success Of the same enterprise in Column
bus. The business is yet in its real In
fancy In Texas. but should oller fine
field for the proltabl Investment Of
capital
TIM managers OF the New Orleans
Worlds Fair want the Citizens commit
tee to call upon the Cabinet Mt Wash
ington and have them reconsider their
decision, to the effect that the Govern
ment exhibits could not remain longer
than the time prescribed In the act Of
Congress. The people of New Orleans
offer to pay all the expenses Of the Gov
ernment exhibits. and If the decision of
the Cabinet is adhered to much dissat-
| isiaction and vexation will be the result
MAYOR GRACE, Of New York, at the
close of his address few days ago, to
the Brewers National convention, said 4:
There Is an intimate connection be-
tween beer and good government, rs
there il between too much whisky, good
and bad and all the crimes against soci-
| ETY. contained in the calender. have
never doubted the efficiency and desira-
bilty of high license laws AS applied to
| the regulation of the liquor traffic; on
| the other hand, | have not hesitated to
avOw my sympathy with all legislation
which d-criminates in favor of the
brewer and consumer Of malt liquors.
believe such discrimination to be IN the
interest Of temperance and good order in
the community as much MS believe that
those Of our Inhabitants, for whom beer
is almost national beverage, are among
the best and most philosophical OF
citizens"
1nk Fort Worth Gazette seems to b,
anxious for the competition with the
Dallas branch Of the Galveston News
but it mt the same time inclined to poke
sticks at the past record of the News on
local issues and says: wonder what
the people of Sabine Pass, Aransas, We
lasco and san Antonio think of the
'shriyeled lOcalism' of Galveston and its
deep water organ: The News says nc
pent-up Utica will constrain it in any
undertaking-no 'shriveled localism, sc
to speak. will be entertained, and Fort
Worth may really expect the Dallas
Galveston News to whoop mp the waxa
hachie tap. Let's see; Did the Calves
ton News ever advocate deep water Al
Sabine, Arkansas or Nelasco, or did Il
ever suggest governmental inyestiga
ton Of the merits of different coas
points; Ordid the News advocate deeI
water at Galveston. oblivious of thai
even, symmetrical development Of tn,
coast line which might be supposed tC
actuGte metropolitan paper"