The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-01

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holding meetings and endeavorng to or
game cremation society. There are
good arguments for and against this
mode Of disposing of the dead, but it
will be many years beforn cremation
will be generally accepted instead Of
burial MS now practiced.n
TIM cholera continues In spain, and
new cases are reported daily. There
will need to be a rigid system of clean
illness all ever the United States, and
especially in Southern ports. this year,
If the cholera is kept out Dr. Swear
ingen is no doubt right when he says
that behind the yellow quarantine flags
the people of Texas had prospered.
ANENI the Galveston News and its
proposed new base at Dallas. the Fort
Worth Gazette most truly says: I'VE
repeat: come what may to the Herald
and the Gazette, no one paper can mon.
opolize and hold the great field Of Texas
journalism and the wish to do 50 is
the dream Of a visionary, rs the attempt
to do SO will prove to he the effort Of
despair.
MrCu has been written aud said about
the alleged attempt OF the shlpbuilder
John Roach to edo up" the Secretary Of
the Navy by selling him the new cruiser,
the "Dolphln," and have it accepted by
the Naval Board. After two or three
trial trips the ship was pronounced sat
isiactory. and those papers which have
abused Mr.. Roach so roundly will have
to change their opinion.
TuE Blanco star Nindicator voices
the opinion Of u great many people in
Texas, when it says: "'Ihc Star Nindi-
Gator has always been Of the opinion
that when a man is sentenced to hard
labor in the penitentary he ought to
remain there and not to be put out to
work, on farms or elsewhere as the Gus
tom in Texas it, The law never intended
this and it should never be done.
Tm Mobeetic Panhandle says: Fort
Worth, Dallas. San Antouio and other
cities Of the state were once promi-
nently quoted here as evidence that
gambling cannot be stopped. 1t isnOw
demonstrated in all those strOngholds of
the serpent that the laws Of our State
ARE adequate to the suppression Of crime
when administered by officers who are
men and not sympathzers with the vio-
lator, Of law"
IuE Federal Government, MS the guar
dian Of the entire Indian population of
the country. should be made the defend
ant in suit wherein heavy damages
should be demanded for the many lives
lost by the recent Apache raid in New
Mexico The Government is responsible
for the raid. by reason Of its manage
ment Of the Indian question. and the
permitting Of tribal authority while on
the reservations, and it should be held
accountable for all the lives lost and the
damage done.
TmE Uvalde llesperan says: The
city Of san Antonio voted on the propo-
+ sition to donate $4,000 of the city's
, money to the enlarging and building up
, of her public schools. one of the most
. important considerations that could pos
sibly be presented to the attention Of
any people, IL that which insures the
permanence and constant improvement
Of good graded schools, and yet the
= papers OF that city admit with natura
regret and modification that the vote
was exceedingly small although the
proposition was carried by good ma,
iority OF the votes cast"
IN THE indisCriminate murder of Amer.
lean operators in Mexico is allowed tC
go on without check 1t will not be long
e before those who are interested will pul
s up and get away. In Nueya Leon, il
t the last month, there have occurred 1
number of uncalled for murders, mad,
n for the purpose ofrobbery, Of Americans
connected with mining companies, and
n no attempt made to arrest the murder
ers. The latest is the killing Of Pau
Holden and his son on saturday last
: near Nillaldama. Life is held toe
9 cheaply anyway in the land OF "GOC
Il and Liberty" and official authority il
hardly worth mentioning, to make it al
p object for wlde-awake and energetic mel
b to attempt to develop the mineral re
g sources of the mountains over there.
THE Waco Examiner, In an article OF
the subject OF the business policy Of tn,
S state, says "San Antonio is In earnes
d in building the Arkansas Pass railroad
o Here is vast change impending. Waco
n has made other arrangements and com
binations and they are against Calves
n ton. Dallas has done the same, For
T. Worth also, and so, too Of other impor
= tanl and leading points OF trade Gal
= weston has steadily lost while all othe
points have gained trade. Business ha
rearranged itself upon other lines ant
has flowed into other channels. All II
u world which has held Galveston up here
p tofore has been the lack of all-rail con
e neotiOn with deep water That she ha
l. now and 80 the outgo of our products i
provided for. The Incoming supple
n reach us from Kansas City, st. Louis an,
n Chicago, and these pay not a cent t,
+ Galveston. No wonder the News is pull
If ing up stakes. No wonder that tn
- merchants Of Galveston are sitting OF
IS their launches preparatory to a lifting
% Now we do not saw that all this Ia tn