San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-25
Thursday March 25, 1886.

Thursday, March 25, 1886.
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.
Having bought out MIR. ". l.. winters inter
est In the SAN ANTONIO DAILY LIGHT, hav"
added the duties Of editor t. those heretofore
performed 10y me H. business manager thus
becoming responsible for its uttcraucrs "a
well as its financial obligations. Duly upprc-
Ciating the generous patronage bestowed up
ON the LIGHT since its first appearance is
candidate for public favor and sincerely
thankful for the same, earnestly hope that
your approval may .tiIl be- accorded to my
efforts. am, etc.
TmoS. b. JOHNSON.
THE telephone war is to be carried
into the Pan-Electrio camp, and there
will be "hellO" music when the Bell
sounds.
FRANCE will hereafter select all teach
ers for primary schools from the ranks Of
the laity. This is sscularizng education
clear down to its foundation.
Mrs. WINTHROP's late esGapade at
Paris emphases the opinion that resi-
dence on the continent is not conclusive
to an Improvement Of American morals.
The question of changing the date Of
presidential Inauguration from March
until April 30 has been proposed in Con-
gress. The Democrats always did hate
TO give up office.
EADs' ship canal meets favor in in
verse ratio to the knowledge possessed
of the scheme. Congress will keep out
of hot water by giving the whole thing
the cold shoulder.
GALVESTON has more enemies and less
friends than any other important point
in the State-the result of its ex-
cessive selfshness in regard to the har-
Dor appropriation.
LEsSEP's canal scheme rests upon the
solid foundation Of his own visionary
ideas, superimpOsed on the hard pan of
lottery debenture. 1t is Il mighty
good thing to let alone.
The Waco Day charges Rev. Sam
Jones with saying, There is going TO he
hell to pay and no pitch hot" If Sam
ever lifts the editor of that sheet he will
think 1t its Judgment day instead of
Waco Day.
Iwo-THIRDs rule conventions are the
breeding places for dark-horse candi-
dates, and dark horses" are usually
blenished animals that no one would
dare to offer SO long as there was any
thing better to be gotten.
The persistent refusal of Russia to
join the Powers in ooercing Greece pro-
yokes bitter comment from the French
press, but the great northern bssr lies
still and sucks his paws. There may be
lively times when he comes out Of his
den.
The truth is slowly daWning upon the
British consciousness that Gladstone
means to carry out his honest conyic-
tons in Reform measures or be defeated
in the attempt. The responsibility of
that defeat will not rest upon his shout
ders.
A PATIENT and lOng-suflering genera
ton look for some sign OF profitable leg
islation the part of Congress, and there
is ne sign given it. Three months of
legislative incubation have done less for
the country than three days in the
whales belly did for Jonah.
The paralysis Of business in this State
incident to this strike should cause all
thoughtful men to enquire by what
means such distractions to commerce
and mercantile industry can be best pre-
vented. To say that there is no equit-
able means possible is to say that our
government is failure.
The true inwardness of that Pan
Electric scheme comes very reluctantly
to the public gaze, but enough light has
been turned upon the subject to show
it up Democratic scheme carried out
on the principle of pooling your issues
with those Congressman with whom it
is likely to do most good.
~
FRANK HURD has been heard from.
He was fairly defeated at the polls, and
now the ultra Bourbon sheets think il
"hard, hard indeed" that a Democratic
committee did not climb that little ma
jority Of % and seat him. There are
some things that even a Democratic
committee hesitates to tackle.