San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-04

mills are all closed down ana the WnOle
city Is in q state OF expectancy. The es-
timated number Of wage workers In the
city is in round numbers 250,C0O. or
these nearly one-fifth have secured the
eight-hou time and the ten hours pay.
Some $1,000 or 10000 are out on a strike
to secure the same terms, and the result
will very largely depend on how these
strikers settle matters with their
employers. Should they succeed In gen.
orally securing the ten-hours pay for
eight-hours work the eight hour law
will be practically settled for the city
wage workers. The railroads are con-
solidating against the movements; sew
eral large establishments have shut
down pending the settlement and their
employees are out without taking any
hand in the matter one way or the other.
The eyes of the labor world are onto
Chicago to see what that modern me-
tropOlis will do.
YESTERDAYS Galveston News sizes up
the Texas Land Board and goes for that
branch of the Democratic State govern
ment without gloves.
SOME of our good neighbors are worry
ing over the possibility OF the Alamo
City taking care of the " Press associa-
tiOn," the Estate shootists," and the
dog show" all in one week. Ne oc-
Casion to worry friends; the metropolitan
city Of Texas will do all that is required
of her in the entertainment line, and
have ample room for the Democratic
State convention as well. The Alamo
city is not on the brag. but keeps up her
end Of the business beam every time.
A JOINT canvass is good thing to xii
off candidates with, therefore we rejoice
in the joint discussions business. AS
Swain and Ross have gone into the mu-
tual destruction business for the benefit
of the State, let John and the Judge lock
horns and Texas will be at peace.
The Iowa Greenbackers finding that
fusion only leads to confusion have de-.
cided on holding a pure (Simon-pure),
unadulterated convention OF their own.
No mixed drinks. The agony will cul-
inmate Thursday rext. Weaver wants
to get his work in early.
The Blair Educational bill, in its Origi-
nal form, has been written down "a bill
to promote mendicancy in the South"
The opponents Of the bill had better
draft one according to their own ideas
rs represented in the debate, and label
it "a bill to promote illiteracy in the
South" The opponents of that bill will
never know the irreparable injury they
have done the educational interests of
the South until the scales fall from their
eyes in the land Of the hereafter.
.
MAPLEsON's attachments grow serious
when they become attachments against
himself for opera expenses; when they
are only attachments for some member
of his opera troupe they are not SO I'M
pleasant.
VERY conflicting reports are given by
the press concerning Secretary Man
ning's intentions as to resuming his seat
in the cabinet. His health is much i'm
proved and when he has mnde mp his
mind the country will doubtless be in
formed. Large bodies move slowly.
The Labor committee of congress has
divided. One section, composed OF
Messrs. Grain, Buchanan, Parker and
Cultivate takes Parsons, Denison and
Fort Worth. The other members of the
committee go to AtchisOn, Kansas City,
Sedalis and Jefferson City.
FRED DOUGLAS pays high COM
pliment to the honor and man
illness of Grover Cleveland, and
contrasting his usages with that of
Arthur in his treatment of him
self (Douglas) gives the verdict in Cleve-
lands favor; of whom he. says whatever
else he may be, he is not snob and he
is not coward. Fred is a great big
boy.
The SAN ANTONIO LIGHT is not respon-
sible for the heavy set Of the brain pan
of the Galveston News.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is altogether
too much an American to make as good
an Englishman as he threatens to do.
This country can ill afford to lose such
men.
The average Texas voter is still wait
ing for some man to be mentioned for
Governor whom it will do to tie to; they
are in the same fix concerning United
States Senator-only little more so.
TEXAS Is a terrible big State to lose
very small man in. No wonder some Of
the bOoms go wandering off into the il
limitable. Diogenes would have needed
an electric light for his work, not an old
tin lantern, had he been on the still hunt
in Texas.
THAT canard about Beecher's unavail-
ing agony in securing his son an office on
the Pacific slope has about run itself out
OF legs and breath. The old Plymouth
parson never did display any anxiety for
government pap during the % years OF
Republican rule. and he is not the man
to stand begging at the door-stone Of a
Democratic administration, even if he
was a mugwump.