San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-24
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.


Rusk County News.
Free grass. lease law, public schools,
the mortgage system, the county convict
law and the descent OF community prop
erty are some of the things that will
likely occupy the attention of the next
Legislature.
Galveston News.
The State officers have not yet denied
the charge made by the Texas Figaro
that State officer was with Mrs. Phil
lips the night she was murdered at Aus
tin. Let ms have distinct and specific
denial or explanation.
Dallas News
Mr.. Needham told the ladies to beware
of fattery The News has so far scru-
pulOusly avoided the discussion of the
subject, but inasmuch as il is brought
formally forward ii must take sides, and
it agrees with Mr.. Needham.
Fort Worth Gazette.
We are to have two comets this sum
mer, as well as political campaign with
its pyrOteChnics. The comets have
selected an inauspicious occasion for
their visit. We would pay more atten-
tion to them If we had less illumination
at home.
'ultdSb NEWS
From the frequency with which the
clause deferred until tomorrow" APP
pears in the Congressional reports, it
would seem as II nothing was accom-
plished but procrastination, and every
bsdy knows what sort of reputation
that has.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
That free trade possum concealed in
the Ways and Means Committee room
has been worried almost beyond endur-
anGe by the invasion of prOtectionists.
Once or twice he exposed his nose. The
old pOssum will some day be dragged in
to full view.
ChidaPo Inter-Ocean.
A recent Austrian invention is q rife
that will easily discharge forty shots a
minute. The gentlemen who vote the
Democratic ticket and regulate the
meetings OF court at Carrollton, Miss,
will probably make arrangements for an
early consignment Of these powerful ar
guments.
New York Sun.
The Chaplain Of the House of Repre-.
ssntatiyes is said to have astonished the
members yesterday by praying that the
halls of legislation might be delivered
from the evils of inteDperance. WHY
should the members be astonIshedP The
eloquent Chaplain Is blind. but ewes are
not needed to detect the presence OF
cold tea.
Washington Critic.
Miss Cleveland has written q letter ia
friend on the subject of decollete dres-
SEES and In answer to the criticism that
she has her garments cut rather too
! quick at the upper end. This Miss
| Cleveland says she does not. She de-
| fines her position on this subject as that
| of approval OF the evening dress which
shows the neck and arms, but not the
bust. Between the neck and bust,
says Miss Cleveland, "there is z line al.
ways TO be drawn and it Is as clear to
the frivolous society woman as to the
anatomist. II a fashionable woman,
dress is immodest it is because she pre-
fers II to be So"
Waco Examiner.
We have felt ever since the President
used the phrase "innocuous desuetude''
that the News would be bound to beat
him or die. Sure enough in its leader OF
Thursday its word weavor used the
phrasn, "Prehensile acd esurient organ.
ISM" Whenever his exoellency, the
President, gets away with the paper
which has carried such phrases az
Journalistic experts" "the resistance
Of the message" political purturba-
tiOns" and a thousand more of equal
force, he will have to get up very early
in the morning, indeed. We would not
recommend his excellency to chop
words with a master Of the science.