San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-21

Industrial improvements, munlClpal al
fairs, church, state, schools, courts,
crops, markets, penitentiaries, riots,
socialism, or what not and presto, that
old machine called the Examiner,
switches itself off on some blamed
Ross tune or another, and grlnds out
Ross music to the end of the chapter.
When by a superhuman effort Of will,
the operator holds her hard a-port she
will luroh of alec and run on the
breakers. If by consummate seaman
ship she is saved from standing on this
strike a Swain reef and then it's all day
with the Old boat for that trip. In We'd
nesday's editorial column Ross is the
theme OF seventeen separate editorial
items; is the foundation, corner, cap and
headstone of the column leader, and is
mentioned Is times in the two full COL
umns presented. Swain, who is used as
foil to set off Ross virtues, comes in
for a spe cial notice as the main spring
of some seven distinct editorial squibs,
and is mentioned by name seventeen
times in the two full columns. 1t is too
utterly too. This combination OF names
against the declaration of the Waco
Examiner office grows oppressive. Bar
tow acknowledges to having formed
mutual admiration society of which him
self and Ross are the charter members
and no others admitted, but denies the
soft impeachment ola collar and an or
gan.
The express editorial on the "wateT-
works" and gas" questions, in this
mornings issue, Is CleaD-cut, level
headed, square-toed, able-bOdied horse
sense.
TIE press that was so lOudmOuthed
over the attempt of the employees of the
Missouri Pacific, to secure better terms
for their labor, are raising tremendous
howl because it cannot get better terms
from the Western Union telegraph COM
pany. The reading of these screeds
against the exclusive" franchises of the
Western Union telegraph is instructive
at present. 1t makes a great big differ
ence whose OK is gored.
AUSTIN business men feel quite cha
grined over the scoop the city treated
herself to on the BastrOp railway scheme.
DALLAS is not happy over that double
barreled fair arrangement. The News
puts the profits of the two fairs at $780,
600 each, and then figures out clean
loss of 81 ,0OO,00l to the city in the dis
turbance of the good feeling so neces-
sary to her best interests. While on the
figure, the News might as well throw in
that S200.0O0. 1t is clear case of emu
merating adolescent avfOrm ere they
cease to be Oyiform.
The Houston papers speak of the
council lock in that city as one for
which no key has rs yet been found.
The Dominion authorities will ELL
plOy 5000 labOrers on the Welland canal
enlargement this season. 1t is only
few years since some S4,0OO,OOO were ex-
pended In enlarging this water way,
and now another enlargement of nearly
equal extent is under consideration.
Canada appreciates the value Of water
way freightage if Uncle Sam does not.
I'M Of hau al,
the bill permitting women to practice
law when properly qualified and ad-
mitted. 1t is a law, and women are on
the same footing as men in this respect.
The Press association has come and
gone. Judged by their words and acts
they have received an impression of the
natural advantages, beauty and health
fulness of this city; of the hospitality of
its people, the extent Of Its resources,
and the pnbllc spirit of its citizens of
the prospects that lie before it, as well
as of the history that lies behind it, such
as will not be forgotten by many of them
in lifetime. San Antonio people have
had some opportunity to judge of the
timber which cOmposes the State Press
association, and the pleasure of the in
tercourse afforded has been mutual.
The immense distances that divide the
extremes Of the state, and the close at
tention to work demanded of the editors
of daily journals, combined to prevent
the attendance of many whose presence
and counsels would have added greatly
TO the numbers and strength of the as
ISOLATION. The week has been no less
profitable than pleasant one to the
newspaper fraternity Of Texas, and in
bidding its -members goodbye, The
LIGHT cordially wishes them year of
increased prosperity, more power to
their quilts, and a pleasant reunion at
Fort Worth next summer.
WE understand that there is no truth
in the report that the compositors in the
Waco Examiners office have had the
words Ross" and Swain" stereotyped
by the thousand, and run an extra box
for them on their BREWER cases.
SILVER coinage continues to swell the
government vaults, provide market
for the bullion Of the silver mines, and
threaten the whole country with de-
preciated currency. OF the whole
amount coined since the Bland-Allisen
coinage bill went into effect less than
one-fourth Is in circulation. The to tai
coinage has been S229, O0O, 600; total cir
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