San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-30

more fortunate for themselves, nothing
more unfortunate for the tranquility OF
Ireland.
The Mexican authorities having def
nitely decided not TO release Editor Cut
ting upon the demands of the United
States, the next move in this interna-
tiOnal game will be awaited with indif-
ference in the east, but with no little
anxiety along the border, where the
feeling of hostility to Mexican outrages
groes stronger day by day. In addition
to well-knOwn cases Of unlawful impris-
Onment that have received due notice
and been commented upon, almost every
week there are developed new cases OF
outrage which, for business cOnsidera-
tiOns, have been and are kept secret.
The facts coming out in private way
are generally withheld from the press.
The commercial agents who solicit
trade in Mexico could give startling in
formation on this subject. There is
hardly town of any note along the Rio
Grande that has not TO mourn the loss
of some citizen, victim TO Mexican
injustice and oppression. No pretence
OF punishment is made OF the hordes OF
thieves who swarm across the borders
to prey upon American ranches and
escape with their booty into the bosom
of the country that shelters them.
American citizens, claimed as Mexican
subjects, are spirited across the border
and an Ominous silence swallows them
up unless, as in the case of the man re-
Gently kidnapped at Eagle Pass, they
are Immediately hung as an act OF bra
vadO. The American authorities at
Washington make no Dretence OF pro-
tectlng American citizens in Mexico,
and a war across the border is inevitable
If this supininess continues.
Ii THE democracy OF BeXar county do
not fight out their convention disagree
ment at home, they will call upon the
state clans at Galveston to umpire the
smuggling. The Swainites will find this
a losing game however; the Bracken-
ridge credentials Will count at Calves
ton, because they will be the only regu-
larly authorized credentials from the
regularly constituted county CONVEX
ton.
The nation has yet to discover more
than one point Of agreement between
the present senate and the house Of rep
resentatives: that one point is to dis
agree. The simple fact that bill ORR
ginates in one chamber is ground suf-
flcient for an unqualified dissent from
that particular measure by the other.
Committees OF conference are as fire.
quent as they are useless. The last ex-
piatiOn possible is for congress to die;
die at once and do it without prnlonging
the agony. There will be no mourners.
THERE is an ominOus Hence concern
ing the whereabouts Of the old hostile,
Geronimo. He has certainly hied him
self into the mountains Of Sierra Madre,
and his lair is not known to the officers
that are upon his trail. There is no rea-
sonable PROBABILITY that any farther
hunt oan be made for hostile scalps I'M
til the old warrior descends into the
plains, some three months since, to lift
the white mans hair.
The Cleveland Leader consoles itself
with the reflection that after all the YER
dict is with the people. II the United
States senate will not see justice done
in the Payne bribery case, the people of
Ohio will have final judgment in the
case.
The best Canadian journals are giving
expression to a feeling Of humiliation and
regret that the cities "over on the other
side" are being made the refuge of
scoundrels, who having deliberately
swlndled the institutions and the peo-
pie who have trusted them need only
step across the borders to be safe from
the legal consequences eftheir misdeeds.
This regret is deeply sympathized with
on this side the Niagara also.
BALTIMORE and Montreal having been
honored by the bestowal of cardinal hats
the New Workers are wondering why
they are left out in the cold. Chicago
has her red flag, Boston her we'll read
people and the metropolitan city of
America seems to think it high time that
something in the cardinal line struck
her.
HE prohibition movement is coming
into politics with rush. Nearly all the
state legislatures will be besieged with
petitions for prohibition enactments this
winter. Congress has had the matter
proposed and the agitation will go on to
the end Of the chapter. The prohibition
party is very active in Missouri, Missis-
sipyi, Georgia and Texas, and their in
fluence is destined to be felt at the COM
ing elections. They care nothing for
the public questions OF the day beyond
the one idea which they have mounted
as hobby and will ride to the death.
Four-fifths of all the candidates they
have ever nominated are disappointed
offiCe-seekers at democratic or republi-
can doors, and with many ofthem injury
to the old partiesi s as much passion as
the triumph Of the new. Moral legisla-
ton, so-called-moral empiricism as it
really is, can produce no lasting condi-
tions of society. 1t is the merest folly to
talk OF it. This prohibition epidemic,