San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-13
Saturday, March 10, 1886.

contracts may he made for It IN NEW YORK.
Saturday. March 10, 1886.
The courthouse that has not got
political ring is the courthouse that does
not exist.
l. IT possible that Don QuiXCte de Ia
Mancha is the master spirit of the NAL
Tory boycott.
The union services Of Northern and
Southern Methodists is the dove with
the olive leaf In its mouth after the flood
of the civil war.
LOOK out for the man who applies to
you with a subscription paper and holds
out for argument to subscribe that it
will put your name in the papers.
THE business public is quite anxious
to see the great principle, which is said
to be involved in the strike on the Gould
Railway lines Sc tiled us soon as possible
Is THE suburbs OF the city green grass
is covering the grounds bordering the
streets. Fruit trees are in full blossom;
tn. landscape with farmer.or gardener
at his noble toll; all furnish picturesque
scene.
ORGANIZATION is heard on every hand.
Labor has organized and capital is or
ganiZing. There is but one other organ
ization needed TO complete the combi
nation, and that is an organization of
labor and capital in one body, and then
will follow the millennium.
THERE is a petition circulating ask
ing the County Attorney to apply to
the District Judge for writ Of quo
warranto in the case of the three hold
over aldermen. This action will deter
mine the legality Ofthe present board of
aldermen, matter Of great importance
to the people Of this city.
Al LAST the investigation of the Pan
Electric Telephone scandal is going on
by committee Of the House. The tes-
timOny Off. II. Rogers, the inventor and
patentee of the Pan-Electric puts Gar
land in bad position before the public
generally. The result of this investiga-
ton is awaited by the entire country.
The New York correspondent of the
Galveston News is an enterprising man.
He has sold the Gulf, Colorado and San
ia Fe railroad TO the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, in spite of the protests
from both companies. He had better
sell the the entire city of Galveston,
now before Ii becomes entire worthless.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND continues to
serve up crow to the Democrats as fast
as the opportunity offers. His appoint
ment Of Mr.. Matthew, colored man
from Albany, n. Y, to succeed Fred
Douglas, is the latest disgust he has in
tiicted upon the Democratic party, and
an inquiry among the leaders of the
party in Washington failed to find an
endorser of the Presidents course.
WERE all the sO-called wOrkingmens
leaders and advisers actual laborers, who
earned their bread by the sweat OF their
brow instead of by the sweat of their
jaw, the movement new going on called
labor movement would be much
stronger and command greater respect
among all classes. A fraud and dema-
gogue Is person that is detested by all
honest and sincere men.
The indianapolis Times says: Dem
ocracy asked to be admitted TO power
that it might open the books 1t has
opened them, and RePublicanIsm is sot
greatly dlscomfitted. 1t went into the
ordeal unsecured, and has come forth I'M
scathed. But in whole year, one-fourth
Of its allotted term Of office. Democracy
has done nothing to prove that Repubn-
canism ought to have been retired, moth
ing TO prove that Democracy ought to
be continued in power"
The latest peryersion Of State soyer-
eighty is the Mormon trick of the Ne
vsda scheme to carry out their religion,
so-called, under the protection of Ne
vada, when run, owing to sparsity OF
population, by Mormon votes as a ma
jority. Uncle Sam will let the trick
sters know that he is not to be out
witted by such humbuggery. State
sovereignty is not thus to be subjected
to sport or mockery. There is prin-
ciple in American Jurisprudence that
fraud vitiates and annuls all acts and
transactions. These fanatics will soon
exhibit but wrecks Of their theatrical
performances before the clear judgment
of the supreme law of the land.