San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-01-04

! to be subjected to - severe test. Here
tofore no politician could be found to
say a good word Tor the Cinnamon, as
ne was no voter and an open COMPETE
| tor with the white IabOrer, who is
voter. Now. the Chinaman IL about to
naturalize and secure the advantage OF
the ballot What will he he influence
Of over 100000 votes In California NO
doubt but that the loudest anti-C hinese
| demagogues will suddenly discover
many redeeming traits in the celestial
1t Is strange that the Cinnamon have
not before resOrted to this ail-pOweriul
| political lever in order TO secure van
tage ground in the United States.
TmE family skeleton in the closet Of
millionaire's home in New York, in the
| allie g.d marriage Of his sOn with no
tOriOus woman, should he warning to
Young men. and to all to avoid such
shares and pitfalls The young man
| Just q, says he was drunk when AT the
woman's house, and has no recol ectiOn
| Of any marriage She insists that there
| WAS marriage by 4 minister, and that
the Young gentleman knew what he was
doing. Ii is said that she offers to com
promise for S2OOUO. The father lndig-
nantly rejects any compromise, deter
mined to fight the thing through t. the
bitter end. But here il the cost OF
suit and the shame and disgrace. These
women Of course, will ruin Il man when
in their clutch it they can.
"DON'T say that the reign Of nocturnal
outrage and unpunished assassination
It the Capital Of Texas is disgrace I"
he State; rather admire il hs II splendid
yindicutIon Of the Governors theory OF
Government organized for ineiliciencl
andfor digniied though costly inutiIity.'
Galveston News. 1t might just a.
well he said that the persistent attack OF
The News on the Governor has caused
the reign Of nocturnal outrage at Aus
tin. The Governor has reason to BE-
thankful TO the News for such persecu-
tion. as the News is guilty of toward
His Excellpncy, would elect man infe-
rior to the Governor to any office to
which he might aspire. II both the
News and Governor Ireland were not
TOO well known to admit 81 such sus-
picion, it might be suspected that in
some way the News was subsidized in
the interest ofthe Governor.
The LIGHT has received tn" North
American Review for January, and ii is
unusually interesting. Part one Of an
article on the "Shlluh Campaign, from
the Pen Of GcI rraI Beauregard, is II val
liable chapter to the military history OF
The Mississippi department, from Con-
iedcrate authority, and viii be read " it'll
interest. "Ihc work Of the Church in
America" is an article from the pen Of
+. ". Farrar. anu ii is one that while
ITS criticisms are keen and cutting. yet
It will find a ready response from every
true church member in the land. Cana
dian Prospects and Politics. is an in
Ieresting and readable article. Robert
j. IngersOll has twO-page article on
she "Man Of Imagination" which is
prose poem peculiar to the great and
popular free-lhinker. LundiOrdism 10
America is an article by Thomas L.
Gill, and il is an array Of startling facts
and figures, which shows that there Is
a rapidly growing tendency to that men
ace Of free homes and popular sovereignty,
not generally known, taking TOO, many
OF the forms peculiar to the old world.
"LuCrotia BOrgia,' that much maligned
person Of history. finds a defender in IA
wel-wrtIen paper by ". W. Aston.
democracy in England" rhe Dis
reimbursement Of Delaware, "'Letters to
Prominent Persons" AT Last" =
paper on the approaching freedom OF
Ireland, and sherman on Grant, are
all interesting chapters. which go to
make up the contents of the January
number Of the Review. They furnish
much food for thought for the casual
reader or the student, and make this
magazine what it is, the review of the
best minds Of the country.
THERE should be larger proportion
of men of the necessary qualifications
in the public schools in the cities Of the
United States than are now employed.
While the younger pupils may be better
off in general under the charge Of com
petent and worthy ladies, full of gener-
Gus enthusiasm in the cause, it is evil
dent that for the more advanced pupils
and for the control of Institutions for
boys, or for boys and girls, men of
proper training are, as n rule, greatly to
be preferred. There is too much etrem-
macy in the education Of our American
youth. Vigor and manly independence,
sCOrn of danger when duty requires,