San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-10

dent into the great stream OF progress
they never seem to realize that the
world has moved. OF such are the glo-
rifiers Of the old cOnfederacy who are
rapidly dying out to the praise and
glory of all national progressiyeness.
The men who fought the battles Of the
South are not the men who glOrify the
lost cause. The men whose unholy am
billions were thwarted by the downfall
of armed treason are the men who howl
out their peans to the praise OF JEFF
Davis and secession.
The river and harbor bill passed the
house with the Texas appropriations in
tact.
The press galOot who intimates that
San Antonio will not properly feed the
Press Association, and advises the MEN,
bers to bring their own grub, is either
the boss glutton of Texas or the boss
imbecile. His personal friends know
best which shoe fits him.
TRAVIS COUNTY census shows ll45 chill
dren, Of whom 43s can neither read nor
write. The cOlOred children number Gil,
and OF these go are illiterates. The
whites number S34, and Of these lGS are
illiterates. And yet, the Blair bill was
voted against by Texas congressman.
HoPE springs eternal In the politicians
breast. 1t will take a spring backward
after convention.
The fellows who are bowling for a
foreign war, to give employment to the
surplus labor of this country, are too con-
temptible to be regarded with even man
" indignation. That cry comes only
from man whose instructive and native
selfishness would exterminste every
thing that jostles his elbows along the
high way of life. The journals that speak
thus are depraved. II those who essay
to think for the masses and direct public
opinion have no better solution OF the
labor questions, they had better boycott
their own brains and retire from view.
pestilence to enter our land and decimate
our population. This would have one
advantage over the war proposition; the
men who are in such haste to see our sur
plus laborers killed off might themselves
become prey of the pestllence that walk
eth In darkness. There Is but one jour
nal in Texas sordid enough to make the
statement above referred to concerning
American workingmen and a foreign
war, and it is no discredit to the working
classes that said journal is always ar
rayed against them and their interests.
DALLAS Baptists having determined to
build a $50, 900 church, Fort Worth has
decided to build q $4,000 chapel as a
lecture room for the metropolitan struc-
ture she will soon erect.
THERE is likely to be municipal music
in the air before the election Of Street
Commissioner Ia decided. 1t Is gener-
ally understood that the Mikado will
take a hand in, either for his recent ap-
pointee or for the dark horse he keeps in
the stable. The former foreman Of the
street gang, Fitzgerald, is prominently
mentioned in connection with the office.
If experience counts for anything Fitz
should have it. The election will be hot.
SEVERAL indications point to free for
all race in county and municipal politics.
This fall the county fight will be a warm
one, and next spring the municipals will
send the thermometer way up. States
will be broken very fine.
In ORDER to more efficient quaran-
tine against cholera this season, Uncle
Sans revenue cutters will patrol the
coast. This means Of prevention, with
others, may do much to mitigate the
scourge now threatening Southern
Europe. At all events the navy might
be nuch more unproftably employed
and the experiment is well worth trying.
MACHINE politics are running with a
squeak. The old machine is rusty, and
will soon be shelved.
MAJOR BRECKENRIDGE, of Austin, de-
clines TO be a candidate for Governor
before the approaching Democratic con-
vention. Major Breckenridge adds
dignity to his character by making that
declaration. This candldsting for q
nomination is simply odious. 1t is 10
questionable taste to stump for onet
own election, but to stump for nomi
nation! The very idea would have
stumped our fathers. Texas will have
an opinion to express on this whole
matter later.
The Arkansas Pass is making gooC
time to the gulf. The eightieth mile
post has been reached and . stake stucl
and the trains run regularly so far to-
wards the sea.
THERE is very general and quite
hearty denunciation by the leading
Democratic journals of the South anG
North of the late Montgomery splurge
The New South does not take kindly t.
the idea that the "cause is not lost, ,
which, II gained, would have been the