San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-05

ing to the evidence Of its own journals,
and fairly opens the field for inVestiga-
tion and comparison. In this matter
Arkansas Pass stands alone, without a
competitor worthy the name. The
amount OF money required is less than
one-half the estimate for any other port
on the gulf; the territory to be directly
reached, so far as Texas Is concerned,
! places the Arkansas Pass outlet In the
foreground of all others; the commerce
of vast northwestern territory, Of
which Denver Is the present point Of dis
tribution, will naturally seek outlet to
the sea through Arkansas Pass, so soon as
our northwestern trunk line is COM
| pleIed the work already done and re-
suits obtained at Arkansas Pass insure
deeper wafer, better harbor, more Sc
cure wharfage, and a more permanent
and safer passage over the bar than at
any other point on the coast. The mat
tention sad Indifference Of San Antonio
capitalists are all that have prevented
the work there from being long since
completed. Every consideration Of
economy, safety and public convenience
demand the immediate completion ofthe
Arkansas Pass improvement, and San An
tonic owes 1t to herself not to be asleep
In this matter.
The recent riot at Fort Worth will be
condemned by all good citizens. 1t Is
blot upon the State, stain upon her
record. The strikers had been treated
leniently by the State authorities and
resort to blOodshed was an uDjustifiable
and outrageous breach Of the public
peace.
The defiance of the State authorities
by the Fort Worth mob will find no
apolOgists among the labor organizations
of the land. The repeal Of unjust laws
by legal means is the purpose OF these
organizations not the overriding OF
legal authority by mob force and riotous
procedures.
The insanity statistics Of this State
show that eleyen-seventeenths OF our in
sane are foreign born. How many Of
our peace disturbers are neither Amer
lean born, nor American citizens by legal
process Of naturalization, does not yet
appear, but the proportion will be even
greater among these than among the
insane.
DALLAS will invoke all the memories
of the historic past to fire the Texan
heart on San Jaointo day, April 81.
Grand preparations are 10 progress, and
invitations are reaching all parts OF the
State for such visitors as will give eclat
to the occasion.
CoTULLA and Pearsall youths have
entered the diamond field regardless Of
Sam Jones' anathemas marenathas.
Sam wouldn't wipe his feet on base
ball crowd"
The Fort Worth Gazette's special who
furnishes telegraph news from Terrell
locates Weatherford in Tarrant county.
If his news items are as reliable as his
geographical knowledge he will be de-
oided acquisition to the "best paper
published in Texas" His grain re-
ports, especially, will be Of immense
statistical value as showing the acreage
and yield of?
The red-hot municipalities cooled the
III Of 81 al
when the news from For. Worth reached
them. The less is always contained in
the greater.
BAKERS hat has lost its Importance
since the Fort Worth shooting. That
unfortunate tragedy dominates all else
as q theme of conversation.
The opinion of the Democratic Fort
Worth Gazette on the Democratic Con-
gress is refreshing. He concludes
wholesale arraignment OF the House
whose full-fledged democracy no one
questions, with the assertion that the
House ia allowing "the business in
terests Of the country to 60 to the devil
for want Of protection" An honest
criticism like that Of ones own party Is
good cool reading these exciting times.
SOME fellow calls San Antonio the
mandatory regulator of Texas; be-
cause, In the matter of manufacturing
any little burg in the State GOES BY IT.
The one man power is too great a
strain on the American nerve. No.
is too small factor to operate this gov
eminent, and that's what's the matter
with Jay Gould.
The pauper governments Of the Old
World, who have squatted upon Uncle
Sans farm and turned 1t into an asylum
for their own beggars, have about
reached the end of their term as ground
renters by title Of their own impudent
assurance. Eviction measures are in
process that will void every claim they
have made, and legate their own
paupers TO the care of the knx-ridden gov
ernments that have created them.
The agony will soon be over among
the Texas municipalities. Houston will
wreathe one half Of her face in smiles
and clothe.the other half in curses as
with garment. What effect the that"