San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-27


where her COCO passengers were slowed,
and how they were all saved when only
$50 came safe to land? vide Wednesdays
editorial notes.
EDITOR DOLIsON. OF the Rush County
News, says: "rhe people invariably de-
fand right and condemn wrong" The
Nazarine. whom the Jews GruCitied, had
different opinion of the matter when
the cry of the Jerusalem populace was
stunning his ears on the way to cruel
fxion. THIS vox pOpuli vox Del asser-
ton lacks veriliCatiOn.
A THIRSTY genius from the Rio Grande
says you can take an American dollar,
get drink on the Texan side of the line
and receive Mexican dollar as change.
You cross the line into North Laredo,
take drink, tender your Mexican coin,
and get a United States standard dollar.
Keep up the racket all day and at night
you can give pOintstO cowboy pianist.
The ferry tariff for the day IL not stated.
TIE phenomenal Anannias who wires
the Fort Worth Gazette from this city
concerning the recent changes in the
LIGHT office, in short dispatch Of -
lines. ticks off four square built able
bodied whOpPers and calmly insinuates
fifth. As to the matter involved, for
-. l. httt aG a
specimen of blooming stupidity on the
part of that smart AlCk Of the press, it
brooks no rival near the throne.
The chaplain of the Democratic House
of Representatives prayed with the
spirit and with the understanding when
he asked God to rid the land Of game
sters. whether in cards. dice, chips,
stock, wheat. bucket-shOps or boards Of
trade, and to lead the people to know
that money-making, other than by the
sweat of the face. was contrary to di-
vine law" 1t was shrewd dodge that
ordered the prayer inserted in the Rec
ord. as that ia of all places the one most
unlikely to be searched.
The LIGHT offers no Justification for
those who take the law into their own
hands, but if ever closes one eye and
fails to Sc out of the other, it is when
the time comes to condemn an other
wise blameless young woman for shoot
ing the man who seduGes her under
solemn promise OF marriage and then
weds another The case Of Miss Emma
Norman, of Memphis. Tenn. who re-
Gently killed her seducer. Henry Arnold,
il a case directly in point, and her ac-
quittal will not seriously disturb the bal
lances Of Justice.
There are very general expressions OF
deep regret among the Utah gentiles at
the demand OF Secretary Lamar for Gov
ernOr Murray's resignation. the Gov
ernOr was a union soldier, commanded a
brigade at 10 years of age, was United
States MarshaIl OF Kentucky after the
war. and received his appointment as
Governor of Utah from President Hayes
in 1850. lie was re-appOnted by Ar
thur, and has waged a ceaseless war
against polygamy and the encrOach-
ments of the Mormon Church. His re-
mOval is another bunder of an admins
tratiOn. which could better be spared
from Washington than Murray from Salt
Lake City.
SAN ANTONIO Christians are doing
next to nothing to save young men from
the inevitable damnatiOn OF street ard
spOrting-house education. Where are
the free lecture-rooms, libraries, read
ing-rooms, gymnasiums, ETC., that should
open their friendly doors to all who de-
sire to enter? Echo sadly answers,
where 1t requires much less Christian
grit to howl about dens of infamy than
it does to plank down money for educa-
tiOnal institutions of a corrective char
acter. If sporting-houses of all kinds
were licensed and placed under proper
police supervision, and free reading
rooms. lectures, night schools, gymna-
Sums, baths, etc, were opened, this
city would be so much better off in one
year that it would not know itself.
GALVESTON journals are discoursing of
burglary as a business Burglary will
continue business so long as the grand
army of tramps is qusrtered on us as an
army Of occupation; this will necessarily
be until opportunities eflsbor are opened
to them, after which it will be in order
to muster them in as workingmen. If
they will not enlist as workmen, they
must be drafted. The first thing, how
ever, is to find work for them, and this
must be the care of the government,
State and National. A long move in
that direction will be such stringent
regulation of emigration as will cut of
Chinese and pauper colonization under
hours Of labor, and the encouragement of
the Overcrowded population of our cities
to settle on the public lands, by the pas
sage of such land laws as will favor ag-
ricultural industry. If the first care Of
a government be to care for the inter-
ests of its subjects then the revision of
our emigration laws are of the first i'm
portance.
The Houston Democratic Committee
seems seriously exercised over the pos