San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-02-24
Wednesday, February d 1886.

WHAT would be thought Of man who
would erect fine house, add then go to
the owner to negotiate its purchase.
That would about be the position of the
city were it to put down sewers before
II owned the water-works. But it is not
going to do any such thing.
In THE investigating trial Of young
Phillips in Austin, for killing his wife
in December last, why has it not been
shown who were the men who visited
the house Of designation with Mrs. Phil
lips and Mrs. Campbell, just before the
murder was committed? That point
seems TO be very mysterious, and it
seems inexplicable why it can't be
brought out.
The street-Car employees In the New
York surface lines have gained their
point in their recent strikes. They were
very orderly and conducted their con-
ferences with the railway managers in
business-like manner. Public opinion
favored the cause of the strikers, which
was more for less hours, and system
attic timetable, and hours for meals, than
for increase of salary.
The farmer worthy Of the name had
everything prepared to receive the full
benefit Of this magnificent rain, and will
have full crops to reap. There is an
other class of so-called farmers who
spent their leisure time in loafing about
cursing the drouth, and now alternate
their employment by cur5ing the mud.
OF this latter class Texas has an uncOm-
Portable surplus.
The political parties in Laredo are
divided into guaraChes and the bOtas,
literally meaning the sandals and the
boots, or the rich and the poor. Such a
thing as the Democrats and the Repub-
licans is unknown among the peladOs,
composing the bulk of the voters of La
redo, and yet the Laredo Times pre-
tends to mix into the politics of Texas,
coming from such q constituency.
The educational bill now being discussed
in Congress is developing into the i'm
portance that it merits. In results it is
greater than either the silver or tariff
measures. 1t will prove whether the
American people have yet grasped the
nineteenth century civilization idea, that
intelligence and morality are the true
basis of nobility and the safeguards of
popular government. The overweanng
sensitiveness of certain politicians that
it may violate certain Unborn principles
Of the constitution, is the same that n
bad boy uses when punished for playing
truant; he complains Of the usurpatiOn
Of power by the teacher.
IT Is dull day when Texas can't fur
nish first-olass item to travel the world
around. With her red-hot politicians,
her pastures containing hundreds OF
thousands Of acres, her stockmen who
count their calves by the tens of thou
sands, her hundreds Of thousands bales
Of cotton, her boycotts of steamship
lines, her fighting men who touch Off the
trigger at the drop of the hat her big
revival meetings, her grand mass meet
ings endorsing harbors for big appro-
priations, etc., ad infinitum there is
never any lack of interesting news for
the enterprising news gatherer. Truly
we are great and growing.
ONE Of the promises Of the present City
Administration was that an era of side
walk building would be inaugurated.
But as a matter Of fact an embargo has
been put upon this class of improve
ments, simply because the City Engineer
has refused or failed to establish the
grade. Men all over the city are ready
and willing, and have their material on
the ground to build sidewalks, but the
matter ends, because their demands for
the grade go unheeded, 1t does not look
to be very difficult job to establish the
grade upon many Of the residence
streets, or portions Of them, in order to
give those who are ready and willing to
go to that expense, an opportunity to
improve their property. If the grades
were established it would give employ
ment to great many men who are now
idle, and who are prepared to this kind
of work. The public has been put of
with excuses from the Engineers De-
partment something more than year
and such action has become monotenous
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