San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-17

| pie, q large manufacturing center Where
labor conditions are by no means I'M
favorable to health. the death rate
among the cOlored people is 300 per
cent. greater than among the whites.
| Unless this condition of things is speed
| lily changed it will be utterly impossible
| for the colored people to maintain them
selves side by side with the whites. The
! question is Il serious one and, involving
as it does the whole industrial move
ment of the South, should receive the
early and profound attention Of the med
| ical scientist as well as the philan-
thropist.
GROVER approves the San Antonio
public building act, and the Alamo City
gets her 100000.
The cyclone season has set in rather
early this year, but there are no indiCa-
tions that it has deteriOrated in its Sc
verify or become circumscribed in its
limits. From Minnesota to Texas in one
jump, with way stations in Iowa and
Missouri, is not bad for the first trip Of
the season. The cyclone is one of those
unaccOuntable things, so far as its strIk-
ing is concerned, that "Old prObs" gives
us little practical provision against.
The Gar and the Sultan were booked
for Black Sea meeting on board Il man
Ol-war to-day, but there are no accounts
of the conference coming off.
The journals whose faith removes
mountains are trusting to "Iime" and
Uncle Sam TO settle this labor question.
An anxious country would like some
one to set the time, it would be very
palpable relief to the business circles Of
the Southwest.
New YORK is welded to convict labor
legislation for this session. The reform
ers were not sent TO Albany this inning.
The johnnie Bulls are busy arranging
for meetings for and against the Irish
hOmerule plans of Mr.. Gladstone. Be
tween now and May every influence
and art will be invoked to make capital
for both sides, and when the decisive
vote comes it will be very wise man
who will be able to correctly forecast
the issue. The feeling in this country,
though more subdued, is very intense,
and lreland's friends are awaiting the
result with no little anxiety.
The Chinese opium dens are rapidly
increasing in New York City, and the
opium habit more rapidly than the opium
dens.
SECRETARY MANNING's New York
friends are making every effort to in
duce him to retain his place at the head
of the United States Treasury. Pres
sure is being brought to bear upon the
President to that end and the all-potent
influence Of the Sage of Grammercy
Park has been invoked. The New York
ers are so thoroughly intrenChed in the
treasury that they fear any change, and
will leave no means untried to prevent
one
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has not yet
spanked out, he will probably continue
to sin-til-late.
The San Angelo Standard sizes up the
Austin Statesman by the old measure of
what it leaves unsaid, and considers it
as thus judged the most ably edited pa
per in the state as, Its editor can come
nearer saying nothing in column of
editorial than any other paper in Texas"
There be many who will consider the
Standard decidedly level-headed in this
judgment.
The war on Mayor-elect Smith, of
Houston, has already begun. Uneasy
lies the head" etc.
The dOwn-easters are trying the Chi
nese racket, Maine parties having con-
tracted for Celestial laborers. If there
Is a spot in America where John will
get his cue yanked ii will be in the Pine
Tree State.
IT COST Atlanta just S10OO,OOO this
year to make up the deficiency caused
in her tax list by prohibition.
Iowa has got there with both feet in
prohibition legislation. Her Clarke bill
is double-geared, double-barrelled.
double-shOtted engine of destruction to
all beer saloons. breweries and barrel
houses. 1t is closing up the liquor
houses like jack-knife.
The debate on home rule ended with
the opposition too weak to attempt a
division on it, and 1t passed to u sec
ond reading, which was ordered for
May 6.
THERE is no excuse for the law-breaker
in America. Every man has a hand in
making law, and If unjust laws are on
the statute books the people who placed
them there must be appealed to for their
removal. AS long as they remain unre-
pealed they must be obeyed.
THERE Is cotton crank in South Car
olina who afiirms that cotton can be
raised and prepared for market at cost
Of three cents per round. If he will pat
ent his process, and give bonds that it
will pan out, Texas planters will make
his fortune, sure.
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