San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-30

roads are necessity 10 any mAFket
town, and here il at once practical So
luton of how to maintain good roads,
give employment to criminals and abrO'
gate hateful tax. Let the work be eH-
tended to include the state conVicts
rs well, under state guards and state
commissioners, and in ten years Texas
would have splendid roads at 10 ad-
ditiOnal cost to the people. while "t the
same time two nuIsances would De
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The Houston Herald has the CAM
paign ricketts, bad. nightly bad. Baker
will cook Smiths goose TO a turn and
won't have TO take any cold crow for
desert either.
SENATOR BECK gets silver brick from
his Butte City admirers In recognition
of his silver tongued speech in favor OF
free coinage Of silver. 1t is better than
a brick in the hat by a big majority.
The supply OF beer In Waco ran very
low during the strike. This accounts
for the bitter tone OF the Waco journals
! in speaking OF the strike; their pens grew
| bitter as their stOmachs grew bitteress.
WHISKY and quinne as a medicinal
remedy for chills and fever Is now dis
carded and the whiskey taken straight.
This, however, not from any increasing
love of the stimulant. but because the
medical science Of to-day decides that
the amount Of quinine necessary to cOun-
teraCt the effect of the malarial poison
leaves the system In worse condition
than the Chlls themselves would. Some
OF the more modern medical writer's are
most emphatic in their denunciation OF
the use of qulnine as sometime since
praGticed, declaring it worthy the mid
night of the dark ages. Live and learn.
We never did banker after quinine in
ours anyway and accept the NJ. DIS. cor
rectiOn gracefully.
The inevitable is that which no man
can dodge and timely perception of it
is doing more to change the opinions OF
the Democracy on the tariff than any
thing else.
The Democratic house is on thOrns
because Cleveland wont ignore the civil
service reform altogether, but it does
not dare repeal the law.
The Times takes a make-believe cup
Of-comfort over the defeat OF eX-Alder-
man Pauly for reelection, and makes
dig at the LIGHT by way of sweetnin'.
Mr.. Pauly. as is well known, resigned
because the full term of service for which
he was elected had expired and he did
not believe he was entitled to hold over
under the new charter. The then editor
of the LIGHT held the same opinion and
expressed it. The Times thought Pauley
had right to hold over, Pauly thought
he had not and resigned; therefore, be-
cause Pauly was not reelected, his
resignation, in obedience to his own
consCieCiOus sCruples, settles the legal
status of the whole question of hold
over rights under the new city charter.
This Times logic, like the peace of the
Infinite One, passes understanding. How
mysterious must be the ratiOCinatiOn
that out of such wherefore and because
concludes thusly.
The suggestion is made that the con-
gressmen strike and join the Knights of
Labor. This would be fun for the con-
gressmen, but it would kill the Knights
as dead as a smelt.
The Louisiana Legislature, which
meets in May, is wisely counselled to
take greater care of the citizens rights
of property and life to reform the Jury
system correct abuses in finance; pro-
vide for the preservation of the levees as
well as for their construction; and, In
short, complete the good work of the past
two years by which it has been at
tempted to restore the body polite to
perfect health.
SOME cruel art critic blows on the
peach blow porcelains," which cost
Mrs. Morgan Sl2, 900, and informs an en-
yious public that they have no standing
in China. and that the Morgan vase was
sold for $3.50 in Pekin, having been pre-
viously offered for a much smaller sum.
MASSACHUSETTS proposes legislation as
a means of protecting young girls under
Is years Of age from their own discre-
ton. Who is to protect them after that
age is not stated. More promising
wOmanhood is ruined by indisCreet mar
riage than by any other cause, and no
cause is less considered. Home training
under mother who is more than mere
bearer Of children is necessary to
young girls protection, but few get it.
MASSACHUSETTS prohibits the sale OF
tobacco to persons under Is years of age.
Such law on the statute books of Texas
would lay the tobacco trade out cold.
but might be the making ofthe boys.
SECRETARY MANNING is seriously sick.
Sick In bed and his condition such as to
cause his physicians great uneasiness.
He is also sick Of Cleveland's Cabinet
from which he desires to be free and
wants to resign.
Pension COMMISSIONER BLACK is a con-
spicuous example of the failure of Dem
Ooratic office-helders to make out case
against their Republican predecessors.
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