San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03


have issued an appeal for aid to their
more prosperous fellow-farmers In the
eastern parts OF the state that should not
be allowed to pass UNDECIDED. The ex-
cessive drowth has left many OF the
farmers, not only In Welbarger county
but in many other western counties oil
Texas, without the means to purchase
seed wheat for next years crop, and
this appeal is for aid to enable to put In
their crop their only dependence for
next year 1t will be remembered that
about twelve years since, just such a
drOwth as Western Texas Is now suffer
ing under struck Kansas and Nebraska,
and the farmers In the newly settled
sections OF that state we're obliged TO
send representatives as far east as Ohio
soliciting grain for seed and provisions
to keep the settlers from starvation.
The appeal WAS not made in vain. The
relief came, the farmers were not com
PEELED to relinquish their lands and now
these sections OF those states are
dourishing and abundant crops are
raised from year to year. This drowth
in Western Texas is exceptional, and it
may be that no season like this will be
again encountered during this present
generation. The call is Imperative, the
destitution likely to prevail, unless relief
is speedily given, will be widespread
and the counties of this state that have
been blessed with crops this year should
respond heartily to this distress cry from
our western borders.
The WACO Examiner can suck more
Ross nourishment out OF Swain OF
Martin egg, before the convention. than 1t
will find on the bones OF full-fiedged
Ross rooster after that event.
The LEAvEN OF protection works and
it works in the measures Of the southern
democracy. Ii may not work In Texas
very nightly Just now, but Texas has
symptoms, and in other Of the southern
states the disease, at 1t lie considered
by all true blue democrats, is becoming
epidemic. Louisiana is given up by the
free trade democracy as hopeless field
and Is handed over to the protectionists.
This naturally psves the way for the
admission of Louisiana into the repub-
lcan ranks, or compels the democracy
to come onto the republican platform
and follow the lead of republican
thought, one or the other. So sure as =
state becomes protective in policy it
ceases to be states rights and demo-
cratic. This is not very Encouraging
outlook for the perpetustion Of the solid
south idea. The New Orleans Times
Democrat, one of the ablest of all the
southern journals is a pronounced pro-
tectlonist sheet, and is leading LOui-
siana away from her free trade heresies.
The Atlanta Constitution, another dem
ocratic journal in the very fore front of
the daily press of the south, is an out
and out proteotionist and scores the free
trade foolishness with a refreshing
sharpness of which the following may
be taken as a sample:
"The lack OF the whole south is manu-
featuring Industries; the lack of south
ern farmers is home markets. And yet
the free trade agents of the whisky ring
in the newspapers and In congress are
going about bewRiling the condition Of
the farmers and trying to manipulate
Legislation so as TO keep the unfortunate
agricultural class and its posterity in the
clutches OF poverty"
The conclusion Of the whole matter is,
keep cool and build up southern man
ufactures; by doing so you kill free trade
heresies and, protecting southern indus
tries, face the south towards prosperity
and progress; by doing this, you divide
tue south against herself and force her
to lind her political level on the same
ground as all other sections OF the coun-
try. When the south is freed from Sec
tionslism her emancipation becomes
complete and her supremacy byivirtue
Of her natural advantages assured.
When sectionalism dies the political
balances will adjust themselves.
nm ihihohh" iOpoitS Ooheohio stait-
ling intelligence of supposed cholera
visitation in some of the northern States.
1t 10 safe to say that there has not been
one authenticated case of cholera in the
United States this year. Such sensa-
tional roorbaoks are mischievous. They
alarm uselessly. The exceptional drouth
and heat at the North have induced ex-
ceptional diseases. But they do not
engender cholera. The Asiatic scourge
is absting in Italy; it has not touched
the shores Of Great Britain; it has not
appeared on the Atlantic seaboard or on
our gulf coast, and to imagine for one
moment that 1t has jumped into central
Wisconsin and developed well-defined
cases :" Is all nonsense.