San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-24

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within the province of the Legislature.
The Chinese are excluded from the
Sandwich Islands by order Of the king
and Council. No need to boycott the
celestial restaurants in that kingdom.
THERE is no institution in America so
un-American as that of the grand jury.
The system is wrong in conception, in
iquitous in practice and damaging If
not damning in Its results. 1t is cham
Der OF inquisition without the presence
of the suspect; a star court, which pre-
supposes the guilt Of an absent and un-
heard party; the engine Of malice, the
tool of injustice and the official defsmer
of sOoiety. 1t opens the door to every
mcanness of which the human mind is
capable, pays premiums upon hate and
revenge. makes the State the RESPONSE
Bile prosecutor in all manner and matters
of personal spite. and shelters the devil
of defamation behind the impenetrable
vail of a secret tribunal. 1t brands men,
innocent men, and untainted with crime,
brands them rs suspect and turns them
over to the wagging jaws OF earth's
character-scavengers without possible
ity OF being heard in their own behalf.
Its doors and ears are open to the pres
ence and voice OF accusation and crimi-
nation, but practically closed to all else.
1t breeds mischief, is the legal instru-
ment of personal enmity, answers no
good purpose that might not otherwise
be achieved and should be forever abol-
shed as a part of our system of criminal
procedure.
REAGAN aired his objections to the
Blair educational bill before the COM
mittee Of the House of Representatives
yesterday. Its unconstitutiOnality was
the theme of his two hours argument.
POwDERLY has spoken, Gould has been
heard and the country knows just as
much as they did before the inquest.
The great question still undecided and
in which the people are most interested,
is this: How can this committee put
breath into the dead body of southwest
ern industry beaten out OF it by this
strike on GOuld's roads? All other ques-
tions Just now are subOrdinated to this
and the PROSTATE business Of all this,
region from ST. Louis to the Gulf is anX-
iOusly awaiting a reply. The commit
tee will find nothing new in st. Louis, at
least such is likely to be the case. Con-
gress will be no wiser than before, the
business of the country no whit i'm
proved, the stOmaChs of starved work.
men no better filled, the starvation wages
of "3S per cent, minus" no whit in
creased, and all that will be accomplished
will be too infinitismal for human per-
| CepuOn. No committee can investigate
| dead body into life The power that
kills must make alive, or greater than
that assume control.
That telephone investigation has not
hung garland of glory around the neck
of the Democratic cabinet
The unchristian sentiment attributed
to Bishop Bowman, of St. Louis, has
called forth more malice in the rebuke it
has evoked that the hasty-tOngued
bishop was ever conscious of.
The State right doctrine will antago-
nize any effort of Congress to deal with
the labor question. The old S. r. war
horses are already ranging themselves
for the battle, and will do with it, If they
can, just as they are doing with the Blair
educational bill and the interstate COM
merce bill. These fellows would rather
see the States all 60 to the devil than
have one Of them saved by the interposi-
ton Of the power OF the National Gov
eminent. you may break, you may
shatter the jug II you will, but the scent
of the bourbon will hang round 1t still.
HoUsToN SHES its castor into the ring
on the hotel question, and wants the pub
lie to understand that the Driskill hotel
at Austin would hardly make decent
servants quarters for the Capitol at
Houston, while the Clarksville"Tremont"
would just about make a good dining
room for the big hotel at the Bayou City.
The announcement that Sui Ross will
open the campaign May s, at Sulphur
Springs, will be accepted by the people
Of Texas as the most proper and fitting
one that could be made. o, sheol!
THINGS are not healthy over the Dor
der, in her Gracious Majesty's new
Dominion" any more than they are in
the older dominion beyond the sea. The
union among the British American pos
sessions, so admirably arranged by Lord
Dutferin in 1867, has never suited the
Maratime provinces, and there has been
an uneasy feeling among them, which
has just escaped open rupture on more
than one occasion. Nova-SoOtia is par
ticularly displeased with the new ar
rangement by which she was made a
mere sppendage OF Quebec, a province
alien in language and ideas, and has
never ceased to deplore the change. She
now gives notice to the Dominion Par
lament that she will secede and apply
to the Imperial Parliament for the priv
ilges of LEGAL home rule. Another
problem for the G. o. NJ.
HIGH license statistics tell the same