San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-26
Friday March 20, 1886.

Friday March %, 1886.
The Waco Day spouts strike lingo
like perpetual fountain.
"THERE is a Niger in the woodpil"."
This is the whole difficulty with the
B.air educational bill
TIE great Chicago dailies are working
the Sam Jones racket as a mean Of in
increased circulation. Even Sam has his
uses.
The Austin Evening Dispatch wei
comes Nose Harris rival evening VEN
ture to hospitable home and an eaIly
demise.
TINS fighting the battles over again on
the newspaper and magazine field is
more rancOurOus, but not near so bloody
as were the original engagements.
The Chicago lnterOCean says the
bible is mirror. True, and every man
who looks into it closely sees the reflec-
ton Of himself more clearly than any
thing else.
PHILADELPHIA will sup sorrow If she
monkeys with her gas-wOrks until they
get into the hands Of private corpora
ton, as there appears some danger OF
their doing.
The time has come for the politicians
who nominate the officers to take back
seat and look on while their candidates
are being knocked out of time. This is
peoples year.
FRANK WILLIAMS, in Harper's, asks:
Where are the Cattle? Up North they
are wallowing in the snow drifts, but in
the Big Grass State they are up to their
knees in pasture.
Two bran-new comets have announced
their intended visit to this planet. If
they catch the Texas fever and strike,
they will knock the cOnceit out of this
Jay Gould unpleasantness.
WHILE ii is not openly charged that
the people Of the coast towns of Texas
are cowardly, and especially Galveston,
it is believed that it would not be diff
cult to make them take water.
CAPITALISTS are combining in Europe,
pOolings their stock and running their
manufactures in common interest.
This means a freeze out Of small con-
Germs and the absolute control Of wages.
PAUPERIsM has increased in Germany
in ratio more than double that Of the
population during the last decade. The
law OF social relation that was in vogue
few hundred years ago don't work well
to-day.
The Houston Democracy have cap
tured the knights of Labor or the
knights have the bulge on the Democ-
racy, but we don't know which. The
Democratic ticket reads like n roll call
Of the Assembly.
The "Bull in the China Shop" yields
the ground to the bull in the printing
Office. This is no literary bull, but a
genuine shOrt.horn, as, saith the HOus-
ton Post, "Those who desire to purchase
Durham bull will call at our office"
Iowa has appropriated 10000 for q
State dairy department, has passed
scores of practical bills and will soon
adjourn. Somehow those old Republic
can States have a way Of getting down
to business that the ''unterrified" don't
catch on to.
IT will hardly do to bank on the state
ment Of the Agricultural Bureau, "that
there were but l07, 100000 bushels Of
wheat in farmers hands March LIST. The
completeness Of the report is seriously
questioned, and q new reading Of the
pages Of qualification is in order.
THE Albany Legislature is hitting a
square blow at corruption in the bill now
before that body, providing that city
railway charters shall be publicly sold
to the highest bidder and not given
away. If it becomes law, the Empire
State will have stopped most fruitful
source Of municipal iniquity.
The Haskell City Free Press, being
agriculturally-minded, observes that
candidates, like the seed in the garden,
are coming up" 1t might also have
added, they are all coming up green.
Several of them will soon be in full
blow, many Of them will "go TO pot"
early, and those that survive will run to
seed in the fall.