San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-27

applied for or unthinkingly bestowed.
A successful school superintendent re-
quires a combination Of qualities diff
cult to find. He must be, If not teacher,
acquainted with the whole theory OF
teaching; he must be an executive officer
OF the very highest type; the administra-
ton Of the Governors Office does not
call for SO clear cut executive skill rs
does the office of Superintendent OF In
struction; he must be an able tinancier;
he must be thoroughly versed In the
history, possibilities and prospective
growth Of the State, for he must be
qualified to suggest Legislation on school
matters; last, but by no means least. he
needs a frame of iron, moral Verteore
OF steel, patience that approaches the
infinite, a sense OF justice SO strong that
of him it may be fittingly said, BAL
lanced and just are thy DEGREES" The
man who comes the nearest to filling
this bill is the man Texas wants for her
next Superintendent Of Public lnstruc-
ton.
GREECE, having concluded her sputter.
accepts the inevitable and concludes to
disarm.
SUPprNG soup with darning needle is
able-bodied satisfaction compared to
that which the Cleveland journals ex-
tract from the recent resolution OF the
Grand Army OF the Republic.
PERRY BELMONT has left the sacred
precincts OF the congressional restaurant,
in which he conspicuously displayed bis
snobbsh instincts, to wrestle with the
bill Ito promote arbitration anG encour-
age reciprocal relations with the other
republics on this continent In this
latter field he will uncover his brains
sufficiently to prove his brotherhood
with the original Bottom Perry was
born too late for Shakespeare to utilize
him.
SHERMAN tickles herself all over on ac-
count of prospective $4,000 In public
improvements this season.
FRANCE and Germany are at peace out
side, but each feels the prick OF the old
sword wounds and it rankles. The
press OF both countries seem bent on
keeping up the irritation, and 1t does
not seem likely that an open rupture
will be very long delayed. France par
ticularly snarts under the memories OF
Sedan, and the German press do not
permit that wound to heal.
JOURNALISTIC amenities are easy be-
tween the Waco Examiner and the
Houston Post.
| REIIGIOvs assemblies and educational
conventions are quite generally utilized
for the purpose of giving send-off to
some popular resort. The general racket
is TO decide on holding the gathering,
and then send out the missionaries to
work up the attendance. Those who
| have caught on usually make 1t pan out
clean pay dirt.
| The decree has gone forth from the
Missouri Pacific headquarters Of author
ity that all. section fOremen or foremen
| Of gangs connected with the knights OF
Labor must be discharged. Their with
drawal cards from the order is the only
condition under which they will be re-
tanned. These withdrawal cards must
be presented to the 'roadmaster' under
whom they serve, and these roadmasters
are held personally responsible for the
faithful carrying out Of the order. This
decree, it is expressly stated. has no ref
erence to late strikers, who will not be
employed under any circumstances, but
to every man in the employ of the road,
no matter how unexceptionable his con-
duct and services. 1t simply means that
all Knights OF Labor must leave the en-
plOy Of the road or cease to be Knights.
The foremen come first, after they are
all removed it will be easy to deal with
the section hands, wedding them out as
new men present themselves. This &C
ton shows the animus Of the road and
intensifies the bitterness of the struggle
which, despite all assertions to the con-
trary, is not ended, but continues tC
paralyZe the whole trade Of the South
west.
BLESSED De those candidates who gel
in their work before the convention, for
there be many Of them will stand nc
show afterward.
KANSAS has done a magnificent wOrl
In arb0r-culture. That southwest
desert" as it was once called, has now
over 100000 acres Of cultivated forests
and over 10000, 600 fruit trees. Progress.
sive farming in rainless Kansas has done
it all. Texas, in time, will do likewise
COMPLAINT is made In Europe that thu
sturdy beggars who solicit aims with ,
club have overrun Belgium; wages ar,
low and thousands are out OF work. II
just such condition will this country b,
reduced If a wise labor legislation doe
not intervene. We are drifting toward
Ii at the rate Of "a hours day.