San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-28
CATCHING AT STRAWS.
.ltten for the LIGHT.

| WI
| frtten for the LIGHT.
v Our democratic free trade politicians
| and newspapers, our neighbor, the
Times, included, are in the engulfing
currents, and in their wild despair
are catching at every straw afloat.
| Cleveland sizes the defeat of his fish
cries treaty and threatens suspension
| of business relations with Canada.
If he desires to drown himself with
ridicule, he has taken the right
method. Just think of our great
president, who weighs at least 24O
pounds, assuming the role of "the
angry boy" and because the senate
condemns his fisheries treaty, framed
in the interests of England and Can
ada and against the interests of the
United States, he, in spirit of retalia-
ton, exhibits his spite. Then, too,
| the Times in it's issue of the
oath instant says Reagan was
quick to seize on Blaine's
remarkable statement that trusts are
largely private affairs, with which
neither President Cleveland or any
other private citizen has any right to
interfere, just think of our free
trade neighbor commencing Reagan
as "quickn to assail Blaine's heresy,
and then in the next breath asserting:
Blaine, in one sense, certainly ut
tered a truism, when he said, no pri-
vate individual has any right to in
terfere with trusts. A private in
dividual cannot directly interfere to
abate a most glaring nuisance, but
must appeal to the law" The query
is if Blaine uttered "truism" how
could the brilliant Reagan assail
truism? Well, the brilliant editor of
the Times explains the democratic
idea by saying: "Mr. Blaine undoubt-
eddy meant that the representatives
of the people, in legislature and con-
gress had no right to interfere"
What cheek for our small Times
editor to assume to say what Mr..
Blaine "meant"
Think of the assumption ! Blaine
never was accused of want of brains
or ability to say what he wished to
say on any subject, and yet here is an
out-of-the-way editor i'll free trade
whirlpool, so hard up for straw to
float him, that he assumes the role of
a wOuld-be mentor for the greatest
orator of America All yes, could
you say for Mr.. Blaine some foolish
thing, something that would be easy
and natural for you, how you could
invent campaign material" and as
found all readers of such stuff.
Ye Times man yelps out on
that old trail about Blaine
not being lawyer. While ne
may not be great lawyer, he is not
a fool. And why we ask can you
charge Blaine thus. Is not this
cruel thrust at Cleveland for appoint
ing L. q. &. Lamar to a position on
the supreme bench? If the editor of
the Times will look back a few years
into the records of congress he will
learn that one Randolph Tucker, of
Virginia, accused Blaine of not being
a lawyer. WhereupOn Blaine retOrted
by reading some of fuckers decisions
as judge, whereupon Tucker subsi-
ded in ridicule, muttering something
about it being beneath the dignity of
gentleman" to go nosing about in
court records hunting up opinions of
that kind. Blaine dropped Mr..
Tucker with the remark, if
that was the knowledge re-
quired to constitute gentleman
a lawyer, he for one didn't desire to
pose as a lawyer. We have not heard
of any one assailing Blaine, as a
lawyer, since that date, until this in
fantile effort of our neighbOr the
Times.
Allow us to say in closing, Mr..
Blaine don't need any interpreter
and especially very feeble one of the
democratic free trade type. The people
who read understand the utterances
of the republican platform against
trusts" and know they are as ex-
plicit as those of the democratic plat
form. The peril of the democratic
party must be great, when it is catch
ing at straws to save it from drown