San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01

per pound. Wool manufacturers and
wool growers should be equally pro-
tected, and both, to cover the difference
in cost of production and cost OF manu-
featuring between this country and It's
rivals in these industries.
Mr.. Belt claims in conclusion that MS
estimates are 500, OOO, 900 below the esti-
mates OF reliable judges and are not ex-
aggerated. In all this there is food FOR
reflection by the free traders OF Texas.
PROHIBITING THE DRUGGISTS.
The CAPABILITIES and Inequalities OF the
average prohibitory enactments are
something which no man can fsthom.
Some idea OF how they work Can prob
ably be gathered from the following dis
patch from the city Of Davenport. Iowa:
'All druggists In this city have
united in giving formal notice that after
TODAY thew will not sell or dispense any
alcoholic liquors of any kind for any
nurpose whatever. The action taken is
not from choice. Competent legal au-
thOrlty has advised the pharmacists
that the conditions Of the prohibitory
law passed by the last general assembly
are such that business cannot be done
without violating 1t. Representatives OF
the wholesale drug houses at Chicago
and in the east who have recently visited
interior towns between the Missouri
and Mississippi rivers say that they
have found but one druggist who Will
take out q permit under the new law,
and he has contract to furnish state
institution with the prescribed articles.
There are, however, some 2OO saloons
still openly doing business In Daven-
port, besides some wholesale llquor
houses"
Comment s hardly necessary. Daven-
port is a city of several thousands less
population than San Antonio. 1t has
been under the prohibition thumb-screw
for several years, and yet, notwifh.
standing we are told that prohibition
effeetually prohibits, there are two hum
dred saloons openly doing business and
some wholesale houses. Saloons run
openly, but druggists cannot make pre-
scriptions into which alcoholic COM
pounds enter without violation of law,
and as these druggists will not violate
the law they are compelled to give no.
tice that certain needed prescriptions
cannot be filled. Do sensible men be-
lieve that reformations In the drinking
practices of the day are to be evoked by
such legislation This is the legitimate
fruit and outgrowth of prohibition.
Fanaticism run to seed. Texas is drift
ing that way, and democracy is respon-
sible for II here as it was in Iowa where
it refused aid to anti-prohibition repub-
licans.
The Judge Gresham boom seems to
have struck Chicago. How it will
strike the Chicago convention is another
matter Three of the four Chicago dis
tricts have instructed for him. East st.
Louis, also, as seen in the action of the
eighteenth Illinois congressional district,
is warmly eulogistic of the Indiana
Judge. There is hardly a doubt but that
a very considerable part of Mr.. Blaine's
following will support Gresham when IL
comes to be accepted, as it will be
when the convention meets, that Mr.
Blaine is not a candidate. Gresham IL
only one among many who could De
nominated by the republican party who
would do credit to the country and be
decided Improvement upon the present
administration.
ANOTHER bOmbshell has been thrown
into the democratic camp. Chairman
Barnum OF the national committee o
the party is not in accord with CleVe
lands free trade, tarift-for-nothing
Mills combination programme. ID
does not admire that kind Of WOOL.
horse to enter hot presidential rae
with, and reports are rife that he vii
not undertake to conduct the csmpaig
on any such platform. If Cleveland Wi
accept of the nomination, as is stated
D only upon his own platform, and Bal
= mum will not conduct such campaign
the democracy will have to selec
another candidate or another chairman
Another candidate they have not, 8
8 another chairman they must have
9 Scott, OF Pennsylvania, is hungry for To
a honor.
d THE country is TO be congratulate
e that Grover has not put bis foot In it
s making a nomination for chief justic C,
at least to the extent of nominatin
d Minister Phelns The morning wire