San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-09
SPARKS FROM MY ANVIL.
Written for the LIGHT.

Written for the LIGHT.
With great inconsistency some
democratic newspapers find fault with
Gen. Harrison; because, as they al
lege. he was tainted with know-noth-
ingism. In 1854 and 1855, when know
nothingism was in full bloom, Gen.
Harrison was only about p years of
age, and not likely to have proclaimed
his sentiments. The wings of the
south in 1856 all joined the know-noth-
ing party, and in 1856, voted for Fill
more-the nominee of that party. All
of these old wings that survive are
now full-blown and red-hot demo-
Gratis. They were blatant and ram
pant know-nothings in 1855. Roger @.
Mills was know-nothing in 1855, and
a loud-mouthed prohibitionist, to
boot; now he is democratic
leader on the principle, Of
lucus non lucendo. Dave gilbert
son was wing and know nothing
in 1856. So too, was John Ireland.
These men are democrats now. Near
ly one half of the southern democracy
is composed of men who were know
nothings in 1856. We doubt if Gen.
Harrison ever expressed know moth
ing sentiments in 1855; but if he did,
heis entitled to be judged as lenient-
ly as Mills, Culbertson, Ireland, etc.,
have been judged.
Tattling women are chunks Of dyna-
mite.
If there were no silly women to
keep them in cOuntenance, there
would be no dudes, or men women.
A laborer in England gets from 120
to $50 cents per week out of which he
has to subsist himself, and on this &C
count, English manufactures can
undersell American manufacturers
should the customs duties be materi-
ally reduced. No sane man will pur-
sue losing business, hence Ameri-
can manufacturers would close their
mills and factories, thereby throwing
hundreds of thousands of poor men
and women out of work. If our mills
and factories are forced to close by
the Mills bill, the operations would
have to become farm laborers, starve,
or 60 to the pOorhouse. Protection
helps poor men, because it furnishes
them work at better wages than they
can get, as farm laborers, and poor
men seldom buy foreign made goods,
and consequently are not damaged by
the levy of customers. The United
States has grown and prospered under
a protective tariff, and that is
alone enough to silence shallow de-
Chalmers and visionary theorists like
Cleveland, Mills & Co. Texas needs
manufactures of all sorts, but should
the Mills bill become law, American
industries will be Frustrated and
Texas will soon pour out the walls of
wrath upon the heads of Mills & Co.
Every Texas farmer is interested in
seeing the state dotted over with
mills and factories. Every sheep
owner will be ruined in case wool
should be placed on the free list. AS
sensible men, they should vote
against Cleveland and his under
strappers. 1t is downright lunacy in
men to vote to place men in power,
whom he knows will use that power
to carry out wild theory, that will
utterly PROSTATE American industries
already IN operation and arrest the
udSCtuG luuuSUIldl cuUcI pIlSc VI Uuc
south. Politics should be guided by
common sense and business princi-
Piles, not by sentiment and theory.
Texas needs protective tariff to
shingle her territory over with mills
and factories and to foster her sheep
husbandry.
Cleveland is now cumming around,
generally, in the hope Of picking up
votes. He announced in 1884, that he
would not be candidate for second
term, but he now wants second term,
and wants it very bad. His army of
trenchermen and henchmen are work
ing with "pernicious partizanship,"
to wheedle the people into voting for
the great bovine. The South will be
carried by fraud for Cleveland, as it
was in 1884. Democracy and election
frauds are Siamese twins.
Gallagher has a good hand, if he
only plays it right and does not weak
en- on the home stretch. PNUT.
Private Secretary Lamont will not
take vacation this summer. His
wife and children have gone to Cort-
land, n. Y, and will soon 60 to the
Maine coast for the remainder of the