San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-06
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

FREE trade in raw material does not
suit the producer any more than Tree
trade in the manufactured article suits
the manufacturer.
The smallpox scare In California has
a very substantial basis. The disease is
epidemic in San Francisco. The return.
ing excursionists will no doubt many OF
them find temporary winter home In
this state.
CARLISLE has announced his com
mittees and now the house can
get to work grinding on the oOngresslOn-
al grlst. What will come out rs flour In
the sacks OF the people is one OF the
mysteries.
ANOTHER hero dead. The engineer Of
a train on the New River division OF the
Norfolk and Western railway, Virginia,
held on to his lever attempting to save
his train and went into the river with II.
The engine disappeared and with II the
heroic engineer.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive Fire
men do not show any Intention OF being
dragged into the strike In the great coal
regions of Pennsylvania. The grand
master OF the Brotherhood says mo
bull-dozing on the part OF members be-
longing TO the Knights OF Labor VIII be
permitted, ard | will reclaim the chart
erif any member Of the lodge lie allowed
to be involved or brought into
a strike that we have nothing to do
with"
CANADA Is hot for commercial union,
and is using all her efforts to compel
such a union with the United States as
the only means of settling the fisheries
question acceptably 10 this government.
In such union Canada has everything
to gain and nothing to lose, and Uncle
Sam will find 1t to his interests to go
slow on any such proposition. ReciprC-
city has been tried and 1t has been
clearly demonstrated that these United
States do not gain anything from free
trade with the Dominion Of Canada.
WESTWARD and southwark and partic-
ularly southwestwaTd, does the
star OF empire and OF pro-
gress make Its most rapid
movements. The Railway Age calls at
tention to the fact that while the rail-
road building is almost extensively con-
fined to the west and south, the railroad
failures are largely In the eastern
and middle states. Railway property,
aggregating $32S, 100000 of capital In
vestments, was sold under foreclosure
last year. and one-third OF this amount
was on account OF New York and Penn
sylvsnia roads. No such reckless man
agement, or foolish expenditure appears
In the management of western roads.
The pope OF Rome is the biggest man
In Europe today. Could he content
himself with spiritual dominion there
would be little to stand between him and
such an influence, as the power behind
- Aral
as would make his friendship or his en-
nifty the thing TO be desired above all
else by the rulers Of the world. This
effect Is already being seen in part. Bis
marck, Queen Victoria, Gladstone on
behalf of Ireland. ard now the czar of
Russia are all vieing with each other in
showing respect and friendship for the
Roman pontifi. The car in his late
congratulations said II doubt not that
the high wisdom OF which your holiness
has given SO many proofs will enable
me to harmonic the needs OF the RC-
man church in Russia with the fundG-
mental principles Of my empire"
The board OF trade OF this city has
work cut out for 1t In arranging for the
southwestern convention. The resOlu-
tiOns committing that matter to the
board of trade, as passed in yesterdays
mass meeting, call for "immediate and
energetic action" This cOnYentlOn will
be the most important public gathering
held in San Antonio this year. 1t will
OvershadOw any political movement;
any state convention. The southwest
wants its whole strength to be eolOen-
trsted on southwestern Texas interests.
Deep water at Arkansas Pass is one oftbe
most important questions that will come
before that convention. Corpus Christi
and Del Rio have fallen into line for this
movement. All west Texas must come
there in time. Fort Worth sneers at the
idea of San Antonio getting any foot
hold in west Texas very far north OF her
own latitude. The possibilities of this
region Of Texas are not yet understood
by its own people, much less by its rivals
in north Texas. The building of new
lines of road to open up the vast region
between here and Colorado, and the
securing of deep water harbor at Aran-
sas Pass to insure the conc, ntrstion of
those lines on the west Texas seaboard,
is the work to which San Antonio stands
committed.