San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-13


state convention is in session at Mont
gomery. The attendance is creditable,
about 200 being present. The only
item of special interest during yester-
days session was the speech of the
vice president of the Louisville and
Nashville railway, pledging the COM
pany and the railroads in general to
do their full share in aiding lmmigra-
ton movements with excursion and
immigration rates and in any way in
which they could cooperate with the
people. AS yet no definite action has
been had on any thing. The PROPOSE
tions of members are still in chaotic
condition and until they are formulat-
ed and presented through the COM
mittee on resolutions there will be
nothing specific. The attendance en-
braces most of the.southern states and
delegates from New Mexico.
Col. BARLOW, of the Victoria Advo-
cate, is quite level-headed in the fol-
lowing:
he HlONS CiCS-
ton, or rather to enforce the law
against it., will not work. Hogg has
gone far enough to find out that the
law is unpopular. No law which is
not underwritten by public sentiment
can be enforced, Why don't legisla-
ture recognize this great truth? If
they did, our statute books would
contain far less useless rubbish than
they do"
This is as near the truth as there is
any immediate occasion for.
THE Paris News, as if to confirm the
saying-"Though thou should bray
fool in mortar with pestIe, yet will
not his fOolishness depart from him."
evolves the following from the depths
of his stupidity:
1T seems that the men who put up
the most money to elect Harrison are
to get cabinet positions. Politicians
will make a note of this for future re-
ference"
THE LIGHTS justification, some
days since, of the action of the Birm-
ingham sheriff, is fully approved in
the action of the governor of tire state
who compliments the sheriff on the
performance Of his duties. Birming-
ham put herself in bad box when
she made that attack on the Jail, and
the sooner she quiets down, the bet
ter tor her.
The Ashboune act, which has |
passed the house of lords, and now
awaits the queens approval, simply |
increases the amount available to be |
lent to Irish tenants for the purchase
of estates, from G5,000,OO0 sterling to
G1O,0OO,OO0. The government lends
the money at IL per cent, and the
tenant, by paying that amount be-
comes in forty years the owner of his
estate in fee simple. Applications for
advances of nearly G6,000000 have
been made under the original act.
A chapel is about to be built at the
Berlin station on the consolidated
railroad in Connecticut. The money
which is to pay for the building has
been raised by ladies who have gone
about securing the names of persons
who would pay for one brick or more
which is to go into the chapel. One of
the ladies wrote to President-elect
Harrison and asked him to buy some
bricks in the chapel. He did so, send
ing g. The bricks are to be marked
with his name and put in the corner
of the building.
The third annual meeting of the
American Economic association will
be held in Philadelphia, December rs,
and 20. The association membership
has increased over so per cent since
the last meeting, and the number of
branches from one to five. They are
now local organizations in Springfield,
Mass, Orange, n. j., Buffalo, Wash
ington, and Galesburg Ill. Papers
will be read by distinguished special
lists. The president is Francis A.
Walker and Secretary Richard It.
Ely, the latter of John Hopkins uni
versity.