San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-25

THE Delaware democrats fought out
their little fight and landed republi-
= can senator in Washington for six
Z years, and still they are not happy.
Bayard and Salisbury can sit down
on the door stone of regret and mourn
the fool manner in which they loafed
around the vestibule of opportunity,
but it will do them no good. Higgins
is in for six years.
THE Houston Herald, rejoicing over
the prospects of deep water at the
mouth of the Brazos, says:
Zone of the results of the recent con-
tract let to secure deep water at the
mouth of the Brazos will be to make
Galveston hump herself. Unless Gal
weston gets deep water her epitaph
may as well be written"
With deep water any where on the
Texas coast Galveston will have to
hump herself, and San Antonio will
be the gamer every time. 1t will not
matter so much to this city where so
long as the deep water is found. Her
railroads will find the spot without
any trouble.
TALK about the International fair
and exposition paying! Read this
and ponder upon it:
"The Dallas Evening Journal puts
the cash invested in the annual fair of
its city at $50, 900. Upon this sum the
management has given three great
expeditions which have advertised
Dallas and adjacent country in every
part of the United States and has
brought, possibly, 100000 to the
town itself. In other words, the $780,
600 expended has paid for itself about
sixty times over and has not finished
yet. Does it pay to have fair? Well,
rather"
This is very fair sized specimen Of
what good fair can do for a town,
and it is only fair that the fair which
so greatly aids city should itself be
aided by the citizens.
THE Richmond, Virginia, city coun-
Gil can give points to even q San An
tonic city council in the matter of dis
examinations for party reasons. The
associated press dispatches of We'd
nesday contain the following, which |
speaks for itself:
"The council committee on grounds |
and buildings decided last night to |
pass upon the political proclivities of
all workmen hereafter employed on |
the new city hall. 1t is said this vir-
tually means that no republican will
be given a job"
This is party partizanship run to
seed. 1t will react like a boomerang !
and hurt the unskilled hand that .
throws it worse than it will the head
at which it is hurled.
The citizen who wades through |
what ought to be sidewalks and |
shins the muddy streets "blessesn |
the city administration and resolves to
vote for French and Reform.
THE Ell Paso Herald believes in
corralling the railroads first, and de-
horning them afterwards. In its issue
of the 2lst inst. It says:
"What Texas needs is more rail-
roads and not more railroad laws. In
other states the legislatures did not
become uprOariOusly antagonistic un-
til railroads were plentiful. But the
Texas legislature rushes to the front
to enact variety of hostile and strin
gent laws before quarter of the state
is provided with proper transpOrta-
ton facilities. There is entirely too
much hayseed demagOgism at Aus
TIM
There are two sides even to this
matter. The state should guard
equally against unfriendly railroad
legislation and undue license to rail-
road corporations. 1t cannot afford to
hold out bait to induce railway con-
struction and then draw string ent
lines of restriction and regulation be-
cause it has the railroad in its power.
Texas wants no laws uprOariously an
tagonistic to railways, now or ever;
nor does it want to give railway cor
porations unbridIed license. No rail-
way corporation, that will beneft
| Texas, will ask more than what it is
justly entitled to as between itself and
| the citizens; the state can grant it no
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