San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-11

PARIS is holding the greatest expo
sition ever opened, and the daily at
tendance is over 10000. The City of
Paris has broken the record for ocean
travel, having made run of 5ll miles
in one day, and completed the run
from Queenstown to Sanly Hook
in fifty-three minutes, less than six
days, beating the best passage here
tofore made by two hours and fifty
two minutes. Paris is the only city
that could materialize a Boulanger.
Great is Paris.
THE Pearsall News took seven days
in journeying to the LIGHT box from
the Frio county sanctum. A gentle
man living one hundred miles north
of this city, writes, appoligIzlng for
not continuing the LIGHT, much as
I prize it, and gladly as would con-
tinue it'' because it has averaged four
days in reaching him during the past
wear. Rapid transit is not a dis
newspaper mail service in Texas.
THE democracy is greatly exercised
over the treatment that the colored
brother is meeting with at the hands
of the president. The Galveston News
is very much worked up over the af-
fair and seems to fear an exodus of
the colored voters to the democratic
party. The News says:
VIM. MurreIl, a prominent Louisiana col red
politician lately called upon President Har-
riSOn and informed him in uncquivOcated IAN
guags that if the latterS Biz nlngham policy
was carried out the colOred voters won d go
over TO the democracy bodily. Mr.. Harri son
counseled patience, but Murrell nfOrmC d I'm
that the cOlOred mars stock OF patience was
exhausted, and that he did not propose TO
spend much time in cultlvating that virtue i'll
the future.
1.-The presidential advice to Mr.. Muir
rell will hold good in the News case
also. Let the News have patience,
and it will understand the policy of
the administration better after it finds
out what it is.
THE Karnes County News criticises
the action of those who blocked out
the state policy of Texas in sequester-
ing public lands for school purposes
and remarks:
Opening the school lands to settlement is,
of course, now out of the question, but they
should never have been appropriated to the
school fund when the m aterial prosperity of
the country could have been so greatly en-
HANGED by different disposition OF them.
The development of the country should re
ceive the legislators first attention. Free
schools may be provided for afterwards
The Karnes man puts the camille of
his saddle on his horses withers. By
making ample provision for the main
tainance of her public schools, Texas
has made the most ample provision
also for immigration. Intelligence
will be drawn to a state where such
provisions are made for popular edu-
cation as it will be drawn nowhere
else. 1t is mistake to suppose that
Texas lands are not being rapidly set
tied. The vast extent of her territory
deceives, and the sum total of her
populations increase cannot be readi-
ly appreciated. The coming census
will show that no state in the south
has increased in population as rapidly
as has Texas during the past decade.
During the last ten years of this CEN
fury she will lead every state north
and south in the race for new popula-
ton. The provision for her public
schools and her university is the
glory of Texas.
THE question has been repeatedly
asked by mugwump paper of New