San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-31
OLD YEAR our--NEw YEAR IN.

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With this number of the LIGHT
closes the record for 1889. Tomor.
: row ushers In new year
: brighter with promise for Texas
in general, southwest Texas In
special, and San Antonio In particu-
lar than any year that ever rose
above the horizon of her life. The
year that dies tonight has brought
this.city much ofincrease; the year that
opens tomorrow will bring her more.
This year will demand of our people q
large minded and liberal devisement
for the comfort, cleanliness and safe
ty of the city, and for the enlarge
ment of all our ideas of public i'm
provement. 1t should see inaugur-
ated system of planting manufac-
turing industries which will place us
in the van of all Texas cities. 1t
should see q system of street cleaning
introduced which would relieve our
plazas and principal streets from the
burden of dust. filth and refuse which
daily disgraces us in the eyes .of
strangers. 1t should see q movement
for sewerage and the fires Of garbage
furnaces lighted. There is much
that it should see that it will not see,
but much improvement it will see,
and encouraging grounds to expect
more, with the municipal changes
that will surely come. In the mean
while, awaiting these changes, the
city recalls its past and is encour-
aged; it notes past mistakes and will !
profit by them; it still heads the pro-
cession in Texas and will keep up it's |
gait during 1890. To all its patrons,
and those who should be as we'll; to !
the citizen and the visitor within our
borders the LIGHT extends its wishes !
for HAPPY NEW YEAR.
WHAT next? The democratic jour-
mails are beginning to find fault with
the republican marty because it does
not take the colored man more closely
to its bosom. These journals know that
with very free sprinkling of colored
Office holders the republican party
can gain no strength at the south and
do not fancy any policy which seems
to favor the appointment of white
republicans only to Office. The New
York Herald would divide the colored !
vote and puts the question to the
colored voter thusly:
1.-THE solid south consists of two
parts, the solid white voters and the |
solid black voters. But what do the
blacks gain-what have they gained |
by this solidity? Nothing, except |
here end there pOstOffice or some !
othar petty Federal place flung to
them by their republican friends as a |
bone is flung to dog. 1t is time for |
the colOred voters to consider their |
situation and to abandon the false |
course which has brought upon them
as many of them assert maltreatment |
in the SOUTH"
On this same subject of the treat |
ment of the cOlored citizen the New
York Congregationalist affirms that
he is worse off in the north than in
the south, for in the north he Is ex-
cluded from the privileges of appren-
ticesh p in the skilled trades and all
avenues save waiting, barbering and
boot backing are closed against him.
There is too much truth in all this
and the0 'acts are not creditable to
northern 'humanitarians.
] e territory of Oklahoma contin-
ues to be hone of contention and a
source of discomfort. Every one
comedies the necessity of organiza-
ton, but the methods proposed to
date do not seem to fit the case
Some one ought to know enough
about that country and its wants to
introduce bill that would meet the
existing conditions there.
BETWEEN her council gas contract
and her World Fair gas the people |
of st. Louis have got more gas than
they can prcfitably dispose of.
PIMPLES ON THE FACE
Denote an impure state of the blood and are |
looked upon by many with suspicion. Aoker |
Blood Elixir will remove all impurities ard |