San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-10

The action of the city council in de-
termining to commence the work of
street improvement in the four Origi-
nal wards of the city simultaneously
will be generally approved. The
work is very necessary to be done and
on the principle that something is
better than nothing, the LIGHT is of
opinion that it is we'll to proceed. 1t
is utterly useless to offer any advice
or venture any suggestions CT ncern-
ing the prosecution of this work, and
the LIGHT forpears, but while expect
ing the worst, will still hope for the
best and say no more than it can help
concerning the unbusiness-like meth
DDS of conducting public improve
ments which have 80 generally char
acterized the city administration for
the past four or five years. That new
vim may be infused into the work of
street improvement may be too much
to expect, but we may at least hope to
avoid some past errors and find that
the work when accomplished will
really result in some tangible and
permanent Improvement to the streets
upon which this money Is expended.
MILLS may be accepted as the lead
or of the democracy in congress by his
friends in Texas, but the issue of the
campaigns in the northern states is
not favorable to rabid free tradeism,
and before Mills is accepted as leader
of the opposition to this protection adj
ministration and the protection ma
jority in congress, he may have a nice
little fight of his own to engineer.
The wisdom of the democracy calls for
a conservative, not a radical position
in congress and Mills will find more
Sam Vandalism in the national legis-
lature than he can conveniently dis
pose of. The republican ascendency
could not be more surely perpetuated
than by the continued and undisput-
ed leadership OF Roger Q.
EVEN old Virginia walls out a des-
pairing note and makes frantic ap-
peal to the democracy of the District
of Columbia to come to their aid. 1t
is the old cry, the distress cry, wrung
from the necessities of the Virginia
democracy as the cry was wrung from
Wellington at Waterloo, but there
will be no Bluecher to respond. The
Virginia democracy die hard, but they
die all the same.
BOULANGERISM is busted and the
French republic is more stable today
than at any time since the nephew of
his uncle was dethroned by Bis
marck.
THERE is some commotion among
business men and particularly in
financial centers over the practical
disappearance of the bank surplus
in New York; but there is nothing
specially alarming in the situation.
1t is no doubt the movement of money
to the interior for the more profitable
investments there found and for the
mOveing OF crops that has caused
this drainage. For years prior to
this present decade there was always
a scarcity of money at the eastern
centers during the fall months, and
in the early period of this present
decade when the whole country was
unusually prosperous there was a
deficit at New York and the bank
reserves were below the legal limit.
With the country teeming with the
products of fruitful season, with a
greater foreign demand for food pro-
ducts than tor years past, with bank
cearings larger than ever before
and business on substantial, not
speculative, basis there is not real
ground for uneasiness. This con-
dition of the eastern money market
is but temporary.