San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-03

was assaulted Oy lip MolIlsoh anu
laid up for two months, and Shar-
dein, who had his ear tipped by
shot from E. o. Stevens pistol.
Had Shardein killed Stevens or had
Rips shot Morrison public senti-
ment would have justified the act.
The LIGHT denies that public opinion
in this city is with the thugs, or is
opposed to the proper use of his Of
fensive weapons by policeman. 1t
may be that the punishment for as
saulting an officer is not severe
enough, and that the law needs to be
amended in this particular. If so,
amend it, but do not put irresponsible
power in the hands OF policemen UNI
der the specious plea that only re-
sponsible men should be appointed
to office. Until a radical cuange is
made in the methods of appointing
and training policemen things will
remain very much as they are.
Sober, cool headed men, good boxers
and wrestlers, have little difficulty
in making arrests, and do not COM
plain of the unfriendleness of public
opinion. Men physically and morally
disqualified for police duty, whose
positions are the reward of political
service will always be in trouble, and
these would be the very men to take
advantage of the license to shoot for
which citizen argues. Five men suffer
from unnecessary violence on the part
of the police where one policeman
suffers from an unfriendly public sem
timent which stands in the way of his
defending himself. The assertion or
inference is not true that the officers
of the law are not backed by a public
sentiment amply sufficient to justify
them in using all proper means for
the enforcement of law and the pro-
lection of their own lives and limbs.
When this maudlin sentiment which
would license police officers to shoot
every time an arrest is resisted, when
this sentiment is corrected the lives
of men guilty of petty offenses will
not be sacrificed as was that of poor
Crawford in Galveston.
THE Jamestown horror transcends
that of the English flood, the Vienna
theater, or any other calamity by
fire or flood that has occurred in
Europe or America during the last
half century. 1t is a horror that
blanches the face of a continent and
makes the heart of a whole people |
stand still with awful suspense. 1t |
reaches from far away Pennsylvania
to our own borders and p,unges some
Of the citizens of our own beloved |
A lamo in the depths ola bereavement |
all the more terrible on account of its |
black uncertainty. With them we
mourn.
tration for not making changes in Of
ice in Texas with greater rapidity,
and attempts to chaff the party for
its allegiance to the adj
The Express is re-
minded that changes are not being
made for the sake of change as was
done under Cleveland. That all of
ficers against whom charges are not
preferred are serving out their full |
terms. That no charges of offensive |
partizanship are regarded by Mr..
Harrison and that deliberation, not |
indecent haste characteriZes the ac- |
ton of the administration. This may |
not be pleasing to the democracy but |
it suits the republicans of Texas first |
rate. There may be some exceptions |
among the office grabbers, but these
only prove the rule.
The Alamo Ice company, corner |
of Cameron and West Houston streets,
is now prepared to deliver ice in any
quantity. 5-2-tf
-Masury's liquid paints will cover
more surface, last longer, and fade
less than any paints on the market.
adapted to this climate.
S-27-1y B. c. RELY & Co., Ag'ts.
Notice..
The annual meeting of the Lone
Star Brewing company for the cleo
ton of board of directors, will be held
at the office of the company. on We'd
nesday, June5, 1889. 5-23-tf