San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-05

purpose of trade in all countries and in many
of the islands of the sea demand and will have
our adequate care in their personal and com
mercal rights. The necessities of our navy
require convenient coaling stations and dock
and harbor privileges. These and other
trading privileges we will feel free to obtain
only by means that do not in any degree par.
take oiscOercion, however feeble the govern
ment from which we ask such concessions
may be. but having fairly obtained them by
methods and for purposes entirely consistent
with the most friendly disposition toward all
other powers and our consent VIII be neces.
sary to any modification in the Impairment of
spect the flag of any friendly nation or the
just rights of its citizens nor TO exact like
treatment of our own.
With reference to official appointments the
burden and responsibility of such appoint
ments was shown to be great and the demand
made that those who volunteer such advice or
are asked for 1t exercise consideration and
fidelity in such recommendations.
Treasury surplus was not deemed the greav-
est of all evils. yet was serious one. IL was
possible to reduce revenue without breaking
any small excess of revenue could be applied
to payment of the public debt, and the IN
crease of naval armament.
Pension laws should give more adequate
relief to union soldiers and sailors and their
widows and orphans.
The country was congratulated on the near
prospect of the admission of the Dakota
Washington and Montana territories the ad-
mission of which, in part had been unreason-
ably delayed.
,Tae interest taken in the reform of the
election laws was noted, and fayOrably COM
mented upon in part as follows:
Those who have been for years calling at
tention to the pressing necessity of throwing
about the ballot box and about elections fur
ther safeguards in order that our elections
might clearly appear to be so. will welcome
the accession of any VINO did not so soon dis
cover the need of reform. The national con.
greSs has not rs yet taken control of elections
in that case over which the constitution gives
il jurisdiction, but has accepted and adopted
the election laws of the several states, pro-
vIded penalties for their violation and meth
cd of supervision. Only the efficiency of the
state laws or an unfair or partisan admins
tratiOn of them could suggest departure
fro this policy. 1t was clearly. however, in
contemplation of the trainers of the constitu-
ton that such an exigency might arise
and provision was wisely made for II.
The freedom of the ballot is the chief
condition of our national life, and no
power vested in congress or in the executive
to secure or perpetuate it should remain I'M
used The PEOPLE of all the congressional
districts have an equal interest that the cleo
ton in each state shall truly express the
views and wishes of the majority OF the quail
fed electors residing within it The results
of such elections are not local, and insistence
of electors residing in other districts that
they shall be pure and free does not SAVIOR at
all Of impertinence. But we must not forget
that we take these Oaths upon condition that
justice and mercy shall hold the reignS OF
power, that the upward avenues of hope
shall be free to all the people. No political
party can long pursue advantage at the eX-
pcnse of public honor, or by rude aud indie
cent methods, without a protest and dsaffec
ton in it's body. The peaceful agencies of
commerce are more fully sealing the neces-
sary unity of all our communities and increas-
lug it IN the south. We shall find unallOyed
pleasure in the relation which our next Gen.
sus will make of the swift development of the
great resources of some of the states. Each
state will bring its generous contribution to
the great agg regate of the nations increase.
And when the harvest from the field, the
cattle from the hills and the ores of the earth
shall have been we ghed, counted and valued
we will turn from them all and crown with
the highest hOnOrs the state that has the most
promoted education, virtue, justice and
patriotism among its people.