San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-05
NOT BLIND, BUT CAN'T SEE.

amounts to a gift with some people
while with others it rises above tina
and becomes positive genius. There
is man in Laredo who ranks among
the geniuses in his ability not to SEE
a thing, and the more obvious it is
the more incapable does he seem tC
be of discerning it. Of course he is.a
democrat, for the invisibility OF the
visible, and the non-preseEce of the
present, has become a democratic
dogma. This particular democrat is
the paragraphist and proprietor OF
the Laredo Times, and in a recent
paragraph he recorded his inability
to recognize the existing in these
words:
"a paragraph in Yesterdays San
Antonio Express is little surprising
from the fact that the tenor is to the
its home contemporary, the LIGHT,
In efforts to create the impression
that the colored man is Disseminated
against in Texas, when nothing is
farther from the TRUTH
By one of those peculiar coinci-
dences which sometimes happen in
the best regulated newspaper offices,
the same mail which conveyed the
Laredo wisdom to the LIGHT sanctum
brought another journal, from an
other quarter, of another stripe, and
other information. AS a
contrast to the Laredo declaration,
that the Express and LIGHT
had put the truth at the
antipodes in intimating that
The colored man was Disseminated
against in Texas, this other journal |
rom East Texas, unconscious of what !
he times had asserted, con tanned the
blowing:
&C. NJ. Furguson has been tried and
acquitted from the three trumped up
md shOddy charges against him from
Iort Bend county. This trial closes
he disgraceful scenes that caused
'urguson and others to be compelled
o leave their homes. But by his
luck and cool, calm judgment, Mr..
'urguson has gotten the better of the
ght.n
This paragraph refers to one Of the
lost disgraceful acts of persecution,
rising from color prejudice, that ever
ccurred in any free country. The
hole uniustifiable train of events;
he forcible deprivation of office, the
breed abandonment of his records as
istriCt clerk. and of his property and
amily. as well, and all this at a mo-
lent's notice; his arrest in his place
exile for malfeasance in office,
fter his enimies had worked
heir will with that office; his
rial, after his friends had secured
hange of venue, and his triumphant
cquittal as recorded above-all
rove, as only facts and court records
an, that this man, Ferguson, was so
-eated because of his color and his
olitics, and yet the Times says that
IL farther from the truth"
nan to assert that the cOlored
ian is Disseminated against in
eXas. 1t is true that the
)lOred man is less Disseminated
gainst in Texas than in any other
outhern state, but there is discrimi-
alton and intimidation wherever
ne colored republican outnumbers
10 white democrat. This thing, so
lain to courts and juries is not per-
eived by the Laredo Times; these
ICts, so patent to every one else, and
all over Texas, are not
zen to exist by the Times. and 80 the
light says that the ability of this
aredO gentleman not to see things
mounts to a positive genius. Stet.
A MONUMENT Is proposed to the
lemOry of the heroic Al. Hayne who
acrificed his lite IN the effort to save
fe in the burning Spring Palace at
Ort Worth. The Fort would honor
erself by erecting such a monu-
lent and every citizen of Texas
hould respond to the call, esteeming
a privilege to bear some part In
to the states appreciation
f such genuine heroism. Earth's
lory rolls contain the names of none
1ore worthy than Hayne. The man
1ho dies for his fellow upselfishIy,
las reached the summit and is the