San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-06

The Houston Post says that thu
republicans cannot ride into powe
over the democratic press, and moral
ICES on the fact "that it was the Ass
not Mr.. Balaam who saw the threat
eniug angle oppose his progress. "Tht
Post is not complimentary to his OWL
party organs who have been seeing
the distractions in the way OF the
repu blcan party until their eyes are
so holden that they can see nothing
else.
THERE was much said at Richmond
and elsewhere about war between
the states" There never was wal
between the states. New York did
not make war, neither did Virginia,
nor any state North or South. 1t was
a war between the United States and
a confederacy OF seeded states, united
together under one common govern
ment to resist the authority of the
| Nation, OF which they formed part
prior to their session from the Union.
| The term "war between the states" is
a misnomer, and is misleading.
THE Tyler Democrat finds no good
in the Pan-American congress, but in
the Qualification of the Lost cause"
by some of its Central, American
mem bers, it finds common bond of
sympathy. What a gain it would
have bee to the loyal government ii
some democratic editors, who inherit
ed nothing from the secession leaders
but their venom, had died in that
last ditch of which so much was said
about twenty-siX years ago.
READING in the Fort Worth Ga
zette this head line, "a Call to Pro-
vide for the Relief of our Beloved
Presidents family" one would ma
turally suppose that the president of
the United States had died and left
his family in want. Instead thereof
it merely refers to the lead of the Sc
cedng states who, after those states
had exhausted their powers of resist
ence and laid down their arms, him
self refused to accept the olive branch
of peace, and despising American citi-
zenship as an unholy thing lived re-
bellously to the end of his life. This
is "Our Beloved Presidentn in the
mind of the Gazette. A journal that
has not had one decent word to say for
the chief magistrate OF the nation.
These are the things that make loyal
men tired and prevent the real har-
mony of the nation. SO long as the
memory OF four years of disuniOn and
secession are more highly cherished
than all the years of an undivided
nation, before and since that at
tempted dismemberment, 50 long will
the divlsive forces hold the field.
THE New Birmingham Times is
skinning Hogg for not giving up his
railroad passes on which he travels
through the state trying to root up
the railroad tracks, and asks:
what was it or who was it that
developed Texas. that built cities
where there had been prairies, that
filled up the waste places and made
Texas fit to live in? Was it NJ. Hogg
or the men who built the railroads of
Texas? While Mr.. HOgg is telling
the farmers of the state that corpora
tons are eating up their substance,
corporations are steadily engaged in
developing Texas resources. Which
is accomplishing most for Texas:
Perhaps the convention will answer
these questions more satisfactorily to
Texas than Mr.. Hogg can. 1t may
not be amiss to wait and see.
GOVERNOR NICHOLS and his friends
will not permit the question of renew
al of lottery license to come before the
people of the state If he can POSSIBLY
avoid it. He has taken high ground
against the lottery and conscious that
were the question submitted to the
! people a strong vote in favor of the
reissue would be returned he seems
bent on preventing any such course.
The vote to fill vacancy in legislature,
in Tensas parish, was overwhelmingly
In favor of the lottery candidate, thus
showing that the parish is almost a
unit. The benefits to the state insti-
buttons and the levees, from the dis
tribution of 81 100000 a year among
them for period of twenty-five years
can hardly be Overrated. The lead
ing journals of the state advocate the