San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-16
INARrlsTIc LYING.


Houston Post cannot draw upon its
Imagination for its facts in order to
make point against the republican
party. Its latest effort is not up to
its usual high-wster mark. The Post
is, generally speaking, an adroit per-
verter of facts, but in this instance
its work is SC inartistically performed
as to leave one in doubt as to what
new hand has undertaken the role.
Speaking of Dillon and O'Brien's re-
cent secret departure for this country.
the Post says:
at is said that Bloody Balfour
will make an attempt to arrest them
and carry them back. Should he do
80 all the power of republican adj
ministration remarkable for it's toady-
ism to European monarchy, will not
be able to prevent the American
eagle emitting few screams that will
cause the British lion to pause and
consider his latter end-and the pos
sibility of getting it twisted into the
shape of corkscrew."
For a government so VIGOROUSLY
anti-European as is the United States
under its present administration, this
remark of the Post is as the cracking
of thorns under pot. The head OF
the state department is particularly
noted for his hostility to all anglo
phobia tendencies on the part of the
United States. The president is in
full sympathy and accord with him,
and every act of the administration
in its foreign relations, as well as in its
approval of the tariff bill SO generally
regarded as hostile to Europe, has
shown that this government has been
perfectly emancipated from the thral-
dom to English toadyism, SO justly
and generally complained of under
the Cleveland administration, of
which the Post has ever been the
eulogist and. defender. The POSTS
criticism strikes the man actually
conversant with the policy of the two
administrations as one of the most
extraordinary that could possibly be
made by a journal claiming to be
posted in fact as well as in name.
The notorious toadyism of Cleveland's
minister to the court of st. James,
Phelps, was the laughing stock of all
true Americans, on account of his
toadyism to the English lords, and
his speech at the farewell banquet
was a most nauseous dose tor citi-
zen of this country to swallow. The
contrast afforded by Minister Lin
coins course has been most crafty
ing and has called forth expressions
of commentator irrespective of party.
That the Post should elect now,
when all Europe is denouncing Pres
ident Harrison's administration as
hostile to it, to affirm that this
same administration is remarkable
for toadyism to European monarchy,
is only to be smiled at? 1t is one of
those gratuitous, unnecessary. palpa-
BILE, transparent, hurtful, no good
lies, that democratic journal will
sometimes indulge in for no reason
whatever. A careless, conscienceless
fool lie that cannot hurt the party
against whom it is leveled, and only
convicts its author of such inartistic
methods of lying as to afford positive
pain to his friends. That the Post
considers it the first duty of demo-
cratic sheet to lie.about the,,repubIican
party, goes without saying; but the
Post has shown on innumerable oc-
casions that it does know how to lie
artistically, and it is this lying mar
tistically, and as a fool lieth, of which
the LIGHT complains.
THE New Orleans Times Democrat,
makes extended notice OF the de-
ceased justice and pays him very
high compliment as a jurist, and
winds up review of some of his more
important decisions by saying-"that
in all of these cases clearness of state.
ment and power of reasoning have
marked Judge Miller as eminently
qualified for the place to which he
was called by president Lincoln.
Judge Miller has been on the bench