San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-06
SHORT STOPS.
what the people are Saying.

The people are APPALLED, at the idea
that our so-calIed criminal code is
nothing more than the work OF Il
coditier, without legislative sanction.
Better turn out all the crimiua ais In
our jails and penitentiaries and start
over again, than to keep on hanging
and imprisoning men without law.
The people have depended upon the
LAYERS to keep the law intact, and yet
they have allowed the criminal code
to De spoDged Off the tablets OF the
state.
No wonder the people lose conf
dence in newspapers when our lead
ing and only morning paper states
| that the u. S. supreme court decided
| that Duncan WAS legally convicted.
The court decided that it would not
decide and sent the case back to the
state undecided.
So far as the doomed man, Duncan,
| is concerned, the people have little
concern or sympathy, but it is the
future Duncans they are anxious
about.
The morning Express contains a
communication from citizen, a man
of family and tax payer VINO applied
for work on the county cellar and was
refused, while recent importations
from Mexico were put on.
This day work business is only for
the purpose of filling up the town
with transient Mexicans, in order to
use them for voting purposes.
The people may expect to see these
gangs of transient aliens brought to
the polls next Tuesday to vote down
the registration amendment.
Never was party. organization so
imperative in our city as at present.
The people need to be brought togeth-
er to organize against the domination
of a ring of officials who are using the
peoples money TO control the ballot
box and keep themselves. in office.
Let every voter whose eye catches
this paragraph make up his mind to
vote on Tuesday next; if no tickets
are printed otner than those furnish
ed at the polls, be sure that you vote
"For the amendment to section 4, az
ticle s, of the constitution, relating to
voting" and scratch out the
against" underneath it, because if
the ticket reads both ways it will not
count at all.
The intelligent people of this COM
munity fully realize the Importance
of every measure calculated tn protect
the ballot box from the pollution of
illegal votes. Registration is one step
in that direction.
Upon this platform every good citi-
zen can stand, no matter what pOlit-
ical party he may espouse.
The next great and important step
is to guard the ballot box against the
alien. No vote should be allowed
that is not cast by genuine citizen of
| the United States.
Before foreigner can vote ne must
declare his intention to become a citi-
zen of the United States. An Indian
cannot become naturalzed citizen,
yet the bulk of our Mexican voters are
Mexican Indians.
The question does not affect our old
Mexican citizens and their children,
but it does reach the irresponsible
horde of Mexican tramps who swarm
over our border, to displace our citi-
zen labOrers, and are used as voters
to kill the votes of citizens and tax
payers.
! None but a genuine American clti-
zen, cit her by birth or naturalization
should be allowed to approach the
ballot box.
We keep our boys back until they
are twenty.One years of age, before