San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-18

| mucn as ne was. his silence Is Ill
tie late for o good speakership boom
THE low rate of money in England
and in this country as we'll, tells itl
own tale Of the finances. The South
American racket is about played
out.
PALMER says the senate OF the Un-
tied States Is not a representative
body. Does he offer himself as an ex.
ample of that truth. in his own per-
son?
THE 81 legislature raised the age of
consent to IA years. Had the bill
come up before the SIS legislature, the
age might have climbed peg or two
higher.
KANSAS grangers found there was q
hen on at home. aud the nest grew
cold at Topeka when the pay stopped,
therefore, that legislature has ad.
journed.
SALISBURY Is q good pettifogger,
but James g. Blaine is not before a
court where that business is carried
on. Salisbury will have to fish or
cut bait.
THE San Antonio International fair
association has reorgsnized, has a
snlendid corps of directors, and has
fixed the date for the next fair-Buy
those bonds.
Gov. IRELAND is a very poor repub-
lican, but he is mighty level head
ed for democrat and he favors an
elective commission and fair treat
ment for railways.
THE congratulations over Palmer's
election, in the Texas legislature. fol.
lowed hard on the heels of it's eulogy
over jeff Davis. What curious crit.
ters these legislators be.
PROTECTION, as q republican doc.
trine, is for the sake of the protection
and when American industries nc
longer need that protection, then pro-
lection will cease to be.
THE republican journal that ex-
presses establishment at the gerry.
Wandering of democratic legislatures,
forgets one of the fundamental prin.
cIples governing such bodies.
HILL is to unvail the O'Grady
statue at Atlanta next summer, but
he declines to make the nominating
speech for Cleveland in the next
national democratic convention.
FIVE cents a swear is the price in q
Grand Rapids factory, and when the
box is full the nickels go to the
heather. No word of converting
the home heather who do the swear.
ing.
THE Gillian insurgents asking
France not to send the wal
ships ordered and paid for by the
CHILEAN government, lest they aid in
suppressing the instruction, is new
wrinkle.
BEEvILLE talks of establishing a
cotton yard for the benefit of farmers
marketing cotton in that city. 1t
would greatly accommodate trade and
bring growers and buyers together
without trouble.
FROM the neurological records OF
the legislatures and state and munic-
ipal officers it is about as dangerous
to be elected to the legislature or ia
an office as it is to be caught in rail.
way, collision, or in some other fell
lows chicken coop.
THE monthly pay rolls of the Rir-
minghsn, Alabama, operatives foot
up 81. So $40 and yet San Antonio
grew faint hearted in the attempt to
raise s6O 900 for a rolling mill. Verify
there is that witholdeth more than
is meet and it tendeth to poverty.
PALMER may make a very poor SEN
ator but he made a good fight for the
senatorship. His friends can be con
graduated. The republicans did MOI
deserve success, and II they haC
could not have succeeded. The good.
were sold before the legislature met
THE Indian. whom the Michigan
democrats seated as q mem Der of the