San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-07

CUT 6acn OGner UlTOaLs anu open tne
doors for Springer or some other
northern man.
PAPER manufacturers continue to
do a rushing business at the mills,
and yet the jobbing trade is quite
quiet. This condition Of things fore
shadows good trade in the future.
CLEVELAND will have to get down
to business and reduce flesh in ear
nest if he expects to ride the demo-
cratic nag a good second in the coming
race.
NEW ORLEANS is again discussing
the Belt railroad question, and the
sooner discussion gives place to
positive work the better for the Cres-
cent city. That Belt railroad would
be a magnificent aid to her commerce,
and q decided convenience to her
shippers.
MEXICO is making substantial pro-
gress in everything that indicates
national consolidation and progress.
Diaz is certainly a man of marvellous
powers, and he uses them for his
peoples good.
HoNDo Herald says-the Galveston
committee is wrestling with the
question of whether or not it is
wrong to eat pie with a knife.'
Slightly mistaken; the question is
whether it is right to swallow a whole
pie.
THE statisticians figure out that at
the rate of disasters noted during the
first six months of this year, the total
fire losses of the United State for 1891
will foot up $3.50, OOO, 900. This amount
gone up in smoke, not counting what
is wasted in cigar and cigarette con-
sumption.
THE sensational yarn about a secret
movement of union and confederate
troops at the close of the war to over
throw the administration of Mr..
Lincoln and make a military hero
president, is the most improbable fool
canard that has circulated since the
days of Andy Johnson.
THE ungenerous only intimate that
James G. Blaine is sick because the
insurgents of Chill ask recognition at
the hands of this administration
James G. Blaine is always on hand
when the interests of America are at
stake. Uncle Sam will not recognize
parties in rebellion to constituted
authority as possessing belligerant
rights.
THE Colorado Clipper informs Major
Mckinley that manufactured enthu.
siasm is cheap. but that it will take
votes to elect him governor of Ohio
The enthusiasm born of Increased
manufacturing prosperity and q cor.
respondent increased agricultural
market is the enthusiasm that will
bring votes, and this is what McKin.
ley counts on.
THE fact is being heralded all over
the country that Fort Smith has hung
her seventy-second victim, on The
gallOws of that little city. No place
its size in christendom can show s
better record, no place on earth il
more lawless, and yet the cry goes VI
from intelligent journalists for nor,
hangings, on the false assumption
that hanging prevents crime.
BARDsLEY gets his fifteen year
solitary confinement. The democrat
seem to think that Postmaster Wanna
maker was crooked too, so far as Key
stone bank is concerned. Let the in
vestigation be made. John Wanna
maker Is not in it; lever was, ant
there is not an iOta of proof to tn
contrary. The republicans r cas-,
in this thing.
July is not a week old and yet tn
wires bring news of three horribI
railway accidents, with scores G
dead and mangled victims. 1t is har,
to tell which is worse; the pestiIenc,
that walketh in darkness or the de