San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-27
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

| A good deed done and never told,
Is better than names in letters OF gold.
|
It's stone cutters trick to engrsve a
s name,
A painters device to gild the same,
But this is not fame.
| On lofty tablet in letters of gold,
| His name has been cut in characters
bold,
But this is not fame.
IT'S thoughts that live in the hearts
of men,
Great deeds kept green by memory's
pen,
This is fame.
Had MayorCallaghan instead of tell
ing the people, in his interview, that
San Antonio ia the cleanest and most
beautiful city he had seen in all his
travels, said that our people were the
most patient, for bearipg, forgiviDg
community in the world, he would
have come much nearer the mark.
San Antonio cannot be compared to
Paris, London, New York, Brussels,
or, in fact, to any modern civilized
city, SO far as public care and
improvements are concerned, but
when it comes to downright humility
and charity We can cover more sins
in official administration than any
city in the world.
Had the Lord Mayor Of London, or
the chief executive Of Paree, or the
Mayor of New York, or Chicago, at a
meeting of the city council, asked for
a leave of absence, and the prototype
of Alderman Lockwood, rose and
asked if five days would do, the
mayor of London, or Paree, or New
York would not have replied that he
did not want a limit on his time,
much less would he have dared to
pack up his grip and taken a ship for
China or Japan. The people of these
great cities would have acted rudely;
would have raised all sorts of indig-
nation; and questions and inquiries;
in fact such an escapade would have
cost the biggest mayor in the biggest
city in the world his official head at
least.
No we may not be as big, as clean,
as artistic, as beautiful as Paree but
we are stepped in Christian humility,
forgiveness, mercy, trustful, sim
plicity;in fact we rise above other COM
munities in gOodlike qualities as the
Eiffel tower does over the curbs and
cutters of gay Paree.
But the people know there is day
of judgment, an hour OF reckoning, q
time when the wheat will be laid
upon the threshing floor, and they
must store their patience until that
time.
The Express is our city official Or
gan, and we must take Its version of
our Mayors return as authoritative.
The people look to the Express to tell
US more about our Mayor. You say:
mayor Caliaghan has returned
from his European trip bringing
benign smile the latest cut
of Partisan cloth, and plug
hat that is the acme of style" But
he has been home now some days,
does he still wear that smile and hat
those Partisan clothes.
These are trifling personalities that
the sober, thinking people hold in
contempt. Every one is glad to hear
of our mayor being dressed properly
aud stylishly-they expect it OF him -
but glance at his honor evidences
the fact that deterioration has already
set in, and we are sorry to note it
The plug hat that is the acme of
style" is worn at an angle of As
degrees on the back of his head,
not in good French taste, and there is
evidence of bagging at the knees of
his trousers; it will not be many DAYS
before that hat will go, and once more
our mayor will mingIe as of yore with
his chosen gang.
Few men could eXclaim more truth
fully, "Save me from my friends ~
than our mayor. No wonder he finds
himself isolated from the touch of
warm sympathy and confidence of a
large respectable element of the
people.
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