San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-02
YO SOY Ell REY!
A SOLILOQUI BY REX.

A SoLILOQUI BY REX.
70 Soy Ell Rey 1 am the King! Nv
right there in none to dispute. l am lord
Of the English, the Irish and Dutch; the
boss of the fowl and the brute. All. we'll!
but didn't IL take the dear people a long
time to find it out; and now since they
have discovered it, ii won't do them any
good, as two years in office is good long
time; but il they had had grain of
sense, they would have discovered it be-
fore the city election! The more think
of it, the more i am certain that p. L.
Barnum, the show man, was right when
he said: ''The people want to be hum
bugged' The fact that can ride and
drive the public four-in-hand for eight
long years, proves it. Now Blackstone
saws. thy the way, 81 am somewhat Of .
LAWYER myselfD: that "when whale is
cast up on the sea shore, he belongs to
the king,"-part Of his royal prerogatiye,
you know; but III go ole BLACK
that swim in the st. Peter, q mean, en- el
San Pedro), for my own. All! but havn't
/ got even with the limberger Dutch fire.
men, for daring to oppose their lord and
master? When get my victorious viz
uelaS indicators in as firemen, / can or
ganize ghost dances" on the east side of
the river, in Mayor Schramm's dominion,
and then won't we make the white people
sick? We will make them so sick, they'll
howl for mercy, and will never again at
| tempt to oppose their king And now
I've got my new deed Of trust on the city,
| (carta de tncorporacion), In shape, and the
| funny part of it all is that the people are
| hypnotized so that they don't see that
| it's just like it was before; except the
| raising Of our salaries, and the making
valid our illegal funding bonds, and the
| the reducing OF the illegal sinking fundper
| cent from ten TO two per cent. The main
| thing, OF course, was to increase our ra-
| tions, but it would have given the scheme
| dead away to have asserted that AN
emergency and imperative public necessi-
| ty, etc, existed for simply raising our
| salaries for running the machine, so We
| had to lug in all the other stuff to cover
| up the main point-our feed. Why, had
| the same power to marry people under
| Sec. 119 of the old charter that this new
one will give me, but the people are easily
| fooled, and don't examine such matters
| closely; and they think it is new power
conferred on me-just as il needed any
more power; quando 20 soy ell Rey.
Oh! If / can only get this new charter
passed by that hayseed legislature, I'll
have the upper hand on the people for all
time, and believe II will be passed all
headed satellite to engineer it through,
| fes the means" Oh, the firemen thought
l. d weaken on my having fired" them
out, did they: Well, I'll show them. I'll
put in some temporary tiremen first, un-
Gators ready, and then you'll see what
I'll do. Another thing; il ! can manage
< to catch theLIGHT, and choke it to death,
l I'm perfectly safe-already got the other
papers, body and soul-nO / haven't
either; / forgot that miserable Dutch
paper; well, never mind, I've got all OF
| them except these two, and I'll soon find
a way to get rid Of them, some way or
other. Oh, everything is lovely and the
outlook is bright for me, and congress is
in sight; but / can't keep il out of my
mind that uneasy lies the head that
wears golden CROWN" and some
thing has been worrying me for
hubbub, about the Mexican vindicator
voters. II there were really nothing in
| this question, would be glad that it has
been raised, as it would make the Mexi-
cans more solid for me, but being some
what OF a lawyer myself" looked up the
| U. S. law on that question, and 1t fairly
| made me Shiver to to find that no person
can be naturalized except free white
persons and Africans" how can
manage this thing? Everybody knows
that MeXicanS are not white persons"
and don't dare to insult them by calling
them AFRICANS" L M really AFRAID my
poor indicators will be left out in the
cold hereafter, and what is worse it leaves
me clear out, right now. The very words
"quo warranto," make me shudder. It's
the worst kind OF warrant l ever heard
of;-well, see only one way out OF IT,
and that's, to get "old Dillardo," alias
''Balmoral," etc, to write articles in my
paid organ, the Express, and ridicule the
whole matter out of court;-but-ahl
there's the ruh:-the citizens who saw
they Will test this question, have lots of
nerve, and money, too, and I'm afraid
"Dillardo" can't ridicule them off. How
ever, it's my only hope, and i am going to
indicators. we couldn't carry a single
precinct. All! here comes Mic, only nat
uralized for my special benefit, last month.
Well, they can't knock out his vote, any
how. He's no Mexican, and | may need
him. Que hay, Mic, de nuevo? Adios.
Ahhnffso nQniaI