San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-30

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assumed and announced by I'll
LIGHT, that one form of lawles
ness begets another. When a
Texas learns this truth it will
more law abiding than it is nov
| Pelligrini is the power behin
the president of the Republic Q
Brazil. The insurgents do not car
a rupee for Pena, but they recog
nize the force and influence of Pei
ligrini and will assassinate him
Dead men defeat no revolutions.
When Solomon declared thai
wisdom was better than riches il
is to be noticed that he had his
Golfers filled with the current
money of his enormously wealthy
realm. Talk is cheap; money goes
Memphis Ledger thinks that
those Strip sooners that were
killed were no more sOnners, but
goners. There will be an army of
goners before the year rolls round,
with their toes turned outward.
The newly appointed Supreme
court justice halls from New York,
but from his name "Hornblower"
he should have been selected from
among the aromatic groves along
the scented Houston bayou.
Postmaster Bissell thinks that
the fact of a man being a Farmers
Alliance member is prima facia
evidence that he is not enough of
a Democrat to entitle him to post
office pie. Sound horse sense.
The Republican states will elect
their own governors this year from
the members of their own party.
Massachusetts and Iowa and Ohio
are not electing Democrats just
now. They see the danger.
The anti-repealers in Congress
are not working to prevent the
decentralization of silver, but to ac-
cOmplish the demOnetiZatiOn of
gold. They want silver and only
silver and only their silver.
Bill introduced in the house of
providing for the
taxing of legaCies and real estate
as a measure of in
ternal revenue. 1t is coming in
state and national circles.
The effete east is trembling in
its shoes for fear of a glut in the
money market. A feast is no I'M
usual event after a famine. This
country inclines to wobble from
one extreme to another.
When was there a month in any
year since railways were in which
railway accidents have been more
frequent and disastrous than in
this one just about to close? The
records do not show it.
There has not been one word of |
civil service reform to break the
stiffness that surrounds appoint |
nents at Washington under CIeve-
and. He is too busy trying to |
'efOrm the Senate.
The Virginia Democratic State |
committee has gone carefully over
he situation and conclude that |
here is ground for being right
9ously afraid of the Populists in
,he next election.
If the country had known one
month before the national election
how it would be placed one year
after there would have been no re-
turn of the democratic powers
that be to office.
The pOpulists who have been |
out are not anxious for the |
repeal OF the Federal election laws. |
Tom Watson Of Georgia has some |
interesting statements to make
On this subject.
The weather clerk is evidently
Of the opinion of Hogg, that San
Antonio is very wet town, else he |
would have given us taste of the
moisture that he is distributing in |
this southwest.
The unwillingness of the senators
to listen to each others speeches is
only an indication of the unwil- |
lingness of the country to have
those speeches continued in the
next.
The craZiest combination that
has been suggested in Congress is
that of the protectionists and the
They have scarcely a |
peg in common between them.
Voorhees, would not take any
action for which he could not find
a precedent, if he knew that it