San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-25

! ter all, ana It's circumference has
been greatly reduced by electric
invention. The daily dOings OF
mankind are whispered to the re-
hottest confines of civilization. But
whether the war of our Pharisees
finds circulation beyond the mes
quite belt, is a question, when ii
is a fact that the San Antonio trav-
eler abroad seldom runs across a
daily home paper beyond this
limit.
Confined to ourselves we might
congratulate ourselves that the
high capers cut by a few Jealous
refOrmerS in our midst will escape
the notice of the balance of man.
kind, if it were not for the fact that
so much disinterested zeal will be
bound to find a record upon
the great photograph that does
service in the clerks office of the
recording angel. And the passer's
by on Houston street in the New
Jerusalem will be amused by the
footing speeches of Messrs. Haltom,
Drought and Fleming, and the re-
plies of the opposite council, as the
trials go in before our judges and
juries as they did before CaiphaS
and PLATE, eighteen hundred years
ago.
The committee of % have loaded
their big Krupp gun and propose
to annihilate with one discharge
our entire system of law and order
by firing from office, our sheriff and
city marshal. Why?
Because they would not play the
roll of that ancient notorious in
dividual Judas Iscariott, by filing
an information against the Sab
bath breaker.
The committee of % demand of
Judge NOonan to remove from of
flee Sheriff Campbell and City Mar
shall Druse, because these officers
would not pull the chestnuts out
of the fire for the committee.
There are sixteen SignerS to this
all of them able bodied
of law and Order-itwas
an easy thing for them to do to
swear out at1idaVits against the
saloon men, and to have had war
rants for their arrest placed in the
hands of these officers to execute
and every one knows they would
have executed them.
The idea that the sheriff or city
shall pay attention to the
verbal or written information that
is going to violate the
law when it is such an
easy job for the committee of %
to make complaints themselves.
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The genuine reformer and the
is always ready to take
the dirty work on his own hands,
he never asks for a substitute; have
our modern pharisees degenerated?
Come, the people are getting tired
of this business, no matter how re-
spectacle these gentlemen are who
have assumed the roll of cham
piOns Oflthe law, and regulators of
San AntoniO's morals and religion.
They are doing our good city harm.
The men they are now attacking
have the support of the large body
of the people; the people know
them to be fearless officials, ready
at all times to perform their duty
when properly called on, but I'M
to be made tools of at the
instance of body self constituted
high priests.
The % are as unlawful a body as
any organized mob that assumes
to take the execution of the law in
their own hands; as unlawful as
any association that would under
take to dictate to the courts or to
the sworn officials of the law how
they should perform their duties.
Unlawful, because injurious to
the public veal; destructive in
their policy, Of the peace and good
will of the community; harmful
to the reputation of the city for
law and order; promoters of strife
and ill-feeling among neighbors.
What good would it do to have
Campbell and Druse removed-the
people won't have it. The ballot