San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-05

found just without the city limits
San Antonio is something of a
mastOdon herself.
| The dirt that is swept out into
the streets makes an unsightly
city, but it is the filth that remains
in the back alley that makes an
unhealthy city.
| If England joins this country in
an endeavor to arrange the relative
proportions of silver and gold in a
bi-metalic currency the controversy
will be settled.
This Congress will decide wheth-
er Cleveland is the Democratic
party or the party itself as exist
ing and speaking in the National
conventions.
Upon the decision reached in
congress on the silver question de-
ponds the height to which the mer-
curry in the Populist thermometer
shall rise.
| William brags in neat way
when he says that England can
not make war successfully upon
France. He remembers the days
of 70-71.
The only hardship that this pres
| ent panic entails upon the tin panil
brigade is in those cases in which
the mills shut down and the work
ceases.
1t is the man with means that
comes to grief in this present panic.
The depreciation of values reduces
his assets from ten to thirty per
cent.
Sunday is day of rest. The
wise man rests in the way that he
finds most restful to him and lets
the rest of the world rest in their
way.
The whole North Atlantic is
bristling with icebergs, but San
Antonio is not laundering after any.
She makes her own ice and keeps
cool.
This is not a season of hard times
for the wOrkingman. He gets his
money and it buys more, dollar
for dollar, than it ever did before.
The Worlds fair is not paying
expenses, and yet its receipts are
over two millions a month. That
is extravaganza, pure and unmiXed.
Opinions on the silver question
are as plenty as blackberries, but it
is not opinions but votes in con-
gress that will settle the question.
Hoke Smith is secretary of the
interior, but his Atlanta Constitu-
ton is not the official organ of the
Cleveland administration.
The congress that meets next
week has greater interest center
ing in it's sessions of any that has
assembled since the war.
The unsettled condition of the
grain market will not affect the
Texas farmer who feeds his corn to
his own cattle and hogs.
That fifth of August storm is
about due, and if Foster wants
to maintain his reputation he will
be on time with it.
The democracy recognize the in
consistency of their position on the
silver question, but they are I'M
able to remedy it.
That silver congress was not as
anarchistic as the Denver gather
ing, but it took just as solid stand
for free silver!
The city and state laws against
the presence of minors in the sa-
looms should be strictly enforced
in this city.
Deputy Commissioner Bell, of
the pension office, draws the disa-
bility pension that is so much con-
demned.
Texas ought to be sending hun
dreds of tons of hay to England, as
that product is selling there at $50
per ton.
The uncertainties that surround
the situation in congress has closed
the mouths of the party leaders.
Mexico will continue to coin sill
yer, and believes that it will be ac-
copied as money everywhere.
San Antonio continues to do
business at the old stand, good,
every day, healthy business.
English government deny that
British ships took station outside
blockade limits at Bangkok.
The soft spot on thepresent hard
times is larger in San Antonio than
anywhere else in Texas.
Has the navigation Of the Trini-
ty also suspended owing to the
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