San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-01
The Daily Eight,
SATURDAY, JULY l, 1898
DALLAS LETTER.
DALLAS, Tex, June 26, 1898.

comments upon Ille eApulSlOu VI
the married lady teachers from the
Dallas schools.
"Dallas bars married women
from the teachers desk in the city
schools. Dallas is not wise"
Your Dallas correspondent is
ready to take issue upon this
question with the editor of the
LIGHT. Had it been these teach
ers were barred admission a couple
of years ago, changes which had to
be made in the middle of a term
would then have been avoided, and
the schools would never have been
entangled, nor would there ever
have been so much disagreement
among the school board. As it is,
there are two factions, each faction
resolute and determined not to
yield.
SO long as "my wife" is employed
at a reasonably good salary and
short hours Il" am "perSuaded (bY
herr to let her teach" "She likes
teaching. 1t is recreation for her"
The overly easily persuaded
husband does not object to the
world believing that he receives
competency that will readily keep
his family, but no sooner does
wife" lose her position than it is
known the meager salary of the
good husband is inadequate to
maintain his family. The $50
and 5000 salary heretofore re-
ceived, existed in mind only. Now
it is a case of "pushency' that
causes "wife" to teach.
O, no Mr.. Editor, the Dallas
schools can be run just as success
fully without married women
being employed. There are just
as many competent teachers want
ing positions who have no cradle
to rock. There is not so much
wire pulling done, either, by I'M
married women.
But Mr.. Editor, stick fast to
your convictions, and espOuse the
cause of your married friends in
the Alamo City.
Last Friday the mandate
in the case Of Henry
Miller, the negro who killed
officer Brewer was received from
the court of criminal APP
peals. Judge Burke, of the
14th judicial court, passed sentence
on the murderer at 10 a. m. Friday.
Turning to the prisoner, the
Judge said:
"Henry Miller, stand up
Miller stood up and Sheriff
Cabell removed the handouts.
"Have you anything to say why
the sentence of the law should not
be passed upon you" Judge
Burke asked.
In a nervous manner the prisoner
replied:
Judge, your honor I don't
know hate to say it-but | don't
think | had a fair and impartial
trial, but Pm satisfied. | am will
ing to go, because | am a child of
God. | have made my peace with
him and belong to him. | haven't
got anything against anybody,
but if my citizen friends desire
that | should go | am willing to
60"
Judge Burke said:
81 hope and trust that you are
at peace with God, as you say you
are. 1t is always a sad duty with
me to sentence any one to impris-
Onment in the state pcnitentiary,
and the sadness is intensified in
this instance, when the sentence Of
death is to be passed. Henry, the
law has been much kinder to YOU
than You were to Officer Brewer,
whose soul, without a moments
time for reflection and preparation,
was by your violent act uShered
into the presence of his maker, but
under the law, more than a year
has been accorded you in which to
prepare for death. BY your YiO-
lent act you not only deprived the
community of a good officer and a
good citizen, but by that act you
rudely invaded the sanctity of a
happy home and robbed it of its
chief stay and support. The tears
of a widow and the cries of
orphans are now seen
and heard where before the
execution of your murderous act
all was peace and sunshine. Your
position today is a forcible illus
tratiOn of the evil effect of violat-
ing the law by carrying concealed
weapons. If you had not been vio-
lating the law that day by carry
ing revolver, Officer Brewer
would be alive today, his family
would be hannN aud Won Mnnld he