San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-08

river Humber.
The premium on currency has
about gone where the woOdbine
clambereth.
The American workman can put
it down as a foregOne conclusion
that this Congress is going tC
double the price of his sugar and
lower the price of his wages.
Emin Bey, who was the inveter-
ate foe Of the Arab slave dealer,
\ was inferred in the stomachs Of his
enemies after they had killed him
He was nearer their hearts dead
than living.
1t is perfectly natural that the
father-in-law of Queen NictOria's
daughter should characterize the
Home Rule bill as usurpatiOn, but
it does not follow that Home Rule
for Ireland is dead.
The Socialists will play a larger
part in the French chamber of dep
uties in this present session of that
body than they did in the last.
Whether for veal or woe remains
to be demonstrated.
Staight locals are twenty cents a
line in the LIGHT, but there is no
room for second hand advertising
in the editorial columns at any
price. The LIGHT is newspaper.
1t is in order for the manufac-
turers to tell the ways and means
committee how the Democratic
program is going to destroy Amer
lean industries, but the committee
are committed to the platform.
The wise Democrat is doing his
whOOping over the victories of his
party in Ohio, Iowa and New York
before the votes are cast and count
ed. After that he will have no
chance for Ger a whOOp.
Uncle Sans troops are literally
firing the sOOners out of the strip.
ike the eXecutiOners axe it is a
sharp remedy for the evils that it
is intended to cure.
The fisherman Democrats" as
Reagan calls the voters for repeal,
will be held in more honor at this
time next year than the Reagan
Populist crowd will.
The number of the dead in the
Sea Islands apprOXimates two
thousand. No such calamity has
been recorded in this country in
the chapter of it's accidents, here
tOfOre.
There is more honey under the
tongue of William when he ad-
dresses Lorraine than would surfeit
a hive. That willy politician is
determined to make them feel that |
they are German in reality.
Cardinal Gibbons address at |
Chicago demonstrates that mixed
metaphor is not confined to the
hastily constructed sentences of a
newspaper man. Misery loves
company, and the press is consoled.
Those New York banks are with
in few hundred thousand dollars
of the legal limit, and will in all
probability touch the limit this
week and 60 up a peg. The scare
is practically over.
The free silverites are growing
more hopeful of forcing compro-
mise before the test vote in the SEN
ate is taken. They do not reckon
on the influence of Grover.
The expenses of government
under this Democratic administra-
ton are running behind revenue
more than a quarter of a million
every day, yet this Democratic con-
gress talks Of reducing revenue.
1t is time for the congressman Of
this nation to understand that in
protecting the industries of the
people they are protecting the peO-
pie themselves, and this is their
business.
The promise of the Democratic
party for reduced expenditures and
increased business is only equaled
by it's on-perfOrmance. The dem.
Onstration of failure could not well
be greater.
The Waco Evening News devotes
two sticks of editorial to proving
that it does not know as much
about municipal affairs in San An
tonic as a Chihuahua dog does Of
the Waco sulphur supply.
The biggest back down and out
of this political decade is that of
Hoke Smith on his pensions pol
icy.
AS a profession the train robber
is coming to the front and getting
tho dron on other business,