San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-10

to lose and everything to hope for
in the present crisis. They are
largely in favor of the recommen-
dations of the presidential mes
sage, but will fight free trade.
New York is so we'll equipped
with transit lines that one can
start out and ride continuously for
six hours, without duplicating his
track, at total cost of so cents.
Cheap as we'll as rapid transit.
Corpus Caller advocases surren-
dering the city charter and going
into the hands of a receiver in Or
der to liquidate the liabilities of
the municipality and get upon
it's feet. Is it as bad as that?
The balded headed truth as to
the real inwardness of that Texas
building at Chicago is coming to
the front, demonstrating the truth
of what the LIGHT has said as to
its being only private club.
Texas is great, That she is great
in spite of her disagreement it
does not argue in favor of per-
petuation of such government.
Rather cut her loose from her
bonds and give her chance.
If Boies and Campbell are NOM
mated this year as Democratic
candidates for their respective
states they will decline. That is
all right. The people will decline
to elect them in any event.
If those sooners who have been
| waiting for a year or two for a
worthless home in the strip had
come to Texas when they camped
around that border they would
now be comfortably fixed.
Reagan is not in good odor with
| his tribe on account of his bald
utterances at Chicago, and the
Hoggies are likely to give him a
good roofing for his Populist pro-
clivities and utterances.
Congress should offer a premium
for the best methods of putting the
millions of silver coin in the ma
tiOnal treasury into circulation.
Try making silver a legal tender
for all debts under $40.
The members of Congress who
have travelled from the far north
west are not pleased to find that
there is no provision for mileage
to and from special session. They
pay their own way.
If the bears only tore the bulls
and the bulls tossed only the bears
the country would not concern it
self. 1t is the bulling and the
bearing of national values that
does the mischief.
Since that deposit along the
Austin river front above the dam,
at which the people have bean
| damning on account of its stencil,
they know how it is with Houston,
along that bayou.
Gallows fruit hangs ripe on
many a gallOws tree in this state,
and in it's dropping, it seems, only
to scatter it's seeds to terminate
| and produce a more abundant har-
vest of death.
Read the explanations made by
the Citizens Fair association in
this issue, and ponder upon it in
connection with what the LIGHT
said editorially on that matter last
Tuesday.
Times are hard on all classes
and the man who expects mercy at
| the hands of his creditor should
not take his debtor by the throat
demanding "pay me what thou
OWeSt."
That Chicago Fair will close be.
fore the lady directors discover the
masculine method of holding a
meeting without dissolving it in
tears or breaking it up in row.
San Antonio is making little
advance every day, and it is better
to go slow and sure than to go it
blind and fast, with certain wreck
as the end of the rush.
Ohio will tell the country in
another day or two who it is that
the Democrats of that state are
going to sacrifice on the altar OF
party foOlishness.
| Grover is not as much a simple,
ton as he sometimes looks. He
sees the danger of monkeying with
the tariff at this particular juno.
ture.
| Austin has her dam for her mill
sites, but it now looks as though
it would be some time before she
discovered any mills on her dam.
site.