San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-11


, making a success Of it. The
LIGHT congratulates them and the
city thereupOn and is only wait
ing for chance to do ditto to the
Citizens Fair association.
} / Houston seems to be suicide Gen.
ter and Austin divorce center #
Texas, and there are natural rea-
l'sons for these things to tt Q
man who looks into the cOnstitu-
ton and causes of things.
The artesian we'll goes down in
that fruitful coast country and the
water ONES up, and spreadin G
over the dry and thirsty ground
changes it into a fruitful field for
the melon and the vine.
| AtascOsa is about to be involved
in county seat war, and it will
be fool movement that will only
result in trouble, expense, litga-
ton, hard feeling and no good to
compensate for these.
The several locations on the Pa
cific slope in which the Heather
Chinee incline to tarry treat him as
the wandering Jew has been treat
ed all these ages, they insist that
he shall move on.
Politics promises to be lively in
Texas this coming year, but this
cuts no figure alongside of the
prospect for lively business this
fall. Let politics stand aside for
trade every time.
If the Texas leaders Of the DEM
ocratic household were as ready to
eat humble pie as their followers
are to bury the Ratchet there would
be no trouble about uniting the
divided house.
That act of vandalism, perpe-
trated by the guards of the Strip
in order to drive out the soOners,
should receive the punishment at
the hands of the war department
that it merits.
Hogg is going a great deal faster
than the "pOpper" that he promised
to make so scarce in Texas that
it would take search warrant to
find one between the panhandle
and the coast.
The demand for Column bian
stamps Of all kinds is so great
that the die sinkers cannot keep
up with their orders, and the call
for stamps is daily greater than
the demand.
That silver speech of Mills that
was to have been delivered on last
Wednesday is growing in the
womb of the Texas senator's mind
and will come forth at it's maturity
next week.
There is no doubt that there will
soon be plenty of money in circu-
lation and the men who have been
banking a Ia jerry Simpson, in their
socks, will look for large interest
| in vain.
, For the information of the unin-
| itiated Democrats in the sanctums
of the state journals the LIGHT in
! forms them that there will be no
compromise on silver repeal in the
i Senate.
The Arkansas Press says, "Take
up the slogan: A western man for
; president in 1896" The Press
/ should have added, and make no
mistake about his being Demo-
crat.
| There will be bloody scramble
for locations in that rush to the
strip next Saturday, and there will
be weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth after it is all
over.
The difficulties of Democratic
unity form the theme of as many
articles in the Texas newspapers
as there are doctors for this preva-
lent Democratic complaint, divis-
| ion.
Bolton is a gamey town, but it
has found all the efforts unaVail-
ing so far to drive the only Cyprian
who holds the fort in that city from
her disreputable intrenchments.
The English mining riots are
more serious than any that have
occurred there in some years, but
a good deal can be excused to men
who are actually starving.
1t has been noted from Maine to
California that there was very lit
tie squalling in Texas during the
late financial squall. Texas is no
baby.
If southwest Texas can live and
thrive through such drouth what
| would chic do with q season Of pan-