San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-16

Southern Farmer says that the
present panic is the result of cen.
fury of robbery and oppression
This let's the Republican party
down easy, as that party has not
been in existence half that time.
Waco is in the midst of an inter
minable controversy over the lOca-
ton of another bridge across the
Brazos. The hot water city is
troubled that way periodically,
but in time she rights herself.
The Democrats who cussed Reed
for counting a quorum, because
there was quorum seated in the
House, are now kicking themselves
because they are barred by con-
sistency from following suit.
This September sun stares the
thermometer out of countenance
and causes the bashful mercury to
climb out of sight. 1t is whiting
weather, but the sun is merciful
and sun stroke is rare case.
If the Populists could under
stand that the fight is not against
silver, but against the attem pit to
make Is cents worth of silver
equal in value to % cents worth of
gold, they would catch on.
Will the democratic grand
mothers of the press make as much
fuss over little queen Esther as
they did over baby Ruth? This is
a new thing under the democratic
sun, this aping of royalty.
The soil of that strip may be fer.
tile, but the character of the sur
rounding populations is not of a
character to induce settlement on
the part of civilized people. 1t is a
tough region, all around.
While the admirers of the two
old men will rejoice that Bismarck
is getting better, they will be none
the less cheered with the intelli-
gence that Gladstone never looked
better. Grand old man.
More yellow fever on the Allan
tic seaboard, with cholera on the
Venezuela coast, admOnishes the
health authorities of all cities to
exercise unusual care in cleaning
and keeping clean.
1t is hard to keep the courage at
fighting point with the thermOme-
ter at Ill in the shade, as it recent
Iy was at Fort Duncan, Eagle Pass.
San Antonio Wits when it is ten
degrees lower.
The anti-silver speeches and the
silver speeches alike that are be-
ing made by the Democrats in
Senate are being used by the Vir-
ginia Populists to knock out the
Democracy.
That Strip is now open. The
race commenced this day noon. 1t
was a race under the most in
human conditions. Every one for
himself and the devil take the
hindmOSt.
There will be more sore hearted
homesteaders on that strip next
winter than there are sore footed
boomers now waiting on the bor-
ders of that undesirable land.
1t is so dry and so long between
showers in this section this year
that it is doubtful if the ordinary
Texan would know a rain if he
saw one.
Grover nurses his babies and
lets Voorhees, saw wood, and Dan
is sweating over it as over nothing
else that he has attempted in
decade.
And one more time the LIGHT
rises to remark that investment
in San Antonio real estate will
pay.
Cleveland does not care how
hard a task he has imposed on
poor Dan Voorhees,, it is not his
fight.
The time has past in which a
prOtectOrate of one nation over
another seQuestered it's commerce.
Bismarck is not yet at the parting
of the ways. The man of iron and
blood has an iron constitution.
Tucker will have the tuck taken
out of him before Reed is through
with his federal election bill.
The friends of Arkansas Pass
have reverted to first principles
and ask Congress for aid.
Money is not playing hide and
seek with the old sock as much as
it was month ago.
Voorhees, is afraid of the Democ-
racy and dare lot push his silver
bill to vote.