San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-07


customers lose by bad debts. 1t
would be just as sensible to con-
denim merchandising as to rail at
banks because some of them fail.
There is no doubt that the security
of banks of deposit could be
strengthened by proper legislation
guarding the interests of deposit
tors, and it is the province of the
wise legislator to do this.
The floods in the province of
Bahar, India are doing great dam
age, but there is no record of any
damage from this source in the
province of BeXar, Texas.
The theorists have had their in
Inings at the coast long enough. 1t
is now in order to put practical
brains at work on deep water.
The building goes on in San An
tonic, and the money goes down in
to real estate, and it will be only
few weeks more and real estate it.
self will be going up.
The vote on silver in the Senate
will hardly be reached this week.
There will be considerable chin
ming before vote is taken, as the
Senate is more evenly divided
than the house was.
Bee country knows what is for
her own good when she cuts up her
large ranches into small farms to
sell them to the man with the hoe
and a laundering after truck
patch.
American capital is about to
construct a $5,OOO,OOO hotel in Lon
don, from American plans. 1t is
expected to be the finest in the
world, and will be on the site of
old Haymarket tneater.
France has wheeled so decidedly
into the Republican column that
there is no show for the Bourbon
or Boulanger elements to get a
foothold in legislative circles. This
will greatly aid France.
When Pope Leo counselled his
people to sustain the republic in
France he knew what he was adj
vising. The man who sits in St.
Peters chair has the keenest po-
litical eye of any one in Europe.
Omaha, the land of the "bee,"
seems to buzz little more indus
triously at this time than her sis
ter cities. Her industries and her
mercantile business are making
great strides forward.
Great Britain and the continent
having sampled the superior COM
fort and safety of the American
railway car are about to introduce
it upon the rails of Europe. What
Sam does goes among wise men.
John Bull smiles and says that
he is going to protect his CONNER
cial interests in Siam, while France
grins and orders her gunbOats to
drop anchor before Bangkok
broadside to the city.
London is worried about the
suicide mania that prevails there.
Any man who voluntarily selects
that fog center for residence ough
to be able to stand any ordinary
misfortune.
New York World asserts that
Hawaiian annexation is dead. The
World must be looking for per.
petual lease of power in this coun-
try by the Democrats. There will
be a change all the same.
Cotton that is sold below eight
cents pound will be sold below
the real market value of that staple
this season. All conditions indicate
| that.
Money retired from circulation
is practically demonetised. 1t is
not congress but the man with a
wad in his sock who does this.
When the railway passenger car
ries a pepper, as counseled by the
Express, in defiance of law, who
pays the piper?
| Worlds fair attendance climbs
up, and Worlds fair funds climb
in, and Worlds fair debts climb
out.
The unharmonious results of all
! efforts to harmonic the Texas
Democracy are painfully apparent