San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-19

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Texas as well as in the southwest.
The far west is O. X.
The city council does not seem
to understand that life and limb
are endangered every day in that
narrow, crooked, uneven, rutty
thOrOughfare between Alamo Plaza
and GOliad street.
John Sullivan says that the belt
shall not leave America, and that
if Mitchell takes it he will go for
Mitchell. John is true blue Ameri-
can, but his best fighting days are
all behind him.
You cannot assemble an indus
trial convention any where on this
continent that will not put in its
best licks by way of revolution in
favor of the repeal of the silver
purchase act.
Corpus Christi is as dead as a
door nail, but the building that
road to Brownsville will revive
her dropping energies and place
her in position to help herself once
more.
The statesmen Of this country
will soon discover that it is easier
and cheaper to restrict immigra-
ton than to provide for millions
of unemployed from year to year.
1t is not improbable that the
discoveries of gold in Colorado will
revolutiOnize the silver ideas of
the silver senators b efOre the mat
ter is determined in the Senate.
If the new tariff law will give us
free trade with Mexico it will be a
boon that Texas will appreciate. 1t
will do much to Offset the destruc-
tiOns of a free wool schedule.
The Valkyrie will not attempt
to cross the ocean this winter, and
may have some more fun with the
American white wings before she
returns to the other side.
Manufacturing Record piles it
on a little too high when it says
there is no stringency in any quar-
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Stewart and :. Wolcott are the
highwaymen of the Senate. They
expect the country to stand and
deliver.
The railroads seem to be jealous
Of the destruction on water and
come up with rush of accidents.
Texas is a standing refutatiOn of
the assertion that the POpulists
are dead save in the silver states.
The Democratic prophets are al
ready beginning to hedge against
defeat in Ohio and in New York.
Fort Worth Gazette seems to
think that a circulation is all that
makes newspaper really great.
The most ardent advocates of an
increased currency are in favor of
confiing the issue to congress.
The era of low wages has come
to stay until immigration is re-
stricted and protection assured.
Dallas stands in with the wealth
er clerk and commands the pick Of
the grist in old PrOb's hopper.
If Grover could inOculate the
Senate with some of his innocuous
desuetude it would be in order.
1t should be remembered that
Hogg's order to San Antonio does
not make a statesman of him.
ST IOuiS has reason to cOnpratu-
late herself on her credit abroad, as
shown in placing her bonds.
Bryan is on the fence with his
back to Growers pasture, but has
not decided where to jump.
Dallas is picking up free adver-
tisement and shekles at great
rate this week. Why not?
- HarrisOn is sore at his defeat. is
the cry of the Democracy. He is not
half as sore as Grover is.
Grover will not dispense any
more pie until this silver matter is
disposed of to his liking.
The involuntary tourist from the
Slope is still on his travels across
Texas. Let him cross.
1t is time that the city council
made it's ordinances respected, as
streets and sidewalks.
Sam Jones is so familiar with
the devil that the profane imagine
they are in cahOOt.
Southwest Texas made big mis-