San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-15


publishing to the world the inor-
dinate length of his auricular APP
pendages. Teller is long on wind
and short on wisdom, and he has
several full grown colleagues.
The present tariff is the lowest
that the country has experimental
with, and II is fool movement to
attempt any wholesale reduction
OF duties on .importations with
revenue below expenditures.
The Iowa republicans have re-
pudiated prohibition rs political
issue, not because they were anti
prohibitionists, but because it's
adoption as plank in their plat
form endangered the state.
The Democrats in the House are
hungering and thirsting for a
whack at the federal election laws.
They have very much of the same
kind of an appetite that Colorado
Waite had, bloody one.
Cleveland is not going to call
this game. He knows that he has
the biggest pile and he will play
until the other fellows have no
more fat and then he will raise
them out of their boots.
The United Safes senator of the
Democratic persuasion has a
splendid ear for his own voice, and
he has some Republican confreres
that are no whit behind him in
this self-captivatiOn.
No law that is not sanctioned in
the judgment or in the prejudices
Of the majority of a people can be
enforced. The federal election law
is one of these enactments. 1t is
wise to let it go.
There is very general cOndem-
nation Of the arrangements made
by HOke Smith for the registration
of claims in the strip. The regis
tratiOn booths are miles away from
shade or water.
San Antonio is sufficiently me-
trOpOlitan to give the colored
troops show for an encampment.
Austin was not. This is not the
only difference between these
cities.
If the Democratic party is a
unit on the tariff question it is
certain that it is a unit that will
be divided into fractions when the
tariff schedules are being made
| up.
The House has done nothing in
the way of legislation for week,
and if they were to take a recess
for year it would not hurt the
country one appreciate atom.
The grand old man that piloted
Home Rule to successful issue in
England might do the same with
bimetalism If he wanted, but he
does not want to.
Necessity is like a good many
lawyers that have taken out a
license to practice, on the credQlity
of the people, in that it knows no
law.
| All union of church and state in
this country should come to a per-
| petual end, no matter under what
guiso it is attempted to perpetuate
| it.
"COtton makes the money 60"
says the Galveston News, but there
must be a rise in the ego" before
the cotton comes in very freely.
Organized labor senses the situa-
ton with greater readiness than
unOrganized labor and is more
ready to accept compromise.
There is urgent need of the city
council taking active steps for the
erection of garbage furnaces that
will consume garbage.
| Cleveland has intrenched him
self within the Republican lines
and evidently intends to stay
there.
The outside nations owe the
United States $13,O00,000 on that
gold exchange yet. 1t will come.
Corpus Caller advocates taking
the census prior to reducing the
corporate limits. Wise Caller.
Times must be hard for the
American laborer when he goes to
Europe to better his condition.
The debate on silver has demon
strated that voorhees, never was
cut out for political leader.
The tariff smashers are. butting
r against a deficiency, and butting
: down their own defences.
Il There are few men in congress
that develop wonderful wisdom in
. the art of not saying it.