San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-16

| way are up NIL ana dWluIly mud
dy.
| The threat to SubVert the will of
the people and throw out enough
votes to make the New York SEN
ate Democratic, has nOtsbeen car
ried out. The returns were too
! strongly Republican to be doctOred.
These good old fashioned DEM
OCrats who have invested their
everlasting all in iron and coal
industries in this and other south
ern states are not Dragging very
much about the party just now.
The English House of Commons
bankers after something easy on
the threshold of the Holidays and
refuses to consider the question of
the unemployed. Commons is a
snOb, either that or heartless.
With a heavy corporation cOun-
sci as Attorney General of the Unit
ed States it is not absolutely neces-
sary to appoint another to the SUI
preme court judgeship now vacant.
Try some other HornblOwer.
The Democratic papers have
much more to say about ObstrUc-
tiOn in the Senate than in the cir
cles of the administration, but the
people can read the real riddle of
the uncertainty that prevails.
1t is a little singular that CIeve-
land, who in all things else seems
to take pride in everything Eng
lish, kicks against the income tax,
shat peculiarly English means Of
raising revenue.
1t is not good for either indiVi-
dual business or state finances to
be incumbered with debt. Both
must live within their regular and
settled incomes or come to grief
sooner or later.
Mass meetings Of the merchants
and capitalists of Honolulu Sc
riOusly condemn the course Of the
Cleveland administration as mimi
cal to the rights of the people Of
the Islands.
BNnum, OF Indiana, aCknOWl-
edges himself the pup Of the cOun-
try. At least he says that a con-
CHEESEMAN'S life is a dogs life, and
Bynum seems to take kindly to
the trade.
1t will be a good day for Texas
when the barnacles are cleaned
off the state government and its
care turned over to the clean, pro-
gressive and manly young blood OF
the state.
1t is not necessary to hold the
Democratic papers responsible for
the uttorances Of their POpulist
allies in order to find just occasion
for crit ism. Every day finds its
occasion.
The annual dead letter sale Of
the pOstotIicc department is set for
next Monday. There is not as
much uncertainty over a sale Of
this kind as over a lot of unclaimed
express.
Just wait until that war cloud
bursts over Europe and there will
be no more heard about this Brazil
balderdash. When those European
armies meet there will be blood |
spilled.
Great big New York is not as well !
provided with appliances for the
speedy arrest Ofcri nina as is little
San Antonio. She has Mother
signal boxes or a police. wagon
patrol.
The south faVOrS the income tax, |
and the east opposes it. The east |
is in it to win if the weight of
Cleveland's mental avoirdupOise |
is OF any real influence in the
scale.
The hand that refused to enforce
the law for Chinese exclusion is
the same one that is trying to force
an obnoxious government upon
the free people Of Hawaii.
If two elections settle anything
that Austin dam business should
be considered settled. The capital
city evidently intends to keep that
dam roaring.
There is really nothing against
the leVying Of an income tax, save
that it is the fairest method Of tax
alton that has yet been devised.
Lee, defeated for the United
State Senate, is mentioned for the
Italian mission that Van Allen
was scared out Of accepting.
Col. Lott should hurry up with
that Arkansas road and get ready
to build the air line from here to
NelascO.
Sam Jones appears in a dress