San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-14

stand. The people have a sudden
ear for that which is "roWdy
quick"
1t is not in order for the mena-
gerie at Washington to shut down
until Mills has been heard in MS
little act. what | do not know
about silver and the coinage"
Domestic and personal economy
is now one of the lost arts, and 1t is
fast becoming so in matters OF
public expenditure. This last is
the necessary outcome or the
others.
The wool manufacturers are try
ing to pull the wool off the eyes OF
the Democratic ways and means
committee, but it is doubtful II
they succeed.
The speeches that are being
made on silver repeal are in reall-
ty campaign documents, they are
not supposed by those who make
them to have any particular in.
fluence on the vote that is wait
ing.
The wise congressman Will hedge
on his silver record, for in the
changes that come in public sem
timent the position of the free sill
verites will be condemned OF the
whole country two years hence.
The Houston Post in declaiming
against professional mud singers
forgets the pit out Of which itself
was digged. Some snobs do grow
to be ashamed of their parentage
and early surroundings.
Drouths may come and droubh
may go but this drOuth will not
90 on forever. The man in south
west Texas who yields hoe will
continue to pillow and SOW and
reap the reward of his labor.
The top crop of cotton is one of
the poorest ever grown in Texas
and the other cotton states are
in no better condition. The pros
| poets for an af ter crop are not Hat
| tering and prices must rise.
China is working up the senti-
ment of exclusion of all foreigners.
| That is right, let white men leave
that land and let all Cinnamon be
deported from this country. The
two do not mix.
The Scientific American has been
doing some really good illustrative
work in connection with its reports
of the Worlds fair. Its pen pic
lures are also terse and very cleal
cut.
| Nashville public schools use thai
charming horse story "Black Beau
ty" as a reading exercise. 1t is On'
of the most delightful stories ant
one of the most humanitarian o
lessons.
| When express matter is shO
through a pneumatic tube from on
commercial center of the cOuntr.
to the other the trade of the expires
; robber will come to a perpetua
end.
, Hon. John Ireland has changes
his base since the day that he dc
nounced immigration to Texas a
something that the state did nc
need. He shows his sense by learr
ing wisdom with age.
That big haul of plumber in tn
; last express robbery will only whe
4 the appetite of some other gan
:, for a fresh raid on the poor trai
. men.
p This raiding of trains for tn
+ contents of the express cars mus
n come to an end or the express me
Il sengers will be mighty hard to g
t and the price of their services elm
k skyward.
!. The trouble that the leaders
the Irish party have over the di
o position of the Paris fund teach
the necessity of preventing the a
. emulation of all such funds in tt
future.
i When bank and train robbers a
d shot down as ruthlessly as tn,
at shoot their victims there will
" fewer outrageS of this kind to
- cord in the dispatches to the dai
press.
1t is sincerely to be hoped tn
the news that is wired from Was
q" ington of the intended inforceme
OF of the Geary act is true. This cOu
r. try will be all the better the soon
We that act is enforced.
e- America for Americans first a
70 for foreigners afterwards, is the
~ mand of the Republican party.
ou "There no longer exists "a mon
se crisis" is the terse statement