San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-09

The September heats have not
altogether abated on the threshold
Of October. The weather clerk
has had spoke inserted in his
wheel and seems to have missed
his calculation of the seasons.
If the L. S. Senate. has no means
at its command by which a minor
ity of its members can be forced to
accede to the will of the majority,
it is high time that it ceased to do
business at the old stand.
| There is not a dollar in circula-
ton in these United States that is
not an honest dollar, in the sense
that whether it be gold or silver or
currency it will purchase as much
as any other dollar.
Queen Lii and Claus Spreckles
have the dead cinch on Blount.
What a prime minister he would
make for the dizzy duskiness that
spreads her voluptuousness over
| those islands.
| OlcNtIdllu ndS al SUIe tIlOuSH JOD
| lot of statesmen in his cabinet this
time, but then it matters little, as
his cabinet officers are merely his
department clerks. Grover bosses
the layout.
Dallas will put up the best fair
this season she has ever opened
for the improvement of Texas
agricultural industries and the in
creased trade of her own mer-
| chants.
AS good an authority as John
Sherman says unconditional re-
peal in its present form cannot
| pass the L. S. Senate. John gen.
orally knows what he is talking
| about.
San Antonio was all smiles last
week when she hung her latch
string on the outside and received
her Volksfest visitors. That smile
of hers is all wool and yard wide.
The dispensary law of South
Carolina carefully considered
seems to be a device for promoting
temperance, it's success based
upon the increase of drunkenness.
Ward aldermen are elected to
look after the interests of their
special wards. This fact should
not be forgotten by them when in
| council assembled.
There is not an acre of land in
| southwest Texas that would not be
doubled in value from the moment
it was brought under irrigating
facilities.
The selfish sentiments predo-
inmate in governments as in indi-
vidual actions, and are no less
pernicious in the one than in the
| other.
The compromise that comprO-
misses everybody has been offered
times without number in this sill
yer difficulty. The end is not yet.
The LIGHT banks on the pros
perity of Texas, regardless of the
particular faction that may have
control of the state government.
The highest type of religion is
that which commits all It's adj
herents to a plain and simple
minding of their own business.
| The Texas Democracy are fatu-
Ously crying peace, peace, when
there is no peace, but only a pros.
pect of no end of pieces.
| Tho poopla whO arc turninu IN
their noses at the senate would
like to see the senate turn up its
toes to the daisies.
Hogg is swinging around the
circle for purpose, the thither END
of which is anchored in the L. S
Senate chamber.
Protection wants no compromise
with free silver. Old dog Tray
gained nothing by being found in
bad company.
= Siam gave France what she
| asked and now France insists thai
, Siam shall give her all that she
wants.
There is little prospect of the ta1
= on state banks being repealed thi!
congress, the less the better.
Barney Gibbs and Dick Hub
bard are blessing Texas with {
period of unusual silence.
The same trouble exists in Texas
: that marks the Democratic stiua
ton in national politics.