San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-09

SreSS. ms places MIN IN line
with the administration squarely.
No matter what legislation is
effected at Washington there are
those who will declare it destruc-
tive. This is an inevitable conse-
quent Of a popular government.
The silverites in Congress will
not want for excitement. The other
fellows will push the war against
free coinage and unlimited pur-
chase to the end of the contest.
The school commissioners of an
Arkansas county offer a premium
for inefficient teachers in resolu-
ton fixing $50 per month as the
maximum salary for teachers.
China, England and Russia have
heretofore divided Asia between
them, but in the future France
will demand a share in the COM
mercial and territorial spoils.
1t is announced that the United
States government will soon recog-
nize Monsignor Satolli officially.
What mission of a diplomatic char
acter has he to this country?
There is too strong sentiment
in favor of bimetalism in this
country for the monometalists to
carry Congress for the establish
ment of single standard.
Denver Republican wants Car
Isle impeached for not buying the
regulation number of ounces of
silver last month. He will buy less
than that in July, 1894.
In almost all things the safety of
the country lies in the mean be-
tween the extremes. 1t is so in this
silver agitation, and it is equally
SO in tariff matters.
Crisp does not accept the make
up of his committees arranged for
him by the Washington correspon-
dents. He will announce them
when he gets ready.
Texas does not stack up high at
Chicago, but her freedom from
financial ills is advertising her
favorably in quarters where it will
do heap of good.
Dallas has deserted bride of
fourteen years, and Galveston a
thirteen-year-old rape fiend. Two
suggestive object lessons for the
Texas legislator.
Lord Dufferin has received the
Order of the Garter. He would
have received more than that had
he succeeded in choking the French
off little Siam.
The divisional wedge is being
driven into the ranks of the De-
mocracy on this silver question, it
will not be drawn out by the tariff
discussion.
The financial herd has been
stampeded long enough. 1t is time
that the FOUNDERS up had reached
the head of the rout and turned
the drove.
The adoption of the sixty day
rule by the banks would be to the
full as great protection to the de-
positors as it would be to the bank
itself.
1t is Tammany and Cleveland
against the National Democratic
platform which will win, is what
the country is waiting to ascer-
tain.
That democratic congress is now
in session and the country instruct
ed by the past, will prepare for the
worst, even while hoping for the
best.
The congress that assembled
yesterday was elected to reform the
tariff, but instead of that they will
split on the silver question. Selah.
Texas is greatly divided upon
this silver question and is there
fore in the best possible condition
to accept Of a decent compromise.
Texas can better stand little
discomfort on the quarantine line
than to run the risk of either
cholera or yellow fever visitation.
MeXico's patriotism is coming to
the front in her voluntary contri-
buttons toward the liquidation of
her national debt.
San Antonio excludes her min
ors from the saloons; now let her
order the kids off the street
after 9 p. m.
That northwest section of Texas
down which the floods are rolling
must have prayed for rain with too
much vim.
The rain is general over Texas
but there are a few sections in
which more than a dust dispenser