San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-03
SANCiUM SCIssOItINGS.

| flour people will only pull togethe
gress, we will have deep water from
the Gulf of Mexico, through Sabin,
Pass and Sabine Lake right up to ou
wbarves. Congress- can hardly avoiC
making an appropriation sufficient II
do the work In the face of Maj QUINN
report Is to its feasibility and value
Forney, Tex. Tribune.
Those democrats who fought the
recent battle upon the Turner hal
platform need have no fears OF a sue
| cessful, or even respectable chal.
lenge of their democracy; for tbst
platform is In strict accord with the
teachings Of Thomas Jefferson. and |.
in perfect harmony with the Chicago
platform of the national party.
Galveston Tribune. n......
If there is one thing that gives the
editor OF paper more JOY than to
add score of new su bscribers to his
let, says an exchange. it Is to whsck
off one who is narrow and shallow
enough to want you to shut off bis
paper because you have given expires.
sion to an opinion at variance with
his own. When fellow comes into
the office and says. with the air
of man who had you completely in
his power and was about to, crush
and ruin you, II want you 10 stop my
paper" yOu can not get him of the
list quick enough, and when he lie
off you feel as though q barnacle had
been removed from the rudder of the
journalistic ship.
Waco Day Globe.
II Austin had been as fortunate as
Waco, she would have been able to
turn loose the waters of the Colorado
to her profit, as Waco has done In
opening up the not springs that flow
In inexhaustlble quantities beneath
the surface of the soil. Waco says
turn her loose; Austin says dam it.
The latter city will bave to unIoose
the pent up lethargy that is now
making 1t very sleepy town before
the dam or any other agency will
make her advance and flourish.
Sea Waco and drink of her artesian
waters; battle in her natatoriums and
you will see how it all, ie. Let Aus.
tin come and drink. and battle and
learn.
Laredo Times.
The Times places about ss much
Importance to the associated press
report that Grover Cleveland had
taken q hand in the election of
United States senator in the state of
New York as 1t attaches to one of
those sensational accounts of imagin.
ary battles on the RIO Grande, as tel
egraphed by sensational correspon-
dents from Laredo. .
Lawrence KS. Herald: ...
The republicans of Kansas are con-
fdeDt that they can organize the
lower House, say the dispatches. This
~ probably the first time in the his.
tory of the country when there was
any doubt whatever of the right and
prOpriety of the majority organizing
any legislative body. The doubt Is
not as to the right OF the republican
to do so. 1t arises from the fact that
the opposition has declared that IL
will prevent such organizations by
revolutionary methods. The repub-
licsns have the majority, fairly and
lucy shouio OTRduIL6, I6b
the consequences be what they may
If the populists think that it il time
to wipe the government out of exist.
ence, let them try the experiment.
New Orleans Item.
What with the Panama scandal In
France and the building and loan
fraud in England it wouri se-m that
tho nf hiffnRnpuu nyaf Par
would be full. But another danger
Is threatened, and this from a femi-
nine quarter. The return Of the Grim
ollne and the invasion of the hoop are
evils that loom upon the horizon,
and, though the shadow is now no
larger than q mans hand, as the
Blue Beard" story puts it yet the
Britishers are already up liz arms,
ready TO do battle with the advanc-
ing foe.
Houston POST
New Orleans has never known such
thing as q strict observance Of q
Sunday closing law and the effort to
enforce such a law now is not apt to
prove very effective. The preponder-
ating sentiment in that city is OPP.
posed to any sort of abridgment OF
their Sunday. pleasures and privi-
| leges. Religion and custom alike
have educated the creole population
in way from which it would be hard
to change them.
Houston Age:
The san Antonio Express says San
Antonio is going to have an election
for mayor; but that lie probably mis-
take. The difficulty OF the Express il
1t does not understand the condition.
that control political movements in
that city. The people of San Antonio
never have an election. They simply
meet when occasion requires it anC