San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
sANcTuM scIssoRINGs.

nual consumption of forest timber
in the United States is 80 per cent
greater than it's production, which
leads the New York News to re-
mark that I'VE must give more at
tention to forest planting and
preservation, or a timber famine
will prove to posterity our unwis-
dom.W
Fort Worth Gazette: "Who is
the man or who are the men that
stand behind the obstruction to
the Rock Islands entrance? They
are crucifying Fort Worth; they
are taking bread from the mouths
of labOring men, and they are in
juring the retail trade of the city.
And yet the Rock Island does not
refuse to pay for what it gets or
wants. Who are the men? Let
them stand forth in hold avowal
of their obstruction to the city's
trade and growth"
Texas Stockman and Farmer:-
"Wheat, corn and cotton are eX-
ceeding low in price, cotton and
wheat being lower than at any
time for a period of twenty years,
and a rally in the price of these
products is not looked for in the
immediate future. While cattle
horses, hogs and sheep have suf-
fered marked decline the fall in
values is not so great as with the
leading farm products. This year,
more than any other, should teach
the farmer that it would pay to
combine stock raising with farm
ing"
Columbia Journal: at is so pat
ent a fact that good roads are a
blessing and comfort to every liv-
ing person and toiling beast, that
not one of our readers will dissent
from the statement. Is it not
strange, therefore, that we seem
to grudge the cost of every shovel
full of dirt, or the labor of throwing
it. when every dollar in money or
days labor judiciously expended
upon our roads will return us
hundredfold? We do not consider
the claims of those who ride or
walk for pleasure, for they can
choose their routes or pick their
way"
The New Nation: July 1.-THE
state of South Carolina undertook
the exclusive operation of the
liquor traffic within its boundaries,
forbidding under drastic penalties
all private persons or corporations
henceforth from having any part
in the sale or distribution of intoX-
icating liquors within the state.
AS is we'll known The New Nation
is very much engaged in urging
state operation of the liquor taffic,
but the experiment in South Caro-
lima is undertaken under conditions
calculated we fear, to bring dis
credit upon the idea of public man
agement."
Two Republics, Mexico: "There
should be an understanding be-
tween the silver producing coun-
tries for the purpose of determin-
ing the means of creating a greater
demand for silver. The silver pro-
ducing countries, if united, can ex-
ercise a powerful influence among
the nations of the world and it is
not to be supposed that the gov
eminent of the United States
would hold itself aloof from a.
movement intended to give great
er value to the white metal,
although it does not care to
longer endeavOr single-handed
and unassisted to furnish mar
ket to silver. Should the Brussels
conference fail to benefit silver an
other conference of nations should
be called, but nations friendly to
silver, not it's enemies, and no
country has more right to head
this movement than Mexico. In
this connection it may be well to
say that all talk of confederation
of European and American Latin
nations is nonsense. None but sill
yer producing nations should be
consulted and the Ueited States
must be consulted"
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