San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-15


the end may come in day with
out any warning and business &C
up with a bound.
| The repeal of the Sherman law
only relieves the United States
from the obligation of purchasing
grist of silver bullion that she
has no use for. 1t does not effect
silver as money.
| This country is not ripe for mon
ometalism any more than it is for
mOnotheism. It's circulating me-
dunn will be a monetary trinity
consisting of gold, silver and paper
currency.
| Sweet milk is said to be a speci-
fic for all the ills that the human
| stomach is heir to, but the milk
of human kindness cures an in
finite variety off ills outside of the
stomach.
Breckenridge, tho congressional
gallant Of Kentucky, has last got
himself into trouble that he can
not buy himself out Of. The woman
in this case has friends in high
quarters.
Cleveland is reported sick man,
but his diaphragm is not as much
out of order as his organs of politi-
cal assimilation. With these cor
rected Grover would be as frisky as
a colt.
The hot weather is cutting down
the attendance in congress and it
will be slim until the closing hours
of the debate, when there is no
doubt that the wanderers will re-
turn.
The solution of the financial
question towards which everything
points is readjustment Of the ra-
ito between gold and silver and the
continued coinage Of both metals.
Type written letters are ruled
out in Massachusetts as legal evi
dence, and are worth no more than
the sweet nothings of the fly en-
ployer to his pretty typewriter.
The cloud that promises a rain
of financial good appears on the
horizon, no larger than a mans
hand it is true, but it is growing
into sight from hour to hour.
The mortality among the Phila-
delphia babies is something fear
full. The total deaths were for the
week 647, and of these 341 were in
fants under one year old.
If it was the incubation of his
message that made Grover sick,
then indeed is his constitution in
sad need of repair. His mental
constitution, of course.
Houston Post rises to remark
that it is eXcusable in Grover I'M
der the circumstances to return to
Buzzards Bay and plead the baby
act for his course.
When Uncle Sans promises to
pay holds over gold and is quoted at
apremium there is not much danger
of any depreciation in the money
of the country.
All attempts to corral any in
formation as to the Trinity Navi-
cation company is the pursuit of
knowledge in the camp of the
knownOthings.
That whole coast country is in
the leash, like a vigorous and
gamey hound ready to slip his
tether together and spring after hi
game.
The finances of the country are
not sick. They are only afflicted
with general debility, the result of
severe attack of hypOchondria.
The Eifflel tower was not in it
as an attraction along side of Fer
ris' wheel at Chicago. All the
world is On,wheels now. s -Ss..-s eeNs
twas a square stand up fight
in Ohio between the president and
the party, and the party, won in
the first round. Issea@ sssRas - sss
Texas is not as we'll off, as she
will be, but she is so much better
off than her sisters that she ought
to be satisfied.
There should be enough financial
Tightening drawn from these silver
clouds in congress to clear the at
mosphere.
The Iowa Republicans will put
themselves on record this week,
and it will be record to win with.
AS a sanitary stimulant the late
news from the .east ought to prove
effective.
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