San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-25

country is not success, unless 1t
is backed up by personal quick
ness with a shooting iron that
gives the other fellow no chance in
the discussion.
| II the politics of this county and
city were dumped into the San An
tonic river there would not be liv-
ing fish in it's waters between the
head of the river and the Calaveras
brick yards.
The Iowa Republicans have the
wisdom of experience this year and
they are letting the prOhibitiOnists
do all the resoluting on the liquor
question. There is no Democratic
comfort in that pot.
The average Democratic senator
can raise hair when he gets riled,
and this is the present normal con-
dition of several of them. CleVe-
lands interference in tariff matters
is their red rag.
The street university requires no
naturalization fee, but the educa-
tion that is there acquired is the
most expensive and useless of any
that is given outside of the walls of
a penitentiary.
| Cleveland tried a bluff on the
Senate, but those old gamesters
knew the cards too we'll to be
caught in that manner when they
had seen the presidents hand at an
earlier stage of the betting.
The virtue of consistency is the
one virtue on which the Senate
pride's itself, and Cleveland was
not wise when he tried to rub it in
on them Just at that spot. He
knows better now.
| Texas will round up we'll with
any other of the states of this
Union when the years productive
ness is measured up and the COM
parsons made. She is not BOOM
ing but she is healthy.
Wilson on Harris, Vest, German
| and Jones is not more interesting
reading than Vest, Harris ct al.
upon the regeneration of the
President in the matter of free
| WOOl, lIUu anu COdl.
If Savers is certain that the
| Democrats cannot control the next
| Congress he may incline to take a
shy at the governorship from the
saddle of dark horse. Sayers
would run like coyote.
1t would be better for the poor
workmen to pay their hundreds of
! thousands to maintain wages in
hard times, rather then to pay
| them for the distinctions alike OF
labor and production.
There is but one thing to be said
about the resentment of the Sen.
ate, as manifested on Monday, and
that is that it was manly, openly
expressed, dignified, courteous and
evoked by a real grievance.
There was free wool in the Sem
| att chamber after Harris and Vest
and German got in their work, as
we'll as free wool in the bill that
was presented by Wilson to the
House for its adoption.
The Congressional situation is no
more certain in this district than
is the gubernatorial situation in
| the state. 1t is an open fight as
yet and anybody's victory, or fun
eral, as may be.
| German handled his eXcellency,
| the head of the Democratic party,
without gloves when he arraigned
him for his bad faith in the treat
ment of the Senate's committee of
conference on tariff.
| Hill defending Cleveland against
the attacks Of German, Vest and
Harris on the floor of the National
Senate chamber, is a new thing
under the sun. Hill must feel
strange in his new role.
Germans attack on the presi-
dent has put him outside Of the
pale of presidential nomination.
Every day adds to the difficulty
Of the Democratic situation in its
settlement of tariff.
Wanted-An immigration screen
warranted not to let anarchists
through it's meshes.
Debs hears the echoes of the
strike and imagines it the voice
of the people upholding his crimes.
If it is Culberson or any other
man against the field, the field will
get there, Eli
| The rain drops in'sundry places,
but there are other dry places in
which it droppeth not.
Free cussing as well as free iron,
coal and ores, are part and parcel
of the tariff schedule.