San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-18

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in this city, and one of.the filthiest,
is the street called LosOyO,, just
where it joins East Commerce
street, particularly as the sun
creeps over the morning hills.
There is evidence in the late &C.
currences in Nicaragua that the
Central Americas are not anxious
to have Great Britain take hand
in their domestic squabbles. The
Monroe doctrine goes there.
The still small voice with which
France is announcing her determi-
nation to the anarchists is more
terrible in it's distinctness than a
voice of thunder would be. Let
the red flag crowd cover.
The day has come for the ar
rangemert of all international
questions by arbitration, and it is
as necessary that all domestic dis
| agreements should be settled in
the same peaceable way.
Dry as the season is the summer
ranges in south Texas were never
in better condition since the
drouth dropped down on them
eight years ago. Cattle are look
ing well and doing well.
Corpus Caller says that man is
the highest and the lowest of all
animals. The Caller must have
had Goliath of Gath and Nehimiah
in his mind when he penned that
"original" observation.
There is a growing impression in
all iudicious minds, irrespective Of
party feeling, that the only saliva
ton of this country will come
through the election of a Repu 5liC-
an Congress this fall.
This city council is too apt to
leave the little things undone in
the effort to reach after the great
things. Her streets are too dirty
for the needs and demands OF mu-
nicipal cleanliness.
One lesson taught by this strike
is that you cannot run up a bill
with the industrial devil and then
cheat him out Of it when paying
time comes. Cause produces effect
here as elsewhere.
Uncle Sam is a quiet and good
natured individual, slow to wrath,
but when the old mans dander is
up it is the best way to get out of
the way until it cools down. Mad,
he is dangerous.
The hotter the day the severer
the rays of the sun the more num-
erous the patrons of the hot baths
within and below the city. That
like cures like is coming into gen.
eral acceptance.
Outside Of Arkansas there has
been little disturbance in the South
over the disruption Of the relations
between Pullman and his men.
The South is building up and not
tearing down.
The attention of the country once
more shifts from the strikers to the
tariff conferees. There would be a
general rejoicing if Congress would
declare the tariff issue off until af-
ter election.
There has been nothing heard as
yet from the open sepulchre of Ter
rrll's mule since it lifted up its
heel against the Bosphorus dogs
on its return to the city of turbans
and Turks.
The saving in fire losses this year
over the first six months Of last
year has been about $25,000,O00,
II a penny saved is two pence
gained then the country is $j0,OO0,-
600 ahead.
All opinions cOnspire to place
this city in the van of all others in
the state, that is all opinions that
are based upon an intelligent &C
uuaintance with her industries and
progress.
Happy is the man whose mission
is to preach the gospel OF peace, but
it is not so great matter of gratu-
lation when it has to be preached
at the mouth of cannon.
Old John Reagan has the rheu-
matism too seriously in his states
right arm to steer the ship Of state.
There is no wind in Uncle Sans
sails under Democratic admins
tration. Even the wind is dead.
II the regulations of city coun-
Gil are carried out this will Soon
be the best gated city in Texas.
The Sunday Chronicle is as
"amoosln" as a dwarf monkey in
its grimmaces at the LIGHT.
Since Debs has come out of the
Kelley cure he imagines himself a
Kelley motor.