San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-03

China claims for herself a sort of
/ protectorate over COrea, and this
is just what Japan disclaims. 1t
looks as though China would be
in need of protectorate over her.
self ere long if she continues to
fight against the Japs.
The Republican conventions all
over the country are congratulate
ing Hawaii on her baptism into
the fold of a free republicanism.
This is not considered matter
of congratulation in the White
House.
The voters of Texas may be
minding their 90 this year, but
they are Indifferent to their p p.
The Populists and the Prohibition
lists will neither Of them reach
high water mark this run of grass.
Innoculation for cholera has met
| with marked success in Calcutta,
| but no proper virus with which to
| innoculate against stupidity has
yet been discovered. That discoV-
cry will enrich its patentee.
There will be mourning and
weeping and crashing of teeth if
there is another solid South DEM
ocratic delegation in the National
congress. 1t should not be after
the old fashion any longer.
The immigration door to these
United States wants a pateDt-bac
action single geared outward
swinging-hinge. One that will
swing open to permit immigrants
to depart, but not to enter.
During this whole campaign for
state and congressional nomina-
tions there has been little or moth
ing said about the men who are to
make laws for Texas during the
coming legislative session.
The CoXeyites may succeed in
getting back to the place from
whence they started under the Sc
auctions Of their leader, but Coxy
has trundled to the bottom of the
hill and stays there still.
There is no better time than the
present to withdraw the American
missionaries from that eastern
country. There is more work and
more results and more thanks in
the field of home efforts.
There is no gap in the continued
progress of that Gulf Shore road.
1t stretches its developing length
along the line of its survey with
unvarying results. Nelasco is
hustling to corral it.
The flushing of these streets
would be a good thing if it was
done in proper way, but with the
samples of work in that line that
have been given there is no hank
ering after flush.
Missouri Democrats are uttering
the Macedonian cry, and it is being
responded to in all the Democratic
states. 1t will take more tina n the
preaching of a Democratic evangel
to save that state.
The country is to be congratu-
lated on the fact that immigration
has petered out one half within
two years. Double the half, cut
ting it all off, and then double the
congratulations.
1t is hard for the energetic and
far-seeing northerner to realize
why it is that this city is not over
run with winter visitors. He will
cease to wonder when that Tourist
hotel is built.
The welfare of this state is in the
hands of the next state legislature,
and there is no more interest taken
in selecting the proper timber than
there is in selecting an overcoat in
dog days.
The sun shines on the evil and
on the good and the rain falls on
the just and upon the unjust, but
there is a sensible lack of the latter
in this whole southwest country.
Cleveland has the courage of his
convictions, but it is the character
Of his convictions and not the cour-
age that backs them with which so
much fault is found, and justly.
Reagan's scalp lock has done
thinned as rapidly as the wool on
the back Of the Texas sheep since
the Democracy took possession of
the fold.
Senate feels the lprickles of the
criticism of the country even more
than it does the spines of a Russian
thistle.
| That last order from u. S. A.