San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-21

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treachery there is nothing on record
to carry out this idea. Where
there is no principle and no pledge
there can be no treachery, and it is
well known that the Democrats as
a party have no tariff creed, nor
the semblance of one.
San Antonio is no nearer hell
than her sister cities, but she is
spouting sulphur on every hand
The maintenance of the city's
credit is not an optional thing
with the citizen. 1t is one of his
supreme duties, inhering in the
simple fact of citizenship.
The men who were foremost in
fighting the bond issue will be
found in the forefront endeavoring
to maintain the credit of the issues
of the city and carry them to the
highest figure.
If proper provision were made
for surface draining in the heart of
the city there would be less need
of cleaning the mud out of the
ruts and wallow holes after every
rain. Drain the streets.
There is no need of putting
through the free sugar bill in
order to embarass Cleveland. He
is carrying as large a load of that
same as is at all healthy for him,
the party of the country. Stet.
The tariff bill is so much better
than was feared when the House
got in its work and sent it to the
Senate for ratification, that the
Republican party gives thanks
that it is no worse.
Crop prospects in the south are
better than in the north or the
east or west, and better in Texas
than in any other part of the
whole southern domain. Texas is
in it this year as never before.
st. Louis Republic sells on the
streets Of Fort Worth for five cents
and the Gazette is thrown In for
pelone. This is great way to dis
count a home paper, but the Ga
Zette knows its own worth.
Cockrell will have the benefit of
the majority rule to favor him
when the Thirteenth district
convention meets, but he will have
hard row to hoe under the most
favorable circumstances.
Congress is ready to adjourn and
the country is ready to have them.
What says Grover
There is a more hopeful tone all
around the board. One continent
wide sigh of relief, and as deep as
the dependency of the people, over
the prospect of an immediate ad-
iournment of Congress.
The Democratic state platform
has at last taken the middle of
the road. Will the party stay
there
Hogg's worst enemies do not de-
ny him the virtue of good inten-
tions, but they also remember that
it was with that same "good inten-
tions" that hell was reported to
have been paved. g. i. don't go.
Carlisle told the Senate that if
the House bill was passed, free
coal, iron, ores and:sugar,t there is a
certain deficit of $29,0O0,0OO and as
result there was no passing.
Hill gets left with the income
tax in the bag. Grover will be only
too glad of signing that item Of the
homogeneous tariff measure, the
measure of the incompetency of a
democratic Congress.
Once more and always the
LIGHT directs attention to the
break-neck condition of the street
car track and the highway on
South Alamo street. That street
is more holey than righteous.
You could bury a two-hundred
hog in those holes on South
Alamo street and not fill them
! leve,.
The roads from the plazas near
est to the depots to the depots
themselves are in a horrible con-
ditiOn and daily getting worse.
There is no necessity for turning
these streets out to grass.
A Democratic Congress is out o
place except it be as minority
body organized to comment upon
Republican measures and see that
there is no monkey work in Ma
tiOnal legislation.
AS a regulator of Republican
motion the Democratic party has
its uses, but not outside of that.
All of the Texas crow on the