San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-14
SHORT SNAPPERS.


favorite at the convention.
Jack Daugherty is correct in his
belief that we should get to work
on the sewers, as soon as possible.
The Express being a Culberson
paper, Of course, sends all specials
colOred in his favor.
The Club Nacional claim they
can furnish 500 laborers for the
sewers.
Mr.. Wood from Arkansas ought
to be satisfied with his experience
on the Committee Of Twenty-Five.
Ten miles an hour is little too
fast for our electric street cars to
run in our narrow, crooked streets.
Sheriff Campbell reports that
the rainfall at Campbeltown is
very light.
Miss Maggie Eisenlohr has re-
turned from her visit to Freder-
icksburg, looking as charming as
ever.
Our sewer bonds if sold in large
blocks, should command pre-
MUM of at least five per cent, but
if we attempt to peddle them out
in ten dollar lots, it will take sew
eral years to dispose Of them.
1t is possible we might sell $780,
600, or 100000, of our sewer bonds
in San Antonio in small denomina-
%iNna hnf hn hrlI n thie,
must and should come from
abroad.
The wool man can now SYM
pathize with the poor cattle
punchers. The free trade Demo-
cracy has hit them at last, where
it will hurt.
II San Antonio had about 10000
more English reading people, and
about a dozen more advertisers
like Wolfson another morning pa
per could live.
Will Alderman Hice please stir
up the committee that has in
charge the extension of these wa
ter mains? Although more than
$4,000 feet have been ordered not
foot has been laid.
If we attempt to peddle out our
bonds at home, we would probably
sell about 100000, and the balance,
100000, we would not be able to
sell at all.
Mr.. Cunningham, of Del Rio,
who has been travelling in the
North and East for several months,
passed through the city today on
his way home.
M While putting down the sewers
a little effort should be made at
surface drainage also. Dig few
bitches and trenches so the water
can run off.
Alderman Beckmann's PROPOSE
ton to issue bonds in small denom-
nations is good enough to the
extent of about 100000; but
Alderman Hice is also correct
when he says it's outside money
we need"
The Negro preachers sold the
Negro vote of Alabama to the
Democrats for the privilege OF sep
arate cars for colored people. Oates
was elected governor by the Negro
vote.
The great Democratic party OF
the great state of Texas is now in
convention at Dallas, Will any
good come out Of this for Texas?
If we are to judge the future by
the past, no good can come of it.
Alderman Beckmann's scheme
worked very nice in France, be-
cause it was to pay debt already
created, but it is not practical in
procuring money for a new enter
prise. What we need is new blood
from abroad.
The city has already been offered
500 acres of land at S25 and S35 an
acre for the sewer farm, when the
anti-sewerites said the city would
be compelled to pay from 5000 to
$500 an acre.
Governor Flower of New York
wants the tariff let alone for
twenty years. The Mckinley bill
for twenty years-that Ssuits us
But tariff is business and can't be
let alone for any length of time,
but it requires more wisdom than
the Democracy seems to possess to
legislate upon tariff.
When national Republican con-
ventions cease to denounce the
southern people on account OF the
negro the Republican party will
become more popular in the south.
The tariff bill just passed by the
Democrats in Congress, takes off