San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-02

queen goes hard, but it is the newt
able and has to be borne.
Japan has not had a war for hall
century, but she dips into the
untried as though she was to the
manor born. She is as handy as a
woman with broom, notwith-
standing her long skirts.
The wiseacres are trying to re-
view the causes that led to the rup-
ture between China and Japan,
The efficient cause was the banker
ing of both nations for control of
the Corean peninsula.
New York Republicans have
demonstrated their wisdom in pre-
pairing for short campaign. There
will be only seven weeks between
their convention and the election,
but it will be hot I.
When the unmoveable Senate
impinges itself against the irresist-
IDLE House, or vice versa, what will
the wreck be? This is the appa-
rant outcome of the present situa-
ton, so far as known.
The divorce mill of this present,
like the mills of the ancient gods,
grinds exceedingly small, but un-
like these same mills Of the gods,
it grinds exceeding fast. Ask Da-
kota about the pace.
The sugar stocks 60 up or down
with the action of Senate as regu-
larly as the mercury rises and falls
in the tube under atmospheric
changes. The question is, who pays
for the sliding scale.
The man who can take a vaca-
ton from the cares of business and
the deceitfulness of politics this
weather and neglects his opportu-
nifty needs more sense than he is
carrying in ballast.
The war that China entered into
with the French left her with only
the Tonquin bag to hold, and at
present it looks as though the eX-
periences of 1884 were to be repeat
ed in the year 1894.
The Texas Populists will better
understand the situation and the |
utter hOpelessness of their expecta-
tions or about the ides of November
than they do now. They are born
to disappointment.
Pass a tariff bill and git, is the
advice that is being poured in on
Congress from all sections of the |
south. 1t is pertinent to add, git |
even if you cannot pass any bill at |
all. Git, anyway.
There is this consolation, if it be
a consolation; the internal dis
agreements of the Republicans in
Texas will not in any way imperil |
their chances of success in the Lone |
Star kin gdom.
Hill says that Jones, as chair
man of the Senate tariff committee,
has done the square thing all |
around, and Jones says that there
is no settlement OF the tariff differ
ences in sight.
The sheep men Of Texas were too
late in coming to the front in be-
half of their industry. The time
for them to have spoken author
itavely on this subject was in No
vember 1892.
The advocates Of irrigation, as
the only solution of the agricultural
question in these southwest Texas
COMMITTEES, are securing more
respectful hearing at present than
ever before.
Japan astOnishes China with the
vigor of her resistance, as Prussia
France during that |
memorable Franco-Prussian war.
Japan is the Prussia of the east.
South Carolina votes mo conf
dence in Governor TIllman as a bar |
tender, and rejects his wet goods.
Texas should be more concerned |
about her state representatives.
than about her congressional ones.
Those asphalt beds one hundred |
miles west Of town should solve the |
street paving question for Santone.
The Senate and the House have
locked horns over the tariff like
two belligerent bulls in corral.
The House will not yield and the
Senate will not give back. What
in thunder will Cleveland do?
Senatorial dignity cannot freeze
out investigation into senatorial
crookedness. Not this season.
The Hogg organs are crying
"enough" to the Dallas News. They
know when they are whipped.
Cleveland would like to play
mamma to the national democracy
and keep it in leading strings.
This oity Should NOT wait until