San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-20

1 ATlLOnd INepuOllCdu - w udleNeE
improvement in business there has
been since Congress adjourned has
been due to the fact that Congress
adjourned and to the additional
fact that it left enough protection
in its tariff bill to enable some fac
tories to renew work at decreased
wages"
Boerne Post: Generally men
argue from a known to an I'M
known, but the Noonan crowd ar
que from the unknown to the
known and say Noonan is win
ner."
"Money is being lavishly ex-
pended in Kerr county by the Re-
publicans. Even the Pops are being
demoralized and old man Gates,
their candidate, is going shortly to
give them a talk"
"The Boston Herald has recently
been considering the condition of
the wool market, and asserts it is
not improbable within the year
wool from the southern states,
notably Texas, "will be exported
to England" This, it is believed,
is owing to the excellence of certain
grades of the domestic article for
certain purposes, such as hat man.
ufacture."
Globe Democrat: ga cargo of
1889 bales of foreign wool was re-
ceived in Philadelphia last week
by one firm, which has ordered
$4,000 additional bales soon to ar
rive. At one time under the Nc
Kinley law Ohio wool sold for
34c. On the day the new tariff law
took effect the price was go, and
the quotation in Philadelphia now
is 1870. Meanwhile the new tariff
ret continues both the .compensa-
tory and the ad valorem taxes on
manufactured woolens until jan
uary l, next, which makes the
protection the highest ever known
| in this country on this class Of
goods. Only one tax will be re-
tanned after January /, but it re.
mains to be seen where the man
who buys a suit of clothes is to be
benefited by the new law as ar
ranged"
"The Democratic split in Nebras-
ka grows wider as the campaign
progresses, and the Repu blican
prospects Of carrying the State are
increasing at a ratio Of 16 to as
compared with those of their OPP
ponents."
The Alabama Democrats have
hung out a flag of distress, on &C
count of the growing sentiment in
favor of protection, and the miracle
Of two or Observation-Disclosures
men from that State is among the
probabilities of the situation"
zone reason why all the Republi.
can speeches made this year have
been unusually good is that all the
conditions are talking for the Re-
publicans. Under such circum-
stances the speeches can not help
being effective"
Denison Herald: GAS long as
planters contract debts and have
to rush their cotton to market to
settle obligations, just so long
will the cotton producer suffer
from prices. 1t is not so much a
big crop that hurts, as heavy re-
ceipts Cutting the market and
forcing a decline. The man who
holds his cotton has nothing to
lose at this stage of the situation"
"The lesson of low cotton is:
Manufacture all the American
crop on American soil and COM
pete with England, France Ger
many in the makets of the world
for the sale of the manufactured
product.D
Corpus Christi Caller: "a prom
inent Beeville Populist, while dis
cussing the low price of cotton, was
informed by a Democratic friend
that the price was governed
by the law of supply and demand.
That's what l know; responded
the prominent Populist, 'and for
that reason we are going to send
Andy Carothers to the legislature
to repeal that id law" And the
Democratic friend smiled"
"The Caller is informed that J.
f. Polk has disposed Of his lease Of
the Globe, the Populist paper, to
Col. Louis Dreyer, and has gone to
Dallas to accept a position in a
large job office of that city. Col.
Dreyer, so the Caller learns, will
edit the paper, and the first issue,
under his management, will appear
today. 1t is presumed that the pa
! nor will no RIM in tho interest of