San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-16

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citation of the favors of the weather
clerk, and like good pie pleader
bases its demand for more upon
what it has already received. 1t
wants to give more thanks.
With coal, barbed wire, iron ore
and sugar on the protected list
where does the free trader come
in?
Congress will soon be in the
throes of dissolution. The indus
tries of the country have been in
that condition ever since the cleo
ton of Cleveland.
There is no hope at present in
the situation for the industries
that are handed over to the tender
mercies of foreign competition
by the late act OF Congress.
If money will secure the return
OF the present party to power In
Congress, then it should not be
wanting, for the trusts have made
millions out of the legislation of
this session now closing.
When Congress adjourns there
will not be a solitary voice outside
of the trusts to eXclaim "Well done
good and faith full servant"
Uncle Sam is ready to take a
contract for the supply of the
Chin-Jap army with provisions for
a termsOf ten years, with renewals
ad infinitum. 1t is time those fell
lows were of service to us.
Those intelligent nags that San
Antonio sports sent out on the
northern circuit are doing their
duty molly in the advertising of
the Alamo City. They are in the
swim as well as the old town.
Hereafter the members Of the
House will be careful not to ad-
vOcate any legislation that inter-
feres with the speculative profits
of Democratic senator's. On this
rock they came to grief.
The attention of the world is di-
vided between Dallas, Washington
and Corea.
Uncle Sam will send the Char
lesion to loaf about the waters
of.Corea, watching his boys inter-
ests.
The survival of the fittest is as
inevitable in politics as it is in
nature. 1t is only a question of
time and the unfit must drop be-
hind and out. This is inevitable
political destiny.
The promoters of Queen LIPS
petition at Washington have been
lost in the sugar hogshead.
1t goes without saying that the
next Democratic governor of Tex
as will not have as many brains as
the present. He will not have a
Hoggshead full. "a
John Reagan comes out at the
little end of the horn, badly whit
tied down to point.
The latest is to the effect that
this Chinese fleet met that of ia
pan on the high seas and that af-
ter having a high old time it was
driven under the guns of the
Chinese forts for protection.
A falling off in the circulation
Of the Globe Democrat in Texas is
not prima tactic evidence of the de.
cadence of the Lone Star state, but
the GID seems to so regard it.
Texas can show more points of
progress, more units of improve
ment than any other state in the
Nation, and the proof of the fact
is in the comparison of the stats.
tics Of Texas and the rest.
Silver or what? Cleveland's in.
dOrsement or what? Majority or
two-thirds rule These three and
all three. Where is James Stephen
Vernon did not have a smell. II
is Harmony with an II, and don't
you forget it.
Bryan is fishing for fun on the
coast, not for suckers up the Trim
| ity. Wise Bryan.
The Callaghan fishers at Dallas
took the right kind of bait along in
their cans.
| Wilson says that the Senate wa:
a protective body, and yet it wa!
distinctively Democratic.
The tariff fight leaves the fret
trade wing of the Democracy bro
ken and sadly demoralized.
The bolt in the McLennan coun
ty convention is a colored one
Rule or ruin and ifyou cannot ruiz
bolt.
Every fresh discovery of golC
and increase in the output Of tn,