San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-04

Queen Lii is a patron of the black
art. 1t is the fact that Grover is q
hacker of the Black Queen that
worries this country, and not that
she is a black artist.
There is no mercy in sentencing
the industies of this country to a
lingering death. Congress should
pass its sentence of death at once
and end the agony, or uncondition.
ally reprieve them.
Coinage bills in congress- may
multiply like arrests of anarchists
in Spain, but they will attract lit :
tie attention and elecit little con-
sideration until the question of
revenue is settled.
For the information of the in
quiring artists of the "press" who
are anxious to know what Queen
Lii got in her Christmas stocking
the LIGHT will state that she got
"blackleg" in it.
Judge Reagan evidently has de-
signs upon the governorship of this
state, and this, state as evidently
has no design of entertaining the
designs Of his deslgnership, the
commissioner.
This is splendid weather for
making hay for that Tourists
hotel project. This weather is
just what the residents from the
frozen regions come to San Antonio
to revel in.
Mexico shows every evidence of
prosperity, and she is putting her
industries on sound basis. In
this thing the Republic across the
Rio Grande is showing it's good
sense.
The Republicans of Texas are in
first-condition to settle back in
their easy chairs and see the Demo-
Gratis wrestle with the POpuliStS
for tn 2. control of the state govern
ment.
If this fool fussing over the Cor
bett- Mitchell mill will only end in
an abortion and disgust the fistic
world so that no more prize fights
will be engineered, it will not be in
vain
The man who grows grains,
fruits and woods in this country is
threatened with serious loss if not
the actual destruction of his bust
ness by the Wilson tariff schedules.
The Democratic party will have
to stand sponsor for an income
tax, the most unpopular of all
methods that was ever adopted for
raising the revenues of nation.
The Democratic party will an
swer to the country two years
hence for increasing the national
debt in time of peace. OF this
there is not reasonable doubt.
The Governor of Kansas reck-
oned without his hostess when he
foolishly imagined that he could
terminate at will that Lease on the
board of state charities.
If, as predicted, the man in the
moon should prove to be woman,
there would soon be a dearth of
star gazers among the maids and
matrons of this world.
And once more the LIGHT rises
to remark that it is time that San
Antonio energy attach it's cable
tow to that Spring Fair project and
rope it into the arena.
The end of the erritorial system
in these United States is at hand,
and the end of the Indian reserva.
ton should follow salt as rapidly
as the law allows.
Cunning for mayors seems to be
popular pastime, and the chief
magistrate of Oakland, California,
is the latest candidate for martyr
dom.
Prendergast thinks that he was
a fool for not accepting a life SER
tence. He was bigger fool when
he shot at Harrison.
With Tammany knocked out of
time the New York Republicans
can carry that state every year in
the decade.
The time has come for grinding
the crank between the upper and
the neither millstones, the law and
the pepper.
The man with a hoe is counting
the hours, and they seem long, un-
til the weather clerk dispenses the
moisture.
If Coke really makes up his
mind to run for governor of Texas,
Reagan may as well initiate Crock.
ett's coon.