San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-16

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Lilly Langtry continues to
demonstrate by her real estate
purchases that she has good bust
ness head and that it has not been
for nothing that she has played
the suckers in two hemispheres.
There are too many press writ
ers assume that there is only one
meaning to a word. Nearly every
word in use has more than one
meaning and some of these are a
great deal meaner than others.
The Jersey "skeeter" has been
imported into England. That
is all right. This country should
give England some equivalent for
her free trade ideas and the Jersey
pest just about fills the bill.
The Democratic doctors in Texas
are all prescribing for the "Split."
1t is however to be noticed that
the heads of the faculty, Messrs.
Hogg and Clark, are preserving a
judicious silence.
Provide for the city's unemployed
on the streets and there will be
two pleased parties to that trans
action; the citizens and those who
are put at honest work for their
daily bread.
The question of supremacy in
Brazil is not yet in process of
settlement nor will it be until the
rival fleets of PeiXoto and Mello
cease playing hide and seek with
each other.
Valiant is not as valiant in the
presence of death as when he PIT
the other fellows face to face with
the grim monster and he squeals
for a Communication of his death
sentence.
The Mormons are rejoicing at
the prospect of controlling the tem-
poral as we'll as the spiritual af-
fairs of Utah. They Will do it as
soon as their statehood is accomp-
lished.
When that railroad is built to
Brownsville it will not take two
weeks for a newspaper from that
city to reach the metropolis. San
Antonio is interested in that road.
The experience of the past has
taught the Texas Democracy moth
ing, and they have forgotten moth
ing. These two pointers indicate
the chances of party harmony.
The man who plants an ad in a
good paper always reaps his re-
ward, and there is no better soil in
Texas for such planting than the
fruitful columns of the LIGHT.
The Democratic journal that
bankers after teaching the pro-
visional government Of Hawaii
n lesson can bank on the fact that
Grover will not attempt it.
The rains in the lower Rio Grande
country insure good spring crops.
1t is for the exhibition of her spring
crops that the San Antonio Spring
Fair should be organized.
"The very idea o. protection is
undemocratic" says the Little
Rock Press. That Boston tea party
then must have been a very I'M
democratic party.
The New Orleans Daily States
swallows the Wilson bill, and the
Wilson bill when it becomes law
will swallow the infant industries
of LO uisiana.
The year 1894 opens unusually
prolific in cases Of outrage. 1t is
to be hoped that this bad begin
ming Of the year will not continue
to the end.
| Galveston News says that the
true Democratic ring is not usually
worn in the nose. In this state il
is usually worn in the court house
Free trade will hit the manufac
turing south a harder blow thar
Hawaiian Dole gave Cleveland.
There is nothing like the offer o
honest work to test the difference
between a labOrer and tramp.
1t is as difficult to ascertain
which is the true Democracy il
New York as it is in Texas.
The railway prospectOrs and sur
veyors in this south Texas rcgiOl
are a busy folk this season.
DenisOn Herald devOtes its ener
gies unflaggingly to the unjOintinj
of the joints in that city.
This warm sunny weather shOul,
tend to ripen that Tourist Hote
project.
President Dole doles out dole t
Cleveland, but not in infinitesima
doses.