San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-12
Reforms never 60 backward, not
even a so-called tariff reform.


Reforms never 60 backward, not
even so-called tariff reform.
There was a peculiar humor,
possibly not intended, when a
Breckinriage was selected by Presi-
dent Cleveland to convey congratu-
lations upon the recent marriage
of the Gar.
There is every promise in the
situation that another $50,000,000
bond issue will soon be needed.
Kentucky resumes payments
from her state treasury, with a
round million Indebtedness. These
Democratic administrations come
high, state and national.
The pulpit and the press make a
great team, and when the pulpit
makes a mistake, as it sometimes
does, then the intelligent press
calls the turn. It's files are always
in evidence.
That new charter for the city of
San Antonio needs to be drawn by
some one who has not a bee in his
bonnet. A plain instrument, plain
ly directive, is what the city needs,
not maze of words.
1t does not require much of an
expert now to 60 through a train.
The process has been so often de-
scribed that most any country jake
with the necessary sand can catch
on.
1t is becoming an open question
whether either the people or the
government have any rights that
the trusts are bound to respect.
If the state law cannot reach out
far enough to corral the Standard
Oil fellows what is the matter
with federal law, and the hostility,
declared, of the Democratic party
to trusts.
The Tammany tiger is see sick /;
has seen too much of the Lexow
committee.
New York Presbytery refuses to
give certificate of ministerial de-
cency to Parkhurst.
The conviction is growing rapid
ly in this state that her results in
co Irt are in inverse ratio to the ex-
penses OF her judiciary system.
Her code wants revising and sim
plifying. Wants it bad.
Germany is proud Of her empe-
ror do d family man, but when he
wants to take in the whole nation
as his family, making his individ-
ual will their law, then the people
with ideas of liberty object.
Neither tariff nor reformation Of
the senate rules will be discussed
by that body this session.
All things Come to him who hus-
ties. San Antonio has some hus-
tiers and should have a few more.
Texas is the greatest OF all the
great American states, and San
Antonio her greatest cit y.
On to the Rio Grande, will come
about the time that the wires an
nounce "into Velasco." So we grow.
That Senate steering committee
can steer straighter for the wine
room than any where else.
There is wide and impossible
gulf between the people who want
good government, and the fellows
who only want good offices. The
last stick together and the others
ought to combine against them.
A fraud can live better on the in
terest of what he owes than the
honest man can on the income of a
good estate. The fellows who toll
not, spin not, save yarns, pay not
and do not, somehow get there.
For every thousand acres OF irrl-
gable lands opened within market
distance OF this city mark down an
other ten thousand increase in pop
ulation, and five millions increase
in taxable values.
There is one thing noticeable
about the returned congressman at
Washington, when put under the
interviewing pump, and that is
they all have the "haven't thought
about it" mighty bad.
The football game has this ad-
vantage over the railway collision
the collisions are seldom rear end,
but come head on.
The Populists serve the end Of
their political creation in weaving
Democrats from their party idols