San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24

China cries enough! Japan has
fought too sharp and savage to
suit the Flowery Kingdom fellows.
The opinion OF a city attorney is
not binding upon the judgment Of
his successor, at least that Is the
only corrolory to the late action
Of the municipal council.
First the blade then the ear, then
the full corn in the ear. First the
kindergarten, then the school of
the present, then the industri al
school, the school of the future.
The riches in the soil of this
state would serve to enrich every
man, woman and child in it, If on
ly they were developed. Protect
i've policies will alone encourage
development.
1t matters not to what figure the
expenditures of the National gov
eminent are reduced, it availeth
nothing so long as those expendi-
lures are in excess Of the revenues
of the country.
Corn is very much higher than
one year ago, and as the state Of
Texas has greatly increased her
output this year she will be bene-
fitted accordingly. Corn is profit
able crop inside of steer.
There is no middle ground to be
taken by American manufacturers !;
they must either pay the low
wages Of their foreign competitors
or they must lbe protected in their
products.
Never was there a state legisla-
ture elect concerning whose pos
sible or probable course in legisla-
tion less is known than of the late
elect in Texas. Hope for the best
and prepare for the worst.
The general expectation for this
state, and particularly for this Sec
ton Of it, is that the coming year
will lead all of its predecessors in
the way Of development.
Adlai will not have it all his own
way as to that Democratic nomi.
nation for Cleveland's boots. He
will have a straight up and down
rival from his own state in the
person of Horizontal William.
Kentucky state board of valua.
ton answers the end of its creation,
in that it reduces the valuation of
all the whisky in bond from eleven
dollars barrel to ten dollars.
In six weeks more the state
solons will be assembled al the
state capital, but what they will
accomplish there is more than even
Hogg himself will venture an opin.
ion upon.
Will it be hayseed legislature
or legislature with the bark on?
This is the question that no one
seems able to answer with any de-
gree Of accuracy.
Less will be heard OF Hill after
the close Of the present Congress,
and less Of Cleveland after the next
election, than has been heard for a
good many years. They will retire
into desuetude.
If it were possible to scrape the
barnacles off the bottom of the old
Texas ship of state without scrap
ing away the entire bottom it would
be we'll to undertake the task.
The Brazilian rebels evidently
do not appreciate the blessings of
a stable government. Those fell
lows want to feel the teeth of the
law, teeth from a steel jaw that
has snap to it.
China is ready to pay that enor-
nous subsidy demanded as war
indemnity and to pay Japan's
war bills, il only that kingdom
will call off the dogs Of war. John
was not in it.
Cleveland does not evince any
alacrity in helping the Democracy
over the bridge that he rendered
unsafe for them.
1t is common complaint in these
so called degenerate days that the
youth do not read as widely as in
former days. This may be true,
and it may not, but the truth is
wider spread than ever before.
The Dutch have not exactly
taken Amsterdam, but they have
cleaned out little island in the
far off ocean and sent their Doodle
to Amsterdam. The big fish con-
tinue to eat the little ones.
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