San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-06

s There is one want OF this section
= that holds over all the rest, fol
with this one supplied there is
every reason to confidently expect
the rest. That want is abundant
3 and general rain.
Corpus Christi has three weeks
in which to cut bait for that deep
water scheme. If the bait is not
dug within that time the old town
7 will not go a fishing, neither will
, it get any fish.
: "Blue and Gray" is one of the
broadcast journals of the present
time devoted to a perpetuatiOn of
the old war memories. 1t is with
out partisanship and without bit
terneSS.
Little 1oakum is piling up in
ducements for the location of the
shops and offices of the proposed
Gulf road at that point. San An
tonic must get move upon her.
self.
There is no reasonable question
OF the increase in industrial estab-
llShments in this country, but the
increase is only to fill a temporary
want and always at reduced rates.
The sensible manner in which
that Provisional government in
Hawaii manages it's business seems
to exercise an eXaspirating influ-
ence upon the Clevelandicdynasty.
San Antonio is not in the annex
alton business, but she is in the eX-
tension and construction trade and
proposes to make good thing out
of them both this summer.
If Louisiana should follow the
lead of her Congressional repre-
sentatives and repudiate the free
trade democracy it would be sugar
galore for that state.
San Antonio is not so flush with
money that she can afford to squan-
der millions on useless works while
very serious demands upon the city
treasury are unmet.
The political party that the
gods would hand over to the
mercy of the Populists they first
split in two. After the split the
rest is easy.
All the country between this
city and the coast is moving with
singular unanimity for the prompt
construction of that Gulf Shore
road.
When you cannot do all you
would like to do, then do all that
you can. This is as good a motto
in municipal as in private affairs.
The liberty to think only as /
thing is the liberty of the bigot
the liberty to think as reason die
tates is the liberty of the liberal.
Senate has that matter of de
structive tariff under advisement.
1t now remains in its hands !
either to create or to destroy.
The Earnest Collectorship stands
just where it did, and from all APP
pearances the San Antonio post
oi1iceship is in the same boat.
Wait until next November and |
see the party that went into the air
with a rocket like whiZ in 1892 |
come down like stick.
That tourist hotel comes in right |
along side of these efforts for i'm
proved streets and increased rail |
communication.
Connection by rail with the
mouth of the BraZOs will be a big
card for the commerce of this city. |
is now demonstrated beyond a
peradVenture that Hogg cannot do |
the fiddling for the Clark dancers.
While Waco works for her cotton
palace let San Antonio put in her
best ticks for that Tourist hotel.
The Turner Hall fellows and the
Car Shed people stand pat. The
bluff does not work either way.
The election of United States
senator's at the hands Of the people
will not come this generation.
If Congress would tear down less
and build up more it would better
answer the end of its creation.
The solution of the sidewalk
question may be for this city in
the direction of cheap walks.
The cheap telephone has not come
in with the expiration of the pat
en- is of the Bell company.
The Senate is preparing to tell
the country what the House did
not know about the tariff.
San Antonio can have the car
shops of that Gulf road if she wants
them bad enough.