San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-14
Special Correspondence.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, Is

10 the DAILY LIGHT:
There have been no complaints
about Jack Frost not doing his
duty this year. Last winter was
far too mild for the lover Of winter
sports, but the skater Is now In his
glory, skimming over the gleam-
ing surface Of the frozen lakes the
interested on-lookers watching as
long as they can stand without
freezing, line the banks in Central
Park, while through the driveways
fly the sleighs full OF merry folks.
From their windows the west-siders
watch the ice islands floating
down the Hudson and remark COM
placently that this is some decent
winter weather. | have noticed
that the true Gothamite, though
he may sneak off when the snow
drifts pile outside his door and the
February blast bowls in his ear, to
Florida, or Bermuda or mayhap
to San Antonio, resents any init
nation that the climate Of New
York is not one OF the mildest and
pleasantest to be encountered.
"New York rough" he exclaims
with surprise and regret at your
want Of appreciation Of the gentle
ness Of fate which has placed you
here, instead of Boston, for instance.
We have everything English you
know" with us this winter in the
theatres from the Beerbohm Trees
at Abbey's to Cissie LOTUS at Kos
ter and Balls. which latter place
has been Of late the rendezvous of
the Republican editors. Wilson
Barrett in "The Manxman" has done
much to make known on this side
that new writer, Hall Game, who
has been tickling the faded literary
nerves Of London after a season Of
"Yellow Asters," and "Green Car
nations"
The recent move in this city to
teach military drill and tactics in
the common schools has caused
much discussion among the
thoughtful, who regard it from an
ethical standpoint and feel it's sig
niticance, especially since the re.
cent distressing strike and demon
stration in Brooklyn, which the
militia were called out to put down.
The question to those who have
given their lives almost, atleast all
their best thought and work to the
effort of unravelling the great social
problems, is, "Can Republic stand
which is teaching it's younger sons
to grow up with bayonet on their
shoulders to be ready to aim at
their fellow-citiZens, when those
fellow-citiZens are only demanding
the mere right to live on diving
wage.'" This was discussed last
Sunday by Prof. Felix Adler in the
third of his series of lectures be-
fore the Society for Ethical Culture,
on Socialism, it's cause, its aims,
how to remedy existing evils in
the most practical and expeditions
manner. Because OF his very earn
est and radical efforts to impress
on the general public the necessity
of waking up and facing these So
cial problems and his very strong
stand for the upraising and better.
ing Of the masses, Prof. Adler has
been wrongfully called socialist.
He is the farthest from being So
cialist as one generally under
stands that term. He differs es.
sentially from all socialistic lead
ers in that he does not claim to
have found panacea for the exist
ing uneVenness and injustice of
social conditions. He has shown
the weak and futile side Of social
ism. But he has done more than
any one man, in a strong, practi-
cal common sense way to wake the
people up to a full understanding
of the indescribable horror and
shame of the Trinity church tene-
ment houses. The result is that
men OF the greatest dissimilarity
Of tastes, pursuits and creeds,
political and religious, such as
Richard Watson Glider, editor Of
1.-THE Century," Seligman, OF Col
umbia college, Rev. r. Rainsford
and others, have joined on COM
mon ground to investigate this
particular tenement evil and re-
move it. Henry George, who had
been asked to join issue with this
Social Reform club, rather placed
himself in antagonism to its reso-
lutions, by his rank contempt for
any effort whatever to mend mat
tiers unless his special panacea were
applied. 1t is probable though that
these men who have taken hold of
these matters, will not be lured in
to stopping to fight out personal
side issues even with nopponent
as temptingIy full Of ginger as the
fiery Single Tax Apostle. J. T.