San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-20
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES,


Of American citizens is a very
clumsy piece of politics. 1t looks
as II the Spanish government
would have learned that any fric.
tion with the United States Just
now would be the most disastrous
policy upon which it could en-
bark. 1t only needs spark to
fire America in active aid of the
Cuban insurgents"
New Orleans States: "It is
quite safe, in our opinion, TO say
that the reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans will in 1897
be held above Mason and Dixon's
line, and that the cities other
than New York and Chicago will
engage in lively tussle for the
honor and the pleasur Of enter
taing the old heroes ewho fought
under the Stars and Bars of the
Southern Confederacy. The sug-
gestion to have reunion in the
North and thus show that all Sec
tionalism and bitterness is dead
has met with favor not only
among the veterans OF New Or
leans and Louisiana, but through
out the whole South"
BRENNAN Banner: "The Rhode
Island legislature, at its last ses-
sion, appropriated $50, 900 for the
construction Of sample half-mile
sections of road in towns petition
ing for them, and agreeing to pay
one-fourth the cost. Fifteen towns
have already embraced the oppor-
tunity, and thus another state is
practically enlisted in tho good
roads movement"
Lower Rio Grande: 81 see by
the papers that we are to have
another bond issue! What are
we coming to? The richest coun-
try in the world, and we can't get
enough revenue to pay out-goes
Ii Mr.. Cleveland was a statesman,
and not a politician" he would
fire" the incompetent ass of the
treasury department, and get
someone else."
st. Louis Globe Democrat: "The
Nebraska free silver democrats
have applied to the supreme
court for an injunction to prevent
the sound money element of the
party from using the word demo-
cratic on the official ballot. 1t
Is difficult to understand why any
set OF men should go to law over
the right to a designation that has
become so undesirable"
Paris Advocate: ATTORNEY Davis
Of GAINESVILLE, has preferred charges
against Judge Kilgore. As the
Advocate is not practicing law il
ventures no opinion on the merits
of the case. But il the report Of
the case made by Mr.. Davis be
correct, Judge Kilgore ought TO
hold himself in contempt. Mr..
Davis says when he told the Judge
OF his complaint, and failed to get
any relief, and then told him that
he would prefer charges against
him, Judge Kilgore replied that,
IL he did, he would cut his
damned throat.
Bonham News: "The cotton
crop of the state of Texas will not
be more than half as much as it
was in 1894. Many fields that
yielded a bale to the acre last
year, owing to damage by boil
worm and drouth, yield not over
one-third Of bale the present year.
So far as Fannin county is concern
ed it will not have more than a
half crop. But then our people
have more corn and more hogs,
fatter cows and more hay than
ever before. And the price of cot.
ton being so much better than
last season leaves our country in
a good condition"
American Economist: "With
a tariff for deficiency only in ex.
istence, what so simple as the
passage OF a brief law placing a
protective tariff upon wool and
increasing. from protective
standpoint, the tariff upon WOOL
en- goods? Such a law would add
upward OF $l0,000,0OO a year to the
revenue; it would prevent the
utter extinction of sheep farming
1t would check wooden manufac-
turers in their compulsory jour-
ney to bankruptcy; and it would
provide steady work for tens of
thousands of wage earners whose
mode of existence has recently
been both precarious and uncer-
tain"
Texas Stock and Farm Journal:
"When the government of the
United States shall have given
the "Good Roads" subject the con.
sideration that has been paid the
good harbor question, the wheels
OF commerce will have received re-
newed vigor, far beyond the bene-
fits attained by the enormous ex-
penditures in dredging rivers and