San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-02

olAfSA PiN"NN''
Japan is called the Western ma
ton OF the effete East. Too far east
is west.
The movement of workmen into
the southern sections of the coun-
try may or may not be wise. 1t
will depend what kind OF work
men they are and what they in.
tend to do when they get here.
1t is bad enough to have drouth
in warm country, but to be drouth
driven and blizzard blown at the
same time, as poor Nebraska is,
strikes one as double calamity
that justifies bowling.
The South need not necessarily
import Northern weather in get
ting down to northern ideas.
Foster promises rain for January
in this southwest country, little
more generally than usual.
The sailors in all waters seem to
have had hard time weathering
Uu9 olu L cdr cape.
Gladstone threatens to call on
all Europe to sit down on the
Turkish Porte.
The moving cause Of divorce
nowadays seem to be not so much
incompatibility with the present
spouse as greater compatibility
with some one else.
If Japan concludes to loan Corea
that requested fifty million yen,
she will take lien on the PENN
sula by way Of security, and that
will fix her control there for all
time to come.
II Texas had as good an eye to
the loom and the spindle as she
has to the political pie counter it
would be dead loads better Tor all
her industries and cash in the
pockets OF her farmers.
II half the deep water that Is now
on paper is reached In fact on this
Gulf coast Of Texas before the cen.
fury closes there will be deep water
harbors enough to take the traffic
of hemisphere.
One Of the importunate cries OF
San Antonio will be, for this year
1895, "On to Brownsville"
There will be a direct line to
Denver from this city via the Pan
handle before the century closes
1t will traverse the finest bessemer
ore region in the world and its
future is easily guessed.
The Populists did not advertise
for leader, but Illinois Trumbull
undertakes to supply them one,
Six weeks more and then comes
the municipal pie hunters harvest
But what will the harvest be?
This year will be devoted to
building up the industries of the
nation that the last two years so
destructiVely attacked in the high
places Of national government.
If Nicaragua canal could only
take out an insurance policy
against its injudiCious friends it
would soon take care Of its enemies
1t is suffering from friends " h. are
talking it to death.
When the wisdom and good
business sense of the southern in
weston builds cotton mill where
he can cultivate a cotton CROP
around it he will devise we'll both
for the mill and the cotton crop.
With Sabine Pass. Galveston
Mouth Of the Brazos, Arkansas Pass
and Padre Island all in the swim
for deep water Texas should her
self soon be in the swim to heI
hearts content.
You can catch, the small fry Of
the New York officials, but the bic
horsetiy fellows are too fly for the
Investigators. That basket oil
peaches business proved that to a
demonstration.
The Canadians are up to snuff
and by proper concessions to Spain
have the same export advantages
for their flour now that the United
States had under the Mckinley
bill. Canadian John is wise.
The irrigation work Of this yea
should be carried forward to some
visible extent.
You cannot marry the consume,
and the producer OF our state pro
ducts and fabrics any too soon TO
; their mutual interests.
The Democracy are worryin,
over the possibilities Of Tom ReeC
accepting the speakership Of thu
} House. This Is useless. Their
} will not be enough of them In tn,
inext Congress to cut figure.