San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-02

statu quo on this subject. The
tariff will not be an issue next
year, and the Republic cannot
dodge the money question by
whoopiDg up tariff. 1t must toe
the mark and 1t had better be
quick about it.
Globe Democrat: Speaking OF
the familiar assertion that gold lie
apprleciating in value, q recent
writer points out that on the con-
trary, in its relation to wages, it is
steadily depreciating. ain each
five-year period of the last fifty
years." he says, ga given amount
of labor has commanded high
wages in gold than in any similar
period since the beginning of the
Government" This practical fact
counts for more than all the fam
tasic theories of the free silverites.
Lower Rio Grande: From what
is passing in the country now it is
very evident that the president
should have given every editor and
proprietor of newspaper some
public office; then he would have
had organs all over the land. The
wild waves that come rolling down
the turbid Rio Grande tell us that
such a move has worked like a
charm in the upper country, and
why would it not likewise work in
every other section? At any rate
he should have caused his pie eat
ers to divide profits with those
who so cheerfully advocate the
cause Of Grover.
Globe Democrat. The ladies
who fail to receive prizes for their
babies at the show now In progress
should meet in mass convention
after the awards are made and de-
nounce the judges as actuated in
their conduct by ignorance, preju-
dice and malice. They should say
OF the chief of the Awarding Com.
mittee, Col. Dick Dalton, that he
was 80 villainously filled with a de-
sire to be the next Democratic
candidate for Governor that he gave
prizes only to Democratic babies
whose fathers could help him in
their wards.
Texas Farm and Ranch: Be-
tween this date and the next presi-
dental election the people will
hear more about finance than they
ever did before. There will be two
paramount ideas resounding from
stump and rostrum, and teeming
in the columns Of political papers.
The people will flock to hear, and
burn the midnight oil in reading
about the beauty and promise Of a
gold standard and free coinage Of
silver, and they will go home with
unchanged views, and on election
day they will vote for the nominee,
without question. And then some
other great question will come to
the surface to be skinned off in
the same way; and thus the world
ways along as usual.
Laredo News: This country
has seen the application OF the
majority Of the principles advocat-
ed by the different political parties
since the foundation of the govern
ment, and notwithstanding the
quasi prophetic vaporings of those
who happened to oppose principles,
we still live. High tariff, gold and
silver bases, and close and loose
construction of the articles of our
constitution, have all had a show
and barring slight jar at the mo-
ment of change we have gone on
the even tenor Of our way undis-
turbed. The News therefore con-
cludes that the conditions existing
in the grandest republic on earth
are so elastic as to admit Of a ready
adjustment to changed conditions.
Fort Worth Mail-Telsgram: Sec
rotary Carlisle is entirely correct
in saying that at no time since the
civil war has passion and prejudice
been more manifest than in the
present discussion of the money
question. There has been entirely
too much OF this sort of thing to
do the Democratic party or the
country any good. Instead of dis
csusing the advantages or dis
advantages of the free coinage Of.
silver in calm, argumentative
and dispassionate way, the silver
ties on the one hand brand the
sound money men as the sub
sidized agents and tools of Wall
street, and the sound money men
on the other hand denounce those
who differ with them on the silver
question as idiots and anarchists.
1t is about time to put a stop to
this nonsense, and to discuss the
matter in a decent and rational
way.
Brenham Banner: Miss Marg-
aret Burrows,of New Haven, Conn.
is engaged to marry the Prince di
San Faustine Bourbon del Monte
Santa Maria,of Rome. 1t will have
to be admitted that she Is going to
come as near getting the worth of
her money as any of the American