San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-03
CHARITY FOR ALL.


Republic are OF one and the same
kind Of clay. Something may be
allowed to differences of climate
and environment, but on the whole
it is the same human clay that is
used by the Supreme Potter in
making the people below the old
slave line and those above it. II
anything more than statement
OF this fact was needed to verify it,
that verification is found in the
homogeneousness Of tho passions,
prejudices, charities, benevOlences
and all such that are observed in
the several sections. The white
capper in the one section has his
fellow in the other, and the train
robber and the bank looter is found
on the soil Of both, pursuing the
Internal tenor of his way with un-
varying irregularity. The outrager
of all that is most pure and sacred
In human parsonage is found alike
in the North and in the South, and
the outraged feeling that takes
him out of the jurisdiction of the
courts and lands him in the be-
yond without a moments warning,
performs its summary work equal
ly efficacious in each. No one Of
the states and no one Of the grand
divisions of the country has a mo-
nopoly of this thing, any more
than they have of the smiles and
tears Of happy youth and grieved
childhood, or than they have Of the
patriotism and love of country that
is common to all. These facts
being plain as the lack OF rain in
this section this New Year time, it
Is idle to carry out any scheme Of
attempted isolation, whereby one
of the sections shall be disCrimi.
mated against in the mind OF the
other. South needs North, North
needs South, West needs East and
East needs West, and each needs
all and all need each. What SUI
preme folly then for any one to
fling out discreditable reflections
upon another, as though all wis
dom and patriotism and energy
and progress were the special
gifts of section and not
the general endowment of the
universal whole. This section Of
Texas, and this city in particular,
notifies the rest of Uncle Sans fam
lily that it has no crow to pick
with any, that it esteems all and
that alone in the friendly rivalries
of trade and in the rush for posi-
ton and commercial and indus.
trial increase, will it forget its good
manners, and not even then unless
it gets 80 heated in the race as
temporarily to lose sight Of the
other fellows toes. San Antonio
In pulling for herself recognizes
the rights, equal and tantamount,
of others. Because she is accepted
as the most plous city OF the south,
she does not consider the others in
either north or south lacking in
piety, nor does she consider it her
province to judge harshly OF those
other municipalities that are more
unfortunate in their criminal re-
cord than herself. The liability to
err is fully recognized as a univer-
sal inheritance, and this city in
her charity would draw the veil
over those more sinful than her.
self. Only in the cases Of the self
righteous, who attempt to cloak
their own devilishness behind the
mantle Of accusation, does this
city make any exception to this
great rule OF charitableness. 1t
does not yet claim to fill that su.
preme test Of all charity, charity
for the uncharitable, but it grows
along the assembled plain OF that
perfectness.
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