San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-05
The Daily Eight.
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1895
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.

written LOT the LlGHI'
1t really seems there is in San
Antonio an ineXhaustible and la
tent fund of factiousness, which is
ever ready to bubble up and froth
over.
The people of San Antonio al
ways go to pieces whenever any
sort of public improvement is on
the anvil to be hammered into
shape, when they ought to know
this spirit Of faction initiates di-
rectly against the best interest OF
the city.
The self-constituted leaders of
the working men boosted that the
wOrkingmen were against Mayor
Elmendorf at the last city election,
and they succeeded in getting one
of their squad on the Callaghan
ticket for alderman, but as work
ing men detest being treated like
dumb, driven CATTLE" at least half
OF them refused to submit to the
dictation of their would-be lead
Grs.
The movement of the working
men to prosecute an investigation
into the method of constructing
the sewers, is, doubtless, designed
to protect their interest, and is not
prompted by the accursed spirit Of
faction. They justly consider it to
be right and proper to give our
home laborers the preference in
employing labor about the sewers.
Our own workingmen should be
employed on the sewer work. They
are entitled to this preference.
Hundreds Of taxpayers voted for
the issue of sewer bonds for the
express purpose Of providing en-
ployment for the unemployed por-
tion Of our population.
1t would be an act of bad faith
as we'll as a wrong to our home
labOrers, not to employ them on
the work on the sewers. All other
cities pursue such course, and are
clearly right in doing so, and San
Antonio should give preference to
home labor.
II this is the purpose and object
OF the public meetings held by the
working men of our city, they de-
serve the cordial and earnest sup
port Of all our citizens. Should
they slide into a factious opposi-
tion to the city government, the
very moment they throw off the
mask, they will forfeit the public
sympathy and be looked on as mere
factionists, agitating for factious
purposes.
But considerable portion Of
those who voted for the Cal
laghan city ticket, had pre-
viously opposed and voted against
the issue of sewer bonds. Many of
these are now sUraining their eyes
in searching for the mares nest in
connection with the sewer contract
and cackling noisily over imagin-
airy discoveries Of municipal crook
ednesS.
The construction of the sewers
will be a material advantage to
San Antonio, and for that reason
no citizen should throw obstacles
in the way Of their construction,
merely to crafty a factious spirit.
Every citizen should give the city
government fair and honest trial,
and not censure and condemn it in
advance without rhyme, or reason.
Justice isl the very opposite of
factiousness, for it praises what de-
serves to be commended, and CEN
sures and condemns only those
matters, which merit censure.
Factiousness, on the contrary, is
made up, wool and warp, Of blind
prejudice and injustice and con-
dennis everything. good, had and in
different.
1t will be generally admitted,
that any city government is en-
titled to be treated with justice by
the citizens. \ citizen when he is
guilty of injustice, because Of the
malignity OF his prejudices, de-
grades his own manhood and
debascs his own character.
1t is well enough to bear in mind
that Southwest Texas now consti-
tutes the only desirable field for