San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-03

luSy YOU we are lOTCeu uuutI
Democratic administration tC
stand the expense OF an extraor
binary session to prevent a boxing
match. / never saw one and guess
law against IL is all right, but j
know that the good it will do NOR
ally or politically is not worth $50,
900 or $4,000 to the taxpayers.
II going twelve months more with
out statute would damn us how
about the fifty years we didn't
have one? / am by this like the
boy who was great on figuring
and always Dragging to his daddy
about his proficiency. One night
the old man says, "Son, l am
going to sleep, but don't you go to
bed until you figure out this
problem If cat is in a we'll and
climbs two feet every minute and
falls back three feet how long will
it take the cat to get out? When
the old man woke up next morn
ing the boy was looking in the
fireplace. The old man said Son,
how about that cat| The boy re-
piled: well, dad, if figures don't
lie that cat is now in hell All this
hue and cry about an emergency
clause is simply fad like the BIZ
cycle craze. A devotee of cycling
refused to believe in the soundness
OF the Christian religion because
our Savior rode an ass instead of
bicycle. Others refuse to ride
one because they are not mention
ed in holy writ.
'In this expensive extra session
the average taxpayer is in the
position Of the East Tennessee
darby during the war when that
country was in the hands of both
federal and confederate soldiers.
A soldier had on grey pants and a
blue overcoat and at the point of
the pistol made the darky pilot
him over the mountain. AS they
went along he asked the darby
whose side he was on. The darby
replied: Boss, did you ever seed
two dogs fight over a bone, and II
so, boss, did you ever seeo the bone
do anything"
"In these days Of political, NOR
al, social and financial fads pub
lie money is poured out as freely
as Colorado river water and IL any.
body protests he is like Senator
Rutabaga Johnson, a political,
moral, social and financial moss
back. The constitution and the
taxpayer be id when there is
a chance to raise a political issue.
The tendency of the times is to-
ward refined bestiality instead of
to brutality, and until the day of
his downfall Oscar Wilde was the
English and American leader of
esthetics.
"The Cuban patriots may cry
for and be massacred waiting for
recognition from nation morally
and geographically bound to pro-
tect them, and yet no political call
to let the world know where lie
the sympathies and humane sensi-
bilities Of Texas democrats.
School teachers may 60 with I'M
paid warrants, the official fee
system may eat out our political
liver and lights, yet no loud cry
from the political throne for an
emergency claus.
"1f the sanctified people OF the
east will look at our churches and
schools and examine our home
stead laws and school reservations
OF the last forty years and pro-
nounce US barbarous, then let
them and their money 60 TO hades.
We never gave Oscar Wilde any
receptions. We nor our ancestors
never burnt old women as witches
because they disagreed with us
and no Texas legislature up to
date has made it a felony for
man to kiss his wife on Sunday.
II this legislature attaches an en-
Urgency clause to a frivolous call
they put themselves and their
party on the defensive.
professional sports with public
morals and politicians who sport
with constitutional restrictions
and tax money are all demoraliz-
ing to the best element of citizen
ship. II sham mandamus case
has been fixed up for our supreme
court, both sides Of the question
to be presented by lawyers in the
same employ and with street
opinions obtained in advance, the
glove contest, the extra session
issue and even the silver question
will be eclipsed in the next cam
paign in Texas. This extraordi-
nary call and the politics injected
into this glove contest will expose
political skeletons, and Ithe masses
will ask where do we stand politi-