San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-03
OF the future can answer. II this
legislature fills the bill it will be
the first in decade.

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show his hand in the elevation T."
the chancellorship OF the man he
has really slated for that place.
BIsmarcK'S immediate successors
were only dummies.
This New Year will see more real
advance made in San Antonio than
any two of its predecessors.
There is no certainty to ayr icul-
| tural growth in this country OUT.
side OF irrigation.
Politics is not metaphysics by a
large majority, but it is 10 the full
as puZzling and suits the definition
of the old ScotChman to a trojan
faction.
Mexico threatens to turn Guate-
mala oyer her knee and administer
a wholesome slippering. In that
case Mexico should not spare the
slipper, for that saucy little repub-
lie to the south is slippery.
Kentucky and Texas stretch
hands across the intervening miles
and give each others hand a SYM
pathetic New Years shake over
their empty treasures. But there
is no farther parallelism noted.
How long will it take the irriga-
ton seed sown in this city few
weeks since to take root and spring
up and bear fruit a hundred fold?
This is one Of the things that no
prophet can foretell.
1t is the man who rises highest
in the world that realizes how low
are the highest heights Of human
attainment. TO the onlookers from
Mars all the earth's surface is a
plain.
There are more knownothings
around the LeXow committee rooms
than anywhere else In the state.
Me too Platt has not studied these
Parkhurst symptoms in vain and
he diagnosis them about right.
Daz has about reached the end
OF his patience lariat and he will
soon order out the outfit and corral
that Guatemalan gang. Their inn
pertinence is not of a kind to be
monkeyed with.
II Foster thinks that San Anto-
MO cannot ken the distinction be-
tween very wet fog and a good
rain he had better revise his opin-
ions Of this municipality. 1t is
very wet rain that we need.
There is not one of those Latin
American republics from Chile to
the boundary line OF Mexico that Is
not monkeying with revolutionary
dynamite. The result promises a
| general war.
There are as many good words
spoken for the LIGHT this New
Years season as there are readers
OF that paper. This year will see
several changes in it and every
change an improvement.
Cleveland will try the temper of
the country too far IL he calls a
special session OF the National
Congress. The people are tired of
straining their diaphragms in the
direction Of Washing ton.
The LIGHT, in pronouncing for
higher taxes on the part of the
state, does not intimate that they
should be so, only that they will
be so. There IS wide margin be-
| tween these twain iu Texas.
The administrative pie counter
for Texas having been swept clean
for another two years the legisla-
tive pie table is being vigorously
surrounded for pastry. Hungry
hordes for public pap.
The disin ration of the knights
Of Labor is again threatened. The
threat comes around annually.
The Houston Post takes it out
on Ex-President Harrison a going
and coming. 1t damns him for
a silence that is judicious in the
hope that 1t can provoke him to a
speech that it can condemn.
Foster is long on rain promises
and short on rain precipitation.
This state and this section Of the
state will go short on Foster unless
he redeems his promises and sends
us rain.
The good book says that the rain
falls alike on the just and on the
unjust. This section OF the vine.
yard must be equally removed
from the just as from the unjust
for she gets no rain.
Some sensible legislation on irri-
cation that will lead to the en-
enlargement and aid OF such en-
terprises, is demanded at the hands
OF the present state Senate and
House OF representatives..