San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-28
A GREAT STATESMAN.

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reputation as newspaper rests
! solely upon its obscurity, has been
reading some old issue of the Icon
oclast. Like the frog in the fable,
it would fain swell itself to the
proportions OF the OK, and this was
the result just before the fatal
"bust" and collapse:
A"San Antonio boasts Of larger
population than that OF Austin, but
"good gracious"-which is an ap-
peal to some mythical deity-what
kind of a population is it Z? Miles
and miles OF jackals, with the
Greaser in evidence everywhere,
even in the heart of the city, with
their tamale stands. Austin on
the other hand has a refined
and educated population residing
in handsome houses amid orna-
mental grounds. OF course the pop
ulation of Greasers in San Antonio
gives them the opportunity to
boast of numbers exceeding that OF
Austin, which in point Of fact has
as many substantial citizens as the
Alamo City. 1t goes without say
ing that San Antonio has refined
population also, but the point is
that its excess OF Inhabitants over
Austin is in a Greaser citizenship,
upon which there is little to boast"
1t is an ungracious task to skin
skunks at any time, but it is occa-
sionally a necessity. This is one
OF the occasionallies. Why the
Statesman should leave the OBJ
scurity of its native caves, to pa
rade its unkempt condition be-
fore a civilized people, mer-
cifully Inclined to forgetful-
ness, passes understanding, but
not more so than how such mis-
representative Of the press has sue.
cceded in maintaining hold at
the seat of state government. That
it occupies the ounces stool in the
great school of Texas journalism is
an open secret, but how it holds Its
place as teacher of the Austin de-
partment puzzles Edipus. That
Austin is not responsible for the
Statesman is no more true than
that the Statesman is hardly re-
sponsible for itself, and here is just
where the good people Of Austin
get it in the neck. That city, like
all the seats OF government,
not a business center. Bust.
ness methods do not OBJ.
tain in its daily life, because
it does not subsist upon its bust
ness, but upon the disbursements
Of the state in its various insti-
buttons located there. This conf
dition has enabled the Statesman
to exc out an existence under the
cover of an Indifference to daily
life, that could only exist in city
fed by the state and not subsisting
by its own energies. That such
condition is destructive of all life
is only too evident, but bad as
this may be for Austin it is made
infinitely worse by an uncouth ex-
cuse for news journal. No mis-
apprehension is likely to occur in
Texas, where the responsibility
and incompetency Of the States
man are SO we'll understood, but
outside of the state matters are
not so we'll known and Austin Is
liable to be judged by the charac-
ter OF her newspaper. This is un-
fortunate, for it leaves the reputa.
BILE citizens Of that city open to the
charge Of sustaining newspaper
capable Of publishing a fool state
ment like the above excerpt three
hundred days in the year, when in
fact the paper only lives of the
pickings of the legislature and the
departments and is suffered to ex-
list by the Indifference Of the peo-
pie Of Austin.
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