San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-10
SHORT STOPS.
What the People Are Saying.

What the People Are Saying.
The Fall Of the Alamo" Carnival
is one of the events of the year; every
arrangement has been made to make
this grand holiday for our city.
How this scheme originated, what
prompted it, and what great good is
to come Of it, nobody seems to know
or care, only that it furnishes excite
ment and entertainment to the null
| titude.
The writer saw the Alamo as it
stood ten years after the tragic event,
the very blood stains were on the
walls-the old dirt embankment reach
ed the top Of the walls inside the
Chapel now looked upon as the Ala
mo; no stone had been touched, it was
as it had fallen, when a gallant lit
| tie band of Anglo-SaXons resisted the
trained army Of Santa Anna, the "Na-
poleOn of the west"
Remember the Alamo" became
the battle cry at San Jacinto; and the
Anglo-American conquered the ma
poleon of the west"
But no reproduction of the battle
of the Alamo can give the world to-
day any realization Of the event as it
actually occurred.
The Alamo, with it's cruel memo
ries; its heroic sacrifice; its important
figure in the struggle for Texan liber-
ty against the minions of Santa An
ma will always stand a monument to
the unselfish men who died to defend
its walls against an overwhelming
force.
But after sixty years realistic
reproduction Of the storming of the
Alamo-can it add anything to our
love of country?
We have a large Mexican popula-
ton; aside from the tramps who
swarm over our border and elect our
congressman, governor, county and
city officers, there is n remnant of
our old Mexican people; people who
formerly owned every foot of our city
whose good citizenship no one will
deny, how about them? will they feel
like participating in program that
puts the seal of barbarity and cow
ardice upon their race?
The Battle of Flowers" was ap-
propriate-symbOlic Of peace, love,
charity, who could object to it? but
this firing of guns, display Of warlike
forces, the smell of "villanous gun
powder" is not altogether the
thing in these days of peace and good
will to all the earth.
Now, since we are to have this war
like demonstration-how far shall
we carry the joke?
What a pity we could not reproduce
the march of the Guatamalian army
Just prior to the last city election,
headed by the gallant little general
What a glorious feast it would be
if we could stack up the bodies of our
local combines and represent the fu-
neral pile Of Travis and his gallant
band.
We want peace-we want rest from
the coroding cares of city troubles?
Why should the cruel war against
our Mexican friends be opened up
afresh?
Let not our Mexican people believe
that we would insult the memory of
their fathers, or cast cloud upon the
lives of their children.
Fortunately what today we make
a holiday Of was once stern reality,
Sixty years of time has buried the an
imosities Of the past half century.
1t was because Of the Alamo that
the Mexican was excluded from Tex
as citizenship-this was enough with
out reviving at this day an event that
sent shudder through the world H.
Illustrating the cruelty of the Mexican
nation.
But there We're noble souls who
fought under the tyrant Santa Anna,
men who would have spared the no
BILE band of men who fought so gal
| lantly under Travis.
Since we cannot have the crema-
ton act, with the big and little six for
victims, let us have as mild war as
possible
A SOTTND LIVER MARES WENT