San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The great election is only few
weeks off when it will be decided
whether the American people have
gone daft or not
Clabber Mouth Bryan can never
be president of this country. We
never had a president who was
temperance crank.
Bryan does not drink or smoke;
how will such zap get along with
the great world. We never had
man as president with such a small
calibre as this.
But we forget. Bryan says we can
get along without the outside world.
We wont have any foreign ministers
lOafing about Washington who smoke
cigars and drink wine.
Now, when we look back over the
long line of honorable and great men
from Washington down who have
presided ut Washington we fail to
find a single buttermilk crank. They
all like their tOddy; they all smoked
or chawed tobacco.
But now we are threatened. we hope
# is only a threat, with total absti-
hence crank, anti-tObac fake-whO
wants to give the country a Chinese
silver dollar for the good as gold dol
lar of our daddies.
Seriously, gentlemen, you who bear
so great a burden of the tax of the
land for the privilege of doing bust
ness; l mean you liquor men of all
degrees, do you think it safe to trust
a man at the head of the nation who
can't take n drink or smoke cigar.
Yet there are liquor papers in the
country that openly advocate Bryan
because the Republicans put the old
stock plank about temperance in their
platform. Why, Bryan is living,
walking, talking prohibition platform
from head to foot.
The next thing we know we will
have free whisky as an antidOte for
the liquor traffic" Bryan wont
drink because whisky is too high;
maybe that's the reason, and there
are too many gold bugs in the bust
ness, so we will have free distillerieS,
at the ratio of Is to l and every far
mer can take his corn to the distillery
and get his whisky free. Hurrah
for the buttermilk humbug.
No, no saloon men are naturally
shrewd, intelligent Woodworking men,
they have to do great deal of think
ing to make all ends meet.
If Bryan is elected the panic that
will ensue will take down half the
business men of the cOuntry-will
ruin our credit at home and abroad
will make money so stringent that ev-
cry man who owes n dollar will be
pushed to the wall-will cause all en-
terprise depending upon capital to
cease and thus throw thousands and
thousands of men out of wOrk-will
bring thousands of families to power
ty and distress. Who will suffer
more than the liquor dealer-his bus
mess thriveS in prosperous times-it |
is destroyed in hard times.
Free silver coinage at the rate of |
IS to l means dishonOr and disgrace |
to our nation. Let every man who |
is patriotic and who has not been de-
ceived by the silver craze promptly |
take the side of sound money.
Bryan is free trader as we'll as a |
Chinese cheap silver man: we know |
what free trade has done for West |
ern TeXas-it has made naked our |
country-bankrupted our people and
killed our prosperity.
Let Buttermilk Bill Bryan churn
the air all he wants to but don't |
think of voting for such a man or
such cause; your country calls on
you to do your duty as patriotic sensi-
bic citizens.
Don't vote for Buttermilk Bill.
National Liquor Dealer.