San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-20
THE GOOD WORK
OF EDUCATING THE PEOPLE TO BE
CONTINUED.
Grover Would Like to Provide For His
Retiring Oabinet-Not Much
Chance For War This Year.

Chairman Hanna has written a
Washington friend virtually con-
firming the rumor that the Re
publican national committee
would shortly open permanent
headquarters in Washington
from which the educational fight
against the free silver falcacy,
which is to go right along until
the truth has been argued into
the heads of all misguided peo-
pie, shall be directed. This move
would have been generally COM
mended anyway, but the Demo
cratic committee intended to
maintain permanent Washing
ton headquarters and to keep up
the distribution of silver litera-
ture, made it almost necessary.
The silver sentiment would not
have been half so extensive if its
opponents had met argument
with argument, instead of vast
ing time, laughing at the silver
men sending out campaign liter
ature several years ahead of the
campaign, and doing nothing
themselves. Mr.. Hanna knows
how hard it was to undo in a few
weeks that the silver men had
been doing for several years;
hence he has from the day the
campaign closed favored a con-
tinuation of the education of the
voters on the silver question.
There is enough work on the
bills already passed by the house
to keep the senate busy until the
close of the last session of the
fifty-fourth congress. but how
many of those bills the senate
will act upon, or even devote any
time to. is more than any man
can really say. Among the i'm
portant bills passed by the house
and left Enacted upon by the sen.
ate are the Dingley Emergency
Revenue bill, the bill to protect
the gold reserve and provide for
temporary deficiencies in reve-
nue.. the bill to amend the GUS
toms administrative law, the
bankruptcy bill, the immigration
bill and the pension bill. Doubt
less other bills would have been
acted upon by the house had not
the disposition of the senate to
do nothing been so apparent.
How much of that disposition
remains will not be certain until
after congress meets, notwith-
standing the opinions pro and
con which some of the senators
have recently made public. 1t
will be noticed that men like
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont,
"The Father of the Senate" are
not attempting to say what the
senate will do. Mr.. Morrill, is in
Washington for the winter, but
he isn't making any prOphesies.
Mr.. Cleveland's administra-
ton always seems to have a war
scare ready to spring on the pub
lie. Having just gotten rid Of
the principal cause of friction
with England by negotiating a
treaty providing for the submits
sino of the Venezuelan bounda-
nv dispute with England to arbi-
tration, the Spanish war scare is
trotted out in a new dress. While
no official statement has been
made to that effect, friends of
the administration say that it has
trustworthy information that
Spain intends to force war with
this country if her present cam
paign against the Cuban revOlu-
tionists fail, and that the admin
istration is accordingly prepar-
ing to fight. If Spain really had
any such intention it would be
wise to prepare war, and in any
event it will do no harm. But it
isn't at all likely that Spain dur
ing the minority of the king are
not models of wisdom. but that
is no reason why they should be
foolish enough to provoke a war
with the United States. IT may
be that some SDaniards are ig-
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