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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

Civil service reform has been
extended to include other branch
es of national service, and it
would be an Improvement to see
it extended in state and NUM-
cipal directions.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

The storms of the past two
months have been unusually de-
structiye of property and life on
the ocean, and as destructive of
political hopes on land. AS for
the latter a redeemed country
mourns not.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

The warrant for the sewer
contractors on the recent esti-
mate was paid by the city auditor
yesterday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12
AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.

AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.
The following named are authorized
collectors Of the Light:
H. C. SCHUMACHER,
W. T. SCHUMACHER,
DAN. c. BITTER,
JOSEPH BALL.
Subscribers are requested not to pay
their subscription without taking re-
eeipt.
T.. B. JOHNSON, Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

The county election closes and
the city agitation will soon begin.
How long, o Lord, how long!
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

1t doesn't matter much whether sick
headache, biliousness, indigestion and
constipation are caused by neglect or
unavoidable circumstances; DeWitt's
Little Early Risers will speedily cure
them all. q. Reuss. 1O-22-1y.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

Canton will never see another
three months such as she: has
just passed through.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

ALL contracts or bills MUST be ap-
proved by the Secretary or Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

The Populists are really emit,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-12

There is no more sense in any
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24
JONES' SILVER MINE.

The present interest in anything relat- ing to silver recalls James Russell Low elis witty rhymes of twenty years ago:
 A DIALOGUE. Jones owns silver mine"-"Pray who Don't vex my ears with horrors like Jones
 owns!"
 "Why. Jones Is Senator, and SO he strives To make us buy his ing0ts all our lives At a stiff premium on the market price silver currency would be so niceu' What is Jones' plan?"-"A coinage, to be
 sure. N " To rise and fall with Wall streets tenn.
 perature.
 You wish to treat the crowd; your dollar
 shrinks Undreamed percentums while they mix the Jones' mines quicksilver, then ?,-"Your
 wit won't pass; His coins mercurial. but his mine Is brass '' Jones owns"-"Again! your iteration,s
 worse Than the slow torture of an echo-yerse. I'll tell you one thing Jones won't own
 that is.
 That the cat hid beneath the meal Is his. |"
 Cleveland World
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24
Free Wool and Free Silver.

During the many weary months after the Wilson-Gorman tariff had given the death blow to the wool industry free trade journals assured their readers that the blow would not be fatal. In time the industry would revive. Considerable pru- dcnce was manifested as to dates, but the prediction was confident that in the course of time the industry would re- cover from its paralysis. The Philadel- phia Record was one of the most san- guine of these free traders. That journal simply knew that its theories could not be wrong. Free wool must and would enable our manufacturers to recover the home market for wOolen goods and grad ually get good hold on the markets of the world. In recent issue the Rec ord threw up the sponge. It admits that free wool is not strong enough to carry free silver. The confidence with which it attributes the failure of its free wool theory to some other persons free silver theory would, if transferred to the money market. revive business even in these free trade times. Says the Record:
 ''The distrust engenderel by the sil- yer craze has checked sales of manu- factured goods. increased the percent age of idle mills and 20 narrowed the outlet and crippled the financial re- sources of Eastern distributors of wool that the latter have practically ceased purchases of the staple in the country markets, and in many cases have re- fused to make even reduced cash ad- vances on consignments."
 The silver craze did not msterialize until free wool had had nearly three years in which 10 show what it could do. During all that time the wool in- dustry went from bad to worse. Now the people are asked to believe that free silver did all the mischief-St. Jo- seph (Mo) Herald.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24
Remember This.

When Bourke Cochran. in his recent great speech in New York, uttered the following sentence, he uttered sentence which should be posted over the door of every honest labOring man, whether Re- publican or Democrat, in this country: II can take $1O gold piece and defy all the power of all the governments of this earth to take 5 cents value from it. I can go to the uttermost ends of the earth, and wherever l present it, it's value will be unquestiOned, unchallenged. That gold dollar the honest masses of this country, without distinction of party divisions. demand shall be paid the la borer when he earns it, and no power on earth shall cheat him out of the sweat of his brow."-Galesburg Evening Mail.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

upon the farmer mind, the truth, the great truth, still remains that the mind of the business man must origin ate all the plans for the employment of idle labor, and whether these industries are little by little enlarged each year, em- plOying more and more men, or whether they are little by little narrowed each year. employing less and less men, de- pends, not upon the judgment or the po- litical views of the men employed, but upon the judgment of the men who em- ploy. When the farmers in the country and the laborers in the city suffer them selves to be led into some great national movement which the business mind be- lieves is dangerous, then this business which 1t presides, begins the process of narrowing its operations to suit the new conditions.
 A farmer may believe in free coinage and a labOring man may believe in free coinage, but if the business mind of the country on which both the farmer and the laboring man is dependent is afraid of free coinage, then the threat of free coinage. instead of breathing new life in to industry, strikes 1t with the paralysis of death.
 Every earnest thinking man in this country nt this time, whether he be a farmer or laborer, above all things, nbove all party or personal preferences, desires to see the industries of the nation revived. because labor can find employ ment and farm produce find q market in no other way.
 When all the arguments have been ex- hausted on both sides, the whole Ques- ton narrows into this proposition, that activity in industry is dependent upon the confidence the business men have in the financial and tariff policy of the na- tonal government. Farmers may have confidence in some untried and catchy proposition, and the laboring man may have confidence and even be enthusias- tic, but if the mind of the business man hesitates then industry languishes. A thousand labOring men may stand ready to go to work in q factory. And the farmers may stand ready to provide these labOring men with food, but if the managers of the factory are afraid to start it, then it will not start. It may appear to these thousand laborers and to these farmers that the managers of the factory are unreasonable, and that they have more power in the nation than they ought to have, but the truth will remain forever, that mind. and not ma Jortles. is the controlling force upon which the industry of the nation depends and that the judgment of one trained business mind is worth more to A com mnnity than the judgment of many men who work with their muscles on tLe farm and in the factory.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24
Give it to the Indians,

"Let us restore the conditions that ex- isted prior to 1S73," says MT. Teller. Very well; let us tear up all the rail- roads that have been built since then: l: let us reduce the acreage of wheat and corn and cotton to what it was then; let us send back to bGrbarism those parts of the world that have since been reclaimed to civilizations; let us plug up the Rus sian oil wells and destroy the wheat fields of India and the Argentine: let us smooth over the hills of Leadville and Cripple Creek, and fill up the mines, and reduce the production of silver from S1TO.OO0O00 year to S60, 900. 900; let us kill off about 3O,0OO. 900 of our pe05le. so as to mako the population what it was in 1873; let us have paper basis for our money, as we had then. and gold af premium of 15 cents or more on the doi- iar-in short, let us try, to turn back the hand on times dial; and maze eye eserspoJiy i as happy and wealthy as all the people are now alleged to have been before IS73.-Colorndo Springs Gazette.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24
He is Mistaken,

VI In his speech at Springfield, O., on Wednesday, Candidate Bryan smoke of
 "the nations peasantry." There are no peasants in this country, and the man who attempts to make such a class iiication is unworthy the support of the free American sovereigns. Every man is prince and no man is a peas- ant. With the ballot in his hand, the voter ranks with Vanderbilt. The rich man of today may be the poor man to- morrow. and he who is not endowed with wealth at this moment may be a millionaire before the close of n dec- ade. This Grraying of the people of the United States into classes is the most pernicious thing that has ever been attempted in this country, and the demagogucs who are engaged in the un- righteous attempt deserve the contempt into which they are sure to fall
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24
Silver Dollars Are Legal Tender. !.

Many of the "plain people" of the United States have wondered what is meant, when it is said that Congress in 1873 struck down one-half the money in the country. The figure is forcibe but somewhat obscure. The Denver News comes to the rescue. It says: By the legislation of 1873 the hints were not only closed to silver but the silver money of the country was demonetized; ; it was deprived of its legal tender Quali- ty, Thus the silver money of the coun- try was struck down."
 The News is in error. Section 67 of the act of 1873 contained proviso that "this act shall not be construed to affect any act done, right accrued, or penalty incurred, under former acts, but every such right is saved" This language preserved the legal tender quality of the silver dollar, since the right to pay ones debts in silver dollars was one of the rights accrued under former acts, which nothing contained in the act was permit ted to destroy. -..l
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

In all parts of the country women have organized campaign committees, working under the direction of the Woman's bu- reau of the national Republican commit. tee. They distribute literature and use their personal influence with husbands, brothers and other relatives to secure their votes for the good cause, paying esp&cial attention to first voters.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

Almost the first thing done by Mrs. Foster after opening her headquarters. was to issue an appeal to the patriotic women of the country. urging them to organize committees or clubs for study of the issues of the campaign. and to help promote the cause of national unity and protection. The responses have been most graa'ying. coming as they have from Oregon to New Jersey. These women are directed in their work of or ganizinp and advised how to make their efforts effective. The weapons of the women are personal appeal and litera- ture. These are used to convince the women that their own personal welfare, including the interests of children and of the home, are on the side of the Rcpub- lican party This conviction assured little doubt remains as to how the vote influenced by these women will be cast.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

Tn the Chicago headquarters Mrs. Eos ter's chief assistant and secretary is Mrs. Alice Rosseter Willard, who has wide experience in general business and news paper work in this country and in Eng land. Next to her comes Miss Anna Brophy of Dubuque. Ia. Miss Brophy is not only valuable for her education and wide general knowledge. but because every piece of work which passes through her hands receives her critical attention as to it's correctness. its ac- curacy. Miss Brophy is chief stenos- rapher.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

speech in front of the Hotel Lincoln. someone asked, "What about MT, Sew. all" Donnelly replied, "I know noth- ing of Mir. Sewall and don't want any tElng to do with him. If I had my way ne would come off of that ticket in twenty.four hours" MT. Donnelly then went into bitter tirade against nil bankers and business men in general. and the laboring men who heard him appiauded his utterances Now it must nave occurred to the more thoughtful of these laboring men that every days work and every, dollar paid to labor must first pe thought out and planned by some business mind. Before labor can begin m any industry there must be some thought force and some business iudg. ment which passes upon the plans of that industry and believes that it will succeed. There must be financiers. bankers and capitalists to consent and their consent must be based upon the iaith that the industry will succeed, If Mr: Donnelly and Mir. Bryan were capi. talists and business men, then they themselves might promise employment to labor. Or, if the plans proposed by MT. Donnelly and MT. Bryan were re ceiving the endorsement of the business Judgment of others who have capital. then IL might seem reasonable that free Goina"e might revive industry and bring better times.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24
woMAN's WORK IN THE cAMPA1aH-

Never was there before a presidential campaign in which the women of the country have taken such an active part as in the present struggle.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

Mrs. Fosters immediate associates and assistants in the work are women of capabilities in various lines. Mrs. Thomas w. Chace, the general secre- tary, resides in East Greenwich, R. l.. and from there exercises a watchfuI care for the work in the New England states. Mrs. Chace has an extensive ac- quaintance and is identified with many great charities, philanthropies and soci- cities, aside from her political duties. The national treasurer. Miss Helen Var wick Boswell of New York city, has su- pervision over the headquarters of her state. located at 1473 Broadway. Miss Boswell has inaugurated the plan of per sonal visits among the women in the tenement districts of New York, for the. purpose of showing the women the mean. ing of the free coinage of silver and how it will affect the purchasing power of their dollars. She finds these women with well-defned views on rhe currency question and ready to defend them. as they do in insisting that the voters in their families shall maintain them at the polls Miss Boswell has enlisted a large number of young business women to help spread the doctrines of sound money and protection and to help secure votes for the Republican candidates.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

 campaign in which the women of the country have taken such an active part as in the present struggle.
 In three states of the Union, Wyo-' ming, Colorado and Utah, women have the same voting privileges as men; but feminine interests in the campaign are by no means limited to those states- Intelligent women all over the country seem to feel that the contest has an i'm pOrtant bearing upon the welfare of their households. They think that the cause of protection and sound money is bound up with the prosperity of the family, and they feel a great interest in the Re- publican presidential candidate because of the nobility of his character and his devotion 10 his home life.
 The Woman's bureau is under the di- rection of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. the we'll known orator and political writer of Des Moines Ia., for several years president of the Woman's National Republican as-. sociation. The bureau is established in commodious quarters in the Auditorium Annex, Chicago. quite away from the noise and activities of the national com mittee, where Mrs. Foster is provided with every convenience, and assisted by capable aids.
 The Woman's Republican association is composed of thinking. active women-- women intensely alive to the best inter- ests of their country and homes. The Woman's association is not suffrage association. Many of its members do not believe in suffrage at all. It is not moral reform association, although many of it's members are engaged in the philantbrOpies and reforms which illu- mine this decade of our national history. They do not seek to utilize the Repub- lican association to advance any of these reforms. It's members are simply, and all the time. Republicans. laboring for the support of the principles of that party and for the election of its candi- dates.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-29
BRIGHT BITS.

IT'S funny" said Plodding Pete. wax
ing philosophical. dat de things er Teller
cares least about is whut he seems ter
have de least difficulty in gittin'"
OATS right, replied Meandering
Mike. Il was offered work by six men
dis mornin'. w shington Star.
Where the Work Comes In.-Minis-
ters Wife-You haven't been out of your
study an hour this week What is the
matter?
Ministcr-Some Of the congregation say
my sermons are too long, and I've been
trying to write short one.-New York
Weekly. a 500
At the Summer Resort.-Landlady-
Did you sleep well last night, Mr.. Cum
mer?
New Arrival (who aims to be face
tious)-I think I should have slept better
If somebody hadn't made the terrible mis-
take of putting two feathers in my pill
low instead Of one.
-Landlady--I don't see how that can be.
Those pillows on your bed are filled with
cotton battin' there amt a feather in
both of them-Boston Transcript.
Then He Bolted.--At a populist coun-
ty convention in Kansas the other day a
belated, bewhiskered delegate rushed in
with:
Amt nominated for trustee?''
No" said the clerk.
Nor for treasurer"
mo"
Then reckon I'm road SUPERVISOR"
No; Bill Corntassel is the nominee for
that office"
Amt nominated at alp
Guess not"
Then. blame me, If I don't go down
TO the barber shop. shave and bolt
Washington Times.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-29
Personal.

John e. Russell says that the late
ex-Gov. Russell came to him on the day
on which he was to deliver his sound
money speech in the Chicago convention
and said he could not remember his
speech. i told him" said j. ohm +. Rus
sell that II had gone out TO the press,
but II would not be necessary to follow
the manuscript closely. l advised him
TO so ahead and It would come TO him"
IL did not come to him, however. and he
was Obliged to read il.
"A London journal says that for some
time Mr.. Gladstone has been going
through the dozens of huge boxes in which
he has carefully preserved his correspond
ence Tor years. A great many letters of
little or no interest have been weeded out
but there still remain no less than 10000
misstVes, which are tied up in bundles
and carefully docketed These will doubt
less be useful to the person who I'M
dertakes the task Of writing a biogra-
ply of the veteran statesman.
THE report comes from India" says
the Boston Transcript. that Charles
Rockwell Lanman. professor Of Sanscrit
in Harvard University, has had conferred
upon him the distinction of being elected
an honorary member Of the Asatic So
ton of his distinguished services as a
Sanscrit scholar This mark of recog-
milton is the more TO be valued inasmuch
as the Asiatic Society IS the oldest and
most famous of all existing Oriental So
cieties, having been founded by Sir Will
lam Jones in 1854 The list of honorary
membership numbers but thirty names. "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-29
secured HIS side OF the shed.

Say. did you ever live two families IN
house?' asked a well known Auburn
man yesterday. says the Lewiston Jour
nal "Weu. under the right conditions
you can make il so blamed interes -4ll5
that you won't want q vacation
Last rent / had. the tenant upstairs
wanted the same SIDE OF the cellar ll4a-
! wanted: OF. perhaps I wanted the same
side as he did. / don't know what rights
ln cellars are. We never argued \ oAts
nelghb0r and ]. some folks VINO i've ia
the same house get out IN the yard OF n
the barn ana punch the air 1uu or holes
and call each other bad names Neighoor
and i don't descend 10 that We never
said a word. But, Jerus lum. how we did
wrastle silently for that one particular
side OF the cellar.
Il bought three barrels Of apples and
rode home with the man to see that he
left them on my side Of the cellar, o.
what I decided to claim for my side.
Next day when I went home to dinner
wife said that neighbOr had moved Lhe
apples over 10 the other side OF the cell
lar. l went down and moved the apples
back. Next day neighbOr got on MS mus
Gle and sashayed them across again.
I've always wished / had a cyclomecer
on those barrels 50 that / could tell how
many miles they Travelled without guess
ing at 1t. Neighbor and ] never caught
each other doing the great roll act. We
never mentioned IL in our conversation
II might have been the rise and fall or
attraction OF the planet Jupiter for all
that We said to each other.
We kept II up until all the apples were
eaten. Not a day passed that the bar
rels didn't make a trip. When the ap-
pies were out We kept up the jig with the
empty barrels. l was Just figuring out
some sort of q gravity arrangement so
that the barrels would tumble over ana
roll back themselves every time neigh
Dor moved them, when we both came to
a sort Of realizing sense and / broke up
the barrels and my wife used EN- for
klndlngs
ITO tell the truth, about this time our
attention was pretty we'll taken up by the
new WOOdShed. While it was being built
l caught my neighbOr out several times,
looking over the interior arrangements.
He didn't know l was looking at him.
or at least / guess he didn't. He watched
me, though, when l was out in the wood
she'd for l caught him at il. But we
didn't say anything. Yet both of US knew
that we had picked upon the very same
side
But that's the time I did up neighbor.
l got on the right side of the carpenter
and found out just when he was going to
drive the last nail. Then l gave a hurry
up order for four cords of wood and two
tons of coal, delivered where / say and
before dinner He wasn't looking for coal
and wood this time o. year. And when
he got home at noon neighbOr went out
and looked and lost his appetite He went
TO the landlord about it. but that didn't
move the fuel, eh?'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-29

Gov. Stone of Missouri is an enthusiasts
tic free coinage man, and possesses a won
derful stock of 16 to l phrases and argu-
ments. The other day he was talking poll
tics to crowd of farmers at jefferson
City. Il tell you" said he. free coinage
will make the farmers SO prosperous that
sixteen stalks of wheat Will grow where
one grows now" An old man named
Perkins was listening. Il reckon" said
Perkins. that had a field of wheat like
that one year and them consumed stalks
growed so thick together that there
want no room for heads"