San Antonio Sunday Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 325, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 5, 1897 Page: 2 of 10
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The Sunday Light
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IIIMIIBI.
All punishment is cruel. All
cruelty is a crime. Therefore all
punishment is a crime.
This is the complexion of which
the instructed sense of this na-
tion and of all civilized people
is coming. There is no mistak-
ing the drift of public feeling in
this direction. That feeling is
voiced in all the transactions of
the “Humane societies” whether
their operations are carried on for
the benefit of the children the
weak the unfortunate or the an-
imals that are domesticated in
our homes or on our premises.
Cruelty is being written down as
a crime.
Side by side with this fact is
that other that cruelty is well-
night universal. Look out upon
a world of animate life all around
you. and there is the proof star-
ing you in the face. It is seen
every day on every street of every
city in this broad United States
and less here than elsewhere.
True there are localities in which
the state laws have written down
cruelty as a crime and where the
humane societies and their offi-
cers are paid detectives on the
watch for the perpetrators of
cruelty have brought in a whole-
some fear of the law so that open
cruelty is large restrained but
these favored cities are only here
and there. The nation is still
cruel.
Take our own beloved little
city with all its kindly influences
of genial sun and balmy breeze
for many months of each year.
Our streets resound with the
blows of the cruel rained upon
the backs of patient beasts of
burden; with the rush of half
maddened horses stung to frenzy
by the whips of heartless drivers
or their mouths torn by the bar-
barous methods that are in fash-
ionable vogue to pull their heads
in mid air; with the cries of half
human dogs howling out their
protest against the kicks of heavy
boots or the stones of cruel ur-
chins. Every where the sign
manuel of this cruelty is written
in bruised flesh and raised welts
and open sores upon the horses
and mules of this Christain city.
This offense is like that of Ham-
let rank and smells to heaven.
What right has man because
he walks on two legs to inflict
punishment upon a horse or a
mule or a cow. or a dog or a cat
or anything else because that
anything else walks on four legs?
The philosophy of cruelty is one
of those things that is almost past
finding out. It is universal
among the Christian nations and
among many of the Pagan ones as
well while others have evolved
a law of spirit and kindness that
is only the result of long ages of
civilizing influences. Strange
that among the followers one of
the mildest of all the great re-
former of the earth the throne of
so universal a cruelty should be
set up. that his followers as a
class should be the least amenable
to those kindlier influences that
belt the earth with a sympathetic
tenderness of heart.
It is only here of late that is a
very few years comparatively
Unloading Stylish Jackets. Clothing For Gentlemen.
C<p*s and Suits. We are determined to reduce our stock of Cloaks no Mothers wives or sweethearts the Santa Claus for the men folks is near
matter at what cost or sacrifice. Read every item. You owe it to yourself at hand. You could not please them better than giving them a suit of our
to inspect our goods before buying. The continual warm weather and back- Clothing for a present. Just ask them in an offhand way so Peculiar to the
ward season have compelled us to make these great reductions in our Ladies fair sex what sizes they wear then come to us and we will help you in the
Suits Capes Jackets Skirts and Wrappers. We are quoting few prices this ■ surprise.
week; we advise early selections as they will go at such prices. j nilAllf lift A Ilin
Plush capes made of best quality salts seal plush heavy tailor (1 1 j (I |||U 1411 11 || j| IU fl
satin lining profusely embroidered fur edge worth $15.00 \t 1 11 1 J V 11» WI RI 111 lUy \ /
(tm OIL Ulin uilU" "IIWUnO J&L
embroidered and braided. Jnlll . If *y F A
worth 116.00 only Of Men s Suits of Extra Good Values at /I
Ladies' fine Plush Capes Rusianl A Eft $6.00 $7.50 $8.50 -2* Zj H I \
All wool Cheviots Worsted and Cashmere Suits 35 dif- Q V V
Bearskin trimmed. worth!2o.. feeent styles to pick from. Your tailor will charge you $2O for V]
the su'ts merchants around town ask 12.50 to 15.00 for VWI 1 | |
Ladies’Plush Capes this seasons A ftE suits not a bit better our price L |
latest swe'p regular $5 value. /.Mn _ /CJ U~ I
During this sale only | I fW
Ladies' Plush Capes lined an<l I
full sweep manufaoiured t« J ftE I
Overcoats For men ac s °°’ 6on ’ Wtii
’ VIVIVVUIJ 7.50 8.50 10.00 and up- w HD
Ladies' cloth Capes fur trim- inr J ward in Kersey Melton and Chinchilas. | W
AsXt med. full sweep and well worth I n*) I’' * 111 iF
' '' 93 CO this week I wl
?tfil j/1 : Black and white suspenders worth $l.OO 50c I ill
t . « . _ . Silk Hemstitched handkerchiefs 25 cents 50 cents and 75 cents. ‘lk If
X': 1 WSt. Ladies C loth Capes well made P IC Fancy bosom dress shirts best standard makes $l.OO I v*!
W’ ' TOI regular $4.00 value this week n.&Lj ■ ' _ . _ . _ If I XT
6nly ui-tu Boys Knee Pants Just Received.
| A large line the best values at 50 cts $1 and $1.50. &= •
Special Sole ol tfcWiM
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OSKE BROTHERS THE BIG STORE. Corner Commerce and Alamo Streets.
that tenderness was accepted as
anything but softness semi-cow-
ardness. The boy who was re-
marked for kindness to his bat or
dog. or pony was put down as a
molly-coddle ridiculed for being
tied to his mother's apron strings
fKiinted out by the little barbar-
ians around him. who only found
out their mistake when’they pull-
ed his dog’s tail or hurt some of
hise animal friends and got sud-
denly thrashed by the young mas
ter for their cruelty. That day
if not altogether passed is pass-
ing faster and faster with each
year celebrating its motion. In
some blessed localities where
strong men and brave women are
fighting the battle for kindness
it is actually becoming fashion-
able to be* tender and care for
the dumb animlas.
But this is only half of the in-
dictment. Cruelty will be ac-
knowledged to be a crime by thou-
sands who will maintain that
punishment is not only not cruel
but necessary and at times a
kindness. This is not in accord-
ance with the gospel that the
Light troches. Punishment is
an injustice. Punishment is
cruel. Injustice is a sin and pun-
ishment is a crime because cruel-
ty is.
All acts to be justified must be
founded in right. What right
has one person and assemblage of
jiersons to inflict pain on an-
other or on others? Doubling
the number of those who perpe-
trate a crime does not diminish
the criminality of the act. Cruel-
ty is no less a crime if perpetrat-
ed by a father or a mother than
if perpet rated by a stranger. It
is not more a crime because that
relation of parent clothes with a
greater responsibility and there-
fore with a wiser demand upon in-
telligent government and direc-
tion? The Light preacher so be-
lieves. Then a cruel parent is
more a criminal under the law of
kindness than the stranger. The
teacher is more a criminal if
cruel than a stranger. The gov-
ernment is also more cruel for its
cruelty to its citizens than to
aliens.
What are children punished
for? In 999 cases out of 100 to
make them feel pain. There is
no use of denying this. The
facts are all against the denial.
Who ever saw a father or mother
or guardian or teacher or officer
in the navy or army or in jail
whip a child or a pupil or a re-
cruit or a criminal with a feath-
er? Why? Because then* was
pain to Im* inflicted as the definite
object of the flogging and the
feather would not do it. Argue
against the proposition as you
will but there is no avoiding the
conclusion. The act is its own
condemnation. There is no au-
thority conferred in parentage in
teaching in government or any
order to inflict pain. It is there-
fore out of order to inflict punish-
ment. For punishment is based
upon pain inflicted.
Because this law of punitive ad-
ministration of government has
IMPORTANT TO BOTH SEXES READ THIS “AD” AND THINK OF US.
been is no reason that it shall
continue to be. Much less is it
any just ground of conclusion
that it is right. There are
wrongs as old as time. There
tire delusions as ancient as crea-
tion and government under it.
This idea of the strong having the
right to inflict cruelty punished
upon the weak is one of them.
In fact the better gospel of kind-
ness into acceptance of which the
world is growing teaches that
the stronger the perpetrator the
more unwarranted tin* cruelty
that is practiced upon the
The great coward world is coming
slowly into this truth. It is be-
ing accepted in the family in the
school on the play ground in the
world of all action. The world
is evohiting out of its old time
crueltv.
What then? Is there to be no
punishment of crime? Nof if
that punishment is in itself a
crime.
Take these two as the question
and answer that defines the whole
ground of law administration.
Law to be effectively administer-
ed must commend itself to the
equitable mind that is in man.
When the law demonstrates its
own injustice and thus exposes its
own criminality it is a useless in-
strument for the suppression of
crime. Hence it is that laws are
not effective preventives from
criminal actions. The whole his-
tory of crime and its increase will
establish the correctness of this
proposition. Manifestly it is
time for the law and order idea to
consider some other plans.
Reform here as elsewhere must
begin in the formative strata of
society in the family and in the
school. It will develop in the
treatment that the domestic ani-
mals in and about your homes
receive. • Here it is that the child
must be taught that cruelty is a
crime; that punishment is cruel
and that for it there is no juris-
diction. Teach that you dare npt
inflict . willing j»ain upon your
child. That means in broad lan-
gnage that you dare not strike
him or her. Whippings of ev-
ery class everywhere are thus
outlawed by the higher law .of de-
veloping kindness.
Do you ask what shall take its
place? Anything. Nothing.
Everything. There can be noth-
ing less than the present system
of punishment and pain and
there would lx* no loss jMissible in
or under any other condition.
This is broad but it is founded on
the lack of success that has ever
attended the attempt to reform
or govern or change or direct or
develop by cruelty by pain by
punishment by brute force. Af-
ter ages of failure it is time that
something else was tried.
The congregation of the Light
is merely directed to look into
these things and jionder on them.
To consider the progress of hu-
manity and the direction that the
develo|H*iuent of the race must
take in order to its greater hu-
manitarianism. Look at the
truths set forth above in the light
of your own family experiences.
Compare the households where
cruelty punishment the infliction
of pain is the law of government
where children are whipped; com-
pare these with those other house-
holds where whipping is un-
known ; where government by fear
of the rod is never resorted to;
where the gobble’ uns are never
set to catch the children if they
do not look out then making your
comparisons fairly and honestly
read Hit* lessons for vourself.
Texas lias tried the cotton area con-
vention in the vain hope of curtailing
tile acreage anil thus adding to the cer-
tainties of a lietter price or the de-
creased crop. This scheme has invar-
iably failed and now the farirers in t ! e
central and northern counties of the
state are putting their lands into
wheat and asking no questions. This
is wise and should be imitated wher-
ever tlie growing of wheat eun Is prof
itably carried on. There nre some of
the lower counties of the state in wlii' h
wheat culture would lx* too uncertain
and in these the dependency must be
on corn and cotton. Jf the lands art
eligible for wheat culture where re-
leased from cotton then there would be
a sutticiency of decreased acreage and
the lands good only for cotton and corn
could lie profitably devoted to these
crops. This with the growth of cnttle
and hogs in a small way and attention
to dairy products and poultry and
home grown vegetables would mark
a revolution in the conditions of the
Texas farmer in three years. In the
multitude of crops there is safety.
Secretary Wilson announces to the
country that it spends $4<10.000.0u0 an-
nually for food products that can be
raised at home. This would more than
compensate for that “market of the
world” of which we hear so much
from tlie free trade dogmatists. Uncle
Sam is learning wisdom yearly.
There is only one thing in the condi-
tion of the Republican party in Texas
that is encouraging. This is tiiat there
is no lx»ss In the state. The attempt to
boss has resulted in bossy calves.
FAVORS EDUCATION.
Paper Read at the Methodist Confer-
ereuce at Beeville.
Beeville Tex. Dec. 4.-(Special)—
Rev. I). 8. Moten of Bethel A. M. E.
church San Aatonlo read a very In-
teresting paper on education to the
conference meeting yesterday. In
substance It was a review or nistory
of tin* schools and education of the
colored race. He concluded with the
following recommendations:
Ist. We recommend that the minis-
ters of the West Texas Conforeui-e con-
tinue heartily to encourage and help
to sustain edueationa nd tlie cause of
education in the individual in the
home in the community in the state
in the nation in the church t H >th in ihe
pulpit and in the pew.
2d. We recommend that the West
Texas Conference together with the
other Texas Conferences co-operate
actively with the bishop of the district
and tlie president of Paul Quinn to
make and in makiug its Theological de-
partment an operative and ot»eratiug
reality.
3d. We recommend that tlie West
Texas Conference sustain and support
in reality a conference scholarship in
Payne Theological seminary.
4th. We recommend that the pastors
of the churches in our Conference
preacti at least one special sermon on
Christian education to their church
and congregation during the confer-
ence year. Supplicating the God of
Omniscience to preserve to protect
and to bless onr Christian educational
workers and its work and all Christian
educational workers and work every-
where: We shall continue wl lie llv-
nlg to be for Christ and the church and
Christian education.
■m a m
Of all the criminals in a community
the liar is the meanest.
• • •
West End has the prospects of get-
ting another street car line lii the vear
1898.
• • •
Tlie races must lx* run on the square
in every particular to lx* popular with
tlie people.
• • 4
Aiderman Surkey’s constituents are
in favor of the big market house on
Paschal square.
• • •
Tlie $1.50 show at tlie Grand makes
pix>r picking for the compauies pre-
ceding aud following.
• 4 •
Let’s build one gixxl market house
and do not attempt to construct two
little rat traps to lx* failures.
4 4 4
The financial report of the county
treasurer as published in the Express
presents a bob-tailed appearance.
• • •
It’s not the good looks of the county
officials that catches the eyes of the
ladles—it’s their winning ways.
• a 4
If President McKinley would come
to San Antonio be could find some good
Republicans who are not pie-hunters.
• • •
Justices Jones aud Shook must look
to their laurels; Judge Jonas is becom-
ing quite proficient iu tieing the nup-
tial knot.
• • •
If you read news items iu the Light
today that may possibly appear in the
morning paper a few days later—that’s
what is called a scoop.
• • a
All aiderman to be of any real service
to his constituents should not pose as
a chronic kicker at every windmill that
comes before his eyes.
• 4 4
A big artesian well on Paschal
square will be a great boon to the
poor people on the west side who are
still using the foul creek water.
4 4 •
The Third ward has done without
streets or other improvements so many
many years and is willing to wait now
until the new market house is built.
• • •
The prospect of the city lioring gn
artesian well iu the new market house
on Paschal square gives the organ of
old water monopoly the “cold shivers.”
4 • •
Since Judge Green’s charge to the
grand jury to investigate peijuries
several conspicuous wtinesses are re-
ported to have bidden San Antonio
good-bye.
• • •
If the editor of the Morniug Mug-
wump wants a market house ou Ala-
mo Heights or on Crockett street near
the river the west aiders will not ob-
ject but let’s seen bow much cash
will be put up.
• • 4
Get right for once boys and let ihe
vote on the uew market house be un-
animous. The kickers may delay the
preliminaries but San Antonio must
and will have a big market bouse and
the place is Paschal square.
• • •
Tlie Gossipix*r of the Express soli io
quizes on the drama in his last Sun-
day’s column. He also circulates tin*
rumor that the writer of Short Snaps
will be a candidate for county treasur-
er; iu tlds the Goxsipper is wrong: for
it’s Ferdy’s cash he wanted to count.
• • •
“An Indiana publisher recently re-
ceived a load of cord wood that bad
been owing for 35 years for sulwxrip-
tion to the paper. The editor was so
jubilant that he decorated his office
with bunting and issued 2i)no extra
copies of the pajier to celebrate the
event."
• • •
“Because you put au ad in the paper
once upon a time and it didn't pay.
don't be eternally sore. Maybe you
didn't use the right medium or maybe
you didn't say the right thing or may-
be you didn’t say it in the right way.
You can’t plant a pumpkin seed aud
raise a rose bush.”
Tlie market houses formerly located
on Alamo plaza near Mission garden
and on Market street have been
abandoned as failures because they
were too small and too filthy anil
not centrally located. Build '.l big
market house on Paschal square and
it will be a success.
CHILDREN AT CHRISTMASTIDE.
Their Joys and Mirth Should be Un-
restrained on Tills Day of Days.
“If there is one day in tlie year which
rightly belongs to the young it is
Christmas Day” writes Edward W.
Bok in the Christmas Ladles’ Home
Journal. “It should be given over to
them therefore without stint or res-
ervation. And I think . sometimes
that parents do not always understand
this. It is right and all-esseutial that
restrictions upon the amusements of
of the young should prevail In every
home. But Christmas Day is the one
day when these barriers ought to be
lifted and the young be given free
play. No wholesome liberty nor in-
dulgence should be withheld from a
boy or girl on that day. What of it
my dear friend if such lilx*rties do
mean a tear here or a broken chair
there ? Suppose the boy is particular-
ly noisy on Christmas. What of it?
Tell me If you can a lietter sign of
strong young health than the noise
from a boy's lungs! Suppose he does
throw himself or even jump or stand
on your best lounge or soil or rumple
your pet tidy! Pass over it don't notice
it. but let the boy have his Christmas
day. And if the little girl does insist
iqxin putting her sticky candy fingers
on your dress what of it? Let her
romp and tear all over the house. Give
her the joy of feeling that for one day
the house is hers in every nook and
corner of it. Let her put her smutchy
little hands on the white paint of the
door or wall. I know a home my
dear woman where the marks of four
smutchy little fingers may lx* seen anv
day on the white pain of a door and
they are treasured above the costliest
ornaments in that house. Nothing
could induce the mother of that home
to wipe off those finger marks and
gayly would her heart sing if the little
fingers that put them there could make
others all over the doors and windows
of that house. • • • Let each one of
us who can give freedom and zest to
the dearest treasures of the Christ-
mastide: the young barbarians of our
home. God bless them I say. May
each child in this land of ours have a
Christmas Day this year fashioned af-
ter their own heart”
POWER OF A MOTHER'S VOICB.
A mother sang to her child one day
A song of a beautiful home above;
Sang it as only a woman sings.
Whose heart is full of a mother's
love.
And many a time in the years that
came
He heard the sound of that low.
sweet songs;
It took him back to his childhood's
days;
It kept his feet from the patlis of
wrong.
A mother spoke to her child one day
In any angry voice that made him
start
As if an arrow bad sped that way
And pierced his loving and tender
heart.
And when he had grown to man’s es-
tate.
And was tempted and tried as all
men are.
He fell; for that mother's angry word*
Had left on his heart an angry scar.—
Charles S. Carter in Christmas Ladies'
Home Journal.
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