San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 335, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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Tfic Daily Light
the GREAT REPUBUCAM DAILY OF TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO JJGHT
Office No. 104 E. Commerce Street
LIGHT PUB. CO.
Pres. Mid Manager.... T. B. JOHNSON
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the office. T. B. JOHNSON.
Manager San Antonio Light.
San Antonio Tex. May 9 1896.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1 -’ 1«1»..
All the preparation of this pres-
ent* for an early spring outing seems
to be in the Klondike direction.
——o •
The decree has gone forth from the
postal department that no letter car-
rier shall work more than eight hours
a day. After that he is supposed to
be n. g.
—
It is not a new hearing that is need-
ed in the hurt case so much as a new
hanging.
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Italy thinks that if Germany can
scare Hayti $30000 she can see the
trick and go $50000 better.
Blanco cables the surrender of the
insurgents but this does not prevent
the war going right along.
o
The optical “delation” of which
the Houston Press speaks it is no
doubt the result of spirituous solu-
tion. s
—o—-
‘There was not a white mans name
in all the 20000 that were on that
Hawaiian petition.
—o
The attempt to kick football out of
the ring of intercollegiate sports will
not succeed this time.
Durant’s lawyer has a soft snap in
the grip he takes on the gullibility of
the people and press.
—o
Fight for a nine hour work day in
New York Job printing offices is on
for settlement by way of a strike.
Cap. Lovering can rub his sides ov-
er that reprimand and then thank
his stars that he was not fired.
—-o
Some of the Cuban sypmpathizers
think that McKinley has given the in-
surgents a black eye but Spain can-
not see it in that way.
o
The tramp question is forcing its-
aelf on the south for solution. Knock
one out at the rock pile;
o - ——
Judge Noonan is the hottest candi-
date for the postoffice that has yet
appeared. He stands to win.
The barkless dog is popularly sup-
posed to be the schooner that has no
canine aboard but it is a mistake.
He is the aeompainment of the chain-
less bike and they travel in couples.
—®
Why it is that the papers printed in
the next county take longer to reach
the Light office than those printed a
thousand miles away is what the
devil is puzzling his brains over Just
now.
There Is no doubt that Congress is
beginning to feel the gravity of the
situation as regards the relationship
between the United States and Spain
and that imbued with the spirit of
the administration there will be no
effort to push recognition of the Cu-
ban insurgents beyond the lines con-
sidered advisable at the state office.
It is the intention of the United Sta-
tes to saddle upon Spain the respon-
sibility for whatever breach of the
peace there is between the two na-
tions so that when the rupture
comes as come it is thought it must
the United States will be so clearly
in the right in the eyes of the nations
that there will be no adverse criti-
cism upon her actions. Uncle Sam
will be alow to take offense but will
not be deterred by any fear of Spain
from actively Intervening in the af-
fairs of Cuba when he is unmistak-
ably justified in doing so. This ap-
pears to be about the condition at
Washington now and before the win-
ter is over the most ardent friends of
Cuba may find that the United Sta-
tes has taken a very advanced and
decided step in behalf of the noble
baud of Cuban patriots now in arms.
Huntington has accepted the decis-
ion of the United States engineers as
to the location of the harbor on the
Pacific slope at San Pedro and all
the interests of the Southern Pacific
in that locality will be rapidly devel-
oped there. Abundant water front
property has been secured for all the
requirements of the road and there
will be no hesitancy on the part of
the Southern Pacific people in improv-
ing their property in time to meet the
government improvement of the har-
bor. Bids have been advertised for
the harbor work and there is no
doubt that construction will begin as
soon as contracts can be awarded. It
is time tha t the work was entered up-
on as the need of a harbor far to the
south of San Francisco is becoming
yearly more and more apparent.
President McKinley recognizes
newspaper guild at Washington as
distinctly entitled to all the courte-
sies of the White House just as
much as the members of Congress
and the diplomatic corps. Prepara-
tion is being made to enroll all of
these members of the press and their
families-and there will be a place for
them in all public functions in the
future. This Is a courtesy that is
wise as well as thoughtful. It will
not in any sense lessen the apprecia-
tion of the country for the level head-
ed man who today presides over its
destines. Fancy Grover Cleveland
doing a kindly act.
The President's message has more
between the lines in its reference
to Cuba; than appears in the text
and this is appearing to the dumb
consternation of Spain and the ene-
mies of Cuba in increasing clearness.
This merely proves the wisdom and
strength of the mind that framed that
message. The more it is studied the
more it is seen that so far from be-
ing indifferent to the situation in Cu-
ba it proposes to make that situation
the concern of the United States when
considerations of humanity and our
obligations to civilization and our-
selves render it necessary. This is
enough and Washington and not
Madrid will be the judge of that ne-
cessity.
The Missouri banks are making a
fight on the express company’s trans-
mission of money by express orders.
They claim that these companies are
transmitting money cheaper than the
small banks in the country can offer
exchange on metropolitan banks and
there is a combination to send funds
by registered mail instead. It is al-
so charged that the express compan-
ies discriminate against the small
banks in the carriage of coin and there
is a disposition to make the fight
against them general. The same fight
has been on in lowa and other states
and may grow to be an issue in other
not yet developing any interest in
the matter.
In addition to testing the e’es of
railway employes for color blind-
ness there is some prospect of soon
testing their ears to note how they
can distinguish sounds. Who tests
the testers?
The inevitable is that which Is
surely coming and Sunday baseball
in the National league is the latest in
that line. Every indication is to that
effect and the opposition will be is
vain.
The experts are trying to line up
on the amount of gold dust that has
really come out of Klondike this sea-
son but there is no data upon which
to base statements. It is computed
by the bankers at Seattle that not less
than a million has passed through
that city since July.
When a man is denied baptism be-
cause he refuses to unite with a local
trades union it is time to ask if the
church has entered the union or the
union knocked out the church? This
is very laborious religion or very
religious labor or a mixture of both
without any of the characteristics of
el»her.
A Lockhart boy returns bis old
dad's mariage license and forbids the
clerk to issue another as he “did nol
want the old man to marry. He was
too old.” Here is a case of true fil-
ial solicitude.
Democratic papers ask too much
when they ask that a hot Democratic
section should share in the benefits
that are purely Tiepublican in their
origin. Cotton is purely a Democrat-
ic staple. See?
Queen Vic Is going to talk into a
telephoine so that her tone of voice
can be preserved. There is no need
oT it iA the world. The century to
come would not take a sample of it
as a free gift. Too harsh.
Little by little the tilth is being
turned out of the San Antonio rivet
and before long that living issue of
all that is clear and sparkling will go
on its wayqjnvexed by accumulations
of sewage.
There is nothing in the London
stock market today that has the call
over American securities.
The balance of trade today is large-
ly in favor of the United States. This
means prosperity in lots.
The mine strike in Illinois is over
and it is over on the men's side of
the shaft. This is the most gratify-
ing thing about It. The operators
come to terms and wages are not cut
down to starvation rates.
The Union Facile Is doing wotk
right along every day in the way of
faster running that three ago
would be heralded in box car type
from Atlantic to Pacific coast. A
hundred miles in as many minutes
seems to be no trick at all.
The Central American Republic is
about to take to itself the fact and
substance of a real republic authoriz-
ed to treat with other nations and
maintain diplomatic relations in full.
When it does the disrupted relations
between it and the United States
will be restored.
There is no sense in the United
States decrying the barbarity of a
bull fight when 1500 of her own peo-
ple rush to the border to take in the
brutal sport. We all live in glass
houses now.
Eckles sems to think that once he
is out of the office of Comptroller of
the currency the Nation is going to
the demnition bow wows. The finan-
cial stability of the United States is
not the unstable thing that the Comp-
troller paints it. It has stood the
strain and stood it very well.
There will be all the reciprocity
that is profitable to this country on
tap when the arrangements are com-
pleted.
Prince Henry is of the opinion that
the heavens will canopy him in
safety as he goes to plant the flag
of Germany on the shores of China.
Postal savings banks are destined
to find great advocates in the south
and as the northeast is a unit for
their establishment there is no doubt
that the agitation will end in their
coming to stay.
It is refreshing to hear of rain fall-
ing anywhere even in Kansas but it
would be more refreshing to hear the
beating of the rain upon the window
pane. The sound has long died out
of the ears of Southwest Texas.
Mills takes Gorman's place on the
commerce committee of the Senate. He
will find that the appropriations out-
side of naval armament and coast de-
fences are not going to be voted by
wholesale.
There is not that Irrepressible con-
flict in Congress on the part of the Re-
publicans that the Democrats fondly
hoped for. There is a spasm of sense
left in the leaders of the party in i>ow
er.
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Spain has everything to gain and
nothing to lose by the new reforms in
Cuba. Spain has more freedom from
obligation and Cuba is as closely
bound to Spain as ever. There is no
lilierty about it.
It is not civil service that is wrong
but the uncivil manner in which the
service is made to serve the purpose
of the spoilsmen. It has been simply*
used as a stocked pack of cards for
foul play.
Some of these days the changes will
be rung on the hard road that Hawaii
has to travel in reaching a safe an-
chorage in tlie bosom of your respected
Uncle Samuel. All the same the har-
bor will open.
New Y'ork Republicans or the inde-
pendent oreed are organizing and
while all their work will without doubt
Is* within Republican measures they
will have It in for Platt on nil possible
occasions.
Don’t Forget Don’t Forget
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Uncle Sam is not felicitated bn the
manner in which he let big and blus-
tering Germany take tittle Hayti by
the nose and pull it . But it must not
be forgotten that there is in the United
States Senate a majority that is hos-
tile to the president and his party and
policy and that no dependence can
be placed on what course the Senate
will take in an emergency. Beside there
was a strong feeling at Washington
that Hayti had presumed on her own
insignificence and upon the aid of the
United States and was more impudent
than the law alowed. Hayti has been
impertinent before.
There is not 'a thing in sight for the
real pacification of Cuba. The osten-
sible policy is that of autonomy but
It is thought to make it operative
through the of the reformists
who are not in favor with the old au-
tonomists and the friction is so great
that there is danger of firing the whole
machine. The Autonomist will not re-
cognize the leadership of the new nieu
whom Blanco has entrusted with the
work of carrying forward his meas-
ures. Blanco is handicapped by his
instructions from Madrid and the
whole thing is out at the elbows and
badly patched at the knees. It won’t
work.
Croker and his pals have been hard
at work in the “king's” retreat over in
New Jersey parcelling out the Christ-
mas presents for the gaug. He has
pressed Eustis into his service and if
he cannot do without him he will force
him into the office of corporation
counsel. It will take a man with a
good head and a clear knowledge of
affairs to till this bill and such are not
to be found every day at the disposal
of Tammany. With his machine ably
managed there will be nothing to pre-
sent Croker from laying his hands on
state and national politics and work-
ing his rabbit foot on these. Then he
will have patronage to burn and the
fish in the net will find something in
the field of state or national govern-
ment to reward them for their services
not to mention the fat pickings of of-
fice.
Waco is sirred up over the frequent
kilings in that litle city and wonders
where the end is to come in. Waco
will find that you cannot stir angry
piiMHhms without there being some out-
come to it.
Bohemia has always been suspected
of having close relations with the
newspaper people but when it comes
to suppressing thirty papers in a week
then Bohemia is getting in its work on
the wrong side.
There is sense and propriety in the
contention of the Alton schol authori-
ties. that the colored Children shall be
taught in their own schools and that
there is no kick as these are in every
way equal to the schools provided for
the whites. Alton colored society is
too toney for its health.
lowa is to be condoled with. “Bloody
Bridle Waite” has taken up his abode
in the Hawkeye state.
Germany sems to think that the
Hayti incident demonstrates that the
navy of the country is able to meet all
demands that will be made upon her.
Small demands for a fact. Tackle
something bigger.
A True Home Industry
All tliejStock Owned By San Antonio Citizens.
nW smi ki "sr
Largest Brewery In the South
Last Year’s Output 150000 Kegs
More Than Any Other Brewery South of St. Louis
The cause of this is the Excellent quality of the Beer produced
Uncle Sam has arranged his case be-
fore the courts and succeeded in get-
ting a postponement of that Kansas
Pacific sale for CO days. The treas-
ury will get Its $13000000 back wheu
it is sold.
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TO CURE A COLD TN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab-
lets. All druggists refund the money
If it fails to cure. 25c. The genuine
has L. B. Q. on each tablet.
A GENUINE SALE.
In offering the J. F. Jones & Co.’s
stock at half price we mean exactly
what we say. We are not “selling
out” or going out of business. We
are right here to stay to protect our
customers should anything we sell
them prove unsatisfactory. You have
no such advantages if you purchase an
instrument from parties who advertise
“selling out” or from unknown Com-
mission Agents who are here today
and away tomorrow. The one is out
of business and the other places your
notes fn the bank or sends them to the
manufacturers and neither of them
can be found wheu you need any as-
sistance. Place your orders for Pian-
os with us as we are always here and
ever ready to grant an extension or
right anything that may not give satis-
faction. We do NOT demand notes
on time sales in payment for PIANOS.
THOB. GOGGAN & BROS.
tf Cor. Houston and Navarro Sts.
Thia post the second largest in the
country is also the headquarters of the
Military Department of Texas Brig-
adier General W. M. Graham com-
manding.
The upper parade ground is Fort
Sam Houston proper and where the
flagstaff is located. The lower ground
Is the one nearest the city and la the
headquarters of the Department of
Te-os.
The upper post la the headquartera
of the Fifth regiment of United Statea
cavalry Col. L. H. Carpenter com-
manding. Besides the field staff and
band and troops D E F and K of the
Fifth cavalry there are also stationed
here companies A. B. C. E F and G of
the Eighteenth infantry and Light bat-
tery K of the First artillery. The
troops at the post number about 775
men altogether.
Guard mounting on upper parade
ground daily at 1 p. m.
Cavalry parade on the lower parade
grounds every Tuesday and Thursday
at 10:30 a. m.
Infantry parades Monday Wednes-
day and Friday on the upper parade
grounds at 5:15 p. m. 5
All parades are in full dress.
Brigade review and inspection on the
last day of each month on lower pa-
rade ground between 8 and 10 a. m.
Inspection of troops every Saturday
at 8:20 a. m.
Beautiful callsthenlc drill every
Friday morning at 10:80 on upper pa-
rade.
Public Invited to view all these ex-
’rclses.
FORT SAM HOUSTON.
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