San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 336, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GREAT REPUBLICAN DAILY O fTEXAS
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San Antonio Tex. May 9 1896.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 16. 1897
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Whatever is is best.and the fruit that
is pulled before It is ripe only rots.
Hawaii is about ripe.
Cuban recognition will come in due
time but not until the hour is ripe for
it. For that hour it were well for the
United States to wait.
There is no such a thing as chance
in the world of politics any more than
in the world of nature.
There have been 140000 Spanish sol-
diers disabled or invalided already in
Cuba since this last war was inau-
gurated. Spain cannot keep up that
lick and when it fails Cuba must be
free.
Wheat is preempting a claim to the
throne of agricultural empire so long
claimed for king cotton but when the
succession is really established it
will be seen that corn is going to
wield the scepter.
There is a loud call for some watch-
dog of the treasury to stand guard
over appropriations this session..
There is no use In disguising the
fact that business is reviving has re-
vived will continue to revive. There
are local conditions in this and that
section that obscure the fact but
business grows.
Measure by every test that applies
to increasing business and Improved
conditions and the signs concur that
the business and industrial situation
have largely improved over the con-
ditions of last year.
There Is no haste for the Increase
of American empire that Is true but
when empire comes loafing along at
your doors and knocks for admission
it is time to take it in out of the
wet. Verily!
MARKET HOUSE NEED.
There always will be two parties to
every question of a public character
that is before the people for solution
and it is well that it should be so.
By this means both sides of all ques-
tions are likely to find
presentation and the people can
Judge between them ns to
their merits. Even so plain and
palpable a necessity as that of a gen-
eral market house for this city finds
opposition in certain quarters more
probably from the force of habit than
from any other consideration. There
are people who are born on the off
side of things and alway see things
from that side; in fact they cannot do
otherwise for that is the side native
to them. It would seem that a morn-
ing or evening visit to Military plaza
particularly in muddy weather and
on days when the norther is loafing
around for the shorn lamb would be
enough to convince the most skepti-
cal that some central market house
where the market gardeners of the
city and its suburbs could display
their products untouched by the
chills of winter and unwithered by
the great heats of summer is nec-
essary. Then with provisions for
these what more natural than that
those who provide the meat
and poultry supplies of the
people should set up their
stalls in such a place for the
more perfect accomodation of the
housewives and boarding house keep-
ers. and hotel stewards. The idea
that such a house for the general of-
fering of whatever is eaten in the
way of fish flesh and fowl and all
that is grown in the gardens of our
truck farmers is out of date and is
an indication of old fogyism had bet-
ter be let out to browse on the cactus.
It is true that a city may. grow so
large that one central market house
will not supply its wants just as one
central depot in a town does not sup-
ply the railway wants of a city after
it has reached certain proportions
but that would be a poor argument
against a central railroad depot and
would not be seriouslyconsidered by
those having such a project under
consideration. The obvious remedy
for this condition that of the city
that has outgrown its central market
is to build subsidiary market houses
distributing them over the city as the
need of them increases making all
subject to the central market as the
source of their authority and sup-
plies iu great measure. This subject
of a market for this city has been
often considered and as'often sup-
ported strongly by many of the citi-
zens although as yet it has not ma-
terialized. Its erection is« however
only a matter of time and its advo-
cates will continue their efforts in its
behalf until they are successful.
Bills of all sorts and sizes are be-
fore Congress and to come before it
reducing the number of the clerks in
the several departments and curtail-
ing their present perquisites. Already
has there been a favorable report on
the bill that cuts out 92 clerks from
the pensions office force and reduces
the clerical hire of that department
by more than $lOOOOO annually. Now
it is proposed that the 30 days sick
leave that is the right of every clerk
be discontinued. As each department
employe is given 30 days vacation in
the year it is argued that this is ra-
tionally sufficient without adding an-
other 30 days for sick leave. This al-
so is favoralbly considered in commit-
tee. If it passes it adds one-twelfth
to the availability of the present
clerical force of the departments
and would admit of the dismissal of
8 1-3 percent of all the force without
in any way impairing the efficiency of
the service. Retrenchment will find
good fat food around the Washington
departmerfts for a fact.
China is not a nation in the strict
sense of that word and when the
changes are rung on her millions and
millions of population as a measure
of her strength if it was utilized the
calculations are all based upon a con-
solidated government such as China
has not. That vast empire is no uni-
fied government and there is no unity
of interest binding its people togeth-
er. It is only an aggregation of pet-
ty principalities some of them
swarming with a horde of semi-bar-
barous people who can live on notn-
ing and gamble on the wind. China
is a nation in name only .without
either the form or the power of a
consolidated government. She Is
destined to be divided and made a
prey of the stronger governments of
the west before the solution of her
position in the world is reached. The
day is past for the continuance of a
barbaric empire of that proportions
in the midst of the civilizations of the
moderns. There is no power of cen-
tralized government apparent in her
make up.
Hoston Tost thinks that Bob Inger-
soll might substitute the “Mistakes
of Dingley” for that of the “Mistakes
of Moses” and make capital and
money thereby In the lecture field.
The Post will revise a hasty opinion
some of these days when it finds rev-
enues under the Dingley tariff pay-
ing all the expenses of government
and paying off the debt that Cleve-
land contracted to run the govern-
ment under the operation of the old
free -trade- for- revenue- only tariff
The mistakes of Dingley are not in
it with the mistakes of the Post and
even its old idol Sayers is worshiping
at the protection altar. The Post is
an after thought. That is it never
thinks the right thing unless it is
forced to do so.
It is reported that a strong British
force has embarked for Massowa
thence to be pushed forward to Kas-
sala and eventually to Khartoum.
This is denied in British army cir-
cles but taken in connection with the
fact that the Cameron Highlanders at
Gibraltar are ordered in readiness to
embarkalso that Germany has agreed
to keep hands off the ifiovements
in Egypt also that it is by British and
ludian troops and not by the Egyp-
tian contingent that Great Britain
wishes to occupy Khartoum and the
whole upper Egypt country and there
may be truth in the report despite de-
nial on the part of the British office.
Great Britain is certainly intending
to march iu force against the Khali-
fa and occupy his territory as soon as
practicable and it is just as certain
that the hold once taken on that ter-
ritory it will not be readily relinquish-
ed.
The Galveston News has done good
work in trying to call attention to
the abuses that have marked the pro-
gress of pensions increase in this
country but it has been in vain.
The News by the very placing of its
politics is outside the pale of news-
papers that would have such influ-
ence in changing or moulding Repub-
lican opinion and it is to Republican
action that the country is to look for
change in this direction. It is grati-
fying to note however that the re-
publican press and Republican mem-
bers of Congress have set themselv.
es against pensions increase. The
movement has been long delayed
but now that it has commenced it
will not be suffered to lag.
Hannis Taylor is firing the popular
heart against Spain in right good
fashion. His addresses to southern
audiences are impassiouedand as he is
right from the center of Spanish
thought and movement kuowing just
how the Spaniards feel towards the
United States he seldom fails to cre-
ate a strong feeling in favor of Amer-
ican intervention iu the affairs of Cu-
ba and Spain. This is a free country
but stump speeches are not going to
settle the policy at Washington.
Princess Chimay is out of France
without any prospect of immediate
return. She is wanted for her com-
plicity in putting on the market a
number of photographs in the nearly
nude that are a greater tribute to her
physical beauty than to her sense of
decency. She will give Paris a wide
berth now.
The new tea act is doing good scav-
enger work and has sent back rejec-
ted 18259 cases in the months of this
year between Maj' and December.
Last year same period onlj- 750 cases
were rejected.
Jftpan will have more music to
dance to in Formosa as the rebels
are again active and can leave Ha-
waii alone for a season. There is
more to be gained in Formosa than
in the Sandwich Islands.
There was no possible impertinence
on the part of Hayti that could jus-
tifj’ the manner in which Germany
enforced her demands nor excuse the
rudeness of her naval officer to for-
eigners.
There is not much likelihood of
Hawaiian annexation passing the
Senate by the regular two-tnirds ma-
jority but the consideration of the
matter iu executive session would
test the strength or the government
forces and demonstrate what could
be done through the Joint resolution
channel.
Gorman is of the opinion that if
he can only break into the House of
Representatives next season he can
wrest the leadership from Texas Bai-
ley. Gorman is old and Bailey young.
He is not in it.
There is a call for retrenchment in
Congress to which an answer Is
made by increased appropriations or
at least increased estimates. The
fight will be over appropriating so
much cash.
The war in Cuba goes brisklj- on
but there is not a doubt that Blauco
is no more able to make headway
against the insurgents than Weyler
was. The insurgents have the larg-
est army today.
The attempt to advance salaries in
the Brooklyn schools lately failed
the principals who applied being all
turned down and the superintendent
of schools declaring that the pay roll
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was already too large. Before long
there will be no Brooklyn on the map
of the state of New York.
There is no use of jump-
ing on to Hayti for the man-
ner in which she submitted
to Germany. What else was there
in the world for her to do? Uncle
Sam was not interesting himself in
her behalf.
Bryan finds that he gets more Mex-
ican money for half a thousand dol-
lars in San Antonio than he can lug
around the other Republic. Wait un-
til he comes back and hear his little
tale of
There will be music in Congress
when the civil service regulations are
attacked in dead earnest. The buzz
saw of the President is running In
good order. gome one is going to
get buzzed.
Autonomy is the lone card that
Blanco had up his sleeve but be kept
it there too long and it cannot now
save the game. Gomez and the Jun-
ta have tlie game grabbed beyond
doubt.
It is natural that Bismarck should
scold at America and denounce
what he calls her arrogance as that
he should nurse his rheumatism and
breathe. He mistakes independence
for arrogance.
Retrenchment is in the air but
there is a wrong as well as a right
direction in which to retrench and
New Orleans takes the wrong direc-
tion iu cutting appropriations for her
eye and car hospital.
The New Orleans press is doing its
duty to the future in pushing the
need of good sanitary work and
thorough insurance against yellow fe-
ver by perfect disinfection this win-
ter. Hear and heed.
Tammany Hall gains by being in-
corporated with Eustis but what
dose Eustis lose by fathering Tam-
many?
The late ambassador to France be-
comes the present ambassador of
Croker. Is it a step down or up?
Durant's pastor appears to be in
about as much danger of his life as
Durant himself and to the notes of
warning that he has received he an-
swers by surrounding himself with a
body guard. Durant needs none now
the state supplying that need by good
stone walls and steel bars.
Blanco and Gomez are telling the
country how the war is ended and is
not going to end. The manner in
which the insurgents and the Spanish
troops each clean out the other Is a
caution to coons.
Germany's demand on Hayti was
for $30000. Italy follows with a
claim of $BOOOO. Uncle Sam has a
bill of $lOOOOO. All for Hayti imper-
tinences. Next!
The whitecapper continues his op-
erations largely because the courts
do not fit a black cap to him.
U ncle Sam is getting in some retal-
If rue Home Industry
All tlielStock Owned By San Antonio Citizens.
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Largest Brewery In the South
Last Year’s Output 150000 Kegs
More Than Any Other Brewery South of St. Louis
The cause oi this is the Excellent quality of the Beer produced
iatory work on those Canadian grab-
bists and they will pay duty on all
provisions brought into United Sta-
tes territory.
That ambulance ship will not be
needed in any naval scrimmage that
we shall get into with Spain.
Gomez and Blanco both fire off
more paper ammunition than they do
solid shot or loaded shells.
China seems to be rather happy
over the fact that the German eagle is
hovering around Kaio Chau bay.
The great lakes are in the heavings
of a big blizzard and Kansas has one
in soak.
That “simple and inexpensive”
bankrupt law that is talked of maj'
be so but the passing of It is not.
There is no prospect that the rules
governing the House of Representa-
tives will be much changed.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
TAke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab-
lets. All drug-gists refund the money
if It falls to cure. 25c. The genuine
has L. B. Q. on each tablet.
FORT SAM HOUSTON.
This poet the second largest In ths
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 is the
headquarters of the Department of
Texas.
The upper post is the headquarters
of the Fifth regiment of United States
cavalry Col. L. H. Carpenter com-
manding. Besides the field staff and
band ard 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 dally 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.
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.
t Beautiful callsthenlc drill every
Friday morning at 10:30 on upper pa-
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