San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 103, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 12, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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BUNDAY MAY 12 1895
TEXAS.
From the National Liquor Dealer.
Our great state is suffering from
that clash of interests and ideas
that are likely to arise where the
several communities are spread
over a wide territory.
The pious God fearing devil-
hating conscientious communities
of Northern Texas —embracing
whole counties with little country
towns that have hitherto been pro
gressive and happy insist upon
forcing people to be total abstain-
ers by law.
The liberal-minded law abiding
intelligent God-worshiping people
of Southern and Western Texas
want neither temperance or religion
crammed down their throats by
law.
Thus it is the whole state must
be blamed for the fanaticism of
communities that insist upon the
adoption of local option. And the
general reputation of the state as a
liberal free progressive state is
impaired.
What with pig-headed legislation
upon temperance religion and fi-
nance war on capital and corpora-
tions it is only a wonder that our
prosperity has not staggered into
complete ruin.
All sumptuary legislation is the
outgrowth of tyranny that is the
reason why in all our communities
foreigners who have sought our
land to enjoy republican liberty
make bitter opposition to sumptu-
ary regulations
Texas was once a free state and
its greatness sized up with the
world’s greatest. Its legislative
halls were the source of wisdom
and law; its lawmakers were learn-
ed brainy patriotic men who
understood the science of govern-
ment. And better still the spirit
of personal liberty our constitution
and our laws contained no phari-
seeism; our people were brave and
great.
Only in these later days when
we have popinjay statesmen in our
legislature preachers dealing in
politics political orders that hold
their sessions in secret a local
option temperance law' that causes
continual agitation interference
with business loss of revenue to
the government and loss of man-
hood to the people that we have
to apologize for our great state.
But there is one good reason
why we are glad these things are
happening to day. We will get
through with them before our state
is much older.
Experience and education will
eventually conquer. It took many
years to down teetotalism as a
leading political issue in the land
of the original Puritan New Eng-
land —it is now a side issue.
The battle for “high morality”
to be enforced by legislative en-
actments has shifted to the south-
ward and Texas is the ' ‘last
ditch.”
It is no credit to our intelligence
that such local agitations are per-
mitted to disturb any considerable
body of people within our state.
The defeat of the constitutional
amendment submitted some years
since to the people was such a de
feit that it should have carried
with it every semblance of sump-
tuary laws on our statue books.
The local option law of our state
is the most unw'ise piece of legisla-
tion ever enacted; permitting elec-
tions to be held at the mere option
of a county commissner’ court
lor upon the petition of a few voters
lin any county city town justice’s
precinct or subdivision.
I And the decision settles nothing
I— at the expiration of two years it
tan be all done over again—and
Igain in two years and so on.
I Some spasm of folly—some in-
vasion of sensational politics mixed
lip with religion carries the people
If a particular community off their
Beet to-day and to morrow they
Begret it.
B The large business interests in-
■olved in the liquor business reach-
Big as it does into a hundred
■venues of trade from the pro-
■icer to the manufacturer from
■e manufacturer to the dealer
■id finally to the consumer de-
■rves the earnest and united at-
■ntion of our business people.
■ Either our national and state
■vernment must combine upon
■stroying the manufacture and
■e of all kinds of liquors.. or these
■:al restrictions should lie re-
vived. //
as a legitimate call-
■■—as a great busimjs interest —
QBy should a trifling fctate enact-
■arnt permitting sr>ll commu-
■ties of people who ipt cranky to
disturb the entire business of the
state cause great loss to legitimate
industry loss of revenue to the
state and increase of the burden of
taxation.
It is high time the business men
of Texas looked to the material
sent to the legislature and it is
high time the local option law was
repealed.
The national government as well
as our state and local governments
depend largely upon the liquor tax
for revenue to pay the expenses of
goverment
It is time the free people of
Texas had a rest from this pro-
hibition agitation. If necessary
the people at large must combine
against the cranks.
Texas wants people and capital.
It has room for millions; but we
must be broad-minded liberal and
not proscriptive in our affairs in
order to build up
TAKE THE BEST.
If it pays to insure property’
tian it also pays to take the best.
1 ie Germania Fire Insurance com-
p ny of New York (active capital
U JZ.DCS); issues such policies
pays all just losses
in cash at once without any deduc-
tion. Its headquarters is at San
Antonio. You do not have to wait
for some one to come from some-
where to adjustor appraise your
loss. You do not have to deal with
strangers. Ask Wagner & Chabot
Dr. Braunagel Jacob Weber and
many other old citizens of San An-
tonio as to how and in what man-
ner the undersigned had adjusted
their losses. S. D. Scudder
Manager for Texas Alamo Insur-
ance Building San Antonio Tex.
“Do not forget that all ‘Alamo’
policies are guaranteed by the ‘Ger-
mania.’ ” 5 3 tf
TWISTED TWISTS.
[FROM OUR SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR.]
In the basement of the city hall
is the City Bastile with its usual
complement of vags drunks and
bums.
* * ♦
Up stairs the offices are crowded
with genteel gentlemen all slick
and clean well laundered and well
groomed.
* * *
Down stairs in the cellar the
cages are filled with rough coarse
characters with visages bloated
hair unkemptpersons filthy unbe-
lievers in the “fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man.”
» * *
Up stairs the “official class” the
luxurious growth of civilization;
down stairs the “criminal class”
the cancerous offshoot of Christian
progress untompered by the moral
law’.
* * *
Human nature in all its phases
is thoroughly depicted by’ the occu-
pants of the City’s Palace on the
old Spanish military square.
♦ ♦ *
Those upstairs have gained the
good will and respect of their fel-
low’ men; those dowmstairs have
lost the respect of themselves as
well as their bathhouse.
♦ * *
Prudence economy and industry
are the personal characteristics of
the city’s office holders; extrava-
gance and idleness have peopled
the big cellar of the city’s hall of
justice with its miserable occu-
pants.
In all advanced communities
crime is treated as a disease and
the tendency’ is to cure rather than
to harshly punish criminals.
* * ♦
In our Texas metropolis the
same system should obtain; for
humanity’s sake don’t confine
petty offenders in underground
cells without sunshine fresh air
or cleanliness.
* * *
The police authorities do the
best they can; the present admin-
istration should not be censured
for the city prison—this drunkard’s
resting peace.
♦ * *
This administration however
can and ought to at once do some-
thing to remove this miasmatic
malaria breeding institution from
the handsome building in the city.
The old market house on Market
street at small expense can be con-
verted into a humanitarian mod-
ern jail; with plenty of room for
the entire police department re-
corder’s court etc.
* * * ♦
Then turn the lower floor of the
City Hall into a public library to
bo donated by some philanthropic
individual who has made his
millions in the old Alamo City.
Twister.
WE ARE DOING BUSINESS.
Four thousand feet of garden
hose sold last week. Plenty more
left. Alamo Iron Works. 428 tf
“Dead Shot” Screw Worm Liniment
Safe. Quick and Sura.
Kills screw worm instantly pre-
vents attacks from the fly and
heals the wound. Diluted with
water it is an excellent wash for
any kind of wounds on stock. Man-
ufactured by Adolph Dreiss
5 12 3w 8 A W Alamo Plaza.
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
Tyler Dem.-Reporter: All the
racket about “sound” money and
“unsound” money now heard
throughout the land is being stir-
red up and kept up by the ofllce
holders and office wanters and not
by the people. Just now the peo-
ple are too busy with more im-
portant and pressing business—-
that is in efforts to produce some-
thing for the country to subsist
upon—something more substanti-
al than windy politics.
Yoakum Graphic: If the fine
rains we are having are causing
the decline in the price of cotton
how is it they do not cause a de-
cline in the price of corn? The
people hereabouts are now buying
corn for their home use and would
like to have some theory by which
it could be reduced.
New Orleans States: Parnell
the man-killing lion the firece
monarch of the African jungle
bad his second fight with a Mex-
ican bull at Monterey yesterday
but he was so badly licked in his
encounter witli the first toro that
he refused to fight the second one
and continued to dodge and whine
until the bull cornered him and
gored him to death. We must all
now hail El Toro Mexlcano as the
king of beasts. He is the toughest
of all customers that walk on four
legs.
Galveston News: The Marquis
de Castellane father of the young
Frenchman who recently married
an American heiress declares that
we Americans “are not a nation
but an agglomeration of individu-
als a reunion of men without an-
cestors ” If we are without an-
cestors why did the Marquis de
Castellane bring his boy across and
marry him to one of us.
Brenham Banner: The Missis-
sippi Valley Congress of Women
in allowing men to vote at its pro-
ceedings has heaped coals of fire
on the heads of those of the plain
sex who refuse the fair sex the
right of suffrage.
Galveston Tribune: The silver
extremists are really creating pre-
judice against the white metal by
their insistent demands for coin-
age at debased values.
Fort Worth Gazette: Illinois
lowa Ohio and Missouri are assur-
ed to the Bimetallists in the next
national Democratic convention
which means that the administra-
tion candidate for the presidential
nomination will not get a half
dozen votes west of the Al legheny
mountains.
Denison Herald: Wheat and
corn are making an unshakable
stand against the assaults of the
bears. Likewise cotton. Likewise
stocks. Evidence continues to
multiply that this is to be a bull
year.
American Economist: The
Free-Trader was and still is full of
what it terms the good things com-
ing to the people through the new
Tariff but he is as silent as the
grave upon the attendant evils.
The reductions in the cotton sched-
ule alone are sufficient to wreck
the combined industries of the
South and East for many of the
activities of these sections draw
life and existence primarily from
the cotton industry. To affect it
seriously means injury to the
whole.
Manufacturer’s Record: There
is no doubt that Alabama has lands
of a high grade of fertility and we
believe no one would question the
fact that it is on a par with any of
the other southern states in point
of agricultural advantages but
Alabama has failed to do as much
“hustling” as Georgia in attracting
the world’s attention; hence Georg-
ia gets the people.
Galveston News: Ex-Governor
James Stephen Hogg according
to a recent explanatory Interview
is playing missionary to benighted
eastern capitalists. He suggests
various methods of removing
scales from the eyes of Wall street
money sharks. He has been read-
ing the law to them. He no longer
proclaims license to tramp
marauders on railroad trains or
reads the riot act to Standard
Oil magnates. If an effective plan
is wanted to capture capitalists
nothing better could be done than
to tie metaphorically speaking
enormous bowlders about the necks
of a dozen windy Texas politicians
and drown them like a heroic small
boy drowns a mess of surplus and
noisy kittens.
Laredo Times: With Cleve-
land’s statesmanship so sadly in
doubt it is the shallowest mockery
to mention his name for another
term. Even Chicago’s Altgeld
would make a better campaign
as he would capture the strikers
and anarchists.
Two Republics: The customs
receipts of the federal government
continue to increase with gratify-
ing steadiness. This increase was
predicted by Secretary of the
Treasury Limantour but it is
quite possible that it is greater
than he anticipated. It is certain-
ly larger and more rapid than had
been expected by some of the
most hopeful observers.
Houston Post: An indisposi-
tion to go or remain on the farm
where the work is not congenialthe
pay poor and the negro labor suf-
ficient or at least abundant has
driven a white surplus of unskilled
labor to the cities and towns where
the demand is not equal to the sup-
ply. The competition has been so
?harp that hundreds of young men
and women are either out of em-
ployment at many points or work-
ing in a menial capacity for very
poor wages. It is a class of labor
too that would readily take to fac-
tory work and quickly acquire
skill and become valuable in the
new field. The congestion in the
cities therefore would be relieved
speedily by the presence of more
mills and Southern communities
almost without exception would
feel marked beneficial effects from
this change as much as from any
other feature of factory develop-
ment.
Boston Journal: Which is the
wiser the sounder tho more profit-
able the more patriotic plan—to
continue to pay $100000000 a year
to foreign ship owners and see al-
most every dollar of it lost to us
or to spend two three four or five
million dollars to encourage Amer-
ican citizens to carry American
commerce under the American
flag? To the American mind this
question admits of only one pos-
sible answer.
Buffalo Express: The report of
Consul Meeker at Bradford Eng-
land shows that the exports of
woolen goods from that city to-the
United States for the month of
February 1895 were $1500000
greater than for the month of the
February 1894. This Information
should be read in connection with
Consul Meeker’s other report of the
sale of two sample cases of Amer-
ican woolen goods in Bradford.
Two Republics: It is stated
that there is a prospect of a fast
fruit train being run once a week
between Patzcuaro and this city.
This is a gratifying instance of en-
terprise on the part of the fruit-
growers of Michoacan. They have
an abundance of most delicious
fruit and if all will act together
they should be able to load one
train a week. Besides with this
train the fish and game of Lake
Patzcuaro could be brought to this
city.
Norton’s Intelligencer: The
democrats of Texas are trying to
organize an honest money faction.
This is commendable but unprom-
ising; for this party is dead to all
useful and patriotic aspirations.
There is only one way to escape
impending trouble and that is
through the Republican party;
which whatever mistakes it may
have made has always shown it-
self the friend of honest govern-
ment.
Globe Democrat St. Louis:
Three years ago this month Mr.
Cleveland said in a speech at Provi-
dence: “The policy of protection
has congested the Federal Treas-
ury with a worse than useless sur-
plus inviting reckless waste and
extravagance.” The orator was
given a chance to apply his reme-
dy and whore is that congestion
now?”
New’ Orleans States: The
months with the letter R have gone
but the oyster is still with us yet
and very much in evidence. The
oyster plncked from his briny home
when icy blasts were blowing has
been superceded by the summer
oyster and the latter has its patrons
and admirers in such numbers as to
aid very materially to its destruc-
tion and those dependent upon it.
In New’ Orleans the suihmer oyster
is coming to be regarded as much
of a necessity as the summer girl.
We say this with due respect for
the girl.
Galveston News; The joint
convention of the Tennessee legisal-
ture declared Governor Turney
elected and the victory was cele-
brated by the booming of artillery.
Nobody who has studied the des-
perate disease of the American
partisan has doubted that party
lines w’ould be followed and that
this result would be reached by a
Turney legislature.
Texas Stockman: The recent
years of drouth in south and
west Texas should prove a valua-
ble object lesson on the subject of
irrigation. With plenty of w’ater
for irrigation purposes there would
be no such thing as a failure In
this part of the state. Irrigate.
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST.
We have the best hose lawn
mowers and sprinklers and at
prices to suit everybody. Alamo
Iron Works cor. Houston and St.
Mary’s streets. 4 28 tf
VELVETINE POWDER.
Babies Delight.
This powder prevents chafe and
overcomes the skin ailments inci-
dent to infants such as chicken-
pox nettle rash prickly heat etc.
It is celebrated for its beneficial ac-
tion on the tender skin of children
and adults for the prompt relief
that results from its use in all cases
of eruptive skin troubles caused
by heat or insects such as ticks
redbugs musquitoes etc.
Price 25? a box. Manufactured
by Adolph Dreiss
5 13 3w 8 & W Alamo Plaza.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS.
Twenty-six thousand feet of hose
in stock. Alamo Iron Works.
4 28 tf
WATER YOUR GARDEN.
Garden hose from 6 cents per
foot up. Alamo Ironworks.
W 28 tf
WE HAVE THEM
Hose lawn mowers gi 4jwatch-
erand rakes. Alamo Iron Works.
UNMAILABLE EDITION.
» M. J. HEWITT •«
Sold the fourth Capital Prize in The Santo Domingo Lottery January 1 189 1
— Which Prize was Paid by Him —
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