San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 314, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 14, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14 1888
Paris is showing her teeth and
they are as sharp and relentless
as those of a gray wolf.
♦-
Vest is turning daft in his old
age and will need a guardian be-
fore his term has expired.
o
The Nicaragua bill is before the
Senate and now the hosts of the
opposition can open their tire.
•
The peace commissioners at
Paris are taking a well earned
rest from their arduous labors.
»
The British minister at Paris
has fired his shot and now he ap-
plies his poultice to the wound.
o
Cushman Davis is not fool
enough to talk foreign alliance at
Paris at this stage of the game.
What a yarn Esterhazy would
spin if only he was permitted to
testify before the Court of Cas-
sation.
British trades are taking a look
at American federated labor
through their representatives. So.
The American workman is
ready to compare conditions with
his British brother almost any
time.
Mexico has devised a scheme for
colonizing the Spanish soldiers
that will greatly help Mexico.
Twenty per cent on the invest-
ment. that Mexico asks for her
Spanish colonists is not much of
a charity.
Don Carlos is a good son of the
church but the Vatican is not
pushing his pretentions a hair.
The People’s party is not dead
so long as the Democrats can use
it to defeat Republicans.
Harmony with a big H is the
real need of the railways of Texas
and of the commissioners as well.
Christmas is coming and there
is no doubt that it is going to be
one of old Santa Claus’ best.
Let the refrigerator plants go
down in Cuba. It will all help
the trade of Uncle Sam over there.
Bailey is sure of his standing
this session of Congress and al-
ways was it is next that counts.
San Antonio as in duty bound
trotted out a sunny day for the
pleasure of her visitors.
The canning factory is coming
to South Texas to stay and the
cotton mill will come later.
Those Boston Beaneaters will
burst a blood vessel trying to shut
out the United States from the
Philippines.
HOAR VS. DANIEL WEBSTER.
There is not a question that the
authority to annex new territory
to tlie United States rests with
Congress. The question of the
constitutionality of this procedure
is not a new one. The anti-ex-
pansionists of the country have
sprung it upon the country at ev-
ery stage of the nation's growth.
On the eve of every enlargement
of the national domain this same
question has been raised. It was
the question that came up when
the Louisiana purchase was made
and it was then contended that
the United States had no authori-
ty to annex new territory. When
this contention was set aside and
the annexation was made a fact
then it was contended that the
annexing treaty was void because
it made certain exceptions in the
newly acquired territory that
were nbt made in the regularly ad-
mitted states of the Union. France
in ceding Louisiana to the United
States stipulated for certain con-
cessions in the territory thus ced-
ed for a term of years and the op-
ponents of that measure contend
ed that such stipulations and
they had been agred to were un-
constitutional because the same
stipulations did not apply to all
the states. The tight grew warm
but tlie Senate of the United
States held that the territories of
the nation were not states of the
Union and that it was advisable
to make one law for the territories
and another for the states. That
it was the states that comprise
the Federal Union and that be-
tween these there could not be
made any distinctions but that
the territories were the property
of the nation and that it was with-
in the province of the Federal gov-
ernment >to establish laws for
these that were not imposed upon
the states. That while import
and export duties for the states
must be uniform that it was in
order to establish different regu-
lations for the territories and un-
der this construction the Louisi-
ana purchase became a part of the
United States and the stipula-
tions of the treaty giving France
exceptional privileges in the new-
ly acquired territory were upheld.
This was done by a two-third vote
of the Senate. This question is
treated of by Daniel Webster
who in 1849 said: "The precise
question is whether a territory
while it remains in a ter-
ritorial state is a part of
of the United States? 1
maintain that it is not. The con
stitution is extended over the Un-
ited States and nothing else and
can not be extended over
anything but the old states
and the new’ states that
shall come in hereafter.
WHEN THEY IK) COME IN.”
Those who are contending that
we have no right to take in these
outlying islands that we have ac-
quired and hold them as the prop-
erty of the United States can put
this opinion of Webster and the
acts of the Senate in their pipes
and smoke them.
Christmas will see the United
States virtually in control of East-
ern Cuba and by the time that the
anniversary of the sinking of the
Maine comes around there will be
nothing left to dispute the posses-
sion of Eastern Cuba with the
United States. Western Cuba is
already ours and with full posses-
sion the machinery of peace and
restoration will be rapidly put in-
to operation. All that is required
s a hearty co-operation of the Cu-
jans themselves in the efforts of
the United States to restore their
industries and their free institu-
tions and set them up in the busi-
ness of governing themselves.
This is an education that Cuba
must patiently acquire.
Railway extension has bobbed
up its head in the south in several
places. It is in order to express
the hope that Santa Claus will
bring San Antonio a Brownsville
connection in her Christmas
stocking. There is nothing would
more advantage the three hundred
miles of good territory between
this city and Brownsville than a
railway connection. Once built
the progress down the coast to-
ward Tampico and over toward
Monterey on the other side of the
Rio would be rapid.
William Black the novelist was
one of the whitest writers of fic-
tion that Great Britain boasted.
His American readers mourn with
his English admirers that his pen
is laid aside forever.
Hoar should read the history of
other acquisitions of territory and
see how’ far hd is off.
Great Britain would not object
to the abolition of the Clayton-
Bulwer treaty if the United
States asked it.
The fight in the next Congress
is going to be between the Bailey-
ism of the west and the Tammany-
ism of the east. It will not mat-
ter which wins for the Republi-
cans will run the government in
all its branches and all that the
Democrats can do is to try their
obstructive legislation. The fight
between the oust and west will
only divide the Democrats to
their own hurt.
The sultan of Turkey gains
nothing by bring proved a French-
man and the fact that he is de-
scended from tin* Bonaparte fami-
ly will not bring France and Tur-
key a hair nearer each other. The
United States is just now on the
inside track with the sultan and
the Americans have the call.
Louisiana is trying the orange
grove on the low lands down to
ward the mouth of the Mississippi
with some prospect of success.
That is right. The country that
successfully introduces some new
article of culture or some new pro
duct of the mill has a
real good.
The Record of the American
people in matters of finance at-
test that they are abundantly able
to manage all the affairs of gov-
ernment and run it as successfully
as they do private business.
The fight is on in the Senate
over expansion and is bound to
settle the hash for those who
would clip the wings of the Amer-
ican eagle.
The man who sues for divorce
on the very good ground
that his wife takes snakes to bed
with her should have no trouble
in getting his decree. But what
of the woman whose husband
takes snakes in bis boots home to
his wife. If every one of these
wives applied for a divorce the
men would be left out in the frost.
o
The territories are not a part of
he United States in the sense that
he states are but they belong to
the United States that is they are
the property of all of the states.
They have not the rights of states.
W hen this controversy over the
Philippines is over there will be a
better knowledge of what the
country has done in the past in
the admission of new territory
than there is now.
Daniel Webster is authority for
the statement that the territories
are not a part of the United
States and tins opinion was held
as far back as 1803. Does Hoar
accept Webster as authority.
Garcia is mourned at home in
Cuba and in the United States as
well. He was a true patriot and
all such are held in grateful re-
membrance by those who love lib-
erty and the rights of men.
American capitalists continue
to pick up choice concessions in
Mexico and British capitalists
continue to pick up some of rhe
best plants in the United States.
The spirit of gain is abroad.
Some of the Lo tribe would
make splendid war correspon-
dents. Their imaginations are
so fertile.
The owners of the Spanish ship
that was stranded at Velasco
wanted to pay for that salvage
job by the day instead of by the
piece according to contract. The
court holds them to terms.
Germany wants peace with all
the world but still hankers after
pieces for herself. Inconsistent.
The growth of the United States
in the past will furnish the con-
stitutional precedents for her
growth in the future.
Paris is still rubbing herself
where that Munson’s spech enter-
ed her cuticle and caused the
sting. Never mind a little thing
like that. Nations are supposed
to have a thick epidermis.
The temporary release of Pic-
quart means that the release of
the colonel is assured and that
the temporary part of it is only a
sop thrown to the Paris mob to
sate its thirst for gore.
Captain General Castellanos of
Cuba is the best man that Spain
has had in that office lately.
If Captain General Castellanos
is made the recipient of money for
the soldiers the soldiers will get
it.
The army mob at Paris is com-
posed of the toughest elements of
that city and there are none
tougher.
Then* is nothing to be made by
Texas or for Texas in a controver-
sial tight between the railroads
and the railway commission. Bet-
ter let them get together and pool
their complaints making mutual
concessions and so settle their dif-
ferences. It will be better for
them and better for the business
of the states. Railroads cannoli
make any money fighting over
transportation all the time. Bus
iness nothing by rates be-
ing unsettled. The commission-
ers will gain nothing by a fight
which will be carried into the
state Legislature with the pur-
pose of abolishing at once sweep
the whole railway commission or-
ganization. Better kiss and
make up before Christmas.
Free silver as the sole issue be-
fore rhe people is doomed to dis-
appoint the expectations of those
who pin their faith upon it. This
will certainly knock Bryan out
for without a free silver tail to
that kite of his Bryan will not be
able to start his sky-scraper off
the ground.
There was a time in which Gar-
cia could be better spared by Cu-
ba than now’. He was a necessi-
ty in the field but his narrow
view of things really unfitted him
for the work of reconstruction.
He had so long been under the
harrow that he was suspicious of
all save his own.
Great Britain has no sympathy
with any of the narrow views that
are expressed by some of the Eng-
lish journals as to that Clayton-
Bulwer treaty. The occasion for
hat treaty of fifty-odd years ago
ins passed and there is no need of
mentioning it every time that Nic-
aragua canal is under considera-
tion. There is no trouble brew*
ing on that score. In patience
jossess ye your souls.
The strain of the past year has
been too much for the queen re-
gent of Spain and her health is
giving way under the pressure.
That will all be relieved soon now
and the royal lady should go into
retreat for three months and get
her roses and her beauty sleep
back again. Nothing is gained
in trade or politics in peace or in
war by fretting over the outcome
of things.
Those British people are wak-
ing up to the importance of study-
ing American methods and meas-
ures. Even their engineers are
not averse to taking a leaf out of
the book of American life and con-
duct. They want to see how our
rivers are improved our harbors
protected our jetties built our
ship keels laid and all that comes
under the head of those public
works that are so rapidly pushing
us to the front. Even their gov-
ernment engineers are taking a
leaf out of our book.
The French have no idea of
chivalry as it is understood in the
United States. The men of all
grades would trample the life out
of a duchess as out of a grisette
if their own lives were at stake.
lowa has always had a warm
side for her people down in Texas
and her visitors also find that the
old Lone Star state is all that the
Hawkeye Boys in that locality
have painted her.
Germany is trying to pull the
wool over the eyes of France and
France is playing the same game.
Up to date there have been no
losses of sheep or cattle rejiorted
in Southwest Texas but the win-
ter is young.
Bryan would confer more dis-
tinction on himself to keep out of
sight for a little season now.
The volunteers at Manila' will
be relieved as soon as the regulars
can be senit out to take their
places.
The quarantine ass is showing
his ears again in West Texas.
Small pox is not hurting any-
where.
General Ga.rria will rest for a
season in the beautiful city of the
dead overlooking the Potomac.
A temporary resting place almost
under the wings of the American
goddess of liberty meet.
General Rivera returns to the
United States from his Spanish
prison in time to give his valuable
counsel to his people.
It was a graceful thing that
General Wood did in half masting
his flags to Garcia's memory.
The railroads and the commis-
sion had better kiss and make up.
It is easier than fighting.
A True Home Industry.
—
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ill The Stock Owned By San Antonio Citizens
irate r BEEP
Largest Brewery intheSonth
IB W Mill ■ (IS
More Than Any Other Brewery South ol St. touib
The Cause Of this is the Excellent Quality of The Beer Produced
CAN YOU DO BETTER?
Gas Heaters and Radiators Cheap-
er than Wood or Coal.
$6.00
THE SAN ANTONIO GAS CO.
Office: Menger Building Alamo plaza.
The American troops marching
through the streets of Havana
are a glad sight to Cuban eyes.
TO CURE A COLD TN ONE DAY.
Tike Laxative Bromo Quinine Tableta.
AU druggists refund the money If it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has
L. B. Q. an each tablet. >-17-8m
POUND NOTICE.
Taken up and in city pound on
Matamoras street on or about the
12th. day of December 1898.
One sorrel horse diamond brand on
the left shoulder and X underscored
on tfhe left thigh.
One brown horse branded T on the
right thigh and JAK connected on the
left thigh.
One bay horse brand not plain.
One red cow branded UDP on the
ribs and SI on the left thigh and ear
mark two under bits on one ear and
crop on other.
One red heifer.
Which will if not redeemed before
sale be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash at said pound
at the hour of 11 o’clck a in. on the
17th. day of December 1898.
PHIL SHARDIEN
12-12-5 L Marshal.
HOME-MADE GIFTS.
If at your wit’s end for something
to give to a girl make a pretty bag for
some special use. A' yard of hand-
some wide sashi ribbon folded will
make a pretty party bag. Baste a long
piece of China silk on one side for a
lining and bind round with narrow
ribbon of the same shade. Fold over
the top two inches for n heading and
draw up with silk cord. Add no de-
coration unless it be an initial or
monogram embroidered in raised let-
GAS COSTS
BUT
I cent
TO
3 cents
PER HOUR
ters as the ribbon itself should be suf-
ficiently decorative. This present
would take but a trifle of time to
make.
The old familiar stocking bag is ad-
apted for all sorts of uses. Lt is of-
ten taken as a pattern for party bags
using silk or wide ribbon for the puff
and frill at the top and to cover the
sides made from cardboard to which
the puff is sewed. Cute little button
bags that are new are made from one
section of white linen stitched to se-
parate into three parts. The top is
faced on the outside with pale pink
blue and green China silk and a Dres-
den spray embroidered on each bag;
draw up with cord.
A handsome pincushion is always
acceptable but If the painted or em-
broidered top is too nice for use its
owner must keep a sign “Don’t stick
pins in” near. Pincushions are now
more like rolls and some are made
long enough to reach the entire length
of the dressing case. Eighteen inches
is a length now in vogue and the roll
should not be over three inches ta di-
ameter. even less it better. If time is
limited cover the roll or cushion
bought at the needle-work store with
China silk and add a puff of the same
round the entire edge. Now place
two rows of lace the length of the top
with the points of the lace meeting.
Add a frill of lace and set a row of
beading with narrow ribbon run
through where the frill and cushion
join. Another Cushion pretty and
serviceable is made from sheer linen
lawn over pale green China silk.
Hemstitch the ruffle and draw threads
in the top in a simple open pattern.
Join the ruffle to cushion with bead-
ing and narrow ribbon.—The Gentle-
woman for December.
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