San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 341, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 9, 1900 Page: 2 of 8
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TABLETS nil n
BUCKEYE rIUU
OINTMENT
'CURES NOTHING BUT PIUS
A SURE and CERTAIN CURE
known for years as the
i BEST REMEDYfor PILES.
) SOLD Bl ALL DRUGGISTS.
BISAE2JOJ W SO. ST. MCE.
Blackburn is said to be the power
that is screwing the courage of Goe-
bel to the sticking place now.
•
If the Georgia Republicans nomi-
nate a full state ticket it is to be hoped
that they will harmonize.
•
Louisiana Republicans are again
split up the back and down the breast
and know not what they want.
o
San Antonio will make money by put-
ting all her street paving money in
permanent improvements. Fact.
o
Well paved streets In the heart of
this city are as much a necessity as
lights and good water supply.
•
Jupiter Pluvius has entered into a
compact with the mud slinger to sup-
supply him with abundant material.
o
Those London newspapers that dis-
course on German-American tenden-
cies know nothing of the situation.
•
Chicago has stolen a march on St.
Louis and in the end she will send
that sewage stream down south.
o
The following of the Chicago river
soon cleared itself demonstrating that
it is not as dangerous as it has been
represented. With the lake water
following that sewerage the canal will
not be a pestilence.
The Democrats are really in des-
pair of carrying the election in 1900
and this is the hope of the nation.
Mark Hanna is not a mark for inde-
cent shots. such as the Democrats
have made him. Mark is much a man.
Harrison of Chicago is not going to
run for governor of Illinois. He knows
that it would be useless.
Washington thugs laid General
Greeley up with a bad contusion. A
drunk like that one should be hit
hard.
Pettigrew is going to tell the coun-
try this week how nw h more truth
Aguinaldo tells than Dewey does.
Lipton is wise as well as sporty. He
will wait the new yacht designs at
home before challenging.
Money is easier all over Europe and
in Berlin the money situation shows
signs of permanent improvement.
o
Austin is foolish for it will find
that there is no such thing as a city
repudiating its obligations.
•
Little is said of what Queen Victoria
is talking regarding the war but no
doubt she keeps thinking.
AUSTIN'S REPUDIATION.
Austin is in the wrong pew
Ing to repudiate her indebtedness. She
cannot carry out the attempt success-
fully. Memphis had a long seige at
that kind of business and in her at-
tempt she was backed by the state
legislature but is was of no avail. She
surrendered her charter as a city and
by special act of the legislature was
made a taxing district in the vain at-
tempt to evade the payment of her
bonded indebtedness. Head over
ears in debt years of defaulting in in-
terest followed by two years of the
terrible yellow fever scourage she im-
plored the assistance of the state leg-
islature. The act of revocation of
charter was passed but the state su-
preme court held that so much of the
act o( the legislature as declared that
the taxing district could not be held
for the debts of the City was void. The
most that could be done was to have
the legislature withold for years the
demand upon the city or taxing dis-
trict whereby the judgments against
the city were ordered to be made by
tax tipon the property of the citizens.
But even this had an end. The judg-
ments against the amounting to
millions were there and in the end a
compromise had to be made. The
state would not always stand by the
taxing district and that one thing was
made the bone of contention in the elec-
tion of a state legislature for years.
Austin is in a worse fix. She cannot
secure the aid of the state legislature
of Texas in the attempt to down her
creditors and the state credit. That
is already foreshadowed in the outburst
of dissatisfaction with the*course that
Austin is taking. That course is
seen to aim a blow at the credit of the
state and is not endorsed. Austin is
only heaping up to herself sorrows
She is only postponing the day of an
inevitable settlement and in so doing
is bripging the state into disrepute.
Her city fathers have not the wisdom
that age and their responsible position
would credit them with possessing.
Better repent of their rash-
ness and settle the debts of the city
honorably for herself.
Aguinaldo seems to be the
merciful of all the Filipino officers
had charge of American prisoners
That American deserter shot
Tagal uniform will not trouble
army to courtmartial and hang
The movement to aid the Boers that
is started in this country will not re-
sult in any material good.
The Canadian Catholics are hot at
the protestant government of Great
Britain and also at Uncle Sam.
Julia Morrison the actress will be
in luck if the doctors pronounce her
insane. It is her best chance.
The disaffection in Great Britain at
he conduct of the war spreads to
he tribes in South Africa.
Those Boers are up to every dodge
even to sounding a retreat for the
British troops in a battle.
If the Boers rise in Capetown and
do so with any unanimity it will re-
quire more than a Roberts to hold them
down.
British reinforcements are pouring
into Natal of every description but it
does not weaken the Boers.
Methuen is confronted with Boer
works 40 miles long and 18 miles deep
and they are well defended.
Germany is not pleased at the way
the British papers represent her de-
signs on South American trade.
Lieutenant Gilmore has more to tell
than Hobson ever dreamed of in his
palmiest days and he can tell it.
The second week of the new year
finds the Boers stronger than they
werea month or a week ago.
Ladysmith has not yet fallen but
White reports himself harder pressed
than ever and the Boer hot.
Buller has his horse and his artil-
lery and it is about time that he re-
lieved White at Ladysmith.
The attempt to draw the United
States into any intervention in South
African difficulties will fall.
This country is tending strictly to
its own business building up its in-
dustries and its commerce.
San Antonio is included in the num-
ber of cities that get a Carnegie gift
of $50000 for a library.
San Antonio should see to It that the
conditions by which that $50000 li-
brary fund is secured are immediate-
ly met.
Those British regiments should be
able to recognize their own trumpets
from a Boer hunting horn. So!
The country papers assert that this
section of Texas is’ in much better
condition than one year ago.
Wool sugar and tobacco growers
are to sample the hospitality of San
Antonio this week. It is on tap.
If San Antonio can not put $5000
a year intd a library for the free use
of her people she should quit.
San Antonio should put her wires un-
derground and prepare for surface
drainage as a condition precedent to
doing anything in the way of perma-
nent paving. Tearing up streets la-
ter to do this is unwise.
PIMPLES
on the face eczema tetter freeklex
blackhead* ring worm blotches and all
■kin disorder. can be cured with
HEISKELL’S OINTMENT
Price SO Cent* a Box.
HEISKELL’S BLOOD AND LIVER PILLS
Purify the blood and tone the eyetem.
Price 25 Cent* per Bottle.
JOHNSTON. HOLLOWAY & CO . Philadelphia.
The silverites with few exceptions
are ready to let the ratio settle it-
self and only ask for silver.
General Wood has three good recom-
mendations for Cuba to his credit al-
ready; improved roads bridges and
water supply. These are all for the
benefit of the people of the island and
commend themselves.
The ' Congress of the United
States is not yet asking Bryan
what to dn with the Philip-
pines. This is a blessing for
Bryan for if he was asked for the life
of him he could not tell. He is not
built that way.
A good public library for this city
one that is really valuable to those
who seek its shelves for works of
reference is within the grip of the
city for a very reasonable considera-
tion. Take the chance.
Culberson may be named as the
successor of Jones for the Democratic
chairmanship but it means Hogg.
The old veterans of the English ar-
my are disgusted with the manage-
ment of the campaign in South Afri-
ca.- Criticism is dirt cheap. Great
Britain has a new foe to fight and
the ablest of the century.
Rhodes is too canny to be caught in
the correspondence trap in which
Chamberlain figures. The great
South African promoter knew more of
the Boers than Chamberlain did and
he was not deceived a hair.
Taxation is a serious thing but it
will appear more so to Texans after
the legislature undertakes to make
daylight shine through the intermin-
able figures of that bill that is coming
up in extra session.
Southwest Texas is likely to send
men to the next legislature who will
vote for Chilton. There is in the
declarations of the country press
enough along this line to make it
reasonably certain even now.
There is nothing will tend more to dis-
hearten the rebels in the Philippines
than to see the ports open and trade
resuming its wonted channels as if all
things were lovely and the American
flag to stay.
The communities in Texas that pat-
ronize their own little mills are doing
the right thing to encourage the build-
ing of larger ones. There is nothing
like home support to hoihe
industries.
The cry is made that the promotion
of McArthur and other fighters who
were staff officers is not a just thing
to the line officers. Perhaps but the
saddle is usually put on the running
horse that wins.
There is an old saying and it holds
good even now that nothing succeeds
like success and It holds as true in
the army in South Africa and in the
Philippines as it does in any other
quarter of the globe.
Fort Leavenworth is making a dead
set for all the improvements that art
in sight. This is the time to push such
demands for the United States is
ready to do anything for the army this
season of Congress.
It is idle .to talk of losses sustained
in the Transvaal by either Boer or
Briton. There is not enough known
concerning these losses to predicate
an intelligent statement upon. Noth-
ing out there is clear.
The inspector general's report shows
that the losses to the Americans in the
late war with Spain alike on the field
and in hospital from wounds were
really trivial. It was in camp that
the danger was.
Kansas is becoming self supporting
and in giving out state contracts for
woolen goods to the mills of the state
there is a recognition of this fact that
must be encouraging to her home in-
dustries.
Bastrop is not up to date. A petition
for the pardon of a criminal who cut
his throat five years before the petition
saw daylight is rather out of tune
Wisdom lingers even if knowledge
does grow.
Present indications are that Hon.
Mat Quay is not going to be recom-
mended for seating by the majority of
the Senate committee but there will
be a minority report and Quay can
fight under that banner.
Those Boer agents seem to be well
heeled wherever they open shop for
the African Republic. Some one is
putting up for that nation of trekers
and riflemen or perhaps they are not
as poor as their habits of living would
Indicate. Oom Paul is said to have
$15000000 salted away and he uses
it.
An 800 pound hog that can walk a
mile to the scales to be weighed is
rather uncommon but an Ohio pig did
even better than that the other day
Such hogs are better to sell than to
eat. All the same the man who puts
them on the market puts a pot of
money in his pocket at present prices
for pork.
The Georgia negroes are of the
opinion that they will be better off in
some other states and so many leave
that labor contracts for the coming
season are hard to fill no negroes of-
fering for work.
Texas is regarded suspiciously al-
ready by outside capital as a state that
is unfriendly to capital seeking in-
vestment in her territory. Let this
uneasiness increaseas it will If this tax
bill is to be what it is generally as-
serted an attack on vested capital and
there will be a sudden withdrawal of
outside money from the trade of this
state that will seriously cripple it. Of
these facts there is no doubt.
Some one is again sponsor for the
motion in Congress to remove the
capital of the country to the Mississip-
pi valley. That motion is made peri-
odically but it is only a motion. That
capital stands as it is for generations
to come. The longer it stands too the
less likelihood of its ever being re-
moved.
The Democracy is concerned how
to make a Democratic president. The
modus is easy. All that is necessary
is to secure the confidence of the
country thfen secure a platform that
the business sense of the voters will
support then secure a candidate who
commends himself to the confidence
of these voters then show that the
country will gain in business in credit
in wealth in good times to labor in
sound money and in all other ways by
which real prosperity is measured then
the rest is dead easy.
■ The truck patches of the country
yield two and a half times the value
of the cotton crop of the country tak-
en year by year. Yet how little stress
is laid on the one and how much on
the other. Texas is devising wise-
ly and well in paying increased atten-
tion to small fruit and vegetable cul-
tivation. She will find money in it
to surpass her most sanguine expec-
tations and it will encourage the man
who has been improvished by raising-
five per cent cotton to turn his at-
tention to other branches of farming
The Democrats are laying the flat
tering unction to their souls that the
Republicans in advocating a sound
money expansion protection and all
the other policies by which the coun-
try has been captured and made truly
Republican have only stolen Demo-
cratic thunder. That is all right but
the wonder is that the Democrats gave
up advocating these things just when
they were becoming popular. If
what the Democrats assert as to this
thing is true then the Democrats are
not smart enough to run the country.
There is a serious contention in the
Democratic party as to what are and
what are not dead issues. A careful
consideration of the subjects that have
formed matter for platforms in the
past demonstrates that many of these
are dead issues but there are Demo-
crats who will not admit this and these
are they who anchor their corporosity
on the Chicago platform and refuse to
budge a hair. There are other Demo-
cratic journals who are not wedded to
the skeletons in the old closets and
they take issue with these exponents
of the party mustiness and between
these the war is raging and it will grow
more bitter until that contention is set-
tled in the adoption of the next Dem-
ocratic national platform. It depends
on that platform whether there will be
a bolt as in 1896 or a lining up under
a new policy.
Beeville Bee has a timely reference
to the unwillingness of the Democratic
press to accept of the fruits of the
national victory over the armies of
Spain. The Bee sees further into a
millstone than some of its larger and
more pretentions fraters and finds that
in so doing the Democrats have chai
lenged their own consistency in sup-
porting that war. The Southern
Democrats were loud in calling up on
the government to intervene on be-
half of Cuba and now that the result
has come in giving to us Porto Rico
and the Philippines the results are
questioned. What did the Democrats
expect? Was it their intention merely
to embarrass the Republican party
and are they disappointed at the out-
come?
The Democrats are finding out that
the Republicans in the Senate and in
the House are not quibbling over the
results of the late war. They demand
of Congress the assertion of the owner-
ship of the Philippines and a settling
forever of the question as to their
ownership. There is no question in
the mind of the government none in
the mind of Europe as to that posses-
sion but there are Democrats who deny
the right of the United States to the
Philippines and these resolutions in
Congress are to test the sense of Con-
gress as voicing the sense of the
American people on this point. The
declaration of the executive in his
message was explicit and that same
declaration is going to be voiced in the
vote of Congress to the same effect
The Democracy can prepare to face
the music front or rear.
A TEXAS WONDER.
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THE TIME HAS COME
To prepare for Cold Weather. We can
supply you promptly with well season-
ed wood and the best McAlester coal at
the lowest market prices.
A. J. AVANT & SON
Lewis Dennis. Saletn. IK. says: "Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure did me more good
than anything I ever took." It di-
gests wtiat you eat and cannot but help
cure dyspepsia and stomach troubles.
Wm. C. Kalteyer. C. Schasse Wm.
Appmann J. A. Burlqe.
A TRUE HOME INDUSTRY
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Largest Brewery intheSouth
*
Last Year’s Output 250.000 Kejs More
Than any other Brewery South of St. Louis.
The Cause Of this is the Excellent Duality of The Beer Produceo
THERE ARE OTHERS!!
But none in the came class with the famous
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• The Best Train for
North Texas Kansas City
SI. Louis Chicago
And All Points East.
Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars; Free Reclining Chair Cars through
without change.
Leave Sunset Depot Daily at 8:00 p. m.
NOW IS THE TIME
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We 1110 standard gauge
THROUGH SLEEPIFG CAR ROUTE
tn both
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As well as nearly all the large Cities in Mexice
Excursion Tickets with long limits and stop-over privilege*.
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L. J. PARKS G. P. & T. A Houston. Texas.
J. McMILEAN P. A T. A- Sao Antonin Inina
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GIN FAMING AND MILL MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS
Mechanics Supplies Cassidy Sulkey Plow (warranted highest draft made)
Thrashers Engines Scales Mowers a nd Reapers Hardware and Agricuttu-
rau Implements. Agents for the celebrated
WAUKEGAN BAR BED WIRE. CORRUGATED AND ROOFING IRON
S. A. MACHINE AND SUPPLY CO.
125 and 127 Military Plaza.
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PATTERN SHOP STEAM ENGINES DYNAMOS AND MOTORS
! FOUNDRY BOILERS AND HEATE RS « PIPE AND CASING.
1 COTTON GINS MACH INE SHOPS.
WIND MILLS WELL DRILLING MACHINES
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