San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 169, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1888 Page: 2 of 8
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THURSDAY. AUGUST. 30. 1888.
FOR I'RRSIDENT.
BENJAMIN HARRISON. OF;iNDIANA.
for vi< E-enr.-tDENr —
levi p. morton. York.
Coke has fixed his little gun. ami
now Reagan is loading up bis pop to
peg away at the senate’s tariff'
measure when it fairly comes up for
consideration.
The attempt is being made to work
the Knights of Labor racket for the
benefit of Cleveland. It will not win.
The demagogues who make political
capital out of the K. of L. have had
their day.
“What is this county going to
contribute to the San Antonio Inter-
national ?” should be the enquiry in
every county in southwestern Texas.
It would be a good line to set up* and
keep standing at the head of the edi-
torial column until next November.
The little squirmers who are over
anxious to find out what the republi-
cans intend to do will find out next
November not what they intend to
do but what they have already done.
The democracy are evidently upon
the anxious seat.
The El Paso Evening Tribune
which flies tiie names of Grover
Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman at
its matt head has the impertinence to
publish the following in its editorial
columns:
“As this is the season for giving
reasons wouldn’t it be well to know
why the president allowed the River
and Harbor bill to become a law with-
out his signature? He never experi-
ences any delicacy about his reasons
for vetoing private pension claims.”
Had this query come from a repub-
licanjournal there would be nothing
unusual in the case but from a Cleve-
land organ with the fate of Randall
before its face it is to say the least
most imprudent. The Tribune editor
evidently is not subsisting upon post-
office.
Parents Criminally Liable.
More than half of all deaths occur
before six years of age. An army of in-
nocent lovely children are swept
needlessly away each year. Parents
are criminally responsible for this.
The death rate of children in England
is less than half this. Acker's English
Baby Soother lias done more to bring
this about than all other causes com-
bined You cannot afford to be with-
out it. For sale by Ragland & Co. 9
TONEY ON FREE TRADE.
For the Light.
Mr. Thurman’s recent speeches on
the tariff' are unworthy of his past
reputation and exhibit much more of
the spirit of reckless demagogueism
than of enlightened statesmanship.
He baited his hook to catch the votes
of workingmen and he supposed any
sort ofclap trap would pass muster
with them. Why did he not insti-
tute a comparison between the wages
paid in England and the United
States and the relative con-
dition of tne laboring classes in
the two countries and then
strike a fair balance between them?
England is in the full fruition of the
bliss of free trade. She has enjoyed
it long enough now berating the ma-
tured fruit of free trade. The experi-
ment lias been fully tested.
In spite of free trade English wage-
workers teceive about halt the wages
that are paid to American wage-work-
ers and are but one step removed from
pauperism. This is a notorious and
an incontestable fact. Mr. Thurman
may have forgotten this fact; it suits
his purpose to forget it but American
workingmen will not tail to at
tach due importance to it.
It is a suggestive and signi-
ficant fact. Why? Because it
explodes the fallacy that free trade is
a blessing to workingmen by cheap-
ening the price of manufactures.
Food and house rent absorb the bulk
of the wages of the sober wage work-
er. The cry of cheap clothes is a
snare and a delusion. Calico is now
5? a yard and domestic Sc and 10c a
yard and free trade could only lower
these prices by forcing manufacturers
to cut down the wages of their hands
in order to avoid being undersold by
the goods turned out by the pauper
labor of Europe. A good and sub-
stantial suit of ready made clothes
can be bought now for from $lO to $l5
so that the cry that American goods
are too high in price is false and un-
founded and is only raised to entrap
workingmen into supporting tree
trade ideas and legislation. The only
way that tree trade will cheapen the
price of goods will be by forcing a re-
dm t on of wages and tiiis. certainly
will not help American wage workers
in their tight with poverty.
If free trade in England after a
trial of over a generation has utterly
failed to better the condition of the
workingmen or to prevent capital
being accumulated in the hands of
a few meu it is absurd to
expect that it will operate benefi-
cially in the United States.
I ask every wage worker in the
United States if he is wi 1 ng to risk
me baleful consequences of the wild
experiment of free trade? Is he will-
ing to reduce himself to the level of
the English wage worker to gratify a
parcel of political cranks in their in-
sane desire to destroy the industrial
enterprizes ot the Union? It is a safe
rule to let well enough alone and to
look befor we take a leap. We have
grown and prospered wonderfully
under a protective tariff'manufactures
have multiplied. Every new indus-
trial enterprise creates a fresh de-
mand for labor and to that extent is
beneficial to poor men. Laboring
men would be very foolish to swap a
system that has done so much to de-
velop and enrich the country for a
wild experiment that has not better-
ed tiie condition of the wage workers
in England.
But Mr. Thurman has the hardi-
hood to say that the protective tariff
er riches the manufacturer but plun-
ders tiie wage worker by compelling
him to pay an exorbitant price for
the good's consumed by him.
Tiiis is an unfounded assertion
prompted by sheer desperation.
Every article manufactured in tiie
United States is twice as cheap as it
was forty vears ago under the low
tariff of 1846. The more manufactories
are multiplied in a nation the greater
becomes the competition for the sale
of goods and this very competition
inevitably reduces the price of goods.
Such has been the case in the United
States.
But without manufactories manuel
labor on farms would be tiie sole re-
source of poor men and women. Noth-
ing else would be left for them to
do to earn their daily bread.
This reflection richly deserves the
careful consideration of workingmen.
It would be insanity in workingmen
to give their endorsement and votes
to a policy that will certainly hamper
and cripple the mills factories etc.
which now furnish them with tiie
work upon which their subsistence
depends. I maintain that had it not
been for the protection of our home in-
dustries the country would now be
but slightly richer than it was in 1840.
An igricultural nation is always poor
ai.d sparsely populated. Manufactories
augment both population and capital.
Philadelphia is richer than Texas
Louisiana and Arkansas and she
owes this superiority in wealth to tiie
number and extent of her manufac-
tories. A hundred woolen and cotton
factories upon the soil of Texas would
more than double her population and
wealth in the next twenty years but
free trade will effectually' prevent this
desirable result and doom Texas to
continue to produce the raw materials
for others to manufacture. Agricul-
tural nations are always poor un-
enterprising and uu progressive. The
protective system is absolutely essen-
tial to the material prosperity of
Texas since it will foster and stimu-
late industrial undertakings of one
sort and another.
But I wish to puncture and ex-
plode another humbug set on its legs
by Mr. Thurman who is extremely
anxious to capture the votes of tiie
workingmen. He will say anything
that he thinks will catch their votes
for he wants to be vice-president very
ardently and he knows tiiis is his last
opportunity to win the prize. Ashe
is 7V years old defeat now would ex-
tmguish the fire of ambition In bls
bosom. He will play the demagogue
for all the part is worth. He did
that in his speech at Port Huron.
He is troubled and afflicted at the
condition of the poor men of the coun-
try and tells them that protection is
ruining them. Toney.
The Houston Age Is not giving any
material aid and comfort to the demo-
cratic party at Houston in its present
fight. The Brenham Banner com-
menting upon the position of the Age
says:
“Uncle Daniel extends some pater-
nal advice to Mr. Slewart. It tells
him to “come off” and lend what in-
fluence he has to the election of Capi.
Hutcheson “the regular democratic
nominee.”
If the Agp can figure out who is the
regular democratic nominee of the
First Congressional District he will
confer a favor on the state democracy
at large who are much muddled over
the Houston mixedness.
Brice is interested in 100 corpora-
tions and nevertheless he is the
head centre of the democratic ma-
chine and boss-in-chief for Cleveland.
Exactly where the reform comes in
about the democratic party it is hard
to tell. Ex-Senator Barnum paid
$20000 to obtain a seat m the United
States senate and is a thorough-
paced trickster and Senator Gorman
is the most corrupt politician in the
United States not excepting Eugene
Higgins one of Cleveland's pets.
These men are the life and soul of
rhe democratic campaign committee
and they give one a pretty good
opinion of the ways and means used
•by the democracy.
Will Joe Sayers and Squire Berg-
strom explain the reason why wool
was put on tiie free list while sugar
and riceare protected by heavy duties
on imported sugar and rice. Texas
ranks as the second state in the Union
as a wool grower yet Sayers knocks
this industry on the head. If the wool
men do not stand up courageously for
their own interests when they are
openly assailed they will prove they
are “pigeon-livered and lack gall to
make oppression bitter.” They will
not vote for Sayers.
Renews Her Youtn.
Mrs. Pbrebe Chesley. Pen rson Ciay County
lowa tell- the following remarkable story th
truth < f which is vouched for by ths -esideots
if the town "i am 73 years old have beei
troubled wtth kidney complaint and ameneei
•■>. mar y years: cou d tu t dress myse t with
ut hi p' Now I am free from a 1 pain a - c
'oreness. and am able co do a.! m own he .6-
vo k 1 owe my thanks to Electric b. be
saving renewed my youth and reu ved cm
pletely al! disease and pain. Try a b
snd 81 at a. Dreis?' Dru? store. 4->tv
The Electric Light and Power Co.
of San Antonio
Will furnish 2000 C P. Arc Lights at
the following rates:
lOo'clock lights—s 7.00 per month.
1 “ •• $.50 “
All night “ 10.0») “ “
They will also furnish 16 C. P. In-
candescent light ats2.oo per lOOOcubic
feet gas bills accepted as basis of con-
sumption.
For residence lighting to be used
at pleasure:
Ist Lamp $12.00 per annum.
2nd “ 11.00 ‘
3rd “ 10.00 “
4fii “ 9.00 “
sth “ 8.00 “
6th “ 7.00 “ “
7111 “ 6.00 “
Bth “ 5.00 “ “
ami all other lamps $5 00’per annum
each. For fun iter particulars address
the company.
L. s. Berg President.
H. L. Berg Secretary. 7-30-3 t
How Doctors Conquer Death.
Doctor Walter K. Hammond says :
“After a long experience I have come
to the conclusion that two-thirds of
all deaths from coughs pneumonia
and consumption might be avoided it
Acker’s English Cough Remedy were
only carefully used in time.” Tiiis
wonderful remedy is sold by
Ragland & Co. 3
TEK KIBL E F<)REWA RNINGS.
Cough in tiie morning hurried or
difficult breathing raising phlegm
tightness in tiie chest quickened
pulse chilliness in the evening or
sweats at night all or any of these
things are the first stages of consump-
tion. Acker’s English Cough Remedy
will cure these fearful symptoms and
is sold by Ragland & Co (10)
NOW IS YOUR CHANCE.
Two Lots on Dignowity Hill. Value
$250 to be Given Away.
In order to raise a turd to re-issue the
Texas Figaro. t"iiu ny 'h - G s«ip' an 1 place
it on a vood tuanc.al basis th proprietors
have decided that eac person signing the
-übse"ipt n list a-d paying fl tor one years'
subscrip i"n in advance shall rec ive a cranee
in the drawing tor two lots on Dignowity
Hill value at $250. Everyone receives the sub-
scription for one year valued at $1 50 to
tin-livel ■ paper that will make tlrngs ’ hum"
during the coming elections and will have
special contributions fr ui many noted
local and national writers and one
man gets the two o s tree. I. s’ audtick-
etsare at Sim Ha-t's.Struve's S. B. Witcbell s
Harry Haste's. Merchant's Printing Co
Hines X Brother's. John W. Bodemann s
Muth’s Pavilion. Gallagher's saloon. Mission
Garden's and with Mr. Ryder-Taylor at the
Light office. Secure your tickets at once as
the number is 11 > :t d.
Dyspepsia Despair Death.
These are the actual steps which
follow indigestion Acker’s English
Dyspepsia Tablets will both cheek
and cure this most fearful of diseases.
For sale by Ragland & Co. 2
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT JULY 22’ 1888;
6:00 A. M. Leave LAREDO ARRIVE 9:05 P. M.
5:45 A. M. 2:45 P. M. “ SAN ANTONIO ” 2;30 P. M. 11:00 P. M.
9:42 A.M. 7:17 P.M. “ AUSTIN “ 8:45 A.M. 7:27 P.M.
3:00 P.M. 2:30 A.M. ARRIVE WACO Leave 1:35 P. M.
7:06 P.M. 7:20 A.M. ' FT. WORTH “ 9:10 P.M.
6:55 P. M. 8:55 A.M. “ DALLAL “ 6:50 A.M.
11:45 P. M. 12:15 P. M. ” DENISON. “ 6:50 A. M>
8:00 P. M. 8:00 A. M. “ KANSAS CITY “ 4:40 A. M.
6:35 A. M. 6:00 P. M. “ OMAHA. “ 8:40 P. M.
4:20 A.M. “ PALESTINE “ 11:25 P.M.
12:45 P. M. “ TEXARKANA “ 6:05 P. M.
6:10 P. M. “ LITTLE ROCK “ 9:20 A. M.
5:55 A.M. " MEMPHIS “ 11:15 P.M.
6:40 A.M. 7:30 A.M. “ ST. LOUIS “ 8:00 P.M. 9:15 P. M
6:30 P. M. 6:38 P.M “ CHICAGO “ 9:00 A. M. 9:00 A. M
Trains Ran SslW Balra San Antonia anJ St. Louis
Train leaving San Antoni at 5:45 a. m. has Pullman Buffet car through to St. Louis with-
O 1 'TaritUraving Sun Antonio at 2:45 p. m. has Pullman Buffet car through to Kansas City
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Careless Mothers.
Many mothers have permitted their
children to die before their eyes when
they might have been saved. Any
mother who keeps house without a
bottle of Arcker’s English Baby
Soother at hand runs a risk which
she may sometime regret. It has
saved the lives of thousands of child-
ren and is doimr so every year.
For Sale by Ragland &Co 4
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The school stands on its merits and refers to
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Manufacturers’ Agt. for
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Tanners’ Agent for
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Cash advanced on Consignments.
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This remedy is becoming »o well known and
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Read tne following Mr c R. Morris
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