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The San Antonio Light
FOUNDED JAN. 20 1881.
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BV THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT PUB-
LILHINO CO. (Inc.)
A. O. MUNRO Manager
SHIRLEY W. JOHNS.Managing Editor
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WRONG IN PRINCIPLE.
Commenting on an editorial expres-
eion In The Light against the poll tax
as a voting qualification the Beaumont
Enterprise takes the opposite view and
says:
"The San Antonio Light is opposed
to the poll tax as a qualification for
voting and says that it has signally
failed in its purpose of purifying the
ballot.
“So would the educational or any
other test fail if no more pride of citi-
zenship is shown than ajpong some
of those who fail to get their poll tax
receipts. The fact is that aside from
being a test of citizenship the poll tax
is no more than every man should be
called upon to pay for the support of
the Institutions of government and
pride in state and in citizenship in a
democracy should impel its payment.
If it is proved to be a failure as The
Light Implies then the citizenship of
Texas is in a bad way but it is not
a failure. The record will prove that
it is raising the standard of citizen-
ship and that the continued agitation
on the part of the newspapers for its
(payment is educational in its nature
and each year sees a broader compre-
hension of what a vote in this democ-
racy really means."
No restriction on the ballot will
instill into citizens a sense of their
duty to exercise the suffrage. If they
do not already feel it. If the poll tax
law has had any effect at all in this
direction it has been toward dis-
couraging the citizen from voting.
The Light's main objection to the
poll tax as a qualification for voting
is one purely of principle although it
denies that It has had the effect of
purifying the ballot. A poll tax quali-
fication for voting is nothing more or
less than a property qualification
which has no place in this country. In
theory. If the poll tax may be fixed at
$1 it may be fixed at $lOO or $lOOO
and we do not believe the Enterprise
would defend a poll tax of either
amount.
The house having again rejected the
proposition to permit canteens in sol-
diers' homes the old veterans will con-
tinue to get their booze out of a boot-
leg.
Congress trimmed $3403162 off the
army appropriation bill. Wonder what
the $2 was for.
The latest figure on Bailey's ma-
jority is 25.901 the total vote being
224.009. This means that the senator
got 55.7 per cent of the vote and John-
son got 44.3 per cent.
NEED FOR PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS
The public playground movement
appears to have gained a firm footing
In San Antonio and we may expect to
Bee it grow steadily here into a strong
force for good as It has done in other
cities where it had an earlier start.
The school board has recognized the
value of the movement by granting to
‘he Playground association the use
luring the summer of several school
Catarrh
Is a constitutional disease originating In
Impure blood and requiring constitutional
treatment acting through and purifying the
blood for Its radical and permanent cure.
The greatest constitutional remedy is
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
In usual liquid form or in chocolated
tablets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses $l.
Nasal and other local forms of catarrh
are relieved by Catarrlets which allay In*
$ animation and deodorize discharge. 50c.
grounds. The association will install
the necessary paraphernalia on these
grounds and they will continue through
the summer to serve a useful purpose
in the betterment of the lives of chil-
dren.
The idea that the vacant lot and the
streets are good enough as playgrounds
for children has long been an exploded
one yet it is the nature of children to
pl/V and if they can find no better
place they will use the streets and
vacant lots. Commenting on this the
Chicago Record-Herald says:
"To turn the streets and sidewalks
over to baseball and other players of
these numerous volunteer brigades is
to invite accidents and make the lot of
the pedestrains even harder than It is.
The vacant lot under existing circum-
stances presents the best possible so-
lution of the problem though it would
be absurd to assert that the solution
is unobjectionable.
“It is notorious that the use of va-
cant lots as playgrounds may easily
degenerate into a nuisance in more
than one sense-of the term. The neigh-
boring landlords and tenants who com-
plain of the boy players and their
amusements are flat necessarily sour
disgruntled and hardhearted. They
may have their share of fellow feeling
and kindness but broken windows
yells and confusion are not exactly
blessings to be welcomed with en-
thusiasm. Then too. the effect of
noise and clamor on the sick the aged.
the nervous the studious cannot be
left out of account.
"The real and permanent solution
1 of the problem is the establishment of
numerous small parks with spaces for
games and of suitable playgrounds.”
Let us hope the playground move-
ment will grow and prosper in San
Antonio.
The onion growers have demonstrat-
ed that the secret of success in mar-
keting their crop is to act together
through a sales agent.
From furnishing literary lights In-
diapa appears to have turned to sup-
plying the murderess market
If those Pacific coast cities don't
modify their attentions to the officers
and sailors the fleet may be lost to the
rest of the country.
The cost of numbering houses is
insignificant and every citizen should
see to it that his house is given a
number without delay. Lack of house
numbers causes a great deal of con-
fusion in the delivery of mail and
articles from stores and It is a never-
ending source of trouble to strangers
in the city.
Surely the failure of the democratic
county convention to mention Senator
Culberson in its resolutions was an
oversight. It would be difficult to
believe that the convention would in-
tentionally slight the senior senator
from Texas.
MOCHA.
(Chicago Record-Herald.)
It appears that the board of food
and drug inspection at Washington
has decided that the term "Mocha"
should bo restricted to coffee grown
in that part of Arabia known as Ye-
men. We do not find any coffee cred-
ited specifically to Yemen in the gov-
ernment’s tables of Imports but the
record for all Asia tells what we may
< xpect in the way of real Mocha. Out-
side the East Indies the entire exports
cf Asia and Oceanica t 6 the T'nlted
States for the eight months ending
with February came to but 2.554436
pounds. During the same period our
total importations from all parts of
the world were 584.072887 pounds.
The reader should meditate upon
the figures if he likes to calculate
chances and guess how many kernels
from Yemen are likely to come his
way. Manifestly the name Mocha as
it appears above much of the coffe»
that is sold cannot possibly stand for
the Yemen product. A further consid-
eration of the statistics will show also
that it must be applied to American
coffee since coffee labeled Mocha 1s
s< Id nil over the country and we are
absolutely dependent upon Latin-Am-
erica for a supply big enough to match
the labels. Of the 584.072.887 pounds
of coffee imported during the eight
months to which wo have referred
'72348.894 pounds came from Ameri-
ca. The total for the East Indies and
other Asia and Oceanica was only
9568282 pounds. Nearly 60 pounds of
American coffee were bought to one
other kinds.
It would he interesting to know just
what infinitesimal fraction comes from
Yemen. The Information could be
used with good effect in dissertations
| on the question. "What's in a name?”
Of course Mocha from Venezuela
tnay be as good as Mocha from Ye-
men. but it would really look as
though the board of food and drug in-
spection had reason enough for acting
A large shrinkage of Mocha would
now seem to be unavoidable.
ROOM FOR TROLLEYS! ROOM!!
(Providence Journal.)
If worqpß's headgear grows much
bigger as the season advances not
only will It be required to remove it
in churches and theaters but a patient
man-controlled government will be
driven to exercise its to
order its abatement on the urban
thoroughfares: in order that the trolley
cars can get by.
FRIDAY. MAY 8 1908. ’ THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT- FRIDAY MAY 8 1908.
doodle-
The American
Lives Only In
the Present. i
By GIFFORD PINCHOT National Forester.
I ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ HE situation with regard to tho country at large on the
T question of forests is not rose colored. The total stand
.
of timber in the country today is only twenty times
& £ the annual consumption. We depend more upon tim-
* bcr in this country than any other country in the
+ world and we are NEARER TILE END OF OUR
RESOURCES than any other great nation of the world. And the
timber situation is duplicated by many other of our great resources.
IT IS THE RESULT OF THE GREAT AMERICAN TENDENCY
TO USE WHAT WE HAVE AT ONCE WITHOUT ANY REGARD TO
THE FUTURE. OUR WOOD IS AS INDISPENSABLE TO US AS OUR
STEEL AND COAL AND EVEN THESE ARE GIVING OUT.
We have enough anthracite coal for fifty years enough bituminous
for a hundred years our oil and gas are being frightfully wasted our
waterways are being ruined and our water powers impaired and agri-
culture is suffering in many ways from the deforesting of the country.
THE AMERICAN FOR SOME REASON HAS A LACK OF CONFI-
DENCE IN THE FUTURE AND LIVES ONLY IN THE PRESENT. HE
THINKS NO FURTHER THAN THE LIVES OF HIS CHILDREN.
Well unless there is a change in the point of view the progress of
the country will stop before those who are now living have all passed
away. As a nation we are acting LIKE A MAN IN AN OPEN
BOAT ten days from land with three days’ water and provisions
who does not husband his supplies but takes what he wants at once.
The future ACTUALLY AND LITERALLY depends upon our
changing our point of view.
Woman’s Calling
Higher Than Man's.
By JOSEPH G. CANNON. Speaker of the House of Representative*.
CIME has worked MANY CHANGES FOR THE BET-
TER in the economic and social condition of women. I
studied law in Indiana but went to Illinois to practice. I
did not know any too much then. In those days a married
woman could not make a valid contract. Her wages if she made any
belonged to her husband. It sometimes happened then as it happens
now that in the doctrine of chances the gray mare was the better
horse of the two. A woman found herself married to a worthless hus-
band. Children came and she had to support them sometimes with
her needle sometimes at the washtub.
Though that woman could not make a contract SHE COULD
ALW AT S GET CREDIT everywhere on her simple word and
her worthless husband could not get himself trusted for a quid of
tobacco. lam proud to say that I helped frame the law there that
gave all women married or single the same rights.
The woman who works should have EVERY PROTECTION
THAT MAN HAS and she has in nearly all the states today.
BUT MAN MUST ALWAYS SUSTAIN THE FAMILY WOMAN
BEAR AND REAR THE CHILDREN. IT IS THE LAW OF GOD OR
NATURE WHICHEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL IT AND WILL BE
MAINTAINED TO THE END. WOMAN'S IS NOT A LOWER CALL-
ING THAN MAN’S. BUT A HIGHER.
corrwiT. iwa by the new york denmg telegram (new york herald coi m Right* Rmsv-wl
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The Passing Throng
PARK FOR NEGROES.
AN enterprising negro of the city
has transformed a vacant lot at
the corner of Victorta anff La
tor streets into a pleasure park. He
had the weeds and brush cleared
away and put in a few tables and
benches and several gaily colored
lawn swings and is serving nothing
stronger than soda water and ice
cream. This place is proving quite a
pleasure resort for the negro popula-
tion. There is quite a negro settle-
ment in this* part of the city there
being two negro churches within a
stone’s throw of each other. The park
has been given the languid title of
“Idle Hours Garden” and between
the park and the churches the ne-
groes of that section of the city are
not finding time weighing on their
hands. Besides these attractions there
is a baseball field on a clearance near-
by where an exciting game is oc-
casionally pulled off between two
teams f»r the championship of Dark-
town.
San Antonio
2 1 Years Ago
(From The Light May 8 1887.)
A drunken white man wandered In
to a house ocupied by negroes Satur-
day night and was badly beaten be-
fore the residents of the house found
out his condition. When they learned
he was drunk the negroes turned the
man out of the house and he went
hurriedly away.
Two new members were‘ received
in the Baptist church yesterday. Sev-
eral candidates will be baptized at
the services next Sunday.
The San Antonio rifles are going to
Washington in a Pullman while the
Belknaps are content to ride in an
emigrant sleeper.
A ladies’ meeting will be held at the
prohibition headquarters on Houston
street at 5 o’clock this afternoon.
The four German singing societies
picnicked "at Mauermann's grove yes-
terday afternoon.
Today is the forty-first anniversary
of the battle of Palo Alto in which
several citizens now living in San
Antonio participated.
Train Cuts Negro to Pieces
Temple. Tex.. May 8. —An unidenti-
fied negro man aged about 20 years
was run over and cut to pieces by a
Santa Fe freight train near the M K.
& T. railroad crossing last night. The
negro evidently was walking along
the track wheuAtruck.
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Servants’ Hall Literature.
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
(Upton Sinclair and other novelist* hav*
been getting points on how the rich live by
working for them as servants. —News Item).
NIO more the Newport hostess' head
• v Is bowed with carking care*
Regarding what is done and said
By those below the stairs.
The butler wears a washboard brow.
The nursemaid slays in nights.
For all the serving persons now
Are literary lights.
Yon footman sneering in disdain
Behind the guest's chair—that's Hall Cairn
' I 'HE lady in th* *pron wbo
* Is ladling vermicelli
Into the steaming savory slew
Is Miss Marie Corelli
While Rudyard Kipling stiffly stands
There where the door's ajar.
And ceremoniously hands
The mistress from her c*r.
The while he's noting down with care
"A clothespin with a bank of hair!"
OUT in the tile-lined carriage room.
In raiment crude and coarse.
Is Henry James disguised as groom.
And currying a horse.
By his perturbed portentou* frown
And cerebrating eyes
One sees he's jolting "color" down
In words of giant size.
Which presently will come to hand
In books we shall not understand.
SO aren't you glad that you have not
A household full of serving men
Who find the faults that you have got
And stab them with a pen—
A cook wbo sets down on the sly
Lampoons upon your wife.
A groom who write* that you eat pi*
And eat it with a knife?
We folk who live in almost-hove)*.
At le«»t keep out of modem novel*.
May 8 In History.
1806 — Robert Morris “signer” and
financier of the American Revolu-
tion died in extreme poverty after
passing several years in a debtors'
prison: born 1734.
1873—John Stuart Mill English writ-
er on logic and political economy
died; born 1806.
1902—Volcanic disasters in the Islands
of Martinique and St Vincent The
eruption of Mont Pelee destroyed
30000 lives at St Pierre Marti-
nique and La Soufrlere caused a
loss of 1.700 Ilves In St Vincent.
It has become an established
fact that
D? PRICE’S
WHEAT FLAKE CELERY
FOOD
is the best food for growing
children invalids and the aged.
It is made from the whole wheat
berry celery infused so making
it the food for all classes as it
feeds the blood the nerves and
prevents constipation. a
For Salo by all Grocer*
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Sun sets 6:59 rises 4:45; moon sets
1:53 a. m..
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Sheriff.
The Light is authorised to an-
nounce B. D. Lindsey as a candidate
for the office of Sheriff of Bexar Coun-
ty subject to action of the democratic
primaries.
The Light is authorized to announce
W. I. Goforth as a candidate for the
office of Sheriff subject to the action
of the Democratic primaries.
The Light is authorized to announce
James McCloskey as a candidate for
the office of Sheriff of Bexar County
subject to the Democratic primaries In
July.
The Light is authorized to announce
CLas. F. Stevens as a candidate for
the office ot Sheriff of Bvxar County
subject to the action of the Democratic
primaries.
The Light la authorized to an
nounce Fred H. Lancaster Rs a can-
dldate for sheriff of Bexar county sub-
ject to the action *f the Democratic
primaries.
The Light is authorized to an-
'nounce George Surkey as a candidate
for the office of Sheriff of Bexar Coun-
ty subject to action of the democratic
primaries.
For County Clerk.
The Light is authorized to announce
Vivian E. Hamilton as a candidate for
County Clerk subjec" to the action ot
democratic primaries.
For County Clerk.
The Light is authorized to announce
Michael F. Campbell as a candidate
for County Clerk subject to the ac-
tion of the democratic primaries.
County Clerk.
The Light is authorized to announce
Frank R. Newton as a candidate for
re-election to the office of County
Clerk of Bexar County subject to
the action of the Democratic primar-
ies July 25 1908.
Constable.
The Licht Is authorized to announce
E. J. Beeves as a candidate for offles
of Constable of Precinct No. 1. subject
to the action of the democratic pri-
marieti..
The Light Is authorized to announce
J. Ed. Wilkens as a candidate for the
office of Constable. Precinct No. 1
subject to the action of the demo-
cratic primaries.
! A. M. FISCHER }
; pharmacist :
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* nue D. Opposite Postoffics. *
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