San Antonio Daily Light

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The outcry in the southern newspapers because President Roosevelt entertained Booker Washington at dinner shows conclusively that by the term south, the papers there understand only the white men of the south. The immense negro population of that section, amounting to between one-third and one-half of the total population of that section, is considered not to exist at all. The event shows, too, that Mr. Roosevelt intends to be not only the President of all sections, but that of all races, in the country as well.

No doubt it is some consolation to Lord Kitchener that he is at least doing nothing which could encourage Poet Laureate Austin to write another Mafeking poem.

When it comes right down to the point, would either New York, Chicago, or any other large city be willing to face the next census if its anarchist population should be abolished?

The Star Spangled Banner is set to the music of an old drinking song. Is there some obscure connection between this fact and the anti-canteen legislation of the last Congress?

McKinley's doctors say that he died because his time had come, and not because there was any mistake in his treatment. These reports read like an account of an operation that was "beautifully successful," but, after which, the patient unfortunately failed to rally.

There is some mystery about Assistant Secretary Hackett's sudden resignation. Can it mean that President Roosevelt looks upon the behavior of the Navy ring in much the same way in which President McKinley regarded it?

After all, whose business is it if President Roosevelt chooses to invite a negro to his table? What heathenish caste ideas there are in this country.

Haven't the witnesses got things mixed? Wasn't it Bob Evans who damned the Texas when he saw how far she was getting left behind?

New York Medical society is calling attention to the desirability of whiskerless men for milk maids. It says the cows are likely to knock microbes out of the whiskers into the milk in their attempts to swat flies with their tails.

Twenty-three per cent of the total population of the United States is going to school; nearly one-fourth of our people are still being educated. The figures are little less than amazing.

Under the Gothenburg system—which is practically the same as the dispensary system now in vogue in South Carolina—liquor drinking in Sweden has fallen off from 13 quarts per capita per annum to eight quarts. This is undoubtedly a great gain for the community and should lead to renewed study of the question on this side of the water.

A Paris anarchist asserts that bomb-throwing is a beautiful gesture. Kicking an anarchist can hardly be described as beautiful, but it may be something better.

A Chicago man fainted when divorced from the same wife for the fourth time. Never mind, let him alone and he'll soon revive.

If Henry Watterson is really elected to the Presidency in 1904, the White House gardener will have to make room somewhere for the famous mint bed that Mr. Watterson insists on carting around with him.