The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-24
A PREDICTION.

Our neighbOrs of the Chronicle do not d.
sire the passage of bill by the Legislature
adopting the Australian system of voting
because, in its opinion, it would prove
failure. This is about as good a reason for
its defeat as Buckley or any other boss has
been able to give. II may be stated how
ever, that the system, wherever it has been
tried, has proved a success. Both. pol itical
PARTIES prior to the election were pledged to
the passage Of such a bill. yet it has oppO-
nents in and out Of the Legislature. It may
however be safely said thatthese opponents
are of a single class-persons who expect 10
profit from the corrupt management of
bosses. The Chronicle has heretofore
stated that any person who would pay a
certain sum of money could be elected to
the Senate Of the United States by Cali
foTnia Legislature. This statement is be-
leyed TO be strictly true. Men have. I'M
questionably used money through their
agents to obtain the nomination of eandi-
dates for tie Legislature and for other
offices who were pledged in advance to do
certain obnoxious things. The public I'M
derStand this matter if the Chronicle thinks
they do net and they are sick Of such du-
plicily; hence they mean to have change.
THE CALL predicts that they will be sue
cessful, even if the present members Of the
Legislature prove recreant to their pledges.
The next Legislature viii be composed of
men who will vote as they are. instructed
by their constituents. Mark TIE CALLS
prediction. At the last two elections The
CALL struck boldly against the Buckley
frauds and it carried its points, almost
alone, although it had nearly all of the
press Of the city against it.
No iuIua that reforms must take OlaPH
because nearly every person of Intelligence
realizes that we have had in Office a good
many men who have been but little removed
from ordinary thieves; for how much better
are men who sell their votes for money?
Taxes are about double what they ought to
be in this city and State, and yet there is
apparently no stopping place for the oppres-
sion. The trades unions ask the Legisla-
ture to pass law. Do the members pay the
least heed to their demands? We shall see.
So with the farmers, who are organizing
alliances. They also ask the legislature to
do certain things, but members seem to be-.
lieve that they are Independent Of their con-
ssituents. Apparently men in office have
an idea that the city and State belong TO
them and that they can plumber the people
at pleasure. 1t is not alone excessive taxa
ton which makes the people FESTIVE. 1t is
the use which is being made of our courts
and juries. Look at The San Francisco jail.
A few days since it was stated in a public
journal that there were sixteen persons con-
fined in that institution on charge of muir
der. This is just the number. if our
memory serves us correctly, confined in
the Jail in 1856, on like charge, when the
Vigilance Committee was formed. THE
CALL does not anticipate the formation of
Vigilance Committee, but it does believe
that the public will not long stand such
system of outrages as they have been going
through for much length of time.