The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28


Wales.
Had the clerk of the weather been petit
toned TO be gracious on the opening day
of the Midwinter Fair he could hardly
have been more accommodating. The day
was radiant, an almost perfect example OF
lovely California weather in what is the
b leakest month of the year elsewhere.
The sky was delightfully."- serene, with only
a few light cirri Of fantastic shape fiecked
across the azure, and the wind was so gen.
tie as only 10 stir the surface of the bav.
Eastern visitors must have had a charming
Impression OF what California's happy
fortune is in climate, and the rOseate ac-
counts which the visiting correspondents
are teegraphing East may have the effect
of stimulating the travelling public to
hasten 10 the Pacific Coast Many people
who are accustomed to go to Florida in
winter may bethink themselves that Cali
fOrnia would be good change. But what
the State would specially welcome is not
invalds, who generally grumble a great
deal, but people who travel for enjoy
ment. information and openings in bust
ness.
A Judge is altogether ont of place
when he ventures into political taunts
and threats as if be were a partisan.
When he goes on the bench he should
cease TO obtrude his views on government
and the parties engaged in it. He has lit
erature, science and wide range of social
subjects for his spare moments of oratory.
and on these subjects there can be no very
acrimonious criticism or resentment.
Judge Brewer, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, is being taken TO task for
an indiScTeet reference to the Chinese and
a curious personal contrast between Pres
ldent Hayes as an ordinary man and Lin
coin as giant. He is said to have felt the
folly of his utterance and TO have asked
the reporters to prune away the objection
able matter, which naturally they did not
oblige him by doing. When next he has
occasion 10 speak he should bear in mind
the homely maxim to think twice before
opening his lips. A Judge who NEEDLES
much in politics is apt to give rise to the
impression that he is thinking Of fresh
professional am billions.
The Chinese of San Francisco are max
ing up for lost time by crowding into the
registration rooms and posing for the
photographer. They are III earnest this
time and apparently anxious to acquire
the indefeasible right to remain in the
country. All objections to photography
as an insult now vanish. The protest
against IL was lEOtIi INC TACT lDaI
the photograph IS only a decisive means
of Identification which schemers were de-
srOus to avoid. If it were not so very
costly, photography might be made use of
in conn ection with the registration of
voters, but the costs of balloting for good
government are already appalllngly high.
The horrors of the blizzard in Oklahama
must strike Californans with peculiar i'm
pressiveness. We have no winter worthy
of The name compared with a change of
weather registering 20 degrees of fall
within few hours. That numbers should
have been frozen to death in a night under
such circum stances is not extraordinary.
The suddenless of the onset took peo-
pie unawares, and those who were living
In tents must have suffered terribly. The
severity of the blizzard is shown by the
fact that hundreds OF cattle persisted.
The monthly bill for food rations sup
piled at the old City Prison is considerably
swelled by the necessity of having to pro-
vide for so many homeless and hungry
people night after night. 1t would be
very harsh to refuse some cheer In food to
men who are destitute. The jail, as it
were, is becoming detached vagrant ward
of the Almshouse. but IL does not figure in
the Almshouse accounts. At the same
lime the uteb eUOulu not run lUlO eXIraVA-
gance. 1t should be wholesome and suf-
ficient in quantity, but that need not in.
volve very large outlay per head, as the
cuisine operations of the Salvation Army
have shown.
as the world fondly admires a man of
courage, whether he leads forlorn hope
or knocks a fellow pugilist out, Jim Cor
bett has now fortune at his feet. and may
with thrift become rich Ia a few years. He
has not only beaten Sullivan, but the man
who fought drawn battle with Sullivan.
The offer of $4,000 for season Of base
ball will not tempt him. AS star actor
he can earn that in week for months to
come. AS long as he remains champion
the crowds will rush to see him and the
papers will present his portrait and give
columns about him. Every person In
America on Friday morning knew who had
won.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS,