The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-16
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

"The hum OF industry in the House." This s
the headline which morning paper puts over
its report of the proceedings of the House of
Representatives yesterday. The most acute
ear can detect very little hummlng OF industry
elsewhere. The industrious Democrats In Con-
gress have put quetus on such grateful
sOunds.-New York Mail aud Express.
Kentucky Judge, who evidently has had
some experience IN the courtship line, says
that man who courts a girl for friend and
then sues the friend for the value Of the time
lost IS not entitled 10 damages. The Judge
main aims that if he courts properly he gels his
pay while counting. very Solomon is this
just Judge.-Phlladelphia Item.
II, as Is asserted, presentation at the Eng
lish court costs an Anne rican woman 1915,
there is certainly a substantial objection TO
that sort OF foOleTy. Can't Willie Walle Aston
contrlve to get something cheaper for Amerl-
can women VINO have nothing better TO do than
10 make themselves ridiculous abroad ?-St.
Louis Republic.
The cruiser New York may not be as unship-
shape craft as she was recently written down
10 be, but the number OF shellbacks who are re-
ported as deserters from her speaks ill for her
condition in some regard. Perhaps the old rats
have heard that her armor plating Is defective
New York Advertiser.
Casual observation suggests that the present
administration is making herculean effort to
drive all the worklngmen out Of employment so
that they won't have anything TO detaln them
from going to the polls next election day. The
movement Is achieving an appalling success,
too.-New York Press.
A most important gap in the discipline OF the
militia service has at last been filled by the
opening of a cooking school al the State camp at
Peekskill, n. Y. An elementary knowledge Of
good, plain cooking should be an indispensable
part OF every soldiers mental equipment
Philadelphia r. cord.
Professor Bell believes it will be possible
some day TO see from New York TO Washington
as easily as the human voice can be heard that
distance through the telephone. Professor
Bell must be trying 10 scare The adminlstra-
| tiOn.-Detroit journal.
The New York Herald insists that the income
| tax be stamped out. BY all means. But the
! only way TO do it is TO stamp out the Wilson
| German sugar-trust bill which contains 1t. Let
the II erald address It's energies TO that.-Bos-
| ton Journal.
The most pestient of all persons at the pres
| ent time are the demagOgueS who make 1t their
business 10 encourage strikers for the purpose
of securing their votes in the fall elections.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The railway statistics Of last year show that
| one traveller in every TWO million was killed
! while travelling. 1t speaks volumes for the
safety Of travellers upon American railways
| Chicago Inter Ocean.
Boss Croker OF Tammany would evidently be
q good witness to call before the House and
! Senate conference committee as 10 ways and
| means of leyylng tariffs for revenue.-St. Louis
| Post-Dispatch.
Liberty may be buried in Washington, but
| she will probably continue 10 visit the pale
! elimpses Of the moon after Carl Browne shall
| have been reconverted into cabbages.-PiIts-
burg Press.
! viii 1t be the old, old story again? VIII the
| Populists, after they get all they out OF the
Democrats in revenue law, go with the Repub-
i llcans on everything else? - Cincinnati En-
! quirer.
| Does the President believe that when a con-
| tractor Is caught defrauding the Government
the felony should be compounded by the pay
ment Of line out of court?-New YORK
| World.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood OF Locomo-
| tive Engineers Is opposed 10 the strike. MI
Arthur is man whose experience in sucn mat
| tiers is worth sometnin g.-Star-Sayings.
| The Police Commissioners Of New York may
sit in judgment upon the officials under them
but who is going TO try the Commissioners P
| Philadelphia Enquirer.
Recent immigrants going back to Europe II
great number shows the return they are max
| ing for so much past monopoly Kindness
| Philadelphia Times.
In the words of Terence V. Powderly, every
strike on a line of railroad is a strike agains
the whole country."-lndianapo News.
When President Cleveland calls out the regu
lars it shows that he has not much faith IL
| Sheriffs as general rule.-Chicago Times.