The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30

The Legislature will now come to order.
Congress will never get move on until
It adjourns.
A blunt statement sometimes has very
sharp point.
1t is worth noting that the pessimists
have shut up.
Nearly every day gives evidence of an
other reform needed.
Outside reformers will please take notice
OF the sign: hands off.
At the inaugural ball many were fattered
and few were fattened.
Optimism that doesn't lead to enterprise
is the justification of pessimism.
There are many evils to be remedied, but
local self-government can provide for them
all.
1t is the part of the legislative hand in
the game not to shuttle expenditures, but
to cut them.
Jury bribing is one of the hard nuts for
the Grand Jury to digest, if it isn't too much
for the system.
The spirit of the Grand Jury system is
bad, but there is reason to believe the pres
ent body is good.
If the Legislature gives the people too
many bills to foot, it will be made to feel
some of the footing.
Barefooted beauties will beat the sea
serpents in drawing crowds to the seaside
resorts this summer.
AS the promoters of the valley road
mean business, they don't talk until they
have something to say.
The report that King George of Greece
intends to abdicate continues to circulate
when other news is dull.
If all the cranks in Congress would move
the same way, the thing would work; but
it would work revolution.
Men who have the nerve to undertake
enterprises at this time will never have to
be nervous about the results.
In any civilization founded upon the
freedom of the home, the only right gov
eminent is home government.
The first shovel that breaks ground for
the San Joaquin road, will give California
land lift in more ways than one.
Reduced to its simplest expression,
CleYeland's message pleads with Republi-
cans and threatens the DEMOCRATS.
From this time on, close watch will be
kept on the legislators to see that there is
no juggling with campaign pledges.
If the members of the Grand Jury believe
that the system is good, they have now an
opportunity to show what it is good for.
Other States will take notice that Cali
fornia was the last to feel the depression
and the first to give signs of the revival.
There is such hollow, stately, stove
pipe dignity about Growers message that
it is evident he wrote it through his hat
F 1t is the manifest intention of Cleveland
TO save himself from the wrath of the
country if he can, by putting it under
bonds.
+ The San Francisco delegation at Sacra-
mento is expected by the people to insist
on home rule for the city and make win
ming fight for it.
New York, with a just pride, is boasting
of the fact that on twelve hours notice
( 95 per cent of her National Guard reported
equipped and ready for duty.
The condition of the Senatorial contests
in Oregon, Washington and Idaho affords
G reason for believing that the smallest
States have the biggest deadlocks.
The Arizona man who built his shanty
across the railroad track, probably had no
other thought than that of starting town
by providing a stopping place for trains.
Nothing is like it used to be. In her
controversy with Guatemala Mexico de-
clines the mediation of the United States,
but it was different when she had her little
racket with France.
The Paso Robes Noon has been pur-
chased by 6. Webster of San Miguel, and
the former editors, A. D. and c. A. King,
have but passed, We trust, from the moon
light to the sunshine.
Nebraska is evidently in bad condition,
for, according to the Omaha Bee there is
not enough grain in the State to feed the |
stock or even the horses which are a farm
er's main dependence in putting in a crop.
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On the occasion of his recent lecture at
Chicago DR.. Parkhurst was described as a
short, stubby man. with his trousers stop
ping short at his ankles. He read his adj
dress from manuscript in voice said to be
as rasping and as penetrating as the snarl
of watchdog.
1t is an evidence that ex-senator Ed |
munds did not retire from politics solely for
his health that. as an attorney for the |
sugar trust, he has just succeeded in get |
ting declared unconstitutional the Sher- |
man antitrust law, which, as chairman of |
the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. he |