The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20


San Francisco needs no kickers: the
motto should be: Work or walk.
If we do not praise our own city how can
we expect other people to praise it2
The charter-makers should provide for
local seIf-government in everything.
Time brings change to everything except
the pocket OF man who won't work.
San Francisco, like beautiful woman,
would act better if she was praised more.
No man can make much progress who is
always stopping to find fault with the road.
When San Francisco says ~ will'' in
stead of 81 WON'T" things will begin to
hum.
If there is to be any dark horse in the
Senatorial race. he viii have to be groomed
lively.
1t may have been a tempest in teapot
in Hawaii, but it Will raise a storm around
Grover.
San Francisco can never open up for
progress until she has a grand shut up on
wrangling
Every preacher can find a good text
to-day in the words: "Say to the people
that they go forward.
The sutton who spends his time abusing
his rival instead Of praising his sweetheart
never wins the ia II lady.
What viii it profit the Legislature to
have thousand attaches if it loses the
attachment of the people?
Now that the Hawaiian royalists have
slipped the trolley, it is probable that Con-
gress viii fur nish the islands with cable.
The fact that the Democrats are to take
part in it, may be accepted as a conclusive
proof that the Senatorial contest is in a
middle.
It was no idle fable that the walls of Troy
were raised to the sound of celestial har-
monies, for without harmony no city can
flourish.
About 100 miles of artificial stone side
walks and fifty miles of asphalt streets is
what San Francisco needs to put herself on
a proper footing.
1t is natural that the Police Commission
at this time should remind the average
reader of 'Three Men in a Boat; not to
mention the dog"
By setting to work at municipal improve
ment we will bring progressive leaders to
the front and then political improvement
viii come of itself.
1t is evident that the Legislature ia
tends to retrench in making appropria-
tons, for it is exhausting the treasury in
providing for current expenses.
AssemblymaD Spencer very accurately
summed up the proceedings of the Legis-
lature in saying that it had appointed
Waterman for everything except the
treasury.
People who are inclined to complain
about the weather should remember that
the werd liquidation has a good signif-
canoe, and a wet winter means prosper
GUS year.
With new Mayor and new Board of
Supervisors nothing is needed to complete
the new order of things but spirit of har-
mony among the people and a resolution
TO go forward.
All the indignation meetings that could |
be held in year would not do so much to
open the path of progress as a single meet
ing that would raise the money needed for |
a competing railroad.
There is nothing like diversity of prod |
ucts, and as variation from golden |
oranges and tropic fruits and flowers the |
thrifty people of San Diego County are
talking of interpreting their bowers with
pig pens and raising hogs for change.
AS result of the demand for cheap |
bread in some of the Eastern towns it is re-
ported that the reduction of the price of a |
loaf to , cents has induced families to stop
baking their own bread, and the bakers |
ind profits larger instead of diminished.
1t is said that bad beginning often
makes good end. The Legislature has
made bad beginning, and it will surely
have a good end, for it will end in the
political death and burial of every man
in it who is responsible for waste and ex-
The operation of the passenger train SER
vice between Sacramento and Stockton is a
matter of just complaint to the people of
those cities, and the Nail very pertinently
says that why it should take the Southern
Pacific Company three hours and forty
minutes to move a train distance of forty
eight miles is matter which calls for an
The subject merits the
prompt consideration of the Railroad
and if there is no other
way of providing more rapid transit they
might compel the company to put on