The morning call., 1895-02-04

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MoNDAY.................., .FEBKoAK4 4, 1895
Competition does it.
Money has quit talking and gone to work.
Valley railroad projects are not lying
low.
Trade will soon feel the thrill of the
revival.
The only sure rule for effecting reform is
home rule.
Congress keeps on killing time and cur
rency bills.
This week will put the 100000 after
the dollar-mark.
1t takes a railroad to regulate the fares
of another railroad.
The competing line will keep on high
ground and avoid pools.
What we need now is curative serum
for dyspeptic investigators.
We want more light, but the inquisition
bill offers US a dark lantern.
Any county without railroad scheme
on hand needs investigation.
The interior has begun to speak of San
Francisco as a metropolis with big NJ.
The Legislature has bills enough before
it to kill this State and start new one.
It is doubtful if the present House will
leave itself wind enough to move to adj
journ.
Economy is the word among the people,
but in the Legislature we expect it to be
action.
A man never becomes a crank by getting
new ideas, but by eternally grinding at an
old one.
Even when you allow kicker to have
his own opinion, he considers that he has
nothing.
The revival has brought progressive men
to the front and put the silurians on the
anxious seat
It may be true that there is crisis in
the treasury, but the general belief is there
is nothing in it.
It was sufficient for the California delega-
ton to floor the funding bill without knock
ing out Mr.. Reilly.
Home investigation may raise good
crop of reforms, but outside investigation
will only raise Cain.
If Congress doesn't settle the currency
question very soon national bankruptcy
bill will be necessity.
Retrenchment will take the bonanza out
OF politics and leave the money in the
pockets of the people.
In the prevailing spirit of harmony
everybody is willing to leave the bone of
contention to the dogs.
The people feel for the Retrenchment
Committee in the Legislature and will
reach for the other fellows.
The Cleveland administration has had
Cabinet crisis from the start, but it hasn't
had sense enough to know it.
The great trouble with the Democratic
leaders is that they can never face facts
without facing them factiously.
Mr.. Hurley will now have a chance to
consider jury-bribing from the stand
point of an individual interest.
We may safely regard the inquisition
monstrosity bill as one of the unexpected
things that will never come to pass.
So far as the weather and business affairs
are concerned, the winter of our discomfort
is over and the springtime has come.
1t is worth your while to carefully study.
the advertisements in THE CALL in these
days and see where the best bargains are.
When it comes to raising money for a
competing line through the Santa Clara
Valley San Jose viii show itself capital
city.
AS one effect of the revival of railroad
building on the Pacific Coast we may ex-
pect the tide of gold shipments to turn
westward.
Those people who are forever mounting
about the "fetid atmosphere of this town"
are evidently endowed with the ability to
smell their own breath.
Since DR.. Parkhurst told the people of
Chicago that their ideas of reform were
low, they have come to the conclusion that
his ideas of his reforms are too high.
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The publication through the Eastern
States of the liberal subscriptions to the
competing road is the best advertisement
that California enterprise has had in long
time.
In the absence of any Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency with the prestige
of victory behind him, the Democrats of
Philadelphia have taken up the idea of
running Ex-Governor Pattison for Mayor,
in the expectation that if he gets elected it
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