The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
THE SUMMER MONTHS.


prompt attention.
FRIDAY. AUGUST g. 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Some New Workers have begun to call
the enforcement of the Sunday saloon
closing law Rooseveltism.
The Democracy in Mississippi and Mis-
souri, stands for free silver, but in Iowa it
continues to straddle the barbed wire fence.
1t is now proposed to settle the difficulty
with the Bannocks by irrigating their
reservation for them and teaching them
how to farm.
The next step in the campaign for free
silver will be taken by the convention
which meets in this City, and it promises
to be big one.
The President ought not to feel utterly
respondent in view of the fact that he still
has chance to go down to history as Mrs.
Cleveland's husband.
Old Glory should not be permitted to go
into trade. The noble things which it
symbolizes have not been put up for sale
by the American people.
Pictures of our noble mountain scenery
like those which Keith has made at Castle
Crags constitute the high art that will
make the fame of California.
The Californian hereafter who votes for
Democrat on the strength of a campaign
pledge will not forget the sore which the
Railroad Commission represents.
The Boston man who claims to have in
vented process of distilling whisky so
that it won't have jag in gallon of it
needn't take the trouble to obtain patent.
1t is imperative that the statute of 1893
regulating the sale of municipal franchises
shall be given judicial test to determine
whether it means something or means
nothing.
The fact that Sacramento Valley hop
growers are applying to the Free Labor
Bureau for hop-pickers seems to indicate
that Japan's conquest of China has not
crossed the Pacific.
The time seems to have come when q
citizen who proves acceptable as juror in
the Durrant case enjoys higher order of
intelligence, fairness and patriotism than
the average citizen.
Many are the fights now being waged
against the monopolizlng railway corpora
ton for the benefit of the people, and that
of the Miners Association is one of the
best, bravest and most promising of
them all.
One of the advantages of having COM
peting universities in the State is revealed
in the report that since the opening of
Stanford four years ago the number of col
lege students in California has increased
400 per cent.
The decision of Judge Slack that the
case of the people against the Solid Eight
for malfeasance in Office should be brought
by an indictment by the Grand Jury offers
to that BODY an opportunity and imposes
upon it duty.
The thunder of the tramping hordes of
Hawaiian "flibusters," who are alleged to
be topbooting, swashbuckling and swear
the other, browns the roar of the sea and
the squeaks of the Unprovisioned Govern
ment.
1t will be lively day in California when
those counties which think they have
properly assessed their property and see
their assessments raised by the State
Board of Equalization demand an explain
alton of the tender consideration with
which the Southern Pacific is treated.
The disclosure made by the Trades Coun-
Gil at Sacramento to the effect that Japa-
nese and Chinese coolies are given prefer
ence in the fruit canneries there because
the cannery companies pay only or 10
cents an hour for labor uncovers sore
that all the remedial treatment available
to California should be employed to heal.
The latest street delicacy in New York is
a Summer SNOWFALL made of crushed
ice with little favoring syrup on top, and
is sold for a penny. 1t has been served
only short time, but complaint is already
made that the small boys suck the syrup
off the mixture and then throw the ball at
the most dignihed citizen in sight.
Vice-Chancellor Pitney of New York has
stirred up the newspaper men of that Sec
ton by enjoining reporter from publish
ing the details of suit involving the right
of way of railway company. The re-
porter had taken notes of the trial, but
the Vice-Chancellor threatened him with
punishment for contempt of court if he
published line of them, and now the
newspaper folks wish to know what kind
of law that is.
There are some brilliant authors who
have conscientious scruples against having
their productions published in Sunday
newspapers. Rev. J. H. Wythe Jr is one
of them. He has written charming story
entitled "From the Lowest Level, Story
of Mining Life in California" the right to
publish which has been secured by THE
CALL 1t is customary to present such lit
erary features in the Sunday edition, but
in Difference to the reverend gentlemans
uisbaa tha Glory will he Drinfad only in tha