The morning call., 1895-01-11
If you mean business, talk business.

The best way for Mr.. Gunst to accept
the situation is to resign II.
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The trade revival has begun for all who
have had the nerve to begin.
"The competing road" is so good a
phrase that it ought TO be mentioned every
day.
No citizen has right to kick who isn't
quite certain that be has done his own
duty
II is q good sign of the times that conf
deuce is reviviDe il politics as well as in
business.
The Chinese seem to be the only people
who can have a campaign without contest
ing anything.
While the Carlisle bill will never be
missed, the defeat OF it has left currency
Eeform in the fog.
When the Republican party points with
pride hereafter, it will turn Markham's
picture to the wall.
If all the energy now expended in kick
ing were used in going forward we would
make great progress.
A good way to mark the beginning Of the
new era is to quit talking Of bosses and
begin to talk of leaders.
Any plan of currency reform that does
not make some provision for silver coinage
is all cloud and 10 lining.
The only thing the Democratic Senators
have agreed upon up to date is the pro-
priety of dining with Grover.
How would it do to drop all the fuss
over politics for the present. ard make up
our minds to do better next time?
We must have either a better system Of
counting ballots or a quicker system Of
Furnishing those who count wrong.
Progress and economy are good mates
so long as care is taken to see that neither
one of them gets ahead OF the other.
An Investigation of official corruption
that intends to go to the bottom should be
carefully planned to begin at the top.
No one who rides over our cobbestone
streets will ever accuse those in authority
of paving the city with good intentions.
The mass-meeting should not end in a
protest against wrong, but in resolution
to support the right actively and vigorously.
As an evidence of how far optimism is
he
Chicago is talking about how to reform
her City Council.
Politics and business are more closely
allied than some people imagine, and
reform in the one will be followed by re-
viVal of the other.
We have had a narrow escape: Governor
Altgeld's message Of 10000 words was
almost long enough 20 reach us before It's
fury was exhausted.
Now that Congressman Burrows has
chance to be elected to the Senate, they
have begun to call him 1.-THE Calliope of
Kalamazoo" by way of footing his hern
for him.
Now that the bosses have been over
thrown and the gangs scattered. the mass
meeting comes just in time to organize
public sentiment in favor of the new order
of things.
1t is difficult for any community to have
q good government 30 long as every official
is denounced simply because he Is in
office. 1t is the talk about boodlers that
produces o0odlers.
If we could only have competing rail-
road that would give increased facilities
for railroadng political offenders to Jail,
1t would ill long-felt want 80 full that
you couldn't put The lid ON.
If the Democratic leaders in Congress
had any political sagacity whatever, they
would leave the difficult problem of cur
rency reform to the next Congress and
hurry up the Nicaragua canal bill.
OF course we cannot expect il from
Cleveland, but our Government should in
form Great Britain that if an ocean cable
is needed to Hawaii the United States will
construct it, own it and operate ii.
In abandoning the project Of con-
testing Budd's election, the Republicans
at Sacramento have fulfilled the saying of
President Hayes: "He serves his party
best who serves his country best"
It is TO be regretted that the poultry
show was not financially successful.
Whatever is done 20 promote our rural in
dustries Is beneficial to the whole State
and all who engage In the task ought to be
literally supported
There are some Democrats, it seems,
who are foolish enough to believe that the
blaze of Republican legislation for tie peo-
pie can be queucbed at Sacramento be-
cause they have an amateur fireman up
there to throw cold water on it.
AS an illustration of the way we appear
to the Eastern mind, it is worth noting
that the Philadelphia Item says: s'San
Francisco is determined TO get rid OF its
criminal element and a Committee of
Safety has been formed with an ex-police
captain at its head for the purpose Of
alaunp ri L.