The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

If the law stands the Solid Eight must go.
County fairs and festas are the life of
the State.
The San Bernardino fiesta was bull |
frolic, but no fight.
The maintenance of the law is the first |
step toward municipal reform.
Advertising home goods is the only way
to invite people to the home market.
1t may turn out to have been themselves
the Solid Eight gave away on Monday |
night.
If Chattanooga is wise she will take a |
city census while the Chickamauga cele- |
bration is with her.
China promises to reform and Turkey |
promises to reform, but the Solid Eight |
stays where it stuck.
Sport is speedy, but trade keeps up with |
it; there is already Defender souvenir |
spoon on the market.
We expected our wine exhibit to take the |
Atlanta folks, but it seems they were too |
early for US and took it.
The fight against the corrupting power |
of the monopoly will be long and hard, but |
it can be won in the end.
The sight of eight forfeited seats on the |
Board of Supervisors would comfort the |
people nightly just now.
The powers would divide Turkey at |
once if only they were sure there would be |
enough of it to go around.
The best way to call Dunraven's bluff is |
to send the Defender to British waters and |
give him trial over there.
One advantage to Spokane in her double |
set of policemen is that one set viii keep |
the other set swaka at night.
There is prospect that the biggest issue |
of the next campaign will be over the
question of retiring greenbacks.
The vigorous foreign policy has begun |
to show itself. Two gunboats will make a |
demonstration of it at Ku Cheng.
It may be true that the America cup |
cost only $3.50, but the interest taken in it |
all these years has made it very costly by |
this time.
You get all the essential details of the |
Durrant case in our reports without any |
of what Falstaff called the "damnable |
iterations."
The only noise in the world that the |
South Carolina Constitutional Convention
has made so far was threat of free fight |
on the floor.
The adjournment of Parliament has in |
tensified the silly season in England, and |
the prevailing discussion at present is
"What is the proper age for lover"
1t is now asserted, and with considerable |
show of reason, that it is the competition |
of the Sunday newspaper that has forced |
the publication of cheap editions of stand |
ard books.
The surest way to bring other manufac- |
tories to San Francisco is to render pros |
porous those we already have; and the |
best way to do that is to make home |
market for them.
The reported discovery of rich gold fields |
in Ontario may have some effect in divert |
ing the mining capital of London and Paris |
from Africa to this continent, and then 1t |
will come our way.
If the tariff proves dull and silver ceases |
to divide the people, there will be good |
enough issue for the Republicans in 1895 |
in the desire of the people to wallop the |
Cleveland Democracy.
Platt's victory in New York, like that of |
Quay in Pennsylvania, is a triumph of |
organized Republicanism over the faction |
fighters, and will be hailed with gratifca. |
ton all over the Union.
Bryan of Nebraska will find a cordial |
welcome in this City. Republicans will
join with Democrats in doing honor to his |
splendid talents as an orator and his ster-
ling services in the cause of bimetallism. |
There is a cheerful prospect that home
bankers will take care of the treasury
reserve after this until the Republican |
Congress can reform the tariff and provide |
the Government with the needed revenue. |
There would have been no objection to |
the grant of the Sunnyside franchise to the !
Market-street Railway Company if the |
grant had not been given for practically |
nothing and in violation Of a law enacted |
for the express purpose of preventing just |
such practices.
1t is evident that popular interest in the |
reclamation of arid lands has not been |
diminished by the years of depression, for |
the Irrigation Convention now in session, |
though held in SO remote place as Albu-
querque, is one of the largest ever assem- |
bled, and has able delegates from nearly |
every State in the Union.
The recent statement by DR.. Paul Gibier |
before the Medico-Legal Congress that a
criminal by pricking his intended victims
with pin containing few deadly bacilli
on the point could kill them and leave no
trace of crime has put horrible sugges-
ton in the minds of the vicious and it |
viii not be long before some Of them will
try it.