The morning call., 1895-01-17


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...............JANUARY II, 1895
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Young blood to the front.
There is one good thing about Partisan;
he knows when to quit.
The dry-weather prophet has to take
water like the rest of us.
A little more of this weather will make
even the rain frogs croak.
Now that Cohen has been bagged it is
time to look for larger game.
The French crisis will turn out to be
more criticized than critical.
The Police Commission middle goes
over for the lawyers to disagree about.
The years record of the Chamber of
Commerce shows good work for the whole
State.
The Legislature came down with an
avalanche of bills, but the earth never
shook.
While the billiards are blowing in the
East is the best time to invite immigra-
ton to California.
1t may prove to be easier for the faith of
a Buddhist to move mountains than Po-
lice Commissioner.
The combination of all reform move
ments under single head viii lead to good
results if the head has brains in it.
There is hardly a single phase of the
local political controversies that does not
emphasize the need of a new charter.
Without intruding advice too far there
are a few officials in this country to whom
we can recommend the example of Casimir-
Perier.
In asserting that the PopuIist party has
overlooked the fact that he is vagary
himself.
The legislator who watches the oppor-
tunity before him needn't stop to see if the
people are behind him. They viii be there
every time.
OF the multitude of bills introduced by
members of the Legislature so far it is suffi-
Gent to say that, like the ten virgins, five
were wise and five were foolish.
The spectacle of Allison and German
getting together on plan to raise reYe-
nue. is a political absurdity, but it means
business, and that is what the country
needs.
The announcement of project to erect a
grand hotel at Berkeley will be received
with general satisfaction. Every enter
prise that offers work for the workers. is a
benefit all round.
The liberty Of long speeches in the Sem
ate has some compromising advantages
For example, it affords a possibility of
talking the Reilly funding bill 10 death if
it should pass the House.
The people of the blizzard States must
have been badly bewildered by the storms,
for it is said that many of them are going
to the Southern States to make their homes
instead of coming to California.
Ii it be true that Herman Oelrichs has
decided to make his home in this city be-
cause it is livelier than New York, we can
afford to treat with silent scorn the critics
who have called us Jay town.
1t is an evidence of the political develop
ment of the French people in recent years
that they have learned how to evolve a
crisis into another crisis by half turn in
stead of making a complete revolution.
One of the most cheering features of
Chairman Dimond's address at the annual
meeting at the Chamber of Commerce was
the announcement that new blood is being
infused into the chamber and is making
itself felt.
Several large purchases of landed prop
erty recently made in New York disclose
the fact that the values of real estate have
advanced rather than declined during the
period of business and financial depression.
and, as consequence, capitalists who wish
good bargains are looking West for them.
Mr.. w. NJ. Castle was correct in answer
ing that it is within the sphere of the
Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with
the Citizens Defense Association, Good
Government Club and other reputable as
sociations in their endeavor to redeem the
fair name OF our city, and we count on the
chamber to do it.
In their efforts to procure the early con-
struction of a competing railway, the peo-
pie of Fresno are showing degree of en-
ergy and persistency that deserves not only
encouragement but cooperation, and they
ought to find it both in San Francisco and
in Santa Clara Valley, through which the
proposed road should run.
Eastern observers are impressed with
the fact that the Pacific Coast is leading
the country in the revival of business, and
the Philadelphia Record says: One of the
hardest things on earth to kill is Yankee
pluck and enterprise. The recuperation
eroinU foruyard on tho Dooifo Coon4 g.