The San Francisco call., 1895-07-14

THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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No law can execute itself.
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Every home has its local issue.
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Life is too short for long engagements.
When the law is derided, home rule is
farce.
Every summer resort has its own ideas
OF style.
This is the time to stand up for good
government.
Every prospect pleases except those of
the Solid Eight.
Some men haven't energy enough to stop
work long enough to rest.
No one has ever to leave San Francisco
on account of the weather.
Civic virtue in the citizen is the only
sure check on official rascality.
The money saved from the lottery ticket
adds another comfort to the home.
The enforcement of law is one of the
home industries that is rapidly reyiying.
Railway robbery in this country is not
always a case of somebody robbing rail
way.
While we denounce corrupt officials let
US not fail to give honor to those who are
true.
The rascal never gets to the end of his
rope without finding a hangman's knot
in it.
The world laughs at the fads of society
and society laughs at the ''isms" of the
world.
The enjoyment OF a dinner depends on
confidence in the cook as well as on the
appetite.
To have public improvements we must
have a municipal government that the
people trust.
The third term discussion is getting just
about serious enough to be appropriate to
the silly season.
Even Texas and New Mexico have started
in to advertise California by indulging in
disastrous floods
The great electric plant that has dazzled
Sacramento has cast brilliant glow on the
future of that city.
1t is noticeable that it is the people W no
are never doing their best who sigh most
for the millennium.
Popular sentiment against the latest
grab of the octopus does not mean pro-
test but fight to a finish.
We can have the most beautiful as well
as the most picturesque city in the world
if we choose to make it so.
The French celebration to-day of the fall
of the Bastile should awake sympathy in
every heart that loves freedom.
The two Democratic factions in Kansas
have set the National pace for the party
already by calling each other bolter and
renegade.
Spain's determination to shoot all Cuban
insurgents when taken seems to indicate
either that it realizes the character of the
uprising or fears its force.
There are millions yet to learn that
everybody is at liberty to pick up the
golden fruit which the gods shake from the
sun-tree upon the soil of California.
If ten acres OF California, including its
climate, could be set down in New York
State it would sell for a million dollars an
acre as summer and winter resort.
Since the Republicans carried the country
the business of the people is reviving, but
the Democrats still have the Government,
and the deficit in the revenue continues.
Marsden Manson's assertion that San
Francisco wastes annually on her streets
enough money to build many miles of
boulevard should prove sufficient to make
the taxpayers do little hard thinking.
The region of the great lakes had hardly
found time to take breath after the frosts.
floods and cyclones before the annual
devastating forest fires have broken out
and are sweeping the towns from the face
of the earth.
CornelPs explanation that it was in the
race until Fennell caught a crab and
smashed his ribs with his oar does not ex-
plain the worst of all conceivable break
downs, which was that FennelI caught a
crab and smashed his ribs.
Stockton takes another turn at the
progress wheel by announcing that it is
preparing to bring the purest of Sierra
water from the Blue Lakes, and in the
same process produce all the electric power
that the city will need for illumination
and manufactures.
mans highest duty being to better his
own condition, with view to the employ
ment of the power he thus acquires for the
good of those about him, cooperation in
the advancement of California is the noplest
form in which wholesome selfshness can
find exercise.