The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-29

They may call it the Half-million Club,
but it talks for the million.
The more critical a mans position is the
less critical he can afford to be.
Half million for San Francisco means
at least two millions for the State.
1t would be better to have bonds on the
City than cobblestones on the street.
Now that good leaders are at the front
we will soon see what the people can do.
Ii the silurian bloviator doesn' like criti-
cism he should withdraw from public gaze.
Santa Clara and San Mateo are ready for
the grand boulevard and San Francisco
must get into line.
The San Francisco and San Jose boule-
ward is securing right of way through the
hearts OF the people.
The shipper who signs the pledge to
patronize the valley road writes himself
down good citizen.
The Examiner seems to have regarded
our commentator as surprise party that
took the cake with it.
The Pioneers of San Francisco were great
public improvers in their day and the pres
ent generation must keep up the lick.
The Governor has approved the new law
governing primaries and this will make
another draft on the ingenuity of the poll
ticians.
A copy Of the letter which Seward sent
to France in regard to Mexico might be a
good thing to send to England in regard to
Venezuela.
If you cannot subscribe to the stock of
the San Joaquin road you can at least
pledge yourself to patronize it when it
comes your way.
The Calls interior exchanges can do
noble work for the sections in which they
are published by cooperating with it in
advertising the State.
Is there Journalistic ethics" that re-
quires one newspaper to ignore the efforts
of its neighbors in the great work Of up
building the State?
In demanding $3.50 1000, 900 from China
the Japanese will have to put it on the
ground of travelling expenses, for the circus
didn't amount to that.
A man is not silurian simply because
he doesn't go your way, but if he goes no.
body's way and gets in everybody's way,
you may put him on the list.
! L
the San Joaquin road will have to go by
San Jose and by Stockton also in order to
fill the demands of the situation.
Competition solves nearly all CONNER
cial problems, and if we gave silver fair
chance to compete with gold as a money
metal, most OF our financial problems would
disappear.
Tom Reed is quoted as saying, eff the
Supreme Court decides the income tax to
be unconstitutional we shall have an extra
session of Congress- and he might have
added the country would be the better
for it.
Having made such big profit out of the
sale of the Cleveland bonds, J. Pierpont
Morgan has felt rich enough to give 5000
to a sanitarium, but whether we are to in
fer from this that Grover feels sick is not
certain.
Considering what diversity of opinion
there was concerning the Hawaiian revolu-
ton, 1t is worthy of note that not single
newspaper of any prominence in this
country has failed to express sympathy
with the Cubans.
If it were not for the daily occurrence of
train robberies, the war in Spain and the
shooting of Ii Hung Chang, the escapade
OF the Oakland man who eloped to Homo
lulu with his own wife would be piece of
news that would thrill the world
While Germany is rejoicing over the
birthday of the Iron Chancellor who
equipped her invincible armies, wealthy
young German at Los Angeles blows out
his brains because his parents order him
to return to Germany and enter the army.
Reformers in Kansas City are trying to
secure the passage of an ordinance forbid
ding free-lunch attachments to saloons.
and the racket raised over it would lead an
outsider to suppose an attempt was being
made to starve out every politician in
town.
Commenting on the changes that have
come over this State the st. Louis Globe
Democrat says: ga California gold miner
panning out 81 in dust day can exchange
it for four bushels of wheat. One of the
old argonauts, with an income of four
bushels of wheat day or 81 worth OF other
commodities at modern prices, would have
had bonanza"
The Illinois Legislature proposes to put
an end to boodling by law declaring void
any ordinance, franchise or privilege, the
passage of which is secured by bribery in
any form. The idea is that no one will be
willing to pay anything for franchise
when such payment would render it void
1t is hardly likely, however, that the law
would have much effect, for it is very diff
cult to prove bribery, and the boodlers
know it. The only way to get an honest
government is to elect honest men.