The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-31

OAKLAND OFFICE:
eos Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Pacific states Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander
building, Rose and Duane streets, New York City
SATURDAY. 81, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
We must build competing roads.
The best hope of the people is in their
own enterprise.
There may be evils here and there, but
there is progress everywhere.
The Valley road points to commercial
independence and leads the way.
Santa Clara County will see her ship
rcome in as soon as she opens the gate at
Alviso.
order THE SUNDAY CALL TO-DAY and make
Ssure of good reading for your leisure to-
morrow.
There are too many new enterprises in
California for the old monopoly to hold
them all.
Few people have been disappointed in
the Railroad Commission, for few expected
anything.
The Railroad Commission is worth just
about as much as a campaign pledge, but
it costs more.
There are more ways of killing the
monopoly dog than by choking it to death
with commission butter.
1t is proud boast of the monopoly that
if it cannot cinch the shippers it can at
least cinch the workingmen.
Once more we remind you that the
Mechanics Fair is one of the things you |
must take in in order to be in it.
When the Republican party points with |
pride in the next State convention it will |
have its back to Commissioner Clark.
Get all your business of your mind to- |
day, so that you can. recreate yourself |
tomorrow without a thought of care.
Monopoly may battle and useless COM
missions may hamper the progress of Cali |
MIA, but nothing can effectually stop it.
1t has taken twenty-nine days to ring up
the curtain on the Durrant case, and when
it rises on Monday there is no telling when
it will fall again.
The new woman has got far enough |
along in the East to have raised a consid- |
cradle controversy as to how she can most |
easily be domesticated.
The interests of the shippers and the in |
terests of the workingmen of the State are
identical, and the attempt of the monopoly
to divide them is futile; the wedge is too |
thin.
The threat of the monopoly to make up
for any reduction in freight rates by re-
ducing the wages of its workingmen is
another evidence of its determination to
bleed the people at every turn.
The Railroad Commission might reflect
that the monopoly practice of SHINING the
Californian to clothe the Central African
is at least open to the objection that the
African does not want the clothes.
Now that little Zerubabbel has been
given to the Bay State Commandery, we
trust if any trouble arises after he grows
big and grisly the people of Massachusetts |
will not consider it matter of our bruin. |
Harry Hayward, who is under sentence |
in Minnesota for the murder of Catherine |
Cling, has recently brought suit as claim |
ant for lferinsurance money, and now no |
one will deny that the Minnesota gall is !
the toughest in the country.
The claim that the bicycle fad has re-
duced the consumption of cigars in this |
country is not borne out by trade Stats |
tics, for the record shows that during the |
fiscal year ending June 80 there were man.
ufactured in the United States q, 40, 440, 900 |
cigars, being an increase over the previous |
year of more than 81, 100000.
1t is claimed by the Board of Health of |
Chicago that the sewer Improvements of |
that city have reduced the death rate from |
consumption by 40 per cent and the hint |
might be taken. by our Half-million Club. !
If better sewers in this City would not in |
crease the population, they would at least |
save some of the people we have.
The influence of Boston on the proceed |
ings of the Knights Templar is shown in |
the proposed project for grand Masonic |
university. If the conclave had met in |
Chicago there would have been a project
for Masonic colosseum, while San Fran
cisco would have inclined their fancy to
grand parade boulevard across the CONT |
nent, with carnival stations for festal pur-
poses every forty miles.
Editors Dunn and Lemon of the Carson
Tribune have been punished for alleged
contempt of court for their comments on
the cases of the men suspected of robbing
the United States mint at Carson. The
attorney for the newspaper men commended
that the Judge of the court had no iuris-
diction, bat this objection was brushed
aside by wave Of the judicial hand, and
the writers had to pay their fines and go
10 jail.
The declaration of the Southern Pacific |
that it will meet every reduction in freight |