The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-10

Look out Tor the S4VOV,O0U IN the coming
week.
The way to reform is to begin here and
begin now.
The competing road has good footing;
it is on velvet.
From this time on Congress will be run
as a bargain counter.
Read about the Eastern billiards and
then enjoy the climate.
Outsiders can do nothing for US that We
cannot do better ourselves.
It is the people of San Francisco who
must redeem San Francisco.
.
We are in the springtime of enterprise
and the harvest is promising.
We must not only press the button of
investigation, but do the rest.
The successes Of the past month are the
best prophecies for the future.
The only show of currency reform so far
has been one OF dissolving views.
1t is almost time to inquire what win be
the next San Francisco enterprise.
Local punishment OF local offenders is an
essential part of local self-government.
While we are investigating evils let US
also turn light upon the virtues OF the
city.
There are some optimists who believe
that bicycles viii soon be as cheap as
horses.
If the Legislature will attend to retrench-
ment San Francisco will attend to local
reforms.
The best way to benefit the tramp is to
set him to work improving the road he
lives on.
The Japanese troops may not be in win
ter quarters, but they are certainly taking
things easy.
No one is so well fitted to discover corrup-
ton and punish it as those who have suf-
fered from it.
In several of the Senatorial deadlocks it
appears that the key is lost and picking
does no good.
1t is a poor economy to demand State
officials to perform work that city officials
are paid to do.
Since we maintain municipal authorities
TO seek out crime and punish it, we should
put them to work.
There is no conflict in Congress between
the House and the Senate this time; they
agree in doing nothing.
If the energy of the mass-meetings were
applied directly to home machinery, it
would set things moving.
The Good Roads Convention has every
reason to believe that our highways can be
improved by relying on Stone.
If there is honor for the capitalists who
subscribe for the competing road, what is
there for those who don't subscribe?
Now that the Californians have be gun to
invest their common-sense in the prob
lens before them there are big profits in
sight
gold by sending messages to Congress is a
good deal like trying to stop a leak with
blowhole
Senatorial deadlocks have revived the
agitation for the election of Senators by
the people, so as to leave the Legislatures
free to attend to business.
There may possibly be such thing as a
Democratic party, but it is difficult at
present TO find anybody that knows who
composes it, who leads it, what is its policy
or where it has its headquarters.
If any citizen knows of any crime or of
any corruption among city officials it is his
duty to give the evidence to the Grand
Jury and not wait for possible committee
to come down from Sacramento.
It is worth noting that DR.. Parkhurst
discovered evils before he began to de-
nounce them, and did not enter upon
haphazard denunciation and then ask for
dragnet investigation to find out what he
was talking about.
As the distinguished war correspondents
left the Orient to inform us that the war is
over for the winter on account of the snow,
the natural inference is that the recent
japanese expeditions have merely been
sleighing parties.
No less than three State Legislatures are
engaged at this time in discussing meas
ures to prevent the wearing of high hats at
theaters, and still there are people who say
that the masculine 1awmaker pays no at
tention to woman.
Chicago has evidently opened broad
track for the mayoralty race, as there are
now two Republicans, two Populists, one
socialist, one Tommy Morganite and one
Democrat in the field, with lots of room
for a dark horse to take the pole.
If Kate Field is correct in saying of
poker that ats obvious tendency is to de-
velop fxity of purpose, independence of
action and high degree of reserve about
ones passing emotions, - it might be good
idea to substitute it for football as part of