The San Francisco call., 1895-08-03

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SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The booksellers must go.
By constant hammering any evil can be
crushed out.
The new police captains have chance
to distinguish themselves.
Electricity is making the gold glitter in
the deep mines of Placeryille.
The lottery is hiding for time, but the
booksellers are still in the open.
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Ell Dorado County has reawakened to
the duty of making itself worthy of its
name.
California ought to send very hand
some exhibit to go marching through
Georgia.
It would be the correct thing for the
police force to practice its new vigor on the
booksellers.
All of US will want to die when Dan
O'Connen becomes superintendent of the
City Cemetery.
There seems to be fatal newspaper
affinity between sensationallsm and lottery
advertisements.
The time was when the merchant who
dared to complain aloud of railroad charges
could be punished.
Democracy is so divided that it not only
cannot stand, but cannot even lie witho ut
fighting with itself.
Next year the presence of the Valley road
in the San Joaquin will be seen in the in
creased valuations of its real estate.
The third-term movement for Cleveland
has about stopped, but there is no visible
movement for any other Democrat.
The success of the underground trolley
in New York makes the overhead wires of
San francisco look wild and woolly.
New York farmers complain that the
nimble grasshopper has skipped the grass
and eaten nearly all the buckwheat in the
State.
The invited guests Of whom the Bible
tells that lone and all began to make ex-
cuses' must have thought they were in
vited to sit on jury.
It is encouraging to the progress OF the
State to see merchants have the courage
to stand up and say what they think of
extortionate railroad charges.
The counties sho uld not forget that the
work of getting up good exhibit for the
Atlanta Exposition affords an opportunity
for showing harmony in action as well as
in talk.
From the vigor with which the fight for
bimetallism is being made in England it
appears that if the United States would
lead the way that country would be forced
to follow suit.
The opponents of the Sunday liquor law
in New York have become so desperate
that some of them are talking Of getting
mp kind of a Horr and Harvey debate
on the subject.
Gorman's defeat of the free-trade Demo
Gratis would have been more satisfactory if
he were true protectionist for all Ameri-
can industries instead of merely pro-
tector of trusts.
1t is really distressing to learn that the
thrilling stories of filibusters organizing on
the Pacific Coast to invade the Hawaiian
Islands were merely flakes" by sensa-
tional newspapers.
In the wild alarum of decisions declaring
laws unconstitutional it is refreshing to
observe that the Supreme Court has found
that Los Angeles ordinance prohibiting
nuisances is constitutional.
With Los Angeles County adding S., ,0OO,-
900 to her property valuations and San
Francisco adding only So ,000. 900, it is clear
that ''Solid Fights" and cobblestones are
accomplishing their ambition.
While we have been amusing ourselves
with carnivais in imitation of medieval
Venice, old Venice herself has been rum
ming an international exposition of fine
arts, and amusing her visitors with up-to-
date pleasures.
Now that the horseless carriage is COM
ing into use, considerable interest is shown
in selecting a name for it. and while some
favor motorcycle" the general sentiment
seems inclined to ''autocycle," though per-
haps for the English-speaking world 'self-
wheeler" would be best.
Because the sale of books and pamphlets
on the silver question is diminishing in st.
Louis, the GIobe-Democrat draws the con-
clusion that popular sentiment in favor of
silver is falling away; but it would be just
as rational to conclude that the people
nave made up their minds for bimetallism
and need no more books.
The first reports of the elections in Eng
land attributed the success of the Con-
servatives to a combination of "beer and
Bible," but it seems to be conceded now
that the main issue was the attitude of the
House of Lords toward the home-rule bill
and the disestablishment of the Welsh
church, and the Conservative victory,
therefore, is regarded as q triumph of the
peers.