The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08


prompt attention.
MONDAY. July s. 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
The holiday season, flies.
Remember homemade goods to-day.
Trade will soon be picking up for the
fall.
Keep your eye on the lottery game and
your hands off it.
Enterprise in California no longer takes
the shape of booms.
A good honest home market will make
industry begin to hum.
The summer thus far has well fulfilled
the promise of the spring.
San Francisco ought to hold civic fes-
tival Just to celebrate her harmony.
AS Dunraven says he is satisfied with his
new yacht, we have no right to kick.
The Monroe doctrine fits the Nicaragua
Canal project as if it were made to order.
The more hopeless the prospects of
Democracy become, the brighter grow those
OF the country.
If you intend to make a living out of
California you should reciprocate by help
ing her industries.
Don't forget that the State Fair is COM
ing and every producer ought to meet it
with good exhibit.
The delightful climate of Napa makes it
surprising that even the inmates OF its jail
should try to escape.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has its
spurs in the park and evidently intends to
ride it for all it is worth.
The desertion of the bay is a pleasing
consideration in view of the fact that all
the ships are away bearing abroad the
products of the State.
The farmers wife can help solve the
tramp problem by giving preference to
California made articles when she goes
shopping at the village store.
If we buy goods made in our neighbours
factory we put him in position to do
likewise by the home institution which we
manage and which gives US sustenance.
If all State commissions were as ener-
getic and earnest as the Bureau OF High
ways, the ancient demand for rotation in
Office" would have fewer promulgators.
The discovery of lubricating petroleum
at PIeasanton is another of those delight
full surprises which study of the natural
resources of the State is constantly bring
ing.
Instead of buying another lottery ticket
let the dupe of the lottery fraud invest
the money in some table dainty of home
manufacture and see how much more salts
faction there is in it.
The frightful cyclones and cloudbursts
that are destroying life and property in
the East remind US forcibly that we are
living in California and the people Of the
East that they are not.
In substituting molasses for tar in the
time-honored tar-and-feathers form of ex-
pressing personal dislike the whitecaps
of Canterbury, N. H, have made distinct
advance in civilization.
The generosity with (which THE CALLS
exchanges praise its enterprise in increas-
ing its pressroom facilities and extending
its telegraph service shows what the best
OF all possible newspaper critics think of
us.
1t is singular fact, which may yet lead
to international complications, that the
first victim of the new Mexican law author
izing peace officers to execute highway
robbers without trial was an American
citizen.
Every workman, mechanic or artisan
employed in an industrial establishment in
this State should be loyal enough to his
fellow-workman to purchase only home
made goods for his own use whenever it is
possible to do so.
American railways are not equal to the
possibilities of American engineering
simply because the earnings are used up in
paying dividends on watered stock instead
of having surplus to be employed in i'm
proving the roads.
In view of the fact that the Republican
National Committee is to decide next De-
cember on the place for holding the Ma
tional convention, it is time that all the
States west of the Rocky Mountains were
organizing fight in favor of San Fran
cisco.
What more forcibly illustrates the folly
of the habit of buying Eastern articles
than the shipment here of carload of
step-ladders from Michigan? With all the
various cheap woods and idle carpenters
on the coast it would seem that the neces-
sity for the importation of step-ladders
might be overcome.
The Arabic saying that all who have
sought Allah have already found him is
applicable to the Fresno committee, which
will start tomorrow to raise $50, 600 or $75,-
600 for the Valley road, for its assurance
that the amount will be quickly raised
ought to mean that ii is only WAITING for