The morning call., 1895-02-12

Every plan for making good roads is en-
titled to the right of way.
1t will be good reform when San Fran
cisco does justice to herself.
What San Francisco cannot do for her
self no outsider can do for her.
If Congress gets message for valen-
tine it will know where it came from.
When the counties get out of the ruts
they will get the ruts out of the road.
A cable to Hawaii will not mean annex
alton, but it will prove our attachment.
Sloppy weather never fails to call at
tention to the need of street improvement
Where California invests her energy, the
East will soon be eager to invest her cap
ital.
If any citizen has nothing else to do on
rainy evenings let him read the new
charter.
Why not compromise the matter and ad-
NIT that Dick Mcdonald was a money
maniac.
The man who opens his purse for the
valley road will let more money in than he
lets out.
The people demand economy of the Leg
islature and will not be put off with an in
QUESTION bill.
Whoever looks well at the prospects of
the State will see that they are all looking
well themselves.
Under the circumstances an inquisition
bill for this city would be regarded as a
comic valentine.
The men who subscribe to the compet-
ing road will be marked, and those who
don't will be spotted.
As soon as the competing road is incor-
porated the spirit of enterprise will have
good body to work in.
As the Grand Jury shows no signs of
being an animated body, we had better get
the Coroner to sit on it.
The useless attache who is too lazy to
respond to rollcall can hardly be said to
answer even for himself.
Mexico and Guatemala are working the
Corbett and Fitzsimmons racket on the
public, with great success.
This is a good day to give birth to
patriotic impulses, for it is the anniversary
of the birthday of Lincoln.
We shall now have an opportunity to see
whether Congress has even craftsmanship
enough to pass an appropriation bill.
In the absence of local approval the ad-
vocates of the proposed State inquisition
are boasting of indorsers in New York.
Since there must be a test made of the
foundations of the proposed ferry depot,
this is certainly the best time to make it.
The blizzard blight on the Florida orange
crop is a cloud whose silver lining is dis
tinctly visible on this side of the Rockies.
This will be good time to strike the
umbrella men for subscriptions to the
valley road, as umbrellas are going up all
over town.
1t is hardly likely that President Faure
will ever resign, for he is said to be fond of
fishing, and in this country we know what
that means.
1t is not in railroad building only that
there is a revival of energy in California;
every industry from mining to fruit grow
= ing shows golden prospects.
AS Kaiser William has had printing
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field, we may as well welcome him into the
fraternity that fills a long-felt want.
The legislator who has more sympathy
with useless attaches than he has for the
people will have to look to their attach
ment for comfort hereafter, for he will get
none from the people.
In the important task of road improve
ment the State might proftably' cooperate
with the counties to the extent at any
rate of setting the State convicts to crush
ing rock for macadamizing purposes.
The interest in Japan excited by her re-
cent successes in war has called attention
to her increasing manufacturing enter
prises and the evidence in regard to them
lustlties the belief that other nations than
China viii have to begin protecting them
selves from the progressive Japs.
The fact that the daughter of a good
family in Philadelphia ran away from
home because the only literature she had
been allowed to read was "Pilgrims Prog
ress" and Fox's "Book of Martyrs" EN-.
phasizes the old truth that too much dis
cipline is worse than none. Even the
trashiest novels would not have done as
much harm to that girl as the spirit of
revolt bred in her by being forbidden to
read any at ALL
The first herd of cows inspected by the
new tuberculosis commission of New Jer-
sey was that OF the State hospital, and out
of the forty ight head it was found that
twentyseven were econsumptive. This dis |
covery made New Jersey quite proud of
the commission, but when the facts were
published the demand for New Jersey
milk fell off in New York, and now the