The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16
Local officials must act.


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What is the Grand Jury doing2
Public investigation is demanded
Home rule demands vigilance on the
part of home-rulers.
The trials of Liliuokalani will be as moth
ing to the trial of Mrs. Dominis.
Under Americap law wherever there is
crime there is way to punish it.
With all our getting we must get the
next National Republican Convention.
Grover has the satisfaction of knowing
that no one calls him boss any more.
Currency bills go, busthe ills remain;
the bee is driven off, but the sting is left.
Hopkins Hall is noble mansion, but it
seems to be poor place for showing pic
lures.
Let US get the scandal racket ont of the
way and start in on municipal improve
ments.
The official who undertakes to go to
sleep in his Office in these days will have a
nightmare. 1
If the Grand Jury does not make
sounding report very soon it will be a clear
case of izzling.
With the coming of spring Congress and
the snow will vanish from the country
with all their slush.
If there is no corruption in the city our
officials should at least expose the ISLANDERS
of those who say there is.
1t may take the force of popular will to
set the machinery of our local law into
operation but it can do it.
The demand for an investigation into the
alleged abuses in this city points to the
city officials for an answer.
The official who does not reply. to public
charges against him cannot be said to
answer the popular demand.
The best signs of legislative retrench-
ment would be the footprints of useless
attaches pointing toward home.
The next Republican National Conven-
ton will come to San Francisco, and it
won't come to corrupt city either.
If the reformers will give US evidence of
single instance of official corruption in
this city we will guarantee its exposure.
Judged by any standard of reasonable
men, Dick Mcdonald is either crazy or has
been long time hypnotized by villain.
Congress has done enough in the way of
saving off currency reform and should
now get to work digging on the Nicaragua
canal.
The City of Mexico proposes to hold an
international exposition and California
must prepare to attend it with all her in
dustries.
Couldn't this thing be compromised by
having a legislative committee to investi-
gate nuisances, clean the streets and purify
the sewers?
Men who aspire to the fame of a Park.
hurst should follow the methods of Park
hurst, and discover crime before. they
denounce it.
San Francisco is indebted to Edward F.
Searles for another addition to her art
treasures and another example to her local
millionaires.
1t matters not what route may be decided
on for the competing road, every county
that builds branch line will have all the
benefits of competition.
Bakersfield with her creamery, and
Fresno with her competing railroad, feel
in such new states of development that
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cities.
The seawall should be extended south
ward for business uses at once. and the
extension northward for ornamental pur-
poses can be attended to when times are
better.
The rush of legislation at Sacramento
will not lead the public to overlook the
fact that there are great many clerks and
secretaries there who are not doing any
rushing except on payday.
There have been many national conven- |
tons of various orders and associations
held in San Francisco, and the delegates
have always regarded the transcontinental
journey as one of the advantages of having
the meeting here.
The racket over the alleged corruption of |
the city hasn't raised too much dust for
the intelligent observer to see there are a |
good many capitalists who are lodging
their civic duty and the subscription list
to the competing road.
When we have once made definite bid
for the next national convention of the
Republican party we will not have to do
all the work OF urging its adoption. There
are many newspapers and many influential
men in the East that will help us and help
US well.
1t is satisfactory to note there has been
liberal support given to the Pure Food
exhibit, for an exposition of that kind is of
the greatest Importance to the people and
ought to do much not only to advance our
food industries but to add to health and
the enjoyment of life.