The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

Healdsburg dons. its holiday attire to-
day.
People who make no progress make
nothing.
The ways of enterprise are always win
ming ways.
Shutting off the City lights won't keep
the deficit dark.
Until we have better pavements no one
can live on Easy street.
Economy should illumine our path and
not leave us in the dark.
Westward the fruit-grower must take his
way if he desires a sure thing.
The picnic season seems to have been
dead frost all over the lake region.
The best plant to cultivate on the Pacific
Coast Just now is the factory plant.
IfCleveland leaves the Democratic party
the only place for him will be a hole in the
ground.
Just as soon as we get pleasant pave
ments in the City it will be difficult to find
silurian.
A few nights of dark streets will incline
everybody 70 bond the. City and make
lightsof it.
. San Francisco has a good opportunity
now to get public library her people can
be proud of.
There would not be so many festivals in
California if there were not so many reasons
for rejoicing.
Sooner or later the fruit factories must
come where the orchards are and meet the
fruit half way.
No sort of moral reform can precede
knowledge of how the commonest affairs
OF life can be managed wisely.
1t is foolish man who spends his time
mourning over lost opportunities instead
of looking round for new ones.
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While we are talking of festivals and
progress our Eastern friends are discussing
nothing but politics and baseball.
Shipping fresh frnit across the continent
may be risky, but it is not half so much so
as trying to grow it in the frost belt.
A sneer is easier than wisdom. and flip
pancy is the slide on which Folly flies
down, screaming with laughter, to drown
ing water.
If the bicyclists make an earnest fight
for good streets the time will soon come
when cobblestones will be remembered
with a shudder.
1t must be comforting for the residents
of the San joaquin Valley to read of the
profits secured by the Southern Pacific
Company in 1894.
The Sacramento Valley editors are evil
IDENTIFY determined to supply the valley
with a new dress and issue its industries in
an enlarged form.
Those who insist that arbitration would
settle all disputes seem TO overlook the
function of the courts and the duty to re-
frain from disagreeing.
The extension of the railway is bringing
about the inevitable result in America of
localizing the production of all the leading
articles of consumption.
1t is said Tom Reed can speak English,
French and italian and is now studying
Spanish, but we notice he always talks
straight-out Americanism.
The only exultation that would be seemIy
over the destruction of so much of the
Eastern fruit by frost is that based on the
ability of California to supply the loss.
Put your pencil down at random on any
part of the map of the Pacific Coast, and
you will touch locality where new en-
terprise is either under way or on the way.
According to the latest report the mines
of West Australia are in bad situation,
for not only is there very little gold in the
region, but there isn't enough water to
water the stock.
If the report that the Half-million Club
is willing to receive advice should induce
all who are eager to give it to come to San
Francisco it would grow to be a Two
million Club inside of a year.
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Tariff reformers say the revival in trade
is due to che Wilson bill, the monometal-
lists say it is due to the gold standard, but
business men know it is due to hard work
and energy in the face of obstacles.
No matter how hard the times and how
difficult it has been for California indus
tries to prosper under the Southern Pacific
freight charges, the last annual report of
Mr.. Huntington's corporation shows a net
profit Of nearly $2,O00,0 900.
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It is no trouble for those who want too
much undertaken at once for the deyel-
opment of the State to be blind to the fact
that only one great thing can be done at a
time, and that the greatest thing now be-
fore the people is the San Joaquin Valley
noad. -
As more than 900, 600 pounds of overland
freights were shipped from San Jose last
week as against little more than 600,0
pounds for the corresponding week of 1894,
it appears that Santa Clara intends to keep
up her annual practice of breaking her own
records.