The morning call., 1895-02-15

1t is easy to pick bone with the Grand
Jury, for the whole thing seems to be
ossified.
Municipal improvement should mean
work on the streets and not talk at mass
meeting,
Humboldt sees a coast railroad in the i'm
mediate future and reaches for it with the
cry of Eureka.
We publish live news for people who
know its value and are not looking for a
dead give away.
Wherever you see an enterprise moving
forward you may be sure there is an enter
prising man pushing it.
Some men evidently make a distinction
between civic patriotism and civil regard
for the good name of the city.
The fellows who are advocating cinch
bills at Sacramento are liable to get the
cinch where they wear the collar.
No doubt the inspection of the founda-
tion for the ferry depot is a great bore to
the contractors, but it augurs well for the
people.
While we are working to give new rail
roads a good footing we should do a little
work on the streets to give ourselves a good
footing.
Although politics continue to engage a
large part of public attention, nearly every
thing that men talk earnestly about in
these days means business.
The people demand the glad new music
of the present, but the organ of the faker
continues to grind out "Sweet Violets"
and "Only Pansy Blossom.
San Francisco should take advantage of
the present low rates of interest and un-
employed labor to borrow $5,00O,0O0 and
set to work at municipal improvement.
There are good reasons for believing that
we can get the next National Re-
publican convention for San Francisco if
we begin the work at once and keep at it.
1t is healthy sign of the times that
people are talking less about abstract
enterprise and more about concrete enter
prises than they have been for many a
year.
As a matter of fact, since the President is
to live on the Atlantic Coast, he should be
nominated ON the Pacific Coast, and make
the campaign a continental tour of
triumph.
It does not matter which is called the
main line and which are called the
branches of the competing road, the one
furnishing the most business will have the
main hold.
The project of inducing the Republican
party to hold a national convention in this
city has been frequently discussed, but
now is the time to set our energies to work
for it and let money talk.
In the various city elections to be held
this spring, Republicans should take no
part in bipartisan movements, but make
straight fight for victory over all oppo-
nents of Republican principles.
Since the Lexow investigation in New
York has resulted merely in faction fight
among the reformers, it is a question
whether it was worth while to turn on so
much light to see such a small circus.
If we can induce the National Committee
to call the next Republican convention to
this city it will be easy to raise the money
to defray the expense, and THE CALL will
start the list with a subscription of $1,000.
To bring the next national Republican
convention to San Francisco would be one
of the best means to make Eastern states.
men acquainted with the Pacific Coast and
to interest them in the improvement OF
our rivers and the revival of mining.
The project of the Emperor William to
place all his ancestors in marble in the
finest Berlin park and surround each with
statues of his leading Ministers and gen.
erals sounds well, but it is liable to make
the park look like monumental cemetery.
Those who are opposing an investigation
by our local authorities into the alleged
corruption of municipal affairs are oppos-
ing the only sure means of getting at the
truth and Furnishing the criminals. 1t is
the housekeeper who does the best house.
cleaning.
In working for competing road with
out regard to whether it will be the main
line or branch line of the projected road
to the San Joaquin, the people of Santa
Clara are acting with level-headed COM
nonsense, for, in either case, it will be
thoroughfare for them.
The announcement that a mammoth
dairy industry is to be established by
Illinois capitalists in Kern County sounds
like species of good luck for that section,
and yet it is not altogether luck. 1t was
by their own energy and industry that the
people of Kern made the resources of their
county known, and they are fully entitled