The San Francisco call., 1895-07-31

prompt attention.
WEDNESDAY. AY.................... july 81, 1893
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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Jurors are scarce.
Everybody seems to have an opinion.
Assessor Dalton is making a fight for
Oakland that will benefit the State.
The Ross decision may stand, but irri-
CATION will keep moving in spite OF It,
The State is still waiting for the counties
to show UP for the Atlanta Exposition.
One effective way of determining whether
or not man is honest is to elect him Su-
pervisor.
Mayor Sutro has propounded rocky
problem to the Supervisors, but there is no
trap I'M it.
Since Hoke Smiths campaign for the
gold stand ard, the Georgians are calling it
"Hoke money"
By and by the Solid Eight will find out
that the violation of law is a lottery whose
prizes don't pay.
. If Grover is nominated for third term
the country will have its long-desired op
portunity to kick.
a distrust in bimetallism means belief
in the superiority of Great Britain over
the United States.
The Valley Railroad is one project at
any rate that is keeping its promise aid
going right ahead.
California has received no more welcome
news than that the crops of Oregon this
year are exceptionally good.
If it is true that gold has been discovered
in the hills back of Berkeley it is conceiv-
able that San Francisco is built on gold
ledge.
1t would be easier for Diogenes and his
lantern to find dozen honest men in San
Francisco than to get a jury for the Dur
rant trial.
It will be profitable for the fruit men to
combine in marketing their fruit, even if
the combination serves only to make an
experiment.
The next step in the campaign of edu-
cation for bimetallism will be the silver
convention in this City, and it promises to
be big one.
In good time the Merchants Association
will show itself to be a great improvement
on vigilance committees and not whit
less efficient.
The true method Of prospecting for gold
will not have been adopted until sole
reliance on surface indications has been
exhausted and abandoned.
The management of the ferry boats is
morally responsible for and, therefore,
virtual participant in any rowdyism which
it permits on the steamers.
There is still time for the new members
of the Board OF Health to do the public a
service by naming the fellows who tried to
purchase positions from them.
Every time the Defender beats the Vigi-
liant her sanguine friends forget that the
Britannia also beat the Vigilant and the
Valkyrie has beaten the Britannia.
Now that an insurance company to pay
damages sustained by bicyclists has been
formed, a bureau that would guarantee the
honesty of supervisorial candidates is the
next necessity.
The sensational papers which are gloat-
ing over the details of the Durrant case
could give proof of the efficacy of their sys-
TEN by publishing the names OF all those
who flock to the trial.
Should the influence of the Merchants
Association be extended to the awakening
OF popular interest in primary elections
the constant fear of "solid eights" would
not haunt the community.
Those who have the time to read the
long sensational reports of the Durrant
case are not numerous, but they happen to
be those most susceptible to the evil infiu-
ence of the sensationalism.
The work done by the Civic Federation
TO vindicate the laws of California and put
an end to official misconduct will have a
material as well as moral influence, and
aid greatly in advancing the welfare of the
City.
Senator Mitchell's assurance that the
Oregon Republicans will exert their infu-
ence to secure the National Convention for
San Francisco is an encouragement to Cali
fornia and a hint to the other Pacific
States.
The Examiner has now good mystery
story, with timely query at the end of it,
in trying to find out why the Democratic
Railroad Commissioners do not keep their
campaign pledges to make an average re-
duction OF 25 per cent in the freight rates
of the Southern Pacific
The suit for half million dollars to be
brought against the City and the Spring
Valley Water Company for damaoes ans