The morning call., 1895-02-14

1t is hard to tell whether the inquisition
bill is intended for comic valentine or an
anonymous insult.
DR.. Parkhurst and his friends are now
complaining that the State inquisition in
New York did no good after all.
There is a danger that many of the ap-
preparation bills before the Legislature
may result in misappropriations.
San Jose and Stockton are working in
harmony for the competing road, as there
is clearly enough business in it for both.
The Reilly funding bill comes back to
Congress like a dead dog on a returning
tide with a worse odor than it had before.
1t is by home enterprise that we have
started the business revival, and it is by
home energies that we must start political
reform.
By assisting the pooret counties to con-
struct good roads the State will help to
make them rich, and will profit by their
wealth.
To keep our ways in the city in harmony
with those of the State we must meet the
good roads movement with movement
for good streets.
The honor given to capitalists who are
helping to advance the welfare of Califor-
MIA reflects condemnation on those who
refuse to join them.
1t should not be referred to as the valley
hr,4 ROr fbar
will be several other roads with right to
a like title before long.
Along with our competing road we must
carry our street improvements, so that
when people come to the city they can see
what city ought to be.
If the legislators do not practice re-
trenchment they will have the whole
people on them as an investigating COM
mittee before they know it.
It is not the few people who throng the
lobby at Sacramento, but the great mass
that stay at home that represent the real
home feeling of San Francisco.
A bill introduced into the New York
Legislature to prohibit the wearing of
balloon sleeves is calculated to make
women bare their arms for war.
Competition in railroad, municipal de-
velopment, retrenchment at Sacramento
and local reform are the winning four of
kind, and THE CALL is with them.
Inspecting concrete piers after they are
constructed is costly work, and the people
naturally wonder why the inspection
wasn't made while the construction was
going on.
1t is very seldom anything happens with
out enriching the English language, and
accordingly we are not surprised that the
Brooklyn strike has given US the new word
"detrolleyized.7
Men of means who refuse to subscribe to
the competing road will not escape public
censure by obscurity, for the people have
an eye on them, and are watching their
attempts to shirk the duty of a citizen.
II there is law enough in a community
to prevent men from tearing up the rail
way of corporation, there ought to be
law enough to prevent that corporation
from laying a railroad on street without
the consent of the people.
Intelligent men who have followed the
course of the controversy among the re-
formers in New York, will ask themselves
whether it is worth while to have a legis-
lative dragnet investigation just to bring
about Parkhurst and Lexow fight.
AS New Jersey man says he can manu-
facture gas at 30 cents thousand, and
have picnic pecuniarily speaking,
while he is doing it. we take pleasure in
informing him that he can find in San
Francisco lovely ground for that kind of
picnic.
AS an illustration of the way in which
eccentricity develops into monomania,
it is worth while noting that New York re-
formers who began by advocating nom
partisan government for the city, are now
demanding non-partisan government for
the State.
The Colusa Gazette pays US the compli-
ment of copying full column from the
CALL editorials. and thereby gives us an
Endorsement which we appreciate, since it
shows that we are in touch with the pro-
gressive press of the interior, and have its
support in working for the State.