The morning call., 1895-02-06

What is the advantage OF a boulevard II
it leads only to fightP
stockton's promise of 100000 to the
competing road is as good as gold.
The howIers against San Francisco will
soon be bowling against everything.
We need no investigation from the out
side any more than we need whitewash.
Do you intend to study the charter your
self or take your neighbours word for Il?
If the new charter were as broad as it is
long, it would cover everything in sight.
Japan is willing to accept peace, butt is q
larger piece than China is willing to agree to.
1t looks as if Los Angeles would meet US
at Fresno and make the line thorough
fare.
The present Congress can boast of killing
more currency bills than any other on
record.
All we have to do is to pay for the COM
peting road at the start; it will pay for
itself later on.
One of the difficulties experienced in
heading off the inquisition bill is that it
hasn't any head to it.
There is danger that the refunding bill
may come out of the committee trans
formed but not reformed.
1t remains uncertain whether it is the
ferry depot or the report about it that
hasn't got good foundation.
If the Legislature finds any statute in the
way of retrenchment the people viii ex-
pect them TO repeal the statute.
A line connecting Santa Clara Valley d.
rectly with the San Joaquin is one of the
necessary links of a competing system.
The people will not fail to note that
prosperity returns to the country when
the Republican party returns to power.
There may be temporary expedients, but
there will be no settlement of the currency
question without return to bimetallism
If the Congressional Record would report
accurately all the rows in the House and
the Senate it would be very lively scrap
book.
If man carefully studies the existing
situation he viii find that it is very hard to
avoid being an optimist unless he was
born fool.
1t is not coincidence merely that as
the Democratic Congress draws to close
there is a corresponding approach to the
end of hard times.
The only thing that could augur well for
the promoters of the inquisition bill would
be something that could bore hole for
them to crawl into.
Evidences of returning spring are abund-
ant in our State exchanges, for some are
talking of city elections and some are talk
ing of flower shows.
If President Dole desires to be gratefully
remembered in this country he will retain
Liliuokalani at home and keep her off
our lecture platform.
In donating $4,000 to the valley road the
directors of the Hibernia Bank have shown
that they know how to run bank on
broad-gauge principles.
In promising a surplus in the national
treasury by the end of the year Secretary
Carlisle gives national breadth to the
philosophy of optimism.
Men who have mania for investigating
things Will find abundant employment for
their energies III investigating the charter
to find out what it means.
From the language and the actions of
Senator Harris yesterday, it is evident that
senatorial courtesy" has large-sized
blow-hole in it somewhere.
1t is worth noting that San Francisco
has at this time larger prospects on foot,
with better prospects of obtaining them,
than any other city in the Union.
The buzzsaw of the retrenchment COM
mittee at Sacramento is shaping up some
good planks for the next Republican plat
form, and the party will point with pride
to them.
Without competing line, the Railroad
Commission is powerless; with a compet-
ing line it would be useless We might as
well save the money therefore and let the
commission slide.
The important issue now before the San
Francisco delegation at Sacramento is to
kill the inquisition bill and put an end to
every attempt to stir up faction fights in
the city and prevent enterprise.
Tired of seeing the country suffer while
the Democrats founder in the financial
middle, Tom Reed offers a temporary ex-
pedient to help them out of the mud, and
if they are wise they will accept it.
1t is doubtful if there ever was time
when politics and business were so thor
oughly identified il California as now. At
this juncture there are literally but two
parties, one of which means business and
the other don't.
The peaceful settlement of the contro- |
yersy between the locomotive engineers
and the Southern Pacific Company ought |
not to be difficult, for their mutual inter |
estS are strong and this is a bad time for |