The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-06


Every "electrocution" INDUCED in under
the New York law shocks the community
as well as the victim.
The opponents of the Sunday saloon
closing law in New York are denouncing
ALBANY legislation" and demanding home
rule.
The Hawaiian filibuster is stalking the
Pacific Coast, breathing fire and smoke
and grooming like a raw-head- and bloody
bones.
It must be costing President Dole a
pretty sum to maintain a literary bureau
devoted to the manufacture of fiIibuster
ghost stories.
a comprehensive protective tariff is all
that is needed to advance our reviving in
dustries to high degree of prosperity and
keep them there.
The Camp Roache experiment demon
strates that California has the most
intelligent and best educated body of
farmers in the world.
increase and American goods are crowded
out of American markets, but the deficit
in the revenue continues.
What will it profit Kaiser William to
celebrate the German victories over France
so long as he insists upon keeping Bis
marck in the background?
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held soon, one in Washington and one in
San Francisco, and still the gold men assert
that the silver movement is subsiding.
The Atlanta Exposition is getting the
biggest kind of advertising in the Eastern
States and if we have suitable exhibit
there we will get some of the benefit of it.
In being shifted to and fro from the
6heriff's gilded buggy to the Black Maria
for transportation to the courtroom Dur
rant is probably impelled to wonder
whether he is martyr or criminal.
The fruit-growers of Placer County have
set an example of loyalty and wisdom in
repudiating the means adopted in New
York and Chicago to break down the
power of the California fruit-growers.
If sensational newspapers which are
working to strengthen the Provisional
Government of Hawaii by publishing fill
buster yarns are not receiving liberal pay
for their services they are neglecting a
golden opportunity.
The friends of the Solid Eight continue
to insist that the solid ones exercised dis
erection in trying to award a valuable fran
chise to the Market-street Railway Com
pany, when the law requires them to award
it to the highest bidder.
The story that Democratic county con-
vention in Kansas was induced to indorse
Populist nominees by distribution of but
termilk among the thirsty delegates is a
good enough Kansas yarn, but it does not
harmonic with National Democracy.
Chicago expert on racing says Ameri-
can racetracks are the finest in the world,
and that to make the sport in this country
equal to that in Europe there is needed
nothing but few wholesome whippings
and shuttings lin dark closets for certain
track-owners who abuse the sport.
g. large crowd OF Brazilian gypsies
recently left New York City for California,
but the Tribune says; GAS they intend to
cross the continent in wagons, give shows,
tell fortunes and trade horses, not to men
ton other things, on the way, there is no
telling when they will get there"
The news that President Barrios of
Guatemala is moving to effect an alliance
of the Central American States revives the
old but always interesting problem that a
union of states all of which are internally
dismembered would be the most pictur-
esque thing that the history of the world
could produce.
The supreme contempt with which the
Federal Government ignores the sensa-
tional reports of black-bearded and red
handed ''filibusters," who use the Pacific
Coast as parade ground for their
bloody intentions with regard to Hawaii,
is the cruelest stab that sensational jour
nalism has received in many a day.