The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-11

For every festival in California there is a
strike in the East.
The Pacific Yacht Club will spread its
white wings to-day.
The Delaware Legislature shut up with
the same deadlock it opened with.
The dog show may be accounted as an
other of the successes of the season.
England has no more fear of the Monroe
doctrine than OF doing anything wrong.
Other festaI cities had rose queens, but
Oakland will content herself with bud.
The San Joaquin would thank US for a
little wind, with the breath of the ocean
in it.
Festivals come and festivals go, but the
San Joaquin road will stay with us for
ever.
This warm weather is melting the sun
shine into ingots and coming the fruit into
gold.
The San Joaquin Valley has an oppor-
tunity to say what it thinks of San Fran
cisco.
No man is ever accounted good in the
community unless he is good for some
thing.
The San Joaquin road deserves the China
Basin in a clean shape without any cold
soup in it.
1t isn't worth while to kick at silurian
when you can hit him with an improve
ment club.
This is the kind of weather that puts the
sugar in the strawberry and the flavor in
the cherry.
1t would be a wise thing to keep the
Board of Health free from the necessity of
fumigation.
After the glow and the fervor of the in
terror festivals, society will be glad to take
in the Santa Cruz swim.
If the big money syndicate buys up all
the gold it will be easy to let them keep it
and do business with silver.
1t is one Of the paradoxes in life that the
wheels in mans head never run so rap
idly as when he is off his trolley.
The Civic Federation proposes to do
something to help the Hah-million Club
by checking the streetcar death rate.
The average citizen cannot without an
effort be brought to think that the Morgue |
is proper place for frolics and orgies.
The first thing for the next Congress to |
do by way of beginning business is to put |
the Wilson tariff On the misfit counter.
When the Democrats were in power they |
did nothing for bimetallism, but now they |
are out of Office they mouth it wonderfully. |
The Hawaiian National Band has been |
expelled from the islands because it re-
fused to take the Doleful oath of al |
legiance.
The two substantial evidences of ad- |
vancement in local improvement are the |
present increased sales of lots and the alb |
sence of increased prices.
One of the surest proofs of the coming |
of better times for California is to be |
found in the growing improvement of the |
wine and the mining industry.
Northward, westward and southwark |
San Francisco grows and finds every
where new sites for homes overlooking |
vistas where every prospect pleases.
No Californian who does not provide his |
own table generously with California fruit |
has right to complain because somebody |
in the East does not indulge in our orchard |
products.
The advancing prosperity of Amador !
County is manifest by the fact the Amador |
Record has expanded to an eight-pagei
quarto and records bright and hopeful |
outlook for Suffer Creek and all the min |
ing interests.
The London Economist, after deducting |
the amount of trade Great Britain lost by |
the depression, estimates that the British |
people profted by the reduced prices of |
imported goods in 1894 by something more |
than $1O0, 100000.
Those who may see a red light burning
on or near the summit of Mount Diablo |
this evening need fear no worse eruption |
imam the CfOSS country Oluu, WHICH goes |
thither to-day and likes something red at |
night to steer its course by.
Unless the Southern Pacific is ready to |
prove that the fruit tariffs which it must |
charge in order to do business have an eye |
to the meeting of obligations which need !
never have been incurred, the people of
California cannot be convinced that COM |
petition in transportation is unnecessary. |
1t is not only the helpless dead in the |
Morgue who need decent treatment, but !
also the healthy living people of the city |
who are not ready to make personal con-
tributions to the Morgue statistics by being |
thrown in contact with prevalent diseases |
which competent Board of Health might |
avert.