The morning call., 1895-02-13

good, but industrial training would be
better.
Now that the new era has dawned, the
sun seems to be rising at every point of the
horizon.
The hand of death has shufled the cards
for the Sacramento lobby and taken the
joker out.
An investigating committee on street i'm
provement would very soon stumble on
something.
One useless attache has gone by the
board. and the others should be made to
walk the plank.
Congress can hardly present bill that
the people would more willingly pay than
the Nicaragua bill.
corruption of San Francisco are more like
harpies than harpers.
In the matter OF local reform San Fran
cisco viii be most likely to make winning
game by playing a lone hand.
Judging from the condition of some of
our streets, it might be advisable to call
Good Roads Convention in this city. !
No scheme fer the relief of the national |
treasury can have good footing unless it |
stands on protection and bimetalism.
The revival OF the mining industries of |
the State brings back something of the glow |
OF the old times that were good times.
The prompt punishment of the midnight |
raiders of Church street would be a good /
evidence that the law has its eyes open.
Men OF means who abstain from subscrib- |
ing to the valley road because they are
merely indisposed, will feel sick later on.
Perhaps the people who are continually |
talking about corruption in San Francisco |
will now apply to Babylon for Endorsement. |
A useless commission is nobody's cherry |
tree, and any George Washington in the |
Legislature has right TO use his hatchet |
on it.
Better pay for schooteachers and less
pay for useless commissioners, would suit
the people and advance both education
and economy.
The proposed cable to Hawaii cannot be
constructed too soon. 1t is time for us to
reach out over the Pacific with hand that
has firm grip.
The man who spends his time in de-
nouncing his own city is as bad as the fellow
who sends coarse valentine to girl who
is too good for him.
There has always been more good than
evil in San Francisco, and never has there
been time when the good was more pre-
dominant than now.
In making concession to Guatemala in
the interests of peace, Mexico has raised
herself in the esteem of all who understand
the true dignity of nations.
There are still several capitalists in the
city whose names are unpleasahtly con-
spicuous by their absence from the SUBJ
scription list of the competing road.
There is at any rate show OF reason for
the Democratic hope of passing currency
reform bill at this session, for they have
now turned to Tom Reed for guidance.
What our teachers ought to have is not
pension for those who have taught twenty
five years, but an adequate salary for all
from the first year of their service to the
last.
The use of convict labor in crushing rock
for rural highways is policy that can be
supported both by those who demand re-
trenchment and economy and those who
favor extension and improvement.
Counties whose sparse population and
comparative poverty render them unable
to carry out the road Improvements neces-
sary to develop their rural resources, de-
serve State assistance, and ought to have it.
The announcement that an English syn
dicate has bought the big watch factories
of this country, implies that foreign cap
italists are going to have a watch on us
just about the time we most need watch
on them.
Legislators who are opposed to discharg-
ing useless attaches might make COM
promise with the people by going home
and sacrificing their salaries, instead of
staying where they are and sacrificing
their prospects.
With projected competing railroad to
build up interior industries and cable line
projected to give an electric impulse to
our ocean commerce, San Francisco may
well look to the future for greater pros
perity than she has ever known.
At q recent meeting of the Rritish Proes
Association one of the speakers gave curl
Gus reason for regretting the retirement of /
Gladstone from Parliament. He said that |
the grand old man not only spoke elo-
quently himself, but provoked others to re-
ply, and therefore made a great deal of |
readable copy for the press. The speaker
estimated that the cessation of this Glad
stone copy meant loss to the Press Asso-
ciation Of $4,000 year.