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

Business Office 40 Market street, will receive
prompt attention.
SATURDAY,. JUNE 8, 1885,
The Whitney boom was only fieetins
show.
Next week Santa Cruz will have the
floor.
Money is the most successful flying ma.
chine in the world.
The best way to get on with the hot spell
is to take day off.
Civilization is very largely a matter Of
street improvement.
The man who has crick in his neck
ought never to feel dry.
Old saws, even though rusty, still cut
more sharply than new.
Even dollar in the bush is better than
two in the hand of silurian.
A divided Democracy promises Repub-
Hcan redemption even for Kentucky.
1t is somewhat surprising that the
Washtenaw got safely round the Horn
with such name.
It is only the good investment of the
immediate nickel that assures the coming
of the ultimate dollar.
The man who waits to take things as
they come is liable to be headed off by the
fellow who meets them half way.
Senator Brice may be right in saying
patronage is curse" but he seems will
ing to have it come home to roost.
While the Fourth of July orator will be
soaring on his Pegasus the children will be
placidly riding donkeys in the park.
Railway and steamship companies will
never enjoy their highest ambition until
they are made official censors OF the press.
As everything that we do is intended to
advance our happiness, man. wisdom is
measured by the means which he employs.
The old weather-beaten hulk of Democ-
racy must either be put in a drydock for
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soak.
Nearly every Eastern newspaper that
comes to hand in these days contains a
paragraph announcing that the weather is
hot stuff.
The Japanese are not displaying con-
spicuous wisdom by inviting the troubles
which have oyertaken the Chinese in the
United States.
While there may be no goodness except
that which is cherished for its own sake,
we still draw good deal of comfort from
the other kind.
1t is considerate of Japan to keep at home
$4,000 of the 100000 Japanese who want to
come to this country and take the places
of white laborers.
The line of battle on the money question
in 1856 may be drawn on a very different
ground from that occupied by the Skin
mishers this year.
The only gesture appropriate to Altgeld's
remarks on Cleveland at the Springfield
convention would have been a vigorous
stamp with both feet.
1t is within the limits of possibility that
Chicago erected that Confederate monu-
ment in order to draw the Southern trade
away from New York.
The devil may be the father of evil. but
If fear of him were taken out of the lives of
men there would be a good deal more
wickedness than there is
Secretary Morton has grayely commend.
ed the sculptor who made his bust by saw
ing: "He has made the head SO nv hat
fits it as well as it does me-"
If Santa Cruz can arrange to make a
permanent affair of the lake which it has
made for the water carnival it will be add
ing to its splendid attractions
The new Secretary of State can at least
give us the satisfaction of learning whether
he can be better friend of the corporations
as Secretary than as Attorney General. 1.
If the New York Sun is correct in savin,
the Democratic party is most dangerous to
its opponents when most silent, the Re-
publican party will have an easy walkoyer
in '96.
Fast life in France evidently does not
ind favor with the Government for that
body goes along so slowly the Criminal
Statutes OF 1892 have only Just been pub,
hshed.
There are men of repute who assert that
in less than sixty days the Conservative
party will be in power in England and will
use its influence to promote a return to
bimetallism.
Asa Bushnell, whom the Ohio Republi.
cans have nominated for Governor. is q
New Yorker, but he is not a bad New
Yorker like the Mr.. Brice whom the Ohio
Democrats elected to the Senate.
The Chicago Times Herald proudly claims
that Chicago has been ''pioneer in reform
methods, material, economic, social, moral
and patriotic, but strangely overlooks the
pioneer work done by the city in the lard
business.