The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30

The railroad laughs.
To the people the farce is serious.
The only road to independence is COM
peting road.
1t looks as if the octopus had the State
in commission.
All that the Railroad Commission does
is to make more talk.
After this we may as well call Boston
the Hub of Hospitality.
1t is the ship-owner who is careless, but
the sailor who loses his life.
How would it do to have a competing
Board of Railroad Commissioners
1t was wise teacher who told the world
"If the tree yields no fruit cut 1t down."
As farce of the day the Railroad Com
mission is equal to three "brass monkeys"
In addition to the burden of monopoly
the people must also bear the burden of
proof.
Stanton's pledge seems to have had a.
mental reservation as big as railroad
reservation.
Commissioner Clark sees his oppor-
tunity. but evidently intends to pass on
the other side.
So long as the Republican party holds |
Clark and Democracy holds Stanton |
honors are easy.
1t is hard to tell what the Railroad Com
mission wants, but, whenever Eve find it,
we find it wanting.
The sooner you go to the Mechanics
Fair the sooner you will have an oppor-
tunity to repeat the visit.
If the commission cannot abolish the
cinch of the monopoly the people can at
least abolish the commission.
As the Country Club has celebrated a
"pink day." it is a reasonable supposition |
that the night was painted red.
The loss of the Bawnmore is another |
notice to ship-owners that overlooking is |
a poor business in the long run.
Free silver got black eye in Pennsyl- |
vania on Wednesday, but Don Cameron
and his friends are still in the ring.
Olney's foreign policy has done nothing
as yet, but in the reports from Washington
it has certainly become very promising.
The Democratic pledge to reduce freight
rates was plank to stand on during the
campaign and log to roll off afterward.
When Bayard asks England to arbitrate
her dispute with Venezuela he should ask
it in a way that will not lead to any back
talk
When the opponents of Senator Quay
met that gentlemen they knew where
they were, but they didn't know what they
were doing there.
The detectives who have been hunting
for Brady's treasure are now prepared to |
swear that getting the sack is by no means |
the same as getting the money.
The convention of Western editors at |
Salt Lake kwas solid for silver, and this
assures the Tact that the campaign for |
sound money in the Greater West is In safe |
hands.
AS the man nominated by the Nebraska |
Populists to head the ticket this fall is so |
years old he can hardly hope to live to see
the success of the party: but perhaps he |
will come Just as near it as anybody else.
In nominating for Governor young |
man who was born in the Territory the |
Republicans of Utah have done well. It /
is highly proper that the new State should |
come into the Union under the admins |
tration of her native sons.
The grain-growers and all other shippers |
of the San Joaquin have the satisfaction of |
knowing that while the Railroad Commits |
sioners fiutter and splutter in useless talk |
the tracklayers of the competing road keep |
right along with their work.
Senator Qray's ability as a political |
leader was never shown to better advan-
tage than in the Harrisburg convention, |
when, after beating his opponents on |
test vote, he graciously conceded them |
everything they wanted except the control |
of the party.
Now that the American Bar Association |
is in convention it would confer favor if |
1t would devise some means of reforming |
the jury system and bringing it into har- |
mony with present conditions. There is
no reason why we should drag the practice |
OF the middle ages after US forever.
Governor Hastings aptly sized up the |
political situation in Pennsylvania by say
ing the electricity generated by the fric-
ton Of rival factions in the Republican |
party would purify the atmosphere, and |
the resulting cyclone would sweep away |
the free-trade, debt-making Democracy.
In ordering THE CALL sent to her ad-
dress Mrs. Susan L. Mills of Mills College
writes as follows: cit IS delightful to have
such clean paper that we can put before |
our young ladies without hesitation. 1 |
congratulate the editors of THE CALL upon |
their success, and 1 wish them the in /
creasing success which they Deserve
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