The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-10
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

Santa Barbara is pretty place, where the
very air is favored with romance, but if the
practice of calling its citizens " Barbarians !"
should prevail, not the dim cloisters OF its his
toric mission, not its golden sands caressed by
wavelets dancing in the silver moonlight, not
ing guitars, not the bewitching glances of dark
eyes from rose-hung easements peering-not
even the traditions of love and conquest and
princely hospitality of hundred years can
overcome the adverse influence caused by such
a barbarism stri king upon the ear. That harsh,
discordant note will spoil the whole harmony.
Los Angeles Record.
Those who laugh at Stockton's aspirations
to become one of the greatest cities OF Cal1for-
mia are not novelties. Just such people laughed
in the same way when in 1850 it was predicted
that Chicago would have $50, 900 Inhabitants
before the century closed. There are nearly
five years of the century left and Chicago has
over 10000 900 people, just because majority
of its people had foresight enough to perceive
its possibilities and the ambition, courage,
energy and confidence to labor to achieve
them.-Stockton Independent
Judge Ross decision declaring the California
irrigation law unconstitutional has been
sharply criticized by one portion OF the press,
but another portion expresses its amazement
Federal Judge. These directors ought to go to
school somewhere and learn what liberty
means. The idea of pretending in these days
that the decision of any court may not be criti-
cized is fundamentally absurd.-Seattle (Wash.)
Times
The system of vertical style of penmanship
which was recently introduced in the public
schools of this city, as an experiment, has been
a success, and should be made permanent.
With the vertical system there are ten scholars
who will make good penmen where there
would be out one by the old Spencerian style.
There are hundreds of good penmen who have
become so only after changing their style to
the vertical system.-San Jose News.
If any improvement over its predecessors
was expected from the present State Board of
Railroad Commissioners, it is doomed to disap-
pointmept. 1t is published that there are
eleven railroad companies in the State from
which the prece ling boards never required a
report, and that this board, after being seven
months in office, has taken no steps to have the
omission made good.-0ek land Enquirer
The stories about huDustering organizations
in San Francisco to make a descent upon
Hawaii appear to have been celored out of all
semblance to the truth. Men who form con-
spiracies do not publish to the world what they
are gong 10 40. IL is the YdpOrlng FELLOWS VINO
indulge in this kind of bonn bast.-Oakland
Tribune.
The fact that the imports of France to the
United States amount to about $40, 600 900
per year, and are larger than those of any
ether nation, is interesting in view of the re-
mote possibility that retaliatory measures will
be necessary to obtain justice on account of
the outrage to Waller.-Portland Oregonian.
Young man, IL you are true American and
have any love of country, interest yourself in
politics, from municipal to National. II poll
tics are corrupt, do all in your power to cleanse
Be an American citizen and do all within your
power to make legislation more just and pure.
Chico Chronicle.Record.
Men may by chicanery and double dealing
deceive the men they call friends for a time,
but truth, the naked, unpalatable truth. soon
strips the cloak OF deception from the shoulders
OF these sycophantic hypocrites and leaves them
exposed to the gaze OF their dupes.-Phenix
(Ariz.) Gazette.
Throw wide open the doors of our courts in
all cases! Those who fear the sunlight should
never commence divorce proceedings.-Sacra-
mento Bee.