The morning call., 1895-02-21

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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 81, 1895
Let the people speak.
Extravagance must be denounced.
Retrenchment will be most surely right
if it is begun right now.
The best way to deal with useless hang
er-on is to swing him off.
The soft snap for the tax-shirker is a
tough burden for the taxpayer.
There is abundant room for legislative
investigation in the Legislature itself.
Legislators who have fought for economy
deserve the honor of their constituents
Legislative extravaganza seems to be a
game of bluff in which there is no limit.
The Legislature evidently regards itself
as the clearinghouse of political bargains
There is many a man on the list of legis-
lative attaches who never would be missed.
People who cannot put up with the
present railroad ought to put up for new
one.
Legislative business has reached the rush
line and vigilance is needed to prevent foul
play.
If we wish the Republican National
Convention to come to us we must go
after it,
The Competing road will do some practi-
cal currency reform by putting money into
circulation.
Perhaps Ii Hung Chang will begin his
reform work by stripping the yellow jacket
off the Emperor.
No Republican official can have the sup
port of the party who fails to keep his
pledges to the people.
The canvass last fall sketched an out
line of economy. but the living picture now
presented is a caricature.
great deal of snap and vigor in the con-
ventional talk of the city.
Extravagant legislators are making bed
they will have to lie in, for the people will
never let them lie out of it.
Persons who expect to attend the next
National Republican Convention might as
well arrange for rooms in San Francisco.
1t appears that there is at least enough
silver tincture in the Senate to keep the
goldbug pest from doing any harm there.
Perhaps the legislators and attaches do
not see the full sweetness Of our policy, but
for the public it is rose water just the
same.
There are some people who cannot be
struck even by an enterprise for their own
good but what they turn round and kick
at il.
The biggest problem that confronts the
State is that of reviving hydraulic mining
and doing justice to the men who own the
mines.
European bankers call Growers latest
loan Colossal success: but in this
country only the colossal feature is seen,
the success is not evident.
While there may be some reason why
useless attache should draw his breath
there is no reason on earth why the State
should pay him for doing it.
Compelling industrious taxpayers to sup
port lot of idle tax-shirkers as legislative
attaches, is carrying political petty larceny
to the degree OF capital crime.
Congress has just about slime enough left
to commit the blunder OF passing the Reilly
funding BILL and there are Just about
enough fools in the House to do it.
The subscribers to the competing road
are the kind of men who know how to
make small town a great city and how to
=. turn dull city into a thriving metropolis.
Senators who propose to vote for the bill
limiting the number of attaches for future
Legislatures will be expected to explain
why the Limitation should not be applied
now.
In proposing bill providing for economy
in future Legislatures, the Sc nate commit
tee overlooks the well-known truth that the
best way to preach economy is to prac-
tice it.
Senators Perkins and White will be ex-
cused from making speeches on currency
reform if they viii save their wind to talk
the Reilly bill to death in case it comes be-
fore them.
1t is asserted by competent observers
that while the men of Colorado are up to
the neck in politics the women are in poll
tics up to the top of the flowers that deco
rate their high hats.
As Argentine regiments are being re-
cruited by conscripting men as they come
out of church, the Government evidently
intends to have something of Salvation
Army to save the republic.
From the diminished output of silver
and the increased output of gold there is
reason to believe that the operation of
economic law will restore the normal