The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
AUGUST 7, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.


Suppress the opium evil.
Let US get rid of the hop heads.
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The fIibuster seems to be bad case of
full o buster.
There will never be a free Cuba until
Havana leads the way.
There is seemingly nothing muddy in
the Clear Lake electrical scheme.
If there is such thing as science of
invention it is high time to teach it.
The next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency will serve as a National foot
ball.
In making a State exhibit as well as in
building up the State every county must
help.
The new vigor of the police. like the new
vigor of the State Department, needs brac-
ing up.
The golf girl has come as threatening
menace to the security of the boomer
girls fame.
New York is trying to boom herself as a
summer resort by starting the paradox Of
a vacation school.
Sensational reports of the Durrant case
have already borne fruit in the production
OF a murderous crank.
AS the most picturesque spot in Central
California Clear Lake deserves the recog-
milton of enterprising capital.
When Senator Hill said none but West
ern man could carry New York, he gave
Mr.. Whitney hard one on the neck.
Much Has Been Written and Much Has
Been Said are two sorry Nightmares that
haunt the slumbers of unskilled writers.
Sensational newspaper reports, filling
pages of padded suggestiveness, can be read
only by those most susceptible to their evil
influence.
Sensational newspapers afflicted with fill
busterphobia seem to have overlooked an
opportunity which the presence of the Solid
Eight suggests.
In the State Fair and the Mechanics In
stitute Exhibition we will have double
chance to show overselves as we wish
others to see US.
1t is rather odd that W. K. Vanderbilt
should have started racing stable and
begun to ride about Newport in horse
less carriage at the same time.
There would be more satisfaction in
knowing that English money is coming
our way if it were not for the knowledge
that the interest on it is going their way.
Those whom sensational journalism does
not transform into cranks are nevertheless
afflicted thereby with ailments hardly less
deplorable than a murderous inclination.
Before we shake hands with a trusted
friend it might be wise hereafter to take
him into a secluded corner. hypnotic him
and discover if he is a Hawaiian ''fili-
buster"
1t is said that the Salisbury Ministry
will begin its work by trying to find some
land, so we may as well look out for a
racket when Parliament meets.
In support of the opinion which George
K. Fitch, the former editor of THE CALL,
entertains of its present management is the
fact that the old subscribers who swore by
him are true to the new regime.
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amid the sentimental revivals of Napo-
leonism in literature, company has been
formed in England to develop the re-
sources of the island of ST. Helena.
The first thing the Republican Congress
will have to do this winter will be to pro-
vide a remedy for the Democratic defeat,
so that the Cleveland administration viii
not be starved out by its own policy.
That provision of the New York Penal
Code which makes railway companies
liable to Indictment for carelessly killing
their passengers would, if adopted in Cali
fornia, make the trolley realize that it is
loaded.
That form of newspaper enterprise
gushing criminal reports to the exclusion
of valuable news which costs money, finds
its reward in the praise of the ignorant
and depraved.
What with "filibusters," "solid eights,''
the dereliction of the Railroad Commission
and the gobbling of streets by the Market
street Railway Company it seems that the
only hope for new sensation depends on
Mount Shasta's ability to renew its ancient
volcanic activity.
The city authorities of New York ap-
propriated $24,500 to purchase twelve
.atrol wagons and the necessary horses
for the Police Department, but Police
Commissioner Grant made the purchases
himself, and out of the appropriation
saved enough money to provide ten addi-
tional wagons, so he is now getting almost
as much praise as Roosevelt himself.