The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-22


but Washington's country is all right.
1t is growing clearer every day that cur
rency reform means bimetallism or moth
ing.
We never demand advertising rates for
news or information that is interesting to
the public.
will have the next Congress not on his
hands, but on his neck.
About the only way for the Legislature
TO redeem itself now is to hurry up bust
ness and quit at the end of sixty days.
The silver men in the Senate did not
force the fight, but they showed readiness
to do it that made the gold men uneasy.
The incorporation of the San Joaquin
road not only gave it a strong body, but
put lots of good big brains at the head of it.
The timetables and train schedules of
all railways entering San Francisco will
be found on the tenth page for the benefit
of travellers.
There have been very few Americans
since Washington's time who could not
tell lie, but fortunately there are a great
many who don't.
Republicanism means the government of
the people, by the people, for the people,
and not the robbery of taxpayers by tax
shirkers for taxeaters.
If there is no other way to get rid of the
idle attaches their pay should be stopped
by the State officials and the money saved
for the public treasury.
Perhaps if George Washington could see
the kind of Government we have at Wash
ington, he would wonder why we are so
grateful to him for starting it.
The proposal to supply San Francisco
with water from Lake Tahoe seems like a
very big scheme at present, but it is none
too big for the future of the city.
Now that the competing road has been
successfully launched, small subscribers to
the stock may get aboard with confidence
that the enterprise won't be wrecked
You get all the live news in the CALL,
and particular attention is paid to that
which relates to the development of our
resources and the progress Of the State.
The valley road is not compelled to
make choice OF a route by Stockton or one
by San Jose, for it can take the double
route if it chooses and make money both
ways.
1t matters very little who first proposed
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vention to San Francisco, but it matters a
great deal who will work most earnestly to
achieve it.
AS it is now probable that one of the three
proposed battle-ships and four of the tor
pedo-boats will be constructed on this coast,
we can see little glimmer of business
sense in Congress after all.
If the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Railroad only had the rails laid and the
road equipped right now, it could dispense
with steam for while and run its trains
by the force of public enthusiasm.
1t will not offend good Republicans if
Governor Budd interposes his veto against
legislative extravaganza, and he may
make all the capital for his party he can,
so long as he defends the capital of the
people.
AS the San Joaquin road is to be built bv
business men for business purposes, it will
be built on business principles, and the
smallest subscriber to the stock will be as
well protected in all his interests as if he
owned the road.
The Santa Clara people evidently under
stand that the way to get a competing
line is to get in line with the competing
road, and the mass-meeting at San Jose on
Wednesday evening shows that they in
tend to do it with both feet and the best
foot foremost.
When we celebrate the anniversary of
the birth Of a great man and commemorate
his services to the State, we not only set
him forth as an example for the emulation
of youth, but manifest our appreciation of
virtue and our ability to entertain true
grandeur of sentiment.
One day we are told that the Emperor
will depose Ii Hung Chang and on the
next that Ii Hung Chang will depose the
Emperor. We may infer from this that
while the Emperor and the Minister are
having hard time attending to their bust
ness, the war correspondent has a harder
time trying to keep track of his.
The requests made by the fruit-growers
for an improved transportation service are
certainly not excessive, and while it may
not be practicable to grant all of them it
would benefit the railroad itself to exert
every effort in that direction, and as far as
possible enable our fruit to reach Eastern
markets on time and in good condition
As it seems the Legislature will not give
up single individual of the host of useless
attaches, the next thing to do is to devise
work for them. We therefore suggest a
scheme. 1t is well known that English
sparrows have become nuisance by flock
ing around our parks and public buildings
and defiling them. tits certainly desirable
to rid ourselves of the sparrows. Let the
idle attaches therefore be set to work at
the Capitol and other State buildings in
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