The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-07

The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO
CALL DAILY and Weekly, Pacific States Adver-
Using Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and
Duane streets, New York.
THURSDAY .............-..FE FEBRUARY z, 1895
Exit Iiliuokalani.
The calamity howlers are corked up.
Uneasy lies the head that has a wheel
in ii.
Cleveland and Gresham should surrender
next.
Inquisition don't go but the inquisitors
must.
Home rule means reform, and reform
means home rule.
Nearly all the news that comes in these
days Is good news.
Whenever San Francisco helps herself
she takes the cake.
Santa Clara and the San Joaquin are
eager to clasp hands.
Inquisitions are out of date and should
be knocked out of time.
The useless attache who does not wish TO
lose his head should resign.
The S2,O00,O00 is in sight, with several
precincts yet TO be heard from.
The only thing remaining in the mission
OF the Democratic party is to quit
In these days every man who cannot be
anything else tries to be Parkhurst.
The revolt in Hawaii evidently shook
things up Just enough to settle them.
Shall we lay cable line to Hawaii or
wait for little Hawaii to lay it herself?
If the news from Hawaii makes Grover
sick of his policy he ought to throw it up.
1t is only legitimate journalism that
achieves legitimate successes in journal
ism.
The legislator who cuts the trolley wire
of the inquisition bill Will make ten
strike.
Even the Wall-street men are giving the
new bonds bad name by calling them
Growers"
In the vocabulary of a community that
is capable of self-government there is no
such word as Lexow.
Let the Legislature devote its investiga-
tons to matters of retrenchment and the
people viii be satisfied.
The State is with US on every PROPOSE
ton from building railroads TO practicing
complete local self-government.
The Democratic Congress provided an
income tax, but it will take Republican
Congress to provide the income.
Whenever a man attempts to combine
fakes with journalism, he soon becomes
more of faker than journalist.
Every citizen should make himself suffi-
GENTLY acquainted with the proposed char
ter TO recognize the new features of it.
Wheat is cheap, silver is cheap, cotton is
cheap and labor is cheap, but nothing is
The important news comes from the East
that the cocktail tea has had its day and
the coffee cocktail is the latest wrinkle.
In the present condition of affairs in San
Francisco a State investigation would be
farce comedy that wouldn't pay expenses.
Since the Freeholders have made the
new charter so long let us hope that no
official will ever have occasion TO stretch it.
The only possible way for this Congress
to redeem itself is to drop the currency
discussion and pass the Nicaragua canal
bill.
The would-be inquisitors who have gone
to Sacramento shouting 1--WE are the peo-
pie" are not numerous enough to form a
petty jury to try dog-fght case.
1t will be recorded of Cleveland here
after that the only thing he succeeded in
doing during his administration was to
catch small fish in shallow water.
The abolition of the Railway Commission
does not mean that the Legislature shall
regulate freights and fares, but that the
people should do it by building competing
roads.
In his new book DR.. Parkhurst asserts
that the pulpit is greater than the press,
but if he had really believed that he would
have contented himself with preaching his
book instead of printing it.
If a newspaper is not worth the price
asked for it, it is the duty of the editor
either to diminish the price or increase the
value of the paper and not try to patch up
the difference with a coupon scheme.
The prospects for retrenchment at Sac
ramento brighten daily, and there is a
growing confidence that the majority of
the Legislature will be true to the Repub-
lcan tradition of keeping faith with the
people and observing campaign pledges.
The sooner the Railroad Commission is |
abolished and the people are impressed |