The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-05

DAILY CALL-$6 per year by man; DE carrler' LOG
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The Eastern Office. of the SAN FRANCISCO
CALL DAILY and Weekly, Pacific States Adver-
Using Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and
Duane streets, New York.
FRIDAY...................,.-......AAPRIL ., 1885
Where are~the reformers?
The octopus is hauling in its tentacles
and taking othe mud.
It looks as if the monopoly had begun a
deathbed repentance.
The lottery ticket is big enough to write
a sermon on that viii draw.
The paving ordinance as a job is even
worse than the cobblestones.
The ring may be made of triple brass and
steel, but the people can break it.
The Grand Jury has chance to. make a
record on the track. OF the boodlers.
: AT first it was called Burlingame, then
Burlington and now*;it is Bingum.
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Now is the time for the Grand Jury to
get high:power buzz;sa.w movement on it.
"A good use to which the cobbIestones on
the streets. could. be put would be to film
the water front with: them. -
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>: .The.fftrst step toward political improve
lnent. involves the paradox OF sitting down
on the Tascals who. bar the way.
:: The E5amiiileT lightly refers. to the Super
:visor$' combine as the affiliated eight,'
but neglects to say who did the filling.
:. The rainbow was never more beautiful
than Santa Barbara and Los Angeles will
be in floral Yestments during the fiesta.
Publication of the list OF winning num-
bers in lotteryis an advertisements the
greatest swindle that thrfves on avarice.
AS all progressive men are ashamed to
be regarded as silurians, they can avoid
the stigma BY working for the good of the
City.
: @visalia lost one great railroad through
lack of generosity, but there is no absence
of that quality in her efforts to secure the
Valley road.
Seeing that posterity has never done any
thing for US, it is difficult TO see why it
should complain at anything we may do
for ourselves.
Threatening to shoot workingmen on the
street one day and apologizing on the next
is a course Of action that looks decidedly
like squirming. .
This is a good time for Highton and
Menzies to. come forward and show their
ability toinvestigate trauds-and purify the
City. government.
Tie: Republican party demands that its
Representatives. ON the Board Of Supervisors
shall keep their pledges and give the City
good governIne tt.
Superintendent Harris staggering on |
the Street.-The Falstaff and boasting of tmy
bully pistol'is the greatest Shakespearean |
tTavesty ef'the: day.
: In creating a bonded indebtedness which |
will make Impossible for San Francisco to
becoiie a great city we are leaving the
most valuable, of legacies TO our children.
+: The shipper Who pledges himself to
patronize: the Valley road shows that he
loves his own prosperity and that of the
State. more than he fears the Southern
Pacific. :. :.
+: Ben Franklin's advice to poor young
men to marry early and go in debt for
home was: a piece. of wisdom upon the
adoptfonofwhich great cities founded their
prosperity.
Assuming that a bonded Indebtedness
would add tax to City property, the adj
vancernent:in values accruing from the I'M
proveInents for. which the debt was created
would offset the increased tax fourfold.
Bear. In mind. that the business Office of
the CALL has been removed to 10 Market
street, and that the. former business office
at 525 Montgomery street is now used as a
branch Office.
: 1t. is not conceivable that Mayor Sutro,
whatever length of time he may want for
investigation, will compress so much
qualification into one. act as to approve an
ordinance that would both aid the octopus
and iniure-the City.
The Development of a market for Ameri-
can fruit in Europe has been particularly
noticeable in. the apple trade, and since
last fall the New York fruit men have
shipped i, AS, 592. barrels of apples to
Europe, as against 16s, 7O6 barrels in the
winter of 1884
Il there is any connection between the
Valley road project and Mr.. Huntington's
. expressed intention to make California his
home, it could hardly; be regarded as a
compliment to the fighting abilities of the
other members of the Southern Pacific
Company
An assumption that mans oppor-
tnnities for enlarging his operations and
increasing his prosperity are destroyed by
a debt which he creates for those purposes
is sufficient to make Whately and Adam
Smith turn over in their graves and ask
how long it has. been since the schools were
closed.
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