The morning call., 1895-02-18


even help themselves for fear of helping
some one else.
People who are seeking for cold facts in
these DAYS can find them in the Eastern
weather reports.
The best way for the Legislature to give
the public a good show is to make living
picture OF economy.
The German -bimetallsts are doing their
best to assist us in putting a silver lining
on the financial cloud.
Money is jingling in the purse OF the
competing road and it will soon be ready
to put in its pick on the route.
Wealth has its duties as well as its priv
ileges, and one OF its duties just now is to
subscribe to the competing road.
There is many rising Republican
statesman in the East who would be glad
of an occasion to visit California.
The sooner the contest for the next Re-
publican National Convention is begun,
the better it will be for US in the end.
With snow in the Riviera and billiards
in Florida the only place where the tour
ist can find winter sunshine is in Cali
fornia.
There may be many silurians in town,
but dom overlook the fact that there are
enough enterprising men to force move
on them.
1t is foregone conclusion that the next
Congress will repeal the income tax, but
so long as it stays on the statute-books we
will fight it.
In matters of reform as well as in mat
tiers of enterprise, San Francisco must de-
pend upon her own energies if she expects
to achieve success.
By the time Congress has downed Cleve-
land once or twice more he will have to
use a stepladder to get up high enough to
reach his own esteem.
One of the first things for the city officials
to decide this week is to determine whose
duty it is to clear the Illegal railway track
from Church street and then see that he
does it.
The movement to bring the next Repub-
lican National Convention to this city has
been practically started and every leader
of the party on the Pacific Coast is counted
on to give it helping hand.
Quick trips and low fares by special
trains would bring delegates from across
the continent to a convention in San
Francisco in way that would practically
annihilate time and distance.
Local investigation cannot be evaded
now. The controversy has gone too far.
If our officials are corrupt they must be
punished, and if they are innocent their
slanderers must take the consequences.
An interesting illustration of the differ
ence between a chance and an opportunity
is afforded in the record of the present
administration, which is always taking
chances but never seizes an opportunity.
English economists are Boosting of the
fact that in 1874 England paid $155, 600, 900
for 100000 hundredweights of foreign
wheat and -four, and that last year $1,000, =
600 hundredweights cost her only $133, 000,-
600.
Men who have large estates that will be
roads, but who refuse to contribute to the
work, can hardly expect to have much in
fiuence when they boast of their eagerness
for municipal development.
Kaiser Williams latest scheme, to make
Berlin seaport, is long way the most i'm
portant thing he has undertaken, and vet
1t has not received half the public attention
that was given to his poem and the way he
looked when he let his whiskers grow.
The heartfelt wish of every patriot that
this country may never again be con-
fronted by an emergency, will be in
creased in fervor by the announcement of
General Weaver that in case of an
emergency he will run for President in
1896.
The decision of Minnesota Judge that a
man has control of his wife's tongue and
is responsible for its utterances, is one of
those legal principles that shine like stars
very bright and very lovely, but an
awfully long way off from the realities of
this world.
The exuberance of Chicago's brag is
made splendidly manifest just now in the
JBtluR UP OF neF VOICE ABOVE the roar OF
Eastern tempests, to inform the world that
while other Eastern cities have had only
one or two storms this winter, she has had
seven first-class billiards..
No valid objection can be made to the ac-
ton Of Governor Budd in appointing a Har-
Dor Commissioner from Stockton for the
whole State is interested in the harbor and
that city I'm particular has important rel,.
tons 10 it. Certainly San Francisco has
no interests in the harbor opposed to those
81 Stockton, and Commissioner Colnon will
lind no opposition here to anything he
may do TO make the harbor as beneficial to
he interior as to the metropolis.