The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
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SUNDAY. AUGUST IL, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Now for the fairs.
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Every district has a show.
We must have a winning exhibit at At
Ianta.
The fair season will open wide enough
this week to give everybody a show.
Much of the literature in THE CALL this
morning deserves to be called classic.
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The forest fires in the Puget Sound coun-
try are warning to California to look out.
Perhaps had it not been for the Solid /!
Eight the Civic Federation's energy would |
have lain dormant.
1t is impossible for any one to be sad |
who fills his system with the merry sun
shine OF California.
The missionary in China seems to need
a six-shooter as web as Bible and gun
boat as well as chapel.
The most successful rose-growers here |
about are the girls, and their proves is
merely matter of cheek.
The Camp Roache experiment has justi- |
fed itself and it will meet next summer as |
an established institution.
If the Grand Jury will press the button |
OF an indictment against the Solid Eight, |
the people will do the rest.
There are as many ways of being happy |
in California as there are seductive allure |
ments in the glance Of the sun.
The proposed census every five years
would be crowding the limit. At the
present time it requires five years to take
the census.
The only reformer nowadays who can
dare to face the modern sheer is he with
the commanding brains and character to
overwhelm it.
Study the literary features of THE CALL
this morning and see what Western writers |
can do to make Western paper for all the |
world to read.
In his serio us illness Governor Budd has
the sympathy of the whole State and even
the otfice-seekers will probably consent to
give him a rest
Police Commissioner Grant of New York
is probably appalled, by the Tammany
ghost which his opposition to Roosevelt's
reform movement has raised.
The Miners Association seems to be
keeping an alert eye on the Southern Pa
cifc weaknesses which some of its men,
bers are in danger of betraying.
Cleveland will not be allowed to fish in
peace until he has named the man to fill
the vacancy on the Supreme bench, but he
may possibly catch a few suckers in doing it.
1t has been several days since Hawaiian
"ilibusters" were breathing sulphur and
birthstone hereabout, and this makes US
fear that enterprising journalism is losing
its grip.
Bland of Missouri likes silver, but he
says he would not take the Democratic
Presidential nomination next year even if |
it were offered him on a silver platform
and silver platter.
The captain of the steamer Mexico has
made wholesome departure from a dis |
graceful practice by refusing to perform
the marriage ceremony for two clipping |
minors from Los Angeles.
1t would seem that the south side, of al |
parts of the City, should have the least |
reason for supporting the Southern Pacific |
in its determination to hold possession of |
its spur-track franchise to the park.
Joseph II. Choate has been making the |
people of Illinois unhappy by telling them |
that while England with 100000 of |
people maintains only thirty-two Judges |
illinois makes her people support 178.
The alterations which are being made in |
the Safe Deposit building will serve as hint
to the owners of all the old, and almost
abandoned but really well-built houses
between Montgomery street and the bay.
Henry Watterson's statement that who
ever says Cleveland is one of the greatest |
statesmen of this country is either fool |
or craven tool !" shows that the distin-
guished Kentuckian has had lucid in
terval.
The signs of reform are probably causing |
the Solid Eight to indulge in an amused |
speculation as to whether their future |
emulators will be influenced more by |
fear of the penitentiary than by loyalty to |
the sack.
Yesterdays issue of James H. Barry's |
Star contained the following: Every |
worker for the single tax in this City |
should subscribe for THE CALL, the only |
daily that gives the movement prominence |
in its columns.9 In publishing informa- |
ton. regarding the single tax movement |
THE CALL is following the course that it |
has laid out in regard to all public mat
tiers. Where earnest, thoughtful citizens
are joined together for the discussion of |
topics relating to the affairs of life the SUBJ |
iects are given respectful treatment in the |
news columns of the paper.