The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-01

CHARLES M. sHORTRIDGE,
Editor and Proprietor.
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WEDNESDAY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. MAY 1, 1895
Don't let yourself become addicted to the
theory habit.
The bituminous rock project needs
watching again.
The dollar limit has put San Francisco
into very short pants.
The need of better City Government is
now laid bare in every department.
Some people get into the social swim who
haven't sense enough to get out Of the vet.
One after another the leaders of both the
great par 4GS dAG SCIl4llS N4luOA OAAS SAAtNA
umbrella.
Nothing is left of Democracy but the
lungs and legs, and it can do nothing but
bray and kick.
Ever since California became wide awake
for progress the silurians have been COM
planning of insomnia.
Police corruption is New York is threat
ened with the oversight of Fred Grant,
Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Parker.
The most absurd thing in sight is free
trader trying to prove that the Wilson bill
Is the cause of the present revival in trade.
There has been no very cold weather
lately, and yet the refrigerator-car COM
panies stand good chance of being frozen
out.
John Bull had better be careful how he
feels the American pulse on the Monroe
doctrine or he may stumble on an exhibit
of American muscle.
He who is surprised that the City finances
have gone to smash confesses the lack of
what he might have done as good citizen
to elect officers of sense.
We should not be surprised at any sort
OF moral laxity in community whose
daily press encourages the people to throw
away their money in lotteries
All good citizens are so full of aspira-
tons for the good of California that their
energies are in danger of being scattered
The Hibernia Bank has given the first
evidence, after the Valley road projectors
that the times are good by reducing the
rate of interest on loans from Z to 61l per
cent.
The bicycle having demonstrated its use
fitness in holding up trains, the Sheriff of
Santa Clara County has directed his depu-
ties to test its efficacy in oYerhauling Grim
inals.
Pasadena is going to furnish new evil
dence of the enterprise which has made her
so beautiful by reconstructing the Ray
mond Hotel with her own funds to the ex-
tent of $250000.
Eastern papers are predicting that base
ball wilt be restored to popular favor this
year, and that a regular old-fashioned
season is before the cranks and the long
suffering public.
The fact that prisoners in the Jail may
have to go without food because the Super
visors wasted the public money is another
proof that the innocent often suffer for the
fault of the guilty.
The defenders of the Wilson tariff make
a great splutter over every little item of
gain resulting from it, but they carefully
ignore the tremendous losses to the coun-
try.which resulted from it.
The rumor that France, Russia and Ger
many think that the United States is
supporting" Japan will be followed next
by the assurance that somebody is aching
to give this country thrashing.
1t has become so completely a habit to
talk about people stealing the streets for
this or that purpose that the next thing we
know we shall regard as worth having only
those things which have been stolen.
An assurance having been given that it
is not likely the Santa Fe system will again
lease the California Southern lines. we
must face either complete Southern Pa
cidc monopoly or road Of our own to Salt
Lake.
There need be no surprise that some of
our people buy Eastern-made goods when
better article of the same kind is made in
California when we reflect that there are
still those among US who buy lottery
tickets and submit to being swindled by
bucket-shops.
In offering a reward for the best device
for saving the lives of people who are in
danger of being run over the street railway
companies should not lose sight of the fact
that reward in the shape of adequate
salaries might secure an efficient life-saving
device in the persons of efficient motormen.
Now that the savings banks, by reducing
the interest on loans, are showing their
confidence in the soundness of our pros
perity and offering special inducement
for enterprise and improvement, it is