The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-12
IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS.

1t is pandering to most depraved taste to
reprint and dwell upon the nauseous details of
the Durrant case as are brought out in the
trial now going on in San Francisco. If the
story had not been told and retold with all its
hideous details there would be an excuse in
printing the news, but since all who read the
papers have once waded through all the testi-
mony that is now being brought out, 1t is GER
tainly unnecessary for the larger papers to
give verbatim report of the trial THE CALL
has made many friends in this regard by CIV
ing simply synopsis of the case as it is laid
open from day to day, and then it gives fuller
account for those who desire it, but carefully
excludes all the nasty and sensational parts of
the testimony. Such report is all that is
needed, and while certain class may enjoy
saJacious details and hair-raising sensational
testimony, 1t is not within the province of
decent newspaper to pander to such depraved
tastes, and no editor with the least sense of
what is decent will print such stuf.-Stockton
Record.
The freight by rail ON oil from Los Angeles
to San Francisco is 81 cents per barrel. AS
tankcars hold $50 barrels of oil, and an engine
can easily pull twenty cars in a train the
freight on a train of cars would amount to
the snug sum of over $500. And vet the rail-
road people say that they cannot AFFORD to
carry Oil for lessi Now that the Railroad Com
missioners are being beseiged to reduce the
rates on grain would 1t not be a good idea to
have little relief in the matter of rates on
oil. Evidently they are charging little more
than the traffic will bear.-Los Angeles
Journal
Communities, even mere than individuals,
need at times to be shaken out of their mental
and commercial lethargy; A half-shake is use,
less; the whole mass needs to be agltated; and
the beauty of it is that the result far over
reaches the original purpose, for commune
ties once awakened on one progressive issue
seldom fall asleep again until they have mas
tered several others. Enthusiasm is the elec-
trio fluid of progress; VOTED judiciously its
force Is not wasted, even though it seems at
times disproportionate to the immediate ends
attained.-Santa Monica Outlook.
The oil flow is known to extend along this
coast from above San Francisco to Peru, and it
will be surprising If we don't fall into line
soon with something of gusher. Already
Fullerton, in Orange County, has begun to de-
velop its oil-bearing land, and a well just
opened is flowing heavy stream of 200 bar
rels day.-San Diego Sun.
Instead of waiting for others to bring better
times to us it seems very probable that we
shall soon make good times for ourselves by
pushing mining industries that have long
been dormant because improbable, but that
are now made profitable by improved ma
chinery and new conditions. Rosa Re-
publican.
We see complaints in some of our Eastern ex-
changes about the epidemic of hay fever. Come
out here where hay fever is as extinct as the
dodO and as fabulous as the roc-where Deem
ber's as pleasant as May, and somtimss heap
pleasanter. But come anyway.-Redlands
Citograph.
The net income Of the Northern Pacific for
the year ending June 30, 1895, was over
100000. The inquiry naturally arises why
does railroad pay SO much better when it is
in the hands of q receiyer?-Los Angeles Ex-
press.