The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31

which represents one of the leading trades
of the City, says: "Why should the peo-
pie of this town hesitate to borrow little
money, when, by its employment, every
head of population will be benefited,
directly and indirectly, tenfold the cost of
the use of the money? We do not think
the people would hesitate. We are of the
opinion that at the present time the
proposition to create bonded indebted
ness would get a ten-to-one vote of the en-
tire population" These words are well
worthy of the consideration of the Super
vlsors. The business men of the City are
impatient to begin the work of public i'm
provement, and as a special election NAV
have to be called for the adoption of the
new charter, it would be no more than
right for the Supervisors to allow the
people to vote on the bond proposition at
the same time.
The Hon. N. B. Scott, ex-senator from
West Virginia, is quoted by the Los An
geles Times as saying that the East has
never dealt fairly with the issues of the
coast, and has never yet been brought to
realization that California and all the
States lying west of the mountains have
claim upon the whole country, on account
OF their marvellous resources and the char
acter and quality of their citizens. Mr..
Scott attributes this lack of fair dealing to
the fact that the East is ignorant of the
Pacific Coast, and he very Justly says
Eastern statesmen should come to Cali
fornia and see the country for themselves
This means of course that he favors the
holding of the next Republican National
Convention in this city. The Times, it is
needless to say, indorses his position, for
Los Angeles is cooperating cordially with
San Francisco in this undertaking, and can
be counted on to help in making the con-
ventlon California enterprise and not
merely local one for the metropolis.
fairly good hit at that form of journal
ism which delights in foreign news more
than home news is given by the Lodi Senti-
net, which, in commenting on the close of
the war in the Orient, says: eff some
other nations will commence to growl a
little so that the City dailies can continue
to write up big scare heads of 'impend-
ing war it will be great accommodation
to them" Rumors of foreign wars would
indeed be great accommodation to some
papers, but the Sentinel should have been
keen-eyed enough to except the CALL from
its category. We can find more interest
ing things at home, and will never need
scare heads for war clouds as long as the
Pacific Coast continues to furnish live news
of progress and enterprise.
In recent article on the revival of
hydraulic mining the CALL stated: cit is
of record in the report of the United
States engineers that the value of the
hydraulic mining property, reservoirs,
bitches, etc., involved in the controversy
was 100000 900, while the value of the
farming lands really injured was only
about 100000 Commenting on this,
the Marysvillle appeal says: ''Any such
record or compilation of statistics is DELHI
erately false. The CALL evidently has de-
termined its course and refuses to be fair"
The comment is itself unfair. 1t was not
the CALL that made the estimates given,
but United States engineers. The appeal
must brace up and be just if it expects to
be needed