The morning call., 1895-02-11

lature and reform at home.
EENo man of capital is capital man un
less he subscribes to the valley road.
Santa Clara and the San Joaquin make
strong team when they work together.
Instead of demanding investigation San
Francisco should make an investigation.
1t is an easy prediction that if Congress
finds anything to do this week it won't
do it.
Support good men when they come to
the front and reform viii be easily accom-
plished.
Other clues may talk of the Four Humid
red, but we are going in for the Four
Million.
On the competing road proposition the
interior is not only with US, but viii stay
with US.
The people expect the Legislature to
provide for retrenchment and kill the in
QUESTION.
Everybody who cares for the principle of
municipal improvement should take an in
terest in it.
The high theater hat must go, of course;
but the chances are that it will continue to
go TO the theater.
There is no distrust of the credit of the
United States, but the credit of the admin
istration is below par.
We ought to have the $4,oO0,O0O raised
by Saturday night and be ready for incor-
poration by next week.
There are no taking coupons in THE CALL,
but our advertising columns tell you where
to get the best bargains.
If we keep the ball in motion as it is
moving now, Chicago will soon be calling
herself the San Francisco of the East.
Every man who has an interest in real
estate should show a real interest in his
estate by subscribing to local enterprises.
The Republican party will hold Repub-
ican legislators to a strict responsibility
for every pledge made during the cam
paign.
The one cheerful feature of the gold ex-
ports is that we are paying off our debts to
Europeans, and before long we will owe
them nothing.
It may be accounted as one of the great
est innovations of the new era that there is
no news so far of the destruction of the
Delaware peach crop.
As a result of the prolonged drought of
the past year, the farmers of Nebraska
have about decided to quit experimenting
with rainmaking machines and resort to
irrigation.
Be not mistaken nor deceived. The
people of San Francisco wish a thorough
investigation into the alleged corruption
OF officials, but they demand that it shall
be made by local authorit les.
AS it is estimated that American travel
ers in Europe carry $1OO 600 annually
out of the country, tax on the tourist
might be beneficial. At any rate an outgo
tax of that kind would be more popular
than the income tax.
The maintenance of an economical city
government and the construction of COM
peting railroads will attract men of capital
and energy to make their homes here, and
greater San Francisco will be realized be-
fore the Silurian gets ready to resist it.
The train of provisions sent by the
Georgians to Nebraska was so placarded
with advertisements of plantations and
town lots that the average Nebraskan does
not know whether the project was intended
to keep people alive in Nebraska or induce
them to go to Georgia.
AS the Russian Geographical Society has
unanimously elected the Sultan an honor
ary member and three members will con-
vey the diploma to ConstantinopIe, there
is reason to believe that they are trying to
convince the old man that he ought to
study the geography of the Bosphorous
from Russian point of view
By way of preserving their native birds
and animals the people of New Zealand
have set apart two islands in which shoot
ing and trapping is forbidden under heavy
penalties. As a consequence they are now
ItCcIfulS TIE pIdlSe OI all UdCuTdIlSCS, anu
it won't be long before we have the new
wrinkle suggested for. adoption in this
country.
Arrangements are being made in the
East and in England for an international
celebration of the centennial anniversary
of the birthday of George Peabody, which
occurs on the 18th. Taken in connection
with the Lincoln celebration on the 18th,
and that of Washington on the I'D,
America will have this month trinity OF
celebrations to be proud Of
The wrath Of New York is Justly excited
over the action of some employers in that
city who have discharged employees
because they obeyed orders as National
Guardsmen and left their work to do mill
tary duty in Brooklyn. 1t is of course to
the interest of every business man that the
National Guard should be prompt in an
emergency, and those who attempt to
prevent it should be punished
An odd case was recently tried before
Welsh magistrate in which there were two