The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-16

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CALL DAILY and Weekly, Pacific States Adver-
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SATURDAY ................m. AhCA 10, 1880
Don't be silurian.
Get in with progressive men.
Good enterprises are always good invest
ments.
When you talk street improvement you
talk business.
Tomorrow Sacramento will draw a long
breath OF pure air.
The noise OF the cobblestones is con-
tinual protest against their existence.
1t was a cold snap in California of course,
but the S. P was beaten in the Legislature.
Talk that helps to form public opinion
in favor OF home industry can never be
called idle talk.
It's an easy prediction that by the time
our cold wave gets East it will be magni-
fed TO a blizzard
Ii Japan annexes Manchuria she will
plant bigger thorn in her own flesh than
she viii put into that OF China.
We are sorry for Vacaville, but it must
be admitted that her cherries were crowd
ing the season a little too close.
There are said to be seventy-two women's
clubs in Los Angeles, and hence the men in
sist on calling the place elysium.
a boulevard TO San Jose at any cost
ought to be accounted a bargain, for it viii
be the biggest drive in the country.
This week we finish with the Legislature
and next week we have the Manufacturers
Convention. Times are improving.
Thank God the Legislature has ad-
journed" VIII not be said in Sacramento
this year until it gets out OF hearing.
The bribery investigation must not be
permitted to get into a pocket unless it is
prepared to turn the pocket inside out.
Representative government is good as a
general thing, but it seems 10 be in bad
condition at present all over the world.
Another fying-machine crank has come
to grief and an abraded cuticle by trying to
fly with internal instead OF external wings.
With something more than 50, 800, 900 al
ready in sight the San Joaquin road IS in
a position to overlook the silurians, but
the people won't.
The decadence of the political power OF
the Southern Pacific destroys none OF its
power 10 help the business OF the State if
II desires TO do it.
The Cubans have got far enough along
with their revolution to form Provisional
Government, and VIII now take to the
woods for provisions.
When the Legislature adiourns, the Sac
ramento Grand Jury should take a firm
grip on the bribery scandal and hold it
down so it won't get away.
Oakland clergymen who are demanding
the right to ride bicycles on the sidewalk
evidently don't care how much they in
crease the use OF profanity by pedestrians.
The members of the Legislature who do
not want Us to have bridge over East
street viii probably be the first ''Rubes'' TO
be killed when the new ferry building is
completed.
If Spain apologies for the act of her
gunboat in firing on the Alliance, Gresham
viii plume himself on his foreign policy
With br1t no poIotyv for O foa tbar
to do it with.
Mrs. Lease liked California well enough
TO leave Kansas but not to quit her posi-
ton on the State Board of Charities; so
she.stays with the Billiards and says they
agree with her.
With her new public library building
Respondent in marble, affecting the minds
of her people, we may expect to hear Stock
ton refer to Athens as the Slough City of
the ancient world.
It is a signal proof of the weakness of
California as a commonwealth that we
cannot build even a few hundred miles of
railroad without sending three thousand
miles for the rails.
If a halt is not called on the process of
tinkering with our election laws and Gus
toms, citizen will not be able even to go
TO the polls hereafter without consulting an
attorney to find out the way.
Men who opposed the bill providing a
terminus for the San Joaquin road solely
because they thought it unconstitutional
will please take notice there is nothing un-
constitutional in their subscribing to the
road.
There may be great many people inter
ested in the bill for the regulation of pri-
maries, but we believe if the Governor
were to hit it hard one with veto he
would not knock out any brains nor hear
anybody holler.
A strong league has been formed in
France TO decentralize the Government,
and some of the leaders are said to be in
favor of going so far as to give the prov