The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-13

may not set the City on IRE but II Is gettn 2
red hot.
Partisan fashions will no longer have the
same worth. but they won't come any
cheaper.
Give the mud fats to the competing road
and in a short time they will cease to be
mud fats.
We must make lively movement in City
improvement, to meet the coming century
in good style.
Cleveland appears to be trying to find
forgetfulness by neither saying anything
nor saving wood.
Now that San Francisco is to be per-
mitted to do her own investigating, she
must get in and do it.
Perhaps it might improve the silurians
little, to give each of them an individual
as well as general kick.
Subscribing to the competing road is an
investment and not donation; there is no
give away in it anywhere.
When the work of the Half-miIlion Club
is accomplished for the City there Will be
millions in it for the State.
Legislators who attempt to shut off the
competing road, are simply renewing the
old circus of the donkey and the locomo-
tive.
The Merchants Association has done
well in sweeping the streets, but it will dc
better when it sweeps the cobbles out of
sight.
If the Indiana Legislature hadn't ad-
journed when it did, the Governor would
have been justified in having it arrested
for prize-fghting.
Every merchant should display his Cali
fornia goods in the front windows of bis
shop so as to let people know he is in favor
OF home industry.
Don't forget that the earnings of the San
Joaquin road Will be kept at home to help
home industries and not sent abroad to pay
foreign bondholders.
As the San Jose Mercury advises every
body to quit rushing the growler, " it owes
it TO mankind to devise better means OF
getting the growIer to his bier.
In celebrating their accession to citizen
ship by getting drunk, the Umatilla In
dians have proven themselves too much
like some other citizens TO be good citizens.
When Russell Sage sent Anna Gould a
Bible for a wedding present he should have
written in it: "Silver and gold have I in
plenty, but what l need most I give unto
thee."
San Francisco assists Los Angeles in
working up the great flower festival and
Los Angeles will assist San Francisco in
getting the next Republican National Con-
yention.
He only is good citizen who with wise
regard for his private interests employs his
energy and his capital in such way as to
assist in the advancement of his city and
the welfare of his fellow-citizens.
The manufacturers OF all parts of the
State are showing warm interest in the
coming convention and every day fur
nishes new reasons for believing that the
assembly will have not only important dis
cussions but important results.
The charge of impurity in the water sup
ply of the City should be most carefully in
quired into. Bad whisky, bad morals and
bad politics affect only few people, but i'm
pure water is liable to carry disease, plague
and pestilence into every home.
The propetty-owner who does not see the
advantage to himself that Will result from
an investment in the San Joaquin road.
must have made his money by bull luck or
snake trickery, for he hasn't enough bust
ness sense to know good thing when it is
introduced to him.
The Los Angeles Express is in error in ac-
cusing the CALL of inconsistency because
''in one column it berates lotteries and in
another it boasts of the number of mar
riage licenses" Marriage may be regarded
as a lottery In Los Angeles, but in this Sec
ton of the State it is an infant industry.
We are pleased TO learn from the Mar
tinez Gazette that an Eastern manufacturer.
whose attention was drawn to the advan-
tages of the place by a recent article in the
CALL, has written TO get advice in regard
to the location there of planing-min and
sash and door factory. This is the kind OF
gift that the CALL likes to make California
towns. 1t beats the fake trade.
The Argondut's highly complimentary
statement of the CALL innovation in giving
due prominence to Pacigc Coast news and
retaining from making it secondary to for
eign scandals and accidents that do not con-
Germ US, is the expression of an intelligent
editor who, as a representative OF the
higher intelligence of the community, has
said in the clearest manner what every
other intelligent citizen would say if he
published a high-class weekly paper.