The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08

No two gold men agree in their defni-
ions of bimetallism.
Fruit-growers who pack their fruits best
get the biggest profits.
A genuine determination to promote
home enterprise is itself an enterprise.
Healdsburg will see Santa Rosa's show
and go her another one, if not one better.
Santa Cruz will float away from other
festal cities by putting her fete in real
swim.
Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit are afraid
that Chicago is trying to hog the great
lakes.
The cloudburst at Fresno Is proof that
even the golden rule OF our Elysian climate
has its exceptions.
Now that the war is over Japan has
found out that the battle for reform in the
Orient has just begun.
Don't forget to cooperate with the Man.
ufacturers' Association in making home
market for home goods.
No sooner do the Hawaiian "Royalists"
meet together in a social way than the
Dole moon reeks with the blood of revolu-
ton.
Judging from the number of festivals to
which San Francisco is invited it would
appear that she is getting popular with the
State.
However sympathetic we may be with
the sufferers of Eastern floods and cyclones,
we cannot help rejoicing in our own de-
lights.
Texas reformer wishes the people of
that State to compel the legislators to
serve without pay and make living on
the side.
Voices of progress are heard everywhere
in the State, but at present the loudest and
most harmonious chorus comes from
Stockton.
One of the first good things the Half
million Club might do would be to list all
the Government land in the State suitable
for homes.
In the decentralization of Democracy and
the collapse of Populism, the only prospect
of good government is in the success of the
Republican party.
Having promised to pay England $751;
600, the Nicaraguans are now fighting
among themselves for the pleasant privilege
of collecting the taxes to pay it.
The non-partisan movement in New
York has resulted in producing a political
quagmire, through which there seems to
be no road for any body to go anywhere.
The best thing intelligent Democrats can
do in 1896 Will be to vote the Republican
ticket and let their own party leaders set
tie their faction fights outside of Congress-
Ex-senator Martin of Kansas was IN
doubtedly correct in saying: "If Democ-
racy does not adopt platform in favor of
free silver coinage, it will not carry single
State in the Union"
In trying to evade the monetary ques-
ton by barking back to the tariff issue the
Democrats are evidently actuated by the
belief that it is better to bear the ills they
have than fly to others they know not of.
1t seems pretty hard in these days when
in an American city, as Chicago, industrial
conditions have been so depressed by
bungling management of National affairs
that women have TO go into the brickyards
to earn livelihood.
The rich silurian who objects to public
Improvements which beautify the City and
make it inviting as a place of residence
very likely keeps his daughters out of
school and society, dresses them shabbiIy
and then wonders why the stupid things
never catch beau.
A racket has been Aised in New York
because the matron of the Kings County
Almshouse for women employed six elo-
cutionists to read Trilby to the 700 inmates,
Some critics declare that was too much
luxury for the poor, and others assert it
was too much punishment for the aged.
If the Hawaiian Government is not more
circumspect the suspicion may arise that it
finds the occasional discovery of ''hatch-
ing revolution" necessary to its own
holding together, possibly deeming this
more important consideration than the
further settlement and development of the
islands.
The announcement that American art
at the Berlin exhibition has been praised
by German critics for its vigor and origi-
nality will be received with great gratifica-
ton in this country by everybody except
our own critics, who have always asserted
that there is nothing original in our art
work at all.
The report that Bourke Cochran may
become a candidate for Parliament from
an Irish constituency is not altogether i'm
probable, and yet it would be curious if
Tammany should in that way annex Ire
land and use seats in Parliament as con-
ISOLATION stakes for Democrats who are
beaten in the race in New York.
Our good friend the Bulletin decries the
issuance OF bonds for Improvements which
are objects of luxury and establishment"
and includes the paving of streets among
them. For that matter, why have streets
at all2 Few things except articles of food