The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-17

ley. BY presenting a solid front in San
Francisco the people of the San Joaquin
Valley Will be In much better position to
give and to receive favors when the time
arrives for the exchange on one considera-
ton for another"
1t is the opinion of the Los Angeles
Times on the question of fighting the
income tax that 1.-The proprietor of the
CALL might save some money and acquire
the knowledge he desires by watching the
outcome of the test case now pending be-
fore the Supreme Court" That, of course,
is true. We in common with the rest of
the people of the United States are watch
ing that case, but as the case has been
raised by Injunction proceedings the real
merits OF the issue may not be decided. If
that should be the result, it will become
necessary to violate the law in order to
bring 1t to decisive test, and that the CALL
proposes to DO. 1t is true, indeed, that
money might be saved by not fighting the
law, but we are not making the contest to
save money but to save the rights of the
people under the Constitution.
The Porterville Enterprise, with an unex-
pected emphasis, asserts: we would
think more of Mayor Sutro's opposition to
the octopus if he would subscribe reason
able amount, say one million, to the pro-
posed road. He's able to-" Strangely
enough the Eureka Standard happens to
have a similar thought and says: ''If
Mayor Sutro is SO much opposed to the
Southern Pacific, check for a half million
subscription to the new railroad would go
far to establish his sincerity in the minds
of the people" Sentiments of this kind
show the peryersity of the interior press.
When man is graphing with an octopus
how is he going to find hand free to reach
for his pocket-book?
1t is recorded by the Redlands Facts that
a young man who returned to his Massa-
chusetts home after couple of years in
California and devised an irrigation system
of his own, went into fruit-growing and is
making fortune rapidly. Meanwhile he
is teaching his neighbors how to grow
fruit. The Facts draws the conclusion that
California is an object lesson from which
most Eastern people could derive many
valuable lessons. This is very likely to
prove true in the case cited. By the time
the young man gets through with his les
sons in Massachusetts. he will know that
irrigation is not the only thing that goes
to make fruit-growing successful in Cali
fornia.
The "rosewater" policy is commended d
by the Cottage Grove Leader with the per-
tinent remark that it can be studied with
profit. The Leader might have added that
it has been studied with profit during the
last two months and has now been adopted
by most OF the progressive papers of the
State. There is very little of the old snap
and-snarl spirit manifest in the editorials
of to-day in any section, and as result
there is more harmony in the State than
ever before. Rosewater is to be the win
ming policy of the next decade, and papers
like the Leader that are doing SO much to
spread it, are going to find profit in it in
more ways than one.
Provincial journalism differs from met
ropolitan journalism in terms and scope,
but not in principle nor in aims. For ex-
ample, the Del Norte Record recently in
formed its readers that "every small i'm
provement, if it be nothing more than
whitewashing the chicken-house or burn
ing the decaying rubbish in the back lot, is
benefit to the community and to the
country at large, and is one of the marks
OF good citizenship The references in
that to the chicken-house and the back
lot may be provincial, but the sentiment
reaches for this metropolis about as effec-
tually as anything ever published by city
paper.