The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-06

celebrating independence day.
The proposed railroad from Ogden to San
Diego will be happy deliverance for the
extreme southern end of the State.
The fight for home rule may have to be
done all over again in Ireland, but the Lib
erals have won the vantage ground and
will keep it.
Chicago has taken a conspicuously high
place among American cities by putting
all of her city officers under civil service
requirements.
The police of San Francisco and Sacra-
mento have done an exceptionally brilliant
piece of work in running down the MUIR
derers Of the Webers.
Ii the rubbish of the Midwinter Fair is
not soon removed from the Park, the Civic
Federation will have good cause to organ
ize an anti-debris association.
In his Fourth of July letter, David Ben
nett Hill shows signs OF becoming a typical
calamity bowler, who because his party is
out of luck despairs of his country.
While the Park Commissioners are work
ing to clear away the ruins of the Mid
winter Fair we have not forgotten the ex
hibitors' obligations todischarge that duty.
From the Denver dissensions that have
caused a postponement of the proposed
mining exposition, we can learn the value
of maintaining harmony in San Francisco.
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AS the leading orator of the Tammany
celebration took the Monroe doctrine for
his theme it is evident that organization
is still bucking against the administration.
If J. T. Rogers is correct in saying the
Populists will not nominate party ticket
in this State next year, some of the leaders
must have been pro6ted by their expert
ence.
The Colorado Democrats, in declaring
that the National party must either adopt
free coinage or be disrupted, has issued
challenge under which Cleveland must run
or fight.
The Southern Pacific Company s tenacity
in holding on to the park privilege means
less that its fangs are long and strong than
that the Supervisors feel no pain from the
laceration.
The investment by New York and Chi
cago capitalists in San Joaquin Valley irri-
cation bonds is eloquent evidence of the
confidence which Eastern people have in
the future of California.
If the streets north of Market between
! o1a Cd
SO that passers did not have to hold their
noses. property-owners would be better
able to hold their tenants.
Mckinley wisely said at Chicago that
the grandeur of the Republic rests upon
its workingmen, and he might have added
that the Republic owes it to them to pro-
tect them in their industries.
The unusual attentions which the forti-
fed defenses of San Francisco are receiv-
ing at the hands of distinguished members
of the War Department should be produc-
tive OF extensive Improvements.
James G. Mcguire hits pretty hard in de-
claring that while in the East the contract
labor law is rigidly enforced against white
unhindered in their invasion of California.
California should never lose sight of the
fact that although hydraulic mining may
be conducted on the streams opening into
the interior of the State only under severe
restrictions, there is vast undeveloped
mining region in the northern part of the
State along streams which empty into the
Paeific.
InI870 there were in the United States
252,148 manufacturing establishments, and
in 1890 there were S55,415, being an in
crease under twenty years of protection of
more than 100000 factories. In Great
Britain however, the number of factories
were less by over 500 in 1880 as compared
With 1874. Here is the difference between
protection and free trade in nutshell.