The morning call., 1895-02-08

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FRIDAY ....................F EBRUARY 8, 1895
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Grover should show the fruits of repent
ance.
This is a good time for Gresham to turn
his coat again.
Liliuokalani furnishes another warning
against the diary habit.
mass-meeting for congratulation would
be appropriate just now.
The people do not wish the investigation
bill amended, but ended.
Mrs. Dominis will know hereafter that it
best to let bad enough alone.
China's Peace Commissioners seem to be
as useless as her fighting men.
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No legislator ever loses anything by
keeping his campaign pledges.
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If the noisy reformers don't look out, ST.
lent reform will run over them.
Enterprise is reviving everywhere, but in
California it has begun to move.
Perhaps Adlai Stevenson has a currency
plan hidden away in the silence.
The cinch of the lobby is strong, but not
so strong as the embrace OF the people.
Useless commissions can be best util-
ICED in making a record for retrenchment.
If the steamer rate-war continues, coast
ing will soon be as cheap as a toboggan
slide.
The man who doubts that the tide of
prosperity is rising is certainly out of the
swim.
The useless attache doesn't care if the
cake is all dough, so long as he gets the
dough.
How to utilize the tramp, is a pertinent
subject for discussion by the Good Roads
convention.
As Tennessee is still wrangling over the
disputed gubernatorial election, we can see
what we escaped.
Every day that brings the present Con-
gress nearer to close increases the conf
dence OF the people.
1t is one of the most extraordinary
freaks of nature that reformers never talk
one another to death.
There is one consolation in the gold ship
ments-the foreigner has to pay for it. We
are not giving it away.
All the friends of the useless commits
sions are working in Sacramento, but the
State is watching them.
The reformers should get the EXPOSES
to join their next Indignation meeting to
give it heartfelt thrill
The BARRIERS bill will probably make its
way through the Legislature by pompa-
dour cut or a close shave.
The policy that wins is retrenchment in
the State government, harmony among the
people and progress everywhere.
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If more work were done on the roads and
there were less tinkering with the road laws
we would have better highways.
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Shipping bonds to Europe may seem like
O dOrpac4ic froda 70 HIa1-aJopJ : 10
foreign to the ideas of the people.
Woman's suffrage may impose another
burden on the shoulders of the ladies, but
1t is liable to be lost in the sleeve.
The Good Roads convention should bear
in mind that road improvement is not de-
pendent on amending the road law.
The territory in dispute between Mexico
and Guatemala, is hardly large enough to
serve for battlefield, much less war.
The Legislature might help the Good
Roads convention by taking the bonanza
out of politics and using it for road fund.
Mr.. Debs is evidently seeking monu-
ment, for he announces that he will neither
write book nor take to the lecture plat
form.
Whatever the Legislature finds to be
needed to pat the State on business basis,
should be done promptly and done thor
oughly.
In coming forward with plan to save
the country from financial disaster, Tom
Reed is burying the Democrats in their
own ditch.
President Eliot's recent declara ton that
football is an unfit game for college uses,
may be taken as warning that the col
leges must go.
sGood citizens are keeping step to the har-
mony of progress and enterprise, while the
foolish ones are still kicking to the tune of
their own chin music.
There is now reason for believing that
San Francisco will succeed in starting the
valley railroad without wasting drop of
perspiration in the effort.
The Pacific railroads seem to be willing