The morning call., 1895-02-05

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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1895
Read the new charter.
Mayor Sutro must behave.
We must touch the $1,000 600 this week.
California viii show the rest OF the coun-
try how to do it.
Reform that does not begin at home
never gets there.
The East viii take notice that the sun of
enterprise rises in the West.
The refunding bill was scotched but not
killed. We must hit it again.
Save this copy of THE CALL and study
the new charter at your leisure.
San Francisco and the interior clasp
hands and monopoly feels the shake.
II the inquisition bill is dropped in the
waste basket there will be no scandal.
It is not necessary for the new charter to
suit everybody in order to suit the city.
We may as well call this the Fair Mid
winter and the Exposition Of Enterprise.
In this mutable world nothing stays
with the people unless it has move on 1t.
1t is another evidence that the world is
round that everything goes and still 1t is
coming our way.
A radical change in the jury system
would be a conservative measure in the in
terests of justice.
People who are looking outside of San
Francisco for reform had better look inside
and reform themselves.
The best way for the legislators to deal
with excessive oratory is TO treat it as
wind cushion and sit on it.
1t is worth noting that the biggest push
and the biggest pull in sight just now are
not in politics but business.
Non-partisan movements are always
transitory, and permanent reform can be
effected only by permanent party.
The only investigations in which the
people are much concerned at this time
are Investigations of new enterprises.
If the rule could be enforced that no man
should condemn the new charter without
reading it, it would be approved by large
majority.
As the funding bill was referred back to
the committee without instructions, we
must watch that committee and give it
instructions.
There is sentiment as well as business in
the railroad project, for it means not only
competition in freight rates, but emanci-
patton in politics.
It is difficult to tell whether the braying
of the Democratic majority in Congress is
the braying of an ass or the braying of
itself in a mortar.
AS Texas as well as California is raising
money for new railroads, it appears that
the giant West is waking up all over and
beginning to stretch Itself.
In the revival of railroad building,
Northern and Southern California are
drawn to the center and united in the
strong bond of an undivided and indivisi-
BILE interest.
Every legislator who has his eyes open
can see that retrenchment in the State
government will leave more money in the
pockets of the people TO start new enter
prises and build new railroads.
As an illustration Of how little the
troubles of some people affect other peo-
pie, it may be noted that there are thou
sands of people in the United States who
regard with indifference the agony of New
York society over the fact that it hasn't
cotillion leader.
While the new educational fad In the
East for teaching school children the mill
tary drill is not bad in itself, it would seem
that the time might be better employed in
giving them industrial training. What
will it profit boy to know how to parade
If he can't earn a living?
In an attempt to prove that the police
are not responsible for all the wickedness
in New York, the Commercial Advertiser
says: q Sacramento has only thirteen
policemen, and yet lawlessness and vice
are rampant there" The impudence of
this remark is covertly couehed under the
fact that it is the Legislature that is ramp
ant in Sacramento.
Owing to American competition in agri-
cultural products the less fertile lands of
England no longer repay cultivation, and
a movement has been started to get the
Government to buy them up ana plant
them in forests; and, IS result, the next
century may see the curious transforms
ton of England with larger proportionate
erea of forest land than the United States.
The election of John L. Wilson to the
Senate from Washington is matter of
congratulation to all the friends of prog
ress. He is thoroughly Western man,
with Western ideas, Western interests and