The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-11
IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS.
California.

The time may come when every enlightened
community will support a free observatory as
well as free library. Why not? The study OF
the stars can be made popular, and it exercises
good influence upon all who engage in 1t.
But little is really known by the masses of the
people about the wonders of the heavens. A
telescope for general use-not the sort built
exclusively for professional astronomers
should be accessible to the people every night
in the year. Rich people who contemplate
providing in their wills for some public educa-
tional benefaction might consider the propri-
ETY. of founding free public observatories.-
Stockton Mail.
We cannot expect the East to buy of us those
commodities which can be produced in the
East to advantage, and we ought not to buy, or
to be expected to buy, those things in the East
which we can advantageously produce on this
coast. All legitimate trade consists in ex-
changing things which we can produce to ad-
vantage for things which we cannot, and any
other manner of trade than this is carrying
Goals to Newcastle. "-Tulare Register.
Fresno and MERGED seem to have outlived
their eagerness to get the Valley Railroad Per-
haps they imagine the road will have to come
to them and they need not bestir themselves.
That is the way some people thought in Stock
ton, but. though they were numerous, those
who didn't want to take any risks outnumbered
them. The Valley road doesn't have to go to
any town, but may create several.-Stockton
Independent.
Oregon.
1t is not likely that the scheme of military
drill for the boys of our public schools will
meet with much favor in this country. The
idea seems to have been put forward here at an
inopportune time, for Paris has just given up
the same project The Municipal Council of
Paris has disbanded the battalions and ordered
the guns and equipments to be sold at auction.
Portland Oregonian.
If Oregon's game laws were amended to
punish the sportsman who fails to kill more
than twenty birds in days shooting there
might be fewer hunters afield, less powder
wasted and really better protection afforded
the feathered beauties.-Portland Telegram.
Utah.
There will not be much If any disappoint-
ment among Republican ladies over the re-
suit of the Supreme Court decision on the
suffrage case, because they never thought they
could consistently vote on a law giving them
the right to vote.-Provc Enquirer.
The shortage of Montana's contribution to
the Bimetalllc League educational fund
would be greatly reduced by donating the solid
silver statue of Ada Rehan to that purpose
Salt Lake Tribune.
Arizona.
1t is no wonder that the State Department
moves with majestic slowness in the case of ex-
Consul Waller, who is passing the summer in
French prison while Grover Cleveland is fish
ing in Buzzards Bay. In addition to the dis
advantage of being an American CITIZEN Mr..
Waller is a colored man and Republican,
Phoenix Republican.
From reliable sources comes cheering news of
Arizona's chances of admission, and the peo-
pie of this Territory have every reason to be-
Arizona will be one OF the States in the Union.
Phoenix Gazette.