The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16
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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The exposition is good and is growing
better every day.
The Democratic silver meeting in Wash
ington is small, but perhaps it means big
business.
Sausalito, having seen Belvedere's "Vene-
tan Night" will go her one better on
Might in Naples"
The best evidence of the new movement
in California is to be found in the way the
Valley road goes ahead.
After all, the Democrats might as well
renominate Cleveland and crawl out by the
same hole they went in at.
We may have to rely on the Half-million
Club to get enough people in town to
make up the Durrant jury.
The promised reduction in grain rates
would not be cinch on the railroads, but
the breaking of cinch on the people.
Tt seems that Coils Huntington did not
break the interstate commerce law, but
merely showed his willingness to do it.
If you wish to sing the grand old an
them, America" without any British air
about it, you can get the music in The
CALL next Sunday.
q Now that the Railroad Commission
shows signs of coming out of innocuous
desuetude, let US hope it will not fall into
pernicious activity.
With two police boards disturbing the
peace of the community, the people of
Omaha would be glad if either one of them
would arrest the other.
As we have had Venetian festival and
are going to have a Neapolitan fete. there
will be nothing lett for San Francisco but
to do as the Romans do.
With the issue of statehood and the
election of two United States Senators at
stake, the campaign in Utah promises the
chance of big Republican victory this fall.
According to the past masters of high
culture in New York, it is very bad taste
to place statues in public park where
there is any desire to preserve the aspects
Of nature.
Scarcely week passes without disaster
of some kind to Eastern farmers. This
week the corn crop of wide region of
Minnesota has been destroyed by terrific
hailstorm.
The Mayor of Havana. who is now in
New York, declares the Cuban revolt is
not serious, but the world will take notice
that General Campos continues to call for
more troops.
According to Mulhall, the wealth of the
United States increases at the rate of
100000 day, and yet the Democrats
cannot run the country single year with
out running into debt.
Economy in the schools is of course
necessary, but the public would be well
pleased if the Directors could devise some
method OF economizing that would not
rest altogether on the teachers.
There can be no doubt that Senator But
Ter of North Carolina was correctin saying:
eff we had an honest man for President he
could make times easier in ten days by
calling Congress together to furnish relief"
The fact that Governor Budd's illness
has been aggravated by the annoyance of
persistent office-seekers will increase pub
lie sentiment IN favor of adopting civil
service rules for the State as well as the
Nation.
The number of American volunteers to
the Cuban cause is SO much smaller this
time than in any former fight that there is
reason to believe the spirit of adventure is
at lower ebb in this country than ever
before in our history.
If it be true as reported that Railroad
Commissioner Clark said the idea of the
public is to cinch the railroad, ;" then he
has a serious misconception of the situa-
ton. The idea of the public is that the
railroads are cinching the people.
Cyclones that destroy property and life
in the Middle and Western States have
become so common that the sufferers,
reconciling themselves to a fate which
they can escape by coming to California,
facetiously speak of them as ''twisters."
There may be a question in some
quarters whether the street railways were
designed for the benefit of the people or
whether the people were born for the
benefit of the railways, but the Market
street Company has no doubt on the SUBJ
ject.
Mr.. Huntington states that he SUBJ
scribed 5000 to the East African Com
pany to help open up that country, and
put $4,000 into the Congo Railroad, but he
makes no statement of any money SUBJ
scribed to promote the development of
California.
AS the domestic servants of London have
organized trade union and demand not
only shorter hours of labor. but also dam
ages from employers for injuries received
in service, it is evident that household &C
cidents in that city will not be laid on the
cat SO much as formerly.