The San Francisco call., 1895-07-16
THE SUMMER MONTHS.


prompt attention
TUEsDAY Is, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Hard times give birth to adventurers.
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A corrupt Board of Supervisors can be
as injurious to city as a riot.
1t is reasonably safe now only for very
thin persons to visit the Solomon Islands.
Mark Twain's failure was his own fault
and yet be proposes to lecture the world
about it.
Public sentiment, if properly exercised,
is the most powerful Of political pro-
phylactics.
Cleveland wishes another term and
PETER wishes another party, but somehow
the revival keeps on.
Fighting for the maintenance of the law
may begin with dissension but tends to
the establishment of harmony.
The country is Republican and the coun-
try is reyiving; the Government is Demo-
cratic and of course has a deficit.
The devastating cyclones of South Da-
kota are solemn notice by nature that
there is plenty of room in California.
No man can call himself good citizen
who is indifferent to the manner in which
the affairs OF the public are administered.
The revival of industry caused by the
defeat of the Democratic free-traders has
made even the Democrats themselves feel
chirpy.
Every loyal Californian should support
the Miners Association in its fight to pre-
Eerve the gold bearing lands OF the State to
the people.
The best thing possible for the working
classes to do is to unite with the, forces
which are moving TO restore the industries
and prosperity of the State.
Sherman's declaration that he would not
accept the Presidency if offered to Ain
unanimously will be considerably accepted
without putting him to the test.
The assurance that the spur tracks are 20
be removed from the park is as gratifying
as the knowledge that the sale of lottery
tickets in the City has been reduced 80
per cent.
There is cause for some satisfaction in
the reflection that official rascality that is
open and shameless is more easily, dis
covered and punished than the sly and
secret kind.
We cannot have improvement without
8 good City government and We cannot
have such a government without having
Improvement, so we must all get in and
work the rule both ways.
Attention has been called to the fact
that the grave of Salmon P. Chase has
been left for more than twenty years with
out a monument and a movement has
been started in Ohio to erect one.
While the silver question is agitating the
country it is to be reflected that California
has not yet made sufficiently careful in
quiry into the natural stores of gold which
analogy leads US to believe exist abund-
antly and undiscovered throughout the
State.
The formation of women's clubs for the
promotion of Republican principles in
Utah shows that the women OF that Terri
tory understand one of the highest forms
in which their patriotic impulses may find
expression.
The Southern Pacific Company's success
full operations with the Board of Super
visors should not make US forget that it is
also gobbling the mineral lands of the
State under the pretext that they are
agricultural
The extraiudicial administration of the
lash to some miscreants in Kentucky is an
evidence that. the written law to the con-
trary notwithstanding, there is a human
instinct which appreciates the value of the
whipping post.
The impartiality OF party politics in the
off year was exemplihed yesterday by the
fact that the Republican Chronicle and the
Democratic Examiner each made a leading
feature of a Cleveland tbird-term cartoon
taken from the Independent New York
Herald.
OnQoT the OTlIlSQ L 1dTlldui6ntdI1 cHSGeln
candidate beaten for one constituency
can stand for another. This is said to be an
advantage over our system, for it enables the
leaders of both the great parties to keep
their seats at all times. Thus in the next
Parliament the great Liberal leaders are
sure to be present despite the defeat of the
party, while in the House of Representatives
The defeated Democrats will hardly have
any member except Crisp with sufficient
experience TO make motion to adjourn.
That must be g curious state of affairs in
Texas which exhibits the Sheriff of Dallas
County in the attitude Of requesting an
opinion from the Attorney General of the
State on the constitutionality of the anti
prize-fighting law before he thought of
making up his mind not to permit the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight to take place;
but it illustrates not uncommon absurd
ity in this country, where he must be an
inconsequential peace officer indeed who
does not feel at liberty to usurp the func-
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