The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

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San Francisco is straining every nerve to Sc
cure the next meeting of the National Repub-
| lican Convention. The success of the effort of
| the San Franciscans would be of untold benefit
| to the entire coast.-Salem (Or.) Statesman.
| Californians are just beginning to realize
| that by patroniZing home industry, buying
| everything they need and can get that is home
grown and home made, they are doing
| greater service to their own locality than they
| ever dreamed of doing.-Santa Rosa Star.
| The State Board OF Education recently low
| cred the prices of quite number OF the State
series of textbooks. Now if it would only
abolish few of the most worthless texts that
| we are compelled to use it would receive the
| good wishes of many earnest teachers.-Bodie
| Miner.
| Who will give Los Angeles or Pasadena q fine
| monument to Cortez, the real Columbus OF
| the Pacific, the man who instigated directly or
| indirectly all the expeditions up to the dis
| covery of Southern California by Viscaino and
Cabrillo. These three men deserve recogni-
| ton, not to speak of CorOnado.-Pasadena
| News.
! One way to make times good and money easy
is to get to work producing something that
can be sold, at the same time developing the
| resources of this great valley, where the in
|
| ten years will make every man who owns
| piece of land independent if he lives within
| his means.-Fresno Expositor.
| If you wish to be happy, lift if you wish to
| be worse than happy, lean. BY lifting you
| build. by leaning you destroy. The man that
| lifts gives life to things; the man that leans
| takes life away. The man that lifts makes the
world merrier place to live in; the man that
leans fills it with misery and poverty. So lift;
| don't lean.-Pendleton East Oregonian
| The lottery business is an evil without one
redeeming feature. 1t is responsible for thefts,
| defalcations. domestic misery, and even sui
| eide. 1t ought to be wiped out utterly. The
| ordinary statute laws do not operate to crush
| out this evil, and we believe that Congress did
well in excluding from the mails ali papers
publishing lottery advertisements or draw
| ings.-Los Angeles Record
The great need is some agency through which
the white men who really desire work and the
horticulturists who are willing to give them
employment can be brought together. If that
can be accomplished, we shall then know if
there is sufficient reliable white labor to sup
ply the needs of the State, and if there is not,
we all know that there is an ample supply in
the East to draw upoE.-SanlJose Mercury.
Other things being equal it is safe propo-
| interests on the principle that if we do not
care for our own we need notexpect that others
Will care Tor US. An exchange OF certain prod
ucts between one domestic locality and an
other will always be in order. The point TO be
cultivated is to reduce this exchange of prod
ucts to a minimum.-Salem (Or.l Statesman.
There is more activity in the mining regions
Of the State just now than at any previous
period in twenty years. Eastern and British
capital is being invested without stint and we
may look forward to old time boom. Cali
fornia is undoubtedly the greatest gold -produe
ing country in the world. The Australian and
African discoveries yielded fortunes to a few,
but disappointment to the multitude.-Dixon
Tribune.
Some Of our local politicians who pose on
the street corners as philanthropists and
economists have evidently been studying the
dictionary OF discomfort as published by pes
simist at large. Here is a definition contained
therein: "What is money? Everything. What
is everything? Nothing" This definition, no
doubt, appeals to the wheels in their heads and
bespeaks the vacuum in their purses at one
and the same time.-Williams Farmer.
If another wheat corner is being attempted
the worst luck we wish those who are attempt
ing it is the same measure of success that SEN
ator Fair had. 1t has always seemed to us that
it does the home OF every poor man in the land,
is one of the most conspicuous offenses of the
times, and that it is permitted is one of the
most glaring evidences of the weakness of the
social organization Argus.
Vale 10 has made steady and appreciable
progress during the two years of depression.
There has been actual cry of hard times in
this city and, while many other cities and
towns have stood still or refrigerated. We have
been enjoying peace and plenty, and can
truthfully state that we now in a splendid
condition to enjoy the wave of prosperity that
is about to roll over the land, the preliminary
swish of which is now distinctly heard.-Val-
lejo Chronicle.
Beyond question, one great difficulty in life
is that men have not yet learned the omnipo-
tence there is in well-directed human effort
when guided and controlled by an unyielding
determination. They are too much the
creatures of circumstances, too ready to yield
to discouragements and TO shift the response
bility of their own failures to somebody else's
shoulders. 1t is not society which makes or
mars our life; it is We ourselves. We need
nave no fear for the manhood of the boy who
has the courage to say in whatever he lawfully
undertakes, 81 will. Los Angeles Times.
Let us be inspired by desire to increase tn
value of property; to attract capital that is
seeking investment; to hold out inducements
10 energy that is seeking avenues in which to
operate; to induce brains that are looking for
a field in which to develop new enterprises to
locate among us, and to promote the comfort
and prosperity OF all. Energy and effort intel
ligently directed will accomplish much, and
the results that Will follow will be of direct adj
vantage to every resident or property-holder
now here or who may come to aid in the work
of velopment.-WoodlandD Democrat.
The fixed and unelterable policy of the man
ayers OF the present roads has been to charge
for transportation all the traffic will bear. 1t
is expected and believed that the proposed
new railroad (San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley will be differently managed and thar
it will be ready and willing to encourage the
DEVELOPMENT of all interior resources that will
give employment to wage-earners and bread
winners that are within our borders, and also
to encourage the growth of all these industries
80 that an immigration of that class of popu-
lation to California may be secured.-Stockton
Record.