The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-09

Duane streets, New York
TEEsDAY.......-....-............ APRIL 8. 1895
Good-by income tax.
Prospects are pleasing all around.
All games are progressive in. these days.
They we're wise men who established the
Supreme Court as a check on Congress.
Grover may have to call an extra session
Of Congress TO provide revenue.
Silver conventions are getting to be as
numerous as picnics.
The people who feel the strain of progress
most are the silurians.
Oakland wants boulevard to meet rs
at San Jose and complete the circuit.
The fam Gus incubators of Petaluma have
hatched prosperity as well as chickens.
No citizen can do the best for himself
Unless he does the best for the community.
The Supreme Court left just enough Of
the income tax for the next Congress to
bury.
The San Jose boulevard will be as noble
a feature OF California as was the Appian
Way Of Rome.
What is left of the income tax will
hardly provide revenue enough to pay for
the inquisition
Petaluma's new centrifugal cream sepa-
rators are the next thing to the perpetual
motion Of industry.
It appears that Oscar Wilde was not
alone in his guilt and doesn't like to be
alone in his misery.
The accidental killing Of a Partisan in
duel has awakened all France to the
dangers OF the sport.
"A silurian's eyes have as dead a luster as
two cobblestones mounted in the orbits Of
dead donkey's skull.
The bed occupied by Norway and Swe-
den is so narrow that when one OF them
turns over the other growls.
The shippers who sign the CALLS pledge
to patronize the peoples road will be the
makers OF CALIFORNIA; history.
So long as there are vacant lots in the
cemeteries it cannot be claimed that there
Is no earthly use for silurians.
The person who buys a lottery ticket not
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the community of the use OF his money.
If the tariff thinkers ever come into power
again they will probably have sense enough
to pay some attention TO the constitution.
Even the frost is kind to the Santa Clara
Valley, for it has only served to save the
farmers the trouble Of thinning their fruit.
From the way that timetable leagues
are being organized in the East it appears
the silver tide will be at the full food in
1895.
The decision of the Supreme Court on
the income tax may be taken as another
proof that whatever happens in these days
happens right.
The only monopolies that California de-
sires are those which she viii always have,
and they happen TO be the ones that the
Almighty has created.
Admitting that the press and the pulpit
are the two great moral forces of the time,
TO what extent and in what direction are
they exercising their power?
In asserting that he has never been
drunk Cleveland deprives himself of his
only forcible explanation Of the appoint
ment Of Gresham as Secretary of State.
The engineers have begun work at Stock
ton on the Valley road, and it will not be
long before the shrek Of the locomotive
viii exult over the downfall of monopoly.
Colorado is not ahead of California, for
while that State can boast of ten feet of
snow we are blanketed with a layer of
sun-warmed atmosphere forty miles thick.
The CALL is receiving letters from its
subscribers praisiDg its course in the mat
ter of lotteries, and this shows that there is
large element in the community to which
vice is not attractive.
In deciding that tax on incomes de-
rived from rents or from State, County or
Municipal bonds is unconstitutional, the
Supreme Court has left the present meas
ure plain tax on thrift and energy with
out single redeeming feature.
If real estate owners could know that
one of the best evidences of silurianism is
the demanding of higher prices than prop
erty is worth, and that silurianism is fatal
to progress, they would probably be less
willing to appear in the catalogue of terri,
airy remains.
According TO the Railroad Age there
were only twelve train robberies in 1890,
but they have been rapidly increasing in
number In 1892 sixteen were reported
and last year there were thirty-four. The
industry has revived briskly this year and
by the aid of the bicycle it is believed that
the robbers will soon be able to make an
average record of a hold-up for every day
of the year.