The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-26

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TUESDAY --.-..-..--...--...- MARCH 20, 1895
Napa is no NAPIER on manufacturing,
but wide awake for business
The Cuban insurgents" are longing
painfully to smoke a Havana.
Competitive railroads will be the most
progressive feature of the new era.
When capital is welded to enterprise
the offspring is an infant industry.
Oakland has so many wheels that she
has decided to tax them by the head.
International bimetallism is only wait
ing for the United States to lead the way.
Let us hope that Ii Hung Chang will be
more successful as a peacemaker than as
fighteD.
The German Reichstag evidently desires
TO see Bismarck get into history and leave
politics.
The Hon. James G. Mcguire is unhappy
over the fact that we are not made to pay
a single tax.
In California March it is the rose that
blows, but reports from the East are of the
blows that rose.
Colusa may not get the sugar factory she
DESIRES but the energy she is displaying is
sure TO be benefit somehow.
If all Californians would buy articles of
home production the working capital of
the State would be quadrupled.
Silver is becoming something more than
the lining of clouds, and may be looked
upon as the sunshine of the future.
Already the assured prospect of the val
ley road has made an impression on the
real estate market of San Francisco.
Coast roads will soon be as live an Issue
as valley roads. for both Eureka and Santa
Cruz are pumping vitality into them.
Property who object to compet-
ing roads are entering into a very I'M
necessary competition with silurians.
The Chinese tongs are making so much
of racket at Sacramento it is hard to
realize the Legislature has adjourned.
1t would profit China very little to make
peace with Japan if she had to put herself
in the hands of foreign bankers TO do it.
Exempting ships from taxation is one of
the best ways to promote commerce and
make market for our surplus products.
The Spanish authorities in Cuba are dis
playing a praiseworthy moderation in
shooting the natives who keep them fat.
No one can grow fruit in California and
not come to feel in time that people make
great mistake in being born in the East.
1t is not in California alone that business
is reviving, but our advantage is that no
matter where it reyives, it comes our way.
One of the best ways to begin the good
work of patronizing home industries is to
buy the products Of the Napa manufacto-
ries.
Those who are contemplating the buying
of city property should reflect that in
creased prices will follow the advent of the
valley road.
European dissatisfaction on the score of
American securities is not discouraging to
those Americans who believe in keeping
our money at home.
1t is a sad commentary on the fitness of
things that the famous financial re-
former of Oakland must now depend on
charity for subsistence.
1t is hardly likely that the wound in the
face received by Ii Hung Chang will prove
fatal, for it takes great deal to overcome
the cheek of diplomatist.
The millionaire who gives the University
site for its building in San Francisco,
will give himself the sight of title deed
to perpetual remembrance.
Bismarck could enjoy his birthday with
out the congratulations of the Reichstag if
his physicians would allow him to put the
snub in his pipe and smoke it.
The fecundity of Joaquin Millers imagi-
nation seems not to be appreciated for its
true artistic worth by the sensitive resi-
dents of the Hawaiian Islands.
Santa Cruz, sitting with her feet in the
surf, singing songs of the sea and twining
roses IN her hair, is holding out her arms
beseechingl ~ to San Francisco.
AS the King of Spain is only seven years
old. he would probably prefer to settle his
dispute with this country through the me-
dunn OF popguns and tin soldiers.
Before we mock at the Lodi farmer who
paid some bunko men $1,000 for a box of
rocks We ought to consider how much we
have been bunkoed out of for cobblestones.
The silurian generally objects to ''im-
posing burden upon posterity" by the
creation of debt from which both the liy-
ing generation and posterity draw bene.
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