The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-27

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Business Office. no Market street, viii receive |
prompt attention.
SATURDAY .........................JUL JULY 24' 1888 |
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The Potrero is flying the flag OF progress.
1t is evident the fruit-growers must COM
bine or suffer.
Though the Law and Order League may |
be slumbering it still lives.
The more the third term plot thickens
the more it looks like mud.
The Poultry Association never cackles
until after it has laid an egg.
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That sentiment which plties the killer is
a stranger to pity for the killed.
Every kind of work undertaken by the |
Solid Eight has the appearance of job.
Fredericks stumbled yesterday in his
speech, but not in his fall through the |
gallows trap.
The Richmond at present in the field is
writing poetry and making "einch" rhyme
with pinch
A police adjunct to the Free Labor
Bureau might prove a check to the enter |
prise Of the hobo
a few days more of the debate, and no |
one in the country viii know what Horn |
st,ed TIarvny- o 20 20 I-iOu hOu+
San Francisco is too poor to give away |
valuable franchises and too proud to allow |
her laws to be violated with impunlty.
The Gonna Athletic Club is not altogether
responsible for imagining that this is
Dallas, Texas, instead of San Francisco.
The women who are worshiping at the |
shrine of Durrant might be better engaged !
wearing boomers and riding wheel"
The Changers at Camp Roache might |
proftably devote some Of their time to |
discussing the best means of marketing
fruit.
For those who wish to combine profit |
with pleasure Camp Roache will be the |
prevailing attraction for the next two |
weeks.
Japan seems to be dissatisfied to discover |
that the bulk OF parlor matches which |
California consumes are manufactured in
Sweden.
In poking fun at Texas for arranging for
a prize-fght our pride in San Francisco
caused US to overlook Mr.. Tom Sharkey and
Mr.. Billy Smith.
The Secretary of the Interior is supposed
to look after the Indians, but while they
are on the warpath in Idaho he is making
a little campaign of his own in Georgia.
You will find in THE CALL all the news
and all the evidence of the Durrant case
without having to read dull columns of
distasteful stuff and spun out rhetoric in
order to get it.
The people say to the Solid Eight:
"Why do you propose to sell valuable
franchise for $50o?" And the Solid Eight
say to the people: what are you going
to do about it?''
The idea of holding the next Republican
National Convention in San Francisco
grows in public favor in the East, and with
proper cultivation on our part will receive
general acceptance there.
Japan has taken Formosa England has
taken Brazilian Trinidad, Hawaii has
taken French Frigate Shoals, and so the
island powers of the world go on grab
bling islands as if it were an insular
mania.
Whatever may be any ones sentiment
about loading a suspected murderer with
flowers, there can be no question that
daisies and violets are capable of being put
to a poetic use in churchyards without
doing harm.
The recent report of discovery of anti
mony in quantity comes so closely on the
heels of other unexpected valuable discov-
cries in California that we have even fore
gone the formality of torchlight process
sion in its honor.
The Legislature intended the statute
regulating the sale of municipal franchises
to be check on monopoly and restraint
on official dishonesty, but the Solid Eight
construe it as means of giving monopoly
a cinch on the public.
Newspapers which give up so much of
their space to reports of murder trials at
the sacrifice of room that might be devoted
to wholesome news are paying just such
a compliment to public intelligence as the
more intelligent public pays them.
When an organization of earnest citizens
calling themselves law and order league
falls into desuetude because its leaders
cannot agree one is tempted to wonder
what it was that made the old Vigilance
Committees agree with so terrible unan-
unity.
Street Superintendent Ashworth may
feel a certain pride in the firmness which
leads him to declare that the whole army
of the United States could not back him
down from position which he had once
taken, but he might reflect that stubborn
ness is not an evidence of integrity and
that public sentiment is often more power
full than an army.