The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-13

II.
Business once, 10 Market street, will receive
prompt attention.
TUESDAY AUGUST IS, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Art and commerce, it seems, do not mix
well, even in Bohemia.
Democracy has a good many more
corpses than leaders in the field.
Let US hope that no ford writer will call
the Mechanics Fair a carnival of industry.
California will miss Frank N. Pixley,
and it will be long before we see another
like him.
The vacancy on the Supreme bench is to
many people the biggest thing in the
United States.
When you see the exhibits OF home prod
ucts at the Mechanics Fair make up your
mind to patronize them.
When it loses its power over public
opinion the monopoly will soon lose its
grip on the puDnc purse.
If the churches of San Francisco make
an earnest and united effort the Christian
Association will soon be out OF debt.
Our contemporaries who are denouncing
Jerome's ideas of Democracy have proba-
bly, forgotten that he is funny man.
Mr.. Corbett continues to represent Cali
fornia muscle, but his recent manners
have evidently been acquired in the East.
The Changers School of Instruction died
at camp Roache only to be born again at
San Jose with more oratory and bigger au-
diences.
The mountainous opposition to Quay in
Pennsylvania is rapidly subsiding to hole
in the ground, and it won't be Quay that
falls into it.
a Railroad Commissioner who says "the
idea of the public is to cinch the railroads
is little bit too preiudiced to make good
juryman in the case.
It is good thing to have reduced the
lottery swindles in this City by so per cent,
but in the fight against monopoly we must
clean up the whole hog.
Local Democracy is getting into shape
for the coming split-up in the National
party, and every faction in the Nation win
have its champions here.
Fruit shipments to London may result
I-,& H.
there will be profit enough in the trade to
make up for the damage.
In going to Japan for pleasure and rest
it is to be hoped that Irving M. Scott will
find some contracts there for profit and
work when he comes home.
It has now been suggested that William
z. Russell of Massachusetts might be a
good enough Western man if he would
accept the Democratic nomination.
The future historian will wonder why,
with an intelligent people and honest off,
Gals, the State of California could never
make the Southern Pacific Railroad pay its
taxes.
If there are any reasons why special IA
vors should be granted to the Market-street
Railway Company they have never been
made public, SO they must have been
pocketed.
In asserting that he intended to pull the
nose of Fitzsimmons as a playful joke
Gentleman Jim has set up as an American
humorist on plan that is liable to result
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Carl Browne has sent shudder through
the East by issuing manifesto in which
he refers to himself as poet, painter and
puncturer of pompous pride, of political
puppets and pusillanimous poltroons of
purse-proud plutocracy.
The industrial exposition this year will
furnish good starting point from which
to measure the growth of home manufac-
lures under the impulse of the new re-
vival. of industry, and every year should
show something in the way of increase
and improvement.
1t is gratifying to learn that Governor
Budd is better, and that the doctors have
little doubt of his speedy recovery. It is
SSAId4hAy CAS ScAcId1 lOpc Iudb our uTSL
native son Governor will be able to fulfill
his duties and leave the office at the close
Of his term with his native vigor unbroken
and unimpaired.
The complaint that California fruit is
not packed well enough for the London
market emphasizes the need for improv-
ing that part of the industry. In the girls
who work in the orchards and canneries
we have the most intelligent and best edu-
Gated labor in the world, and with little
teaching we ought to be able to send out
the most carefully and artistically packed
fruit that reaches any market.
There is no reason why the Emperor
Williams celebration of the German war
fetes should be regarded as offensive to
France, any more than the celebration of
the fall of the Bastile in France should be
offensive to the Emperor. The one COM
memorates the establishment of German
unity and the other the accomplishment of
French liberty. Both nations have right
to rejoice. and neither has a right to kick.