The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-03

Santa Rosa is making her floral garniture
with wide sleeves and considerable hustle.
It is difficult for visitors to San Jose's
floral show to decide which is prettier, the
flowers or the girls.
Don't make the mistake of estimating
the prosperity of the country by the re-
turns of the income tax.
The lively demand for real estate in and
about Stockton shows what every city that
secures the Valley road will experience.
The women of Washington City are try
ing to have it declared a misdemeanor for
anybody to spit on the floor of a streetcar.
While nature is turning Kansas inside
out with a cyclone it is sending silver
showers and golden sunshine to Cali
fornia.
The profits of fruit-growing in California
will be larger than they have been in years
past, and this will be the best advertise
ment that the State can have.
This is the best time on record to adver-
tise California, for the State never before
had so much to show in the way of home
enterprise and local development.
Stockton's postponement of her jollihca-
ton meeting till next Saturday night will
only make the cork pop the louder from
the accumulation OF steam behind it.
The poor condition of Democracy is
strikingly illustrated by the fact that the
party cannot find a man who will consent
to accept its nomination for Governor in
New Jersey.
While holding open our pockets to catch
the gold which fell from the clouds on
May day, we could reconcile ourselves to
the disappointment over the failure of the
days festivals.
a reduction of charges in overland
freight rates on fruit means an increase
of the States wealth not only from profits
on fruit growing, but also from the in
creased value of land.
Everybody can learn what good paving
is when the Merchants Association makes
its exhibit of paving material and it is
hoped that the show will not be injured by
the introduction of cobblestones.
The enterprising property-owners along
Folsom street are determined to rid them
selves of the basalt-block pavement and
greatly enhance the value of their real
estate by laying down bituminous road
way.
The Examiner continues to argue at the
spigot and ignore the bung by reiterating
the gain of 81 600, 900 on tin plate, but pay
ing no attention to the loss of 500, 900 900
on staple products under the Wilson
tariff.
The lads and lassies of the State Uni
versity who embarked in such journalism
as a college paper represents are now learn
ing the bitter lesson that satire may hurt
as well as amuse, and that not all ridicule
is fun.
The Portland 0regonian reports the ex-
istence of a number of hotels in that city
where beds and meals can be had for 10
cents each, and claims that living has be-
come SO cheap that beggars are almost I'M
heard of.
All California unites with Mrs. Stan
ford in her wish that the Government will
bring to an early issue its suit against the
Stanford estate, as important interests
affecting the great university are involved
in the action.
That the London Times has begun a
series of articles on American art is cited
in the East as proof that our art is becom-
ing notable, but from this distance it APP
pears more notable as an evidence that the
Times is waking up.
The prevailing recent fashion of shoot
ing train-robbers may be only another of
those new fads for which Americans are
noted, but the chances are that before it
has become questionable train-robbing
will have fallen into desuetude.
1t did not require Hoke Smiths assur-
ance for us to know that President Cleve-
land will oppose the free coinage of silver,
but when he asserts that the next President
will entertain similar views he is keeping
his open eye on England and his shut one
on the West.
In former years the Southern Pacific
spent annually hundreds of thousands of
dollars in efforts to induce immigration to
California, but only until now is it be-
ginning to understand that the best adj
vertising it can do is to make such freight
charges as will permit of a profit on Cali
fornia industries.
The Boston Herald has found man in
that city whose income in 1894 was $113,-
100, but who will have to pay an income
tax Of only $50, owing to the fact that his
income is derived almost wholly from real
estate or Government bonds. The case is
interesting because it emphasizes the in
justice of the law and proves it to be less
of tax on property than penalty on
business energy and sagacity.