The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-18

He serves himself best who serves his
State best.
The man who is off for the festas is de-
cidedly on.
San Francisco weather is as good as a
fiesta any day.
Everything California undertakes this
year is a success.
Some men who are proudest of their
money abuse it most
There is no robbery in takinga monopoly |
away from monopolist.
The way of progress is straight ahead on
the road we have started.
The Solid Eight seems just about heavy |
enough to sink itself in the mud.
If you like the harmony of progress you
should assist in paying the piper.
The Queens of Beauty hold the title by |
natural right, as well as by election.
It is an easy prediction that the number
of fiesta cities will be doubled next year.
Selling raw fruit and buying back pre-
serves is where we get caught in the jam.
Los Angeles may have the bigger show,
but Santa Barbara is just as full of beauty. |
Cleveland's letter has had the effect of
arousing silYer-toned echoes all round the |
land.
1t appears that the goldbugs will have
to renominate Cleveland, or go without a
candidate.
The income tax might as well lie down |
and give up, for Mrs. Hetty Green is
going to fight it.
Though Japan is now willing to let her
up it will be a long time before China gets
on her feet again.
The success of Boss Cookers horse at !
Newmarket will probably incline him to
the English race.
In the racket of southern revelry we
must not forget the business OF advancing |
the peoples road.
Don't fret about the money question in
1896, for the Republican convention Will |
settle that all right.
Great Britain must arbitrate her dis |
pute with Venezuela or Uncle Sam will |
know the reason why.
California has no need to brag OF her
spring climate. She has only to keep quiet |
and let the flowers blow.
The Mechanics Institute promises an
august exhibit in August, and is making |
the right preparations for it.
The gayety seekers in the whirl of the
fiesta may be having lots of fun, but |
those people who have staid at home are
having all the rest.
The gold money champions might as |
well understand that in fighting the spook |
of silver monometaIlism they are not hurt |
ing bimetallism bit.
Pictures by telegraph as feature of
daily journalism have been proven practi- |
cable by the CALL, and will soon be as IA
miliar as telegraphic news.
The melting snow has turned the
Eastern rivers into raging floods and the
people of many cities are enjoying Vene-
tan festivals in the swim of the streets.
With earthquakes in Italy, foods in New
England and tornado in Kansas, Califor-
MIA ought to be able to bear up under the
burden of her glorious sunshine and riot
Gus roses.
When the San Joaquin Valley fully real
ICES that 1t is to be sidetracked by the South
ern Pacific it may be too late to do what
it might have done before in promoting
railroad of its own.
The Chamber of Commerce has done
well in reiterating the demand for the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal, as that Is
one of the enterprises on which we cannot
put too many ieks.
Eastern people who are complaining of
the high price of spring flowers will prob
ably regard the festivals at Santa Barbara
and Los Angeles as another proof that all
Californians are millionaires.
Eastern art exhibitors have not been so
good this spring as formerly, but ours will
be better than ever before. That is the
way we are catching up with the centers of
culture and making our way to the lead.
An interesting hint to California Is con-
tanned in the coincidence between the
great rise in the price Of oil in the East
and our knowledge that abundant unex-
plored stores of this oil exist in this State.
England's greed for territorial acquisi-
ton and the absence of such an appetite in
the United States should not make our
Government less cautious with regard to
Guatemala merely because we are less
hungry.
The Chinese must have some peculiar
and instructive reason for believing that
their presence in white nation with which
China has no treaty is necessarily danger
Gus to them, else those in Guatemala
would not have called on the United States
to protect them.
By persisting in her demand for the
opening of the Chinese empire to trade,