The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The path of duty leads to the competing
road.
Governor Budd is in no hurry about
scalping the coyote bill.
Pan-Americanism is rapidly becoming
live issue in the field of diplomacy.
We would have better City officials if we
helped them more and abused them less.
Wherever Progress puts a foot in Cali
fornia it finds something solid to stand on.
If the little Iberian King is not careful
Uncle Sam will be after making him walk
Spanish.
What could be a happier occurrence than
for San Jose and Stockton both to have
valley road?
with pride, but the silurian will view it
with alarm.
If you wish TO brighten your leisure with
a daisy tomorrow, remember to get the
Sunday CALL.
Now that the manufacturers have organ
lied the machinery, we may expect to see
the wheels moving before long.
Those who have any leisure to-day can
employ it we'll in attending the opening
services OF the Memorial Museum.
The snarl into which Gresham has got
our foreign relations has become so tangled
we may have to cut it with sword.
II becomes more and more evident that
we shall have to extend protectorate over
Nicaragua and make her behave herself.
If diplomatic language" does not
cease to be SO common everybody will
be falling into the ugly habit of talking
Latin.
Whenever you write to an Eastern friend
remind him that the next Republican
National Convention must be held in San
Francisco.
Herr Scheel struck our musicians and
music-loYers pretty hard blow when he
declared that we need a kindergarten more
than conservatory.
The heavy increase IN the gross earnings
way traffic between California and the East
is growing in volume.
The coming of British capital to develop
the resources of California ought to be suf-
ficient to make our silurians realize how
eminent they are as blanks.
Public improvements need not wait for a
change in the City government. All that
IS needed is change in public sentiment
from silurianism to enterprise.
The officers of the Carson Mint are as shy
about discussing the robbery of the Mint
as is a real nice girl over appearing on the
stage for the first time in tights.
Just sufficient oppositions have been de-
veloped in the Manufacturers Convention
TO show that the members are men of ideas,
individuality and earnest purpose.
AS Mrs. Harriet Wooden of San Diego is
suing Samuel Wooden for divorce, it ap-
pears she is not satisfied with his board
and wishes to make him plank up alimony.
If we could have Legislature composed
of men like those of the Manufacturers
business basis and we would never have to
complain of idle attaches.
Woman's greatest victory this year has
been the obtaining of judicial decision in
Kansas that women who register to vote
shall not be required to state their exact
age, but only that they are over q.
In voting to issue bonds to the amount
of $396,0O0, Los Angeles announces that
she has no compunctions on the score of
''burdening posterity with debt" for she
is well aware that posterity will receive the
lions share of the benefits.
One Of the most unexpected events of
the season was the recent assembling of
mass-meeting of wholesale merchants in
Chicago TO devise means for counteracting
the success of st. Louis merchants in tax
ing Chicago's trade away from her.
While we sympathize with the feeling
which has impelled the New York Sun to
address to the people of that city the ap-
peal, ''If we can't be good, let's be honest"
we feel 1t our duty to say that if Mr.. Dana
edited San Francisco paper he could be
both.
Professor P. L. Wilson of North Carolina
claims to have invented process of max
ing Illuminating gas at SO low cost it can
be sold to consumers for 10 cents per
thousand feet, and there is reason for
hoping therefore that we may eventually
have light enough in the world to tighten
the bills of the gas companies.
committee of the New Jersey Legisla.
ture appointed to investigate expenditures
for the State capital has discovered the ex-
istence of systematic and organized
robbery of the public treasury, the spoils
OF which were apparently shared by State
officials from the top of the ladder to the
bottom. Bills for all kinds of supplies
were regularly raised and some bills were
sent in for goods that were never supplied
at all. In fact the disclosures are such
that New Jersey can no longer be referred
TO as out of the Union. She is decidedly
in it with the rest of US.
A curious illustration of the folly of the
neWspaDer common fake is inst now anime