The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-28

to-day.
viii we get reduced freight rates or
broken pledges2
Commissioner Clark's opportunity will
meet him at the board.
The people have right TO expect much
and should not be disappointed.
California has some rights that Ken
lucky corporation is bound to respect.
Give the industries of the State chance
to expand and the railroads will lose moth
ing.
The cinch of monopoly on the industries
of the State must be broken or the law will
be broken.
a new day has dawned in California and
the Railroad Commission must awake and
get to work.
Il is evident that in the fight against the
railroad cincb We must literally carry the
war into Africa.
The proposed new jipksroom for b.
hernia will come high OF course. but that
is another story.
This week Del Monte has an inning with
the Country Clubs outing and lots of
pretty girls on the side.
The monopoly has been going against
the grain Of every other industry as well
as of that Of the wheat-growers.
Go to the Mechanics Fair in the day
time to study the exhibits, and then 60 in
the evening to see the crowds and have a
good time.
The question before the Railroad Com
mission is whether the people of Califor-
MIA are to be made to pay the cost of de-
veioping Central Africa.
With another park added to her attrac-
tons Santa Cruz will be in doubt whether
to call herself the City by the Sea, or the
Park-Girdled Borough of the Bay.
The Equalizers are playing to crowded
houses right along, but good many of the
spectators believe they are playing Robert
the Devil with the Robert left out.
It is comforting to learn from Boston
that Zerubbabel is behaving himself. Per-
haps Massachusetts viii be good enough
to let him play with her great seal.
It is worth noting that Olney is the one
man in the Democratic party who has
been named for the Presidential nomina-
ton and has not made haste to decline.
The Republican State Convention in
Pennsylvania is the storm center of East
ern politics to-day, and everybody over
there is watching TO see if Quay can ride
the whirlwind and direct the storm.
AS Wat Hardin is reported to be calling
upon God and man in Kentucky to stand
by the Democratic party, he has probably
reached the conclusion that whisky and
the devil are not equal to the emergency of
the revival.
It is rather odd that Corbett and Fitz-
simmons should have to go so far to find
place to hold their boxing match when
scarcely a week passes without prize
fight somewhere in the suburbs of New
York or Boston.
Los Angeles having handsomely pro-
vided for an exhibit at Atlanta, is now
making preparations for grand festival
next spring, and i'll the meantime San
Francisco continues to play the role OF
passive spectator.
That our golden climate really has money
in it is made evident by the report of the
Weather Bureau saying: "Grapes are be-
ing gathered, hops are being picked, fruit
is being dried, and the weather is most
favorable for all these purposes"
The statement of an old miner that with
IN two years San Bernardino will become
one of the greatest gold producing coun-
ties in the United States was not based
wholly OH enterprises in the air. There
seems to be a good bedrock foundation
for it.
1t Is asserted that in New York every
man and woman who rides bicycle chews
gum, that Mayor Strong, Commissioner
Roosevelt and the entire police force chew
it, and that the people generally are get
ting to be arace of iawsmiths and mouth
contortionists.
The big conventions of Christian En-
deavorers and Knights Templar in Boston
this year should be followed by a great
National Convention in San Francisco
next year, SO that all the world may know
that hospitality in this country extends
from the eastern TO the western sea.
AS something of an offset to the danger
of phylloxera it is pleasing to learn that
the so-called California vine diseasem
which was so troublesome some time ago
is now declared to be purely local phe-
nomenon, ephemeral in character; that
there are only few isolated cases OF it,
and these are rot contagious.
The reports of the County Auditors of
Ohio, which have just been footed up,
show that the number of sheep in the
State in 1894 exceeded those of 1895 by
$40, 779. The decrease can be assigned
only to the effects of the Wilson tariff,
which has acted on the wool industry of
the country like devastating pestilence.