The herald., 1895-02-26
THE METROPOLITAN EDITORS

There is no doubt that the grand jury,
as now constituted, is failure. 1t
neither indicts nor exposes rascals, except
such as may be reached by the ordinary
methods oi prosecution by information.
1t sits for months and holds weekly or
semi weekly sessions, yet it does
not discover the jobbery that is
going on in city contracts, or the
rascality that is committed by politicaE
rogues, or the crimes charged against any
grand juries have started out with
majority of men who earnestly desired TO
do public service, and the fact that all
grand jrries-both good and bad-have
failed to fulfill the ends for which they
we're organized, is beyond denial.-San
Francisco Examiner.
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A constitutional amendment has been
introduced in the Assembly by Hatfield
OF Sacramento providing that foreigners
shall not have the right to acquire, pos
sess, enjoy, transmit or inherit property
in this state unless they are bona llde res
idents and eligible to become citizens OF
of the United States under the naturallza-
ton laws. The sentiment against alien
ownership of land is correct one, but
the right to acquire other property would
debar a vast amount of capital from being
invested in the way OF industries and a
necessary development of the resources OF
the state.-San Francico News Letter.
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intercollegiate athletic contests have
been so frequent within the past few
years that the impression has become
prevalent that physical culture is the
most popular department in the higher
institutions of learning in this country.
The humorists of the comic papers evil
dently believe this to be so, if the illus
trations that appear in every number can
be taken as an indication. The subject OF
the college athlete is worked over until it
become es threadbare; and even then it is
not allowed to rest.-Daily Report.
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The present California Legislature has
succeeded in doing more in the way OF
making a name for itself than any of its
predecessors. By the passage of an alb
surd law making the wearing of any head
apparel in theater punishable by fine or
Imprisonment they have made them
selves the laughing stock of the civilized
world, and published themselves broad
cast as a Sc Of insane triflers unfit to be
entrusted for moment with affairs of
state importance.-San Francisco Post.
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The story of the freezing to death of a
party of hunters in a forest about nine
teen miles below New Orleans sounds like
a myth, but the extraordinary severity of
the weather in the South during the
early part of the present month gives it a
color of truth. Should it be confirmed it
will probably be the first recorded in
stance of such a tragedy in Louisiana
San Francisco Chronicle.
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The confidence of Chairman Reilly that
he will get through his Pacific Railroad
funding bill should increase the vigilance
of the opponents of the measure. But it
need not alarm the people seriously, for
Reilly was very confident just before his
last defeat.-San Francisco Bulletin.
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In this city, over IA, 400 have registered
as unemployed" vet there is vacant
land within the city limits on which,
under fair management, they could raise
nearly all their own food, and there is
vacant cultivable land enough in the
state to support IA, 900, 000.-San Francisco
Star.
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veto of a Democratic Governor on
the extravaganza Of Republican Legisla-
ture would not be pleasant to take, but il
would be better than no medicine. San
Francisco Call.