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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29
FOLLOW THE LEADER.

San Francisco is now in a position to re-
ioice her friends and fill her enemies with
confusion. She has but to carry to sue
cessful completion the great project OF the
Traffic Association of road through the
San Joaquin Valley in order to accomplish
a result great in itself, which will be still
greater in its consequences.
At this iuncture the supreme duty OF
every man of capital is to rally around the
Traffic Association, Claus Spreckels and
his colleagues on the committee and give
them the support needed to achieve sue
cess. 1t is the rich men of the city who
will profit most by the road and they must
build it. Poor men cannot be expected
to help in undertakings of this
kind. This is the opportunity for
wealth to show its influence to the
community. Claus Spreckels has set the
example. We use his name for no other
purpose than that of designating leader
around whom business men can rally with
the assurance that the enterprise is to be
conducted not for spite nor for COMPETE
ton, but for the welfare of the city and
the State and the stockholders. In such a
leader even the most conservative capitalist
can have confidence, and the colleagues
around him are men whose characters
attest that he knows how. to draw about
himself the right men for the work.
It should be borne in mind always that
this is not primarily Intended for COM
peting road; it is not designed mainly to
fight the Southern Pacific. 1t is intended
for business. It is designed to earn divi-
dends. There has been much condemna-
ton of the Southern Pacific in the past,
and no doubt much of it was deserved; but
it did no good itprofited nobody. Itengen-
dered antagonism, but nothing else. Now
comes new order of things. 1t provides a
remedy for all the evils complained of, and
will yield profit besides. There is no use
therefore in going back to the old things
or fighting over the old fights. They are
back numbers, ancient history, out of date.
The present issue means business. The
pioneers are at work; the Traffic Associa-
ton is composed of practical business men.
Mr.. Spreckels and his committee are also
men who waste no money in spite work.
1t is a legitimate proposition of California
development. LIE every man of property
in the city follow the leader and go forward.
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government of the people, by the people and
for the people, applies with equal force to
each step and each division of our republic
from the lowest to the highest.
The foundation of our complex system
of government is the home. A man has a
right to administer the affairs of mis- home.
He has right to an equal voice with his
fellow-men in the administration of the
affairs of the community in which he
lives. So far as the operation of these
affairs are confined to the community
itself, no outsider has any rightful voice
in their management. Those who are to be
governed have alone the right to declare
who shall be their governors. Those who
are to be taxed have alone the right to de-
clare who shall tax them.
/ The application of these principles to
San Francisco is too plain to be mistaken.
It has been written that there are some
roads so clear that "a wayfaring man,
though fool, shall not err therein" This
road is one of them. The people of San
Francisco alone have any just right to say
who shall control the police that keep
peace of the city, the Fire Depart
ment that guards against conhagration,
anu Cuc DOdTu OF heaiCn tHaI SupeTVlSoS
the sanitary condition of the community
and is charged with the responsibility of
preventing plague, pestilence and disease.
While we draw our charter from the
State, our rights come from higher
authority. They are inherent and inalien-
able in manhood itself. It is a violation of
every principle of government founded
upon the freedom of the home, to deprive
us of the right to manage our home affairs.
Therefore we demand home rule in the
name of the people of San Francisco, and
to all outsiders we say also in their name,
Hands off!
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A CHANGE OF TONE.

Among the thousand evidences of the
good effects of the new movement toward
the building of the valley railroad, none
are more worthy of note than those that
come to US from outside the city. 1t is not
San Francisco only that is aroused, but the
whole State. Congratulations are taking
the place of criticisms. Where every ref
erence to San Francisco used to be one of
ridicule or abuse, we are now getting COM
pliments. 1t appears that the prestige of
the city is about to be recovered and that
California is getting ready to point with
pride to her metropolis.
The rapidity with which this change has
come over the attitude of the country tow
ard the city is significant of something
more than an enthusiasm for the valley
railroad. 1t proves that the great mass of
the people of the State really look to San
Francisco for leadership, and have been
critical toward her in the past, simply be-
cause she did not take the lead. There has
been less of the spirit of provincial jealousy
against the metropolis than some people
have imagined, and on the other hand
there has been much more consciousness of
the real unity of interest between the city
anu the Ctdtc tIldA our CrlLlCS OF GHc 1IlOe-
rior have been given credit for.
The mutual interest in the projected
railroad may have therefore the good effect
of bringing the city and the State into a
better understanding of their relations.
The leadership of San Francisco will be ac-
cepted as soon as it is worth accepting. We
are on the right path now and may conf
IDENTIFY count upon the support of the peo-
pie of the State at large as long as we go
ahead
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29
THAT g SUDDEN ATTACK.
An Error Made Every Day by Highly
Respectable Ladies and Gentlemen.

An Error Made Every Day by Highly
Respectable Ladies and Gentlemen.
A man finds tnat when he has bent over to
tie his shoe is takes him long time to
straighten himself again. "a little muscular
Stiffness" he says. 1t is worse at night and
when two days later he is laid up with rheuma-
tism he talks about his ''sudden" attack.
1t was not sudden at all. rheumatism does its
work leisurely Indigestion starts it and it lies
dormant until cold or drenching of winter
rain or prolonged work develops it. After tor
ture and loss of time the man may be cured
and then perhaps he will ask himself: "Was
that suffering preyentable?'
A fair question. Here is the answer: Yes, a
great many diseases are preyentable if people
will use little. forethought. When vo. a.
dull "out of sorts" and find any exertion hard /;
when, somehow, your food doesn't taste right
and your head is heavy, then is the time to save
yourself fit of sickness.
Take stimulant, but be careful that you get
the right thing. There are many so called, but
the only purely valuable one is Duffy's Pure
Malt whisky. Any druggist or grocer will sup
ply it.
They have learned that in stimulating the
depressed functions to their natural activity,
Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky throws off disease
as soon as the first symptom appears Its purity
has been shown by the most severe tests, and
its virtues as a medicine are no more questioned
than those of any other standard article that
the doctors prescribe
Good for convalescents and all who are ex-
hausted by overwork and hardship.
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order to give the literary and philosophlc
men of France something to do, so that
they would not interfere in politics and
subject his proceedings to criticism.
In the beginning the academy consisted
OF twenty-five members instead of the forty
who now compose it. Since the founda-
ton 475 men have had seats in its halls
and have shared in the honor OF its men,
bership. At the present time the doyen is
Nd. Ernest Legouye, poet, novelist, play
wright, lecturer and authority on fencing,
who is nearly So years old, and who entered
the institute SO far back as 1855, when he
succeeded Ancelot The Benjamin OF the
illustrious family of bards, dramatists, his
torlans and men of science is Paul Bourget,
who is mere STRIPPING of 43.
1t has always been subject OF dispute
whether the academy has been beneficial
or injurious to French literature. Lord
Macaulay was among those who rejoiced
that England had no such institution to
prevent by the weight of its authority new
ideas and young genius from obtaining
hearing. On the other hand it has been
urged that the English language would
have been far superior in quality and less
cum persome IN quantity OF words IMAM IL
is if there had been any authority to settle
disputed questions of the spelling and the
meaning of words and the grammatical
construction of sentences.
Whatever may be the differences of opin-
ion in regard to the usefulness of the acad-
envy, there can be none of its influence. 1t
is the most illustrious association of the
kind on earth, and every aspiring French
man cherishes an ambition to enter its
ranks. 1t gives to letters in France dig
nifty which is found in no other nation,
and while its influence may at times have
been adverse to the development of true
genius it cannot be overlooked that at this
time it is comforting benefit upon the
literature of the whole world by setting its
face resolutely against the prevalent real
ism which not only offends against moral
ity but threatens to degrade art itself to
the lowest depths
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29
UP TO DATE IDEAS.

The New York Sun says that the failure of
the regatta at the annual meet OF the American
Canoe Association last summer made evident
the fact that the modern racing canoe had been
permitted to develop into an extreme type of
racing machine which was rapidly killing the
sport. So imperative was the demand from the
members for a change that the executive COM
mittee was forced to act Nothing was done,
however, and in this emergency the leading
members of the New YArk canoe clubs have
agreed upon model for national canoe. The
specifications have been drawn for canoe of a
modern and distinctly novel type, and each OF
the committee has agreed to lid such boat
at once and to race it during the coming
season.
The new canoe will be radical departure in
model from the present craft. 1t viii be but Is
feet in length over all instead of 10, and its
beam will be SO inches instead OF 30. 1t will
therefore be a much more seaworthy and able
craft Its greatest departure from the old
model will be in its bows, which will be cut
away underneath to give the long overhang so
much used now. The load water line will, in
consequence, be but II feet instead of the same
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29
THE WEATHER BUREAU.

The conditions which influence the
weather on the Pacific Slope vary widely
from those which obtain east of the Rocky
Mountains, and the forecasting of ap-
preaching changes involves close study
of local characteristics. The main causes
which exert the widest influence over me-
neurological conditions here are the Japan
current and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The presence of the former accounts for
the fact that the climate here is very mild
and entirely dissimilar from that which
prevails in like latitude on the Atlantic
coast. The mountain ranges are respon-
sible in no small degree for the climate in
stated localities. This is so especially
where an extended range is upreared
parallel to the coast line. The rain clouds
usually drift in from the ocean, and the
mountains, if of sufficient height, bring
about precipitation of large percentage
of the moisture. The warm air of the can
yons is drawn up the mountain slopes and
there meets the incoming colder currents
from the ocean, causing condensation.
Thus the rainfall is always greatest in the
coast counties.
The percentage of correct forecasts is
greater in California than in the East
The storm center is usually very near at
hand before it is discovered, all storm
movements originating here upon the
ocean, and moving from west to east.
Thus the effects of the disturbance are
often shown but short time before the
storm arrives. The Weather Bureau here
labors under the disadvantage of having
reports from but one direction, while the
observers in the East are constantly
warned of changes which are taking place
in every direction. The storm movements
there, however, are very rapid, while they
are here comparatively slow. When a
storm center here is once located its prog
ress may be more accurately outlined
To this fact rather than to any degree of
correctness in forecasting as to approach
ing storms is due the high average of COR
rect representation.
The work performed by the Weather
Bureau has an important bearing upon
agricultural and commercial interests.
Fruit-growers and ship-owners are, per-
haps, most directly benefited, but other
interests receive aid of scarcely less value
The raisin-growers of Fresno are often
warned of approaching storms, and thus
enabled to save valuable crops from i'm
pending ruin. The prune-growers of
Santa Clara County have profited in like
manner, and orange-growers in Riverside
County have often saved the crop by timely
warning concerning approaching frosts.
Stockmen usually consult the Bureau before
sending any important shipments over the
mountains during the winter season, and
many interests of less magnitude are
guided largely in their dealings by the
forecasts.
During the approaching fruit season the
Weather Bureau will use every effort to
warn growers of approaching northers, and
will no doubt thus greatly enhance the
value of the service.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29
SPIRIT OT THE PRESS.

The passage of the Nicaragua canal bill
through the Senate on the same day that new
railroad company is organized to open up the
San Joaquin Valley, should mark January %,
1895, as red letter day, in case these great en-
terprises materialiZe. The possibilities that
these undertakings open up to the residents of
Central California are fairly dizzy. If hoping
and praying will help them along there should
be great revival all through the valley
Fresno Expositor.
San Francisco capitalists appear to have
learned the lesson taught by the fable of the
larks in the cornfeld They now seem in dead
earnest about the valley railroad, and the
names OF the men who have taken the matter
in hand give assurance that the road will be
built It will soon be the turn of the valley
people to subscribe, and they should promptly
and literally respond. Independent.
With competing freight rates out of and into
the San Joaquin Valley property in and about
Fresno should double in value, and even the
present prospects of getting q road must slim
ulate prices and give courage to all that it is
not going to be vain and useless to prune and
plant and SOW and reap.-Fresno Expositor.
Just observe the vote on the Reilly funding
bill and see who are the friends of the people,
the Democrats or the Republicans. We have
wagered that majority of the Republicans
viii support the bill and that majority of the
Democrats will oppose it.-Porterville Enter
prise.
There are as few Democratic as Republican
journals that favor the policy of Mr.. Cleveland
in regard to Hawaiian affairs. It seems to be
aimed TO ignore the interest of Americans and
to aid in any possible way at his command
those of other nations.-Riverside Press.
ssHow IN Paw Your Income Taxn is the title
of pamphlet just published. What is most
yearned for just now is some method by which
payment of the income tax can be avoided
Los Angeles Times.
At the eleventh hour the San Francisco Traf-
fc Association gets to work with its coat of,
and the prospects are that in the hour remain
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length as over all, as is required by the present
rules. This change will necessitate new
style rudder, with the post coming through the
deck, such as has never yet been used on
canoe. The cockpit will be feet in length,
and may or may not be selfbailing, as its floor
will be above the water line. The centerboard
will be 4 feet long, with a drop OF feet, and
viii project above the coaming when housed
The present rule allows drop of but 1S inches
and forbids any projection above the coamlng
The sliding seat will be limited in length 10
the width of the boat, namely. thirty six inches,
and the sail area will be absolutely restricted to
125 square feet. But one rig will be allowed,
and that must be capable of being raised, low
cred and reefed while in use. No regulation
has been made concerning the midship cross
section, as the boats all to be built from one
design and by the same builder. No canoe OF
different design and build, even though OF ex-
actly the same dimensions, will be allowed to
race in the same class with them, as in that
case a boat might be designed to cheat the
rules, and the object of the establishment OF
the new class would thereby be defeated.
1t is believed that the new boats can be built
for 1925 each, and can be fully equipped for
$25 more. This is in marked contrast to the
cost of the present racing machine, which is
about $500.
The object of the promoters OF the new type
is to establish restricted racing class in which
all the boats shall be exactly alike in design
and build. There will, in consequence, be no
advantage to any one man; every one will be
upon en- equal footing, and the best sailer will
win the race.
The advocates of the new class also believe
that it viii restore the interest in canoe racing
They also believe that it will retain in canoeing
many who are now drifting into small yachts
and yawls, and, perhaps, when the present ten
dency among yachtsmen toward small and re-
stricted classes is considered may even result
in new converts for canoeing.
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SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS

'How did smithers get along out West?"
'Not very well.''
''He was q remarkable fellow-so quick at
repartee."
eyes; that's how the trouble riz. Ell he had
not been so quick at repartee an little bit
quicker with g gun he might be in'jyin' this
climate yit"-Detroit Free Press
She-Pm going right home to mother.
He--Well, that's better than bringing mother
right home to us.-Syraeuse Post
Whenever we eat cranberries we conclude we
have found another woman who doesn't know
how to cook them.-Atchison Globe.
care you much taken with bloomers?"
"Well, rather; never go out in them but
I'm kodaked a dozen times" - Detroit Tri-
bune.
SIS Miss Jackson st homer
'eWhy, no, sir. she waited for you till 4:30
o'clock"
"But I said to her that wouldn't be here
till s."
eyes, so she said."-Detroit Life.
What shall it profit man to have lustrous
brown eyes and golden-syrup mustache if he
wears made-up ties?
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HANDS OFF.

The CALL demands home rule for San
Francisco. 1t does not assume the attitude
of a dictator commanding new things, but
comes as one of the many voices through
which the taxpayers and the people of the
city make known to the Legislature their
determination to secure for themselves
American liberty by the establishment of
local government, based upon the funda-
mental principles of. American law.
Under the broad system of government
provided in our national constitution, there
is room for local government to be divided
and subdivided in every degree of author
ity and territory, from the State to the vii
Iage and the township; and the rule of a
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

ing more will be accomplished tnan IN all In u.
preceding hours OF backing ana nihng'-sl-
salia Delta.
Congress should't play dog-ln-l he-hlahser
with that Hawaiian cable project Inose pee
pie naturally want telegraphic communication
with the rest of the world, and II we 90 no.
wish to provide it we have no right 10 prevent
others doing so.--Nevsda Tribune
New York doctors are warning people WY
wish to avoid the grip that they must keep p
their feet warm. What epidemic there Will
be among the members of the present Congress
after March 4.--Seattle Press-Times
Honor to the United States Senate. 1t mas
passed the Nicaragua canal bill, and that covers
multitude of sins-Oakland Enquirer
The gold reserve has dwindled to $1| ,OUo,-
600. This puts it So ,OOO,o 900 below the Gould
reserve.-Salem (0regon) Statesman.
Bill Cook and Debs both in jail and the "lec-
ture season" st its best. But Waite and Breck-
inridge are loose-Washington Star.
When the Republicans return to power they
will not complain about difficulties inherited
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:
THE FRENCH ACADEMY.

The two hundred and sixtieth anniver.
sary of the foundation of the French Acad-
envy, which occurred on January 2, has
led to the publication of some interesting
statistics concerning the history of that
famous association of "Immortalsn The
original academicians received their letters
patent from King Louis XIII, in 1855, at
the suggestion of Cardinal Richelieu, who
is said to have planned the organization in
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

from the other party They cleaned up once
after James Buchanan under more trying cir
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
If There was the least vestige OF manliness
remaining to the American people represented
in Congress, there would be no need of de-
nuneiating Sutro regarding railroad affairs
Santa Barbara Independent.
How can town be progressive when it is
stuck in the mud all through the tourist
season?-Riverside Press.
The first lesson in economy is not to throw
up one job until another is in sight.-Sonoma
County Farmer.
Some foolish men buy old whisky to get new
life. The wise men never buy it.-Los Angeles
FYDrnSs
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

Even the lowest lands of San Joaquin
Valley will soon be known as rising ground.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

As the Brooklyn Eagle estimates that the
present strike entails upon Kings County
an expenditure for the National Guard
alone of more than SIC, 900 day it is clear
that strike at trolley line is high
strike in more senses than one.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

There is a dread possibility that the
Reilly bill may be railroaded through.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

Opinions differ as to whether an inau-
gural ball is matter of society or politics.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

It's strange folly that expects to coun-
teract an outgo of gold by an income tax.
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IN announcing that he would have no
policy against the will of the people the
new President of France probably means
tnat he will be content with drawing his
salary, and viii let the other fellows fight
over the way of raising money for it.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

While the Democrats at Washington are
piing up debts and taxes, the Republicans
at Sacramento will cut them down.
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Bearded women have been know. in
every age; one was seen at the court of
Gar Peter ], in liza, with a beard of i'm
mense length. Margaret of the Neither
lands had heavy beard.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

The man who will cut the best figure in
the Legislature is the man who will do
most to cut all figures down.
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1t is growing clearer every day that what
the Government needs is not so much re-
formed currency as reformed revenue.