The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-14
The SUMMER MONTHS.

prompt attention.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST IA, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The Exposition awaits you.
Go to see the home products.
An extra session of Congress is not de-
sirable, but it seems to be necessary.
The enforcement of law cinches none
but lawbreakers, but still the railroads
howl.
1t seems to be conceded that when we
learn to pack fruit the London market will
be ours.
1t is possible that with Jones and
Mackay, rest may be only another name
for business.
The Wooton mystery has not yet been
solved, but as the estate has been distrib-
uted we may let it pass.
The third-term cuckoos overlook the fact
that Cleveland is much more likely to be
impeached than renominated.
There is a growing suspicion that reform
Democracy has already lost its Sunday
brooches in Buckley's back yard.
AS Mackay and Jones have both come
here simply to rest we might az well adver-
tise the town as the Nevada mans repose.
Eastern visitors who complain that the
peninsula lacks color should be given the
freedom of the City to paint the town red.
The Market-street Company would find
it cheaper in a general way to buy its
franchises in open competition as the law
provides.
By increasing the National debt Cleye-
land has really put his party Rnder bonds
not to elect another President for many
years to come.
The present session of Parliament will
not last long, for at this seasonsof the year
grouse-shooting in England il always too
much for politics.
Fresno is rejoicing so much in the double
prospect of striking oil and getting an in
crease in the price of raisins that she is
liable to break out in carnival at any
time.
In depriving the people of Clarendon
Heights of streetcar facilities the Market
street Railway Company has forfeited its
franchise, but what will the Supervisors do
about it?
It has been decided TO push forward the
State exhibit for the Atlanta Exposition
without further delay, and the backward
counties must now brace up and join the
procession.
In making arrangements to check and
store bicycles free of charge, the managers
of the Mechanics Fair have proven their
ability to run an up-to-date show in an up
to-date way.
AS the arrangements for the silver con-
vention become more clearly defined, it
becomes more evident that it will repre-
sent the leaders and thinkers of the Pacific
Coast, and not merely the takers,
If we condemn the bad actions of the
Southern Pacific of Kentucky we should
also commend whatever good it does, and it
merits some praise just now for offering to
carry the State exhibit to Atlanta free of
charge.
The decision of Judge W. D. Cornish of
Nebraska that the Union Pacific is earning
enough money to pay its debts gives en-
couragement to the hope that some other
Pacific roads may eventually be in the
same good fix.
Tehama County's announcement that it
cannot appropriate money for the Atlanta
Exposition because it has five murder trials
on hand suggests its opportunity to abolish
the murder habit by resorting to quick
trials and prompt punishment.
By and by the people will demand that
officials who reduce railroad taxes to a.
nullity and at the same time increase
those upon other taxpayers should be
given chance to explain themselves in a
place where they will be subject to a cross
examination.
The reelection of Mr.. Gully as Speaker
of the House of Commons shows one of
the important points of difference between
the British parliamentary system and
ours. What would have been thought in
this country if the Democratic Congress
had reelected Speaker Reed2
The construction of the competing road
will break down the monopoly of trans
portation in the San Joaquin, but until it
becomes a transcontinental road there
will be plenty of work for the Traffic
Association to do in guarding the inter-
ests of the merchants of the State against
the greed of monopoly.
The proposed union of all the Catholic
reading circles of the City in one organize
ton for the adoption of a uniform and
universal course of study is another evil
dence of the rapid development of higher
education outside of colleges. If the pres
ent rate of progress in that direction is
continued for another generation, the
whole United States will be one big uni
versity, with classes and courses of in
struction open in every city, town and
village.