The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-27
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

All over the lauU kueT6 dre WIeckb Ol luopAeu-
tons and of men who were ruined by not get
ting straight in the newspapers. There are
statesmen who did not set themselves straight
with the reporters and so were driven out OF
public life There are university professors,
lecturers, lawyers, physicians, inventors, rail-
road men and business managers by the score
who can trace their downfall to mistakes in
dealing with the press. Ignorance of q neces-
sary art led their erring steps to ruin. A few
men know by instinct how to get into the
newspapers, and they are always prosperous;
they are never misrepresented or misunder-
stood OF lied about; but the art is one which
the vast majority of men must acquire, as they
acquire other things. by study. Hence the need
for the new School for Getting Into the News
papers Straight.-Oakland Enquirer.
A poor man who works for his living and to
support wife and family is of more value to
any town or city than misery rich man. He
does something to produce wealth; the goods
he buys for his family put all his earnings into
circulation in the town where he lives, while
the wealthy miser sends away for the new
goods he may need ''to get them cheaper"
The "poor man. or the laboring class is the
backbone of the Nation, and no town can be
permanently prosperous that does not recog-
niZe this fact. They are the great producers
and the great consumers. 1t is the duty OF the
public to give them good schools and to foster
and support every new enterprise, every pro-
gressive movement, that will give them en-
REPRESENTATIONS Journal.
There is teamster in San Francisco whose
name ought to be inscribed up near Abou Ben
Adhem's. He devotes his Saturday afternoons
now to delivering surplus fruit, obtained free
of cost from the commission-dealers on San
Francisco's water front, to the different hos
pitfalls and other eleemosynaRy institutions of
that City, and he credits himself with $40
worth OF happiness on each load after doug all
the work for nothing. ii there were more men
in the world like ]. Abrams it would be q better
world than it is. Now fruit that used to be
thrown into the bay because there were not
buyers for it will go where it will do the most
good to those who cannot buy fruit-Fresno
Daily Evening Expositor.
1t will require very strong pull to bring
either of the National Conventions TO San
Francisco. If it were accomplished at an out
lay of 100000 the incidental benefits might
more than justify the expenditure. A National
convention sitting in San Francisco would
probably pave the way for more liberal legisla-
ton for the Pacific Coast. No part of the coun-
try has had SO much difficulty in obtaining
adequate appropriations as this rising empire
of the Pacifc-Oakland Tribune.
The minister who breaches against the ex-
travagance of the rich is on the wrong track.
1t is impossible for tho rich to be too extrava-
CANT. The money they spend to crafty their
whims is of much greater benefit to the world
than it would be If boarded The misery rich
are the ones who ought to be preached at
Honey Valley Items.
Whether the Defender or the Valkyrie III
wins the international yacht race, the Pacific
Coast will have the honor of supplying the
masts that carry the successful boat onward to
victory. These great masts are of Oregon pine,
which is considered the best wood that grows
for this purpose.-Los Angeles Times.
1t is only by the grace of the Rothschilds and
the Morgans that Uncle Sam is allowed to clink
gold in his trousers pockets. They have corner
on that metal. and unless silver gets an inning
they will own US all.-Georgetown (Coio)
Courier.
This is world of anomalies. In every COM
munity there are number of people cursing
capital and hating capitalists, yet begging for
capitalists with capital to come among them
Santa Cruz Sentinel.
San Franeisco's chances for securing the
National Republican Convention appear to be
growing more favorable as the time for max
ing the selection draws near.-Napa Journal.