The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-03

1t takes an earthquake to shake up Phil
adelphia, but it has been done.
While we wait for the Nicaragua canal
we can profit by the Tehuantepec railway.
Sacramento was never more inviting
than at present and the invitation is for all.
Home-seekers who are wise had better
initiate the earthquake and shake the East.
New openings to prosperity are always
appearing to men who have the enterprise
TO get into them.
The talk of the vigorous foreign policy
goes bravely on, but in the meantime
Waller stays in prison.
1t is truly capital city where you can
see the Native Sons and the fair of the
State at the same time.
AS long as the struggle for gold contin-
ues among the nations the reconciliation
of silver will be live issue.
Now that Commissioner Stanton has ex-
planned, Commissioner Clark will be &C
corded hearing if he has anything to say.
The bull-fght as popular amusement
shows a tendency. to expand; about the
time it was suppressed in Colorado it
broke out in France.
Some people go to the Mechanics Fair
many times and some never go there at
all, and which are the wise and which are
the foolish it is scarcely necessary to say.
It is not exactly creditable to the United |
States that the best transportation facil- |
tiles between the Atlantic and Pacific |
Coast should be due wholly to the enter |
prise of Mexico.
The report from Palo Alto that the |
freshman class sis large and cookbook
ing" is pleasing as far as it goes, but not
wholly satisfactory. Good looks don't go
far in football rush.
The proposition to put fourth-class post |
masters on the civil service roll will no
doubt be pleasing to the officials who are
in, but Cleveland ought to wait until he
hears from the fellows who are out.
By his energy in constructing the
Tehuantepec railway President Diaz has
benefited not Mexico alone but the whole
continent, and takes rank among those
who may be called Pan-American states
men.
The enthusiasm for improvement which
blossomed in the spring is showing the
fruit of practical work in many parts of
the State, but nowhere more completely
than in the construction of the Valley
Railroad.
Even those people who have the least
faith in Eugene Debs will hope he was
prophesying truly when he said: "The
strike last summer was the climax of rail-
way disturbances and this country will
never see another one like it,"
According to the Baltimore Sun the
issue in Maryland is whether there is to
be Democratic party in that State or
only German party, leading contempt
ible existence for the private emolument of
Mr.. German and its members.
AS the Defender has been fitted with a
hollow steel boom like that the Valkyrie
brought over, each boat is now fairly
worthy of the others steel; but the ques-
ton remains whether the Valkyrie will
show herself worthy of the Defenders
aluminium.
According to the latest reports of the
new acetylene gas, ton of the raw ma
terial makes IL, 900 cubic feet at cost of
$40, and five cubic feet per hour gives as
much light as 240 candles. If this esti-
i ,e
fashioned gas must go to the cook stove, if
it does not have to go out altogether.
Chief Charley, who insists on living at
Healdsburg and refuses to go back to
Round Valley reservation, because, as he
saws, "Too much work; too much hot; no
fish; no circus; no wine; no fun," may
be bad Indian, but he has lots of human
nature in him and shows q cultured APP
probation of Healdsburg as a carnival
town.
This time j. is in Michigan that the Ma
tional Guard has to be called out to pro-
tect the mining industry. A little while
ago it was illinois and not long before that
calls for similar purpose were made on
the guard in Virginia, Tennessee and
Colorado. 1t seems in fact as if mining in
this country were rapidly becoming mat
ter of military maneuvers.
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The report that the people of Germany
are delighted with the official ode written
in celebration of the victory of Sedan en-
phasizes one of the differences between
that country and ours. Over here we have
not sufficient poetic faculty TO get good
ode to celebrate any occasion, and on the
other hand we have too much appreciation
of true poetry to be pleased with what we
do get.
The New York Sun says: Campbell of
Ohio stands upon a platform as broad as
the continent, as strong as the Nations
faith in its might and destiny and as beau
tiful as sunrise over the mountains"
We do not deny that Campbell may be
standing somewhere on platform of that
size, but we call Mr.. Dana's attention to
the fact that his candidate is too small to
be visible on it from any point of the hori-
ION.