The San Francisco call., 1896-05-31

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DAVID NJ. FoLTz, Special Agent
SUNDAY Y...................... MAY 81, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
1t is once more appropriate to brag OF
our climate.
1t LOOKS as if Blanther would soon be
back number.
We can now begin talking about the
Glorious Fourth.
Because st. Louis does not ask for help
is no reason why San Francisco should not
give it.
Yesterday we honored the heroic dead
and to-day once more we recall their
memory.
What we really need is not more money
for street work, but more street work for
the money.
When law ceases to reform a commu-
nifty, it is time for the community to re-
form the law.
Orators at the st. Louis convention will
make no reference to sweeping the country
like cyclone
In vetoing the river and harbor bill.
Cleveland has given another proof of his
devotion to Clevelandism.
With all its vigor cyclone never makes
clean sweep. 1t only muses. things up
and scatters rubbish around.
There is still enough of ST. Louis left to
hold the National Republican Convention
and she will do it in good shape.
Send THE CALL to your Eastern friends
and let them learn the advantage of max
ing their homes on this side of the
Rockies.
Surely we may rejoice in our climate and
be glad to live where the sun does not kill,
nor the wind mark its pathway with de-
struction.
Once more we remind our Eastern friends
that there is abundant room in California
for them, out of reach of winter blizzards
or spring cyclones.
1t is, of course, Republican year, but
the weather has succeeded in playing a
good many Democratic pranks in various
parts of the country.
Unless the law interposes with
promp:er justice, the criminal element of
California may grow to be as destructive
as an Eastern cyclone.
Wherever you go this summer, you will
need The CALL as q daily companion to
keep yourself posted on local news and the
movements of your friends.
There will be soon nothing left OF De-
moeracy but the name, and judging from
the kind of names the leaders are now
calling one another even that will be bad
one.
The young and vigorous West should
certainly be able to prosecute criminal
with as much force and effect as an old,
effete, precedent-ridden country like Eng
land.
After the mental excitement caused by
the crimes and disasters of the past week
the sermons of to-day will come like strains
of sacred music restoring to the public
mind calmness and peace.
The racket among the Democrats of
Alameda County has produced such con-
fusion it is impossible to say which faction
has got most of It's Irish up, and which
is most noisily raising its Foote to kick.
AS the cyclone-breeding winds of the
Mississippi Valley seem to have their ORR
gin in the heated arid regions every blast
they blow is another argument for the
speedy adoption of a system of irrigation
on large scale.
In the reports from st. Louis the United
Press again showed its superiority over
the Associated Press in both fullness and
accuracy of information, and thus another
illustration was gwen of the advantage of
taking THE CALL.
We are promised that in the glasswork
OF the dome of the City Hall we are at last
to have something in the building to be
proud OF, and in that promise We may re-
lolce for while, but don't bet on it. Bet
ting is bad practice.
In speaking for all THE CALL may at
uiheS oHeno some who wish to hear only
one side. bnt never any who wish to know
all that is going on in the world and feel
capable OF judging for themselves the
merit OF any and every cause.
st. Louis announces she can take care of
her stricken people without aid from other
cities. That is the American way. Self
help is the motto of us all. We can sym-
pathize not only with those of st. Louis
who have suffered by the storm, but with
those who promptly have stepped forward
to help them. without asking others for
assistance in the work.
The fearful disasters caused by the
cyclones have distracted attention from the
forest fires east of the Alleghanies. but
these have nevertheless been both extern
sive and destructive. They have occurred