The San Francisco call., 1897-03-12

war IS coming.
The Examiner pleads that the amount of
convict tw;Ee it uses is small but the
smallness of the saving only intensifies
the meanness of the transaction and the
insufficiency of it's defense.
One by one the public libraries of
the country are excluding the yellow
dog journals from their reading rooms
The indignation of the people has been
slow in taking action, but it is doing the
good work at last.
The diplomats of the great powers will
fiud before they get through with the
Cretan war that public opinion is after all
the greatest of powers in these days and
will have to be consulted in the settle
ment OF the question.
Mckinley evidently understands the
ways of office-seekers too well to be dis
turbed by them. He offends nobody, but
he yields TO nobody. and is showing more
clearly every day that he is emine ntly the
right man in the right place at the right
time.
Whether Long Green Lawrence goes to
jail or not in this instance the Senate has
vindicated itself from his ISLANDERS by
boldly challenging the proof and showing
the falseness of the slander. As for the
jailing of the rascal, tha: is something
which is bound to come in due time.
In defense Of its use of convict twine the
Examiner said yesterday that it could not
obtain it 'of as good quality anywhere
else." That IS case of lying in aid o1
rascality. The local manufacturers M AXE
as good twine as is made in San Quentin.
but they cannot sell it so cheaply, and
that is why Wasteful Willie patronizes
the convicts.
Never was lie more utterly devoid of
even a sem blance of foundation than was
the lie told by the Examiner about the
''thievery in aid of bribery" Having been
given every opportunity to prove the truth
OF its words the ETdmineY could offer
nothing whatever in the way of evidence.
1t has been forced to resort to impudence
to hide its confusion and, to use its own
choice language, to "darken its retreat
by excreting filth"
In the prevailing harmony of sen time IT
for the promotion of home industry
and the advancement of the welfare oil
California, there is but one discordant
voice among all the papers of the State
one common slanderer, one maker of
strife, one patron of convict labor one
sneerer q the products of free labor, but
that one fortunately has now been ex-
posed, its slanders refuted its practices
revealed and its manager confronted with
jail.
1t was bad enough in the Examiner to
use prison-made goods instead of helping
to build up the industries of free labor,
but when it defended itself from public
indignation yesterday by the lying asser-
ton that the product of free labor is not
equal in quality to that made in prisons
it added insult 10 the original wrong and
sought to discredit the product OF our
factories aud the work of our people. 1t
is The duty of every good citizen to aid in
refUting the lie and in counteTacting its
effects on the trade of our home indus
tries.
Governor Budd's veto of Assembly bill
273 was based ON minor features OF the
measure and did not affect the general
character of the bill at all. In fact as the
Governor pointed out in his message a
similar bill is now before the Senate, and
he implies that 1t is free from anything to
which he objects and will therefore
receive his signature If it passes. There is
no need of taking up much time further
on a measure so generally supported, and
the Senate would do well therefore to
accept the new bill and go forward 10
other things.