The San Francisco call., 1897-01-01
A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

With glowing anticipations of better
things and with resolutions so to act as TO
speed their coming, men and women of
the civilized world will greet the New
Years day. 1t matters not if the sky be
overloaded by storms of wind or rain or
snow, it will be, nevertheless, to the great
majority of US all bright and happy new
year.
The day will draw its brightness less
from any sunshine it may radiate than
from the luminous prospects which the
mind can discern upon the horizon. On
this day pessimsm will be banished and
every intellect will seek only for those
signs which promise good to nations and
to men. Such signs will not be lacking in
any country nor to any class OF people.
The kindly earth is full of promises to
man, and Mother Nature gives assurance
that these promises will be fulfilled to all
Who obey her laws and work in accorda ance
with her rules. Bright, therefore, will be
the day in every Granddaughter in America
than to others, and brightest of all in
California.
The happiness of the day will depend
upon the heart which receives the in
flUences of the good prospects around.
There are people who would be sad even
in the halls of heaven, as there are others
who would find cause of rejoicing under
the most gloomy conditions. 1t is the
latter class to whom the day will be a
happy one, no matter whether the sun
shines or the rain falls. They will see in
the abundant promises of nature thou
sand opportunities for their own advance
ment, and they will with resolute minds
and cheerful hearts determine to make of
them the best use and profit.
Surely the people of California and of
the United States generally have good
reason to be we'll satisfied with the out
look. Our country is to-day more pro-
pitious to men than any other on earth,
and our State offers more encouragement
to industry and enterprise than any other
in our country. AS Nation we are so
powerful that we can not only command
peace for ourselves but can go far toward
securing it for Others. As State we are
so prosperous that we can not only fur
nish our own people with abundance but
out of the profusion of our crops can ex-
port much of those products of the soil
which in less favored lands are counted as
luxuries.
Under these circumstances our people
have thousand inducements to the max
ing of good resolutions. 1t needs but lit
tie reflection to discern that wherever we
have failed in the past the failure has
been largely due to defects in ourselves
In our individual undertakings we have
not put forth our full strength or exerted
all the virtue that is in rs In our public
enterprises we have not co-operated with
complete cordiality or made uss of the
full force of our united strength. There
fore to attain in the coming year the re-
alization of what we now anticipate there
is needed more than anything else de-
termination to reform ourselves and to
act IN the work of the coming year with a
greater individual vigor and more of pub
lie spirit and general harmony.
The CALL, speaking for all, wishes for
California a Happy New. Year. 1t desires
that the coming twelve months shall have
more of realization than of disappoint-
ment. 1t sees in the advantages of the
State a thousand opportunities for. public
and private advancement. 1t wishes all
of these opportunities to be used to the
fullest extent and the advancement TO be
carried forward to degree of prosperity
which shall assure the welfare of all. 1t
therefore urges the adoption OF good
resolutions which will tend TO promote
every rightly directed effort of the indi-
vidual will, and every enterprise which
either civic pride, State interest or Ma
tional patriotism may induce US to under
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