The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-11

wholesome water in this wide, wide world
to drink, and another member OF which
declared that he had known cases where
good horses had been poisoned by drink
ing water that had come from deep wells.
Some OF the few legislators who did not
care to encounter the varied seductions of
wicked San Francisco remained here and
went to church and spent the remainder
of the time reading letters and kilograms
in the we'll warmed and comfortable Sem
ate and Assembly chambers. Those let
ters and kilograms were of highly inter-
esting character and express ssee In vigor-
GUS language tue tact that the teopie did
not want MIR. Perkins reelected to posi-
ton which he had shown his incapacity
to fill. They said that it was time that
California should wake up and take
more conspicuous and honored place
among the States of this Union, which
she could never do with men of small
mental caliber. 1t is many long year
since California was proud of her repre-
sentatives, and it is many long year
since her intellect, her craftsmanship. her
breadth of vision, her progressiveness and
her resistless energy were tittingly en-
United States Senate.
Since that time. long ago, of broad men
Californians have often had to blush for
the effigies which have sometimes repre-
sented the State in the most august body
of statesmen in the world. She has
blushed for shame at their incapacity,
their narrow-mindedness their selfish
ness, and she has wept with chagrin for
their sins.
So out of very shamefacedness the
Golden State is now raising wall of pro-
test against The perpetuation of what is
nothing less than crime against the
people, disappearing their intellect,
their learning, their eloquence, their
knowledge and their appreciation of true
craftsmanship.
Her summer suns that know no clouds,
her balmy airs mingling the refreshing
saltiness of the quescent sea with the soft
and languorous odors of the orange and
the rose, the one ripening, the other
blooming side by side in the happy Christ
mastide, have created a new nation of
poets, orators, artists and statesmen to fill
up the great blanks left both in the old
and new worlds by the corroding tooth OF
decaying and degenerate age. And SO
there has come to the thoughtful, the no.
BILE of the golden land, yearning and
regret, yearning for better am mbiton in
the man who places the ballot of the free
man in the box, which is the only throne
we know or revere, and a regret that the
fairest State in the fair sisterhood should
be so cruelty caricatured in the Nations
Capitol.
People cannot help drawing a contrast
between the two men now standing in the
focus of their vision above all the rest Just
now in interest. They cannot help com par
ing the learning, the manners, the elo-
quence, the courtesy, the cordiality and the
human warmth of heartin the one and the
lack of these desirable qualities, or the
possession of them in the lesser degree
by the other. They cannot help recalling
the energy, the unseldshness and the
commanding influence that have not been
the characteristics of California represen-
tatives in the Senate of the United States
for 10! these many years. II would not be
charitable to name the gentlemen who
did not reflect the civilization of the re-
motest West in the council halls of the
for long time and others are dead in in
fluence, in State pride, in everything pro-
ductve OF good to the State which has
loved and honoged them, not wisely. but
too well.
Tardy though it may be of expression.
the sentiment is in the air that the time
has come for better order OF things 1t
reaches US here on the perfumed wings OF
the zephyrs that fly from the orange
groves of the sunny south and the foot
hills of the North. 1t comes hither in
letters and rushes hither in the captive
lightning that flashes through the wire,
wiping out both time and distance, and
the murmur of it is growing deeper and
louder, like the warning rum BILE OF the
earthquake.
Who is there, leaving aside all question
OF personal friendship, who does not COM
pare the capacity and the qualifications