The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03

OAKLAND OFFICE:
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EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 32 "a Park Row. New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Down the cinch bills.
Give US honest legislation.
Popular rights are never subserved by |
blackmailers.
Blackmail is but a poor armor against
the shafts of truth.
Millions for business and not one cent |
for blackmailers is the motto for Califor-
mia business men.
. Doing the Long-green act for money and |
the Ii Yung Yuen fake for news no longer |
passes for enterprise.
Since when did Willie Hearst begin to |
take an interest in the welfare of the peo-
pie of San francisco?
Private welfare is dependent upon pub |
lie justice. Cinch bills injure the people !
as well rs corporations.
Scrofulous journalism may try to keep !
itself alive by the gold cure, but it must !
hot try to get The gold by blackmal.
Willie Hearst is wasteful, but Long !
Green isn't What goes from the purse of T
the one lines the pockets of the other.
The Su bsidV fOrtad from 10 Couf harm
Pacific was done in the name of Hearst,
but probably he didn't get the money.
The blackmail journalist and the cinch-
bill legislator are-two OF kind and they
naturally aid ana succor one another.
It has become so in San Francisco that
it is i'm possible to throw a stone at dog
without hitting somebody on the Eram-
amer.
The Examiner couldn't worry Senator
Perkins into selling ship, but 1t is deter
mined to force somebody to sell some
thing.
If Butler was TO be tried for his life in
San Francisco instead OF Australia his
arrest would be only an episode in his
career.
If yard of Examiner pups is given for
15-cent advertisement what litter must
have been given to the railroad for $1,000 a
month.
The Examiner can well afford 10 give a
yard of pups for a 15-cent advertise
ment. 1t has plenty OF pups, but money
is scarce.
One advantage of the Bradley Martin
ball is that it has given the New Workers
something richer to talk about than the
Seeley dinner.
George K. Fitch has been vindicated.
His hbeiers on the Examiner have been
compelled at last 10 acknowledge him an
honorable man.
There are some honorable men who
cannot be detained even by the laudations
OF the defling- Examiner, and George K.
Fitch Is one of them.
The blackmailer whines of his devotion
to the dear people, but the people re-
member the railroad subsidy and know
what the whine is worth.
AS ambassador to England Channcey
Depew would be as much of an after-din-
ner talker as Baysrd. but then Chauncey's
jokes wouldn't have to be labeled.
Mr.. Butler of Australia will hardly re-
gard his reception in this City as warm,
but he will get one hot enough for him
when he gets back where he came from.
The determination of cinch bills should
engage the attention of every newspaper
in the State. Let the press unite to expose
these infamies and they will soon cease to
be dangerous.
There may be some people who think
the Examiner is devoted to the principles
Of the Democratic party, but the leaders
of the party are not among them. They
have had experience.
The gown Mrs. Mckinley is to wear at
the inaugural ball is to be of American
manufacture and, thanks to the system of
protection in past years. it will be as good
as can be obtained anywhere in the world.
'tIf the Eadmiaer," so Bierce once wrote,
"Has from the railroad taken q single note
I'll write no more for that blackmailing sheet"
That pay was taken proof was given complete,
But Bierce scraws on to earn his weekly hire
And every sunday writes himself liar.
. Notwithstanding the immense Republi-
can tidal wave of last year only three
mem bers of the Kansas Legislature voted
for John James ingalls, for Senator. Kan
sas and her man seem to be divorced alto
gether.
If the present managers of THE CALL
had done nothing else they would at least
have rendered hepublic service by COM
pelling the lampooners and libelers of
the Examiner to do tardy justice to the
character of that upright and honorable
man, George K. Fitch.
After having worked for years to blacken
the reputation of Mr.. Fitch and break
down his business, after having hired
Bierce to lampoon him and sneaks to be-
tray him, after having pursued hIm with
all the malice which mean minds feel for
worthy men, the managers of the Exami-
ner now come forth and acknowledge that
Mr.. Fitch is an honorable man. This
may be hypocrisy, but even if it is it
shows that once more vice has been forced
to pay q tribute to virtue.