The San Francisco call., 1898-06-16
THE GEARY-sTREET FRANCHISE.

its eagerness to be restored to the Southern Pa l cifc pay roll as a regular stpendary the Third street Booder Qate of Mission street. throws sense reason veracity and the amenities o | journalistic debate to the winds. We do not com plain of this, for probably the necessities of the l Boodler pressing and must soon be satished That sheet cannot continue to increase its circulation at the Potrero Garbage Crematory without outside assistance and its attempts to again break into the treasury of the railroad monopoly via the Geary street franchise may be and probably justified by its financial condition.
 But when the yellow boodler debates the renewal of the Geary street franchise its merits ought for the benefit of the few sane readers 1t has left, to stick to reason and facts. It The Call of a desire to aid the Market Street Company in getting another franchise Geary street, and attributes to corrupt motives, thus entirely missing the point of our remarks and msapprehending their purpose. But this is not at all surprising. Since the Bood- lers circulation became so extensive at the Gar bage Crematory the sheet has manifested many signs of paresis That its understanding is growing weak and its powers of expression mudded has long been apparent to observing people.
 The purpose of our remarks anent the Geary street franchise was benevolent. They were intended to show the Booder that its efforts to break into the Southern Pacific treasury via Geary street are
 
 franchise that thoroughare need only to surrender in order to make renewal perfectly legal The Boodler admits this and yet 1t persists in its
 fight to preserve the Geary street franchise for the people. As matter of fact, the Boodler does want to preserve this franchise for the people or anybody else. What 1t wants is to make the Geary Street Company much trouble that 1t will restore 1t to the pay roll-purchase its silence as was done in the other case, at the exorbitan rate of $Iooo month.
 In making a disturbance over the Geary street franchise the Boodler is simply barking up a tree in which there is no game All the railroad monop- ply need do is to surrender its present privilege and ask for In this way t could bring on a legal sale and, is in position to bid more than any other corporation it would naturally get away with the punder. This surrender might be made to take effect year hence and if anything went wrong it could, with the of the Supervisors be withdrawn. In other words, the Geary Street Company is master of the situation and the Boodler Is shut out
 It pains to think that the Booder should misapprehend our benevolent motives in this mat ter. Still any person deterred from we'll doing by ingratitude has not the genuine divine spirit in him. So we take pleasure again in advising the Bood- Ter to confne its attention to the Railroad Commis- sion.. That body is friendly That was sufficiently shown by the fact that it refused to investigate the S3oooo advertising" contract. II there is any chance to disturb the Southern Pacific the commis- sion will discover 1t and the Booder can then sell its silence for good round sum.