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Show STATE SHOULD HELP. Considering ways and' means to put San. Fran-Cisco Fran-Cisco on her feet, why doesn't the Governor of California Cali-fornia call an extra session of the Legislature and propose-that the State guarantee the bonds of San Francisco to the amount of $100,000,000? We have not the Constitution of California t hand and it is I ossible, considering who framed that Constitution; 1' that the State is inhibited from any such proceed- Ing; but if it is not, the very first thing to be done ought to be for the State to guarantee its credit to the city. The State is directly interested in having the property values of San Francisco restored in their fullness in the quickest possible time, because San Francisco is in the habit of paying about one-, one-, third of the taxes of the State. In that respect it is ' situated a little as Salt Lake is in IJtah. ' Utah always al-ways depends upon this city paying the bulk of the taxes, and were the city to be wiped out, it would be exceedingly hard for the State to get along and meet its obligations. I ' . We believe under our Constitution it would be impossible for the State, even if the people all de-isired de-isired it, to extend any credit to this city. And this I calamity in California is a notice to the men of Utah that such an inhibition ought to be taken away. Nothing would influence the men of outside ; States so much, in trying to devise a way to help San Francisco, as to see the State itself come to the rescue of the city, and if it can be done it ought to be theflrst duty of the authorities there to have it done. |