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Show oo JOIN THE BAY TOWNS. It is urged that .Governor Johnson should include In the extra session cal a stipulation that will enable the legislature to leagallZe a, federation or the several cities on tho shores or San Francisco hay The governor should heed the call, and the leglsla-V!rc leglsla-V!rc , sh0l,ld lss the needed laws. All the bay cities arc but one community, com-munity, with interests identical or ncarlv so They are one city in all but the name. Their Interests can best bo guarded by Joining them bv wiping out the artificial" lines that deny a San Francisco merchant the franchise in San Francisco, because bf sleeps on another part of the bav shore from the part where his business busi-ness is. Aside from the absurdity and injustice in-justice of denying a man "the franchise fran-chise in the place where his Interests lie just because his bedroom Is a few miles away, there is another and an immediate reason why the bay towns aiiuiiju uov, oe icacrated. That reason is the world's fair. Every part of the hay community lias an equal interest In tho great exposition, but until the towns arc Joined the interest of Berkeley. Oakland. Alameda and other oth-er suburbs appears extraneous. Also, it is Important that the world's fair city should have the dlgnifv and the prestige that accrue from the recognition recog-nition of Its size as a cltv of a million mil-lion Si7e and numbers :rive prestico and imnortance Immsible to attain or to claim without them. All tho other biz tow us in the world have recocair.ed this Chicago has taken in hnr suburbs. New York has annexed an-nexed all her' outlying parts except, lersev City, an ' only stooned there because a stato line lay between Los Angeles is ;t"l reaching out for more territory, althouch the cltv Is six times as lone and wide as San Francisco Fran-cisco is. I ondon is made up of many Mall tri)i. i'1' federated, and counts them all "vt lier population as tho greatest oitv in the world. San Fran-ri;rn Fran-ri;rn almot perhaps entirely alone of the world's great cities counts as Thor iMjpuIation only that part of her population resident In a small corner of San Francisco peninsula, while tho city itself spreads om on both slJes of the bay, and far down the peninsula penin-sula into San Malo. The legislature cannot enact these fragments Into one cltj, hut It can pass the lawn neeJed to permit the people of thaxcommunlty to do it for themselves. "Thnt is what the legislature legisla-ture should' do at tho coming extra Bcssion. Its up to the f.oer.nor now to authorize such -action. Santa Rosa Press Democrat. |