So far, the graft prosecution in San Francisco has failed to reach any “man higher up.” Only two out of twelve jurors were convinced that bribery in the trolley matter had been traced to Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railways. Calhoun is a man of much consequence. He personifies an investment of eighty million dollars. He could not, like the inconsequential bribe-taking supervisors, be ruined with impunity. His indictment and trial were bitterly resented by men of his own class. Whereupon the San Francisco Good Government League propounds this question: “Does the prosecution of wealthy persons charged with civic crimes injure business, or does it improve the financial standing of the city in the eyes of outside investors?” So far as we are aware no categorical answer is possible. An event that occurred long ago is described as follows: “And He went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.” Obviously, the immediate effect must have been to injure business, but the event is not judged on that ground nowadays. Will it be to my financial advantage to steal this man’s watch? Possibly; but should I, therefore, do it? Who can doubt that inasmuch as San Francisco has tried to punish civic crime, even at material cost, she has gained, and inasmuch as she has not tried, she has lost?—Saturday Evening Post.