The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-09
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Holiday trade goes lively.

Holiday trade goes lively.
Cuba merits Christmas recognition.
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The crisis in the convention fight is at
hand.
To give the country rest we must first
give it protection.
Many people would like to give the
horse show an encore.
Olney should send Salisbury an Amer
lean ultimatum for Christmas novelty.
Buying California products for Christ
mas gifts would be good holiday novelty.
The feeling that we are sure to get the
National Convention has now become
ticklish.
Congress should get in at least one good
lick at Cleveland before it adjourns for the
holidays.
Tom Reed is not finding any difficulty in
counting quorum of candidates for every
Craftsmanship.
1t is hard fight to make the Central
Pacific Company pay its debts, but Con-
gress can do it.
Grover sets good example by acting as
if the holidays were intended for some
thing besides business.
Buckley may again find this town too
warm for his health and be forced to seek
congeniality in Canada.
The Republican National Committee
meets tomorrow, and the convention is
almost within our reach.
How can fat mugwump, even if he is
President, look dead duck in the face
without a fellow feeling?
Perhaps the Sultan may have an idea
that the best way to clear the atmosphere
is to precipitate the war cloud.
1t takes live man to keep one eye on
politics and the other on Christmas goods
and see ali the best points in both.
Those who shared Cleveland's labors by
reading his message should also have
weeks duck shooting for recreation.
1t is only the rich who have much of
chance in the fashionable shops, but every
body has a fine show in the windows.
The retirement of greenbacks will not
be favored by many people at this season
OF the year in any part of the country.
There is a large variety of bric-a-b rac
and decorative work that California could
engage in without fear of competition any
where.
Japan offers us bicycles for $12 apiece,
but we are not willing TO ruin the homes
OF our workingmen for the sake of cheap
wheels.
The movements of Grand Juries as a
general rule do not go beyond kicking, but
this one is taking distinct steps in the
direction of reform.
1t appears that at some of the lectures of
Senator Hill the name of Cleveland was
Kissed, but that was not the reason why
Hill decided to quit.
Don't forget that one of the best pleas
ures prosperous people can enjoy at this
season is that of assisting to provide toys
for the children of the poor.
The Venezuela problem will never be
settled on the level until we scatter the
British bluff and even up things between
the big power and the little one.
huntington says he went to Washing
ton to attend to our business, but it goes
without saying that if he is permitted to
manage 1t the whole business will be his.
Every business man feels the d Inference
between holiday season that follows Re-
publican success and that which comes
after the fall elections show Democratic
gains.
The fight against the funding bill is
simply a resolve of the people to main
tain the principle that an honest debt
should be honestly paid by the rich as well
as the poor.
Democratic journals are chuckling a
great deal over Tom Reeds saving "the
country needs rest" but they overlook
the fact that he meant it needs rest from
Democracy.
The report that Tom Reed had practi-
cally made up his committees before he
left Maine must have been started by some
fellow who is only beginner at the art of
guessing what he doesn't know.
The advance in steerage rates by the
trans-Atlantic steamship companies is
significant. Under the Mckinley act fac
tory operatives in European countries
were coming here in shoals, wages being
relatively better. The Wilson bill re-
versed the conditions, and so decreased
the number of steerage passengers that
there has for some time been no profit in
carrying them.
The contention of free-traders, so often
repeated that protection would make it
impossible for our iron and steel manu-
facturers to compete successfully with
European countries has once more been
shown to be puerile, as the Russian Gov
eminent has just concluded a contract
with the Bethlehem pa Iron Works for
S600, 900 worth of armor plate for the new
battleship Rotislav.