The San Francisco call., 1895-12-30

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DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Special Agent.
MoNDAY~......,.......... DECEMBER 80, 1ss
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Do your business briskly, and get ready
TO celebrate.
AS Dunraven departs we ought to kick,
but we won't.
The House did its work promptly, and
deserves a holiday.
If you wish CALLS for the new year now
is the time to subscribe.
The bond habit sticks to Grover like
cockleburr 20 donkey's tail.
We must close the old year and begin
the new fighting the funding bill.
Congress has been working like a buzz
saw, and Cleveland had better not monkey
with it.
We can never have anything better than
temporary expedients so long as we have
Grover.
Every one of the years movements for
reform that was worth anything is still
moving.
The Senate will welcome the bond bill,
for it affords opportunity for thousand
speeches.
The war furry has settled down to the
conviction that the Monroe doctrine is a
sure thing.
Close the old years business with
rush, and meet that of the new with
move on you.
This year we have been talking OF road
improvements, and next year We should
push them along.
Dunraven was considerate at any rate,
for he came after Christmas and got away
before New Year.
Chicago talks of Cotton States exros-
ton within her own borders by way of get
ting the South to come in.
tue Committee of Fifty to fight the battle
for California against the funding bill.
Out of the emergency the Republican
majority in the House emerges all right,
but the administration is still in hole
Salisbury may not be the biggest man
on earth, but he has it in his power now
to raise one of the biggest wars on record.
In trying to grab the earth John Bull
has managed just now to run up against
every nation on it. from the United States
to China.
The Spanish flag will still be flying in
Cuba at the close of this year, but early
in the next one the Spaniards the mselYes
may be flying.
1t looks as if Cleveland and Carlisle wish
to keep the deficit running in order to
have an excuse for urging the retirement
of greenbacks.
St. Louis wishes the Democratic Con-
vention also, and really since she has cap
tured the big circus the side-show might
as well go with it.
Even after the Venezuelan question is
settled there will still be need OF keeping
watch on England, for the Alaskan boun-
Diary is out in the cold yet.
The British press may regard the Vene-
xuelan message as diplomatic hyperbole, "
but Salisbury is wise enough to know an
ultimatum when he sees it.
Chicago wishes to start the New Year
with street-car reform, fixing the price of
a ride at three cents for those who stand
and five cents for those who are seated
The Bank of England is said to have in
its vaults $90,000,000 Of gold more than it
had two years ago, and yet Cleveland can't
manage to keep our supply anywhere near
even.
If Cleveland cannot be impeached, it
might be good plan to pay him for the
time he employed in writing the Venezue-
Ian message and then dock the rest of his
salary.
If it be true, as reported, that the Vene.
zrelan army consists mainly of colonels,
we shall have to take charge of the cam
paign, for ours will be largely made up of
brIgadier-generals.
RThousands of dollars are expended every
wear in the East to import holly and mis-
tletoe from Europe, and by little energy
California could probably capture the
trade and get the money.
Uncle Sam can boast of being the big
gest publisher on earth. for according to
the report of the Public Printer his estab-
lishment issued during the past year 1, 1877
473 bound volumes and 1,1s2,s55 pam
phlets.
There may be always some Republican
Congressman who will vote with the oppo-
sition on party questions, but they will
never be strong enough to disturb the
majority. This is to be business Con-
gress, and not repetition OF the wild-colt
performances of the last Congress.
In continuing its custom of issuing an
nually, at the close of the year, review