The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-16
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.


11oYDAY- DECEMBER 16. 1895 |
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Congress will be lively this week.
1t is now Carlisle's turn to explain.
II is nothing unusual for the fire depart !
ment to find things as hot as blazes.
Bv the time next Christmas reaches US
we may have motorcycles for novelties.
The country is now called on to decide
whether Grover or his game is the deader
duck.
About everything the Grand Jury draws
out of the grabbag is a good gift for the
people.
Bear in mind the Oakland exhibit of
home products offers everybody good
show this week.
If Cleveland wishes Congress to stand
with him he has only to stand up for the
Monroe doctrine.
The offenses of the kurdS in Armenia
begin to smell to this country worse than
a bad case of Limburger.
Whatever may be the outcome Of the
European concert in Turkey there is very
little harmony in the rehearsal.
As long as this weather continues out of
doors it will matter little what kind the
Government has in its bureau.
Bayard's foolish speech is a good illus
tration of the folly of trying to make
diplomatist out of a garrulous old Senator.
1t is significant that no convention
OF church people has ever thought it worth
while to try the prayer test Oh Huntington.
There is nothing in Cleveland's game
bag half so interesting to Washington as
the committee lists in Tom Reeds side
pocket.
Secretary Morton is still urging the re-
election OF Cleveland, and Cleveland still
leaves Morton free to talk instead OF adj
vising him to shut up.
Remember if you do your Christmas
trading early you can save time. save
money and stand round as smiling spec
tator of the crush later on.
After the wretched cuckoo songs of the
last Congress the people will listen with
delighted ears to the strong chorus of true
Americanism that comes from this one.
Governor Morton says he will not be a
candidate for the Presidency unless he
thinks he can win, but when man has
that bee in his bonnet he always thinks
what the bee buzzes.
The people of Venezuela have had the
folly to start a revolution just at the time
thew most need united front against
Great Britain, but all the same there will
be no revolution in Uncle Sans mind
about the Monroe doctrine.
In spite of New York having 5000 more
saloons than Philadelphia, the deposits IN
the savings banks of the former city have
increased $15, 000 900 within a few months.
If this is the result of Sunday closing,
Roosevelt's regime has been of practical
benefit.
If the Alameda Argus really wishes to
know what has become OF the projected
boulevard between Oakland and San Jose
it can find it in the form of money in the
pockets of the landowners, but by and by
it will take the projected shape of a boule-
ward and open up way fer putting more
money in those pockets than ever was
there before.
In saying 1.-THE CALL is making wonder
full strides as a newspaper and will soon
be Boosting of its circulation, +" the Marys-
vile AppeGt overlooks the fact that we
never boast. More correct is the state
ment of the Richmond Bonner: THE
CALL doesn't weary its readers with circu-
lation rot but simply saws wood while
subscriptions roll in"
An interesting question of international
law is raised by the contention of Captain
" iborg of the Danish steamer Horsa, that
the deck of his vessel when his country's
flag flew at the peak in American ports was
Danish soil; but the captains view is radi-
calIy wrong, as inside the three-mlIe limit
the law of the United States is supreme,
and the laws OF other nations become
WuOlly Imperative.
An elderly man in Sonoma found a
woman who guaranteeing herself to
be moral and worthy" agreed in consid-
Grafton of certain property to marry him
and ''live with him for the remainder of
their joint lives" The man decided the
property to the woman, but after living
with MIN two years she eloped. The courts
have decided that she has not violated the
contract, is moral and worthy" and has
right to the land The moral of the story
certainly sticks out far enough to hit the
eye of every man who thinks of making a
matrimonial contract with woman.
A movement has been started by Rear
Admiral Meade to procure the erection at
Washington of a statue to Paul Jones, the
first hero of the American navy, and out
of the interest in the subject thus awak-
ened has come the publication of letter
from Jones to Robert Morris, in which he
says: 1t was my fortune, as senior first
lieutenant, to hoist the flag of Amerlca
the first time it was displayed" That our
flag was first raised over the ocean by the