The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-28


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sATURDAY-............... DECEMBER IS, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Reed 5 rules do the business.
Ii the Senate acts promptly the emer-
gency will soon be over.
Don't forget this is the day to leave
orders for THE SUNDAY CALL.
Before the world can be clothed in peace
there are lots of wrongs to be redressed.
England doesn't like the emergency
tariff, but it goes without her saying.
We shall soon know if Cleveland would
rather have a deficit than tariff on wool.
This is the season to make ready for
putting new vigor into reform movements.
Democracy has already settled back into
opposition and begun to kick in the old
style.
Ask anywhere in the East, Whats in
the air?'' and the answer will be ''Bliz-
yards
The Cubans NAV yet celebrate New
Yer by calling on Havana and taking in
the town.
The coming Grand Jury may give US
some local emergency bills in the shape of
true bills.
The spirit of civic reform aroused last
winter was born with the year but won't
die with it.
If the bond bill is not enacted we shall
have more Cleveland bonds, and that
would be worse.
Up at Truckee everything begins to
twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, with crys-
talline delight.
Just enough has been done for munich
pal reform during the present year to en-
courage US to do more.
California gold-mining will not have
Cripple Creek boom, but it will show big
developments before long.
The British may believe the Monroe
doctrine to be chestnut, but they won't
try to rake it out of the fire.
Even to meet an emergency, Western
Congressman must not compromise with
anybody on the funding bill.
The fight against the poolroom fakirs
has reached the big Eight" and the
''Solid Eight had better be careful.
The Senate has now golden oppor-
tunity to show whether it can get to work
without talk enough to run a windmill.
General Howard may not be prize
candidate for the Presidency, but he is
getting good deal OF honorable mention.
The emergency measures are not the
best the Republican party could devise,
but they are the best Cleveland will &C
cept.
The fellows who last fall predicted this
would be an inactive Congress have now
an opportunity to retire and soak their
heads.
The action of the House shows that the
Republican party can bridge any river it
Z comes to and cross over without breaking
ranks.
Subscriptions to the campaign fund OF
the Committee of Fifty is the money that
talks best at this juncture for the welfare
of California.
Cleveland may not recognize Cuban In
dependence, but the Cubans themselves
have got near enough to it 20 see it almost
within reach.
Good men who seek to be excused from
Grand Jury duty have no right to COM
plain if bad men get into the places they
refused to take.
Nothing would suit Democracy better
than to see Republicans in Congress di-
vide into factions on the bond bill, but
they won't do it.
The Japanese would have arrived at
peace more quickly if instead of taking
Formosa from China they had taken China
and let Formosa go.
A horizontal tariff revision is certainly
not a good thing in itself, but since Cleve-
landism has laid the country out so fiat
nothing else will fit the conditions.
1t must be horne in mind that while the
emergency bills are intended only as tenn
porary expedients they involve no sur
render of permanent Republican prin-
ciples.
With the Arm enians, the Arabs and the
Druses all in revolt it would seem they
might manage the Turks without Euro
pean assistance if they would all pull to-
gether.
1t appears there will be very little chance
to give another twist to the tail of the
British lion on the Venezuelan question,
for he has tucked it between his legs and
sat down on it.
When good citizen is called upon to
serve on the Grand Jury an opportunity is
afforded him to encourage the civic
patriotism OF others by accep ting the duty