The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-07
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THURsDAY.............. NOVEMBER 7, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
A few more elections and the Democratic
party would do the Dunraven act.
The result of the elections harmonizes
perfectly with the THANKSGIVING season.
II is about time to ma Ike England under
stand that this hemisphere is not grab
bag for her.
The whole Democratic party may be
counted in favor of a short campaign.
They are out of wind.
Cleveland will read the election returns
and then unconsciously write in his mes
sage never touched me-"
No one doubts you would like to see the
National Convention in San Francisco, but
the question is, How much?
There is nothing left of CleveIandism at
home, and if the administration has a
foreign policy it is time to put it on exhibit
ton.
applicant for the Republican National
Convention, but anguidly and late, after
the ST. Louis style.
st. Louis papers say the National con-
ventions should be held in the central city
of the country, and if they will count
Alaska in we will second the motion.
Every election in the last two years has
shown the recuperative power Of the
people, and with the Presidential election
next year prosperity will be fully restored.
One ship from New York recently car
ried 425 900 ounces of silver in her cargo,
and it looks as if the white metal would
soon meet gold on a ratio OF 16 to 1 as an
export.
The .reeant death in Philadelphia OF Sam
Josephs, author OF -Four More Years of
Grover" can hardly be called premature
He had outIived his song, and in his death
all viii be forgiven.
a recent proposal to erect a monument
to Sheridan in Washington has called at
tention to the fact that as yet the National
capital has no statues of either Grant
Sherman or Sheridan.
It is believed Cleveland will strenuously
urge upon the coming Congress the retire
ment Of greenbacks in the hope of furnish
ing his party with al issue behind which
II can dodge the tariff question.
The Boston Journal says in comparison
with Jim Corbett of San Francisco Boston
has no occasion TO be ashamed OF John
Sullivan, and alas! we can only reply that
Corbett has been East long time.
1t is reported by the New Orleans States
that a farmer who used lot OF spoiled
garlic as manure for his grape vines found
that the phylloxera was destroyed by it.
The experiment is worth trying in this
State.
In order to d raw an audience to a
Shakespearean performance in New York
Henry Irving had to divide Macbeth into
six acts, intersperse it with music by Sir
Arthur Sullivan and advertise it as a
novelty.
At the recent dairy show in London one
of the novelties that attracted most atten-
ton was a milking machine by which ten
COWS were MIXED at once through rubber
tubes, and the process occupied less than
i've minutes.
Among the changes in the constitution
recommended by Senator Hill is one ex-
tending the Presidential term to six years :;
but the people would hardly be willing to
run the risk of having two additional years
OF such man as Cleveland.
The Chicago Dispatch says: .'san Fran
cisco offers $4,000 for the Republican
National Convention, 1t wouldn't pay for
the bromo-seltzer." Chicago should re-
member, however, that in our climate
there would be no need of bromo-seltzer.
The japanese are such wonderful adopts
in adopting American notions that they
have begun to make American printing
presses, trademarks and all, and there is
growing fear they may soon set to. work
making imitation American dollars with
Uncle Sans stamp on them.
The best means yet suggested for set
Ting the Venezuela question has been pro-
posed by the Philadelphia Ledger in adj
vising that we buy the disputed territory
from Venezuela for 81 and settle with
England directly as owners of the soil and
when the controversy is over sell the land
back to Venezuela for 81 and double our
money.
According to statistics collected by the
Government bureau at Washington the
production of pig iron increased during
the years from 1877 to 1892 by one-tenth of
1 per cent in Great Britain, 1917 per cent in
Germany and 343 per cent in the United
States. England's supremacy in iron pro-
duction is over and along with il will 90