The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-24

III.
Pnsi,ess Office, no Market street, will receive
prompt attention
SATURDAY. ....................A AUGUST "a, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The people will never see any good in
tariff that always keeps another bond
issue in sight.
Sacramento intends to welcome the Ma
tive Sons with about as many arch ways as
q summer girl has.
Carving Maryland for the Republicans
is the best promise of political publication
in sight just now.
The deficit in the National treasury is
one phase of the money question that all
Democrats agree in lodging every time.
Ransom will, of course, be plea sed with
his new commission, but he will not be
thoroughly happy until he gets his back
pay.
The Populists of Maryland have had
strength enough at any rate TO get together
in convention and throw down the Social
lists.
There is a promise of good business in
the prospect of oil from Los Angeles to
grease the wheels of San Francisco enter
prise.
Judging from the experience of Eastern
cities there is nothing causes so much dis
turbance on Sunday as a law to keep it
quiet.
High taxes for the people and low taxes
for the railroads may be called equaliza-
ton, provided a man does not care what
he says.
In making vigorous fight against the
lotteries, Fresno sets an example that
every town in the State would find profit
in following.
The platform of the Utah Republicans
declaring for free silver, protection and
reciprocity is good enough platform for
all Republicans.
Olney will not have to go all the way to
Venezuela to start his vigorous foreign
policy. There is plenty of room to operate
it on the Alaskan boundary.
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If the Spanish Government does not like
expressions of American sympathy for
Cuba, it had better put stop to the shoot
ing of Cuban prisoners of war.
There is no telling what it cost Brice to
hold his convention in Ohio, but when the
people get a chance to vote on it. he will
find that they regard it as give-away.
From the way that Wat Hardin and Joe
Blackburn are advocating free silver in
Kentucky, it appears that Carlisle's victory
in the convention was but barren
ideality.
The Nebraska Democrats are to be COM
mended for coming out straight for free
silver, even though they had to get off the
National platform and shake the admins
tration to do it.
Although the whisky trust is said to be
dead the incorporation in New York of the
American Spirits Manufacturing Company
with capital of 100000 looks as if it
might be born again.
The zeal of the British to act as pro-
tectors nfsGhristian missionaries in China
is fully explained by the statement of the
Standard: "Great Britain wants more
Consuls in the interior and more markets
for English goods"
The threat of the Mayor of Quincy, ILL.,,
to carry out the Sunday-closing law to the
extent of shutting up the churches as well
as the saloons, promises to give that town
either more rest or more ruction on SUM-
day than any other town in the country.
The enlarged demand for Chinese Ian
terms, brought about by the numerous
fetes of the year, has raised corner in
them on sudden, and it also raises the
question why they should not be made
here instead of on the other side of the
sea.
1t was reserved for the Democrats of Ne
braska to get in the neatest blow at Cleve-
land by resolution approving his past
declarations against the ''pernicious &C
tivity'' of Federal office holders in trying to
control party conventions, and recon-
mending the renewal of that policy.
AS negro IS to be one OF the official
guests of the directors or the Atlanta Ex-
position, and will make one of the princi-
pal addresses on the opening day, it seems
clear that the problem of the races in the
Southis in good way to be settled by the
Southerners themselves, and settled right.
The complaint from Washington that
all officials of the Government are leaving
the city on iunketing tours is unjust. No
one can be expected to swelter in that hot
locality all summer who can possibly get
away, and if the people of Washington
were wise they would cease their COM
plants and follow the official example.
According to the statement of Balfour
that he would not favor an international
monetary conference at this time, because
good results are not probable and an abor-
tive conference is undesirable, there is
little hope of any international agreement
on the subject, and the people of this
country must decide whether they will
wait on Europe indefinitely or manage
their own affairs, without regard tn Chrome