The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-19

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Bryan is Democrat, but he is no cuckoo.
Platt has proven himself to be a har-
monizer as we'll as an organizer.
The monopoly stops to protest, but the
competing road goes forward every day.
It is high time for Commissioner Clark
to find out where he is and let the people
know.
Remember the Civic Federation is doing
good work for the people and deserves
your support.
The gold reserve is to Uncle Sam about
as troublesome and as useless as vermi-
form appendix.
The Spaniards claim to win all the vic
tories in Cuba, but somehow the Cubans
seem to take all the towns.
The promise of a competing telephone
company will enable US to greet the new
era with a more cheerful hello.
AS it is said the window glass trust has at
last been perfected we may assume the
managers have pulled down the blinds.
With bull frolics and fire dances San
Bernardino is making an all-round variety
show of her fiesta and pleasing everybody.
The Bimetalic League is getting in its
work and almost every week shows a
new branch organized in some part of the
State.
One defect of the Prison Congress is that
none of the delegates have had any inside
experience of what the congress is talking
about.
No sooner does the Presidential bee begin
to buzz around any prominent Democrat
than he lodges as if he thought it was a
buzz saw.
About the only expositions they ever
have in South America are revolutions,
and Colombia has just opened one with
massacre exhibit.
Complaint Is made in Kansas that the
weather after being good enough to allow
the corn to ripen whirls around with a
wind and blows over the crib.
The Emperor of China has issued an
edict against the killing of missionaries,
and it will have about as much effect as
the waving of a peacock's tail.
The protest of the railroad that the Com
miss;oners are interested in the reduction
of freight rates could be just as well urged
against everybody in the State.
It is pleasing to learn the Public Library
is growing in popularity, but it would
grow faster if it were in position where
the people could more easily get at it.
1t is said that Governor Budd has about
recovered and will soon be at work again
cup to his ears" but we thought the first
thing to be demanded of him would be his
ears.
If some of our Eastern contemporaries
only knew it, there would be more satisfac-
ton in having Cleveland run for third
term than in having them talk about it so
much.
The validity of the Sunnyside franchise
should certainly be tested, for if jobs of
that kind can stand, the law regulating
the sale of franchises might as well be
abolished.
Bryan will find in this State public
sentiment already formed IN favor of BIZ
metallism and people ready to respond
with sympathy to his arguments and his
eloquence.
At the way gold is being exported the
Cleveland idea of retiring greenbacks and
issuing no more silver looks good deal
like promoting a money famine and rub
bing it IN on the country.
If corrupt Supervisors cannot be i'm
peached for such evasions of the law as
that contained in the grant of the Sunny
side railway franchise it is another reason
why the people should be careful whom
they elect next time
The report that several wealthy New
Workers have ordered yachts from Watson
of Glasgow instead of from American ship
builders would seem to show there is not
so much patriotism in yacht racing among
the millionaires as has been generally
imagined.
The Department of Labor of the British
Government has sent out report to the
effect that of eighty-six trades unions, hav-
ing an aggregate membership of 391 ,OO0
only five per cent were unemployed at the
end of July; so no one need wonder that
the Wilson tariff is popular over there.
In the Eastern States where lightning
is frequent the people have been pleased by
an announcement that there is no safer
place during thunderstorm than troll
ley-car, as the wires and car-pole make the
best kind of lightning rods. On this coast,
however. where there is no lightning the
trolley-car remains without single sug-
gestion of safety.