The San Francisco call., 1895-12-19

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THURSDAY AY..............D DECEMBER 10, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
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We sing of peace on earth, but we talk
war.
Olney should write a message to the
Sultan.
Billiards are bad and snow is severe,
but Canada looks very tempting just now.
Don't forget that any possible war is
long way off and that Christmas is right
with Us.
Whether settled by war or by diplomacy
the Monroe doctrine will be the ulti-
matum.
There is a good chance for the British
Government to get even by taking it out OF
the Turk.
"I am for war and free coinage says
Senator Pugh, and the country says "Go it.
brave boy"
We shall now have an opportunity to see
how diplomacy will smile and put the
question by.
There is no danger of war, but it is worth
noting how the very thought of it braces
the country up.
There are thousands of ardent patriots
ready to serve their country on the Venez-
ueIan Commission.
Now, then, if Olney insists on the Bos-
ton pronunciation of his name he can have
it. He is our Oney.
The British press seems to regard the
message as a sample of American humor
and cannot understand it.
Congress will adjourn, but the great issue
won't, for the Senate committee will keep
1t warm during the holidays.
1t is evident that duck-shooting in Vir-
ginia is more inyigorating to statesmen
than fishing at Buzzards Bay.
The proper thing for Cleveland to do in
response to the encore is to give US some
Inlng 10 the tune or Free Cuba-
Ii ordinary speech is silver that of the
President was golden and Salisbury's
bluster will be only Britannia metal.
Growers message has cast that of Car
Isle in the shade, but after all it was
hardly more than a shadow anyway.
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The settlement of the NeOe1uelau dis
pute is no longer conundrum 20 this
country. We know the answer but Eng
land will have to give il up.
All the members of the gang in the
Board OF Supervisors have reached for
base rewards, but Bunker is said to be the
fellow who took in the Wurst.
By the time Salisbury hears the voice of
the American people on the message he
will understand it is not a theory but
condition that confronts him.
After this any use of the slang phrase
about man having a sausage on p" will
be regarded by the members of the Solid
Eight as unpleasantly personal.
Philadelphians are having the pleasure
of spending the holidays at home and en-
ioying long walks in the frosty air. The
streetcars have stopped running.
In the glow of patriotic feeling aroused
by the Venezuelan controversy it is hard
to have to keep track of the dirty work of
the Solid Eight, but we are going to do it.
1t is safe proposition that if the admin
istration had any idea of even remote
probability OF war it would not have been
so urgent in recommending the retire
ment of greenbacks.
That the Republicans in the Senate ap-
plauded the message even more warmly
than the Democrats is a fact worth noting
as sign the way party sentiment stands
on the Monroe doctrine.
Now that the Alaskans have got far
enough along in politics to be divided into
Prohibitionists and anti Prohibitionists
they must be pretty nearly in fit state
to be admitted into the Union.
To make judicial investigation OF the
disputed boundary between Guiana and
Venezuela may seem like hard task, but
we can rely on the ingenuity of an Ameri-
can commission to make it soft snap.
As candidates for the Presidency Kansas
offers Ingalls, to the Republicans, Peffer to
the Populists and st. John to the Prohibi-
tionists. but. like the rest of the country,
she cannot even make stagger at offering
anything to Democracy.
The truest presentation Of the claims of
the Monroe doctrine for universal recog-
milton is that of Senator Lodge in saying,
''It is not question of international law at
all, but matter of fact as real as the in
dependence of the United States"
After the first furry is over the people
will see that the Venezuelan affair is only
an episode at present, and that the main
business of the Congress is to look after
the affairs of this country and restore
prosperity to American industries.
Prompt action IN accordance with the