The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

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DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Special Agent
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY Is, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Get your valentines ready.
The young leap year has chance to be
frisky tomorrow.
BY this time Huntington has ceased to
expect refunding bill as valentine this
year.
1t is very seldom that American jokes
are poor, but the comic valentine is GER
tainiy not rich.
The Senate has at last done something
that may be expected to grow. 1t has
passed free-seed bill.
The cannon-makers and powder manu-
facturers have formed a trust and a new
terror has been added to war.
Senator Dodge says that political patron
age is nn-American, but why, then, does
the average American call it pie?
1t seems the anti-funding resolution
never reached the Governor, but there can
be no doubt it reached Mr.. Huntington.
Hunter has made a great fight for the
senatorship in Kentucky, but the time has
now come for him to quit and go fishing.
The success of the San Joaquin road in
getting right of way through Fresno is
not victory over the city but for the city.
Senator Vest seems TO have settled down
TO the roasting OF Secretary Morton as a
steady job and keeps up the fire every day.
Salisbury talked of peace, but all the
same he told Parliament he would ask for
an increased expenditure in preparing for
war.
The Queens speech does not use as many
words to conceal thought as one of C!eve-
lands messages, but it conceals 1t Just the
same.
The debate in Parliament on the Vene-
zuelan question was as agreeable as love
feast, SO it seems Uncle Sam is great
harmonizer.
The burning of sugar plantations by the
Cuban insurgents looks a good deal like
cutting off the nose of Cuba to spite the
face of Spain.
When the Senate proceeds to elect a
doorkeeper it would not be a bad plan to
attach silver bill to him and thus shut
the gold men out.
Some people are still discussing whether
woman ought to ride bicycle, but we
do not hear any one suggesting the pos
sibility of stopping her.
Edison should hurry up his machine for
photographing the brain. as it will come
in handy in making pictures of Congress
sional candidates this fall.
Chinese new year threatens to collide
with st. Valentines day this year, but the
good saint is not afraid of firecrackers and
will bring out his sparks as usual.
After all it hardly needs resolution of
the Legislature to speak for California on
the refunding scheme, for on that cues
ton the people are speaking for them
selves.
The omission from the records of the
anti-funding resolutions passed bv the
last Legislature may have been an acci-
dent, but 1t was the monopoly ak that was
ground.
1t is worth noting that the burglars who
broke into the house of Governor Mat
thews OF Indiana stole the cold meat in
the pantry. but never thought it worth
while to take his Presidential boom.
In these reviving times revival of the
festival OF st. Valentine would not be a
bad idea, and the date falls, moreover, at a
season propitious for San Francisco to have
frolic and invite the youth of the world
to come in and dance.
The New York Sun says the chief issue
In the coming campaign will be neither
the tariff nor the silver question, but de-
mand for patriot President, and, OF
course, in that case the third-term move
ment might as well get out OF the race.
The fact that the League of American
Wheelmen increased in membership over
1900 last year shows how rapidly the use
OF the bicycle is growing and inclines
to the belief that the time is coming when
cycle tracks along the main streets of
city will be as necessary as car tracks.
There is a chance to add fine adorn-
ment to the City in the new building to be
erected on the site of the old City Hall.
and thereis prospect moreover that the
chance viii not be lost, for we have good
architects and some of the designs sub
mitted offer us building that we could be
proud of.
1t is not surprising to learn that the un-
sanitary condition of the San Bruno road
district is due to the fact that the Southern
Pacific Company has built up an embank-
ment that interferes with the flow of the
tide and forms dumping aground for ref
use. In fact, wherever anything is wrong
in San Francisco it is nearly always found
that the monopoly is back of it.
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