The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05


Rooms 81 and 32, "a PARK Row, New YORK CITY.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Special Agent
THURSDAY. MARCH 8, 1885
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
What has become o. the Railroad Com
missioners' case?
About all of Abyssinia the Italians have
gained so far is the abyss
Dividing Africa without counting the
Africans is where Europe rolled off log.
Affairs in Cuba are critical, but Uncle
Sam should do something more than critI-
cize.
Italy has found that carrying the war
into Africa is not the kind Of Roman holi-
day it used TO be.
For the Home Mission in New York
there is work in New York if Grover had
only thought of it.
Up to date we have said just enough
about Cuban independence to aggrayate
Spain without helping Cuba.
To the small boys the snowstorm was as
good as carnival, and to many dignitied
citizen they made circus OF it.
Now that it is all over. we can see that
the snow storm saved the truit good deal
and did not spoil the climate much.
The nations that have undertaken to
open up Africa have opened up more trou-
BILE for themselves than anything else.
Since the island is to be digniied by
naval training school, we had better drop
the goat name and call it Yerba Buena.
The Abyssinian may not be up to all
sorts of modern war, but he is no soft snap
when 1t comes to downright hard fighting.
In the drawing-rooms of European dip
lomats it is now considered breach of
etiquette for any one to sit on the otto
man.
According to the postal authorities it is
wrong to say Huntington will not steal a
red-hot stove and perhaps the authorities
are right.
Judging from his Home Mission speech
Cleveland is of the opinion that the West
is woolly not only On the back but all the
way through.
This Congress has not done much in the
way of politics, but it has broken the
record in passing appropriation bills and
that's business.
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in court. and We may look for strange
things to come out of it if somebody
doesn't put the lid on.
The Southern Pacific of Kentucky suf-
fered a signal defeat last night, and the
victory of Mr.. Spreckels was a victory for
decency and purity in politics.
If it were not for Armenia, Abyssinia,
Transvaal, Formosa, Korea, Venezuela,
and few other disturbing places, the age
OF peace would have a little peace in its
old age.
AS Spain has ordered re-enforcements to
be sent to Cuba from the Balearic, Canary
and Philippine islands, it is evident she is
playing her last cards and the game is
drawing to an end.
Republicansl The Southern Pacific Com
pany of Kentucky by trickery and chi
canery and by fraud is seeking to get con-
troll of our party. Resist the attempt
stand by the people.
Many places in the State had combina-
ton of ram, hail and snow during the
storm, but Santa Barbara is the only one
that in addition had thunder and light
ming display as an annex.
A writer for. the New York Tribune has
made the direful discovery of the existence
of a Presidential trust" and if his story
is true the thing is worse than goldbug
syndicate or a hog combine.
Before Cleveland talks any more about
new communities in the West developing
into undesirable States,' he should take
little thought OF what an undesirable state
he has developed into himself,
If the postal authorities wish to give Mr..
Huntington real pleasure they will stop
the circulation through the mails of any
reports of the evidence he has given under
the examination of Senator Morgan.
The announcement of Manderson of Ne
braska as candidate for the Presidency
has the advantage of bringing some of the
Presidential lightning west of the Missouri
River and getting things started our way.
The Republican party of California saws
to the Southern Pacific Company of Ken
lucky. Hands off" 1t says to the people
OF California, Beware" 1t saws to the
members of ITS own ranks, "Be on the
alert"
'If they know in heaven what is done
op EARTH" said DR.. Talmadge in his ad-
dress at the Home Mission meeting at
New YORK, and while there was doubtless
as much virtue in that If as in any other
it was certainly not orthodox.
The three links in the endless chain that
depletes the gold reserve are the deficit
revenue, the excessive imports and the
business depression, and as all of these re-