The San Francisco call., 1896-12-21


The Christmas CALL will appear on
Christmas day, but this is the day to leave
orders for it.
To-day the hearings begin as to the
relative merits of the San Pedro enter
prise and the Santa Monica job.
Don't postpone your holiday purchas-
ing until Christmas eve. You will need
that day for rest and recreation.
There is one thing commendable about
the attitude assumed by Senator Hill. 1t
is clearly that of man who doesn't in
tend to stand in anbody's way.
The universally of the popular demand
that our Government recognize the inde-
pendence of Cuba seems clear proof that
the people have already recognized it.
A number of Eastern papers have been
accused of nominating their pet enemies
for Cabinet positions just for the purpose
of seeing other papers jump on them and
macerate them.
If the Central Pacific Company had
ever intended to pay its dues to the Gov
ernment it would have arranged to do so
before this. The funding scheme is a
fraudulent fake.
The battle is over and the noise of the
combat has been lost in the hum of reviv-
ing industry, but lol Boise of Iowa has
arisen with a warwhoop for fat money.
Shall we never have peace?
There is no land in the world where the
Joy of the Christmas season will be so
universally diffused among the people as
in California, but for all that there will be
a need of charity here as well as elsewhere.
1t required five and half months to
pass the Mckinley tariff and upward of
eight months to pass the Wilson tariff, SO
the extra session will have a chance to
make a record on speedy work in tariff
making.
The decision OF Congress to take up the
funding bill the first thing after the holi-
days means, of course, that there will be
no holidays for the monopoly workers. If
they know how to make hay at all they
will make it now.
If the advocates of good roads are any
where near correct in estimating that the
people of the united States lose over $500, :
600, 900 year on bad roads it would pay
70 go over the highways carefully just to
pick up the money.
AS if there were not problems enough in
life to make it perplexing to the verge of
confusion, the Chicago Record has sprung
new one by asking, "Why is it that nine
tenths of women in public life are more
than th1rty-six inches around the waist''P
According to the report of the New York
Board of Health there were lbs deaths
from sunstroke in that State during the
month OF August, and it appears, there
fore, that the summer season in the East
sets in with even more severity than the
blizzard period.
The vehemence with which the gold
standard papers in the East are denounc-
ing the Republican Senators for appoint
ing a committee to devise legislation
to promote bimetallism shows that thew
understand the movement is in earnest
and means success. There is no doubt
anywhere that the Republican party will
keep its pledge.
President Harper of Chicago University
innocently said in public the other day
that the experiment of leaving it optional
with students to attend religious service
had not been successful in that institution.
and now nearly all the wise men in the
country are informing him the failure was
due to the fact that the experiment was
tried in Chicago.
Captain General Weyler, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of Cuba, is not hav-
ing a pleasant life by any means. In ad-
dition to the anxieties of his Office he has
the further grief of knowing that his wife
is lying dangerously i'll at Barcelona and
his eldest son is in the last stages of con-
sumption. He has every reason in the
world for desiring 10 go home, and no
doubt the desire is with him continually.
Many people in the East who have be-
ieVed that Japanese competition is hum
bug have been led to take sober second
/, thought of the subject by the failure of
large manufacturing company of Milford,
Conn, whose trade has been destroyed by
cheap Japanese straw mattings. To make
the matters worse the company is consid-
ering the advisability of sending their
plant to Japan and carrying on the busi-
ness in that country.