The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

California is in danger.
Now is the time to protest.
The retunding scheme is infamous.
We cannot accept Hoke Smith as a
referee.
Bonds for 100 years at 2 per centI Think
of that.
Smith introduced the bill of abomina-
tions, but who wrote FTP
The Reilly bill was bad, but the Smith
bill discounts it.
The whole Pacific railroad muddle can
be settled in the one word: foreclosure.
Now that the monopoly has shown its
hand all the world can see how unclean
it is.
As bond fend Mr.. Smith is even more
abominable than Cleveland and without
half his excuse.
Surely no Californian can hesitate to
oppose such a refunding scheme as that
which is now proposed.
The people will have to wait a long time
to hear any one explain the equities" of
the latest rounding scheme.
The rounding bill has been referred to
Hoke Smith, and there is no telling what
hocus pocus may come next.
Smiths refunding scheme cannot posi-
bly, be made decent by any amendment; it
must be blotted out altogether.
While every nation on earth seems
eager to offer England fight, Turkey is
just spelling for ore and can't getit.
When Grove L. Johnson needs enlight-
eminent he should apply to his constitu-
ents, and not to the attorneys of the rail-
road.
The proposition to refund the debt of
the Central Pacific for 100 years at per
cent is in plain terms a proposal of in.
fanny.
The fight against the refunding scheme
has reached the critical point, and those
who intend to oppose it at all must oppose
it now.
1t may prove fortunate thing in the
end that the railroad asks so much, for
those who show themselves too greedy
very often get nothing.
We shall see from the vote on the coast
defense bill just how far the Senate was
moved by a war spirit, and how far by a
desire to make speeches.
Pattison of Pennsylvania is coming for
ward as Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, but he can hardly be called
promising for he cannot promise to carry
his own State.
Railroad Attorney Tweed says if the re-
funding bill passes freights will not be
raised on the Central Pacific because of
the competition, but where is the COMPETE
ton to come from?
Since the Government of the United
States cannot borrow money for less than
3 per cent, why should it lend money to
the railroad for 1 per cent for ten years
and for per cent for ninety years?
Every board OF trade, every industrial
organization, every newspaper and mass
meetings in every city and town in Cali
fornia should send protests against the
passage of the Smith bill, and should send
them at once.
The London Chronicle favors a move
ment among the powers to get the United
States to stop the barbarism OF Turkey,
Congress favors movement to get the
J..
ments go on while the Turk remains where
he is and does the same old business in
the same old way.
1t was asserted by the free-traders that
free wool would promote the manufacture
of wooden goods in this country, but the
result of the experiment for year shows
that British manufacturers of such goods
sold US four times as much in 1895 as in
1894, and during the same period the i'm
portations of foreign wool increased $50
per cent.
The Chicago News Almanac for the cur
rent year gives a list of American
women who since 1870 have married titled
foreigners, together with the amount OF
their dowries so far as known. The ag-
gregate of known dowries amounts to
$170,653 ,Oe0, and it is estimated the un-
known amounts will raise this sum con-
siderably above 100000, 900.
When the Democratic National Commit
tee met TO select the site for the party con-
vention some of the onlookers in Washing
ton erdeayored to find out the sentiment
of the committee on the Presidential aues-
ton, and while, of course, nothing positive
was learned, the conclusion was that the
silver men of the party have no candidate
and the gold men are in favor of Olney.
The argument for the establishment in
the National Government of Department
of Manufactures and Commerce is ably
expressed in an open letter addressed to
the Chicago convention of the National
Association of Manufacturers by Richard
II. Edmonds of the Mdnuf dcturers' Record,
Baltimore The movement is an important
one, and will doubtless receive the support
of all who have given the subject the
study it deserves.