The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20


Democracy will hold National Conven-
ton, but hasn't decided what to hold it
for.
By this time Huntington has discovered
that nobody has really wished him happy
year.
Cleveland and. Huntington are a hard
pair to whip at one session, but Congress
can do it.
The recent war furries have enabled
John Bull to spot his foes, but where are
his friends?
The anti-funding convention did its
work well and now comes the time for the
people to act strongly in support OF it.
Up to this time the third-term move
ment has done no more than oscillate be-
tween the White House and Wall street.
The Congressional committee has sat on
Bayard long enough and should now be
ready to give the whole House chance.
A visit of the British flying squadron to
the Bermudas might be made profitable to
US as an object lesson in naval extension.
Bonds may suffice to tide over the deficit
in the revenue. but they make no check on
foreign competition with American labor.
Since Cleveland began his second term
the increase in the National debt amounts
to $306, 147, 729, and there is more to come.
Cleveland issues bonds on his own re-
sponsibility, but it was the deficit tariff OF
the freetraders that gave him occasion to
do so.
The deficit tariff is bad from a financial
point of view, but it is much worse when
considered with regard to its effect on
American industry.
Huntington is said to be distributing
secret circulars in Washington, but there
is no certainty that the distribution is con-
fined strictly to circulars.
Cleveland must have been standing on
tptoe when he wrote his Venezuelan mes
sage, for he has not been living up to it in
his foreign policy generally.
In trying to cover the deficit with bonds,
Cleveland is true to the Democratic in
stinct of believing that any fault can be
concealed by committing bigger one.
If the Democratic party could see its
way clear to adopt at Chicago platform
denouncing Cleveland the convention
wouldn't have to advertise for candidates
to stand on it.
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the monopoly grip on California for fifty
years to come would enable it to grow so
strong it could not be shaken off for an
other fifty years.
The selection of Chicago as the site of
the Democratic National Convention is
said to be a goldbug victory, but We shall
see whether they can hold the fort when
the silver men storm it in July.
The New York people promised the
Democratic committee such pure water
that the delegates to the convention
wouldn't want even a milk shake, and
straightway the committee voted for an
other town.
The story that Kruger is a Pennsyl-
vania Dutchman received some confirma-
ton from the picture of his whiskers, but
his inability to distinguish between Ameri-
can miners and British raiders explodes
the idea altogether.
Perhaps the reason WHY there is no act
i've candidate for the Democratic Presi-
dental nomination is because each candi-
date fears if he started any movement at
all he would get too far ahead of his party
ever to get back again.
Judging from the situation in the Sem
ate the free-silver movement Is practically
a non-partisan movement, and it is hard
to see how it can be made to cut any figure
in party politics. during a National cam
paign unless Democracy should nominate
another goldbug.
Under the protective tariff system the
annual average of British exports of wool
and wooden goods from 1891 to 1894
amounted to about SOS, 900, 600, but in 1895.
under the Wilson tariff, they amounted to
more than $50, 0G0, 900, making a profit of
about $50 100000 annually for England.
The Berkeley Gazette having found that
Montana -four is sold in that city made in
quiry into the matter and discovered that
while it costs more to harvest grain ana
grind -four in Montana than in California.
it can nevertheless be shipped 1000 miles
and sold here at a profit because the rail-
road gives long-haul rates to the Montana
men and makes it up by heavy charges on
the home hourmakers.
Sherman favors greenbacks and National
banks, but opposes bonds. Hill fayors
banks and bonds, but opposes greenbacks.
Hoar favors banks, but opposes greenbacks
and bonds. Mills favors greenbacks, but
opposes banks and bonds. PETER opposes
everything that is and favors something
else. There are some other views to be
taken of the financial question, and there
are also some other Senators to take them.