The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

Let US have streets worthy OF our horses.
Decadent journalism has had its day
and it will soon be all night with it.
The Dingley bill is an attempt to con-
struct Republican tariff on Democratic
lines, and it won't work.
Cleveland has probably learned by this
time that the writing of such long mes
sage was labor in vain.
All who went to see the horses came
away asserting that we have the loveliest
and best-dressed ladies on earth.
The Chicago woman who has invented
machine for darning socks may yet live in
history as the emancipation of man.
CIeveland's message will suit the Gu
bans about as we'll as the Spauiards, but
neither of them will call him statesman.
While the funding bill is forging rapidly
to the front, Senator White is way off in
the background. What is the matter with
him2
When each thoroughfare has celebrated
its Improvement, then we can make gen.
eral festival and do justice to the whole
thing
Senator Dubois is showing himself to be
a good fighter, but what his constituents
desire him to show is a little more sa-
gacity.
The monopoly may head off the Railroad
Commission, but the competing line
moves right along for the welfare of the
people.
The Cuban question will give Congress-
men a chance to warm the country up for
Christmas with fervent oratory in voices
that are still for war.
Congress has seven appropriation bills
TO tackle this winter, and in the minds of
many members they will constitute its
most appropriate work.
The House has got to work promptly,
while the Senate is still consid ering the
thing. 1t is pity we cannot have Tom
Reed in two places at once.
The prune-g growers of Oregon and Wash
ington seem to have trusted too much to
their climate. There is such a thing as
initiating California too far.
Buckner has one happy advantage over
his colleague, Senator Palmer. He he's
not to 20 TO Washington and meet the
Democratic braves with their war paint on.
Philadelphia claims to be the bestllghted
city in America, but as all the people go
to bed at 9 o'clock the lighting seems to
be a wasteful exhibition of having money
to burn.
Nearly every man of eminence in the
country has said something about McKin-
iey's Cabinet except Mckinley himself,
and there is growing suspicion that he
may be making up a slate of his own.
There are some Democratic leaders
in Congress who declare they are willing
10 let the Republicans pass any legislation
they desire this winter without opposition
but there are few people who believe them.
Alabama is about to adopt the South
Carolina plan of dealing with the liquor
problem, and it would seem that however
Objectionable it might be in other places
it suits the conditions of the Southern
States pretty well.
The New York Sun, in commenting on
decadent journalism as exemplified by
Mr.. Hearsts Journal in that city, very
truly says: 1.-The corrective must be ad-
ministered by decent public sentiment
That is the only effectual remedy"
The old scheme of having a commission
appointed to revise the tariff has been
brought up again, but ought to be at once
dropped into the wastebasket. The peo-
pie have elected men to Congress to revise
the tariff and will expect them to do it.
Commenting on the convalescence sof
that interesting invalid Tom Sharkey" the
Chronicle says, 1.-THE quicker San Fran
cisco is cleared OF the crowd that trains
with this prizs-fghting gang the better it
will be for The moral atmosphere" This
is a strong hint for Long Green and his
referee protector.
Senator Wolcotts resolution providing
for the appointment of a committee of five
Senators to devise legislation for securing
an international monetary conference
found cordial response from the Repubii-
can caucus, and the incoming Republican
administration can be counted on to pro-
mote the plan with vigor and ability. In
this way the money question will be set
tied by return to bimetallism, and in the
next Presidential election we can go for
ward to new issues.
The Colusa Sam proposes a convention
at Sacramento of persons interested
IN irrigation districts in the State
for the purpose of recon- mending some
action to be taken by the Legislature this
winter to amend the irrigation law. The
suggestion is good one and ought to be
adopted. The men who are best fitted to
amend our irrigation laws are certainly
those who have worked under them and
have learned by experience wherein they
are beneficial and wherein defective.