The San Francisco call., 1896-02-11

center Oi Tue COuHtIy IS lOCdt6Q IN our
town.
The Senate promises that this week 1t
will really set to business, but some prom
ises don't count.
The poker players will fight OF course.
If they cannot make bluff in one way
they will in another.
A strong pull will get the new building
for the Postofice started, provided we al!
pull in the same way.
The P's and Q's the Senate should attend
to in discussing the emergency tariff are
patriotism and quickness.
Illinois Democrats find that Altgeld is
not only in the saddle but has the cinch
straps drawn tight on the donkey.
One by one the political volcanoes are
opening up, and before long. the whole
country will be in state of eruption.
The agitation at Mount Tauquitz seems
to be mainly in the direction of emigra-
ton, and the people are getting away from
there.
1t is said the British claim on our
Alaskan boundary does not exceed 3,O0O,-
600 acres, but that is surely enough ground
for fight.
The adoption of more rigorous military
policy seems a futile attempt on the part
of Spain to get the best of Cuba by making
the worst of it.
If Astor wishes to give a good proof of
Americanism he would dismiss himself
from his London paper and come home to
spend his money.
Democratic organs are very fond of talk
ing of a possible split in the Republican
party, but the split in the Democratic
party talks for itself
The amount of pie in the Pacific rail-
roads has tempted the Vanderbilts and the
Goulds, and Mr.. Huntington has rivals to
deal with as well as the people.
With a cessation of the third-term move
ment, Presidential politics in the Demo
cratic party has ceased to move at all, and
begins to look like a stagnant pool.
In replying to our Government on the
Venezuelan question Lord Salisbury is
taking as much time as if he thought him.
self as big as United States Senator.
The Chamber of Commerce should begin
the campaign for untaxed ships at once
and do good deal OF education before
party politics absorb public attention.
Kaiser William is keeping up his repu-
az linr1e al.a
week he was twisting the lions. tail and
now he is patting the brute on the back.
While the big pugilists are looking for a
fighting-place in Mexico, the "boxing car
nivar' in Boston is running right along
under the sanction of the Board of Alder
men.
We began our war for independence by
throwing British tea overheard, and the
Cubans are initiating the example as best
they can by upsetting the Spanish sugar
bowl
II the report be true that the Russian
Armenians have gone to the assistance of
their kinsmen in Turkey there is likely to
be high old time in Europe before the
coming summer is over.
Consul-General Jernigan reports there
are great possibilities for American trade
with the Orient, but points out the need OF
American ships as factors in the trade, and
the pointer Is of value to California
1t is asserted by the Washington corre-
spondent of the Chicago Record that Blaine
favored Cullom as the next Presidential
nominee of the Republican party, but pol
itics have changed since Blaine's time.
An exhibition OF Dore pictures in Chi
cago has set the pork packers to discussing
whether Dore was an artist, and out of it
will come a national discussion of the
question whether Chicago knows art when
she sees it.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says gold is
not good pocket money and undertakes to
prove it by the argument that man
would rather carry $1O0 in bills than in
GOLD. The defect in the argument is that
very few people carry 500 as pocket
money. In the average game in this
country $40 is the limit.
The first yearly report of the Civil Ser
vice Commission of the city of Chicago
shows that 1895 persons made application
for examination, 949- passed successfully
and 1874 have received places. In the sue
cessful applications for Labor service"
there were 32l foreigners to 56 Americans,
but in the "ofiicial service" there were 412
Americans who were successful and only
123 foreigners.