The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

Men who take things as they come often
take big chances.
Osman Digma is famous again, and
every old thing is reviving.
The dervishes call it holy war; but to |
the Egyptians it will be holy terror.
There is not always head or a tail to a
Democratic question, but there are always |
Two sides.
About as soon as Democrat is men
toned for the Presidency he steps on a
banana peel.
1t is not certain whether the admins |
tration thinks it is serving the country or
making use of it.
There is no soft snap in colonizing Al
rica, for whichever road you take you find
a lion in the path.
1t is very hard to make diplomacy move
in these days, but the force OF circum-
stances is doing it.
Though truth is supposed to be colorless
there are always a good many people to
whom it looks blue.
If the world is to be a prize cake for the
fellow who says least and saws most wood
the Czar will take it.
To the Italians the Nile expedition is
the finest diversion the theater of war has
afforded for a long time. /
Eastern people are complaining that !
March is full of the contrariety OF hot poll !
tics and blizzard weather.
That six Democrats voted to censure
Bayard is an illustration Of the truth that |
some virtue exists in all parties.
If Bayard wishes a vincication he had |
better come home and get his Democratic |
friends to run him for President.
The British expedition up the Nile has
no definite end in view, and will probably
never stop until somebody stops it.
British Liberals watch the Nile expedi-
ton with suspicion, and that is exactly |
the kind of watching it needs most.
In following Gordon's footsteps up the |
Nile the British run big risk of Initiating |
his example and losing their heads.
General Weyler will not resign, for while |
the situation in Cuba may not be satisfac- |
tory the position and salary are agreeable |
There is no reason why silver should not
gain friends in the East as silver itself is |
just as friendly to that section as to any
other.
There is now demand for Congress to
pass a National game law to protect the
American eagle from the snap hunters of
the effete East.
Democratic peacemakers have great diff
ficulty in deciding whether it would be
better to bring the factions of the party to-
gether or keep them apart.
Perhaps Chauncey Depew can teach US
all how to make an after-dinner speech,
and then again perhaps we have some men
who can teach him little.
If the Senate was too hasty at first in
acting on the Cuban question it is GER
tainly too slow now. There is such thing
as celebrating without dawdling.
A little while ago Mrs. Lease set up as a
preacher and now she has returned to
politics again, thus showing tendency to
stick to her first love instead of her last.
In submitting to our intervention in
Venezuela the British refuse to have il |
called arbitration, but they are perfectly
willing to compromise and call it square.
Congress should make no distinction be-
tween master and man in dealing with the
administration and having now censured
Bayard it should next censure Cleveland
1t seems to be the ambition of Senator
Sherman this winter to show his colleagues
that he is not too cold and cautious to get
hot and hasty if they rub him the wrong
way.
In the glow of our weather it is difficult
to realize that at this season people are
perishing in blizzards in some sections of
the East, but that is what March means
ever there.
A New York doctor asserts that big
sleeves are fruitful cause of pneumonia,
but even if Dame Fashion should hear OF it |
she would only go on her way laughing in
her sleeve.
1t is an easy prediction that American
ingenuity viii devise a good bartender
Just as soon as the car companies show
any real desire to have one and a willing |
ness to pay for it,
The powers of Europe have consented
that England shall defray the cost of the /
Nile expedition out of the Egyptian treas
ury, but that consent may yet cost her |
more than the war would have done.
As the garment-maKers OF Chicago have
won their strike and returned to work the |
danger that the boys would have to wear
old puff sleeves for trousers this spring is |
over, ana the affair has reached fitting |
close.
Manderson of Nebraska is reported 10 |
have said that Mckinley and Reed would |
beat one another in the convention and the /
nomination would be given TO either "Sena-
tor Allison, Senator Davis or myself" and |
now they call him "Modesty Henderson" |