The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29


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DAVID NJ FoLTz. Eastern Manager.
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The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
1t is surely wet winter.
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There will be big crops next year.
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Now is the time to hang on to any um-
brella in sight.
The trusts are going to pieces, and that
means prosperity.
Chandler is determined to knock the
stutfing ont OF Cleveland.
The latest Fresno mystery thickens fast
and will soon be a blood-curdler.
Weyler is working at the fortifcation of
Havana as if he expected an attack in the
rear.
1t begins to look as if we might count on
the Burns monument as a coming orna-
ment of the park.
Grover has the satisfaction of knowing
he will go out of Office inst in time to en-
Joy the fishing season.
Congress may have to recognize the in
dependence of CuDs just to show its own
independence of Cleveland.
1t will cost New York $25, ,0O0, COO to
bridge the Hudson, and it seems to be
big price to pay for a walk over.
Next to helping Mckinley with the
Cabinet the job which suits the politician
bes. in these days is giving advice to the
Legislature.
If Cleveland does not wish to recognize
Cuba himself he might at least get out of
the way of Congress and not interfere with
the procession.
When We have made San Francisco a
home market for home products we shall
have gone far toward making it a manu-
featuring center.
Mckinley is devoting his time to writ
ing his inaugural address, but the Cabinet
makers are still saving wood and getting
everything ready for him.
With a system Of National legislation
designed to protect industry and expand
commerce, the whole United States will
find the coming year prosperous one.
The Republican party does not engage
in denouncing trusts in the abstract, but
it can be counted on to enact legislation
which will put an end to injurious mo-
nopolies.
The makers of the new tariff will have
to take into consideration Oriental as
well as European competition. We need
high protection now IN the full sense of
the word.
No genuine and permanent improve
ment of trade condition can come until
the new tariff bill has been enacted, and
therefore an extra session of Congress will
be welcomed by every body.
The Chicago scheme of organizing a
band of colonists for Cuba and turning it
into band of soldiers as soon as it arrives
at the island is ingenious. but it falls
long way short of common-sense.
There will be no regret over the news
thata mammoth campaign tin-horn, which
was being carried to Washington, has been
smashed on the way. There is too much
tin horn politics in that city now.
An effort is being made to increase the
copper product of Vermont, and we have.
therefore, another State to join with us in
our movement to bring about the appoint
ment of a secretary of mines and mining.
The new library building at Washington
will be one of the things the country can
be proud OF, for it will not only be the
finest building in the world, but it will
have been completed inside the appropria.
ton.
A Kansas man reioices in house con-
structed entirely of baled hay. with the
exception of the roof, which is of canvas.
The advantage of the situation Is that
whenever he is told to go to grass he can
60 home.
General Wolseley says the Russian en-
pire will vet be overthrown by an inva-
sion of Chinese armies; and thus we have
another evidence that the British view of
things is different from that of the rest of
the world.
If California does not get place in the
Cabinet this time it will l.ct be the fault
of her people. For once, at any ate, there
has been 10 squabble over the place, nor
any attempt to drag down any one who
has been nominated for it.
Senator Mills motion that the United
States take possession of Cuba and hold it
until the people organize government to
suit them was probably borrowed from
British models. B adopting such action
we would hold Cuba about as long as
England holds Egypt.
A Memphis paper which supported free
silver during the campaign has decided to
drop the financial question, and advises
other Democrats to do so, on the ground
that ''there is no use making a hornets
nest of Iife.'' Here is a hint to Bryan, If
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