The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-11


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HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The horse show still claims you.
Look for your friends and you will find
them at the Pavilion.
What will it profit Willie Hearst to
throw down his referee to save his Long
Green?
Since there is so much talk about Cuba,
somebody should put in a good word for
the Philippines.
There is prospect that the Sultan may
find out this Christmas that Christianity
means something.
Mckinley says nothing of his Cabinet
making, but he is saving wood for the job
with great diligence.
The Pavilion has given the horse good
show, but improved street-paving would
give him better one.
1t is said that Cleveland will leave office
a millionaire, and perhaps that is the
reason the deficit doesn't trouble him.
The Examiner can hardly hope to win in
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fixing the referee. That game is played
out.
Decadent journalism is dying of its own
corruption; but it should not be allowed
10 lie around the homes of decent people
while doing it.
Long Green Lawrence speaks OF people
who go to San Jose with all the bitterness
OF fellow who regards San Quentin as
more congenial.
The Cuban resolutions in the Senate
may possibly mean war, but the chances
are they are intended more to scare Spain
than to hurt her.
Just enough is foreseen of the probable
action of this session of Congress to make
necessary early in the spring.
Having compelled woman on its staff
to report prize-feht, the Examiner now
denounces other women for going to such
exhibitions. How IS that for decency2
In the prevalent talk about the great
foul" few people mean FItzsimmons'
blow, many people mean Earp's decision,
but the vast majority mean the Examiner.
A bout the only real satisfaction the
country has received from Cleveland's
long-drawn-out address to Congress is the
fact that it is the last one he is likely to
send in.
It's asserted that three new magazines
are to be started in New YORK with the
beginning of the year; so it seems that
either literature or advertising must be
looking up.
If Europe really sets to work TO stop the
outrages in Armenia we ought TO stop
those in Cuba and make clean victory
in both hemispheres for humanity and
civilization.
Unless something unforeseen happens
the Secretary OF the Treasury will be a
bigger man than the Secretary of State IN
this country for the next four years.
Money is the issue now.
As Bryan has arranged to make two
speeches on Jackson's day conservative
Democrats may as we'll prepare to take
Watterson's advice and make it an occa.
sion for fasting and prayer.
Senator PETER claims to have delivered
437 speeches during his term in the Senate,
and there are exactly that many reasons
why be should now be turned down and
some one else allowed to talk.
If the French scientist who is reported
to have asserted that laughing is a dis
ease had really believed it he woulo never
have said it, for his words have a tendency
to cause 1t in every house hold.
The reported agreement of France, Rus
STA and England to settle the Turkish
question is the more credible because il
has been less than month since the states
men of all three powers declared they
were opposed TO alliances and intended
to maintain an independent isolation.
1here Will De great demand Tor ap-
preparations for public Improvements on
the next Congress. Every section of the
Union has some large plan under way,
and it will behoove the Pacific Coast dele
gates to work together if they expect to
uphold our interests when the struggle
for precedence comes.
According 10 the report of the New York
Superintendent of Buildings there are in
that city over 5000 structures absolutely
unsafe, and some of them are among the
largest buildings in the city. 1t appears,
therefore, that in all her many structures
on the fimsy architecture OF Chicago,
New York spoke as an expert having large
experience.
Long Green Lawrence has been unfortu-
nate OF late in doinr the lying for Willie
Hearst. His declaration that the airship
story is AXE came out in the Examiner
on the same morning that THE CALL re-
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