The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-14

The novelty is news and you will find it
in our advertising columns.
Progressive street Improvement is a
anne in which there is prize for all who
play it.
The Examiner must either change its
tactics and become a decent paper or get
out of town.
Every body should send at least one Cali
fqrnia novelty to the East, just to show
what we can do.
If Mckinley is to get all the states in
his Cabinet he will have to make it with
an extension appendix.
There are numerous complaints in the
East that tie members of the short-skirt
rainy.day clubs never come out when it
rains.
The Texas has cost US dear, but not
more than we ought to have paid for the
folly of getting ship models from foreign
designers.
Why should the Government lend money
to the Pacific roads at 2 per cent any more
than TO any other railroad that happens
to need it?
Watterson's advice to the gold Demo
Gratis was virtually to stand pat, and they
might as well do it. for they have nothing
to draw to.
European statesmen will never be able
to put an end to the Armenian outrages so
long as they leave the Sultan in the posi-
ton of referee.
There is not enough poverty in San
francisco to make sensation about, but
there is plenty to give every man chance
to exercise his charity.
Il Congress proposes to revise the tariff
this winter simply to increase the revenue
the shortest and sweetest way will be to
raise the duty on sugar.
Willie Hearst to Long Green Lawrence
Pull down your bunko referee" Long
Green Lawrence to Willie hearst-"Go
shoot your airship picture"
Eastern papers are announcing that the
bicycle season in that section is about
the bicycle poetry or the bike Jokes.
The demand of the mugwumps is for
revenue, retrenchment and rest; but what
the Republican party will give the country
is protection, prosperity and progress.
It is asserted that Spain has increased
her army in the Philippine Islands to
more than $4,000 men, and still she is as
far from pacifying the people there as
those in Cuba.
1t is reported that the football casualties
of the season amount TO three killed and
122 severely injured. According to the
latest returns this beats the Cuban war,
and as for the prize ring it isn't in it.
The Hon. Andrew D. White saws the
newspapers do not publish enough of the
proceedings of Congress, but the intelli-
gent reader will take note that great deal
more is published than Congress ever
does.
There is one thing in Willie Hearts
journalism that requires explanation.
Why should he have sent to Arizona to
get Wyatt Earp's record WREN he could
have got it from Long Green Lawrence
for nothing.
The report that the Cuban army is
largely made up of lawless negroes is dis.
puted by a correspondent of the New York
Sum- who says that out of the 250,O me-
groes in Cuba 100000 are in the towns.
highly satisfied with the Spanish sway
and not more than 5000 are in the ranks of
the patriots.
An extra session of Congress seems vir-
tually decided on and the WORK of prepar-
ing protective tariff bill for submission
to it is now under way, so that it behooves
the people of California 10 be active in
making representations at Washington
which will secure for our industries the
protection they need.
Notwithstanding the recent campaign
was waged mainly on the money question
the people of this country were never so
Indifferent in recent years to all sorts of
money reform as they are now. The only
thing they are discussing is the tariff. 1t
is evident they know what they need, and
are determined to have il.
The prediction that Willie Hearst may
yet go up the Hudson and change his
name to No. 543 is not regarded in New
York as hope merely. 1t is remembered
that fellow who ran Hearsty news
paper in Chicago is now known by the
number OF his cell, and what has hap
pene0 there may happen in New York.
The New York Herald notes with pride
that at present 1--WE have glut of idle
money, rates of interest are lower here
than in Europe and the bankers and capt.
talists of the Old World are borrowing
from u.s. 1t is questionable. however,
whether there is good cause for pride in
the situation 1t would be better for US
to be using our money to build up the I'M
developed West than to be sending it