The San Francisco call., 1896-11-20

EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 50, "a Park Row, New York City
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Lottery takers are getting bolder.
The Sacramento airship may have been
an illusion but all the same the airship is
coming.
We cannot get back to prosperity all at
once, but we are moving in that direction
very rapidly.
The flooded districts of the north have
our sympathy, and If they need aid they
can have that also.
The fight against lottery dealers should
not be relaxed until the unlawful traffic is
suppressed altogether.
The Wyoming vote was so equally
divided it may be regarded as pie for all
parties and pudding for none.
1t is becoming more evident every day
that those who wish TO bring reforms into
Turkey will have to carry them out.
The surest way for the Santa Fe road to
get into liquidation is to make bee line
for San Franci CO and tap the ocean.
If the resident Sacrameptan can see an
airship on quiet night what sort of sights
viii the legislator see when he strikes the
town?
Cleveland seems to be naturally blind to
everything except his monetary policy
and obstiDately determined to go it blind
on that.
Maritime control of the Pacific is one of
the grand destinies of the United States,
and California should take the lead in its
realization.
If a better revenue measure is to be
enacted this winter it should provide for
protec tive duties on sugar, as well as on
wool and lum Der.
The Santa Fe sy stem has the consolation
OF knowing it has receivers enough to re-
ceive business if any of it should happen
to come that way.
Don't expect prosperity to come back
with boom. After the long depression
it will take the country some time to at
tain full recovery.
Don't forget during the holidays to send
California dainties and novelties to your
Eastern friends and help advertise the
products of the State.
Under the law Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Bliss
are not eligible for the Office of Secretary
nf hn &t.aH HoI.s
will have to guess again.
The success of Spain in floating a new
war loan am ong her own people shows
that poor as they are they have money 70
burn when they get their mad up.
1t is believed in New England that Sewall
got enough advertising in business out of
the campaign to pay him for his expenses
in the canvass and is now willing to call it
square.
The charges against Inspector Dockery
are such az every jealous officer must ex-
pect to face. 1t is impossible to go straight
ahead in any direction without meeting op-
position somewhere.
The Populist candidate for Governor in
Maine on the fusion ticket in the recent
election has gone back to the middle of
the road with determination to make it
a warpath for Democrats.
The dangerous factor in the Cuban
problem is the Spanish character If Wey-
Ter should fail in his present attempt to
hunt Maceo from the hills there is no tell
ing what desperate step may be taken next.
One OF the results of the war in Cuba has
been the increase OF the sugar industry
elsewhere, and when the Cubans return to
work again they will find the market for
their crops has been taken by other people.
Cabinet making by newspapers may do
as pastime for the holidays but some of
our Eastern contem poraries are carving
it to the verge of craze and might profit
ably turn their attention to chrysanthe-
NUNS for while.
The fight between San Pedro and Santa
Monica will be fought to finish this time.
and the one consoling feature in it is that
no matter which wins the work of con-
struction will begin at once and California
will get new harbor.
ALI the larger cities in the South show
Republican gains in the recent election,
and the fact seems to furnish unmistak-
able evidence that the centers of intelli-
gence in that section are beginning to
understand their welfare as well as that of
the rest of the country depends on Repub-
hcan legislation.
The ch arge has been frequently made
in politics that wheat spectators control
the price of wheat to the injury of the pro-
ducer, but has hitherto been ridicuIed.
Now, however, it has been made the basis
OF lawsuit. and we shall have evidence
on the subject that will carry weight with
fair minds, and perhaps the charge may
be proven after all.
1t should be remembered that the Ding
ley bill of last winter was killed by vote
of the Senate striking out all but the en-
acting clause and substituting a silver
measure in place of it. What is being
advocated now is the passape of a m easure