The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15


Rooms RI and 32 "a Park Row, New York City,
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ. Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Good prospects all round.
The week has been lively one.
Chrysanthemum shows are coming in.
Read the papers of the Chit Chat Club.
The shooting stars shoot some other
eve.
We want business, but no booms this
time.
There must be Secretary of Mines and
Mining.
Make your home a market for home
goods this week.
The miner, as well as the farmer, should
have a place in the Cabinet.
Our west is beyond the seas, and it is by
ships We must seek our golden markets.
Perhaps the meteors decided it would
not be proper to fall when everything else
is rising.
There is Just one fine art in the country
that never fails to pay, and that is The art
OF advertising.
The Monroe doctrine does not reach the
Cuban case yet, but if it ever expands it
Will be in that direction.
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The maritime control of the Pacific will
be in our hands, provided our hands are
not idle during the next few years.
There IS prospect for an early compile
ton of the coast road, and then the
tourists will see sights to brag about.
One OF the humors of the situation is
the clamor of the free-trade press that
reform of the deficit tariff would disturb
business.
While we are preparing for protection
to the industries of the State let us not
forget TO prepare also for the expansion OF
commerce.
II the Greater West firmly resolves that
the mining industry shall be represented
in the Cabinet the rest of the country will
agree to it.
Opportunities for making good invest
ments in California were never better
than now. This is a young State yet and
growing fast.
Mrs. BRYAN is said to have found conso-
women are allowed to vote gave majority
for her husband.
There is one thing we may count on
from Altgeld. If he ever makes up his
mind fully that his defeat was crime he
will be sure to pardon it.
A perfect system of taxation we can
hardly hope for, but the Assessors con-
vention ought easily to devise some i'm
provement on the present one.
Senator Quay predicts 1--WE shall have a
new tariff within eight months after Nc
Kinley's inauguration" and the prediction
will be received as glad tidings.
Conservative Democratic journals in the
East are complaining that while their
party was very sick from free silver it is in
still more danger from the doctors who
are trying to cure it.
IF you feel like writing letter to Nc
Kinley 60 take walk in the park and
wear the feeling off. 1t is reported from
Canton that he is receiving more than a
thousand letters DAY.
Voices OF discomfort are either becom.
ing silent or else are lost in the increasing
hum OF business. Certain it is we no
longer hear them as loudly as we did at
this season during the last three years.
These fellows who are guessing that
Mckinley will give Cabinet position to
some sound money Democrat in recogni-
tion of their support during the campaign
had better hasten to guess again before the
fool-killer comes around.
Eastern fashion journals describe the
latest feminine adornment as "pneumatic
hair" 1t consists of rubber air cushion
covered with hair, which, when placed on
the head, gives the wearer the appearance
of possessing a mass of tresses, and thus
may lovely woman be said to be pneu-
matically tired.
Massachusetts is enjoying a young man
who on being sent to prison for EN- bezze-
ment studied with such diligence as to
make himself master of the French, Ger
man, Spanish and Italian languages and
read law with so much success that on his
recent release from prison he at once ap-
piled for admission TO the Boston bar.
An enterprising man has recently este b
lished in New York winter garden FASH
ioned after the Partisan style and adorned
with casts of statues of beauty. but fearing
the police would object to too much art in
popular resort he clothed the statues on
the opening night with corsets, skirts and
sllk-stockings, thereby achieving a ten.
strike that knocked the town silly.
The prospect of an early com pletion OF
the coast road emphasizes the need of
an immediate improvement of Third
street. A large proportion OF visitors to
the City from the East will come by that
road. and We ought to arrange for their
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