The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09

OAKLAND OFFICE
s08 Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row. New York City
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Special Agent.
sUNDAY.................. FEBRUARY 9. 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
This is another good day to get out and
enjoy the weather.
There will be an early spring this season,
as a matter of course, for it is leap year.
Roll on, silver moon, and roll on, thou
bicycler-there is no stopping either OF
you.
Keep up the agitation for boulevards
and the movement will soon begin to make
progress.
Some people still remember their new
years vows, but must have resolved to re-
call them.
1t is announced that the Senate will be
slow in recognizing Cuba, but the an
nouncement was not necessary.
immigration, but the trouble is, the super
stitious Fasteners think it tells lie.
This is good time to send CALL to the
storm-stricken Fasteners and invite them
out to see the sunshine and the flowers.
The report of the Government commits
sion is adverse to the Nicaragua canal, but
things that are adverse can be reversed.
The erection of an observatory on the
top of Tamalpais will be good way for
millionaire to put his generosity in evil
dence.
However the war clouds gather or scat
ter, Paris goes right along preparing for
her fin de steele exposition OF the arts of
peace.
Talbert of South Carolina may talk just
as much after Barrett of Massachusetts,
gets through with him, but he won't talk
so loud.
A direful rumor comes from New York,
that the Legislature is preparing law
that will set Roosevelt down and upset all
his friends.
Because New York has a chimpanzee
that can draw, Boston insists that at last
the metropolis is about to develop a typi-
cal school of art.
From every festival center comes a re-
port of preparations for holding "the
grandest festival ever seen on this coast"
That's encouraging.
Co Ion do TaOf oI
every year, so long will the world wonder
whether we are capable of appreciating
our midwinter weather.
In carrying out the work of street i'm
provement the main thing is to make
beginning, and Folsom street is just as
good starting point as any.
The prevailing ignorance of agriculture
in this country is shown by the fact that
SO many young men believe they can live
in clover by sowing wild oats.
''Things that are not certain" says Mr..
Huntington, "are very uncertain" and he
is himself an illustration of the remark, for
there is nothing certain about him.
Wherever our Venezuelan Commission
may draw the line, there is no prospect
that it Will be drawn anywhere inside the
whole amount OF the appropriation.
Even if the Nicaragua canal should cost
as much as the Government commission
estimates, it would be worth the money to
the United States either in peace or in war.
With the election of Senator. Frye as
something of frying pan, but still most
of the fat will get into the fire just the
same.
When we break the railroad monopoly
and take the tax off our shipping we can
spread the luscious products of California
all over the world like sweet syrup on a
hot cake.
There are good reasons for believing that
in his old age Mr.. Huntington has arrived
at the conclusion that if he cannot take the
earth any other way he will take it philo-
sophica!ly.
The fight in committee against the fund
ing bill has reached the point where we
may count on a minority report, and that
is something which a month ago was
ndIuly expected.
People who say the Senate never moves
are mistaken. 1t has been in session only
little over two months, and has already
succeeded in getting itself organized. The
interesting event occurred last Friday, and
the Senators are still cackling.
As Cornell has organized a co-educa-
tional crew, either Berkeley or Stanford
should challenge them to race out here,
and thus give US chance to see whether
Eastern boys and girls can pull together in
the same boat any better than ours.
Instead of converting into silver and
taking home the war indemnity paid by
China, the japanese have decided to leave
it as a gold deposit in London, and it
would seem the Mikado dances as nimbly
to the fiddling of the money power as any
other potentate on the globe.