The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-08
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

Grover was long-winded.
Take day off and read the message.
Congress will probably decide this week
what to do with itself.
The horse will have show this week
and the bicycle won't be in it.
San Francisco may begin to call herself
the City of progressive merchants.
Decadent journalism has become by
word, and the thing will soon be by.
gone.
Congress may talk as much politics as it
pleases, but the people are stuck on the
holiday trade.
Cleveland recognizes the condition of
Cuba, but not Cuba herself, and that is
called diplomacy.
Do your Christmas shopping as an
early bird or you may be crushed as a
worm in the final rush.
The way to show your artistic culture
just now is to show yourself liberal
patron of the winter exhibit.
Bayard will not accept the proposed tes-
timonial from the British public. The
taffy he has received is enough for him.
Street improvement has become popu-
lar fancy and il ought not to be long
before it becomes municipal realization.
In deciding to call his book 1.-The First
Battle" Bryan has disappointed Us. We
were in hopes he would call it THE Last
Word"
The kind of currency reform most
needed just now is that which will make
currency little more current in trade and
industry.
AS it seems certain there will be an
extra session of Congress this one may as
we'll take it easy and adjourn early for the
holidays.
Russia is certainly putting on all the
frills OF civilization. for she has begun
discussion of the liquor question as a mat
ter of politics.
Every Californian novelty sent to an
Eastern friend will serve not only as a
Christmas gift but as an object lesson in
home industry.
If CleveIand's example is followed by
future Presidents it will not be long before
Presidential messages will have to be
issued as serial stories.
The effort to reorganize the Democratic
party seems to have been given over alto
gether and it will probably have to remain
twins for some time to come.
If one of Willie Hearst's legs is not
longer than the other it is only because
Andy Lawrence has been cunning enough
to pull both at the same time.
II any two men are going to have an
easy time this winter they will be Hill and
German. They won't have thing to do
except to do nothing to nobody.
If nothing can be done for tariff reform
this winter all that is needed can be done
by an extra session next spring. Protec-
ton is sure winner and the country IS |
safe.
The arrangements for the horse sho W
OF last year and we are to have not only |
better display of horses but better facili-
ties for seeing them.
Public curiosity as to why the Examiner
admires itself so much has been gratiied |
at last The Examiner announces it is
because of the enemies it has made-not
because of it's friends.
There is a good deal of consolation in
knowing that whatever tariff legislation
the Republican party enacts either this
winter or next spring will add to the
revenue of the country instead of to its
debts.
The Philadelphia Record declares the
statue of Peter Cooper. recently erected |
IN New York, is worth more to American
art than the dancing bacchante, and now
Boston culture has less respect for Quaker
ideas than ever before.
The treaty for arbitratinc the Venezu-
elan boundary seems satisfactory to all
parties, but it remains to be seen whether
the arbitrator will give satisfaction. The
result may be as big muddle as that
which followed the Bering Sea arbitra-
ton.
Almost every town in the interior of the
State is talking Of starting factories of
some Kind, and if half the enterprises
talked of are fulfilled we shall be the
most thoroughly manufacturing people
in the Union before the next census is
taken.
Don't let the holiday trade lead you to
forget the charity that is required of
every well-to-do citizen at this season of
the year. The coming prosperity has not
come yet and there is many home in
the City where there is needed all the
help that love and kindliness can give.
A writer in an English magazine as.
serted that the people Of New England
remove the silver name plates from the
collins OF relatives and use them to deco
rate parlor mantels as choice specimens
Of bric-a-brac, and now there is one Eng
lishman whom the people of that section