The San Francisco call., 1896-11-21

In all your Saturday shopping keep
lookout for home products.
Don't forget that this is the day to leave
orders for The SUNDAY CALL.
Save your spare money for the holidays
and don't trust the lottery sharpers.
Sacramento won't swear to the airship,
but she sticks to the moving-light story.
1t looks as if we might have to help
Oregon and Washington dry themselves
out.
1t is about time now for the weather
bureau to predict rain and give US some
thing else.
Why not postpone guessing at the next
Cabinet until New Years day and then
swear off from it.
The rain may seem tri1e over wet in
the City, but it doesn't dampen the pros
poets of the country.
A Secretary of Mines and Mining could
earn his salary explaining mining laws
even if he did nothing else.
Tom Watson seems determined to make
his letter serial story and keep it run
ming for the next four years.
The calamity howlers will soon be more
disconnected than ever because they can
find no one to sympathize with them.
Remember that you help to advertise
the State when you send California dain-
ties and novelties to your Eastern friends.
If we do not get a revenue tariff this
winter we will get protective tariff at an
extra session and the loss will not be great.
Henry Watterson seems determined that
his name shall not be Dennis and has be-
gun TO make a veritable jeremiah of him
self.
The Populists and the Democrats are
slowly disentangling themselves, and
fusion is fading away like dissolving fog
bank.
1t is time to make another united and
earnest effort for the suppression of lot
teries. The takers are becoming bold
again.
Set to work and educate yourself on
home industries and you will soon be sur
prised to find out how much you didn't
know.
The man who believes the dispatches
from either side in the Cuban war may
boast himself of the possession of vigor-
Gus faith.
The announcement that the Texans
want Cabinet position is in the nature
of a surprise. We thought they wanted
the earth.
The big deal in Shasta mines is only the
beginning of the new mining era. There
will be lots of such deals in the State in
the next few years.
The people who are speculating about
the future of the Democratic party should
first whirl in and prove that there is going
to be any future for it.
The Republican silver Senators will
come back TO the old party on the protec-
tion platform. and it is scarcely necessary
10 say they will find a cordial welcome.
People who wish to know what the
policy of the next administration will be
can find out by reading the Republican
National platform. 1t is all written out
there in plain language.
The approaching spring elections in
various cities are perplexing the fusion
managers, as they do not know whether
try the double ring com bination again
or split and let each party run its own
circus.
The experiment of carrying bicycles on
streetcars is worth pushing to successful
result, as it would undoubtedly prove a
great convenience to many people, ana
besides would increase the revenues of the
car companies.
1t is the opinion of the Brooklyn EaoIe
that the Palmer and Buckner Democrats
should seek to create a new party rather
than try to reform the old one, and it will
certainly be admitted the former task
would be the easier of the two.
There are many arguments for the ap.
pointment of Secretary of Mines and not
single valid one against it. If the CAM
paign of education is pushed with vigor
the arguments will win and mining will
have its representative in the Cabinet
much sooner than some people expect.
In an Indiana village two boys were born
during the week preceding the election,
one of them to a Republican and the other
to Democratic family. The Republican
infant was promptly named Abraham
Lincoln Ulysses Grant William McKin-
ley, and the young Democrat was named
Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson James
Monroe William Jennings Bryan, and
now it would seem to be in order for the
village to extend the corporate limits
before the boys get old enough to swing
their names around.