The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-13

From this time on politics will warm up
with the weather and beat it in the process.
The cause of Armenia is the cause of
humanity and deserves the sympathy
OF all.
Business is just uncertain enough this
wear to keep on the move and be ready for
jump.
In any excitement in England the new
poet laureate can be counted on to make
bad worse.
As the world revolves at present, when
ever anything turns up England gets
turned down.
Judging from the sound OF things the
war trumpet must be about as cheap as the
penny whistle.
To the practical politician the Presi-
dental campaign has already begun and
is moving lively.
While the rest OF the world prepares for
war it is q good time for us to attend
strictly TO business.
Tom Reed has once more shown Con-
gress that he can count a quorum when
ever quorum is there.
Whatever may be said of the Buckley
bosses at the Democratic primaries it can
not be said they didn't count.
The expected grand march of the Cubans
on Havana seems to be retreating into a
raid on sugar plantations.
The year is still new enough for fellows
who are addicted TO the fake poolroom
habit 10 brace up and swear off.
There are abundant reasons for believ.
ing that the alliances of Europe are not
half as binding as the complications.
The California miners who were asso-
ciated with Jameson's raid were in bad
company, but we must help them out.
If you overlook our bargain advertise
ments you win miss some of the most
profitable family reading of the season.
Attend to business while You may,
The carnival days are coming,
And coin that now makes trade to hum
May then go on a-hummIng.
It may DE true as reported that Russia is
behind Germany, but there is no telling
how long she will be content 10 stay be-
hind.
There is growing belief that the Kaiser
intended his letter to Kruger for pubIica-
ton only, and not as an evidence of good
faith.
Sooner or later there must be war in Eu-
rope, for the only way the nations can get
their troubles out of the way is to fight
them out.
While the revival last year was not all
that we expected it had the good effect of
converting many free-traders to the cause
of protection.
In the path of the wicked even a stump
seems like lion, and the Southern Pacific
is now stumped by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The Beers fight for their soil and the
Cubans for independence, but the Arm E.
mans are struggling for life itself against
the massacres Of the Turk.
If you have any sympathy for the Arme-
MAN sufferers be present at the mass
meeting this evening and show that your
sympathy has action in it.
Kruger demands damages for the
Transvaal raid, but the British will plead
in abatement that they were more
damaged than the Beers.
1t is sure sign of bad condition of
affairs in Europe that nations are more
enraged about sporadic invasion Of the
Transvaal than by the massacres in Ar
menia.
1t may be true that the members of the
Morgan syndicate had no hand in direct
ing the course of Cleveland's latest loan,
but all the same the loan will come into
their hands.
1t is good move of the Board of Trade
to establish commercial exhibit, as well
as one of our rural industry, for it is time
to let the world know we have something
to sell besides climate.
A graduate of the penitentiary of Ne
braska has disturbed the State by asserting
that counterfeit money is made by con-
vIcts in the prison and put into circula-
ton by the officials.
The report from Washington that many
Democrats are now willing to vote with
the Republicans for the re-enactment of
the reciprocity law is one that should be
confirmed by immediate action.
The fate of the Transvaai cannot be
widely different from that of California
and Australia. Whenever rich mines are
found in a new country the pastoral age
must sooner or later give way to the age of
gold.
If the Big Eight booksellers are serious
in the idea of going up in a balloon to spot
the races at Ingleside Park there will be
no objection on the part of the public.
Any plan will DO that gets them off the
earth.