The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-06

DANlD M. fOLlHs SpeCldI agent.
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THURSDAY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The emergency is with US and the emer-
gency tariff we must have.
The non-part1san always begins with
fusion and ends with confusion.
The st. Paul is free at last, but the ship
of state is still stuck on the Senatorial bar.
Up to date it has not been observed that
Harrison's retirem ent has caused deficit
anywhere.
There may be still some money in Cuba
for Spain if she will sell the island before
she ruins it.
Dunraven has consulted the Prince of
Wales, and let US hope the Prince advised
him to i'm itate the clam.
The fact that the Standard Oil Company
has been robbed is a proof that there isn't
always honor among thieves.
There is time for everything, and the
Senators should take notice that this par
ticular time is for tariff reform.
The Cuban army is said to be nearly
barefooted. and perhaps that is the reason
the war is SO much like footrace.
If Congress intends to rake over the
muck of the Cleveland bond deal it should
begin now while the weather is cool.
If Democracy expects to find Moses it
will have to look for him amid the bull
rushes at the head waters of Salt river.
The statesman who demands money
from Turkey by way of indemnity may
get a feather in his cap, hut that is all.
The only money question before this
Congress is that OF providing q revenue
large enough to put an end to the deficit.
The House and the Senate work to-
gether about as harmoniously as a team
made upof a racehorse and a stalled OK.
One of the curiosities of politics at this
time is the frequency with which the Ohio
folks rise up and swear they are solid for
Mckinley.
When the people of San Bernardino are
not planning festival they are having
fight, and life down there seems one con-
tinuous frolic.
The silver bill and the tariff bill are two
distinct things. and if the Senate tries to
confound them it Will be the Senate that
is confounded.
The East has had another earthquake
and the next thing will be another biz
zard. There is a monotony even in the
variety of life over there.
Senator Morrill, was right in telling the
Senators it is about time to follow the ex-
ample of Massachusetts and pray "God
save the commonwealth"
The movement for the construction of
our new Postoffice building is still under
way, but it is so far under that no one can
see it anywhere on the way.
1t now appears that Huntington has
never paid Kentucky for his license to run
freight train and has been doing an il
licit business all these years.
From the way his speech has been con-
demned Tillman can derive the consoling
knowledge that it has been very widely
read, and that it made an impression.
Because some men are opposed to the
Government ownership of railroads Mr.
Huntington thinks they favor his refund
ing scheme, but he lies under mistake.
oh
boss is the bridge over which the aristo-
cratic evil-doer can reach and traffic with
the criminal" We must down the bosses
The fact that man in Tennessee es-
capped death by having folded newspaper
in his pocket has moral for everybody.
Now is the time to subscribe for The CALL.
With the railroad fight, a Senatorial
fight and general reform movement on
hand all at once, Kentucky is having a
regular carnival of legislation this winter.
Every days record of trade and industry
emphasizes the need OF return to the
protective system, and until that is done
1t will remain the greatest issue in our
politics.
Instead of borrowing so much money to
maintain the gold reserve it might have
been cheaper in the end to hire the Wall
street gang by the month to let the re-
serve alone.
1t Is said as soon as Parliament meets
the Liberals will challenge the foreign
policy of the Salisbury government and
then we shall know whether that policy
has any fight in it,.
If the San Jacinto volcano turns out to
be the real thing we will have one more
attraction for tourists. 1t will be great
sport for the tenderfoot to press the but
ton and see the lava flow.
Colonel Morrison of Illinois is admitted
by his Democratic admirers to lack the
magnetism that rouses men to fight for
victory, but they say lie is sufficiently sage
to take defeat philosophically.
Gavin McNab's paradox of getting the
Fire Department to participate in politics
in order to keep out of politics is not easy
of solution, but all the same any set of