The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

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DAVID N. FOLTZ, Special Agent.
sATURDAY.................. II, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The Kaiser does the talking, but it is the
Gar who has the sayso.
Other issues come and go, but the fund
ing-biIl fight stays with Us.
Russia keeps the peace in Europe, and
Europe calls her barbarous.
Huntington is the only potentate left
who has not received an ultimatum.
England and Germany talk OF war, but
the Stock Exchange doesn't believe them.
The TransvaaI, Venezuela and Cuba de-
serve sympathy but Armenia requires
help and protection.
Europe talks OF war and keeps the peace,
but the Turk talks of peace and goes on
with his slaughtering.
The next big war will rearrange not the
map OF Europe only, but that OF all the
world, outside of America.
The third-term movement is by no
means good thing, but Grover has lots of
bondsmen to push it along.
1t might be worth while for the Demo
Gratis to renominate Cleveland Just to give
the people a whack at him.
From the way Congress Is working, this
promises to be the shortest long session
we have had in many year.
From the difficulty the British have in
understanding the Monroe doctrine one
would think it was good joke.
The bond issue may be called popular
loan, but it will be poured out into the
swlll-barrel OF the syndicate hog.
In the Cleveland shadow all other Demo-
cratic candidates for the Presidential
nomination appear as dark horses.
The Kaiser would willingly make toss
up OF peace or war if he only knew whether
mis- end of it would be heads or tails.
Spain will not accept the resignation of
CampOs, and if he is ever 10 get ont OF his
position he must surrender it to Cuba.
The cleanup on the water front will i'm
prove the entrance to the City, and by and
by we may get the City itself cleaned up.
they are not big enough to cover the deficit
and hide the weakness of the Wilson
tariff.
Cleveland denies that he made any bond
arrangement with Morgan, but all the
same Morgan knew Cleveland, and ar
ranged for bonds.
If the Democratic leaders do not wish
the third-term move nent to carry their
next National Convention, they had better
begin to get there Eli and head it off.
The willingness OF the orators in Con-
gress to talk about the Monroe doctrine,
instead Of our financial condition, is al
most pleasing enough to be called hu-
morous.
If the Weather Bureau is right in at
tributing the lack of rain to a Nevada
thigh" it is about time for us to bring Ne
vada over to Truckee and put her on the
toboggan slide.
Cleveland may be right in claiming the
administration was always in favor of a
popular loan, but he can never claim that
the people were ever in favor of an ad-
ministration loan.
In his latest verses the new poet laureate,
Austin, refers to the ocean as "England's
territorial SEAS" but as a matter of fact it
is on the land that England has been
making her territorial seize of late.
1t would be folly in the Senate to attach
silver rider to the tariff bill, for the tariff
bill is intended only for an emergency,
whereas If we are 20 have any silver legis-
lation we want it enacted as the perma-
nent policy of the country.
Norman's bubbling delight over his dis
covery that American statesmen favor
submitting the Venezuelan dispute to ar
bitration is one of the humors of the sea
son. Arbitration is what America has
been demanding all the time.
The only man who has come out of the
South African muddle with credit is
President Kruger of the Transvaal. and
he has deserved honor, for he has shown
himself to be not only brave leader in
battle, but wise and magnanimous in
victory.
Although the anti-funding bill conven-
ton has been called to meet as early as
next Wednesday there can be no doubt
it viii be sufficiently well attended to be
thoroughly representative of the State.
The time to prepare for it is short, but the
emergency is pressing, and delay would
have been dangerous. 1t is an occasion
that calls for prompt action and the people
of California will show energy and resolu-
tion enough TO meet it and master it.
The credit given to THE CALL by the
Bulletin yesterday for the story of Mrs
Tunnel reflects credit on itself, as it not