The San Francisco call., 1896-03-17


EASTERN oFFIcE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row, New York City
DAVID n. FOLTZ, Special Agent
TUESDAY AY......................M MARCH II, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The shamrock blooms to-day.
Here's good luck to all who celebrate.
st. Patrick's day in the morning, and
everybody says, "God bless old Ireland"
Unpledged delegates is one point in poll
tics on which the whole of the greater
West agrees.
The Fair will seems to have been con-
structed on the principle of progressive
surprise party.
1t is now evident the Junta was not
strutting in borrowed plumage. The bird
is a real peacock.
England's latest game in Egypt is kept
too dark to be well understood, but it
smells like birthstone.
The latest woodsawing done by the
Italians in Abyssinia was to saw off the
campaign, and it was a good job.
The Cubans will never believe we are
willing to lend them a hand unless we go
the whole way and offer them arms.
If European diplomacy is doing any
thing more in these days than raising cain
the world would like to know what it is.
1t is getting about time now for Cleve-
land to break loose in another place and
message OF some sort may be expected any
day.
BY this time the Armenians must have
reached the conclusion that they are the
only Christians on earth and haven't long
to stay.
Now that the Junta has Buckley in a
sling let US hope it will succeed in throw
ing him SO far out of politics he can never
crawl back.
1t is clear that King Menelek has an eye
on the British expedition up the Nile, and
he may yet join hands with the dervishes
and help them take il in.
Owing to the complications of his ally,
King Humbert, the Kaiser has decided
against England shall be caved down the
bank.
Although the British expedition up the
Nile is reported to be undertaken at the
expense of Egypt it may turn out to be at
the cost of the English in Egypt before it
is over.
1t is now time for Rudyard Klpling to
indite ballad to Gavin McNab. He is a
pretty good Fuzzy Wuzzy and first-class
fighting man, for he broke Buckley
square.
If Allison has working for him many
such men as Clarkson, he will not be
second choice at st. Louis for more than
one ballot nor second with the people on
any ballot.
McNab did not get far from the meeting
place of the Democratic State Committee
before he learned that the Buckley crowd
did not have all their eggs in the basket
that was upset.
What the Eastern booksellers lost by that
forged dispatch won't amount to a tenth
of what they have fieeced the public out
of, so the mourning over the affair isn't
very wide spread.
The European war cloud has brought
low rolls of thunder from England, Ger
many, Russia, Austria and Italy, but for
all that the first stroke of lightning may
come from France.
The Kentucky plan of calling out the
National Guard to assist in the election of
Senator is fairly good, but it would have
been better to call on the people as a whole
and give everybody vote.
The appearance of the wingless angel on
the City Hall excites just enough emotion
in some serene people to make them wish
the thing could be transformed Just little
bit and made to pose as an elephant.
The gang of toughs that made Sunday
hideous at Mill Valley should be hunted
out and promptly punished. That kind of
blossom of the picnic season cannot be
nipped in the bud any too early or too
severely.
The Los Angeles Express is in error in
saying ''snow is no more agreeable in San
Francisco than in New York" Here it
was frolic, but over there it was biz
zard. The ETpress should post itself on
Pacific Coast advantages.
During the first year of the German
tariff, Europe sold to this country $780,
1000 more goods than under the last year
of the Mckinley tariff and purchased
from US $66 600 less. Such is the re-
suit of the Democratic plan OF hunting the
worlds trade instead of keeping our own.
The only drydock on the Atlantic Coast
large enough to receive big man-of-war
is at Port Royal, but now that the Indiana
has been sent there for repairs it is found
the harbor is SO shallow the ship cannot
get to the dock. That is the way our naval
improvements have been carried out under
this administration.
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