The San Francisco call., 1896-11-25

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Rooms 81 and 80, 81 Park Row. New York CITY,
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ. Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Don't forget charity to-day.
There is a fair chance of sunshine for
Thanksgiving.
Berkeley and Stanford will be in it on
two things-turkey and mud.
The turkey question of to-day is the
cheerful one, ''Will you dine with me?"
The Dingley bill may possibly do as
pastime, but for business the country
wants a thorough system OF protection.
Street improvement is an issue which
will stay with us for years to come. and
we might as well push it along and keep it
moving.
We have had rain enough to give prom
ise of prosperity, but not enough to do
any damage, and there is cause for thank
iulness in that.
The return of General Weyler to Ha-
vana makes it clear that the climate in
the Cuban mountains is not healthy for
Spaniards at this season.
1t seems to be conceded that Platte can
go back to the Senate if he wishes and
thus obtain revenge on the fellows who
downed him ana Conkling sixteen years
ago.
The State editors convention has given
the people of Vallejo an opportunity to
show their hospitality to men who know
how to appreciate it and all hands are
happy.
One of the amusing features of the next
Congress will be the struggle for the DEM
ocratic leadership in the House among
set of men neither of whom is capable of
leading anything.
The Sixth-street improvement Club has
made good start in the work it has un-
dertaken, and promises to be an organiza-
tion beneficial not to that street only but
TO the whole City.
The Inauguration of Mckinley is to be
the grandest pageant of the Kind ever
seen, as the people will go to Washington
in thousands to welcome the advance
agent of prosperity.
THE CALL has never said there is an air
ship sailing about the bay, but it has col.
lected the testimony of reputable men on
the subject, and published the news ac-
curately for all TO read.
So long as England can buy sugar
cheaper than Jamaica can produce it the
people of that island will have TO hunt an
other job. The paternalism of Great
Britain never extends TO hez colonies.
Bryan declares he is satisfied with his
hunting trip, but as Senator Jones says
the party did not get within quarter of a
mile OF deer it is evident Bryan is in a
mood to be pleased with most any thing.
John P. irish was quite right in saying,
"People of other States take community
to be what is reflected in the columns OF
its press" and good people, therefore,
should be careful what kind of press
they support.
The yigor with which the Populist lead
ers are denouncing any further fusion with
Dem ocracy shows that the recent defeat
has knocked them neither speechless nor
senseless. They are not only talking
loudly, but talking we'll.
According to the Providence Journal the
majority of United States flags are made
in New York sweatshops by girls who
earn less than $5 week, and If the story
is true it is time 10 start a reform in that
direction and push it vigorously along.
Republicans have the prospect of a clean
sweep in the various cities where elections
are to be held this spring, but they
should remember that while this may be
ayellow-dog year it is not a yellow-dog
State, and put their best men forward IN
every instance.
A German scientist who has discovered
more reports of centenarans among the
people of the Balkan Peninsula than
among the Germans has concluded that
education does not promote longevity, but
the true conclusion would seem to be that
among ignorant people the age record is
not we'll kept.
Chairman Bynum of the Democratic
sound-money party says his organization
will stay in the field as g National party, but
as the money question will be settled sat.
isfactorily by the Mckinley ad administration
it is hard to see what the Palmer fellows
will stay in the field for when they might
come in out of the wet.
The proceedings of the Assessors con-
vention at Sacramento deserve the careful
study OF all taxpayers. The subjects to be
dealt with are matters of material interest
to the State, and if any plan of reform can
be agreed upon it will undoubt edly be
urged upon the Legislature this winter.
and therefore attention should be given to
it at once.
There is big volume of political phil
osophy IN the statement of Chauncey De-
pew at the Montpelier celebration on Tues
day that "kme rican liberty IS the preser-
vation of American opportunity for man
10 rise above the conditions in which he
was born, and win honors from his fellow.
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