The San Francisco call., 1896-11-28
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALI

Leave orders for THE SUNDAY CALL.
The early purchaser gets the pick of the
Christmas novelties.
1t looks now as if Cuban independence
might come in with the New Year.
The Dingley bill will stay in its pigeon
hole, and that is the best place for it.
At any rate Berkeley s name is not mud.
Her team showed too much sand for that.
There is no longer even so much as four
more months of Grover. Time is flying
beautifully.
The mining counties are not only talk
ing of prosperity, but have begun the
work for it.
You get all the news and the best of
leisure day reading when you get THE
SUNDAY CALL.
Those who thought they saw an airship
certainly saw something, and they can
swear to that.
When you begin your purchases to-day
do not forget that your home should be
market for home products.
This Congress need not trouble itself
about the tariff bill. The next one can
settle the issue prom pity and settle it right.
The sad condition of Tammany Hall is
shown by the fact that the Office of grand
sachem is hunting q man and cannot find
one.
The blizzard season began in the Dako-
tas on THANKSGIVING day and turned the
festival into cold snap Tor many good
citizen.
The statesmen are on their way to
air will be as full of politics as Of snow
storms.
The work of coast defense goes braveIy
on, and in a few years we shall be able to
maintain peace without being anxious
about it.
The weather will seem balmy enough to
you if you will read and consider the re-
ports of the weather they are having in
the East
The next State assembly of note will be
the gathering of the farmers and dairy
men al San Luis Obispo and the expecta-
1ions are it will prove an important one
in every respect.
Cleveland had larger turkey than
either Mckinley or Bryan. but as he did
not have the victory OF the one nor the
of ho o6r 20
was not great after all.
1t is estimated the orange crop OF Cali
fornIa this year will be the largest in the
history of the State, and thus we have an
other evidence of prosperity to cheer US
through the Christmas time.
The people of Eureka very happily cele-
brated Thanksgiving day by launching
the new steamer Humboldt and now they
know they are to have ship to come in
and bring them prosperity as a steady
business.
An attempt of the monopoly to pass a
funding bill at the coming session of Con-
gress is not probable. but it is possible.
and therefore the people must be vigilant
and resolved to strike it a blow that will
kill it forever.
The Coiusa Sun makes the good sugges-
ton to the people of that county that in
stead of waiting for outside capital to
come in and put up sugar plant for them
they should unite and begin the industry
ior themselves.
The near approach of the meeting of
CONGRESS revives interest in the funding
bill and the people of California must pre-
pare to resume the fight against the mo-
nopoIy. It will never do to be caught
mapping at This time.
A number of the leading papers of the
interior have started an agitation to Sc
cure greater amount of home rule for
counties, and on that issue San Francisco
can com bine with them. We want more
home rule in our neck of the woods.
The Redding Free Press declares that
many mining claims in Shasta County
which were formerly considered of small
value are now being worked at d profit
and the outlook is brighter than ever be-
fore. Thus the good news keeps on com.
ing.
Football is paying game in New York,
the net receipts for the match between
Princeton and Yale having amounted to
over $2S, 900. and it appears any man can
endow a university in these days who can
put good team on the gridiron and make
IL win.
The Venezuelan question seems fairly
out of the way, but as reports from Wash
inaton show that the seal problem is by
no means in satisfac tory condition it is
plain that Olney will have enough to do
to keep himself warm from now until
March.
The report of ex-Congressman Louttit
in regard to the revival of manufacturing
industries in Colorado shows that even in
that State the defeat OF free silver will not
be altogether loss. Like every other
section OF the Union Colorado will profit
by the restoration of protection and IN the
next campaign she will return TO the Re-
publican column, where she belongs.