The San Francisco call., 1896-05-28


THURSDAY AY........................M MAY %, 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
This is the kind of weather that puts
the sugar in the fruit.
1t is to be a campaign of industry and
workingmen will be at the front.
The only dash Democracy can kick up
this year is the dashboard of its own dump
cart.
We can now sympathize with the people
in the torrid East, where they have an ice
trust.
CIeveland's foreign policy never man.
ages to go any further than is necessary TO
get itself at sea.
There are many great issues before the
Senators, but they prefer to talk about the
flled-cheese bill.
When the Gear crowned himself he no
doubt INDUCED the belief that he had
capped the climax.
The condition of local Democracy shows
that the absence of leader is the oppor-
tunity OF the bosses.
About all that can be done by the Chi
cago convention is to ratify the split in the
party and then scatter.
The tin-pail brigade of stalwart work
men will be on the Republican side this
year in every section of the country.
According to Jules Simon the time has
come when the world must expect not
only the unexpected but the impossible.
Let US hope the Czar will be satisfied
with the coronation ne has had and not
try hereafter to crown himself with glory.
AS the Cars proclamation ignored the
Jewish question he may be said to have
straddled the biggest issue in his domin-
ions.
Since the choice of leadership is to be
limited to Buckley or Daggett the Demo
crat is wise who prefers to take to the
woods.
1t is worth noting how easy it was to
find a means of abating the transfer nui-
sance as soon as we went about it in the
right way.
Every traveller who comes from q free.
silver country reports that it is prosperous;
but there is no prosperity in any gold
country except England.
One advantage of woman in politics
would be that as a candidate she could
straddle any plank in the platform without
being conspicuous about it.
If Daggett and the goldbugs capture the
Democratic State Convention they can put
the party in a carpet-bag ard carry it
East. 1t won't be any too big.
If the gold men of the East are willing
to pay anything at all for California De-
mocracy they should be allowed to have it.
There is no demand for it in the home
market.
The cyclones have swept this season the
whole region of country from Texas to
Michigan, and no section seems safe from
their ravages except that on this side of the
Rockies.
The defeat of the Santa Monica Job and
the shelving of the refunding scheme
show that the hand OF Huntington in Con-
gress has lost either its strength or its
cunning.
The efforts now being made to provide
for better system of food inspection in
this City deserve the general support of
the people. Pure climate is of little avail
without pure food.
In the debate in the Senate on the mo-
tion to increase the tax on beer Senator
Dubois said beer is sold at two glasses for
cents; but, unfortunately, for the gen.
eral public, he did not say where.
General Coxey says he will ask nothing
OF the Populist National Convention ex-
cept the Endorsement of his principles, but
when you come to think about it you will
see there is a good deal of gall even in that.
The New York ordinance against rapid
bicycle riding was rigidly enforced and
man after man was fined from $40 to $25
until recently, when the police arrested
handsome young woman for the offense
and then justice struck a snag. The speedy
maiden was let off with a reprimand, and
now all the boys are bowling.
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An observant reader of New York news
papers calls attention to the fact that
Lillian Russell received bigger write-up
when she was thrown from bicycle than
the Duchess of Marlborough did on her
presentation at court and now the philoso-
piers OF journalism are trying to explain
the deep significance of the thing.
In recent interview published in the
London Chronicle, Joseph Pulitzer of the
New York Horld says the secret of success
in journalism is to ignore money-making
and ''strike every day blow for the right.
the true and the honest" If the World
has not always lived up to this policy it is
none the less the true one, as THE CALL
can attest from its own experience in fight
ing lotteries, frauds and fakes. and stand
lag up FOR the public welfare.