The San Francisco call., 1896-11-23


An extra session is better than deficit
tariff. Better have too much Congress
than too little revenue.
Rememb Der. this is the season for charity
as well as thanksgiving, and make your
preparations accordingly.
If war breaks out with Spain the first
duty of the Government will be to send
out tugboat to guard the Texas.
1t seems fair to assume that the deficit
has grown large enough by this time for
Cleveland to mention it in his message.
There may be no effective way of pre-
venting the advertising of lotteries, but
the Legislature might try its hand at it.
The New Workers have noted that
Moody drew bigger crowds than the
horse show, and they are trying to guess
why.
Every step taken in the movement for
tariff reform should be toward protection,
and there should be no compromise on
that principle.
The outlook for a re sorm tariff bill this
winter is so unpromising that we might
as well begin to count on an extra session
as sure thing.
Election skeptics are boLbing up all
over the country and writing to the papers
that they have n more faith in recounts
than in first counts.
There is no land with such profusion
of luxuries as California and none where
such large proportion OF the people can
afford to enjoy them.
We shall never have Tom Watson in the
right place until we make him captain OF
the Texas and give him the fellows who
constructed her as a crew.
If Mckinley should find the work OF
Cabinet-making at all tiresome he has
only to say SO and lots of fellows will
volunteer to do the job for him.
Since Uncle Sam succeeded so well in
quieting the British and Venezuelan quar-
rel he might soothe down the Spaniards s
and Cubans little if he would try hard.
Many man who voted for Bryan is
now willing to admit he was mistaken in
b lieving it was necessary to give the
country fits in order to cure it of hard
times.
The last Republican administration pro.
NOTED the establishment of a steam ship
line across the Atlantic, and the next one
will advance the good work by prom oting
one across the Pacific.
The Tennesseeans are rushing the build
ings of their interstate exposition, which
is to open next May, and expect to have
the first whack at the money the new era
OF prosperity will circulate.
One of the notable features of the cam
paign has been the saughtering of Demo-
cratic leaders. Cleveland, Hill. Carlisle
German and Altgeld go down with Bryan
and there seems no chance for the resur-
rection of any of them.
North Carolina has to elect a United
States Senator this winter, and as the
Legislature on joint ballot will have SO
Republicans, 81 Democrats and go Pop
ulists, it is evident somebody will have to
make fusion out Of confusion in order to
win.
From the drift of things in Indiana il
seems ex-President Harrison can return to
the Senate if he wishes, but the situation
in New York is such that if Cleveland
wishes an Office after leaving the Presi-
dency he will have to run for Sheriff again
and end where he began.
The astronomers of the Lowell Obsery-
atory who have been working at Flagstaff,
Arizona, announce that since August l
they have discovered $50 new stellar sys-
TENS. so it seems the dry climate of that
country has its advantages. If you can't
raise cain you can see stars.
The Eastern States have had the largest
apple crop on record, but just as they were
counting on big profits from the European
market German officials interdlcted the
sale in that country on the ground that
American dried apples are unhealthy, and
now in some parts of the East the farmer
is willing to fight the Kaiser on sight.
Mining men will not be the only appli-
cants this winter for a representative in
the Cabinet, as Senator Frye has bill be-
fore his committee in the Senate provid-
ing for the creation of a Department oi
Commerce, and it might be good thing
for the miners to join forces with the
merchants and score double victory.