The San Francisco call., 1896-11-18


EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row. New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. =.
Irrigation is all right.
1t looks like prosperity all round.
The arid districts are il the swim.
1t is pretty safe to prophesy wet win
ter.
All things seem to be coming our way at
once.
The San Jose poultry show ought to
boom the industry.
The Supreme Court knows common
sense as well as law.
They are talking of nothing in the East
but tchrysanthemums, horses and football.
The German crisis crawled into gimlet-
hole, but Bismarck is still on the outside.
In some parts of the East there is snow
foot deep and still it is not winter time
yet.
As a cabinet-maker Mckinley has sense
enough to attend to his own job and he
is doing it.
We call it storm out here, but in the
East it would have passed for brisk wind
and a good shower.
The Dingley revenue bill must be passed
this winter. A billion-dollar country needs
billion-dollar tariff.
Prosperity and good wages are surely
coming, but, all the same. don't spend
your money until you get it.
The only way to bring about the appoint
ment of Secretary of Mines and Mining
is to keep up the fight for it.
If the Assessors convention does its
work well we may look for tax reform
from the Legislature this winter.
The announcement that we are really to
have competitive telephone system will
incline everybody to exclaim, "Hellog'
The Puget Sound country is the place
where it never rains but 1t pours, and they
don't think anything of being in the swim.
While the work of charter-making is
to 60 slowly it should also go steadfastly.
If there is to be no hurry there should be
also no negligence.
The funding bill fight might as vel
come up this winter as at any other time.
California is as well prepared to fight it
now as she will ever be.
There is one thing to be said to the
credit of David Bennett Hill: His silence
is setting an example which every Demo.
crat would do well to follow.
We are in favor of no booms on the Pa
cific Coast this time. Legitimate business
can employ all our money, all our energy,
and it pays best in the long run.
Bryan's talk in the campaign showed he
had no experience in business. and from
the way business is talking now it seems
clear that it wanted no experience with
him.
Boston has not yet positively refused
the Dancing Bacchante. She is al present
considering whether the freedom of the
art is not atoned for by the freedom of tn e
gift.
Maryland thinks she ought to have a
place in McKinley's Cabinet, but at this
distance it seems she ought to be suf-
fciently proud OF having got a place in
the Mckinley column.
The decision of the Supreme Court main
tanning the validity OF the Wright act is
of great benefit to California and may be
counted among the events of the season
that tend to prosperity.
Now that Weyler has begun to force the
fighting in Cuba it seems clear the end
cannot be far off, and if the Cubans can
only hold out during the winter their in
dependence will surely come in the spring
Some loyal natives in Bengal decided to
erect a statue to Victoria and the British
public was delighted. The statue has re-
Gently been unveiled, disclosing a ring in
each nostril of the Queen, and the British
public is disgusted.
Alexander H. Clay, the unknown who
has just been elected TO the United States
Senate from Georgia, is said to be Hoks
Smiths man, which is perhaps the poorest
introduction to the American people he
could possibly have.
The revival of industry following the
election of Mckinley enables us to fore
cast what will result from the adoption of
new protective tariff and justifies the
belief that the era of prosperity now OPEN
ing will surpass any we have ever known.
Ohio is discussing the best means of re-
modelling and enlerging her State Capitol
and California, from experience with the
cost of repairs at Sacramento, can give
her the advice OF an expert. The best way
to get a good job is to tear the old build
ing down and put up a new one.
In an address at the W. c. 7. q. conven-
tion at st. Louis Mrs. Katherine L. Stey-
enson paid an eloquent tribute to the
power of the press and gave just recog-
milton TO the services OF the majority of
American newspapers in promoting the
cause of morality and social improvement.