The San Francisco call., 1896-04-02


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THURSDAY AY....................: ..APRIL 2, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The cry of the people: xiii the funding
bill"
Foreclosure is the law; funding is a
dodge.
The war rumors in Europe sound more
and more like a roar.
There were lots of fools II the world yes
terday and Just about as many to-day.
California counts on all her delegates to
fight the monopoly from start to finish.
The protest of the people against the
funding bill grows louder as the final fight
draws nearer.
According to the official showing Uncle
Sans National banks are rich enough TO
buy us all farm.
The best we can do for our Minneapolis
visitors is to give them lot of sunshine TO
take home with them.
Free coinage and protection are dis
tinct issues, of course, but they have suffi-
cient affinity to mix well.
The bond issues must be investigated
The syndicate got the money and the
people'must have the facts.
To the German sugar-growers the Cuban
war is providential dispensation, and
they are praying for continuance.
This is not a yellow-dog year, for the
very sufficing reason that there are no
such animals in the Republican ranks.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
always has its hands full, but seems to lack
sufficient power TO handle all it catches.
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For all refunding schemes each house
of Congress should resolve itself into a
slaughter-house and get ready for work.
Rain, hail, sleet. snow, thunder, light
ming and wind is the kind of weather
Minneapolis gets when the Mayor is away.
As Weyler demands more troops from
Spain, the Cubans will soon be calling for
a census to show the increase of popula-
ton.
AS Max O'Rell has announced his retire
ment from the lecture stage we may ey-
pect him next year on his first farewell
tour.
New Hampshire Republicans declare for
4 Presidential candidate who viii be "a
platform in himself" and so say we all
OF US.
The European situation is made more
interesting by the fact that France has be-
gun to talk of peace and get her navy
ready.
Having stirred up wars in Abyssin1a, the
Soudan and Matabeleland, Europe still in
sists she Is keeping the peace and civilizing
Africa.
1t is not certain yet whether the British
are really enforcing vigorous foreign
policy or only going through a series of
spasms.
In abstaining from coming forward as
Presidential candidates Democratic lead
ers have the good excuse that no one has
called for them.
The recent statement that the billiards.
in the East were over was slightly mis-
leading. 1t should have been that they
were over the whole country.
The City of Paris. like the st, Paul,
has escaped from the mud flats uninjured,
and it seems it doesn't hurt any kind of a
ship to run over New Jersey.
In their present situation the Demo-
Gratis are exactly in the mood of the farmer
who upset his apple cart and had no lam
gnage to do justice to the occasion.
AS the treasury deficit for March is less
than that of the previous months of the
fiscal year, we may expect to see the DEM
ocrats trying to figure it out as a surplus.
There are signs that Hoke Smith in
tends to set up as a humorist for in his
debate with ex-Speaker Crisp he said he
was in favor CT silver but opposed to coin
ing it,
Even if there were nothing wrong in the
wrong in trying to conceal the means by
which such important public business was
carried out.
President Kruger is willing that British
residents in the Transyaal should be re-
cruited to make war against the Mata-
beles. Anything goes with him that gets
the British to go.
The French Ministry has assured the
Chamber of Deputies that France and
Russia are cooperating in regard to Egypt,
and perhaps we shall hear the buzzsaw
running before long.
A London paper says the Dem ocrats
may win this year if they are wisely led,
and the saying is true enough provided
sufficient emphasis is put on the if to do
justice to the subject.
The friends of Senator Davis of Mime
sofa will now call attention to the fact
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