The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-31

FRIDAY.................. JANUARY 81, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
1t looks like free Cuba.
California is making a good fight.
Cameron is right-the Senate should re- |
solve for Cuban independence.
BY the tongue of Tillman the voice of
South Carolina is still for civil war.
This is the turn of Sonoma to give the
State show, and she is giving good one. |
The refunding scheme is strong, but it is
the kind of strength that smells to heaven.
When Tillman delivered his speech he
may be truly said to have stumped the |
Senate.
The downtown poolrooms would like to |
be licensed, but they are running with too |
much license already.
Railroad Attorney Tweed has an omi-
nous name, but perhaps the suggestion in
it is pleasing to the bosses.
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To watch England thoroughly we have
to keep one eye on Alaska while taking
squint at Venezuela with the other.
1t seems the Southern Pacific of Ken
lucky never thought it worth while to
keep the law even in Kentucky itself.
California Congressman who fail to
make good record against the funding |
bill will make bad one for themselves.
From the orange fair of CloverdaIe to the
snow festival Of Truckee is only step,
and it viii be a good one for everybody to
take.
The issue in the funding-bill fight is
California against corporation, the people
against a monopoly and the law against
fraud.
The Smith refunding scheme hasn't re-
deeming features enough to redeem the
bonds it authorizes even in hundred
years.
Cleveland has been on another duck
shooting expedition and we shall soon
know whether he has returned loaded for
bear again.
Our Representatives in Congress have
beaten the arguments of the railroad lobby
and have fair prospect of beating the
lobby itself.
Since the Central Pacific earned money
enough to make plutocrats of all the d.
rectors it ought to be able to earn enough
TO pay its debts.
The one touch needed to make the year
about the liveliest on record is for Kelley
to set his motor into operation, and he I
promises to do it.
Other portions of the State are forced to
content themselves with climate, but So
mona talks of geological conditions, gey-
sers and internal heat.
1t is considered proper in st. Louis to
refer to the head Of the Pulitzer Publish
ing Company of that city as "the whis-
kered residuum of vanity and yexation."
Whatever the House Committee on For
eign Affairs may do in regard to Cuba the
Committee on Pacific Railroads viii have
to recognize the belligerency OF California
As long as the bimetallists allow such
men as Tillman to come to the front and
speak for them the silver lining of the
financial issue will always be under
cloud.
Grants proposal to tie Spanish Govern
ment to establish the independence of
Cuba through the friendly Intervention OF
the United States affords a good precedent
for Cleveland.
Senator Hill, having been asked who is
the most prominent Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, answered very truth
fully that he did not know of any such
candidates at all.
II the Sonoma people carry out their
scheme of generating electricity enough to
supply electric lights for orchardists the
old remark about gathering fruit from the
electric plant will cease to be joke.
1t is an i'll wind that blows good to no.
body, and out of the trouble of the Ameri-
cans IN the Transvaal the American Con-
sui at Cape Colony Is likely to be increased
IN dignity and get an increase of salary.
Now that the st. Louis Republic actually
reefs at hperty to invite the young men OF
the East to come to Missouri to get an edu-
cation, 1t is evident that if there is moth
ing really new under the sun there must
at any rate have been new deal.
The way in which the railroad managers
are trying to shift the blame of the recent
accidents off their shoulders is an illustra-
ton OF the way in which they would shift
the burden of the refunded debt on the
people as soon as they got chance.
According to Colonel Cockerin it is the
purpose OF the Japanese to do everything
possible at home and not permit dollar
to go abroad which can be kept in Japan,
and a similar policy in respect to our dol
lars wouldn't be bad for the United States
The report given of the conduct of our
Consul at Johannesburg is another evil
dence that if we are TO have more vigor-
Gus policy in protecting Americans abroad