The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04

monopoly closet.
Out of all the war talk in the Senate
there should come at least vote for an
increase OF the navy.
The fight against the monopoly at
Frankfort is not SO big as the one at Wash
ington, but it is just as lively.
If Congress wishes to refund anything
for 100 years at 2 per cent it should make
the trial on the Cleveland debt.
There may be some rural industries over
done in California, but there are hun
dred that haven't been done at all.
With eight queens and poetess the San
Jose carnival procession viii look like
ninepin alley with floral decorations.
The revival of hydraulic mining and the
improvement of the rivers should go hand
in hand as two parts of one movement.
The Czar will never be known as the
arbitrator of Europe until he establishes a
free press and works it for advertising.
Germany and England continue to make
faces at one another, but they are only
dough faces and neither side is scared.
The defect in Huntington's bureau of
promotion is that it is also a bureau of
publicity and Its falsehoods get detected.
If we intend to prevent the struggle in
Cuba from degenerating into war of ex-
termination it is time for US to intervene
The new phase of the funding-bi fight
shows that the strength of the monopoly
is not so great as some people thought it
was.
There is a report from New York that
]. Pierpont Morgan ''has relapsed into in
nocuous desuetude," but don't you be-
lieve it.
The organization of Pacific Coast lum-
Der trust will at any rate save our lumber
interests from the grasp of the Eastern
combine.
If Olney does not spur up his foreign
policy to little more vigor, some Demo
cratic dark horse will distance him in the
Presidential race.
Huntington swears he cannot reduce
fares across the continent, but the people
remember he once swore he could not re-
duce them to the Cliff House.
The movement for corporate extension
in Healdsburg should certainly be carried
through. They have many men up there
who are big enough for bigger town.
The talk among Illinois Democratc of ro-
nominating Altseld for Governor may be
taken as an evidence that they are willing
to let the coming election go as dog fall.
The scheme of the Cuban insurgents to
destroy all industries in the island from
which Spain draws a revenue can only
cripple Spain, but it is likely to kill Cuba.
AS over 100000 dozen eggs were i'm
ported from the East and sold in our mar
ket last year, it is evidently time for the
chicken business to have a boom as a
home industry.
If the politicians who are now showing
themselves among the supporters of the
refunding scheme do not have cause to re-
greI it before they are much older they
will be very lucky.
1t is poor policy to make the Folsom
street improvement wait on that of Mar
ket street. Improvements of all kinds
should be taken as they come and pushe d
forward in due order.
Senator Jones is right enough in wish
ing sugar included in the new tariff bill
but be must remember that in an emer-
gency it is sometimes necessary to take
things without sugar.
Any citizen of San Francisco has right
to advocate the refunding scheme if hs
thinks it best for the State or for himself
but he has no right to telegraph East tha,
the people are with him.
Cleveland has delayed so long in sending
to Congress the report of the Government
commission on the Nicaragua canal thai
the House com mittee is inclined to go ahead
without waiting longer. and if the inelina
tion proves sufficient to get the movement
well started Cleveland would have to hurry
up if he intends to try to head it off.