The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-23

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The CALI. SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Everything is bargain.
Don't fail to help cheer the friendless.
Do your trading promptly and make
way for others.
They were holidays once, but they are !
bargain days now.
Cuba must wait until the Senators finish |
their holiday frolics.
The novelties and dainties of California |
are worth asking for.
Despite the invention OF novelties the
old toys hold their own.
Congress talks of foreign affairs, but the |
PRESIDENT mas the say SO.
All the world is rushed at present, but |
playtime will be with us on Friday.
We call them holidays as our fathers |
did, but we work right along as our fathers |
didn't.
We can safely say every evening that |
our avenues of trade never looked brighter |
than now.
Leave orders for the Christmas CALL. |
They win go off like hot cakes when the
day comes.
Geary street has joined the general i'm |
provement and the town will soon be able
TO celebrate all over.
Use the goods that are manufactured at
home and we will soon be manufacturing
nearly all that we use.
This kind of weather will make Santa
Claus feel like stopping in California and
staying until after New Year.
What we need in our street sweeping is
new broom which will be strong enough
to sweep the cobblestones off.
The Monroe doctrine was of slow growth
for long time, but it is expanding now
like pumpkin-vlne in California.
A few more days of weather like this
and we will begin to boast of California as
the land of the Christmas climate.
The statement of Secretary Herbert that |
the Texas is no worse than our other
battle-ships doesn't redeem the Texas, but |
it is rough on the rest.
The rural industries of the country will !
be carefully looked after IN the next tariff |
bill. We shall have no more experiments |
with free trade in raw material.
1t will be impossible for Congress to |
force the hand of Cleveland on the Cuban
question de can filibuster to the end of |
his term without straining himself.
Rockefeller had better be careful of the |
combination he is making with Carnegie. |
The Pittsburg man is likely to leave
good many blowholes in his side of it.
Notice has been given that a resolution |
declaring sympathy with the Cubans viii |
be introduced in the italian Chamber of |
Deputies. Spain is getting it from all |
sides.
From the confused arguments made by |
the advocates of Santa Monica before the |
Government commission it would seem
the port is TOO much at sea ever to be re. |
claimed.
Senator Hill is in favor of according to |
the Cubans belligerent rights but not of |
recognizing their independence. The |
Senator, it will be observed, is still strad- |
ding fences.
If Congress could be made to accept |
little common sense for a Christmas
present it would drop the funding bill and |
take up the Nicaragua canal bill imme-
diateIy after the holidays.
The country will be well satisfied with |
the recognition of Cuban independence.
Those Senators who wish war with Spain
had better retire from the Senate and
organize filibustering expeditions.
The Cleveland administration seems
willing to leave the settlement of every
public problem to Mckinley except the
funding of the Pacific roads debts. That
is the only issue on which it has urged
haste.
Nothing more clearly shows how COM
pletely Carlisle is out of sympathy with
the country than his report to Congress
on Monday urging the retire ment OF green
backs at the very season when the people
wish more of them.
There is no telling how much foreign
sugar is used in our Christmas CONNECTIONS,
but with little judicious protection from
Congress it will be only a few years when
we will produce all we need, and then our
Christmas candies will be home sweets in
every sense of the word.
The most important thing for Cleveland
and Olney to do before New Years is to
make sure of The protection of American
citizens and their property in the Spanish
parts of Cuba. There is liable to be an