The San Francisco call., 1896-02-17


e0s Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, 81 Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Special Agent.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY II, 1896
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Bayard still talks occasionally, but he
takes care now that his talk isn't over
loaded.
No doubt the inactivity of Congress is
mastery, but it isn't good servant and
won't work.
Uncle Sam doesn't need a new financial
system half as badly as he needs a new set
of fnanciers.
Nearly everything has revived this win
ter except the wild clamor of last winter
against the theater hat.
The cathode ray comes just in time to
enable the girls to see the brains of the
dudes before they leap.
The next thing we know we shall have
to prohibit the cathode ray from running
at large without fender.
The only way for old st. Valentine to
revive his trade is to get up some kind of
frolic and call it carnival.
The administration is so proud of its
latest loan that there Is danger it will give
an encore without waiting for call.
We are not hearing so much about
tourists as we did a few years ago but we
are seeing great many more settlers.
Once more we predict that the Senate
will really attend to business this week
and once more we are not betting on it.
By those whose vocabulary is up to date
the thing which Professor Roentgen has
precipitated upon Us is called "roent-
genograph."
If there is any sleeping Democrat who
wishes the Presidential nomination this
year, it is time for him to kick the cover
off and get up.
The goldbug organs in the East seem
divided between desire to use Tillman's
speech as a campaign document and fear
that they may get hold of the pitchfork
end OF it.
Illinois allows woman to he a lawyer
but not to be Judge, and now the women
lawyers of the State are trying to convince
the people that law of that kind is not
worth practicing.
If we win the fight against the funding
bill We will know that we can win other
fights at Washington for the Pacific Coast,
by pursuing the same tactics of working
together and sticking ts the job.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit wishes law
depriving every man of vote on election
day who has not voted at his party pri-
maries, and perhaps this may be the next
fad to be taken up by election reformers.
The British have not only conceded our
right to interfere in Venezuela but have
expressed a cordial wish that we would
help them interfere in Armenia. And
some of them really seem to be unaware
that they are overriding the thing.
A feature of the Queens speech not to
be overlooked is the announcement that
the condition of agriculture in England is
disastrous beyond recent experience. 1t
IS evident from this that free trade and the
gold standard may be fun for some people
but they are death to farmers.
The lightning calculator of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat has figured out that if all
the gold offered to the Government in the
recent bond issue were beaten out into
gold foil it would gild roadway fifty-six
feet wide all around the world. Just think
OF that for boulevard.
1t is asserted that Senator Blackburn
carries three rabbits feet given him by
three beautiful young women, who as
sured him the rabbit was killed in a coun-
try graveyard, over the grave of mur-
derer, in the dark OF the moon, by a cross
eyed, red-headed, left-handed negro.
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Chicago genius has invented reform
pipe through which man can smoke
without drawing the smoke into his
mouth, but OF course any one willing to
accept such radical reform as that would
be Just as willing to swear off and reform
himself instead of bothering with the pipe.
The movement toward the substitution
OF cremation for burial is reported to be
making steady progress in England, and
IN additlon to the present ''crem atoria," !"
as they call them there, arrangements are
now being made for the erection of five
others in English cities and one in Edin-
burgh.
1t is about time for boards of trade,
chambers of commerce and industrial or
CARNATIONS OF all kinds to give the Senate
notice that some measure OF tariff reform
s needed at this session and that in the
judgment OF the people nothing can Jus.
tify neglect to provide it promptly and
effectively.
The Democratic Senator who after talk
ing SO loudly about a tariff for revenue
only now votes against the emergency
BILL designed expressly to raise revenue,
cannot expect to save himself by de-
nouncing Cleveland. In the Judgment of
the people the free-trader is as bad as the
cuckoo and equally injurious.