The San Francisco call., 1896-03-18


Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTz, Special Agent
WEDNESDAY MARCH 49, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
1t was a good day for st. Patrick and
everything was lovely.
If King Menelek were at ali civilized he
would never lose this chance of making
speech.
The Abyssinian crisis seems liable to
cave in at any moment and engulf all
Europe.
The Supreme Court is with the Ken
lucky company some of the time, but not
all of the time.
The Democratic State Committee GER
,ainly ripped the local fight up the back,
but failed to kill it.
The Junta will find profit in shearing
the Buckley lambs, but bigger and safer
one in skinning them.
If the Cubans do not quit burning towns
they will not leave enough OF the island
for anybody to recognize.
Senator Cannon of Utah began his Sena-
torial career by firing hot shot at Hoke
Smith and the target was riddled.
If Kentucky Democrats had their way
there would be very little difference be-
q
party.
Since the recent experience with the
State Committee Buckley's little lambs
have grown just about old enough to feel
sheepish.
The funding scheme has been so weak
ened in committee it will hardly be able
TO get into the House, much less pass
through it.
England will march into Central Africa
TO help Italy out, and perhaps Russia will
take a hand with Abyssinia to bounce
England out.
As that distinguished Kentuckian, Jack
Chinn, is less famous for talking than for
cutting, he should get his name changed
to Jack knife.
As the game looks at present Mckinley
is standing pat on protection and Allison
is going him one better as the champion
of protection and reciprocity.
People who once thought Quay's candi-
dacy was only joker have now had time
to remember that the Joker sometimes
takes the last trick and wins the game.
In placing the grand Gordon of the Order
of st. George upon the breast of King
Menelek the Gar has shown his hand and
Europe sees it is against the Dreibund and
almost ready for war.
The Southern Pacific victory in Ken
tucky has been more than offset by the
peoples victory in the Supreme Court.
The monopoly keeps its charter, but Cali
fornia can collect taxes.
Carlisle has written q letter on the
money question, but as no one can make
head or tail of it, there is no telling
whether it was intended as an entrance to
the Presidential campaign or back out.
troversy has got far enough along for the
British Embassador and the venezuelan
Minister to meet with Olney at dinner and.
diplomacy has achieved another triumph.
From the promptness with which all
leading Democrats are declining the Presi-
Dental nomination it seems evident that
for that party at any rate it is going to be
a yellow dog year by the mere force of cir
cumstances.
AS the Supreme Court has held that
California can collect taxes from railroads
within her borders, there is reason to ex-
pect it will also sustain the right of the
State Railroad Commission to regulate
freights and fares within the State.
Notwithstanding the protests from the
provinces the French Chamber of Deputies
has approved the scheme for an inter-
national exhibition in 1900. and now if
France can only keep the peace of the
world until that time Paris will have her
show.
The expedition up the Nile seems foolish
and is sure to be costly. but after his re-
cent experience of the isolation of Eng
land Lord Salisbury may be willing to pay
even greater price than that for the sake
of getting into touch with the Dreibund
and having allies in time of need.
Though there are no new developments
in the funding bill fight, and though Mr..
Huntington seems to have concluded to
keep his mouth shut for while at least,
there are still urgent reasons why the
people should bear the fight in mind.
When the monopoly is most silent is the
time when the people should be most
watchful.
As an illustration of the way the Demo-
cratic tariff is helping farmers it is worth
noting that the wool shipments from
Great Britain to the United States aggre-
gated over 13, 1000 900 pounds last January
against little more than 6,70O,O0O during
that month of the previous year. That
much of trade was lost to our sheep-raisers
and the foreigner got it.
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