The San Francisco call., 1896-02-18

EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 3D. "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ Special Agent
TUEsDAY................. IS, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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Paderewski doesn't call it playing.
Arizona may proudly boast thst she has
the sand to stop prize-ight.
The funding bill fight has become warm
enough for even so cool citizen as Hunt
ington to lind it sultry.
The only advice to be given to prize
fighters in these days is to go East and
grow up with the stage.
Up to date the Cleveland loans have
taken almost as much gold out of the re-
serve as they have put into it.
The Senate may be called slow, but the
people will take notice that it has served
as a brake on goldbug legislation.
The extension of Japanese commerce
threatens to overrun Hawaii, and unless
we protect ourselves our turn will come
next.
The Pattison boom is just about as quiet
as any other movement that begins in
Philadelphia and starts toward a grave
yard.
The Senate investigating committee will
find digging into the bond deals virtually
the same as digging the grave of Cleve-
landism.
Between the harsh measures of General
Weyler and the retaliation o: Gomez there
will soon be no non-combatants in Cuba
except the dead.
Quay entered the Presidential race last
week, this week Senator Eiklns comes in,
and there are several more weeks before
the convention meets.
II Oakland had carried out her scheme
OF getting Ysaye to establish a school of
music within her borders she would now
have good card to draw Paderewski.
Those German bimetallists who wish to
know what Cleveland will do may as well
be assured that he will do bimetallism
whenever he can and in apy way he can.
If all the woFkingmen in the country
cannot stand on the platform adopted by
the labor convention iii this City it will not
be for any lack of bigness in the platform.
1t is about time TO get out tally cards of
Republican candidates for the Presidency
The list is too long for the unaided memory
TO keep the record and know how the list
stands.
While such outrages as those OF the
Turks in Armenia and those OF the Span
iards in Cuba are carried on, it would seem
that civilization is purchasing peace at too
high price.
Hawaii has had an earthquake addition
to her volcano, and comes up smilingly
with the assertion that the tourists were
delighted. In these days everything goes
as a novelty.
1t is about time for Pattison OF Pennsyl-
vania to makes speech on the silver ques-
ton, the tariff issue, the Monroe doctrine,
CIevelandism, the third tern. and several
other things.
Ii the report is true that the only obiec-
ton TO our having dispatch boat at Con-
stantlnople comes from Russia it is evident
the bear is hugglng our friendship in too
tight squeeze.
Now that gold mining lis booming and
the output increasing, there is a little
fiutter OF movement among the money
kings to prepare the way for the restriction
OF gold coinage.
With the retirement of the prize-fghters
the only disturbances in sight are the Sen
atorial contest in Kentucky and the fund
ing bill fight in Washington, so the era of
peace is at hand.
Seeing our Venezuelan Commission, the
British Government is talking OF appoint
ing one Of its own, and If so, Venezuela
should appoint one also and make it
three-handed game.
The three things that should be empha-
sized IN the Senate debate on the tariff bill
are that the Government needs revenue
industry needs protection and the peopIe
demand tariff that will supply the needs
of both.
There is prospect that the carnival to
DC gwen pJ tue ATl Institute VIII achieve
success brilliant enough to illume the
popular mind with the idea of having one
next year that will take in the whole CITY
aHd all the merry people.
The discussion of the reported discovery
of the north pole has had the effect of
raising dispute over the existence of the
Jeanette current, and as it always hap
pens in this world, in trying to settle one
problem we have raised another.
According to a report issued by the Duke
of Westminster president of the London
committee of the Armenian Relief Associ
alton, 81 sutfices to supply food in that
country for one person for two months
and from this we can Judge Of the wretch
edness of the people and understand to
what conditions Turkish rule reduces a
subject province.
The French Cabinet has refused to re-