The San Francisco call., 1896-02-26
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

WEDNESDAY ..........~FEBRUARY 20. 1896
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Morgan's voice is decidedly for war. He
not only wishes to free Cuba, but to fight
Spain.
The garment-makers' strike is spreading
and the clothes of last spring will be much
worn this season.
Business has evident tly grown weary of
waiting on The Senate and pegun to strike
out on revival OF its own.
Huntington's nephew did not go to
Frankfort, but he did 60 to Cincinnati, and
that is within wire pulling distance.
This would be good time for the Saliva
tion Army to get rid of the Booth system
and elect commander by an open vote
In the game of bluff between Budd and
Irish it seems that Irish undertook to
straddie the blind and Budd raised him.
For one day more there is flutter in the
Democratic camp of the Olney boom, but
it has not come further west than New
York.
General Booth has converted MANY
man, but it remains to be seen whether he
can teach his son Ballington the wisdom
of resignation.
The Government has ordered suits for
land-grant forfeitures against the Union
Pacific Railway and the end of the monop-
oily draws near.
Democracy can turn away from the old
racket of the Junta and Buckley crowd
now and watch with interest the Budd
and Irish miX-up.
If Senator Perkins is not candidate for
the Vice-Presidency he ought to be, for it
is time for California TO begin reaching for
some of the top persimmons.
The trouble with the booms of Whitney,
Olney and Pattison is that all parties
recognize this is going to be good year
to put up Western candidates.
Now that American miners are going to
Venezuela, Uncle Sam may decide to ef-
fecrually arbitrate the dispute over the
gold-bearing territory by taking possession
of it.
If the persistent energy which Nicaragua
expends on her numerous revolutions
were set to ditch-digging we should have
the grand canal before long and have it
cheap.
The report that Mrs. Hoyt is jealous OF
one of the ladies in 1.-THE .Contented
Woman" Company only emphasizes the
fact that the play of that name is scream
ing farce.
The proposed international bank now
under discussion by the House Committee
on Banking sounds we'll, but it should be
examined under the cathode ray before it
is adopted.
The Searles interest in the Central Pa
cific is willing to compromise on fifty
years refunding scheme, but then Sesrles
didn't work as hard for his money as
Huntington did.
AS Senator Hill is still strenuously OBJ.
iecting TO an investigation OF the Cleve-
land bond deals the presumption is that he
knows more about them than be wishes
the public to know.
AS Venezuela now insists that the Brit
ish shall have none of the disputed terri
tory at all, it is clear the eagle scream has
set the Spanish-American game cock to
Growing its loudest.
If the goldbugs force OIney on the
Democratic convention the rank and file
of the party will probably be willing to
carry him through the campaign proyid-
ing they can carry him on a rail.
The trouble in the Salvation Army seems
to be nothing more than /. family quarrel
among the younger Booths, and when the
old general comes home from India he
had better bring a shingle with him.
While Russia was no doubt sincere in
saying she has sent troops to Korea
simply to protect the independence of the
country, she would not Ike any other ma
ton to join in the philanthropic work.
While the Cleveland administration and
the deficit tariff are running this country
into debt the British are rejoicing in a sur
plus and debating whether to use it in
paying off the bonded debt or increasing
the navy.
From the complaints made by the Trunk
Line Association against the Southern Pa
cific it seems that Huntington cannot even
keep faith with his allies and is trying to
gouge railroads as well as the people and
the Government.
Attorney Hubbard, representing the
Searles interest, declares the Central Pa
cifc could not have carried out the obliya-
tions of the Reilly funding bill of the last
Congress even if it had been passed. So
there you have it.
To make contract for fifty years with
company whose charter expires in 1911
would be a clear case Of contract that
began as big road, dwindled to bride
path and finally turned into a squirrel
track and ran up tree.
The discovery of number of gambling
rooms run by women in the fashionable
quarter of st. Louis is but another evil
dence that the new woman is no longer
content to use matrimony as her only