The San Francisco call., 1896-01-02

- fledges maze Tor reform last winter are:
still binding. +. /. l.. /
When. q man is trying to. get even he is
not necessarily odd. !. r.
=. To-day the swear-off becomes effective,
:. or at :leastit should:.*;;, -
: :. Public spirit is ID good thing to begin |
..cultivating right now.
!. !. T. l.. We must make. good home market for
: home goods this.year.. =:
:. The, Senate. may be tied in some re-
<spects,: but Tie tongue OF it isn't.
The holidays: are, over and it will be
-. long. g.Stretch~ before. we. see another.
# we are to have a -better-governed City
! we must have better. men to govern it.
This will not be the winter of our dis (
content there will be.no legislature init.
This Congress Will not raise such rue
tion as the last, bat It wiz be iustas lively: !
s: .lfaiiy. people wished Cleveland a happy
\ ew. :Year: but who expects him TO have
:. There are Just. as many problems to be !
solved this year.as if. we had never. solved
any ..-: ~. ..:..:. ~,
The Democratic National Convention is
::still IN the bush il nybody wishes to reach
for It. =. -
4. Last year a good foundation was laid for
the constr uctiye. work OF municipal reform
!: this year.
- Utah will get into the Union in few
-daysand then Oklahoma will begin knock
..ing, al the door. :.
.. Cleveland viii observe. that the green
! back is still doing business and shows no
sign. OF retiring: :. Il
-. :Abont the only things the old year
: eftectually settled. were :Dunraven and the:I
Monroe. doctrine. .*....:
. = California expects Congress to defeat the.
funding bill and hasten the construction
of the Nicaragua canal. = ~::.=-
p ;: We .shalIne7er arrive to the fullness of
the new era until the gold reserve. ceases !
TO be a disturbing issue. -. =.
r. The toughest dilemma of. the time isto
: be in a position where you can neither /
meeta bill nor dodge it,. =. -. ~. =
The year may. yet give: Europe. a sur
prise party and make. the nations dance to !
the sound OF a war drum. =
II the old year has left many fights on.
our hands II has also left us good organ
izations to carry them on.
1t begins to look as if silver would. be the
rising metal this year, and still it will be
a big year for gold mining.
There is noIonger any talk about panics,
and Wall street has evidently determined
to let the revival move along.
The enthusiasm for municipal reform
should be as strong this year as it was last
winter and great deal wiser. -.
Congress is the. frying-pan of politics, |
nut the fat Will be in the fire when the
Republican Convention meets.
" There will be good deal of local finan-
cial talk for the next few days, but it will
o. Il
1t NAV be a new era, but the cobble-
stones, the Solid Eight and bad sewers re-
main with US as three OF kind.
The Grand Jury will. not be working
successor of the old unless it takes up the |
good work and carries it further along.
AS long as Cleveland and Carlisle can |
keep the country talking about bonds they |
will never say anything about the deficit. |
1t may be true as reported that butter |
contains forty times as many microbes as !
oleomargarine, but if SO the microbes are
good.
We are fairly into the Presidential elec.-1
ton year and yet no man is even under
the suspicion of being Democratic can
didate.
Democratic prophecies of coming split |
in the Republican majority IN Congress
are most assuring signs that it won't
happen.
We shall have a festal winter, a carnival
spring. a campaign summer, an election
fall and a rousing Republican year all |
through.
The Senators continue to talk of Vene-
zuega when the people have settled that
question and wish to hear something
about Cuba.
If the Senate is really opposed to an
other issue of Cleveland per cent bonds
it can head the issue off by promptly pass
ing the House bill providing for 8 per
cents.