The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Predict fair weather, but don't bet on it.
Back of the lon gest storm there is al
ways our genial climate.
The hotel men should stay with US long
enough to see the clouds roll by.
Los Angeles did well, but popular inter-
est now turns to the next festival.
After the rain there will be lots of hay
for the makers when the sun shines.
Eastern experts are predicting this will
be great year for bicycIers because spring
came in as a scorcher.
If there were no knaves in the syndicate
bond deal somebody in the administration
was one of the biggest fools that ever held
Office.
Strong men who lift horses will soon be
back mum bers. There is fellow expected
at New York circus who promises to lift
a full-grown elephant.
1t is reported that ambassador Bayard
is undergoing treatment in London for
deafness, and perhaps he hasn't yet heard
that resolution of censure.
1t is worth noting that the British treas
ury statement showing a surplus made no
mention of the claim for indemnity which
Kruger put on file some time ago.
From the quietness of the Soudan it
seems the dervishes have decided to wait
for the British, and the British have con-
cluded to let them wait Indefinitely.
The latest political term to come into
use in the East is 'goddlewoddle. and is
used to signify a class of statesmen of
whom Cleveland is a shining example.
The language of Carlisle's speech at
Chicago was addressed to workingmen,
but the sentiment and argument went
home to the goldbugs and stayed there.
Senator Allen of Nebraska having de-
clined TO be a candidate for the Populist
Presidential nomination, perhaps Mrs.
Lease Of Kansas may be man enough to try.
No Democrat has as yet begun an open
contest for the Presidential nomination,
but good many OF them are urging their
friends to make point of dropping in at
Chicago.
There are some people who prophesy
we shall have six Presidential tickets in
the field this year and all of them red hot,
except the Prohibitionist of course, which
will stick to cold water.
According to George Gould the greatest
needs of the country at this time are the
fixed establishment of the gold standard
and more favorable legislation TO railroads,
and if he wishes to run for President on
that platform he is welcome to try il.
Democracy is not willing to talk of the
money question, for it is divided on that;
nor of the tariff, for that has ended in
deficit; nor OF the administration, for of that
it is ashamed. In fact Democracy has no
use for its tongue this year except to swear
with.
1t is not possible to give the Eastern
people series of weekly lectures on Cali
fornla to educate them on the conditions
that prevail here, but it is easy enough to
do the next best thing by sending to all
your friends among them The WEEKLY
CALL.
As criminologist who has examined H.
ID. Holmes with the kymogrion, the
@sthesiometer, the thermesthesiometer
and the algometer has pronounced him the
greatest criminal on record there will be
no longer any doubt that his confession
was fake.
Although 1895 was a dull one in many re-
spects, the output of iron in this country,
according to the Engineering and Mining
Journal, was the greatest on record,
amounting to 9, ,3o8 long tons, and put
ing this country in the position of the
leading iron producing nation of the
world.
TO men who are old enough to recall the
state of public feeling of forty years ago it
must be strange thing that a Senator
representing the radical sentiment of
South Carolina should be greeted with en-
thusiasm by the radicals of Kansas Surely
when the boiling of Carolina blood makes
Kansas bleed in sympathy it is evident
that the Union moves and the people
with it.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat, in
weather report from Bloomington, ILL.,,
for April IL and II, says on the former day
the ground was covered six to eight inches
deep with ice and snow. The mercury
was down to 80 degrees above, wita Bit
ter north wind. The roads and streets re-
sounded with the music of sleighbells. 1t
was the severest April snowstorm known
in fifty-tive years. The next day the mer-
curry rose to 80 degrees early in the morn
ing, and went up four or five points before
noon. The air was moist and sitting, and
great discomfort was the result. A nice
country that-full of picturesque diversity
and the pleasing variety that is the spice
of life, but all the same people who desire
solid and continuous comfort had better
come to California.