The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-19

Vigorous policies are always in demand.
The Tree market viii help to bring the
home product home to you.
What we call food in California
wouldn't be a freshet in the East.
However loudly money may talk in the
next campaign the deficit will talk louder
One OF the good effects OF the rain has
been to put all the dry winter prophets in
soak.
Now that the Senators have applauded
prayer for free Cuba they should try to
live up to it.
We may now start the festivals, for as
soon as the sunshine returns the flowers
will be ready.
Spain has saved Campos by recalling
him and she can save his army by pursu-
ing the same tactics.
The war furries are about over and the
big controversies are settling into shape
for debating society topics.
So long as Canada keeps up her church
quarrels there will be very little annexation
talk on this side of the line.
The strife between the British and the
Beers promises to give the native African
q show in his own country.
America for Americans" means at this
juncture that America will protect her
citizens all round the world.
A vigorous foreign policy on the part of
this country is not war, but it must be
carried into Africa Just the same.
1t was a bad mistake of Kruger to mix
American miners up with British raiders
and he must be made to sort them out
again.
The arrest OF American miners gives
Olney a chance to show his hand ia the
affairs OF Transvaal by putting his foot
down.
From the eagerness with which some
people discuss them one would suppose
that scandals are the greatest of novelties
in society,
The Democratic city committee of Boston
paign, and. consequently, is in good shape
to indorse Grover.
Harrison must have been something
more than a receptive candidate in the
matrimonial market, or else the leap year
was lucky for him.
A new aspirant for fame has risen up to
declare the American people suffer more
from the drug habit than they do from
either alcohol or tobacco.
Mrs. Grumpy owes it to society to an
nounce at once whether leap-year pro-
posals are to be regarded as uItimatums or
only as diplomatic hyperbole.
Even if the flying squadron of Great
Britain should come to the West Indies it
would be only a Dunraven trip, for it could
take no prizes in these waters.
The next Pan-American Congress should
consider the question of a Pan-American
tariff along with other plans of the kind to
unite the nations OF this hemisphere.
The courtesies of the Presidential cam
paign have begun early for Governor Nor
ported wig instead of homegrown hair.
Cleveland should deal with the Trans
vasl Government direct and not through
the medium of England. If Kruger is
sovereign enough to arrest American citi-
zens he is also sufficiently sovereign to be
held responsible and made to turn them
loose.
Professor Francis B. Croker, the we'll
known inventor, claims that electrical
mechanism has now reached point where
1t is possible to supply large cities with all
necessary power, heat and light from
dynamos ten miles away, thus avoiding
the use of coal and enabling the most
crowded communities to have an atmos-
phere free from smoke and SCOT.
New York has always supposed herself
to be the shipping port for all the grain
that comes down the lakes to Buffalo but
it now appears that while the grain re-
ceipts at the lake city were $4,000 600
bushels more in the year 1895 than in the
year 1880, the receipts at New York were
about 46, 200, 900 bushels less last year than
they were fifteen years ago.
1t is generally supposed that some of all
kinds of people are out of work in New
York, but an artist who wished a model
and advertised for tall, distinguishes
looking gentleman, about 40, aristocratic
face, stylish clothes, for series of illustra-
tons, liberal compensation, - failed to get
him. There may be men of that kind out
OF Job, but they do not pose as models.
The Galveston-Dallas News has issued a
handsome supplement giving portraits OF
the staff of the paper, and in addition
thereto notable array of men and women
of Texas who have been subscribers and
readers of the Neous for forty years or more.
The number of these old subscribers is
quite large, and all of them have the hearty
look which proves that the Ners must be
very healthy reading.