The San Francisco call., 1896-11-17

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DAVID NJ. FOLTZ Eastern Manager.
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
A Secretary of Mines would be popular.
The great industry of the great West
deserves recognition.
Public confidence in Mckinley is shown
by the way business talks.
The Mckinley Cabinet ought to be
larger than Cleyeland's as well as greater.
The Pood prospect for railroad building
means good prospects for all other kinds
of building.
Business is better than charity, but all
the same at this season charity should not
be forgotten.
Make your home a market for home
goods and you will help to make other
homes prosperous.
Bismarck does not talk as much as the
Kaiser, but all the same the Kaiser thinks
he talks too much.
Bryan's speech on Saturday opened the
new cam paign for free silver with sound
as if the hinges were worn out.
The entertainment to be provided
Bryan on his visit to Senator Jones of
Arkansas will probably be ghost dance.
Democracy may possibly get together
again, but it will require the service of
street sweeper to gather up the fragments.
A little while ago we were all expressing
desire for wet winter on this coast and
now Seattle wants the whole thing to
dry up.
Mckinley is certainly a magnetic man.
The business of the whole country feels
the thrill of new movement since his
election.
We have once more reached the season
when the affairs of Turkey excite in
American minds only pleasant and iocose
feelings.
If the assessors convention does no
more than arouse public interest in the
subject OF tax reform it will do good work
and justify its calling.
People who delight in guessing contests
may now amuse themselves in guessing
how many turkeys will be sent to the Nc
Kinley family this year.
However good the poultry show In San
Jose may be it will serve to remind MS we
ought to make better show of the poul-
try industry in this State than we do.
Senator Jones congratulates the Bryan
ties that the late campaign rid the Demo-
cratic party of barnacles, but he overlooks
the fact that it smashed the ship to pieces
in doing il.
There is no danger of war with Spain,
but all the same the coast defenses of the
Nation will be put into better condition at
once. Uncle Sam must be ready for sur
prise parties.
Cleveland is writing his message, Nc
Kinley is making up his cabinet, Con-
gressmen are getting ready their bills,
and before long we will be up to the neck
in politics again.
Cleveland's Commissioners of Navig alton
will recommend the adoption of free
ship bill, but as the people wish ships oi
go to the wastebasket.
Currency reform will be one of the big
rrOhlopns nf tho fnfura on5
fortunately we will have an administra-
tion which can be counted on to solve it
promptly and properly.
Impatient charter makers may console
themselves with the thought that those
who go slowly go safely. The next time
We frame charter We should frame one
the people will support.
Cleveland will spend the rest of his term
trying to get his friends into life positions.
and while there are not many places OF
that kind, there are probably enough for
what friends he has left
If no partisan legislation can be enacted
this winter there will be all the more time
to attend to matters which are not of a
poAtiSoA NhSldOlS4s NOW Is tue Time LC
press the Nicaragua canal bill.
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There seems to be no possibility of the
passage of an adequate revenue bill at the
coming session of Congress. Democracy
has still power enough in the Senate to
play dog in the manger, and is evidently
determined to do it.
1t is to be hoped Milk Inspector Dockery
will be able to completely refute the
charges made against him. He has done
such good work that the people trust him
and expect him to show himself worthy
of their confidence to the end of his term.
Despite the big apple crop IN the Eas,
the demand for California fruit has been
so great that nearly the whole of this sea.
sons product has been shipped already
and the crop of next year will probably
have clean market and good prices wait
ing for it.