The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16

EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80 "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager.
HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Coils will not have a walkover.
The Committee of Fifty takes the war
path.
The street-ighting movement brightens
everything.
The next big work should be the repave-
ment of Market street.
The Committee OF Fifty is prepared to
see the funding bill bluff and call it.
Every day of delay in Christmas shop
ping from this time on will be dangerous.
The work of framing a new tariff has
begun and fortunately California is ready
for it.
The next Dingley bill will not be an
amendment on the old one but something
different altogether.
1t looks as if some OF the Senators were
resorting to Cuban t1libustering to delay
work on home issues.
Tom Watson is making fight for a seat
in Congress, but even if he gets it he won't
sit down half the time.
Burglars are bad, but after all they do
not take as much money out of the town
as the lottery swindlers.
"Long Green" Lawrence should send his
friend carp in search of Durham and
thus give him exercise and the town
rest.
There is such defect in the makeup of
the Cuban sympathizers in the Senate
that they always go off before they are
loaded.
The Grant monument is not all that we
expected, but as it seems to be all that we
were willing to pay for We must accept it
and be satisfied.
Fresno claims to be an epitome of all
California, and what IS more she points to
resources enough to come very near max
ing the claim good.
The Cuban League of the United States
is composed of most estimable gentlemen
and many OF them are eloquent, but what
do they propose to 90?
The stockholders of the Central Pacific
are opposed to Mr.. Huntington's funding
BILL out of course he cares for them no
more than for the rest of the people.
Willie Hearst and Long Green Law
renee have a crow to pick with one an
other over Wyatt Earp's reputation, but
as it is a very dirty crow they will find the
job congenial.
Holiday shoppers need not try to inspect
all the stores in town. By reading our ad-
vertising columns they can see where the
best bargains are and learn exactly where
to go to be suited.
The pursuit of Durham at this season
of the year must be so unpleasant as to
make the officers of the law regret exceed
ingly they were not more active when the
summer time was with them.
The election OF Charles A. Dana as a
vice president of the Cuban League of the
United States will probably save that or
ganization from caustic criticism in the
San for as much as forty days.
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The improved system of lighting pro-
NOTED by the Merchants Association
widens as it brightens, and there is pros
pect that before long the whole central
area of the City will have the benefit of it.
The people will not complain much of
Cleveland's hunting trip this time, for
they know Mckinley will soon be in office
and they are willing the business of the
country should be left for him to attend to.
The first passenger train on the Valley
road from Stockton to Fresno made the
run on Sunday at an average rate of thirty
miles an hour, and competition is now an
established fact. In the San Joaquin the
monopoly is at an end.
1t is seldom we find anything to COM
mend in Senator Allen of Nebraska, but
his indignant refutation of Eastern at
tacks on the West was vigorous and
truthful and will find approval every
where this side of the Alleghanies.
Eastern reports concerning the make up
OF the Mckinley Cabinet are becoming
more definite, and the statements that AL
lison is to be Secretary of State and Ding
ley Secretary of the Treasury may be
verified when the completed work is made
public.
The fight between San Pedro and Santa
Monica, as well as that of the funding
bill, is on, and Huntington has to defend
himself at both points. The people have
the chance therefore of beating him along
the whole line and breaking up his mo-
nopo.y forever.
The legislators-elect of the southern
counties of the State have met and consid-
cred plans for obtaining legislation needed
IN that section. 1t is by such tactics that
the south gains her ends in the State, and
it would be well for the middle and north
ern counties to initiate them.
The advocates of the creation of a Ma
tional Department of Commerce have be-
gun work in Congress, and those who favor