The San Francisco call., 1896-11-24

Seattle has had a change of weather. but
as it was from rain to snow she calls
it q cold deal.
Don't be too flippant in ridiculing the
airship; you may wish to be in it your
self some day.
THANKSGIVING and charity were born
TWINS, and never look so we'll as when
travelling together.
British ship captains assert that Califor.
MIA weather is conundrum, and we are
prepared TO admit it.
If the assessors can give US a good tax
reform scheme they will fill very long
felt want and the public will rejoice.
Cabinet making is> pleasant task for
the outsider, but it is safe 10 say McKin-
ley is not finding it an unqualified snap.
If the people in the country have had
enough rain they can count on US in the
City to join them in agitating for change.
1t will be quite proper for Cleveland to
take his body abroad when he leaves
Office, for his ideas have been very much
abroad long time.
Since BRYAN has declared the results of
his hunting trip were satisfactory let us
hope he Will stick to the sport. The
country can spare him.
There can be no conservative protection,
as the american Economist very justly
says. except a protection that conserves
every American industry.
According TO the official count McKin-
ley ran behind the Republican State
ticket in Indiana, but al the same he dis
tanced Bryan by about 5000.
The collapse of the nail trust is another
proof that competition is more effective
than Government supervision for the
breaking down of monopolies.
It seems conceded that the Dingley bill
will not De in it this winter. Neither side
is in mood for compromise, and we may
expect an extra session and a straight
fight.
As Secretary Morton has saved $3.50 900
in his department this year he will have
thanks for that much, but all the same
the country would rather have had the
department run better.
If the Kaiser has nothing else to fret
about than insults to his uniforms he
must be happy man, but the chances
are he is using that merely as counter
irritant for deeper evils.
The Alabama legislator who has pro-
posed bill to forbid women wearing
bloomers or shirtwalsts is living proof
that the fool-killer has not visited his Sec
tion during this generation.
The only consolation we had yesterday
was in the fact the Weather Bureau pre-
dicted fair weather for San Francisco, and
accordingly we had warning to take our
umbrellas when we went out.
Although Philadelphia claims to repre-
sent the sobriety and honesty of Ameri-
can life, she is making more charges of
election frauds against her own people
than any other city In the Union.
Carlisles scheme of increasing the rev.
enue by raising the tax on beer will find
very little support from Congress or the
country We can raise revenue best by
A Kansas chicken can ming factory has
received an order from Rhode Island for
wish bones in lots of 1000, and now the
Kansans are wondering what the Rhode
Islanders are wishing for at that rate.
The goId-standard e-traders will
please take notice that the Republican
party is SO grateful for their assistance in
the campaign it will not put them to the
further trouble of offering advice about
the tariff.
According to the report of Miss Clara
Barton, there are upward of 200, 600 peo-
pie in Armenia who are destitute of raj
ment, fire and food; and still the powers
of Christian Europe are quarreling over
diplomacy instead of uniting for human
ity.
1t is reported that in Topeka, town of
$4,000 inhabitants, there are 400 aban-
doned wives who have applied to charita-
BILE institutions for support, and it would
seem hat the men of Kansas are getting
altogether too gay with matrimony as
well as politics.
The members of the Armenian Revolu-
tionary Society who engaged in free
fight with knives at Lynn on Sunday
ought to be sent home by the Armenian
Relief Society of New England. There is
pressing need of knife fighters in Ar
menia and none at all here.
The report of a Russian scheme to or
ganize an international board to regulate
the price of wheat is the biggest diplo-
matte novelty of the season, but discus
sion of it in this country will be confined
to those who do not care how much wear
and tear they put on their hats.
The report that Japan wishes to take the
Philippines from Spain has probably very
little foundation beyond the fact that the
japanese know Spain cannot rule the m
much longer and are determined to take
them before any one else does. The case
is not widely different from that OF the
United States and Cuba.