The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-20
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Colonel Vassos will now have to leave
Crete or lose the fun, and the choice is
not an easy one.
Sympathy is almost universally on the
SIDE of the Greeks, but the betting seems
to favor the Turks.
1t is an easy prediction that the worse
spells of the present war are going to be
found in names of the battlefields.
Los Angeles will have more beauty this
week than ever before. Quite a number
of San Francisco girls are going to La
Fiesta.
1t will be easy for Los Angeles to see
herself double this week, for the rapture
OF the fiesta will make her a city beside
herself.
Now that the Greeks have entered upon
a campaign with Skouzes as War Minis
ter, let us hope they will not come out OF
1t with excuses
The war in the Levant will probably free
our raisin- growers from the competition
Fresno is in luck again.
The war between Greece and Turkey
will not concern US much. Our duty is to
keep up the work on Balboa avenue and
provide employment for labor.
1t matters little whether the Greeks or
the Turks were the aggressors. The i'm
portant question now is which of the two
will show itself most aggressive.
The gold standard Democratic papers of
the East are almost unanimous in refer
ring 10 the celebration of Jefferson's birth
day by the Bryanites as dissertation of
the day.
There seems good assurance of an alli-
ance between Germany and Russia. but
whether t is an agreement for a mutual
stand-off or to whip some body else is not
SO certain.
1t would be interesting to know whether
Bismarck was riled by Gladstone's letter
denouncing the Kaiser as a youthful
despot," or whether he put it in his pipe
and smoked it.
The scheme by which Cleveland under
took to secure positions for life to all his
cuckoo ofice-holders may be defeated yet.
There Is such thing as taking trick OF
that kind by trumpng it.
Every treaty we have arranged with
England in recent years seems to be full
OF blow-holes, and the best thing the ad-
mlnistration can do is to throw them all
in the waste basket and make a new lot.
The only effect of the retroactive clause
of the Dingley bill that can be surely
counted on is that it will lead the new
tariff straight from the President TO the
Supreme Court as quickly as can be.
If the Servians, Macedonians and AL
banians Join with the Greeks Turkey will
be carved and distributed before next
Thanksg giving, and an immemorial Joke
on that anniversary will be lost to the
American people.
According to a recent report the money
gifts to Yale during the last decade have
averaged 100000 year. and still the
president is asking for more. As little
learning is dangerous he wishes money
enough to supply it in bulk.
Ii the report is true that when asked
his opinion of the Democracy of David
Bennett Hill Mr.. Bryan "relapsed into
silence" it is to be hoped somebody will
ask him the same question from this tim g
on until the country has rest.
1t IS believed that one of the reasons
why Speaker Reed declines to appoint the
committees of the House is that the pres
ent situation gives him means for con-
trolling the unruly embers. Every man
who has enough leadership to aspire to
the chairmanship of q committee looks to
the Speaker for the appointment, and in
the meantime behaves himself.
The PROPOSAL in Kansas to tax "inor.
dinate wealth has raised a discussion
over the meaning OF the term. A degree
OF riches which might be inordinate In
one locality would hardly be a compe.
tence to keep up with the procession in
another. Taking the United States as a
whole no mans wealth can be called
inordinate SO long as there Is a millinery.
store in every town and a new Easter
every year.
To the leaders of the Democratic party
tue new 1Ork Gun says. 100 m ucE
Bryan, gentlemen, from this time on will
mean too few Democratic votes at the
next election" The warning was doubt
less we'll meant. but as it is better for the
country to have too much Bryan rather
than too much Democracy, it is gratifyine
to know it will have no more effect on
Democracy than the buzz of a gad-fy OF
the ears of a donkey.
Senator Allison having been asked
when the tariff bill would probably be
adopted is reported as having replied: al
should say-the middle of June would be
as early as could be expected. The first OF
July may come before it is law" Ii
will be seen from this that but for the
retroactive clause the spectators would
have had great deal of time to import
large stocks of foreign goods under low
duties and thus provide themselves with
big profits at the expense Of the treasury.