The San Francisco call., 1897-03-31

is m ucn WOrk 10 De uOue YET anu many
men who need it.
The Greeks might agree to Salisbury's
plan of neutral zone between them
selves and the Turks provided it were
drawn somewhere in Asia Minor.
The Washington. beef trust is accused
of trying to raise the article as high as it
was when the COW jumped over the moon,
but all the same il may end in the soup.
The Governor has signed the bill author
izing the establish ment of free market
on the water front, and now let US get the
movement started and well Under way for
the coming season.
1t is comforting to know that Demo-
cratic oratory is not all the smoke which
has been caused by the new tariff bill.
The reopened factories and mills are fur
nishing great deal of it.
Frozen alcohol is said to be the latest
explosive, and dozen men who were re-
Gently experimenting with it found that a
small glass half full was sufficient to fur
nish bust for ali of them.
The Los Alamitos sugar factory will be
ready to start work in June, and the beets
which are to provide it with material are
growing finely. California is catching on
to the big industry in good shape.
People who think that nothing can be
gained by continuing the agitation for
speedy beginning of the work of construct
ing the new Federal building should ask
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did not agitate it.
Colonel Vassos, who commands the
Greek army in Crete, is one of the best
1wo-handed fighters now before the public.
He holds off the powers with his diplo-
matte left while driving the Turks out OF
the island with his right,
As the Socialists of Berlin who did not
join in exalting the memory of William l
at the recent celebration are said to have
been lying low the inference is that those
who did exalt the royal memory must
have been engaged IN tall lying.
The wooden schedules have been re-
garded as the danger point of the new
tariff, and yet they passed the House with
but two dissenting voices among Repub-
hcans. Another Democratic prediction
has gone to join the cuckoo songs.
The reports of damage done to fruit by
the frost will probably prove in the end to
be exaggerated. As general rule Cali
fornia frosts scare more than they hurt,
and taking the years right through we
manage TO harvest good crop, frost or no
frost.
The war against adulterated and coun-
terfeit food articles ought to improve the
market for fruit thisve When the imi.
taticns are prevented the dealers in genu-
inc articles will have a chance to make
living, and as a consequence more real
fruit will be preserved.
There is TO be no longer Western Pas
senger Association, for that is against the
law, but there is to be Bureau of Passen-
ger Statistics, and the officials of the asso-
citation are to preside over it. How great
is the difference the law can see 'twixt
tweedledum and tweedledee!
1t is said that J. Pierpont Morgan is
backing Daniel Lamont for the presidency
of the Northern Pacific road, and perhaps
other members OF the Cleveland Cabinet
will get equally good positions. Mr.. Nor
gan, it seems, is man who always helps
his friends and pays his debts.
The statement of Secretary Curzon that
England is not siding with the Turks in
Crete was greeted in Parliament with the
cry of Tommy Rot" and while that was
not exactly an expression of Attic wit it
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sion, the place and the subject.
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The Mckinley administration finds
favor at Washington because all the
mem bers of it are accessible 10 the people
at all times. There is none of the red
tape or exclusiveness of the Cleveland
regime, but on the other hand a govern
ment which is American in modes and
manners as well as in name.
Senator Morgan's objection to any act
of Congress which will separate the Gen.
trail Pacific and Union Pacific roads into
two competitive lines is well taken.
1; was the original intention of Congress
that the roads should form great trans
con tinental route 20 connect the East with
the Pacific Coast. and that intention
should now be carried out.
At the request of Democratic Congress
men from Georgia and Alabama protec-
tive duty was voted by the Republicans
of Congress on bauxite or aluminium clay,
and thus another evidence is given that
the new tariff is not sectional bill nor a
party bill, but is designed for the benefit
of all American industries that need pro-
lection from European competition.