The San Francisco call., 1897-04-01

When the dweller in the Mississippi
Valley crawls into cellar 10 escape
cyclone the tioods drive him out; when
he climbs a tree to escape the food a
cyclone blows him off his perch, and there
is no help for him.
The possibility that tho Spanish authori-
ties in Cuba may determine to treat
Rivera as an insurgent bandit and shoot
him affords the United States a good
opportunity to interfere and insist that he
shall be treated as prisoner of war.
A few days ago a statement m ade in the
House of Commons was greeted with a
cry of Tommy Rot" and on Tuesday
- statement made in the House of Repre-
sentatives was met with CRY of rats"
so between the two bodies parliamentary
honors are even.
At the coming exposition in Paris the
French will take up the Chicago idea of
parliament Of religion, but will carry it
further by providing for an exhibit as far
as possible of the work which has been
done by the various religions of the earth
for the benefit of humanity.
1t is believed in some quarters that
Cleveland went duck-shootlng after leav-
ing Office simply to escape the trouble of
house moving and laying the carpets in
his new place at Princeton. Mrs. Cleve-
land having now finished that work,
Grover is expected to return soon.
There was fierce prize-fght in New
York on Tuesday night despite the efforts
of rival pugilistic club to prevent ii by
injunction, but the New York papers will
continue to turn up their noses at Nevada
and talk bout the depravity of a COM
munity which permits such things.
The dedication OF the Grant monument
in New York is designed to be one of the
greatest and most imposing ceremonies
ever held in the United States. The
Eastern papers give large amount of
space to the preparations being made for
II, and everything promises that the OBJ
servance of the day will be National In its
scope.
1t Is reported tnat some of the people
whose orange groves in Florida were de-
stroyed by the great frost few years ago
have now come to the conclusion that the
frost was a blessing, as it compelled them
strawberries, out of which they are now
making twice as much as they ever made
on oranges.
The proposed pure food congress to be
held April 80 should be attended by in
fuential delegates from all parts of the
State. The business to be considered by
the congress concerns every home and it
is desirable that the people should work
together to put an end to the sale of
adulterated food products in any portion
of California.
The first two months of the present year
are said to have been more disastrous to
marine insurance men than any similar
period in twenty years. 1t is estimated
that British companies alone have lost
over two million sterling on shipwrecks
during Jan nuary and February. While it
promises TO be- year of prosperity 10 land
industries it has opened very gloomily
for those of the deep sea.
An Ohio factory is said to have received
orders from England for $4,000 pairs of
shoes, and OF course the free-traders will
quote it as a proof that protection to the
shoe industry is not necessary. The peo-
pie will rememb ber. however, it took many
years Of protection to build up our big
shoe factories in opposition to the cheap
labor of England, and they will not be
inclined 10 tear it down now that we are
about TO beat the British in their own
market.
"A striking illustration of the advan-
tages of a protective tariff was re-
Gently given by DalzelI of PennsyI-
vania by contrasting the conditions
of life for workin gmen in Sheffield and
Pittsburg-two cities which are rivals In
many branches Of industry. In the Eng
lish city there are penury, low wages,
ignorance and lack of culture, while in
the American city there are Tree schools,
high wages, independence and intelli-
gence. If these conditions are to be
changed, said Dalzell, it should be by
bringing Sheffield up to the standard of
Pittsburg and not by bringing Pittsburg
down to the level OF Sheffield.