The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
FROM GREATER NEW YORK
Bud get Of Interesting News. and Gossip
About the California Colony in the
Eastern Metropolis
MSTlEW YORK, N. Y, March 1.-War |!
fNR war! war! is the watchword, catch
lL lLNXlA word and huwnrd of eyaru man

MSTkEW YORK, N. Y, March War |!
4NE war! war! is the watchword, catch
LSXS word and byword OF every man,
woman and child in this great cosmopois.
War with Spain on account of the
dastardly insults and brutal treatment
our own citizens have suffered at the
hands of Spanish officials in the bleeding
and dying isle of Cuba.
War against the ring of bloated monopo-
lists and prom oters of trusts"
War against the rich man, his wife and
children, and even his sisters and his
cousins and his aunts.
War against the poor folks, who shiver
in their rags and beg for work until neces-
sity and hunger drive them to stealing
and killing. The Door are always sure of
one shelter, one little space of repose, and
when pride is lost in the dizzy brain, the
prison cell looks from afar, like fairy
palace filled with enchanted beings. A
policeman seems like one of the good genii,
and his rough grasp seems to the starving
wretch like the gentle guiding hand of an
angel. Oh, the poor of great cities are as
the lean rats in the haunted castles of the
Rhine! Pity theml
War has broken out among the noble
ministers of the holy gospel. and like a
lot of magpies they are arguing and de-
batting such "weighty" () subjects as
Jonah's restful days inside the narrow
stomach of a whale. AS a whales throat
is remarkably small some of the blushing
wiseacres declare that it was a shark s
stomach in which Jonah SO peacefully
reposed until said shark was harpooned
(or something like thaD and Jonah was
permitted to step out upon the sandy
beach and return to his friends and
kindred. a number of sober bro wed
clergymen have boldly stepped forward
and called the whole story bad little
naughty white lie." But what's the use ?
Perhaps Jonah-well, it's deep subject,
ana my plummet will not serve 10 fathom
the dense depths.
Then there is war begun against the
laws of marriage. Some poor deluded
legislator, yearning for popular notoriety,
has introduced bill in the New York
Legislature making 1t necessary for a
prospective bridegroom to make formal
application at the clerks office several
days before the marriage license is
granted. Think of couple of hearts
throbbing and bursting with love having
to walt days before the marriage cere.
mony can be legally performed! Mar
riage shoulo be encouraged, not dis
couraged. Many young couple would
run out and be married and live happy
ever after ii it were not the custom to
have gay wedding bells and frui;-cake and
old shoes filled with rice. and 10, of USE
less articles called a trousseau and the
''biess-you-m children ceremony to
wade through. Let the young folks
marry when they please, how they please
and wherever they please. The world
needs more marriages. The welfare of
this great land depends upon the legal
union of true lovers and gentle sweet
hearts. Discourage these comforta BILE
bachelor clubs frown on the ''asso-
ciated leagues of bachelor maids and
widows" and make those mateless ones