The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-03-24

BRAN(n OFFtCESs
SGT MONTGOMERY street, corner Clay; open until
$50 O'Clock.
$50 Hayes street: open until $3.50 O'Clock.
615 Larkin street: open until 80 O'Clock.
SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open
entil O'clock
2blS Mission street; open until o'clock.
l67 Ninth street; open until O'Clock.
1905 Polk street. open until 8 80 O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE:
e0S Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE,
Rooms 81 and SO, 81 Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTz, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
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WEDNESDAY. ..............M MARCH "a. 1897
Put up money for the boulevard.
Congress sees a surplus in sight.
1t may be free Cuba sure enough before
the year closes.
or the minority report on the Dingley
tariff it may De truly said it is platitude.
The agitation for the Federal building
will keep on until the building itself is
started.
The tariff debate is not drawing crowded
houses at Washington, but all the same it
tends 10 prosperity.
Let Us promptly assure the completion
of the boulevard ana then we can 90 for
ward to other things.
This kind of weather will put fine
bloom on the coming festivals and get
everybody ready 10 enjoy them.
The great powers are acting as agents
for the Sultan, and will probably clean
him out before they get through.
The movement for q new constitution is
one in which we can afford 70 make haste
slowly. There is plenty of time.
The new tariff promises to yield sur
plus of revenue, and accordingly We can
resume the good Republican policy of pay
ing off the National debt.
The Democrats in Congress have re-
sumed the work of opposition in the old
way, and are once more busiiy engaged
in denouncing the surplus.
The construction of the boulevard is the
most notable municipal enterprise now
before the people, and every prosperous
citizen should take pride in assisting 1t.
Bryan's gift OF ons-half the income from
his book to the B:metallic Union sounds
liberal, but was probably intended only
as a contribution to campaign fund for
his personal benefit.
The Democratic charge that the Dingley
tariff will raise an excessive revenue is
certainly one which was never made
against the Wilson tariff, and to that ex-
tent we have a new issue.
About the time the Eastern poet feels
inspired TO sing, Come, Gentle Spring."
tie weather breaks loose with snowstorms,
foods and billiards and the rapture of the
singer is frozen within him.
The letter which Blanther had mailed
from Atlanta to throw the police off the
track was one of the means by which he
was traced, and thus we have another evil
dence oil the folly of letter-writing.
cause of the blockade of Crete European
diplomatists would have so difficult a
conundrun to answer that they would
feel inclined to give up the whole thing.
Reports from Georgia show that the
Sunny South is as subject to cyclones as
any other part of the East: and once
more the country is reminded that the
Inc Hnn flo o1i SO
the Pacific Coast.
1t is strange that man OF Blanther's
knowledge of the world should have tried
to hide himself in a village where every
man is necessarily known to his neigh
bors. The only place where obscurity
can be found is large city.
1t is said that many Spaniards favor
the abandonment OF further ate pts to
conquer Cuba, provided Spain is paid an
indemnity for the island, and, perhaps,
peace may yet be arranged on those terms.
The indemnity, however, should not be
large. The possession which Spain has of
Cuba just now is not worth much of any
body's money.
The announcement from Washington
that the blockade of Crete is not likely to
affect our Government beca use we have
no merchant ships trading in that part of
the world may be comforting, but it is
not to our credit. Our merchant vessels
should be known in every quarter of the
globe and wherever We have commerce
our ships should be.
Americans imprisoned by Spanish au-
thorities in Cuba are being rapidly re-
leased, and before long all of them may
be free again. In fact with the incoming
of new administration at Washington
General Weyler has adopted new policy
at Havana and there is reason to believe
the occurrence of the two changes at the
same time is something more than a coin
cidence.
The banquet to be given to Senator
Morehouse by his constituents in San Jose
will be a weIl-deserved tribute to legisla.
TOR whose services have been distinguished
bv fidelity not only to his own district,
but to the whole State. 1t is altogether
right and fitting that some public testi-
monial should be given of the esteem OF
the people for such representative, and
the banquet therefore will be most ap-
propriate one in every respect.
The ceremonies at the cele bration OF
the centenary of the birth of William
show an intent on the part of the Kaiser
To impress upon the German people that