The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-02


will. be to detail every able bodied man in
the City TO attend to the job.
1t will take a.good deal of evidence to
convince Mckinley that the rush to the
Klondykeis any biggeror any hercer than
the rush: to Washington last March.
The professional agItator is not getting
half as much hearing in the country now
as the commercial traveller. Business is
doing the only talking the people wish to
hear.
One of the magazines of the month has
an article entitled, why the Wave of
Prosperity Has Not Materialized." 1t is
to- be presumed the editor had taken
month eff.
:. The Democrats of Ohio have decided to
make barbecue campaign this year, as
that is the only way for them to carry out
their desire to reduce the mum Der of cattle
and sheep in the State.
A falling off in the consumption OF beer
in Chicago is attributed to bicycle riding,
but it would have been more reasonable if
tbs falling from bicycl in that city had
been attributed to the consumption of
beer.
:. There; may not be so many bargains in
:: the shop windows this fall as in the wears
: of depression, but the people will have
more money to buy what is offered, and
the change will be counted good bargain
for all.
:: The crusade for good roads has begun
: anew in the East, and the people seem to
have seeded to quit fighting the railroads
until they have provided themselves with
a means of getting at them without
: wading through the mud.
Some of the leading Democratic papers
in ohio;are informing the rank an d file of
. the party that John R. Mclean is not a
Democrat at all but only the leader of the
Mclean party, and what is more, they
are proving it by the records.
When one man kills another in
drunken quarrel, every one promptly
points the: moral as a warming against
whisky but now one Kentuckian has
killed another in a dispute as to which.
should drop money in a church contribu-
q
moral In: the affair at all.
The. Topeka State Journal is right
enough in saying, There is room in this
wide world for both Mrs. Lease and Kan
sas,". but what grinds US is that both
insist:on staying in the United States and
I disturbing the country by trying to occupy
the same place at the same time. One or
the other should move of.
The career of boy Bailey" as leader of
the Democratic party in Congress has
thus faribeen inglorious, and is likely to
be short. He seems himself to be aware
OF the fact, and is making big bids for the
seat now held by Senator Mills, and ia
making the summer season anything but
holiday for that stalwart champion of
free wool in Texas.
1t is said that among the changes likely
to be. made in the. postal service by the
. new PostmasterGeneral will be. one re-
curing registered letters TO be inclosed in
stout hnen-lined envelopes to be issued
by the Government. This would be the
adoption of custom which has proven
beneficial in England, and would not be
an experiment so much as certain i'm
proVement.
According to Labouchere, Great Britain
has submitted to the rule OF Victoria with
loyalty because. being a woman, she is
well fitted for the ornamental function
of reigning," but when man assumes
the throne and puts on the fuss and
feathers, there is going to be a rapid
development of republicanism in the
three Kingdoms and perhaps speedy
evolution of a republic.