The San Francisco call., 1897-03-29


sight without even a, thud to attract at
tention.
Choose your partners" says King
George to the powers, "the dance Is about
10 begin"
Salisbury is a wise man in one respect.
He has made no attempt to answer Glad.
stones letter.
The pure food law was intended for the
prosecution of rogues and not for the
persecution of innocent dealers.
The attitude of Kaiser William on the
Cretan question is a good deal like that of
an irritated child who won't play.
The surest way TO get the best bargains
of the spring trade is TO read THE CALL
advertisements and find out where they
are.
Chicago leads the East in spring move
are already complaining that mad dogs
are rushing the season.
TO the Senate, and it will not be long be-
fore we know whether we may expect its
enactment by May l or not until some
time next fall.
1t is already noted in Washington that
whereas Cleveland was maker of strife,
Mckinley is q peacemaker. The one In
terfered with legislation, but the other
will promote it.
1t will be noticed there is peace in Crete
everywhere except at the ports where the
powers are disturbing the situation by
trying to impose a sort OF peace to which
the people object.
The longest word in the English Ian
guage is isproportionableness and yet it
hardly serves to express the relation of
Democratic talk against the tariff bill and
the amount of sense they utter.
The country could well afford to have
the new tariff rushed through by May /.
1t would be better to lose great deal Of
Congressional oratory than to lose the
revenues for two or three months.
Congress are more like talking against
time than fighting the tariff bill. AS a
matter of fact they have killed a good
deal of time, but they have not hurt the
bill.
The rush to get imported goods into the
country will swell the revenues this
month and for the month to come and
Al 4
clare the Wilson tariff has been vindi-
Gated.
It is now said that within two years
through trains will be running on the
Siberian railway, and after that the man
who takes eighty days to go round the
world will be regarded as passenger in y
slow coach.
In all the States where the Legislatures
are still In session attempts are being
made to prevent kaleidoscope exhi bitions
OF the Carson prizefght, and the Nevada
industry may yet lose a good deal OF the
advertising it expected.
The crisis in the Levant has fastened
the coming of the inevitable conflict be-
rope, and every nation will find it an
internal as well as an International dis
turbance before it is over.
The Mississippi seems determined to
sweep the whole country this year from
st. Paul to New Orleans, and if the Mis-
souri, should take a notion to rise at the
same time the chances for universal
regatta would be exceptionally good.
The statement OF Congressman Slayden
OF Texas, "The tariff is business natter
and can see no reason why the people ot
my district should not share In its ads
vantages," is so sensible that there ii
good reason for wondering how he can be
q Democrat.
The Commercial AduertiSer OF New York
has Obtained the opinions of the presi-
dents of the principal universities and
colleges in the East on '.yeliow journal
ism," and the vigor of their denunciatiens
encourages the hope that the evil will
soon be suppressed by the force of public
opinion.
Up to date not a single one of the great
powers that has q warship at Crete has
expressed satisfaction with what has been
done there. Each nation is trying to
throw the blame on the others, and if the
situation continues much longer the con-
cert will end in something like Demo
cratic ward meeting.
As Mr.. Huntington expects the gap ID
the coast road to be closed this year, it
will not be long before the great tide of
travel to San Francisco from the south
will enter the City at the depot at Fourth
street. 1t is time, therefore, to begin the
work of improving that street to Market,
so that the entrance 20 the City will not
make bad impression upon visitors.