The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21

We are all for free Cuba.
1t was glorious mass-meeting.
The voice of San Francisco is eloquent.
Take drive to-day and see the new
boulevard.
Democrats in Congress have begun bark
ing at the new tariff, but perhaps they
won't bite.
We are now about ready to give atten-
ton to carnivals and festivals and be Joy
Gus all round.
Jeter's vote on the coyote bill is a very
good thing on which to give the Supreme
Court chance to render decision.
There is a good prospect of getting a
higher duty on Zante currapts and one
more California industry brightens up.
The trouble with the European concert
is that the diplomatists made the mistake
of organizing it exclusively of prima DON
mas.
The odor of a coyote scalp comes very
near being perfume in comparison with
that of the scandal that has been raised in
connection with it.
By giving a right of way for the new
boulevard ex-Mayor Sutro has conferred
another benefit upon San Francisco and
made the people proud to claim him as
fellow-c citizen.
When the farmers have succeeded in
getting the insect pests out of their field,
and orchards they will have to whirl in
ard run the adulterated food pests out of
their home markets.
San Fra ncisco stands with her sister
cities of the Union and shares with them
a desire for Cuban independence and a
resolve that American citizens shall be
protected both at home and abroad.
A correspondent says mckinley has
been in Office only two weeks and yet We
are shipping Hay to England and Porter
to France. Now what can the free-traders
and Democrats say against our export
business?'
The mem bers of the bsst clubs in the
East have begun to exclude decadent
Journals from their club reading-rooms as
well as from their homes and the crusade
for decency and legitimate journalism
goes bravely on.
The experience of New York with non
partisan police board is convincing proof
that such a board is liable to have so
many cross grained spiinters in it that no
one can sit on it with any comfort and
hardly with any dignity.
The selection of good after-dinner
speakers for En- bassadors to France and
to England is fairly satisfactory, but
when it comes to selecting Minister to
Spain we must have man who can talk
well before dinner.
It looks now as if there would evolve
out of the Greek crisis an alliance of Eng
land, France and Italy against Germany,
Russia and Austria. That would make a
good fight, with the odds in favor oi
Greece and freedom.
According to Congressman Loud there
is good prospect of getting the new Fed
eral building started early in the summer
if we work together in this City. 1t is to
that end, therefore, we must direct our
efforts. To have prosperity We must have
harmony.
All Americans agree with the Republi
can National platform: I'VE watch with
deep and abiding interest the hero bat.
lie o! the Cuban patriots agains; cruelty
and oppression, and our best hopes go out
for the full success of their determined
contest for liberty
As New York woman has obtained
Judgment for $4,000 damages against
another woman for stealing her husband s
affections it is evident the courts of that
State know about what the average man
is worth 10 his wife and do not intend to
underrate the article.
It is an era OF peace. Itis true there are
wars in Cuba, Crete. Armenia, the Philip
pine and the Caroline islands, while the
British are slaughtering negroes in South
Africa and the Russians are Staying .he
wild tribes cf Central Asia; but still it is
an era of peace. The diplomatists say So.
Although a majority of the Texans
voted against the party of protection and
prosperity they are laying plans to enjoy
the benefits OF the new era, and as a
means to that end it is proposed to submit
to the people a constitutional amend
ment exempting many kinds of manu-
factories from taxation for ten years.
1t is reported that since the beginning oi
the present year the orders sent to the
mills for steel rails exceed by over 10000
tons the total output OF rails during the
whole twelve months of last year. This
evidence of returning prosperity should
convince even the most persistent doubt
ers that better times are coming.
Some recent tests made with COM
pressed-air cars on one of the street rail-
way lines in New York showed that wnen
running at the rate OF twenty miles an
hour the car could be stopped without a
jar within little more than its own length.
1t was also shown the cars could run ten
miles with but one charge of air. 1t is
possible, therefore, that the age OF eiec-
tricity may some day give way TO the age
of com pressed air.