The San Francisco call., 1897-02-27


;. Get the Federal building started.
:. San: Francisco must work for her appro.
'priation.
= Make strong pull all together and it
won't have to be long pull.
=. Cleveland threw us in the hole, but we
can count on Mckinley to help US oat.
Work on our new building should begin
with the work of the new administration.
You will wish THE SUNDAY CALL to-mor-
row, so you had better leave orders for it
to-day.
: On March 4 there will be first an inn
.mense sigh of relief and then tumultn-
Gus; universal cheer.
.. The best way to get the incoming Secre-
tary of the Treasury to satisfy our want
is to infoFm him what they are.
The Senatorial debate on the Cuban
question came very near being a war
dance, and Spain had better look out.
Fl Cleveland was half baked when he
entered Office what is his condition now
after all the roasting he has undergone?
San Francisco has taken a back seat so
far as Government work is concerned for a
long time. Let US now move up to the
front.
20 It-looks now as if our Golden Gate Carni-
val would be something to be proud of.
airoaHry oh ho O.
bright light.
There is to be no investigation by the
State Senate of the coyote-scalp Claims.
II seems there are too many of them, and
the-Qdor is not enticing.
I'VE beg to remind the legislators that in
addition to the people of the State who
wish appropriations there are others, and
the others are taxpayers.
The Turkish Government has been vir.
tually. eliminated from the politics of
Europe, but the Turk himself remains
and may make trouble yet
The appropriations proposed by the
Legislature are in full accord with gen.
erosity, but they could be pruned with an
ax'without hurting justice any.
The fact that the Senate showed an ap-
preparation bill aside in order to discuss
the Cuban question shows that this is not
such an economic age after all as some
people think it is.
The policy of Salisbury TO grant eu-
.tonomy to Crete, but compel her to re-
main part of the Turkish empire, is
clearly designed to throw the patient into
hts in order to cure her later on.
AS King George replies to the demands
OF the powers that he will not recall his
troops from Crete, but having taken the
sword will stay with it, it is evident he
has either a secret backing or a very yisi-
BILE backbone.
Secretary Morton has found friend at
last The Florists Exchange approves his
opposition to the free distribution of seed.
The approval, however, seems to come not
so much from sympathetic spirit as from
trade feeling.
u am opposed to wrong, violence and
tyranny wherever they are exercised. and
when they are inflicted on an American
~-NANN -~"AAA obhhO Np AOI 4lIn even IL L
have. to stand alone" So spoke Senator
Sherman in the Senate on Thursday. and
SO will act Secretary Sherman when he
enters the State office.
The suggestion of Mr.. Irish that our
delegation in Congress should work for
an increase OF the appropriation avail
able for the beginning of the construction
of the Federal building in this City is a
good one. AS Mr.. Irish says, the money
has to come some time, and nothing is
gained by issuing it in comparatively
small sums.
A number of experts have been exam
ined by a legislative committee in Massa-
chusetts with regard to preventing danger
from the use OF water gas and one and ali
OF them declared the best means would
be to turn the gas off at the place where
it is made, and keep it turned off. The
remedy, it is admitted, would be efficient,
but somehow il is not regarded as salts
factory.
Some of the leading papers in the East
assert that the investigation of trusts now
going on before the New York Legislature
is not being made with any intention TO
get the facts, or to remedy the evil OF
such combinations, but 70 make grand
stand play before the people and at the