The San Francisco call., 1897-04-24
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DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
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Weyler insists that he is acfying the
Cubans, but as he is letting them win all
the victories he probably means that he is
satisfying them.
The Arizona editor who has started
paper called The Daily Lyre has evidently
determined that no one shall accuse him
OF running party organ.
You will find the best reading for your
day of rest in The SUNDAY CALL, and in
order to make sure of getting it you had
better leave orders for 1t to-day.
The complaint come es from Chicago that
the newly elected Democratic Mayor is
giving most OF his patronage to the gold
men, although the silver men elected him,
and row is imminent.
The conflict between the Greeks and the
Turks is not more complicated than the
conflict between the dispatches. We shall
never know which has the best OF the
fighting until the end tells.
After the cruel war is over and the
Greeks and Turks have buried their dead,
the Cretan question will probably be
taken up by the powers exactly where it
was when the fighting began.
The Brooklyn Eagle refers to a certain
measure before the New York Legislature
as 1.-The reticulated rot of hum bug" and
the phrase is so appropriate to Brvanism
it is pity il was wasted on q local issue.
The statement of King Humbert that
the attempt to assassinate him was only
an incident of his trade shows that under
his crowned head he carries enough sense
TO understand his business and know how
10 meet its little episodes.
The weather of Washington at this
season OF the year is very pleasant, and
the Senators would just as soon stay there
and talk tariff as not. but when June sets
in there will be heat enough to get up
steam and set the most dilatory to moving.
The Russian Embassador who told the
Bulgarian Government that this is not an
opportune time to ask for reforms from
Turkey has more than the usual allowance
of diplomatic gall. Bulgaria has been
waiting for just such an opportunity for
years.
In demanding immediate reforms from
the Sultan the Bulgaria have led q
trump card, and now the people of Mace
donia and Montenegro must either follow
suit or be guilty of revoke. There is no
question about their ability to play
trumps if they wish.
AS the resolutions of sympathy with
Greece introduced into Congress are to be
accompanied with the usual declaration
of neutrality on our part they will not
place the Greeks under any great obliga-
tions 10 rs. Such sympathy can be fully
repaid by any old thing in the way of
perfunctory vote of thanks.
Interest in the coming pure-food con-
gress is felt all over the State, and the
gathering promises to be one of the most
important of the kind which has besn
held in many years. This, at any rate, is
one San Francisco movement which the
interior cordially supports, and its results
can hardly fail TO be widely beneficial.
When the present administration in
New York began its work the death rate
of the city for the first three months of
the year was 1884. In 1896 the rate fell to
2296. and this year it has diminished to
2o.3 The improved health is attributed
to improved street cleaning, and there Is a
lesson in IL for every city in America, and
particularly for San Francisco.
1t is not likely that the tariff bill will be
reported TO the Senate until the Re-
publican mem bers OF the Finance Com
mittee have so revised it as to secure a
full party support when reported. After
that debate on it will be perfunctory, as
neither the Democrats nor the Populists
will undertake obstructive tactics. The
interests of California, therefore, must be
looked after in the committee-room, and
now is the time to do il.
The movement undertaken by the
Chamber of Commerce to develop and
promote our trade with South America is
one which should have the support of all
merchants and manufacturers in the
State. We will have strong rivals in our
efforts TO get the South American marke is
for our products, but the rewards which
will attend success make it worth while to
enter the struggle, and there is no better
time to begin it than right now.
The question of precedence between the
Vice President and the ambassadors to
this country stirs Washington almost as
deeply as it would London or Berlin. To
the Western mind it does not seem to
make much difference which of two men
goes through door first. so long as both
get front seat at the show and good
place at the table, but TO the East it is
matter OF vast importance. There are
people who would be willing to abandon
our seal fisheries to England. surrender to
her claim on the Alaskan boundary, leave
her free hand in Venezuela and over
throw Our protective system in the inter-
est of her merchants. who would never
theless be eager TO fight her to finish
rather than compromise a claim of official
precedence. There may not be much
virtue in etiquette, but there is none The
less strength In it against which it is
useless to preach, protest or kick.