The San Francisco call., 1897-08-11
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Business Office viii receive prompt attention.
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ioT summer months.
Sagasta may be good tor Spain in this
crisis, but sagacity would be better.
Anarchy seems to be sort of medicine
which civilization cannot shake and must
take.
Spain may recall Weyler from Cuba and
appoint Nun ~ lhe tdSA VI p6CllS 4hS tuo
anarchists.
The fight against tie tax levy comes
and eoes at stated periods, but the levy
stays with us.
1t is wiser as we'll as safer to trust to
the path of prosperity at home rather
than to Chilcoot Pass.
We may not be able to reform China
town, but it is worth while to try the
effect of revoIutionizlng the present
methods of dealing with it.
Secretary Sherman has accom- plished in
the State Office the success of irritating
the British, and that is a pretty sure sign
OF vigorous foreign policy.
About the best thing for Professor El-
lott 10 do at this time on the seal ques
tion Is to initiate the wiser among the
calamity howlers and shut up.
Protests against the new mining regu-
lations adopted by the Canadian Govern
ment are being sent in by British Column
bia with a snap and vigor that will
astonish Ottawa.
1t is announced that the yacht of the
Prince of Wales is for sale, and now any
American piutocrat who wishes an intro
duction to his Royal Highness knows how
TO get it and what to pay for ii.
Rich gold discoveries ere reported in
various parts of California, as well as in
Alaska and British Columbia, and those
FaI IN no troOi7a bOrna ipduqtru in
this particular may go farther and fare
worse.
II the charter-makers can devise any
means whereby the tax levy can be kept
down and public Improvements increased
they will at once become known as lead
ing citizens and every body will be glad to
follow them.
1t will be easy enough to start the pro-
posed socialist COLONY in Alaska, but If
one of the party makes a rich strike 1t
will be an awful strain on him to divide
with the other fellows who have been dig
ging in vain.
The Ottawa Government has decided
to limit a mining claim to 100 feet here
after, and perhaps new restrictions will
be enacted later on, as 1t seems deter
mined 10 buck against the puzz saw with
both hands and both feet.
Though the British have won several
victories in Chitral, the natives refuse to
be pacifed, and in fact like the Cubans
the hill men seem to regard an invasi on
of their territory a cause of offense rather
than a process Of paclfcatlon.
The success attending the Christian En-
deavor meeting in this City made mani
fest the fitness OF San Francisco to be the
summer nion city OF America. and
we must now go TO work 10 make the East
recognize that ftress and act upon it.
The attack of the New York Sun on the
pension system will not in any way
weaken the determination OF the people
10 provide for the support of the veterans
who saved the Union in its hour of peril.
The Sun shines we'll as general rule, but
is subject to erratic displays in spots.
Senator Morgan does not believe the
J conservative party of Spain will be
streng thened by the recoil of public
opinion due to the assassination of Cano-
vas. He says when you kill the chief of
the bandits you demoralize the gang"
The Rhode Island man who is said to
have invented a successful flea trap may
be included in the rank of public bene-
factors. There is no telling how much
time. energy and patience is wasted in
seeking the elusive flea that might have
been better spent IN chasing the nimble
xpence.
In his address in response to the Cars
words of welcome at St. Peters burg the
Kaiser spoke few sentences in Berl1nese
Russian, and the Russians Immediately
retahated by singing the Kaiser's own
com position, 1.-THE Song of Egir." Thus
was vengeance and retriburion accom-
plished without disturbing the hilarity OF
tho occasion.
The Indiana law requiring that prison
manufactured goods exposed for sale