The San Francisco call., 1897-01-31

SCS BrO3OWays
EASTERN OFFICE:
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DAVID n. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
It will soon be finished Cabinet.
The Bradley Martins are always over
doing the thing.
As Secretary of War, General AIger will
satisfy the country and please the soldier
boys.
1t is time for California to get rid of
cinch-bilI legislation and blackmail jour.
nalism.
If the shivering Fasteners could have
our kind of a storm they would call it
blessing.
Willie Hearst has turned his high
binders loose for blood or Doodle and the
fight is on.
Cleveland's speech before the Academy
of Medicine indicates he is not untitled
for the lecture field.
Extorting $1,000 a month from the South
ern Pacific was but one fraud of the E1-
aminer. There are others.
Considerate editors on the other side OF
the mountains are advising their readers
to quit looking at thermometers.
1t is not certain on what kind of footing
Senator Wolcott has been received in
England, but he has been well feted.
Demolishing the resorts of the high
binders is good in its way, but there is
little profit in destroying the den and let
ting the wolf go free.
The Senate has adopted the bill provid-
ing for an international money conference,
and thus the first step has been taken to-
ward return toward bimetalism.
According to reports from Sacramento
the examination of witnesses in the pay
roll scandal is frequently interrupted by
"roars of laughter" Is it then a comedy
performance?
With a trained statesman for Secretary
of State, a soldier for the War Depart
ment, and farmer for Agriculture, it is
evident we are going to have an admistra-
ton of experts.
Up to date, bills have been introduced
into the Legislatures of Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan, Missouri and Kansas to reduce
railway fares to cents a mile; and there
are more to come.
There are rumors on the street that the
exposure made by the Southern Pacific
Company of the Examiners extortion is
to be followed by similar exposures from
other corporations.
The Courier-JOurndL insists "the Indi-
annapolis platform is Democracy pure and
undefiled, while all the rest of the country
is under the i'm preston the thing was
dropped in the mud and left there.
When an American millionaire of ma
ture years like Bradley has moth
ing else to do than to dress himself up like
Louis XIV and dance, it is time for him to
go to a water-cure and soak his head.
Ii the Cotlrter-JournaI is correct in its
statement of the rapid growth of the pouI-
try industry in Kentucky the State will
soon be able to work up all its whisky into
eggnog and quit selling the raw material.
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The bill before the Legislature appro-
priating $40 600 for an exhibit for the
Nashville exposition should by all means
be adopted. California should never fail
to show herself at every display of her sis
ter States.
Inherited money doesn't last fool
always and if the faker journalist doesn't
soon become known as mo. TAI, accord
ing to the New York prophecy, he and his
gang of blackmailers will have to work
for living or tramp.
Since the Russian Government has de-
cded 10 crush out Tolstoi it should apply
to ex-senator Wanamaker for informa-
ton as to his success in wrestling with
"Kreutzer Sonata" When it comes to a
tussle with genius moral Governments
should help each other.
1t is noted in New York that Sherry con-
tinues to receive the cream OF the social
patronage despite the scandal of the Seely
dinner and some say this is a proof that
New York society despises scandals and
others assert it is because Mr.. Sherry hap
pens to be protege of the Astors.
When Mckinley gets through with the
hard work OF making up his Cabinet he
will have nice easy task picking out men
for foreign embassies. 1t will be no job
at all to get the man who applies for a
position as ambassador to England to be
satisfied with a consulship at Shanghai.
a Washington clergy man who was can
didate for the office of chaplain of the
House OF Representatives and received but
three votes in caucus told friend he had
in his pocket letters from thirty members
promising to give him their continuous
support. He is now probably more con-
WINGED than ever that the average Con-
gresham needs heap Of praying for.
The newly elected Senator Mason of
Illinois, in an address to the State Legis-
lature, said: 81 am in favor Of a new in
terpretation of the Monroe doctrine. 1
believe we should go farther in the light
of the new civilizat on and declare that in
all struggles between a monarchy and a
republic, between liberty and slavery, we
are for liberty" There is certainly a
great deal OF iingolsm in that, but not
enough to hurt