The San Francisco call., 1897-07-16

70 It is no trouble for TO forward THE CALL TO
your address. Do not let it miss you for you will
miss it. Orders given TO the carrier or left at
Business ofice will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
Bimetailism has caught on in England.
The gold men will have to quit calling
Wolcolt rainbow-chaser.
The Alaska boom promises to be hot
enough to warm up the Territory.
The trouble with the striking miners is
they attempted to reach prosperity by
leaping before they looked. ......
Now that plan for settling the miners
strike is in sight it is to be hoped both
sides will move up and get it within reach.
The latest report that Weyler was to be
recalled is getting old, and still Weyler is
in Havana and has not even packed his
typewriter.
The MosIem turkey must consider nim-
self in very safe position just now, for it
is noticed he doesn't drop his tan even
when the bear growls.
The decision OF the Treasury Depart
ment to build the new Postoffice in this
City of marble will not be objected to pro-
Vided it is the marble of California.
1t is announced that Bryan has finally
decided to go 10 Mexico this fall to study
the silver question, and perhaps when he
comes back be will know more and talk
less.
Now that the Britt h have laid the bur
den Of the Transvaal raid on Cecil Rhodes
back, it ought to impose a fine which
would tighten his pocket enough to even
things up.
The latest Tacoma enterprise is to equip
fishing boats with scoopnets operated by
steam-engines, and it would be in eresting
to have them test the machine by trying
it on a whale.
1t is said the wisest thing John r. Nc
Lean is doing in the way of managing his
campaign for the Senate in Ohio consists
in staying out OF the State so persistenty
that the voters are liable to forget that he
is running.
The Colo Dem ocrals OF Kentucky ought
to have sense enough to see that the only
way to redeem their party is to get in and
lelp the Republicans knock the Bryapite
stuffing out of 1t before tie next Presiden-
tial election.
The ans-Mississirpi Congress did right
in thanking the President for the appoint
ment of William L. Merry as Minister to
Nicaragua. HIS service in the office will
be of benefit to the whole Trans NJ Missis-
sippi country.
Carlises eulogium of Cleveland before
the Kentucky convention may have suited
the crowd. but it did not suit the time nor
the situation. 1t is just this cuckoo devo-
ton TO Clevelandism that makes gold De-
mocracy futile folly in American poll
tics.
Every Californian who receives diplo-
matte appointment TO country facing on
the Pacific Ocean has it in his power to
advance the interests of our trade, and it
is safe to say they can be counted on to
do it whether they are Ministers or Con-
suls.
The danger of forest fires shouli be i'm
pressed on the mind of every one who
goes camping in these days, and perhaps
the only way to make the impression stick
would be to punish some fellow who starts
a flre to light cigarette and burns up a
township.
1t required t presence cf two Amer
ican cruisers at Tangler 10 induce Mo-
rocco TO do justice 10 an American citiZ III,
but even this is better than it was in the
old days when Decatur went over to see
the Moors on similar business and had
to fight in order to make them settle.
The announcement that "Dan de
QuiIle" is to leave Nevada to make his
home in Iowa will cause feeling OF regret
throughout the Pacific Coast. "Dan" be-
longs to US, and if ne isn't equal to the
Nevada hustle any more he should have
sought his rest in California and found ii
among friends who have appreci ated his
genius for veracity and are prond of the
fame of all the journalists of the Com
stock.
The report that European conference
is to be held either at Berlin or Vienna
for the purpose OF devising policy of ac-
ton in regard 10 our tariff is one OF the
stories that adds to the amusement of the
summer season. Until a European con-
cert has been able to make the Turk sing
in tune and bring harmony out of Egyp-
t;an discord it will not be worth while for
it 10 try TO make Uncle Sam dance to its
piping.
According to the Washington Post emf
grafton from the cold States OF the North
to the South has assumed such proper
tions in some sections as to occasion alarm,
and it is clear the alarm is not unreason-
able on the part of the friends OF the emf
grants. True. it is An act OF wisdom TO
leave blizzard climate for mild one, but
he who seeks a sunny climate in the South
when he could come to California shows
signs of lunacy. The emigration move
ment should be rectified by being headed
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