The San Francisco call., 1897-03-14


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SUNDAY ......................MARCH Ia, 1897
Congress resumes business tomorrow.
The new tariff is a genuine springtime
daisy.
There will be no bungling at Washing
ton this time.
We may all rejoice in the fact that at
last we have an amiable President.
There is prosperity in the air. The rain
Drought IL duQ the SuuSulu6 IL.
Having convicted the liar and exposed
the hypocrite, we can now 60 forward to
new things.
England, France and Russia have made
up their minds to agree, but they are un-
able to find anything TO agree about.
The powers seem TO have no more effect
in coercing Greece than they had in
coercing Turkey. 1t is a complete stand.
off,
Berkeley wishes 10 introduce the dor
mitory system, not so much for sleeping
purposes as TO wake up the university
spirit
The cause OF Cuba will claim attention
in San Francisco this week and on Satur-
day night the people will declare their
sentiments.
Protection to American industry should
mean protection from the competition of
convicts as well as from that OF cheap
foreign labor.
Mckinley need hardly say more in his
inaugural, except to add something about
Cuba and Nicaragua.
The mugwumps said OF Cleveland, "We
love him for the enemies he has made"
Republicans say of Mckinley, "We love
him for his friends, for they are the
people"
The snow hasn't cleared away from the
Eastern States yet, but already some of
the enterprising papers have begun to
run snake stories. This is a great year for
business of all kinds.
According TO reports from New York
Tammany Hall is bad, but the bipartisan
polio board is worse. Tammany occa-
sionally has meeting without row, but
the board never does.
The latest novelty in New York society
is for the guests at the Bradley Martin
ball TO appear in their ball costumes at
tableaux for charity. Every show of the
kind draws and charity is feeling rich.
The new Con gress means the enactment
of protective tariff, and that of course
implies a revival of industry. Now, there.
fore, is the time for Californians to work
together for the upbuilding OF the State.
As boy orator Kaiser William Is even
more Objectionable than Bryan. He
doesn't ia k so long at any one time. but
then the Germans have no way of voting
him down and dare not tell him to
shut up.
To the Turkish empire a national debt
is decidedly a national blessing, for il is
only by the bonds the empire has on the
European stock exchanges that it manages
to keep itself from being wiped off the
map of Europe.
The assertion of the convicted faker that
good twine is not made by free labor in
this market ought not to 90 unrebuked by
the Manufacturers Association. That
libel on home industries should be
promptly refuted.
The latest story of Russell Sage is that
he took a mortgage on the home of an old
friend to secure loan of $50 1t will Ms
be seen that while the wealth of Mr.. Sage
does occasionally enter into the home OF
mis- friends, it never goes without desire
to take possession.
The Boston Herald refers to one of the
last acts of the Cleveland regime as "a
final proof that we have had a man of the
Roman type in the Presidency" ana it
will be admitted he was something of a
Roman. He made a desert even if he
didn't call it peace.
The Chicago Inter Ocean asserts that
Mrs. McKinley's gowns are the hand
soonest ever worn by the wife OF a Pres-
dent of the United States. A slight shade
of suspicion is cast on the report, how
ever, by the further statement that they
were made in Chicago.
The Rev. Charles f Hoffman, who re-
Gently died in New York leaving a fortune
estimated at above $4,000 600, may not
have taught the golden rule any better
than some other clergymen, but he evil
dently knew how to work it both ways in
practice better than most.
A Connecticut legislator is accused OF
saying In a speech against bill to protect
eagles that the bird .has its teeth into
everything it can lay its hands on" And
now there is doubt whether he shall be
indicted for siandering the National bird
or for mixing his metaphors
The employees of the California Cotton