The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-16

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HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
Well done, Cubal
The patriots are marching on.
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The news will stir he Senators up.
Now we know why Weyler returned to
Havana.
Talk of economy in the Legislature be-
gins to sound like a roar:
Mckinley is getting his Cabinet work
down to the finishing touches.
It is high time the march of improve
ment started up Fourth street.
The Cubans have taken the war into
their own hands, and may take Havana
also.
Pasadena and Los Angeles are now ad-
vertising themselves as tobogganing re-
sorts.
1t profted Spain nothing to kill Maceo
and make way for Gomez to come to the
front.
It is pity we cannot kill cinch bills
like cinch bugs by a process of white
washing.
There is a chance now that even Cleve-
land NAV have a new light and recognize
something.
The Park Commission is willing to meet
the Grand Jury any day and explain
everything.
Every State in the Union is in doubt
whether TO trust to. the Legislature for
economy or TO pray for it.
General Weyler's campaign seems to
have been just sufficiently aggressive to
make the Cubans red hot.
The Code Commission itself has fur
nished the Legislature with enough food
for thought and study for sixty days.
Let us celebrate the defeat of the fund
ing bill, bur let US not forget that he war
is not yet at an end, and another battle is
in sight.
The temptations 'tto rake her" will be
as great with this Legislature as with any
of its predecessors, but let US hope it will
resist them.
Huntington is now in favor of Gov
eminent COM ission to settle the Pacific
roads debts. Anything to postpone fore
closure suits him.
In the Republican Legislative caucus in
New York Mt. Choate had seven votes,
some mugwumps still living.
People who wish the Legislature to be
economical should begin by urging their
representatives. to be economical in asking
We did not need bureau Of highways
TO tell US that bad roads cost more than
good ones, but all the same it is Just as
well to have the truth repeated in an Off
cial form,
Democrats and Populsts will denounce
the Republican majority in the Legisla-
tuTe and charge t1em with extravaganza
as a matter of course. What else are thei r
tongues for?
If California is to have an arch of fruits
and flowers over Pennsylvania avenue on
Inauguration day it will have 10 be erected
by voluntary contributions. The Legisla-
ture is not INDUCING in that kind of State
pride this year.
The return of Thomas c. Platt to the
Senate from New York will be dramatic in
everything except the essential feature OF
drama. The foes who triumphed over
him in the old days are gone, and he re-
turns to the arena TOO late to take up the
old fight and enjoy a sweet revenge.
The supporter of Joseph II. Choate in
the Republican caucus at Albany who de.
clared his name was familiar as a house.
hold word throughout the Union, and
then voted for him as Joseph f. Choate,
was most undeservedly laughed at His
candidate is Familiarity known as Joe
Choate.
The bill OF Senator Androus making il
a misdemeanor to advertise lotteries Oh
the results Of drawings should find strong
support from all parts of the State. These
swindling schemes can never be sup
pressed as long as they are permitted tc
advertise and deluds the people into the
belief that they really pay prizes.
AS a result of enforced idleness among
the prisoners OF Kings County peniten-
tiary in New York there have beer
twenty-five atte mpts at suicide and three
attempts at murder within nine days, and
yet in the. New Cork clubs there are
plenty of fellows who are idle for months
without getting restless. The trouble
seems to be with the convcts that the
idleness is forced on them. 1t is compul-
sion that grinds.
If our Scottish fellow citizens seriously
undertake the work of raising the neces
sary funds to erect worthy monument tt
Burns they will not lack for assistane,
from the people generally. Burns is some
thing more than the poet OF Scotland-ht
is the poet of humanity-and all who
k1,av, b nd Il