The San Francisco call., 1897-05-14

There are conductors enough in Los
Angeles just now TO electrify the whole
city, and they seem to be doing it.
Secretary Gage is not only good finan-
cier but is solid on the Chinese exclusion
act, and is evidently the right man for the
place in every respect.
The Nicaragua canal project is coming
to the front again and this time it has
better backing than ever, for it is said the
administration is pushing it.
There is one thing to be said for
Omaha. She produces more Mayors to
the crop than any other city on record
and the quality is not much below the
average.
There is a chance to make work for
good many unem ployed on the Hall OF
Justice if the City officials would see to it
that the work is pushed instead of drag
ging along, as if intended TO be an eternal
job
As all reports from Cuba in these dags
announce victories for the patriots it ap-
pears that Spain has become so hard up
for money that Weyler has lad to dismiss
his typewriter and cannot pay for tele-
grams.
There should be no question at Wash
ington as to whether the new Federal
building in this City is to be constructed
of stone from the quarries of California or
from some Eastern quarry. We want
home materials and home labor all the
way through.
This is to be boom year for army off,
GERS whatever it may be for the rest of the
world. Three new maior-generals and
three new rigadier-generals in short
order viii start promotions all along the
line and give lift TO somebody in nearly
every regiment in the service.
The passage of the Greater New York
bill has had a ssddenlng effect upon Chi
cago and the once aggressive city is now
developing true Quaker spirit, as BELTS
community whose ambition in life here
after is to be rival of Philadelphia for
the position of second city in the Union.
While Irish and English girls are COM
ing to this country to look for work it is
noted that there is large influx of Ger
man girls at London. Berlin may have
to make up the deficiency from Russia
and Russia from Central Asia. So the
world goes round and woman keeps
moving.
In com parison with last year there have
been comparatively few flower festivals in
the State this season, but wherever they
have been held they have been highly sue
cessful and erhaps next spring all the
lively cities ana towns of the interior will
revive the last years glories and break its
record.
Senator Hoar's statement that the sugar
deal scandal of the Wilson tariff and the
Morgan syndicate bond deal should be in
vestigated 10 the uttermost and probed
until the examination touches bottom is a
clear expression of popular sentiment on
the subject. The people would approve
such an investigation and would like TO
see it b5gun al once.
According TO Secretary Woodruff of the
National Municipal League, every indi.
cation points to very general movement
among the larger cities for the adoption
of reform through charter amendment
during the coming year" In this move
ment San Francisco will have to loin
sooner or later. Charter amendment m ay
come high, but we must have it.
In beginning an agitation against the
''lese majestic laws of the empire, the
German radicals will have the sympathy
of liberal men ali round the world. The
imprisonment of a citizen because he
speaks 'dlsrespectfully" of a ruler is q
relic of barbarism even if the ruler does
happen to be a kaiser clothed with divine
right and endowed with new uniform
every day.
Those New England people who call
themselves prorectionIsts and still are
loud in their opposition to duty on
hides are just little bit hidebound in
their ideas. In order that it may be Ma.
tional. protection must be made 10 include
the raw material of the West as well as
the finished product of the Eastern mills
In other words the hide must be in it
with the shoe.
The President Is receiving invitations
from ali parts of the country to attend
celebrations and expositions of one kind
or another, and if he accepted half of them
he would be kept busy all summer. That
is what comes of being a popular Presi-
dent. Cleveland was not disturbed in such
way, as the people had very little desire
TO shake him by the hand and were per-
fectly willing to let him spend his time
fishing il solitude at Buzzsrda Bay.