The San Francisco call., 1897-06-12

The Eastern summer has set in with
more than the usual number of cyclones,
and almost every day brings a report Of
some new disaster.
1t may be true that Great Britain has
sent the Sultan an uItimatum, but the
Sultan has received so many such things
of late years he Will probably use this one
TO light his pipe.
The Cubans have gathered around Ha-
vana in such force that General Weyler
does not dare to venture into the suburbs
and will probably spend this summer in
the city for his health.
There is a rumor at Washington that
Boy Bailey believes he can beat Boy Brvan
for the Democratic nomination in 1900
and 1t Is said the reason he is keeping still
is because he is saving wood.
To save them selves from the great wind
storms that sweep over their country some
Eastern people build houses of stone and
some dig cellars, but the only safe way of
escape is by the railroad to the Pacific
Coast.
The hot rivalry between competing
vineyards of Sonoma and Santa Clara
ausurs well for the grape-growers of those
valleys, WHO are in a position to have
their demands favorably considered.
The President is very rightly making
his visit to the Nashville exposition a
holiday trip, and travels slowly, taking in
all the sights as he goes along That is
the way President should always do in
making tours of the country. He should
see the cities and the farms and give the
people a chance 10 see him.
The recent ex Experiment. at Indian Head
OF digcnarging from a cannon a shell
loaded with guncotton was very success
full in showing that the guncotton will
explode, and IL is to be regretted that it
blew the gun into smithere ms and scat
tered the pieces so far and wide that the
Government lost the use of them even as
old metal.
Tiilman may be excitable in nature and
rude in manners, but that he has some
sense in his head is shown by his statement
in the Senate on Thursday. at is to the
best interest of the American people that
the articles consumed by our people should
be produced by our people If that is Re-
publican doctrine, well and good. If that
lsnot Democratic doctrine, it ought to be. -
The announcement that the Minneapo-
lis is to be taken out of commission in or
der that her officers and crew may be
transferred to one of the mower gunboats
recalls attention 10 the sad lack of men in
the navy. The force at present is not suf-
fIRJn
constructed, and when one goes to sea an
other has TO go into port and wait until
the crew comes back.
The absence of anything like National
policy on the tariff ques ZION among Demo-
cratic Senators is shown by the fact that
they vote for protection TO the industries
of their own States and against protection
10 the industries OF others. They seem 10
have no conception of the Nation as a
whole, but vote on State or sectional lines
every time, and that is one of the reasons
they could not make a good tariff of their
own, even for revenue purposes.
The joint resolution introduced into the
Senate permitting Chinese to come into
this country to make an exhibit at the
Omaha Exposition ought to be amended
by granting to those at Nashville the
privilege of renewing their exhibit at
Omaha. There is no reason why new
set should be admitted, for it is well
known that there are enough Chinese here
now to take charge and cond uct any ex-
position of industry that China will ever
desire TO MAKE in this country.
A siained-glass window recently pre-
sented to church in Syracuse, N. Y,
contains picture of an angel without
wings, and a dispute has arisen as to
whether it shall! be allowed 10 remain in
the church. The objectors urge that all
angels have wings, but on the other side
1t is argued that those Jacob saw ascend
ing and descending on a ladder could not
have had wings, or they would not have
needed the ladder. We have thus a new
subject Tor summertime conversation, and
one, moreover, on which each disputant
may safely challenge his opponent TO
prove his facts.