The San Francisco call., 1897-02-25

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There is one consolation: Grover must
get move on in eight days.
Congress gave US an appropriation for a
new Postoffice building many years ago,
but where is it?
The Legislature promises to force the
fighting and try to knock the session out
in two rounds of one week each.
The agitation for free Cuba has revived
in the East with new vigor and now is the
time for San Francisco to speak out.
According to reports from the East. the
billiards are over and floods are submerg.
ing several districts as harbingers of spring.
San Jose will meet the new era with
new charter and be as proud and lively as
deoutante at a frolic with license to
flirt.
The object of the Greeks in invading
Crete seems to be partly TO bring about
pan-Hellenism and partly to pot the
Turks.
Greece does the fighting and England
does the talking, but it is evidently Russia
that holds the fort and has the say-so in
the crisis.
The San Diego carnival committee
closed its froics with all bills paid and
money in the treasury. 1t was water
carnival, but it wasn't at all at sea.
There would be work for good many
of the unemployed if the construction of
ournew Postoffice building were under way
and some effort should be made at once to
get il started.
1t seems clear that the only way to get
move on the Government officials who are
holding back the work of constructing the
new Postoffice building in this City is to
start an agitation which will shake
them up.
The situation in the Levant involves
curious contradiction. Il is every where
said that the existence of the Turkish en-
pire is E menace to the peace of Europe,
and yet ali the great powers are in alliance
to keep it in existence.
As Senator Sherman SAYS the fake in
terview purporting to come from him
the
Examiner was 'sheer idiocy," it NAV be
taken for granted that it was written in
that Office being in fact another Ii Yuny
Yuen telegram.
II reports from Havana are true it is full
time Tor squadron of warships 10 be sent
by our Government to that port in order
to protect our citizens residing there. The
yindictive spirit of the Spaniards has bee
aroused and there may be an outbreak of
violence at any time.
If Judge McKenna had any doubt of the
favor with which his appointment to a
position in the Cabinet has been received
in this City it must have been fully al
layed by this time. All classes and par
ties of citizens have unite in doing him
honor and making a feast of it. He has
In fact been so toasted that he need have
no fears OF ever being roasted.
1t is said to have taken eight freightcars
to carry to Washington City the personal
belongings of Charles F. Sprague, a mil
honaire Congressman-elect from Massa.
chusetts. 1t is safe to say, however. that
some poor statesman from the West will
go there with nothing but hair trunk
and gripsack and cut bigger swath at
the capital and have larger hearing out
side.
As dishonest butter-makers in other
States have heen shipping butter to
Europe under the brand of New York.
where the butter is kept up TO standard
by official inspection, movement is to
be made to get Congress to authorize the
copyrighting of the New York State brand
for dairy products If the plan succeeds
why should We not have State copyright
for California fruit?
The New York Congressman who on the
floor of the House opposed the Boston
drydock bill, but declared his sympathy
with the people of that City 'tin trying to
make Boston seaport" will find himself
grossly misunderstood by the people with
whom he sympathized. They will be sure
to regard his speech as inappropriate to
tained his lack of culture.
There may yet be formed great Eu-
ropean diplomatic council to sit perma-
nently at Constantinople to keep the peace
in the LeVant, and this council of en-
bassadors may eventually act in the set
tIement of nearly all international ques-
tions, so that in the course of time Con-
stantinople may become the diplomatic
capital of Europe, Asia and Africa, and
eclipse the glory of the days when she was
the center of the Roman empire.