The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15

Endeavorers did. but all the same they
have pull.
We are promised that WORK on the Hall
of Justice will be hurried up little, and
it will not take much hurrying to improve
on the present speed.
Meba's voice having undergone repairs
IS said to be better than ever, and now the
madam is trying to prove the fact to the
public by singing the praise OF her doctor.
In passing an ordinance Ievying a tax
of 81 on bicycles in that city the Chicago
CounciImen have given the Mayor
chance to make ten n-strike by one blow
of the veto ak.
The Parliamentary commission ap-
pointed to inve stigate the raid on the
Transvaal has laid the blame on Cecil
Rhodes back when it should have given
1t to him in the neck.
The Trans Mississippi Comm ercial Con-
gress will of course listen 10 Mr.. Bryan
when he arrives, but before and after the
dose, i. is to be hoped, it will attend TO
business instead OF politics.
In many of the interior towns OF the
State our Eastern visitors will not only
be made to feel themselves at home, but
to feel also that it would be good for them
to settle down and stay there.
Had the coal-miners of the East waited
until the protective tariff set the mills
working the increased demand for coal
would have enabled them TO get better
wages without having to strike for them.
The revival of the Panama canal scheme
may be intended to embarrass the Mica
ragua plan or to make a profitable deal in
Panama stock at the expense of creduIous
people, but there are no evidences in it OF
true business.
The engineers strike in England is far
worse in its effects on business than the
miners strike in this country, and, in
fact, it has hit so hard that if it had been
delivered a little earlier it would have
knocked Gu. the jubilee.
The statement of Senator Butler that
the armor- plate of the Oregon is so spongy
that the ship is unfit for warfare is inter
esting only as an illustration of what
funny things a statesman can say after
the silly season gets well started.
The story that Gomez is willing to COM
promise with Spain for the purpose of
putting an end to the war has been con-
tradicted by himself. He stands out for
complete independence, and seeing VIC
tory in sight will accept nothing less.
to form a new party with a new set of
principles, and while il does not seem to
be urgently called for it may yet fill the
long-felt want of some man who has no
hope of office in any other combination.
In giving an account of the attempt at
arbitration of the strike in Pennsylvania
the news columns of the Examiner said
Yesterday 1.-The arbitrators hive prciclly-
roonott a and the arbitrators have practi-
cally dropped it," Is it any wonder they
dropped it7
If the meaning of Secretary Sherman's
letter 20 AMBASSADOR Hay were trans
lated from the language of diplomacy to
that of the street it would read: "Tell
John Bull to quit bloviating over the jubi-
lee anu ECL III dtlu pIOLSIt LuOS6 Sddl5 dS-
cording TO contract"
Although this is an off year in politics
the annual convention of the National
League of Republican Clubs has been we'll
attended, and all the proceedings show
that the party ranks are firmly united and
ready for action in any contest that comes
either in State or Nation.
1t will be noted that the only act Of vic.
Ience on the part OF the striking miners
so far was committed by foreigners That
is one of the bad results which have come
to this country from the importation of
cheap labor from countries where law is
maintained only by the exercise OF force.
The events of the miners strike shows
that one of the defects of all schemes of
arbitration is that neither side will accept
it as long as it sees a chance to win, and
when either side shows a willingness TO
resort to it the other regards that as an
evidence of weakness and fights harder
than ever.
The Government will pay $425 per ton
for armor-plate for the three warships
now under construction, but it will hardly
do so again. 1t would be cheaper and
more convenient fol the Government 10
establish plant on the Atlantic Coast
and another en- the Pacific and make its
own armor