The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-07
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The tariff is still in the woods.
We will arbi;rate with England some
other eve.
Greece has lost her second wind and de-
cIded to take second thought.
The Greek flag is not exactly where it
was when the war began, hut it is still
there somewhere.
The Turk is a gobbler, but all the same
the powers will hardly allow him to take
on any more Greece.
The House will have plenty of time and
leisure to study the revised tariff before it
gets another whack at it.
What is the use of formal carnivals in
California at this season when every day
has its picnic and every wood its froIick-
ers?
When Balboa avenue is completed lots
of people will gush over it enthusiastically
who won't let even their coin talk for it
Low.
Opposition to the Mission Park enter
prise has begun to manifest itself, and
that is q sure sign the enterprise is max
ing progress.
More cities than Paris are mourning
over the Charity Bazaar calamity. 1t
was cosmopolitan throng that was
caught in the flames.
The vote in the Senate in favor of an
appropriation for Pearl harbor doesn't
look as though our interests in Hawaii
were 10 be allowed to go by default.
Those who wish to see evidences of re-
turning prosperity do not have TO look far
from home. Every county in California
shows them TO greater or less extent.
Mckinley has a cook at the White House
instead of chef, and perhaps that is the
reason why Bailey of Texas refused to at
tend that d nner.
The improvement in the service for
transporting fruit 10 the Eastern market
is one of the movements toward prosper
ity which Will carry every orchard in the
State along with it.
General Miles will not have an opportu-
nifty TO see anything of war this time, but
he can employ his leave of absence at
tending baseball games and he may see
some good fighting.
The revolutionists in Honduras have
begun their campaign by cutting down the
customs duties at the ports in their posses
sion and seem to be running Democratic
programme generally.
1t has been suggested by some Eastern
papers that Hawaii should be annexed,
not as territory, but as part of the
State OF California. How does that strike
you for State extension2
1t is said that ex-Queen Liliuokalani
has decided to settle in Washington, so it
seems that she is 40 longer seeking an
office in Honolulu and is willing to accept
q clerkship or any old thing.
1t is probable John Wanamaker has
made up his mind never to run for office
in Philadelphia, for he recently told the
people in a public address that they
cd mn nf ba irst
This in all proba bility will be the last
tariff making we shall have for long
time and we must get our industries pro-
tected now or they may be left exposed to
unfair competition for years to come.
Chauncev Depew arises every morning
in these days TO decline something. 1t is
reported ne has just refused the German
mission, and We may yet hear of his de-
clinlng to make an after-dInner speech.
The reciprocity clause was taken out OF
the tariff bill, as reported to the Senate,
only that IL might be given fuller treat.
ment as an independent measure, and
fortunately the principle is strong enough
to stand alone.
The exports of manufactures for March
exceeded the value of SIS, 800 600, thus
breaking the record and showing an in
crease of nearly 80 per cent over the ex-
ports for March of last year. The revival
is surely coming.
There is movement in church circles
in Chicago TO establish what is 10 be called
university of Applied Christianity"
1t seems to be one OF the inventions that
are caused by the necessities of the imme-
diate environment.
1t is asserted that a sufficient number
OF Senators have promised their votes for
the revised tariff to assure its passage, bat
1T is not too late to make a fight for the
restoration OF the Dingley rates on
prunes, raisins and other dried grapes
1t is announced that some Greeks have
been making experiments near Boston
with new expl sive, which, according to
reports, is about powerful enough to blow
the whole Ottoman empire off the earth.
We can now sit back and await results.