The San Francisco call., 1897-07-29

for summer months
The Canadian tax on the KIondyke is
likely to be felt about as severely as the
weather.
Siberia as well as Alaska is coming to
the front, and the course of empire seems
10 be headed west by north.
With business rushing at this rate in
midsummer there is hardly any doubt
the fall trade will be something like d
boom.
"San Francisco, the summer conven-
tion city of the United States." That is a
good phrase, ard the East must be made
to recognize it.
From the way food shipments are being
rushed to Alaska there is a chance the
Juneau people may have provisions to
burn this winter.
Alaska and British ColumAa together
will have to hump themselves if they
expect to turn out next year half as m uch
gold as California.
Weyler would be forgotten in the rush
Of new things if he were not so often re-
called to the public mind by announce
ments that he is to be recalled to Spain.
The prairie States have more wheat this
year than the railroads can haul, but the
farmers are not likely to lose anything by
the delay in getting the crop to market,
for the price is rising steadily.
Circle City will soon be setting up as
metropolis, and the next thing we know
prospectus will be issued announcing a
grand exposition there offering to all
corners the best show on earth.
The tinker and the tailor, the soldier
and the sailor, the live country editor who
cannot get his pay bank clerks and tell
ers, the women and their "fellers, are all
going to Klondyke for 500 day.
Some.of the claims for indemnity filed
with the State Department by American
residents in Cuba are so large that we may
yet have to take the island and hold it as a
guarantee for the recovery OF the damages
The bulletin OF the Weather Bureau at
Washington reports that climatic condi-
tions on the Pacific Coast have been fav-
orable to all crops during the past week,
but elsewhere they have not been so good.
We are always little better off than the
East.
The San Diegans who are reported to be
arranging to make the trip to the gold
fields IN balloon are the most logical of
all the adventurers of the season. When
one is seeking q castle in the air the bal.
loon method is the only rational way of
making the exploration.
1t is quite within the limits of possi-
biIitv that in turning over the soil of
Alaska to find gold the miners may de-
velop resources ricner than the placers
and lay the foundation of a civilization
there which will be an important factor
in Pacific coast commerce for all time to
come.
The speech of Secretary Gage at Boston
was right word spoken in season. 1t
confirms pubic confidence in the ability
OF the administration to settle the finan-
cIal question as wisely as that of the
tariff, and gives assurance to business men
that the era of prosperity is at hand and
will be permanent.
1t is surprising to lsarn that some mem
bers of the California delegation to the
Trans Mississippi Congress were opposed
to making an effort to devise means
for preventing the shipment of convict
made goods from other States to Califor-
MIA. a movement in that direction would
be so good that everybody should be will
ing to push it along.
An American firm has obtained the con-
tract for furnishing the engines and dy-
namos OF the London Central Railway,
and the British manufacturers of electric
plants are indignant. For an American
to capture prize like that is even more
narrowing to John Bull than for an
American oarsman to carry off the dia-
mond sculls at Henley.
The New York Tribune recently quoted
the president of one of the anthracite
coal com panies" as saying the supply of
coal on hand is now so large there is
more to be gained by reducing stocks than
by increasing the output" The statement
may have been made as a bluff to scare
the strikers, but it does not sound well.
Things are not altogether right with a
community when mine-owners can make
more money by stopping work than by
keeping it going.
The occupation OF Palmyra Island by
the British is probably intended to pro-
vide halfway station for a telegraph
cable from British Colum bia to Australia.
Efforts have been made 20 obtain conces-
sions from Hawaii for that purpose, but
have failed, and Palmyra offers substi-
tute which can be made available. 1t is
the evident intention of the British TO
bind the parts of their scattered empire
as closely together as possible, and tele-
graph cable across the Pacific will make
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