The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20

COOJ fdSS OF prices anu VIII DTlnp more
gold into the country than all the Klon-
dixie boomers put together.
Nonresident journalists are good deal
like fieas. When you put your finger on
them they are not there. Nevertheless
there is way to suppress the pest.
Decadent journalism never gets real
live movement on itself until it rouses
somebody by its ISLANDERS and then flies
from the State to avoid answering for it.
DR.. Andrews has been safely out OF
Brown University for some time, but
those expected donations from the gold
monometallists haven't been received yet.
About all that Bryan can now say for
himself is that if the people had elected
him and the silver basis, wheat would by
this time have been worth about 50 a
bushel.
Whenever the European concert has
agreed upon any plan for settling the
Turkish problem some eminent diplo-
matist has a second thought and then the
row begins again.
The chief cause OF the restoration of
public confidence in business and enter
prise is that each individual hears every
other individual expressing confidence and
talking OF prosperity.
1t is encouraging TO note that the at
tendance at the Mechanics Fair has been
good for the opening days. This is the
time to study home industry and DO all
we can to promote il.
If the uprising among the hill men Of
India turns out to be an outbreak of Mos
lem fanaticism, Great Britain will have a
fight on her hands that will paint the
Jubilee year red with blood.
1t appears there are not enough river
boats to handle the fruit business this
year, SO there is another industry that
will have to rush things in order to keep
up with the general procession.
1t is asserted by some authorities that
the people of the United States have now
become so rich that postal banks are a
necessity in order to provide them with
some place to put their savings.
Weyler's tactics in Cuba have no doubt
been severe and cruel, but if he had COM
mitted all the atrocities attributed to him
there would not by this time be Cuban
left alive to tell the tale OF them.
The tidal wave of prosperity under the
Repu blican administration has so COM
pelely swent away the Popocratic plat
form that there isn't plank of it left for
them to cling to in order to escape drown
ing.
The latest bomb explosion in Paris, like
the two which Immediately preceded it,
was so harmless that it was proba bly
caused by some practical Joker who has
taken that way of adding TO the gaveties
of the season.
1t may be just as well that the gold
Democrats should make a campaign in
Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky this fall. There
must be farewell performance OF the old
troupe at some time, and it is better to
have it this year than next.
The announcement that Victoria is
likely 10 purchase an estate in Ireland is
not likely to please the Irish half as much
as the Queen evidently expects. She will
not live there, and before she knows it
she will be denounced as a nonresident
landlord.
The manner in which the coal-miners OF
the East have conducted their strike
proves them to be a thoroughly Iaw-abid-
ing set OF men, and that fact goes far 10
confirm the belief that their cause is lust
and to strengthen popular sympathy with
their struggles.
The fall in the pric, of silver has seri-
ously disturbed business in all silver.
money countries. and as this implies a
disturbance OF the trade gold countries
carry on with them it is evident the inter-
national monetary conference will have a
condition as well as theory to confront
when it meets.
The refusal of Salisbury to agree to per.
nit Turkey to hold the fortified cities of
Thessay until the Greeks have paid the
war indemnity shows on the face a friend
ship for Greece, but if the friendship was
worth anything Great Britain would guar
antee the indemnity, move the Turks out
and give peace to Greece at once.
The feat OF stealing a redhot stove has
been surpassed by clever thief in New
York, who is said to have got away with
over 1000 feet OF electric wire with a cur
rent of $500 volts coursing through it at
the time. This was almost equivalent to
stealing fash of chain-lightning and the
wonder Is that the man who did it was not
quick enough to get away from the de-
tectiyes.