The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

\/ this moment, and they appeal to the deep-seated
 beliefs and conscience of public men,
 They call for expression of opinions by leaders who have shown in the past, intelligent and unselhsh de votion to institutions They involve great con stitutonal questions and their solution promises greatly affect the future of our Government and our people.
 Men wise in the knowledge of public law; scholars trained in the study of physical problems; etnolo- giss and biologists and social philosophers, all have their attention fixed upon the issue of with Spain the negative and affirmative responsibilities 1t has brought to us and the manner of acceptance or rejection of them.
 In the two leading parties of the country there is not internal harmony of opinion upon the policy of expansion. In each are strong men who oppose and strong who favor, that policy, The great ci conservative opinion appears to be against it, and there is desire that it be approached and settled without appeal to partisanship
 In this high and mighty time, when thoughtful men pause and ponder each proposed step the comedy fea ture is introduced by the appearance of the two Billes, Hearst and Bryan out of his unripeness yelling, Nail the flag to the Philppines! and the other, out of his desire to remain object of at tention, shouting, Pull 1t downW Each gravely in forms the country that he IS the leader of the Demo- cratic party each has past that consists of ungrat fled ambition and future woven of rainbows. Neither is qualified by natural talents culture or experience to lead anything more serious than coton, and then not unless the figures called, yet they are sef-deuded by the belief that they are leading the country
 Colonel Bryan has been living in tent for three months, drawing coones pay and communication, in attentive to the formation of public opinion which has been in progress since expansion was proposed, md iuSt m m has from the army in order to try and assume leadership of the anti-imperialist movement It should not be neces- sary to inform Colonel Bryan that neither his party nor his country looks to him for leadership in any grave matter, will either gratify his vanity by accepting him n that capacity
 Mir. Hearst succeeds in being merely ridiculous He advised his party here into situation in which it got sound thrashing and while it blubbered and rubbed
 its bruises he turned upon 1t with jibes and jeers for following his advice, Like Bryan he is greedy of notice and has less talents and training support him beyond mere notorlety.
 Verify the Democracy of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland has fallen and shrunken painfully it have come to the size of these rival Bles who are pull ing it in opposite directions like two bygoats tug gng at the remains of ripe hoop skirt The judicial and argumentatve temper in which the Nebraska Billy approaches the discussion of the subject is seen in his speech in Lincoln last Friday night in which he said that the gold standard has wrought more wrong and injustice in this country in the last twenty y-ive years than Spain wrought in all her colonies
 We intervened in the Spanish colonies by virtue oi nations right to compel the end of unjust govern ment and the world refused prevent the execution of purpose. Now. here is Colonel Bryan, an American citizen, supposed speak for millions, who declares that our Government in twenty-five years has been guilty of more injustice and inhumanity to our people than Spain guilty of to her colonies in three centures Ii this IS the truth the world that let us punish Spain for less crimes than has, by our precedent, the right to works at once punish Government and hberate people! | The sober-mnded people who view with alarm the experiment. of imperialism in the tropics may view with a panic the championship of Colonel Bryan which proceeds upon the declaration that govern ment at home is worse than that of Spain abroad! 
 l Santiago has become clean by the method of using the lash the people who transgressed sanitary 1 laws While the method cannot we'll be applied gen. orally, the virtue of it will be recognized.
 The coming Of the Santa Fe to this coast means that other great lines bound to follow. Roads which now terminate in Colorado and Utah will be no longer content to stay there.
 1 It is not possible to watch ascend in bal loon hanging by his teeth without wishing that the laws of gravitation would be suspended The man invariably comes down.
 1 Three months for stealing turkey; acquittal for having killed an nofensive man. The administration of justice has not been reduced to an exact science
 Let us forget that the Spanish Peace Commission CTS have called "upstarts It is fact that when the provocation warranted we did upstart. 1 The fact that another French soldier has been ac- cused of betrayng army secrets is fairly good evi-