The San Francisco call., 1899-12-25
SEEING LIGHT al LASI.

! - tives was the number OF declarations from
silver men OF their conversion to sound money.
Among them was Joseph Sbley. who is reported to
have said Il publicly predicted that if Mckinley
and the gold standard successful prices would
fall with a corresponding increase in the purchasing
power OF the gold dollar, and would have era
OF hard times and commercial depression such as this
country has seldom witnessed. Now l look around
me- and see the orges blazing, the fires lighted in
all the furnaces the shuttles weaving and the looms
! spinning. Every who has days labor to sell
finds a ready market for il. Everywhere there are
plenty and prosperity, and it occurs to me that
somebody must have been mistaken, and perhaps that
/ fellow was me-
! These conversions are excellent, but they come
late They served hardly any other purpose than that
OF giving Henry c. Smith OF Michigan an opportun-
ity for enlvenng the Congressional Record with a
lew amusing anecdotes told for the sake OF the moral
Up in Michigan, said Mr.. Smith, the money question
| is dead issue, and any who should attempt to
discuss it would empty a hall as quickly as it would
be empted by a smallpox sign. The Democrats who
have been converted, he said, are right but being
Democrats they did not get right the right time:
a Democrat is like who sits in street car with
his back in the direction the is going; he never
sees good thing until he gets by it; he is like the
! boy who when for the first time he saw an elephant
said oh mama, that thing is walking tail foremost"
! Mr. Smith conceded il is better for Democrat to
recognize prosperity when he gets backward view
/ OF it than not to recognize it at all Sam Jones' he
said tells the story OF old free silver mollusk who
met him and asked. Jones, where is all that pros
! perity you were going TO give us?" "Whv" said
Jones, "t is everywhere; labor is employed capital
is active, wages good farmers are getting good
prices for their crops and wave of prosperity has
swept the whole country" at hasn't struck me
yet" says the fellow Jones looked at him minute
and then replied We'll it is pretty hard to strike
nothing
Sibley is OF the sverites who have been struck
by prosperity, and he has had the candor to admit il
|
The Bohemans in issuing the summons for their
Christmas jinks got OF the difficulty of the con-
tury mark very cevery by announcing it as "the last
Noel OF 1900 That is sure thing whether the
1000 begin end century.
Among the congresses which have been arranged
for the Paris Exposition there should be one to deter
mine whether the big show commemorate the close
OF the nineteenth century or the beginning of the
twentieth.
Victoria is reported to have requested that none Of
the little Princes among her grandchildren and great
grandchildren be presented with toy soldiers or can
non this Christmas The old lady has had enough of
war.
From the way the Dukes, Ears, Barons and
Baronets OF England are volunteering to go to the
front to fight the Beers is evident the dudes have
pluck il they do golf stockings and marry for
money
There ought to be large increase in the tourist
travel to California this winter and If the railroads
avCic gouging the public it is probable the tourists
will come.
Chicago society IS out OF sight" and recent re.
ports concerning its sporty ways incline to wish
that ii OF hearing
IL you nave not yet made up your mind to vote for
park extension this is as good day to do so as any