Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-09-07

Our contemporary repudiates free trade as a doctrine of the demo- cratic party. It seems to have short memory on this subject, or it would not forget, so soon, that transparency, bearing the motto, "Free Trade" was prominent in the recent democratic procession here, and that on its entrance to he court house it was loudly cheered. The author and bearer of this free trade banner has but recently been elected a delegate to the demo- cratic county convention, showing that the originator of that tran sparency, as we'll as the transparent cy itself, is endorsed by the party, Yes, neighbor, your party is free trade organization. pure and simple, of the regular Golden stripe, and you had better get into line and keep up with the procession.
 Homestead" was to be a great Democratic battle-cry this fall. A special committee was sent there to investigate" or, in other words, to gather campaign material. When
 Judge Oates of Alabama, chairman of the committee, announced that he
 was ready to report, what he had to
 report was found so undesirable as
 campaign material" that it was de
 cided to defer action on it until
 after election" Then the judge gave
 out his report as his individual opin-
 ion, and so far is 1t from 'being good
 campaian material" that Colonel
 Jones of the St. Louis Republic, say s
 Oates is ''no democrat" for giving it
 out.
 The American federation of labor
 has issued manifesto in regard to
 the Homestead strike, which in its
 assertion is widely at variance with
 the result sobtainable by Congress
 man Oates investigating committee.
 It will strike those who read these
 assertions as remarkably singular,
 that the alleged information could
 not have been elicited by Mir. Oates,
 who used all the energy at his com
 maud to obtain full and accurate in- formation on the subject. Mir. Oates found that many of the skill ed workmen were reciving as high
 as Sl4.O0 per day. The federation places the highest wages at S7.5O. They both agree on the wages paid to unskilled labor, $l.40. But even this statement of the federation does not make clear the cause of the strike or the justice of it. There are thousands of men in the eastern states who would be glad to obtain work at even the lowest wages paid by the Carnegie company and they are largely in excess of the wages paid for similar work in Europe.
 Mark Smith is quoted as saying on his return from Washington that he has no doubt but that the bill ad- hitting Arizona will be passed at the short session which meets in December. It has passed the House and has been favorabls reported by the Senate committee and needs but to be called up and voted on. In case of Arizona's admission, it is a we'll known fact that Mark Smith desires to be elected to the United States senate. Had the bill passed at the recent session of Congress, it was his intention to not become for Congress, but to per init some other ambitious statesman to run for the position. As Mark has announced his candidacy for delegate, it is pretty good evidence that he has some very serious doubts about our admission as a state. He does not seem willing to take chances on being left out en- tirely by refusing to run for dele gate and have the territory fail of being admitted.
 That this country will be visit ed by that most dreaded of all epidem- ics, the cholera, now is inevitable. Of course the extent of its ravages cannot yet be determined. The lateness of the season at which 1t reaches the country is a favorable circumstance, as the progress of the disease is usually arrested by frosts. Vigorous and heroic sanitary meas ures should be taken in every city, town, village and hamlet in the United States, to stay, as much as possible, the progress of the disease. This advice applies to Pres colt, as well as to New York, Chicago, St. Louis, or the larger cities of the country. While i. may be doubtful if cholera could obtain B strong foothold here at an eleva- ton of nearly 5000 feet above sea .evel, with the dry, pure atmos- phere, it is . we'll known fact that is the best preventive of he disease. The last visitation of his scourge to the United States vas in the years 1866 and 1867, it having reached the country in the all of the former year and being mildly epidemic in a few of the arger cities during that year. In he following year it appeared again in many of the larger cities as ,arly as June aud continued until tamped out by the frosts of au- umn, St. Louis being the worst suf erer from it.
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