Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-12-20
EDITORIAL NOTES

can S}Ek 10 an Earl Is announced.
 English papers are not in love
 with the provisional government of
 Hawaii.
 The Gazette announces that if
 will cease its warfare against Gov
 ernor Hughes.
 The new cruiser Olympia averaged
 2l.6S knots per hour on her official
 trial trip last Friday.
 At the Coughlin trial, which is
 now iR progress in Chicago, they
 have proven the death of pr. Cronin.
 They were still picking ripe black
 berries from the bushes at Mentone,
 California, December II.
 The Los Angeles Express says
 that some lawyers make good judges
 and some judges make poor lawyers.
 A recent telegram from Washing
 ton says that the chance for Ari-
 zona's admission is good.
 The rumor comes from Chicago
 of plot to ahduct Mrs. Foy one of
 the principal witnesses in the
 Coughlin murder trial.
 Train robbing must be getting at
 a low ebb in the east when robbers
 tackle train on the Jacksonville 1
 Southeastern road. The next thing
 We hear of probably will be a hold | up on the P. & \. c. railroad.
 A Washington telegram says that
 the bill to expedite the settlement
 of postmasters' accounts passed the
 house on Tuesday. A bill to expe-
 dite the settlement of some other
 accounts against the government
 would be hailed with joy by the par
 ties to whom they are due.
 The Pope has issued an encyclical on Bible studies i'll which he holds
 that the Bible is inspired in whole
 and in detail, and that if it seems in
 certain points to- be out of accord with science, this IS either due to
 bad interpretation or science is mis- taken.
 One Of the things which turns the milk of human kindness in an edi- tor'ssoul, into bitterness and aciditv, is ingratitude. After working honestly and conscientionsly for the promotion and advancement of some personal friend, only to find that in his prosperity he forgets the man who helped him.
 When the republicans decided to impose an income tax as a war measure, there went up howl from !. democrats that is was unconstitu- tionaL As the constitution has not c been changed in this respect since, ! wonder where they find constitu- O tionai authority now for it? b
 Will the president sign the Ari- O zona admission bill if passed by the a senate2 Or is his opposition to l silver So strong that he will veto a c measure that would inevitably re- t. suit in the election of two senators n in favor of silver. Q
 The Baltimore Snn refers to the :, Itata affair as similar to the position ? Of President Cleveland in the Hawai- . ian affair. The Itata was seized = solely as as. act of neutrality, while si Mr. Cleveland has intimated that 2 he intends to restore the portly ., queen of Hawaii to the throne and n then let those opposed to her have h a new revolution to dispossess her. u
 The Phenix Gazette compliments u Mark Smith, for the assistance he W rendered in securing the passage of III the bill admitting Arizona, and e' speaks of the eloquence of his speech aC on the subject. Mr. Smith is very ti talker and there is no nc doubt that be did good service in III III behalf of Arizona's admission. The " ablest work that he did on behalf of ii' the cause, was the work to secure ei his election during the past four or o' live campaigns and the most elo- Vi Iueut and convincing argument that SC was presented on the subject was he uniform majority which he has as the result of the sa campaigns. so There was no man in Prescott hat received the news of the pas age, by the lower house of Congress, VT ", 'f the bill admitting Arizona as a ". " tate, with a greater enthusiasm - md satisfaction, than ex-Governor an \. o. Murphy. He has devoted tL considerable time and work during ra he past two years to the cause of da tatehOOd, and has done more than - ny other one man in the territory h. owards getting favorable action. in awards securing the withdrawal ba I opposition of certain Senators 2 rho have been opposed to it of ir. Murphy was naturally jubilant thereciept Of the news and says ' nat the bill will pass the senate, vii not before the holiday recess. soI cry soon thereafter. - 1t is reported that Buckley o,;, 'Neill1 the populist leader of the d;r rritory, ran the anti-statehood e.. 'lumH of the JouRxA1-MNER till do1 rotheT Martin shut down the f.a Ites. 7-Phenix Herald. In justice ina Mr. O'NeilI the JOURNAL MINER is rcl mpelied to correct the above ,bo ltement. Mir. O'Neill never wrote r,n line for the -JoURNAL-MNER on the dec bject of statehood, nor in feet did I:, ever even offer 8 suggestion or a lt in regard to 1t, nordo we know U at he even endorses what the ly I