Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-12-06
EDITORIAL NOTES

-. NEDNESDAY..... December 6, lS93
 EDITORIAL NOTES
 Congress met to-day. = Bili Nye is 43 years old.
 Paper stockings are the latest
 German invention.
 Forty below zero at St. Paul. is
 She latest weather report.
 Prof. Crowhurst is delivering a = series of lectures on temperance in
 Phenix.
 Our navy now consists of sixty
 four vessels. Nine of these have
 been built and launched since July l. ist, 1892.
 . At the last sheep show held at
 Melbourne, Australia, the bulk of :. the awards fell to Merinos import
 oa from Vermont or those carrying Vermont blood.
 Congress meets on Monday. It
 wl1 find two questions of national
 importance staring it in the face as
 soon as the session opens. The Hawaiian question and the tariff
 question.
 The proposed income tax seems
 to strike the country about as un-
 fayorably as the many other propo-
 sitions made by democracy.
 ~Onr Mineral Wealth" of King
 man displays great nerve. It has come out as full hedged populist -F--rT face of the over-
 "heiming defeat of this party re-
 gently.
 District Attorney Calvert Wilson oi Yuma county. had a ease recently n which he tried to prove that the town oi Yuma was in California 1is showing was listened to bv Chief Justice Baker, who decided mat Yuma was a part of Arizona.
 The absence of delegates from | the four northern counties of An- zona at the recent statehood con Tention in Phenix, on account of difficulty in reaching the capital | suggests that the greatest need of the territory at present is a north and south road.
 The Tucson Star recently con- tained the following item which seems to be uncalled for even from a partisan point of view: ''The size of McKinley's majority has awak- ened the suspicion that all his creditors voted for him." As Gov ernor Mckinley paid his creditors m full, even to the last dollar of his fortune, it is not to be wondered st, if all of them, and their friends as well, voted for him.
 Who will take the initiative towards getting the ore exhibit sent to the Worlds Fair, placed on exhibition at the Midwinter Fair in San Franciscol It is one which at tracted the greatest attention at the great exposition and there is no better way to advertise our resources than to have it placed on exhibition at San Francisco's big show. It is worth pages of advertising in for eign papers as it would be an open book which every visitor might read For himself.
 The Mohave County Miner in its last issue defines its position in reference to the populists, as fol lows: "In regard to the popuIist doctrine, we were never smitten with it in toto, but there are in its platform many good blanks. We have said that could the populists have carried the states they carried last fall with the addition of 1 Virginia at the last election they ; would become a power in the land, otherwise not. They failed to poll $ within hundreds of thousands of I votes that they did a year ago, : and therefore we believe them to be already s back number. Their principles were good, although they 1 are dead"
 When those Washington gentle men read the summary of alleged facts, recently formulated by the I statehood convention and come 10 c that item of Arizona having ESQ., 100000 taxable property, and then turn to reports of the governors, re- ferred to as proof of the assertion and find that about S28,OOOOOO is | listed for taxation, and then when ' they peruse these reports a little further and discover that the terri ! tory is running behind some 5000 ! every year, they are liable to remark: What fool prevaricators these Ari- arel If they have $S0,000,- DO taxable property, why in the name of statehood don't they assess enough of it to keep up current ex- penses, at Ieast1"
 Suit has been instituted against c sx-Territorial Treasurer Wm. Chris | y and his bondsmen to recover the \ sum of S16,OO0 alleged shortage in a lis accounts upon turning over to s, lis successor Jas. 4. Fleming. The " in quite lengthy article E attempts to shield Col. Christy, but G lpon its showing convicts the ex- Vi reasurer of ''monkeying" with the N finances contrary to law. Col. < ;hristy is republican. He stands ., nigh in Phenix, and in fact through al ut Arizona, but if he has speculated el with the finances of the territory, Ia nd has been caught short he should ', 'e made to suffer the consequences. aI The JoURNAL-MNER has always taken E very decided stand on questions of W bis kind, when democratic officials