Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-07-19
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 the State.
 Cyclones have b,'en playing havoc with more useful things all around him, but Governor Altgeld still lives.
 This time it was St. Louis family who used the cook stove as a bank. Sl,7OO was the amount burned.
 Ear cropping, which was a popu- lar amusement among the barbari- ans of Feudal Europe, has been re- vived in Arkansas.
 It would seem that the populists would be punishment enough for even the most sinful State without the addition of cyclones.
 The democratic bosses have decid- ed that the next House shall have a cloture rule, and they are now study ing up new name for it.
 A suitable epitaph for the late Senator Leland Stanford: Al though rich, he was good and kind to all, and liberal giver to the poor"
 Speaker Crisp says the democratic Congress will impose an income tax. He ought to be good authority. Ditto, ditto, the tax on State bank currency.
 Ex-Speaker Crisp is no fool what ever else he may be. To declare his position on the silver question would destroy his influence with the administration.
 The more the Irish Home Rule bill is expedited in the House of Commons the sooner it will get its death blow in the House of Lords, This is unfort unate, but true.
 The coming Congress will be a decided improvement upon its dem ocratic predecessors if it gives the country even a little bit of wise financial legislation.
 Secretary Carlisle is reported to have recently said that the financial policy of the administration had been clearly defined. Pray, when and where, Mir. Secretaryi
 There is no mistake about the genuineness of the good feeling ex- pressed towards Vice President Stevenson in the South; he has no offices to give out. The G. one at his disposal was given to his son.
 Representative Burrows thinks the Jerry Simpson party, which has up to date membership of one, a promising candidate for a straight jacket. Score another bull's-eye for Burrows.
 Corbett, the prize-fghter, now travels lin cog" in order, he says, to escape annoyance. If he will only remain "in cog" for the remainder of his life he will confer a great favor on the public.
 Fortunately it is out of the power of Gov. Altgeld to punish the judge and members of the jury which con victed the anarchists; otherwise he might be tempted to follow the ad- vice of John Most and his kind and attempt to do it.
 If the Hawaiian government re- ally intends to hang the men who have been plotting for the restora- ton of the Queen, it should ask fol the extradition of Charles NordhofT whose encouragement was the req cause of the plotting.
 The figure is in the orientaI minds mathematical of heaven, but when used in connection with the assembling of an extra session ol Congress it reminds the average democrat of quite a different place
 How nice it will be for the village workman to learn when he visits the neighboring city that the local bank notes in which his wages have been paid are not legal tender in the city. The joys of wildcat money are many, but they will be monopolized by those who issue it. Whether the extra session of Con gress will result in a restoration of public confidence will depend en- tirely upon itself. Their every act will be very carefully scrutinized, and if it m akes a "break" the con sequences may be terrific.
 Surely there is a screw loose somewhere when a grand jury makes public its grief because it could find no law under which to indict the mayor of the town, as one did in Brooklyn the other day.
 No excuse is necessary for recall ing the words of Lincoln at the close of the war, and they should be suggestive to some people: Our work is now to heal the wounds and to care for the men who bore the battle, their widows and their or phans. Let us, therefore, dedicate ourselves to care for the men who made it possible for us to have such a country to enjoy"
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