Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-02-21
February 2l. 1894
EDITORIAL NOTES

(LLLA.
 Judge Sloan's term of office ex,
 pired on the very day that his sue cessor was appointed.
 Tue Arizona Enterprise is now ir the fifteenth chapter of "A Tale oi
 a Yellow Dog" and has not yet
 reached the dogs tail.
 James Whitcomb Riley, the @ ~Hoosier poet" realized SS0,OOO last year from his rhymes, Who says it
 does not pay to be Poetf
 The anti-administrationists oi
 this territory are getting in their
 work at Washington. All three of the recent appointments belong to this wing of the democratic bird.
 Three days have actually passed without the promise of a new gov ernor, " day after tomorrow" from the Phenix Gazette. Wonder if our esteemed friend Dunbar is losing his grip.
 The best place in Arizona for an observatory is on Mt. Union, twelve miles south of Prescott. The alti- tude is about 5000 feet, and there is an easy, natural grade for wagon road to the top of the mountain.
 The Gazette is inclined to rejoice over the appointment of Judge Sloan's successor, and speaks of Sloan as having been removed. In stead of being removed, Judge Sloan was permitted to serve his full te-m.
 Cleveland is bigger fool than we give him credit for, fine informs the republican press weeks in ad- vance his views on every question before congress. "-Flagstaff Demo crat. That is the only way His Ex- cellency has of sounding public opinion.
 The Phenix Gazette says it is a mistaken notion, about males under eighteen, and females under sixteen, not being allowed to marry in this territory, with the consent of their guardians. The language can not be plainer than the statute which says: ''nfales under eighteen and females under sixteen shall not marry" Males under twenty-one but over eighteen, and females un- der eighteen, but over sixteen can only marry with the consent of their parents or guardians.
 The voters of Prescott will be called upon soon to elect a mayor and one councilman. The JOURNAL MINER has no candidate for either position but would like to see broad minded, enterprising men elected to the positions By the above terms We do not mean men who will spend the city's money regardless of consequences, but men who will look after its interests carefully. The men for the position should come from among the average tax payers at least. 4 man who pays, no taxes and consequently shares none of the burdens of the city government can not be expected to take as keen an interest in the ad- ministrstion of city affairs as one who does.
 Editor Dana of the New York Sun | sizes up the Wilson bill as follows: The Wilson bill is not democratic l measure From top to bottom it outrages democratic convictions and | betrays democratic pledges. To | support it is to forfeit the title to the name of democrat. To spurn it is to deserve that glorious title. The inequality of its discriminating and class taxation Is eommunistic, not democratic. It Is a scheme Of legislation against which the whole history of the democratic party IS arrayed; against which every vital principle of the democratic party makes war. It fouts the American constitution and subverts the politi- cal principle of this republic. It is rotten in its foundation and in its whole structure. There Is not democratic stone in the monstrous edifice. Happily the senate stands between the democratic party and the ruin which would follow the en- rollment of that iniquitous measure on the statute books of the republic.
 The shooting on Saturday night, by Constable Miller of a poor drunken, harmless man seems to call for his immediate removal as a peace officer. An officer who is un- able to make an arrest of a man in such . helpless state or IntoXlcatlon as AIiller's latest victim seems to have been, is certainly not fit for the position. The usual plea of ,elT defense has already been raised, md 1t is stated that a rusty, broken { old case knife will be introduced in the ease as the deadly weapon I which threatened the officers life. ' When a man reaches a certain de- ' gree of Intoxication he often i'm lgines that it would require a whole T army to "take him in" and he often r makes 8 great show of resistance. I An officer who can not manage such { subject without shooting him hoUid surrender his insignia of n .ifce. Even the clubbing of su h V