Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-01-24

party is, that a large proportion of it's individual members are free traders only so far as 1t affects "the other fellow" When it strikes home to themselves they are howl ing, rabid. protectionists.
 A man named Frank Miltenberg, said to be a member of the city council of Tucson. shot and killed Chinaman recently. It was another case of "didn't-know-it-was- loaded" " We do not know Mir. Miltenberg, m fact never heard of him before, but We lay it down as a good rule and a safe one to follow, that when a full grown man goes fooling with a gun, using 1t as a boy would atoy, pointing it at other people, he should be made to suffer the full penalty of the results Mir Milten- berg has, by his ineXcusable foolish
 ness, killed a fellow being. While it may not have been his intention
 to do 50. the fact remains that he
 has committed murder, and im-
 prisonment for the balance of his
 life would not be any too severe a
 punishment for him. There IS no excuse for any man pointing a gun
 at another unless for the purpose of killing him. If he commits homi- eide let him suffer the full con sequence of his act.
 Bourke Cochran made one of the
 most sensible speeches we have seen yet in support of the Wilson mo- tariff, or low tariff bill It does not though, by any means, come up to
 the standard placed on it by the
 San Francisco Examiner, as bcing equal to or even approaching, in eloquence, speeches of Webster. Mir. Cochran deals with the sub Ject in a spirit of fairness towards the republican opponents to it, but scores his democratic colleagues who oppose it, as being selfish and iusincere, if not dishonest, in pro fessing the doctrine 6f low tariff and then by voice and vote in congress opposing it. Ho deals in some queer logic, it is true, but then it seems to be the only logic which is
 applicable to this case, and MT. Cochran handles the subject very deftly from his standpoint. He makes the rather astonishing a sser- tion that reduction in tariff means an increase in revenues, and other similar and apparently illogical as sertions.
 Our contemporary containsIa sort of half sympathetic, ''may-be-it-is-so -but-hope-it-isn't," reference to the charge recently published against ex- Governor \. O. Murphy, and other territorial officials by the Phe- nix Gazette. Being familiar with the character of the Phenix Gazette and of the tactics which it resorts to, We would seriously ,doubt the truth of any charges preferred by it against any one, even person who was a total stranger, unless the charges were backed up by strong evidence. From an intimate per sonal acquaintance, with ex-Gover- nor \. O. Murphy, covering a period of a dozen years, it is safe to assert that he never drew any money from the territorial l treasury which he did not earn and l tO which he was not legally enti- tied. And further, instead of his l being subject to criticism or cen sure, the territory is to be congratu- lated for the splendid sale of bonds ] accomplished during his admins ton, which saved to the taxpayers a large sum of money. Governor 1 Murphy has been out of office now l for nearly year and it is somewhat | late to commence an attack on his | as the Gazette has | done.