Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-04-04

benefit to this country by disposlng 1f the Verde military reservation.
 The industrial army will inhict another crop of Generals and Colo nels on the community fl it does nothing else. ...
 Senators and congressman are commencing to favor an increased appropriation for the survey of public lands.
 The republican who puts up nickel with the expectation of car rying Alabama is, in sporting par lance, a sucker"
 Congressman Breekenridge's ples, that he was led astray by Miss Pol N4szds nay possibly be true, but it certainly isn't plausible
 The woman who deserves the sympathy of all, in connection with the Breckenridge Pollard scandal, is the present Mrs Breckenridge.
 At last the trimming of Senator Brice on the silver and tariff ques- ton is accounted for; he has up a presidential lightning rod.
 Congress will have to hump itself to keep public attention, now that the circus season has opened and the base ball season is only three weeks away.
 A lumberman and a discharged employee at Fleming, West Vir- ginia, squared accounts with six shooters on Monday. Both were killed.
 Secretary Herbert is said to have been snubbed by Mir. Cleveland at a recent cabinet meeting. He isn't likely to resign, however; $S,0O0 po- sitions are not plentiful in Ala bama.
 As long as our newspapers print the entire testimony in such cases as that against Congressman Breck- enridge, Americans have no right to throw stones at Zola, the French novelist. Zola never wrote anything as dirty as that testimony.
 With a whisky war in progress in South Carolina, populist out break threatened in Colorado, and Coxey's industrial army marching towards Washington threatening an invasion of the capital, our coun- try can not present very peaceful aspect to other countries.
 One of the unanswerabIe conun- drums is why the real estate agent is so darned anxious to sell you the property which he knows will double its value within year. Why doesn't be borrow money at six, or even ten per cent, and buy it him. self
 The Washington police authori- ties are not sympathetic; they have announced their intention to arrest Coxey and his army as vsgrsnts should they really get to Washing ton.
 The Gazette contains the follow ing pertinent query: Now that we are together, the question is, what was it that pulled us apart 7" And more pertinent to outsiders would be, what Is it, i @, how much was it that pulled us together!"
 President Cleveland, in his veto message, says that sonnd finances does not commend further infusion of silver into the currency at this time, This is gold bug doctrine pure and sound.
 Cramp, the ship-builder, says the democratic free ship bill, now pending in Congress would wreck American ship building. We'll, NIT. Cramp, the democrats are doing all they can to wreck all other Ameri- can industries, why should you sup pose that they would be disposed to spare ship-building!
 
 With all its other faults, and they are certainly numerous enough, we cannot believe that the administra- tion will allow Great Britain to ac- quire possession of an island that will practically command the mouth of the Nicaragua equal, and which the United States had selected as a eoaling station, although it is re- ported to have been done.
 They are trying to muster a quoss rum in Congress to take a vote on the O'Neill-Joy contest. It is forgone conclusion that when the fptS ic bAhcht pONs tAS ASPNOAiSoh contestee, will be defeated. by partisan vote. Joy was elected by a good majority over O'Neill, but the democratic party will no doubt seat the latter.
 Our contemporary propoundS the following conundrum this morning: Has President Cleveland been statesman enough to see the heroic treatment needed and applied it, or has he been in sympathy with the mostly republican bankers in acom- bined effort to destroy the money of the masses 2"
 Col. Breckenridge will discover, if we are not mistaken, that men of his age, education and social stand ing are not excusable when they commit crimes against morality. The verdict of the court matters little in such case; it is the verdict