Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-15
JOURNAL-NINER
WEDNESDAY JAN. l5, lS96

70. sense of the word.
 Dear Mir. Pulitzer:-Don't make
 you bid for bonds So low that 1t will be rejected by the administration, or somebody will call you a buffer.
 Utah Is now state with repre- Sentation in congress and all the other rights of statehood, but she will not get her star upon Old Glory until the Fourth of July.
 The New York Herald, which is trying to boom Cleveland for third term, has offered to give SIo,oOo towards securing the democratic convention for New York. Is there any connecticut
 Recent utterances on the part of certain college professors ought io open the eyes of some people 10 the danger of employing Englist- men, or Americans with English procliyities, to teach young Amegi- cans.
 Tucson has asked congress for the passage of a bill allowing them 10 issue bonds for a water system. The amount is not to exceed Sl0,O00 and the proposition must toe submitted to a vote of the people before the bonds are issued.
 When you hear somebody say that this or that man would decline tue republican nomination for the pres,- dency just ask for list of those who have declined that honor. You won't get it. for the very good req son that it doesn't exist.
 Great Caesar, S262.OO0.O00. not to mantion the interest which will have to be paid on the bonds, added to the public debt, in a time of pro found peace, in less than three years. That record will be sufficient to keep the democratic party from ever being trusted with the control of this government again. The e1- psrience has come high, but that Is usually the way with the most use ful experience.
 Manager Rice, of the ''l492" play. is American to the core. h the production of the above play a number of American flags are used. At Montreal, on Tuesday night, the audience hissed and jeered at these flags and refused 10 allow the play to proceed unless these American emblems were removed. Rice vas in New York, and his manager wired him asking what he should do, when he promptly wired back the answer: Give them the American flag, CT DO show"
 The Arizona Populist, published in Phenix. has been wsging war on the s. F., P. & P. railroad ever since the first issue Of the paper. In its tirsde it has uttered some of the most fragrant falsehoods and made many most glaring misrepresenta- tions. Because General Passenger Agent G. NJ. Sargent, last week, re fused to pay for this onslaught on the road, with transportation to an employee, the paper turns its slime pot on him and devotes about a column and half to personal abuse of him. According tO its own state ment it has no just grievance against NIT. Sargent either, but 1t pours out the vials of its wrath on hIm, simply because be refused to do its bidding. Undeserved personal abuse of man in Arizona always makes a man pop ulsr and fl the Populist keeps up its lick on Mir. Sargent 1t will land him either in congress or the United States senate, as well as increase the popularity of the road which em- ploys him.
 Our contemporary expresses grati- 6cation that the JOURSAL-M MINER de fends the measure providing for leasing school lands, whereby the revenues Of the territory may be in- creased, and the pockets of the tax payers relieved somewhat. The JoURNAL-MINER IS gratifed. highly SO, that its contemporary is pleased, as 1t is the first time it has succeeded ID saying something to please it for 6 long time. It was not, however. party fealty, or railroad fealty, but teslty to the best interests of the territory and fealty 10 the tax pay CTS interests which has caused this paper to advocate this measure. The bill is in accord with ideas which have long been advocated by the paper. Democratic opposition to it arises from the fact that demo crsts seem suspicious of their own and apparently think it would be safer to wait until a repub- lican administration is installed in office in the territory, before doing with this heritage On general principles this reasoning is probably correct, but Wa don't be lieve that even the average demo crat would steal the heritage" from the rising generation if be Were given an opportunity to do so, and
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