Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-08-18


 ican tears in a tariff war between England and Germany.
 Canada has submitted a proposi- tion to the Washington authorities for a telegraph line to Klondyke.
 Washington telegram says Mark Smith will push the claims of Ari- zona for statehood at the next ses- sion of Congress
 Senator German is not conduct ing his Maryland campaign as though he expected to follow Bryan and free silver in 1900.
 The horned toad is barred from going through the United States mails any more. This is one Of ,. Arizona's staple products.
 MT. Du Bignon. of Georgia, ap- parently values the democratic nomination for governor higher than he does his financial opinions. All the fools are not dead yet; some of them thought it strange that the president should register himself and wife as MT and Mrs Wm. McKinleg."
 It is estimated that the profits. oi the Kansas farmers this year will exceed Sl00,O00NO0. The calamity howIers have heard about 1t and have become speeches..
 In the selection of Canovas' sue cessor, Spain virtually approves General Weyier's course in Cuba, and he will continue business at the old stand if the insurgents do not kill or capture him.
 The trouble with many demo cratic editors is just what is the trouble with Eugene Debs-an in- ability to draw The line between free speech and stirring up sedition by iaciting riot.
 One of the political signs of the times is the failure of the demo cratic platforms to abdse protection. Excessive and unjust taxation" Is now used by the democrats to avoid offending those members of the party who have openly declared their belief in aprotective tariif.
 It doesn't matter what Boss Cor man put ia or left out of the Mary land democratic platform, German ism is to be the leading issue, and there is reason to believe that t will. be permanently overthrown and a republican legislature elected Canada may find it very bad policy sn the end to be greedy in its deal ings with Americans who may go to the Klondyke gold region. The exact boundary 1ne between tho property Of the United States and that of G reat Britain in that locality is yet to Predetermined.
 This is a ''iarlmers' year. The orators who were so anxious last ial aboutthe dear farmer ought now tC be satisfied, @,-.:.
 MT. Bryan has, not made any in ouiries in the la7t few days about general prosperity" He evidently concludes that the subject is one foI him and his followers to a.oid.
 The democrats who are willing to acknowledge the return of pros perity, ascribe it To Providence. That's right Providence brought about the election of President Me Kinley and a republican Congress without which the Dingley tariff the direct cause of better times could not have become a law.
 The epopulists of the country are thoroughly disgusted with tn, treatment which the democracy ha: given them, and are developing tn, greatest hostility to further at tempts at fusion. The fellows who want to ride the poPulist horse into office, though, are still willing tC fuse with anything that comes along.
 The people who attempted tC make the people believe a few months ago that Secretary Sherman had passed the period of active use fulness are saying nothing more or that subject, Secretary Sherman'' expressions of views on current pol iticsl eve0ts are clear, crisp and wig orous, and strike responsive chord in tho hearts of every American cit izen.
 Democratic faul, finders contiuu, to reiterate the statement that ; protective tariff breeds trusts. Yet every man familiar with the history of affairs in the past few year' knows that the trusts never flourish ed as they did under the Wilson law, now happily wiped from the statute books of ti @ country.
 Reports from every direction show that the Mckinley law has not only been greeted with general satislac tion, but with general activity among the manufacturer. Large numbers of establishments have re-opened and thousands of men and women have found employment since Prcsi. dent Mckinley attached his sigma. ture 10 the Dingley bill.
 President Mckinley has modiiC d President Cleveland's recent order cutting down the fees of certain