Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-02
Spain is preparing for war.


 The JoCRNAL-MNER has a war cor respondent ready to take the field as soon as war is declared.
 France calls her court houses 1 temples Of justice. Since the Zola and Dreyfus trials the name sounds like a misuomer.
 News concerning the wrecked battleship Maine continue to be very conflicting and opinions in re- gard to the disaster are much at variance also.
 Even his most bitter enemies must concede that President McKinley's action in regard to that De Lome letter was very digni6ed.
 The very men who now abuse President Mckinley for his conser- vatism would abuse him just as loudly for his jingoism, if he took action to bring on war with Spain. These men couldn't be pleased by any policy.
 Representative Bsbcock, of Wis consiu, who has two victories to his credit, has been again elected chair man of the Republican COngres- sional Committee, and will make it three straight.
 Who says Mexico isn't modernized7 One of her collectors of customs hss been arrested for appropriating public funds to his own use. Still, the collector may have been a Crokerite in disguise.
 Emma Goldman, the anarchist, says: Laws are luxuries," but 1t will occur to most persons that they are very useful luxuries, in that they cause Emma and all her kind to be harmless.
 Those who are predicting demo cratic success at the Congressional elections are assuming that the voters of the country have short memones-an assumption that will not be justified by the returns. l Yesterdays observance of Wash | ington's birthday so universally ob- served throughout the country does not indicate that American patriot ism has lost any of its old-time vigor.
 "Future generations of French men will blush whenever they recall to mind the disgraceful incidents occurring in the trial of Emil Zola for defending Captain Dreyfus," !" says an exchange. The present gen. eration is already doing that very thing.
 The building of the Big Bug rail road, now sn assured fact, will make Prescott one of the lveliest towns | in Arizona this summer. Among the men who represent the city's business interests there is a feeling prevalent that the town will enjoy healthy growth during the next six months.
 NJ. Zola has been found guilty on all the charges against him, and has been sentenced to one years i'm prisonment and to pay a fine of 5000 francs. It has been a foregone con- clusion, ever since the commence ment of the trial that it would re- suit in this way. The prosecution of Dreyfus, and the conviction of Zola, by unfair means, is a blot on the good name of France which it will take years to wipe out.
 Home rule is killed. Mark Smith did it with his little tongue. 4 special to the PheniI Gazette says: Delegate Mark Smith, of Arizona, spoke for an hour today before the House territorial committee in favor of home rule. The committee will report the bill, one week hence adversely" Marks talk evidently decided the committee.
 f Speaker Reed takes more abuse and assumes more responsibility iu the interest of the United States treasury than any other man. Nc man better knows the pressing needs of many of the appropriations he blocks than he does, but he also knows the condition the democrats left the treasury in, and that the most rigid economy is necessary until the Dingley tariff has had time to fill Uncle Sam's cofers again.