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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07
IMPROVED BUSINESS OUTLOOK

The war with Spain caught this
country just as 1t was entering on
what gave every promise of being the
busiest and most prosperous year of
its history. Among conservative peo-
pie there was a strong feeling that the
talk Of war would be all the war there
was. Don't worry; therell be no
| war" That was heard on all sides
from men whose best judgment is the
best to be had. Well, their predictions
went for nothing War was declared
and we are in it now.
At first there was general stoppage.
Everybody waited to see. The effect
OF the sudden suspension of activity by
| Is, 100000 people is tremendous There
are only about 300 business days in a
year and if the country should do
nothing on one of these it would be
the same as leaving the wants of $780,
900 people unprovided for for a whole
year. Just as far as possible the
American people stopped business and
put off purchases, Cancelled orders and
prepared for storm. AS result
| business projects were postponed and
the spirit of enterprise and go that
was so active disappeared for the time.
But it is coming back again. We cas-
lily learn our lessons. We are getting
used to the war ana have made it
part of our daily living. We get up In
the morning and read that Cervera's
feet has been surely bottled up in San
tiago and being again duly relieved on
that point we are ready for something
else and prepared to do business at the
old stand. The human stomach has
about it certain imperativeness
which is positive. With the climate
we have, our bodies demand protection
today from heat and tomorrow from
wet and cold. We must protect our
selves; that is the first law. To eat
and be clothed are prime necessities
in this country. Now eating and cloth
ing take the greater part Of our money
and are what make business move
We can cut down our food expenses
and wear old shoes and coats for
dWuiiC, plCtty oOOA VIC lOdCA tuc
conclusion that the storm is not going
to be so bad as was feared and then 1t
is time for new shoes, new coats and
for something better than an economi-
cal diet. Then money begins to cir
culate again, and the other lines of in
dustry feel the effect, and the wheels
all start turning again. That is about
where we are at" now.
The hopeful American people have
seen the worst of the war trouble
They are worrying now more about
what to do with Cuba and Porto Rico
and the Philippines than about how to
get them. And already business feels
the recovery bound to come when they
begin to buy again. The shrewdest OBJ
servers feel sure that the worst is well
behind US and we are going to have
a good year, if not the actual boom
that was impending when the new year
came in. The time for apprehension
has gone by. and the thing to do now
is to be ready for business.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(From the Atchison Globe.)


1t is easy to use whip.
Brakemen refer TO the saloon free
lunch as trading stamps
1t is safe to say that you don't know
the names of half the people you know.
( As soon as a couples love affair ends
in marriage, the people look around for
some one else to laugh at.
There are a terrible lot Of doctors in
town. A man called out in the street
today. Oh. Doc" and nineteen men look
ed round.
When an only son comes down town
earlier than ten in the morning, he looks
as though he hadn't had his sleep out.
Some people never feel just right in
the spring until they have undergone
medical treatment; others, until they
have been fishing.
The second summer is as hard on a
widower as 1t Is on baby. vidower
who escapes his second summer, is like
ly to escape for good.
Spring chickens are being brought to
town again. Look at them in front of
the grocery stores; nine out Of ten are
ROSTERS. Is this just? Is this right7
People getting up picnics this season
are reminded that the sardine comes
from France 1t will not bankrupt that
country If we refuse to wear French mil
Hnery. and continue to eat French sar-
dimes at picnics-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07
OUR NEW MINISTER TO TURKEY

Washington, June Oscar Solomon
Straus, who will succeed United States
Minister James B. Angel as plenipo-
Tertiary to Constantinople, Is i
wealthy and learned New Yorker, who
was about year ago elected president
of the American Jewish Historical So
ciety. He is a happy mixture of law
yer, merchant and literary man. AL
though a native of Rhenish, Bavaria,
Mr.. Straus is American in all put the
accident of birth. He Is d special in
vestigator of American history, and
has written much on the subject His
book, 1.-The Origin of the Republican
Form of Government in the United
States" IN. Y, 1856, is an authority.
MIR. Straus was appointed minister to
Turkey in 1887, and since his return
he has been very active in public mat
tiers and political reform. He is a
graduate of the Columbia university
and an LII. B. of that institution. He
practiced law for a time in New York
city, but gave up that profession for
a mercantile career, giving up that In
turn to be diplomat
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07
PEOPLE YOU HEAR OF.

A Dictionary of Authors" just Is
sued by a London publisher, om1ts the
names of Rudyard Kipling and Thomas
Hardy.
George Jacob Holycake, of England,
says that he was the first person to use
the word LINGO" which he did on March
13, 1878. in letter to the London Daily
News.
Over the mantelpiece of Zola's study
Chinaman of Manila who SAID. "a
Inca" Ono day without something &C
complished'); and the author claims to
have made this the rule of his life.
DIR. Depew, who has gone abroad to be
present at the new Vanderbilt wedding
left behind him a novel joke about
Chinaman of Manila who said: "A
Spaniard, he talkee, talkee: Mclean.
he doee. doee."
When an Ohio Congressman went to
Phil Sheridan's father to look over a
boy for West Point, he was inclined 10
favor another brother. The father said:
Don't take him; he is full OF peace.
Take Phil; he's full of fight. He tights
all the boys about here"
The state of Maryland is to pay $4,000
for F. B. Mayors painting of the "BuIn-
ing of the Peggy Stewart" The picture
is to be hung in the hail Of the house OF
Delegates, with a tablet giving history
of the destruction Of the tea-laden Brit
ish brig in October 1774.
Greenville, Miss, has a new official.
whose entry upon a career OF public use
fulness is thus noted in a local paper:
Henry H. Obanon has been appointed
Justice Of the Peace to succeed MS
father. the late D. B. Obanon. Any ono
wanting to be married. or any other
business in this line. give him q trial.
The recent reports of an improvement
in the condition of Frederick Nietzsche.
the insane German philosopher. are de-
MED by his sister, Frau Elisabeth Foer-
ster-Nietzche, in the Wiener Rundschau
of May !. The physicians give no ground
for the slightest hope. She states that
his mind is wrecked by overwork and :hs
use Of choral in very large doses.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07
GOES EVERYWHERE.

The Arizona Republican goes
by mail or carrier to every town
and mining camp in this terri
tory. You will find it on file at
all leading hotels in the terri
tory. You will find it on all the
passenger trains entering OF
leaving the territory. 1t is the
great family newspaper of Ari-
iona. and its circulation is
growing in every part Of the ter
tory.
Such a newspaper presents
rich opportunities to advertisers.
If you are not already a patron
drop few dollars In The Repub-
ican slot and see how easy it is
to increase your business.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07
ARIZONA OSTRICHES.

1.-THE owner of an ostrich ranch out
our way is making a very nice revenue
out of his BIRDS said Mr.. G. E. Adams,
Of Arizona, at the Normandie.
HE has now about 100 ostliches on his
place and all are in good condition. Not
until 1t is a year old is an ostrich ready
for picking. The wing feathers or
plumes are taken and shipped to New
York, where they bring from 81 to so a
pound. After being cleaned and steamed
single plume will be worth that much.
An old bird Is valued at 500, but young
one is worth scarcely half that MUCH
Washington Post.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

The Klondyke is almost forgotten,
and it is now announced that no rail-
road will be built to the navigable
waters OF the Yukon's sources before
next year. AS the wonderful Wit
watersrand is now yielding nearly
$6,O00,000 per month, the loss of the
gold expected from Alaska will not be
seriously felt in financial or CONNER
cial centers
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

IT Mr.. Joe Letter has robbed the
farmers of their rightful profits on
wheat, what has he done in the case of
those spectators who bought in the
expectation of seeing the May deal
terminate with the quotation, two dol
lars per bushel?
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

Some Of the most interesting news
from the Caribbean seat of war has to
do with the experiences of the report
ers who are chasing phantoms and
searching for coal. Without the re-
ports of those thrilling times of their
own the correspondents would not be
earning their salt These stories are
very entertaining in the absence of
real news
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

1t is said that Russia is very anxious
to enter into a friendly alliance with
the United States. With France cool
ing down and beginning to talk about
her traditional friendship once more,
we can realize how very important we
are becoming since we undertook an
active role among the nations.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

About all the real news there is con-
corning the military situation is that
the invasion of Cuba will begin when
1t begins This statement has passed
the press censor and it is official.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

A New York paper points out that
General Scott captured the City of
Mexico with six thousand soldiers and
had to march inland to do it. The
point raised is that if Scott could de
that our army ought to do even as
well in the matter of Havana. But
one thing at time.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

Louisiana's new constitution con-
tains $4,000 words and several thor
cughly wicked sections. It is d per-
nicious mixture of verbosity and op-
preston.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

full relations between the United States
and this neighbor, and year hence.
as it was six months ago. it may be
next to impossible to do so.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

To Solicitors Subscriber: No, we
do not believe that Spanish spy was
steering the tramp steamer that ran
into the cruiser Columbia
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

Admiral Montijo is to be tried for
cowardice in losing his fleet at Manila.
He will be a handsome scapegoat for
his superiors in Madrid.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

Meanwhile the total disappearance of
Senior De LONE is one of the real mys-
teries of the war situation. His Is
about the most notable case of diplo-
matte extinction ON record
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

All portraits of the new Spanish min
istry of marine picture him as man
who is sorely afflicted with the BIZ
cycle countenance.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

Speaker Reed is large man. but he
is hardly wide enough to block the en-
tire gateway that Hawaii is trying to
enter. He will sprain himself If he
tries it.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07

A Dictionary of Authors" just is
sued by London publisher, omits the
names of Rudyard Kipling and Thomas
Hardy.
The times., 1898-05-29
Gomez and BIanco.

There is a certain stupidity in the
Spanish character which it is impossi-
BILE for the English-speaking races to
fathom. For example, the Spaniards
have done everything that hellish cru
| city could suggest to exterminate the
| Cubans, and now, when the American
| people have gone TO war to stop those
atrocities the Spanish captain general
has the assurance to address Gen. CO.
mez and to tell the latter that the
| United States is conducting hostilities
for the purpose of killing off the Cubans
and robbing them OF a territory 10
which they never had, and never could
have, the least claim, under the flag of
! Spain.
One would suppose that such an en-
/ Hghtened Spaniard as Blanco would
| blush to ask Gomez, whose son his pred
ecessor entrapped and butchered, to
join him in resisting an invasion the
/ only purpose of which is TO give Cuba
| freely to the people who inhabit it. The
! whole world knows that the American
Republic would scorn TO seize a country
which it had fought 10 free! All Europe
/ is notified by the solemn declaration of
! Congress that, as soon as We have
driven Spain from Cuba, we viii hold
possession only until the citizens of
Cuba can pull themselves together and
| establish a stable government of their
own
Brave old Maxine Gomez! How gal
lantly he has spurned the overtures of
! Spain He tells Blanco that he knows
no race but mankind; that it makes no
! difference to him whether a man is
| tawny Indian or a blonde Englishman.
| His friends are the friends and the ex-
ponents of civilization and humanity,
and their nationality or the religion they
profess is totally immaterial. He resents
the charge that America has interfered
in Cuba with any sordid or illegitimate
purpose. He declares his heartfelt con-
fdence in our good faith and determi-
nation, and he tells Blanco that he will
fight with US to the bitter end against
the miscreant and outlaw power of
Spain.
In Maxine Gomez We shall have a
grand coadjutor in our war for the
suecor of Cuba's suffering children.
The day is gone when the Spaniard
can make his victims believe that their
friend is their foe. The curtain is
about to drop upon medieval barbar-
ism in the Western Hemisphere. We
may be slow, and some of our motive
powers may show temporary laggard-
ness or inefficiency. The end will come
| inst tho camp The Stars and StFipac
will float forevermore over Porto Rico
and the Philippines, and Cuba will be
free.
The times., 1898-05-29
rhe Last of Gladstone.

Yesterday, in that grand old abbey,
hallowed by the memories of a thou
sand years. attended by representa-
tives of royalty, nobility and the COM
mons Of Great Britain, the mortal re-
mains OF William Ewart Gladstone
were consigned TO an honored grave.
Throughout the English-speaking
world memorial services were held.
Not a kinsman Of the great race that
gave him birth was there who did not
in some way feel that he, too, was at
that simple. yet splendid, funeral.
When the mighty chorus of London s
surpliced choirs burst into song with
! the departed statesman's gavorite
hymn: Rock Of Ages, Cleft for Me, -
We may justly say that the theme was
| taken up by millions of Britons and
| their kindred, and that it rolled around
the world east and west. from Green
lands icy mountains to India's coral
strand"
Verify, it is good for earth's children
to pause a moment, in the course OF
their struggle, strife and bloody wars
to bow their heads and mark the pass
| ing of a good and great old man.
The times., 1898-05-29
balloons BN All Means.

1t is stated that, other means having
failed to locate Admiral Cervera, the
Government is about TO adopt more en-
ergetic measures and hunt for him in
balloons. This is on the theory that the
elusive hidalgo is in the harbor of San
tiago de Cuba, as Secretary Long be-
lieves, but does not know. So little
certainty is there combined with much
faith that it would not surprise US to
hear that the Spanish squadron had put
into Rio de Janeiro for a supply of cof-
fee on its way to the Pacific Ocean to
sink some of our Dewey relief trans
ports.
The Navy Department officials ex-
press mild surprise that Commodore
Schley waited so long after he reached
Santiago before communicating. We
have already expressed the opinion that
he knew what he was about, In one
sense, whatever he might know con-
cerning Cervera. Dispatches from Schiey
reached the White House last night.
and they must have been eminently un-
satisfactory or we should be favored
with an inkling Of good news, if moth
ing more. Talk Of the balloons may in
dicate where the trouble lies Possibly
the Spaniards are concealed In a bend
of the harbor behind high hills; but a
story has come 10 Kingston, Jamaica,
The times., 1898-05-29
SUNDAY, MAY %, 1898.
Hawaii.

We wish to congratulate President
Mckinley on his attitude with regard
TO Hawaii In this he has shown HIM
self a man and the leader of his people.
In the past We have criticised him, and
sometimes bitterly. That was in the
days when domestic politics justly oc-
cupied the attention of the public But
since the Maine was blown up, and it
became the sacred duty of Americans TO
be Americans only and not political
partisans. We have been ready and
esger TO follow him in everything cal
culated 10 conduce to the interests,
honor, or glory Of the nation and its flag.
1t follows that we are not praising a
political enemy when we accord high
praise 10 the President for his brave
stand against Tories and traitors who
would arrest the war and give aid to
the foe by preventing the annexation of
the Hawaiian Islands! We are only do
ing our duty in holding up the hands
Of him whom the American people have
placed in the White House, and whom
they VIII maintain against all the forces
Of open or secret treason.
What We admire in President McKin-
ley al this time is his courage in de-
claring, through his friends in Congress
that it viii be better TO kill the war rev
enue bin than to lose Hawaii. That is
good, old-fashioned Jacksonian Ameri-
canisn, and the sugar and molasses
men in Congress viii do well to know
that a great national sentiment and de-
termination is behind it.
II need be, let the war revenue bill "a
for the present. This country can al
ways raise money when it needs it. The
men who would now obstruct necessary
American war measures will be swept
aside, and they viii not even be re-
membered in history under their
proper designation, because they will be
extinguished and forgotten, and quickly
at that.
This is not a question Of national pol
itics Mr. Mckinley. The men VINO
stand by you for Hawaiian annexation,
as for everything else requisite to vic
tory and the redemption Of our national
honor, are Americans! All others are
detestable and contemplate Tories
whether they call themselves Demo
Gratis, Republicans, or Populists.
The times., 1898-05-29
Gen. Hubbard. of Minnesota.

To the Editor Of The Times:
In your morning issue of the 18th inst,
you essay to give an idea as to the Pres
idents new appointments for brigadier
generals of volunteers; but your notice Of
the Minnesota general, Lucius F. Hub
bard, is quite too meager. merely
mentioning that he was adiutant general
of his State. He was a good deal more
than that When the war OF the rebel
lion commenced he was an editor at Red
Wing MINI. In 1861 he enlisted as
private in the States Fifth Regiment; !;
became a captain in 1852; lieutenant col
oneI in March 1862; and colonel in Au-
gust. 1862. He participated in all the cam
paigns. battles. sieges and actions in the
Southwest from Corinth 20 Mobile: was
wounded at Pennington and at Nash
VILE in which last battle he brilliantly
commanded the Second Brigade as act
ing brigadier general This brigade was
principally made up of Minnesota regi-
ments. and they were couspicuOusly gall
liant and daring in assaultng Hood forts
a record before me. giving an account
OF the battle of Nashville. concludes:
col Hubbard was personally compH-
mented Immediately after the action BY
Gems. Thomas. Smith and Macarthur unit
ing in a telegram TO the President re-
questing his promotion and ne was pro-
NOTED brigadier general accordingly. At
ter the war he was twice elected governor
of Minnesota. A MINNESOTAN.
The times., 1898-05-29
Those Usurpinc Sons.


Though there may be feeble excuse for
carpet knights in the military service in
time of peace, there is none in time of
war. This is hardly the juncture in the
Army's career for spectacular leadership.
Spanish bullets and camp fever have not
we may be sure, proved the lodestone of
attraction 10 these sons of greatness who
essay .spurred and uniformed to ride
roughshod over the plodding West Point
ers who have toiled for decades in the
strict performance of military duty. The
prevailing rage for Army positions in
high social circles is possibly akin to a
new sensation. AS an Eastern social
writer points out il far surpasses polo
golf, cycling and even the hunt of the
aniseseed bag. Hard fighting and the rig
ors of actual campaigns are not the at
traction. and if they should be encoun-
tered these raw amateurs are not the sea-
soned stuff to cope with them.
The times., 1898-05-29
scme Cloudy Rhetoric.

Some of the rhetoric which has been
called forth by this war is very funny.
In rejecting on the history of Spain,
one editorial essayist remarks: 1T is
dramatic that the blows OF the avenger
should come from a land once a vague
shadow dependent upon Spain's boun-
ty." II might be dramatic if it were
true, but it would take a compound mi
croscOpe TO find germ Of truth in any
such statement, and then, if one may
use a HJoernicism, you could not find it.
There was never a time when this
country was in any sense dependent
upon Spain's bounty or the bounty OF
anybody else, for that matter 1t is not
customary for European nations TO
maintain colonies in distant lands un-
less their existence is profitable. The
American colonies paid TO England
many times the sum which England
spent on them. English Adventures
came TO the New World to make money.
and went home to spend it. English
manufacturers sent cargoes of all sorts
Of merchandise to the colonies and
charged what they liked. The English
government taxed the American people
till the burden Of taxation grew so
heavy as to bring on the war of inde-
pendence. The vast French territory
Of the West was purchased by the
American States, not by England. Had
this undeveloped country been paid for
In English gold, and become a part of
the prize for which the colonists fought.
then, indeed, they might have claimed
that they owed something TO England
Blu. from the time they landed on
American shores our forefathers were
Americans, and they were helped TO
protect themselves during the wars with
France, not because England loved
them, but because the colonies were too
profitable TO lose. The same thing is
true of every colony which has been
planted by a European nation. And it
certainly was not less true of the Span
ish colonies than of others.
Spain never had control over this
country as a whole. Her discoverers
were busy mainly in Peru and Central
America, and in Mexico and Flor