Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-09-13
EDITORIAL NOES.

Il be e. A. h, NaJlonal EocaHf ment will meet in Chicago ue1t year.
 A card of membership ID the stone masons and brick layers union of Chicago has been made out to President Mckinley for the purpose of laying the corner stone of the new postoi1ice building in that city.
 Col. Jouaust. of the Dreyfns court has denied the application of M. Labori for a commission to take testimony of the German and Italian military attaches m connec- ton with the Dreylus trial.
 The "msn who knows says that General Miles will be sent to the Philippines next month to take charge of military operations. Tie snau who knows is, however, some times mistaken in what he thinks be knows.
 When asked m London the other day why he did not go to France and tell all he knew abcu: the Drey- fus case, Esterhazy replied: "l am better of where I ani." There are lots of other people of the same way of thinking.
 NJ. Labori has demanded the pres ence at Rennes Of Col Schwarzkop- pen and Col. Panizzard. German and Italian military attaches respective ly, in Paris in 1894, 10 testify in the Drevfus case. It does look as If the question of determining the guilt or innocence of Dreyfus would be m easy matter if the persons who pur- chased the alleged traitorous in formation given out would be per mitted Co tell the whole truth ID re gard to the transaction.
 4 decision was probably rendered in the Dreyfus case today. ltis not difficult to guess what the verdict is. The president of the court has shown from the first his bitter prejudice to the accused, and has arbitrarily refused to admit evidence getting down tO the bottym facts m the case. To the unbiased uuPreju- diced individual who has followed up the evidence in thIs case it must be apparent that a conspiracy of the Foulest kind exists in the army of France to convict Dreyfus, because of his religion and to shield the real traitors
 Judge T. z. Morrow of the Whit ney circuit court, has decided that there is no antitrust, pool or com bination statute in Kentucky. The decision was rendered in the cases of indictments against members of the wholesale grocers' association of Louisville. who were charged with combining to fx prices on such arti- cles as tea, coffee and sugar lt the cases had gone to trial and the men had been convicted 1t would have meant fines of from 500 to 5000 or imprisonment.
 The use of American flour abroad reached its high water mark m the fiscal year just closed with an e1- portation of IS.OOO,OO0 barrels The average price per bushel of wheat exported during the year was 74.71c. and the average price per bushel Tor the wheat exported in the form oi -four was S767e., calculating that # bushels of wheat are utilized in the production of a barrel of four. This adds l29c. to the amount of money received for each bushel of wheat sent abroad m this form, thus mak- iug over Sl0.O0O.OOO during the year as compensation to the American labor which transformed the SO,OOO,- 900 bushels of grain into the ls,OOO,- OOO barrels of flour exported during the year.
 Politics are waxing exceedingly warm m Kentucky. In a recent speech ex-Congressman Owens, democrat, arraigned Goebel, the democratic candidate for governor. in the most scathing terms, denounc- ing him as liar, thief and murderer. closing his speech as fol- lows: For this reason am oP- posing the election ot Goebel. l have convicted him of being a mur- derer. a lisI and a thief. lt will be a crime against society, against right and against Kentucky and the democratic party to give bim single vote. The only way 10 cor rect tbis evil that has come upon the democratic parry in Kentucky is 60 crush Goebel and his brazen gang at the polls m November.
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