Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ltaNt5As Ao NANNAANAA1 Sot1 tA - ~N.-~a Henderson, and a more enviabie reputation no man could have.
 The republican congress is doing pretty well. thank you. It has
 broken several records already snd
 will doubtless break some more.
 The south should remember that
 Asia wears more cotton than EG-
 rope, and that the demand is in- creasing steadily.
 1T the democrats in the house
 keep on as they have started, they
 will soon be kaown as the-psrty-
 alraid-of-everything.
 With prominent democratic mem
 bers of the house supporting the republican financial bill. Mir. Bryan
 would be excused for taking few days of to do some thinking,
 General Wool, who certainly kaows. says the press reports of dis satisfaction in the Santiago district with that portion of the presidents
 message dealing with Cuba are fab rica,ions without foundation.
 The press censor in South Africa is likely to lose his job unless be can su 9ply more details of the blood fest battle of the century" ''Ao news IS not regarded as good news" in England nowadays.
 l. rill require more than the word of two Spaniards to convince the people of this country that gal lant Captain Coghlsn violated any promise made to Spanisrds who surrendered to him, in Subig bay.
 The presidents remarks on trusts have taken the wind out of the dem ocratic saIls. His strong recon msndstion in favor of curbing their undue development anticipates one of the choicest blanks in the future democratic platform.
 Al the correspondents and pol it:cians seemed to have forgotten that Cuba had to wait a year by tr saty before anything final could bs done toward turning it loose. ! The president scooPed the entire country when he called attention to th S fact m his recent message.
 Representative Underwood, ol A. abama, secured MT. Bai,ey's old seat when the house was reorganized ths other day, leaving "Joe" to go into the center of a block of seats where his chances for perfervid oratory are somewhat lessened.
 + is worthy of note that no Gnsncial measure ever before con gress bAs received so little adverse criticism ss the republican financial bill. which is in line with the posi- q of the republican party in the . last national campaign as well as with the business interests of the . country.
 Secretary Wilson says the money l spent for the distribution of seeds . by the department of agriculture . has been of great benefit to the farmers of the country, and that the . O opposition to a continuance of the . free distribution comes entirely from seedmen who wish to sell the . seeds,
 The Phenix Enterprise takes a hopeful view Of the trust question. IL says Trusts will sooner or later crumbIe and fall by their own . we ght. The promoters of trusts, as a rule. depend on capitalists to . invest in their enterprises, to furnish . the money with which they propose ! to corner the markets. Nearly . every one ot these combinations have been over capitalized and the vaJeTed stock is to be palmed od upon the unsuspecting public. Away oT on the horizon is a gather . ing cloud of disapproval of the 1 people and public sentiment stands ! above all jaw. Besides there are ample laws on the statute books of most states. as we'll as the inter state commerce law, all of which, when enforced. will tend 10 make the trusts improbable. When the balloon bursts, look out for financial panic greater than any previously