Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

, Spain is in bad way, indeed, wheI } Weyler, the butcher, dictates term : upon which he will accept a cabine ortfolio.
 Aguinaldo and his followers com, about as near to representing th' } people of the Philippines as th, antics" do the people of the United States.
 There are men in congress who know as little about the constitu. tion of the United States as they dc
 about the Bible, about which they
 know nothing.
 If the treaty of peace IS not rati-
 fed at this session of congress the
 people will remember that demo. cratic opposition will be responsible for the delay.
 Senator Dsyis still expresses .eon- 6dence that the treaty will be rati- fed at this session of congress, and no man has better opportunity to know than he has.
 If Germany is hunting for an ex- cuse for a scrap with us, 1t can easily be made out of the mi1-up in S2- moa. But it is annual subscriptions to potatoes that it isn't. Rev. Myron H. Reed, the eele- brated preacher of Denver, is dead. He was a Universalist in religious belief and socislistic in his political tendencies.
 "I firmly believe that there is no greater American than President Mckinley" - Chaplain Chadwick, formerly of the Maine, ID a recent speech.
 Even the shrewdest of the sen ators who oppose the treaty of peace have been unable 70 present single plausible argument against ratifca- ton.
 The absurd charges of its oppon ents simply increased the majority in the house for the Hull army bill, which the senate should lose no time in passing.
 President Mckinley told Senator elect Depew that he had hopes that an extra ser sion of congress would not be made necessary by failure of the present. session to act upon i'm portant matters.
 Ex-Governor Woldey has insiitu ted msRdamus proceedings against the board of control to compel the payment of a claim held by him. That clain has been the subject of other sorts of "dsmns" than man. damus.
 Senator Davis did right in refus- ing to dieker for democratic votes fer the ratification of the treaty, either by allowing the treaty 10 be amended or a resolution committing this government to a definite Philip pine policy to be adopted.
 If justice had prevailed in the murder case of the territory vs. Henry alias Susie" Wilson, for the killing of a poor inoffensive man in Copper Basin some years ago the homicide at Wickenburg on Tues day morning would not have taken place.
 Agoncillo, the little Filipino who poses as Aguinald .'s agent at Wash ington, is of about as much import ! snce as a gnat, although the money, with which he is plentifully sup piled, causes him to be puffed up by those who arc getting some of it.
 One of the most absurd argu- ments yet used against our keeping . the Philippines is that most of our soldiers over there are homesick. The same can always be said of volunteer troops who are away from home, even of those who are in this country.
 Our contemporary takes a stand in opposition to the democratic to change the time of residence in the territory before one is entitled to vote, from twelve months to six, for which We con- grstulste it. As usual, however, it sees in the measure, corporation, scheme behind it, whereat 1t proved to be a partisan measure in the council, where the democratic ma jority passed. Seven democratic in the house have expres- sed themselves as being opposed to it. It remains to be seen whether they can be whipped into line for it.
 The Phenix Gazette is not in harmony with those Legislators who desire to make voting easy in this territory by reducing the term of from one year to six months to enable one 10 vote. It iays: "Because one or two counties 'eem to desire the SIX months resi- ience clause in the registration law s no good reason why the legisla- U re should shorten the term. In he council yesterday there was not yiven one reason of substance why be law should be changed, and un. ess stronger line of arguments hall be presented to the house, We .dvise that body to go slow about l From the tone of the erritorisl papers we are of the pinion that 1t is an unpopular 
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