Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

uho CdnipdlSn, gave the republicans in Congress a motto that should be lived up to during this session of Congress We republicans are people who work, not talk"
 The republican caucus of the Ne braska legislature should be able to settle the senatorial question without any outside assistance.
 Comptroller of the Currency Dawes strongly recommends in his annual report that the laws be amended so as to place more restrictions upon the loaning of money by national banks to their own directors. He says that two-thirds of the failures of national banks can be traced to the practice of loanlng money to directors and officers without proper security.
 President Mckinley may well be proud of his Union League Club speech. It contains much that any American might well be proud of. and the following especially appeals to republicans: "The republican party has placed upon it tremendous respon- sibilities. No party could ask for higher expression of confidence: ii will be a greater thing to deserve and hold it.. Who wouldn't be proud to have uttered those words2
 A Constantinople telegram says that the rumor concerning the rupture of diplomatic relations between Turkey aad America is unfounded. The United States Charge d'Affaires Lloyd Gnscom, has been received in audi ence six times this year, and only q fortnight ago was invited to q mnsi- cale at Iildiz palace. Consul Norton Is going tO take possession of his post at HarPoOt Monday, though his exc quateur has not yet been granted and will probably be withheld for some time yet.
 kean St. Charles, of Kingman. an nounces his legislative policy in the next legislature as follows: We are opposed and will vote against in the 
 legislature, first, last and all the time. a bullion tax; removal of the prison from Yuma; division of Yavapai coun- ty; exemption of new railroads from taxation"
 Now It Is announced that the wiley old sultan of Turkey wants to contract for a battleship to be made in the United States and to work in that s9O,OOO indemnity in payment for it. It seems to hurt his pride to have to pay this bill outright.
 OOm Paul might obtain few point- CTS on the practical value of shouts from crowds drawn together by curi- osity by addressing Hon. W. J. Bryan. Lincoln, Nebraska.
 A printers trade journal. which has been gathering newspaper statistics, has discovered that the total numbar ot newspapers of all kinds published m the world is said to be 42.SOO. The United States is far in the lead of all countries as to number of newspapers. having l9,760. Great Britain comes next, with 6,050. In Russia there are only 143 papers, or one to every TO- OOO people. Le Petit Journal of Paris has the largest circulation in the world, averaging one million copies. The paper with the smallest circuIa- ton IS the Imperial Review, published for the sole benefit of the Emperor of Austria. It is made up from transla- tions of all the principal items in Eu- ropean newspapers and the daily edi- tion is three copies.
 The country can i'll afford to lose the services of Senator Davis. chair man of the senate committee on for eign relations, at a time when con- gress Is called upou to act upon so many important matters relating to foreign affairs.
 Doubtless it was the clever acting of Mir. Bryan during the campaign that prompted a manager to offer him a big salary to go on the stage.
 If our democratic friends will only exercise little patience the republi- 1 can majority in both branches of con gress will relieve their anxiety about the legislation of the session.
 Fighting for the Empire is one of the new books, but it isn't Bryanite history of the recent cam lIdiSn-
 Perhaps Mayor Harrison is only holding up Chicago's crusade against vice to get pointers from the New York war, on how to make big bluff stick.
 Democrats in congress would do well to remember that the country is in no h"mor To forgive them for any { iaemPt to hang up or block the i'm 2 1ortant business of the session.
 Hon. Carl Schurz has not felt called .Doa to make an explanation of why
 ierman-Anericlas didn't follow !