Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-04-25

Deeu tlllDloA tu eiS Tiger mine. He is said
 a good miner and is saidN
 an equally good schemer.
 The cable tells us that Commissioner Peck ..has dec de,i" to close the Amer ican section Cf inc Paris fair on Sun days. ~Decided" is decidedly good. Mir. Peck reacEed his conclusion" as a result of positive orders from the president, against which he protested in vain.
 Legislation enacted by a republican congress is raising more money than the government can prudently use Snl ;his, too, without expressing sin
 .e .imerican citizen or industry something that never happened under ! dcmocratic administration.
 Tie event proves to Lord Roberts # Roers can destroy hundred miles or so of the railway behind him, they will stand a very fair chance of starv- ing him out. Outsiders have not yet realized the enormous distances and the limited transportation facilities of South Africa.
 It is reported on excellent authority that Mrs. Dewey recently declared that she would be glad to have the admiral run solely in order to down" Me Kinley. whom she holds responsible in some recOndite way for the house fiascO. It seems a pity that an angry woman should be able to so soon smirch he uniform of so great q man as Dewey.
 Dewey says that he is q democrat. But this really doesn't explain much. What sort of democrat is he? There are so many kinds; there are Cleve- land democrats, silver democrats. gold democrats, anarchist democrats and popo-democrats. In which category does the admiral wish to range him. self?
 Nearly half of every batch of prison CTS taken by the British in South Af- rica has been found to consist of Flu ropeans and Americans. It may be, of course, that the BOers are more foxy and are less likely to get caught than their allies, but it seems more likely that the number of foreigners fight ing in the BOer armies is far larger than any one has suspected. As q matter of course, the need for horses to take the places of those killed in South Africa will lead to in- creased breeding, but it is doubtful, nevertheless. whether there will ever again be so many horses in existence as there were a year ago. At least B, GOO have perished in Africa since he war began, and before it is over it is quite possible that twice that many more will die, while the advent of the automobile just at this moment will tend 10 prevent surplus produc- tion.
 Under the new law the subsidiary silver of the country must be kept at $1OO, O,OGO,0O0. This will necessitate the immediate coinage of about S24,0OO,OOO in silver The same law provides that hereafter all currency under the de nomination of $10 shall be standard silver dollars or certificates issued upon them. Therefore all greenbacks and other notes of S1. S2 and S5 are to be retired and silver certificates substituted for them. This will re quire the coinage of about 120,0OO,000 new silver dollars within the next year or so.
 In declining to aid New York newspaper to advertise itself through a test case before the supreme court in connection with the importation of contract laboger from Porto Rico Attorney General Griggs showed his usual good sense. The demo- crats who are bowling for a supreme court decision on the question of whether Poro Rico is cOnstitutiOnally part of the United States will change their tune after that decision, which will he certain to favor the republican contention that it is not, has been handed down.
 It is somewhat of q noticeable fact that democratic papers and demo cratic orators are approvingly quot ing Lincoln, more than they were along in the early sixties. The utterances which were most heart fly condemned those days are now most heartily approved. That party. though, always was about a half century behind the procession of the cOuntry's progress. It has been noted for travelling along picking up good things of the republican party after they had served their purpose and of adopting them as its own. Fifty years from now they will be quot ing President Mckinley and Marx Hanna.