Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-03-28

OF Kansas declared against trusts III
its platform. 1t also asked for the
removal OF Henry Clay Evans as
pension commissioner
If the urts keep smashing the
trusts in the different parts of the
country the democrat will have 10
u,s for antitrust platforms.
Mr.. Croker is Doubt trouled,
a good deal with his broken leg, out
We hazard the guess that there are
other things causing him concern
just now.
1t is to be hoped that the R4v.
Mr.. Sheldon does not make his ser
mo Is as dull as ne made the Topeka
Capital during the week he pub
lished that paper.
The distressing Intelligence has
been conveyed to US that The passage
of Porto Rican tariff bill will give
an extension to the political life Of
the Hon. Richard F. Petiigrew.
1t is pretty hard on the demo-
erals 10 have ex-Governof Campbell,
about he only prominent member
of that party in Ohio, declare that
the United States wants pretty
nearly all the outlying islands that
it can find.
A man named Golden Is sail to
have made confession OF the par
ticulars of the plot which resulted
in the assassination Cf Goebel. A
barber who goes by the euphonious
name of 'STallow Dick" is the man
alleged to have fred the shot.
Germany exports about $1,000
600 worth of goods to the United
States every year, and imports less
than S10OOOOC0 worth OF meats. If
she really wants tariff war, she
should sit down and count the cost
first.
San Louis Obispo county, Cali
fcrnia, is in the paraxysm of excite
ment over the discovery of oil With
in her borders. The oil fad is get
ting to be the proper caper in Cali
fornia these days and all one has to
do IS just sink a hole almost any
old place and find it.
Germany has decided to try get
ting along with little meat and high
prices for it, by passing the new meat
inspection bill. We are sorry for
Germany, but if the lessening of the
demand for American meat will re-
duce the monumental prices al
home, our sorrow will be somewhat
ehastened.
1t is now proposed to abolish the
duties altogether on goods sent from
the United States to Porto Rico,
aud to charge only 10 per cent on
goods from Porto Rico to the United
States, and to give the proceeds of
this last to the island. Surely gen
crosby can go no further than this
without admitting the right of all
the outside islands to absolute free
trade with the union.
Mrs. Dewey has admitted to con-
idential friends that the admiral is
keeping his eye peeled to ascertain
the real sentiment OF the country to-
wards him as a candidate for the
presidency. The country is pretty
well satisfied with the admiral as an
admiral, and less we'll satisfied with
him as a presidential candidate, but
it is probable that it doubts Mrs.
Dewey's capacity to fill the role of
first lady in the land
The senate has voted, by a large
majority, to table Senator Aliens
resolution declaring that the Spanish
treaty extended the constitution of
the United States over Porto Rico.
This is as it should be. Republican
papers who favor free trade with
Porto Rico do so as an act of liber-
atty and justice, and not from any
idea that the constitution requires
it.
The republican party should shake
of Mr.. Oxnard, the beet sugar in
clbus. He Is strongly anti-republi-
en- in politics but seems to exert
the most bslsful influence over con-
gress. He fought Hawaiian annexa-
tion to the bitter end; he wrote the
Teller resolutions providing that
the United States should never an
mex Cuba, and be is the practical
author OF the Porto Rican tariff bill.
And he does it all in defense Of the
sugar trust, and Of the beet sugar
growers of Nebraska. when he has
been keeping on starvation prices in
order to make the money necessary
for his Washington campaign. -Ex
When the democrats cry out
against what they term imperialism,
they are really crying out against
expansion. II the constitution fol-
lows the flag into the Philippines,
the United States cannot afford to
hold the Philippines with their
hordes of alien laborers. The dem
ocratic contention that they are en-
titled to free trade and free immi-
grafton. therefore amounts to their
Old contention that they must be
set at liberty and that expansion, so
far as the Pacific is concerned, must
stop. This is the exact situation
and republicans may as well under
stand it first as last
About the thinnest piece of logic
yet seen in support of the demo
cratic position IN reference to the
recent insular acquisitions of the
United States. comes from the Al
bany Argus, which says: "If the