Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

two LuOuluS rest tu HIS ldIlu- A1c can make the rest longer without arousing any protest on the part of the people.
 The recent theft of a baggage car from a train en route from Italy to Berlin is an evidence of the superior ity of train robbers in Europe over those in America.
 Mfr. Pulitzer, editor of the New York World, says it will be impossible for ". J. Bryan to win this year on a free silver platform. Will Mir. Bryan take the hint and sacrifice his pet theory. or will he rush headlong to defeat.
 Heretofore California has had a sur plus of laborers who came to Arizona 70 seek employment. The tables are now turned and laborers are being sought in Arizona for that state.
 England has made regulations refus- ing admission to all foreign dogs. Billy Mason at once introduced a reso- lution of sympathy with the down trOdden canine race.
 Under the CIeveland-Wilsonr regime the factory chimneys were smOkeless. Under the Mckinley administration the people in cities are trying to solve the problem of the smoke nuisance" 7"
 It is calculated that 400 acres of timber are destroyed in the United States every day in the year. It would take a good many million arbor days to repair the damage already done.
 Some one has proposed Cleveland as democratic nominee for this fall. But he took care to do so anonymously, and the imagination fails to picture the fate of the man who shall attempt to put MT. Cleveland in nomination.
 Only six years ago Senator Hoar wrote political platform containing the following: 'Americanism every where; the flag never lowered or dis honored." The administration is to- day living up to that platform. but MT. H0ar doesn't appear to consider the Philippines embraced in everywhere" '"
 In 1879 there were S35.OOO.OOO of sil- yer in circulation. In 1900 there are SG29.OOO.O0O passing from hand to hand. This is important evidence bearing on the "crime of 'T3' which has been overlooked by Detective Bryan.
 The democratic ticket will be Bryan and Dewey. Bryan voted for Weaver, the greenbacker. in 1892 and Dewey never voted. That combination will cause the old Mossback to retch con tinuously.
 People who did not meddle with trusts will soon stand by and see them go to eternal smash. They built on foundations of sand and the sand is crumbling Business built on the solid rock of republican prosperity need not fear the coming storm.
 If the democrats had the least idea that Mckinley would take any action to help the Boers. they would be urg- ing him to keep his hands off. In other words, there is no sincerity in the cry that they are making. They are mere ly striving for a little sorely needed campaign timber.
 Even democrats learn something, oc- casionaIIy. Those in the senate have permitted the army reorganization bill to go through with only perfunctory objection. and now our coasts will be permitted to go to ruin for want of men to care for them.
 The democrats continue to insist that the republicans shall declare the minutest details of their policy toward the new possessions. II would be just as sensible to ask man to draw a chart of his intended movements in getting through a labrinth which he had never seen.
 For only the third time in three years, President Mckinley has vetoed an act of congress. Contrast this with the operations of Cleveland's diurnal veto mill. But then Mckinley is not given to fault finding. nor Is congress given to passing acts that ought to be vetoed.
 The treasury bureau of statistics has published figures showing tremendous increases abroad in the prices of raw materials used in this country for manufacturing purposes. In other words. the rise of prices here is not due to the exactions of trusts. but to the rise in value of imported raw ma terials.
 It is a queer thing that certain naval officers cannot understand that the way to iniure Schley is to cease talk ing about him. He is a very shallow fellow after all. who made several bad mistakes at Santiago and would never have been heard of afterward if it hadn't been for the bad tactics of his enemies. who have made people looked upon as a martyr.
 The navy personnel bill should be enforced in its entirely. When con gress passed il. it did not do so with the idea of turning all officers. both line and engineer, capable of attend ing to any duties whether on the decks or below them. Yet. a distaste for en- gineer duties and favoritism has en- abled about half the engineer corps to escape from their proper work. leaV- ing no one in their places except en- listed machinists. If this continues, American engineering in the navy will soon lose its high reputation,