Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-21

very poor imitation of the original. It
 lacks humor, as was evidently intend cd; is d failure as a sample of good
 burlesque, and taken altogether, is about as senseless an article as has
 been printed in an Arizona paper.
 'If the steel workers and their
 friends had voted for their own inter
 ests at the last national election, they
 would not now be on strike" says
 the Courier. If this means anything,
 (which is to be doubted) it is an inti-
 nation that, if the steel workers had
 voted the democratic ticket at the last
 national election, there would be no
 strike. If this is the case our con-
 temporary evidently draws his de-
 ductions from the history of the past
 and is certainly justified in the asser-
 ton. During the last democratic ad-
 ministration, for instance, it will be
 remembered that there was scarcity
 of strikes among workmen. Business
 was on strike, however, and work
 men were hunting jobs. There is no good reason to dispute our contempo-
 rary's intimation thai the same condi-
 tions would be existing now, had democracy been successful at the last
 national election, and hence there would be no strikes such as exist at
 present, but Coxey armies would again be the order of the day.
 According to the New York Her aid, the Monroe doctrine is in serious danger from the Columbian Venzue- Ian difficulties. We wish the Herald would explain. So far as we know, the trouble is one of the usual opera bouffe scraps that are always occur ing down there.
 How can Germany or Great Britain declare tariff war against usi Their ships carry our exports and imports alike. A tariff war might injure us; but it would ruin their enormous feet owning interests.
 It is interesting to see the Courier wiggle as the democratic conventions over the country are turning Bryan's picture to the wall. It tells its read CTS that it is local issues. Well; it may be, but our contemporary can not make the democrats of Arizona believe it, as fortunately they take other democratic papers.
 An Albuquerque man 104 years old was run down and killed by a loco motive few days ago. No telling how long he would have lived if he had kept out of the way of that loco motive.
 It's a pity that South American revolutions were so bloodless. If they were more fatal, there probably wouldn't be so many of them.
 "We remember that the Journal Murphy was an advocate of free silver" says our contemporary. The Journal-Miner also remembers that Towne, Newlands and a mighty host | of other democrats and pops advo- cated free silver who have long since such advocacy. It is gratifying to note that even our con temporary is coming around and ac cording to his own admission only awaits an official expression of opinion on the subject from national demo- cratic convention to abandon the corpse. The Journal Miner, which has always been republican, did not do what the Courier denounced demo- crats for doing its party be- cause it entertained opinions on one subject differing from that of the party platforms.
 It seems worth while to consider just what that court of inquiry is to decide. Certainly not whether or no Schley was a coward-no one really believes this; nor whether it was he to whom the credit of the victory should yo-this is not in question at all. It will merely decide whether or no he vas guilty of errors of judgment in he campaign-and that is all it will lecide.
 Of all insects the plagiarism hunter S the most useless and contemptible. $ t is the dress, not the idea, that f counts. Shakespeare stole every one f # his plots, yet the books from which I le stole them now exist only in some q nouldy corner of a library, while c Shakespeare lives in the full light of f lay. r
 In his speech at Colorado Springs, c lice President Roosevelt gave utter q nee to sentiment which will find a l. echo in the mind of every f rue American citizen when he said: n "To be a good husband or a good s  fife, a good neighbor and friend; to e hard working and upright in busi- ess and social relations; to bring lany healthy children-to be and to o all this, is to lay foundations of u ood citizenship as they must be laid. - tut we cannot stop even with this. :, ,ach of us has not only his duty to imself, his family and his neighbors, T ut his duty to the state and to the =, ation. We are in honor bound to rive each in his or her strength to ring ever nearer the day when jus ce and wisdom shall obtain in pub c life as in private life. We cannot tain the full measure of our self ,spect if we cannot retain pride in IT rcitizenship. For the sake ofnoto only Irselves but of our children and our lildren's children we must see that lis nation stands for strength and Dnesty both at home aud abroad.