Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-01-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

 try have every reason to look back to the closing years of the nineteenth century with pride and forward to the twentieth century with confidence.
 Mir. Cleveland's resolution to try to regain the leadership of the demo cratic party has not been enthusi- astically received by the Bryanites.
 Now that the powers have agreed to the demands to be made on China and have submitted them to the only accessible representatives of the Chinese government, no time should be wasted in seeing that they are complied with.
 Nobody knows, of course, that the decisi0p of the supreme court will up hold 'the constitutionality of Presi- dent McKinley's policy toward Porto Rico and the Philippines, but the fact that this policy was entered upon by the advice of some of the coun- try's ablest legal minds makes the probabilities all lean that way. When a pretty blonde woman en- tered the office of Grand Masonic Secretary Smythe, at Indianapolis, sad asked to be permitted to use his telephone, he very brusquely informed her that he was too busy to be both cred, whereat the handsome blonde shot him, from the effects of which he may die. This is MT. Smythe's story. He says he did not know the woman. His story is, however, dis credited in regard to this mysterious woman.
 News from the Philippines is bear ing out the prediction that peace would prevail on the islands as soon as the reelection of President Mo Kinley was understood by the rebel lOuc4S ldC1l4cO udtlfco.
 If the present management of the military academy at West Point isn't strong enough to enforce the regula- lions against bazing, one should be substituted that will be. While the charge that Cadet Booz died as the resultofhazing has not been substantia- ted, it has been fully proven that hazing of disgusting and disgrace ful nature is practiced among the Cadets. Common decency demands that an end be put to it.
 President Mckinley declined to pardon the notorious Cap. H. W. Howgate, whose prison sentence for embezzlement of government funds expired today, December g, and the president was right. Howgate es-
 ped deserved punishment for many Ears through "pull" with those who suobably shaped in his stealings, and when at last he was put on trial was clearly proven guilty. He has no just ciaim for restoration to citizenship. | There seems to be an epidemic of bank rotberies in the country just now-
 Ars Jenness Miller says that bad cooking is the result of more evil than money.
 Phenix is having tussle with de- f1it from its carnival. The big street show was not financial success.
 Hermosilbo, Mexico, is quite stirred uP oyer the arrest of a number of prominent citizens of that town. They were holding banquet in cafe and used seditious and Unreasonable talk and the police took them. It has been several years since Mexico had a genuine revolution, and these men no doubt thought to break the monot- ony of the occasion.
 The feeling in London over the re- cent victory of Dewet is divided be- tween chagrin at the repulse of the British troops and admiration for the man who accomplished it. The Lon don Times says: 1t would be un- - worthy of the British name to refuse the credit that is due to a feat of arms so brilliant as the unexpected dash backward of Dewet and his men through the British lines." It is said that there is springing up a philo- sophical indifference to the incapa- b;iity of generals in South Africa. Reverses have become the expected.
 In the January number of Me Clure's magazine there is a careful and vivid pen picture of the Emperor sWilliam, that most interesting figure of contemporary royalty. From this study by MT. Ray Stannard Baker the reader gains definite acquaintance with the man and the sovereign. A third article of merit is entitled t>Great Achievements of Modern Bridge Building" Here MT. Frank W. Skinner, c. E., relates many mar vels in this most marvellous branch of modern engineering, and We learn just why it is that America leads the world in this work.
 Clubbing a drunk half to death is speciality of New York policemen, and aa,Xsl. known newspaper man there
 Iven the same dose by half
 h policemen because he dared to
 lest. As long as the people of
 At town keep Tammany on top they will get no better government.
 Jerry Simpson might give MT. Bryan few pointers on how to head of the rush of intending subscribers to his paper.
 The certainty that the senate will act favorably upon the army reorgani- zation bill, already passed by the house, has caused a large number of applications to be filed in Washing ton by young men who would like to