Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-17

man can favor prohibition and be a democrat, We rather suspect that the Tucson Citizen is trying to crowd Brother Hughes of the Tucson Star over the rafting from the democratic ship Hughes is publishing demo- cratic paper in the same town the Citizen is published.
 In resigning because his proposed campaign for the senate will take up all his time aud prevent his giving faithful service to the government, Controller Dawes has hit the consti- tutional office seeker the worse sort of a jolt. There'l be nothing in politics if this sort of thing spreads.
 MrBryanannounces that he stil stands firmly by the Chicago and Kansas City platforms. Doesn't he rember what happened to another boy who stood on a burning deck!
 { The British method of renting chairs in the public parks has had brief but glorious trial in New York. Tam many speedily found that it had bit ten off more than it could chew when it tried that little game.
 The most severe criticisms of Gen. eral Sickles' ill advised letter to the President are to be found among his own comrades of the G. A. R. They need not be afraid, however. No one will believe that they needed any promises to induce them to vote against Bryan last fall.
 No republican believes in free trade: indeed, few democrats any longer do so. But thousands Of republicans do believe in taking the tariff off arti- cles that can be sold abroad, transpor- tation paid, cheaper than in the Uni ted states. When steel billetts pay SIP ton for carriage and are sold abroad for Sl less than in the United States, it is time that some thing was done.
 Kentucky will produce 25,OOO,OOO gallons of whisky this year. And yet Col. Jack Chinn has sworn of.
 The president announces that he will issue his proclamation giving free trade to Porto Rico very soon. Thus his conception of plain duty has been carried out soberly, wisely and with out precipitating any troubles on our new island.
 Many democrats in both the Ala bama and Virginia state conventions seem to have become frightened by the radical nature of some of the dis franchisement proposals.
 Democrats who accuse republicans of being afraid of the tariff question have short memories. The record of the republican party shows that it has never been afraid of any public ques- tion.
 The government kept its promise to the letter and the volunteer army of the United States ended its exiss. tence June 30, but the fact seems to have been overlooked by the editors who were wildly charging a year ago that the volunteer army was to be used to throttle our liberties.
 South Carolina and the federal gov ernment have a dispute over the ques- ton of whether the state is legally required to pay the United States special tax as wholesale and retail liquor dealers. Exemption is claimed because the dispensary is conducted by the state. but United States off cials contend that as the state is in the liquor business it must comply with laws for the regulation of that business, just as individuals are com pelled to do.
 The Bakersfield Echo takes the fol- lowing cheerful view of the oil sitIIa- tion in the Kern river valley: "The low valuations placed on the product of the local oil fields by those inter- ested in sending the price still lower is not in the least discouraging to those holding the largest interests. It will not continue long and even now the outlook is very encouraging fol revival of active development work before the fall season sets in. The market is rapidly expanding, the list of consumers is daily growing larger and it is only a matter of a short time until there is a demand for all the oil that can be produced in the state. There is cer- tainly wonderful future for the oil industry in California"
 he lates Here's tt. An Indiana bar Der has married twins, being divorced from one to marry the other. Now, when he dies, his wives will be twin relicts of barber-ism." Look out. Don't shoot,
 If the democrats read all the men out of the party who endorse expan- sion and sound money there will soon