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


 Pierpont Morgan has planned tn, greatest union labor and capital evel devised. Millions of dollars of tn, United States Steel stock have beer set aside to be sold to employees al inside figures and it is proposed that every employee shall become stock holder and proportionate sharer ir the profits. The scheme is in exten. sive operation in the Carnegie works and has been in contemplation foI some time.
 "A newspaper correspondent tele, graphing from Bakersfield, California, says that twenty inches of rain fell there in half an hour.
 Berlin papers complain that Von Waldersee is talking too much. The National Zeitung says: All the glory crowned commanders of our great wars of 1866 and 1870 together did not talk so much about these wars as Count von Waldersee has talked regarding the China campaign, which was insignificant from amilitary point of view"
 Senator W. A. Clark of Montana is not bad sortof fellow. His great est misfortune is having so much money. However, he deserves credit for using vast sums in the develop ment of the west" ."3Albuquerque Git izen. How about the west deserving great credit for the millions it has contributed to himi
 Colonel Roosevelt is the logical can didate of the west for president in 1904.-Albuquerque Citizen. We sec ond the motion.
 Our contemporary wiggles out of the corner in which it has been plac- ed by the Journal-Miner by repeating its attack on Cover nor Murphy for some alleged veto of his several years ago, and by thresh- ing over its old straw in reference to capitol appropriation" "black lists, , etc, which it has kept in stock for use in just such emergencies for the past five or six years. Nearly two columns of this stuff, liberally inter spersed with Journal-Murphy, appears this morning.
 The Emergency Hospital in Wash ingtou is making strong effort to secure automobiles instead of ambu- lances drawn by horse power for its service. The reasons given for the change are cogent. It is stated that as things are, horse used for this work lasts little more than year, in spite of the best of care and treat ment. The rush orders" in summer are numerous, and the horses are often compelled to travel on the jump for a mile or two and back, in the heat of the day, on account of the number of heat prostrations which oc cur at that time. The hospital au- thorities say that if they could have
 If the 60,OOO workmen on strike against the steel trust would save 9 cents a day for six months-as such l well paid workmen could easily do-I they could come very near getting control of the entire corporation at | the present prices at which its stock is listed in the market. Then the steel trust would become a co-opera- tive association.
 J. J. Van Alen is tobe decorated by King Edward for nursing British sol diers. N. B. NIT. Van Allen is an American who kept religiously at home during our own war.
 A telegram from Norfolk, Virginia says: "The democratic state conven- tion today nominated A. J. Montague. present attorney general of Virginia, for governor. MT. Montague was nominated by exclamation. After an hour of uproar and disorder, which required the services of the sergeant at arms and some police officers to quell, the convention nominated Jos r eph E. Willard for lieutenant-govern or, over Dr. George W. Lecato, the candidate of the tidewater section. The convention adjourned after mid night, amid great confusion, with the ticket incomplete. So far as known there will be no mention of W. J. Bryan or free silver in the platform. Free silver is dead issue. It met it's Gettysburg in 1896 and its Water loo in 19OO.'" Courier please copy. The democratic state platform re- gently adopted by Pennsylvania , democrats deals wholly with local is sues, and they have plenty of busi- ness at home to attend to.-Courier. : The democrats of Pennsylvania paid heir respects to national affairs to the |, <@ 5z6 zz7zl5 EEz11 zA