Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-03-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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 The wisdom of the Porto Rican tar if act is shown by the fact that the legislature there decided not to repeal it, being unable to find any other convenient means for raising the money needed for running expenses.
 The populist senators have moved body and brooches into the democrat ic camp by attending caucus of that party. There is some doubt whether the men who elected them will now look upon them as amslgamators or simply as traitors.
 Give Teddy chance. He is new at the business and has never claimed to be up on it. Before the end of his term, we'll warrant him to make the old fellows in the senate sit up very straight.
 Of all the foolish things, commend us to the recent action of the Sultan of Turkey in sending for an expert American geologist to prospect his territory for gold mines. If the ex- pert finds anything worth owning, how long will the Sultan be allowed to control iti Certainly not longer than the wind-up of the Boer war, and probably not so long.
 Talk about demonetizing silver. It won't be long before we shall have to demonetize gold and put aluminium or some other scarce metal in its place. The output of gold is really getting so large that before long it will be as cheap as silver used to be.
 Imagine the feelings of John Dovey, who found out few minutes after enlisting in the navy that he was one of ten heirs to fortune of A,0OO,- 900.
 Neither one of the thirteen new sen stors sworn in by Vice President Roos- evelt, just after his own inauguration, believes that the "hoodoo" applies to 3 him.
 A recent dispatch from Phenix states that the General Electric com pany of New York city has just closed a deal covering group of eighty-two mines near Metcalf. The amount in volved is over a million dollars, and the mines, copper properties, belonged to many different parties. The trans action is believed to indicate that the electric concern will go into the cop per business on its own account in the effort to break the combine.
 The Denver Mining Reporter, in the following, recognizes the invaluable work of the department of mineralogy of Arizona is performing: Among the many good things that Arizona pos sesses, not the least, by a very long way, is the school of mines depart ment of it's university at Tue son. More than this the faculty of the school seems to be constantly giving out desirable bits of informa- ton as to the mineral resources of the territory. Arizona prospectors and mining men, when they run across something new, appear to have acquir- ed the habit of sending a sample to Prof. Blake of the school, or, when they discover a phenomenon about which they want more light, the kindly old gentleman at Tucson is the first man applied to. And the latter seems to be never happier than when meeting such calls upon him. A re- cent example is the detection of bis mith in some minerals sent to the school by prospector. A little while ago the alum deposits near Globe were determined by the same author ity, and further back we recall valua- ble caution given as to the reported platinum discoveries in the northern part of the territory.
 Since its organization, the United States has lost only about one-twent- ieth of one per cent. of its income through defaulting officers. No com parative figures are at hand, but this seems to be record that is hard to equal.
 Our citizens cannot give to much credit and praise to Messrs. Andrews, Blair, Burns, Campbell, Fordl Shannon and Ives for their manly an courageous defense of Yavapai county against the lobby of boosters and henchmen of W. A. Clark and H. J. Allen, in their attempt to divide the county. Some of these gentlemen made the fight at great sacrifice, be- cause they believed it to be just and right, and further, because they de, sired to show to their constituents and the world that Arizona had at least one legislature that could not be boodled or bulldozed into doing that which they knew to be wrong. The Journal-Miner takes of its hat to such men, regardless of party.
 The country slid out of one admin istration into another with less fric tion than has resulted since the earli- est days of the republic. Not even a storm about the new cabinet disturbed the serenity of the political sea. It all went by and over as if it had been planned so from the beginning, and, strange to say, there is only one man m the United States who is seriously disappointed at the turn things have taken in the last year-a broken down lawyer, editor of a weekly journal, written in the first person singular very singular by name William Jen- nings Bryan.-El Paso Herald.
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