Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-01-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

oiOA NOuAAuAeeCC bO LlSthO d 1dNOldDlC report on the bill for the establish ment of permanent pension court of appeals.
 How popular President Mckinley is personally is shown by the cor diality of the press comments on his recovery from the grip.
 The democratic party will have changed for the better if its leaders do not sheer at the decision of the supreme court, should it uphold the constitutionality of President McKin- ley's policy toward our island posses sions, as it probably will. They have always done so when the court has decided against their contentious.
 Perhaps Mir. Bryan will devote some editorial attention to the Hill boom, which has so boldly taken the road for 1904.
 Secretary Wilson says no class of our people will be more benefited by the ship subsidy bill than our farm CTS, who are now handicapped by the lack of ocean shipping facilities and by the high freights.
 The Carnegie Steel company is pre- pairing so spend S3,OOO,OOO in extend ing its blast furnaces at Rankin, Pa, which is a substantial indication of its belief in the continuance of pros perity.
 In advocating the division of Yava- pal county and the creation of Clark county, the Phenix Gazette. after re- counting the advantages possessed by the town of Jerome, says: "The town possessing these qualifications, with a desire to expand will come before the legislature and ask it to divide Yavapai county and allow Jerome and its neishbors to conduct a county gov ernment of their own. The proposed new county has all the necessary qualifications for such a step" The new county as proposed would take in the cream of the old county, leav- ing little for it to raise its revenue from, outside of the town of Prescott. A line run around the town, three miles on each side from it, would be a more acceptable division than the one proposed.
 D. B. Hill seems to have come out with tolerable definetness as a candi- date for the democratic nomination of S04 That is one reason why we think that he will not be a candidate when the time comes. David B. is too foxy to expose himself to fire for four years if he really meant it.
 We cant understand why scientists consider it necessary to circulate dam aging reports in regard to the female , mosquitos Surely, they know that her reputation is already as bad as can possibly be.
 MT. Bryan wants the democratic party reformed from within. This is the same old plea against reform that we hear in such cases. No party ever was reformed except by defeat that is from the outside.
 Henceforth the United States will refund the tips that United States of fcers pay to stewards at sea and the Pullman porters on land. The comp troller says that if the officers didn't cough up these fees they wouldn't get anything to eat, and consequently he ranks them under the head of ''neces- sary personal expenses"
 The Santa Fe railroad company now uses about 60,OOO barrels of crude oil per month for fuel on its engines.
 The associated students of Stan ford university held a meeting re- gently and by resolutions unanimous ly adopted, endorsed the actions and course of President Jordan in the re- cent dismissal of certain professors.
 A great many people seem to get freedom of speech mixed up with li- cense for all manner of villifcation and abuse. This is noticeablv the case in the case of the Stanford pro- fesfors, recently dismissed for utter ances derogatory to the memory the founder of that institution as well as disrespectful and insulting to the woman who is put ting up the money for its mainte- nance. Freedom of speech carried out to its logical conclusion as advo- cated by a number of papers, would mean the teaching of the doctrine of anarchy, treason, sedition and every thing else that is baneful, if it suited the professors will to do so. There IS limit to decency in the exercise of free speech, and some of the Stan ford professors passed the boundary line, and if that institution is to lose its usefulness, as is reported by some papers through their dismissal. it would certainly have done so very soon by retaining them. A self re- specting man and one who has re- spect for the feelings of others would never have been guilty of making such speeches as some of them indulged in.
 A Santa Ana,- California. man has been sentenced to twenty days in jail for refusing to cut down shade trees in front of his residence by order of the city council of that place. He ayers that he will rot in jail before he will cut the trees down.
 It really seems that Boni ought to have been born confidence man. His little plan of buying antiques on credit and selling them at once for cash Is just the sort of thing that