Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-03


 The president has given General Miles permission to go to the Philip pines. Does this mean another army scandal? General Miles has been an expert in creating trouble of late.
 It is possible that the president will convene congress in extra session in November unless a solution is forthcoming of the troubles that con- front Cuba and our own country over the proposed issue of Cuban bonds and the causes it is believed make their issue a necessity.
 Senator Willard, of Nebraska, is credited with being in favor of the beet sugar men and their interests, and, as a consequence, has been figured on as an anti-administration man, but he sets all speculation at rest by announcing that he is for Ne braska and Roosevelt, beet sugar or no beet sugar.
 The navy department has accom- plished work of saving to the gov ernment and of thoughtful care for the sailors and marines who need transportation between New York and San Francisco by securing the very advantageous rate of S2S.75 per man, as against irregular fare of from S75 to SS5 for regular passengers and sleeping car rate of S6 instead of the regular $50.
 Mrs. Clolie c. Todd, sister-in- law of Abraham Lincoln. died last week in New Orleans. Her husband was killed at the battle of Shiloh while serving in the Confederate army. Mrs. Todd is said to have had several spirited arguments with President Lincoln on political questions. For the last twenty years she has held a position in the U s. mint at New Or leans.
 The finances of this territory have been handled by republicans almost ever since it was organized as a terri tory.-Courier. A truth half told is sad to be worse than a falsehood. The above is truth half told. While it is a fact that the territorial finances have been handled by re- publicans, with the exception of the periods when Grover Cleveland was president, it is fact, that they have been handled economically and in a business like manner, and the rate of taxation was reduced this year by the republicans in charge. It is not territorial taxation. but county taxa tion, which is gnawing at the very financial vitals of the tax payer. As financial managers the republicans are all right. They have proven this both in national and local affairs.
 Senator Hanna addressed an audi snce of 10000 people recently on Labor and Capital" He handled the subject as a master, and not as it has heretofore been handled by the partisan friends of either. Among the pertinent things he said were: ''The laboring man is entitled to a greater share of the profits of indus try" "Workers arc right in more than 50 per cent of the strikes Or ganized labor and organized capital are here to stay"
 The harmonizing of the various factions at the Iowa state convention and the determination of all to work for the good of the party and the country is wormwood to democrats.
 The care with which the president has guarded the interests of the coun- try in giving his consent to the lay ing of the new Pacific cable shows a high grade of statesmanship, backed by the firmest kind of loyalty and pa triotism.
 Col. Clarence Edwards, chief of the insular bureau Of the war de- partment, says he can and will pre- pare refutation of all the charges made by the anti-imperialists at their Lake George convention and when completed will publish them in parallel columns.
 The ocean trip by Secretary Moody, Representative Cannon and the members of congress to witness the sham battles on the coast, was not at government ex- pense, and here is another oppor tunity the opposition press will lose of Delng made temporarily happy.
 The problem of d supply of timber for railroad ties is becoming quite a serious one. Millions of ties per an mum are required for building new railroads and for replacing ties in those already built. While there are still forests of virgin timber left in some sections of the country, the transportation to the points needed is the serious question. The Big Four company has been experiment. ing for about five years with the question Of raising their own supply. They have secured tracts of land along the line of their road and have planted this land with cataIpa trees. It is estimated that it will take fifteen years for them to grow big enough io be manufactured into ties. Their oldest trees are now five years old.