Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-06-18

The Journal-Murphy should never step to the front to talk on the labor question. - Courier. It has been quite noticeable for some time that our contemporary is not pleased with the Journal-M in calling down the preposterous assertions made by its aforesaid contemporary.
 The democratic papers which again raise the cry of ''truculent syco phancy" anent the gift of statue ey Emperor William should come to their senses and realize that Euro pean friendliness to this country is more likely to mean the spread of re- publican principles than the decay of them.
 The democrats are saying that ii they get a sound platform and then have all the divisions of the party vote for it they may win at the next national election. This is like the Irish doctor who remarked that if his patient lived until morning he might pull through; but if he did not there was no hope for him.
 The democrats hoped to present a solid front of opposition to the re- publicans in congress and thus i strengthen their cause with the coun- try. but the habits of eight years of continual strife could not be shaken of and their different ''isms" have provoked schisms that point toward republican success.
 Dean Swift, in "Gulliver's Travels, made the most remarkable fore-shad- owing of a coming event that has ever been recorded. He spoke of the ] discovery of the two moons of Mars and gave the time of their reya'utioa> Ialmostly exactly, 200 years 5e!ort 1 they were discovered by the big tele
 scope at the Washington Maya observatory.
 John Wanamaker was recently pre-
 sented to the Emperor of Germany
 and disregarding ceremony, shooI
 the Emperor'5 hand, saying: ''I an
 glad to meet such an enterprisins man: that is just the kind of thing
 we admire in America" The con
 versation continued in this tone, tn, Emperor seeming to enjoy it. Late he remarked to member of his suit "In all my life no one ever talked t
 me like tkat.'
 Out contemporary gets of the fol lowing pessimistic assertion in It
 issue this morning-an assertion ? which is neither justified by existin,
 conditions or endorsed by the peopl
 referred to: "The laboring man i
 America today finds it hard work t h keep soul and body together, on aC e count of the high prices fixed on th i necessities of life by the trusts, an d the trusts are the creation of a hig | protective tariff.
 ] If it be a fact that the meat pac
 CTS of Chicago, by the use of the raj - way tracks, find that they can g !, along with D per cent less drive n than they did before the recent strik n the striking teamsters will find tn
 they have been firing a gun tn
 kicks like a mule. In starting in ( . a campaign in this world, it is well ' take a long look ahead, for fear the T. may be small hole there, which 'i will be difficult to crawl out of. I'll e applies to politicians as well
 strikers.-Albuquerque Citizen.
 Now that congress has commirtt '' the government to a system of n tional irrigation, it may be expect' 'o that George Maxwell will claim u i' credit of Respecting that the pc ,1 I9 pie of the west will forget his rab III Ill speeches of the last few montl 0' against the bill.-Republican. as Should Maxwell do as predict' CT by the republicans, he would s' simply following in the footsteps Is some illustTiOus Arizonans who ha' y been known to oppose certain thinI E up to the point where it was appa ne ent that further opposition would
 useless. and then when the obje s- which they opposed was an accor ,d plishcd fact have veered aroun - claimed the entire credit for accor of plishiug 1t. There are some que to pcorle in this world who's selis sd mass and self esteem often lea!s the lt into most glarinS contradictions al
 inconsistencies.