Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Census figures show that the in
 crease in manufactures in the past decade has caused the factories to
 grow by half. More specifically,
 there has been a A per cent increase in the number of establishments. and Ia 5l per cent increase in the amount of capital invested.
 Colonel Bryan's ablest lieutenant abroad, Mir. Frewen, in a speech at Denver last week said: "The battle of silver has been fought and lost, andthe losers can we'll afford to ac= cept defeat with good humcr." There is certainly something of humor in the admission at this late date.
 The London Chronicle says that America really has no use for the Danish West Indies, nor for any of the West Indian Islands. even for financial advantage but that we are influenced by the idea of rounding of the estate" That may be, but the call of common humanity was the prime moving factor.
 The total imports fer the past cal endar year we're valued at SSSO, ,4OO,- 600, and the exports, S1 ,465, ,499,OO leaving a balance of trade in our fav- or of S5S5,O0O,0O0. This is the big gest export year in the history of the country, and the shipments to Hawaii and Porto Rico, which used to be chased as exports, are now listed as domestic trade, which would tend to make the exports appear smaller than they otherwise would compare with former years.
 The question of smelter for Pres colt is being agitated again and may assume tangible shape. What this section needs at present is reduc- tion plant with all the modern up- to-date appliances capable of hand ling successfully all kinds of ore. With such plant wonderful progress would be made in the development of our mines and a large reduction plant could be supplied with all the ore and concentrates it could handle. Parties with an abundance of capital have the proposition under consider ation and it may result in the erection of such plant here.
 In spite of the sombre colors with which the democrats are painting narrowing scenes in the Philippines, they cannot gainsay that the estab- lishment of good courts of justice, ex- cellent schools,good roads and harbor improvements, is big advance over anything the islands had previously known. And when they consider the 100000 acres of the most valuable timber lands in the world, to say nothing of the mines and other nat ural products, they can hardly help admitting that the S20,OO0,0OO paid for the Philippines is quite as good a bargain as the S7,OOOOOO paid for Alaska.
 Referring to the tariff discussions arising from the needs of our depen- dencies, it may be suggested that the American people believe in pro- tection because it protects many, and not because it may enrich few.
 With wool at present prices it is little wonder that sheepmen are mak- ing such strenuous efforts to get Uncle Sam to furnish them free pas ture on his forest reserves. They are not to be blamed, and the only regret of the writer is that he is not in the sheep business just now.
 President Roosevelt has rendered his decision in the Schley appeal case. He affirms the finding of the three admirals who tiled the case, and of Secretary Long who reviewed the case. He condemns the movement | of the Brooklyn in making the cele- brated loop, and says the fight was a fight throughout, as they fought without any orders except the general orders previously issued by Admiral Sampson in command of the 
 Senator Platt of Connecticut, staunch protectionist, says that Cuba's present necessities must not be obscured by partisan questions, and that we must let Cuba become busy and prosperous. The democrats are trying to preempt the credit for the proper concessions which will be allowed the Antilles. But justice to Cuba, and the prosperity that is sure to follow that justice is linked with the destiny and the glory of the re- publican party.
 A Brooklyn physician has offered himself as a subject of vivisection, saying that he has carefully consid- cred the value of his life, and has ar rived at the conclusion that his great est service will be as a sacrifice to the good of mankind. The only condi- tion of this strange offer is that his family be provided for when the ex- periments prove fatal. Another phy- sician ironically suggests that the first operation should be the remov- ng of the brain. Yivasection of a human being could hardly be car -ied out, as the subject would be lia- ole to arrest for attemp'si suicide, nd the operators for murder in a ,ase of fatal results. f