Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-12-03
More schools, more, railroads a

more newspapers" are what ex- Chinese Minister Wu says are the pressing needs of China.
 Col. Tom Ochiltree of Texas is dead. He was member of the forty eighth congress and was sixty-tive years old at the time of his death.
 The press is publishing an article on "The Presidency" written by President Roosevelt three years ago. It is rare thing for a man to have written and talked as much as has the president, and yet to have said so little that can be quoted against him. In fact everything quoted at tests his honesty and candor as man and bis wisdom as a statesman.
 There is more rejoicing in certain quarters over one republican candi- date that was lost at the re- cent election, than over a score that were elected. The victim was Con gressman Loud of California of pos tai fame. While no one questions MT. Loud's ability or his honesty of purpose, he has antagonized great many employees of the postal de- partment. That his defeat was due entirely to their opposition is not ap parent, but they no doubt assisted in it.
 Officers of the cruiser New York became quite indignant at Honolulu over the espionage of the collector of customs of that port on the occasion of visit there recently by the big warship. The collector placed a guard at the gate leading to the wharf. It is said that on the cruiser there were thousands of dollars worth of curios from China and Japan which the officers expected to land in Honolulu, and then ship to San Francisco, thus avoiding duty.
 The following from the Los An geles Times will be endorsed by a very large percentage of the citizens of the United States: "Gen. Jacob H. Smith is moving for reinstatement in the army, and he ought to win. He was made sacrifice to popular clamor and the petulance of the anti imperialists, who did not know what they were talking about. General Smith was one of the best soldiers and the most gallant officers in the service, and it is a shame that he was made scapegoat. All fair minded Americans will agree with tke Times that this fine officer, who had been made to suffer the indignitv of dis missal from the service, should at least have a hearing looking to his reestablishment in his old position. Even if republics be ungrateful, they cannot afford to be unfair. Let us be just though the stars fall and the sun burns out in yonder sky"
 Secretary Root recently performed an unpleasant duty which should earn for him the respect of all think ing Americans. A retiring board found that an officer was suffering from chronic alcoholism and recom- mended that he be retired. The sec retary ordered him discharged say ing: "The evidence shows that the officer was suffering from chronic alcoholism and on at least one recent occasion had been drunk on duty. These are not grounds for placing an officer on the retired list and SUD- porting him in idleness for the rest of his life, at the expense of the country, but they are grounds for dismissing him from the service which he has disgraced." The sec retary is to be commended, but the country is not to be congratulated, for congress will doubtless pass d bill restoring him to the retired list with increased pay.