Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-09-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

lhe Shrlners on new Mexico an ex.
pect a royal time wnon the caravan
starts In this city on it's way to Mecca.
io time Will be October II.
II Ia estimated that between 10000
aud $4,000 persons have ueen massa.
cred by Turks IN Monastir since the In.
urrectlon began, and $4,000 persons
are hiding IN the mountains.
San Juan county can lake the blue
ribbon on fruit at the territorial fair
u the people up there make the proper
exhibit San Juan county Is the ban
1er fruit country OF the southwest.
The revised list OF Fourth OF July
casualties shows DDS people killed and
i.4i9 wounded. A war between two
world-powers could be waged nova
days with no more disastrous results.
El Paso is growing in civic pride
and public spirit. I'he city IS going
after that next national irrigation con.
srcss In the Albuquerque way OF doing
things, and here hoping success will
crown their efforts.
That irrigation congress at Ogden.
Utah. next week. will be one OF the
most important conventions that has
ever assembled in the west. and its ac-
lions will do much toward Fastening
the irrigation O. the arid region.
Nobody ever saw n man who brings
ms jaws together when he talks as
President Roosevelt uoes who didn't
believe IN himself; and man who he.
ueves In himself without reservation
Is pretty certain 10 make people be.
.eve in nlm.
The Deming Headlight recently pub
nshed an absolutely false SANDER upon
New Mexico, winch is being copied by
all the press opposed to statehood for
the territory. Deming Is one OF tne
best towns In New Mexico, and It's peo-
pie are progressive and enterprising.
rhe course OF the Headlight certainly
cannot be approved by the people o.
that community.
only four weeks till the Territorial
fair. Let's get busy getting every
thing ready.
San Juan county will have fine en-
nibit at the Territorial fair. The
rimes-Hustler is in charge. and says
that it will see 10 having the exhibit
transported to Albuquerque.
The cod fisheries of the Lofoden Is
lands. on the west coast of Norway.
are the CHIEF source of cod-liver oil
supply for medical purposes. The
ttCh lie
900 barrels year.
Now that Union veterans are dying
at the rate OF 40 900 year. the growi.
ers about the pension list feel better.
Some persons are unhappy to think
that the government should bestow
few dollars month on an old soldier
who, in mis- early manhood, risked his
life to save his country
In the year just closed, says John
MitchelI, labor has Won numerous
victories. both by strikes and by nego-
tiations, but, better still, labor and
capital learned many lessons. chiefly
to respect the rights, the obligations
and the duties of each to the other
and OF both to socle,y."
According to the latest national cen
sus the Germans in the nineteen lnrg.
est American cities number 2,7S3,5S2.
or more than third Of all the Ger
mans in the country. Milwaukee
heaas the list in ratio, with 15l,040
Germans, or o29 per cent oil its total
population. Cincinnati Is second, with
1873, 79S. or 4s.s per cent. and st. Louis
is third, with 207,514, or oo.1 per cent.
Mr.. G. Oliver Iselin and his asso-
ciates in the syndicate formed some
years ago for the defense OF the Am
erica cup, announce that they are done
with the business and that hereafter
somebody else will have to protect the
venerable relic. There is a wei! de-
| fined belief in this country that busi-
ness would go on just the same, and
the government would continue to ex'
list, were there to be no more yacht
races.
Don't fool away your money on in
vestment companies. When a man
represents that his company will pay
| you thirty or fifty per cent in ninety
days or year on some bond scheme,
| don't you believe MIN. The country
| is full of fellows who can make for
tunes for other people but never make
a cent for themselves. These concerns
| have no way OF making year dollar
| into two dollars ny series of loans
Some fellew is going to get left in the
| deal.
Twelve rioters who tried TO lynch a
negro in Illinois will go TO the peni
Tertiary. That the sure way to put
an end to moo violence.
Delegate Wilson OF Arizona is re
ported to be strenuously opposed to
the creation OF a state out OF the ter
ritories OF New Mexico and Arizona.
The Territorial Bureau OF Immigra
ton has issued a valuable pamphlet
descriptive OF San Juan county. The
pages are neatly illustrated and the
subject matter is well written.
The death rate in the German army
is only 2.32 per LEGO. 1t could be re
duced almos, to zero by putting a stoI
to duelling and to tine practice among
the petty officers OF killing the pri
Yates.
Government experiments In growing
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