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Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
Voice of the Coast Press

migh, brcomc France hostile, and ,b,. the navy of Great Britain mus, kept up To inc combined equpmr. of any two nations whatsoever. with .| little lccway of superiority.
 The matter of numerical units meas, nothing in modern warfare at ss, One Japanese ship practically defe, ed ,he whole Russian fleet in the bal tie in the straits. Displacement a,,| guns are the standard. Displacem,-| alone means nothing. An unarmed Il poorly armed floating mass, no ma,,-| how large. would not be an cTeet,.| fighting machine. Assuming that th.| displacement is well protected wt,,| proper armor and equipped with pro, CT guns for oncnscivc use agains, ,L.| enemy. We nave standard of nav, force worthy of confidence.
 At least 5O per cent of the EnqHa| ships of today arc considered as "u. gible quantities. The French nav, is not looked upon as one of great ., fciency. all things considered.
 So we come to have Germany ar, the United States combined in naval equipment as the standard for En, land to maintain. There are in ,A. British navy at least three ships of |, type not excclcd, hardly equaled. Ii, q short time these will be increased t, five. But Germany is construc,r, vessels of this highest type. We hav. some in comission that are close 10 ts. mark, some building as good as sry in view, and are about 10 lay down {, couple superior in displacement, srmo, and armament to anything on the ss or likely to he when these arc in con mission.
 If England is to keep pace with ts. combined naval development of G. many and the United States the tst set before her is enormous, and ,E, cost will go long way toward bank rupting tne people.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
PASSING or FORAKER.

With the passing of Senator Joseph Benson Foraker from public life on March 4th next, the senate will lose one of its grandest orators of recent times. Ignoring the valuable service the Ohio statesman has rendered as a framer of legislation, the flood of fine oratory he has turned loose in that august chamber would be sufficient to stamp him in history as a man of high accomplishment. The very announce ment that Senator Foraker intended to speak on pending measure or public question always served Co fll the sen. ate galleries with his admirers, while on the floor he always commanded the respectful attention of his colleagues, Republicans and Democrats alike.
 Those who heard his burning words m calling on the American people 10 crush out the rule of Spain in Cuba some ten years ago in the senate carry a vivid memory of that occasion. He spoke with the fire, enthusiasm and determination of n man, inspired, and there is no doubt that his word pic. lures of nte wrongs endured by the
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
UNaRATEFUL REFORM.

To imprison member of parliament for six months for instituting n hoy. rott is not without its interesting fep. iprcs, even in King Edwards staid realm, consequently wlcn that fate lefcll one recently it created some. thing of stir Mr. James P. Farrell. q Natioral'st member from North LoHVfori, Ireland, is the unfortunate N r. He conduct, newspaper in his hone county, and, in defiance of n courts order, hc published the an. rouncenents of hoycotts against three political enemies Mir. Farrcll's ease
 s similar in many respects to that of opr own Mir. Samuel Gomprrs, presi' dent of the American Federation of Labor, whose recent sentence created widespread N interest in lahor and so-
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
IMPRAcTIcABLE REFORMS.

Every age has its evils, and we sup. pose evils will always crop out wherev. CT mankind undertakes to accomplish anything. The cure of evils, accord. ing to the judgment of history, is al. ways accomplished by their own inhe. rent power of rectifcation. History enshrlncs great names, but they are he names of failures as q rule, men who have had great ideas that they could not accomplish because their idens were premature. The names of historical successes are those who have found conditions ripe for their little effort of improvement, and it can ms. nhliy be deduced that the improvement would have occurred anyhow, had the commanding personality been absent.
 This is, perhaps, a sharp fling at some modern rcformers, who imagine that their personalities are of epoch making weight, forgctful that epochs always make themselves.
 We have in mind the more impulsive efforts or suggestions, the disposition to jump at remedies without delibera- ton upon the practical conditions un- der which remedies must operate There are many wrongs in finance, but it Is remarkable how many more wrongs there are in the way of moral doctrines for their cure. It is one of the vices of humanity that it enjoys sermonizing. Preaching is useless that does not point the way to a workable idea, and there ere entirely too few among us who know how to discrimi nate between tne workable and the unavoidable.
 The statnte books are overrun with foolish laws, laws that sound well when read in the forum, but that fall of their own weight when applied. It Is becuuse the influence of practical minds in inc making of statutes is of.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
Editorial Comment
cialist circles in England.

ciaist circles in England.
 Now. MT. Farrell was given oppor. tunty to avoid term in prison if he would promise to refrain from repeat ing bis offence. This he declined to do, and in his defense offered the rath. cr unusual plea that be should he granted immunity because "boycott. ing had Scriptural sanction" He added that the victims of his boycott were only temporary objects of his wrath and consequently it was his in. iention to "only treat them as the publican and the hcathen.'
 MT. Farrell's argument might nave deeply impressed some presiding judges, but not 90 in this ease. The procedure of King Edwards courts is very serious, made very much more SO by the bewiggcd and black robed per. sonage who occupies the exalted posi- tion of presiding judge. His attitude toward the man on trial is that he is guilty until ho proves himself inno. cent, and this alone is likely to strike terror to the heart of any prisoner, no matter what his hardibood Lord Chief Baron, wno heard the evidence against Mir Farrell in the King 's Bench Division of Dublin, was far more impressed with the degree of the member of parliament's offense than be was ny his defense. In passing the sentence. Lord Chief Baron said the language employed by the defendant, namely that he would make ring of fire" around one of the boycotted men, was calculated Co have a dan. ger0us influence on the minds of those to whom it was addressed.' Mr. Far rell, in submitting himself for impris. onment. expressed regret that "the Liberal government had instituted prosecution against me in these days of peace and good will. Many n time l have travelled from home in the dead of night to vote for the Liberal gov. crnment in London, and here is my re- wnrd,' he added.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
sCYLLA AND CHARyBDIs.

In those old, old times wnen gods and goddcsses were SO very like hum an beings that they felt such primal passions as love and jealousy, II was quite common for them to vent their spleen upon unhappy mor,nls who or tended them by transforming the wis tins into animals. birds. trees and rocks. IL was in this way that the ing between Sicily and Italy became beset by two serious perils. Circc hat ed a beautiful mortal woman named Scylla. because certain fisherman pre-
 ferrcd Scylla to herself. and she changed the lucklcss maiden into a hidcous monster and set dogs and wolves to bark around her. Scyiia preferred death to such n state, SO she Aung herself into the Striats of Mes. siaa, ut their narrowest point, on the Italian side. and became n great rock. looming up in the very course of yes sels. Just to give the men who fol lowed the sea their full measure of trouble, Jupiter selected n woman nam. ed Charybdis, against whom he had T grievance, and changed her into q vii cious whirlpool, placing her in this guise on the other side of the straits from Scyla, where Messina harbor is located. After that the fisherman had all they could nttend to in navigating the straits, and often in avoiding Scyl' Ia they fell into the maw of Charybdis.
 For many centuries the Straits of Messina have been both great help and n serious danger to seafarers This channel shortens the route from Ma. pies to all eastern ports by many hours, and yet it has only been within late years that the waters have been So charted and lighted that vessels could pass the two perils in safety in certain phases of the weather, and at some stages of the tides. Modern nav gation in the straits is comparatively safe, even at the nrrowcst point. SD well understood are the possible dan. gers and so well known the steering marks.
 If present fears are confirmed, says the Washington Star, the menace of Scylla and Charybis may become so serious as to prevent the navigation of the straits, which would impose n heavy loss upon commercial interests. The earthquake, if is reported, has al. tered the sea floor at the narrow point SO that navigation may have to be abandoned. For the present warnings have been issued by the Italian min. istry of marine against attempts to pass between Sicily and Italy until careful soundings have been made and the safe channel, if any remains, charted. On report states that the whirlpool of Charybdis has shifted its position. There is no mention of change of location by Scyila Perhaps after all these years the two grim guardians of the straits have finally barred the way,
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
ENaLAND's HUGE TASK.

Great Britain is still in the tbro.s of naval equipment. John Bull real. 'zes that If wooden walls" are no longer to be his defense, 1t is becanse he must put his trust in walls of steel, The safety of the islands depends m The ability to defend their coas, with ships' Once permit Germany to uain control of the sea and the subiupation of England must follow.
 The early Britons had no ships. The ho'nans landed their legions and made the country province. When Rome fell the people were left without n navy, and became a prey to Noreman and Dane. still no navy protected the islands, and the Duke of Normanav became "conqueror" and King eff England. The discovery of America converted the English into sailors. and when the Spanish Armada came inc English ships demolished them.
 Not Tor thousand years, but for A century, England has been supreme on sea Her empire, consisting of wide. ly'scattered colonies, demands that this supremacy shall be maintained
 Lately, with a treaty between Great Britain and France, some who feel the burden of naval maintenance pressing heavily have raised the question as to wheAer a navy equal to the next two meant the next two after Franee put the answer is that France friendly
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
ROOSEVELT AND WILEY

Little or no crcdcnce should he giv. en the widely circulated story that Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the government 's chief chemist. will resign from the dc partmcnt of agriculture because of re ported differences with the president over the prosecution of the pure food law. It may he said with authority that Dr. Wiley has had no differences with tnc president, nor does the pres. ident desire the chief chemist to re. cedc one step from his uneompromis. ing attitude toward all violators of the pure food and drugs act.
 To those who have watched the cf feet of this law since its passage two years ago, it would act as great sur. prise if the president let Dr. Wiley leave the federal service for no other reason than that trivial difference nad disturbed their harmonious rela- tions. It would seem that the presi- dent had at last surrendered to the in. tcrests that have long sought to dis credit Drl Wiley becanse he has ear ried the brunt of the fight wagod by the department of agriculture to ex- pose criminal vilations of law whose effect is now regarded as one of the greatest of public blessings.
 The president and Dr. Wiley may he said to represent extreme radicalism in their desire to see tnis law upheld, not only by the government hut by the food and drug manufacturers as we'll Both believe that the persons who manufacture and sell goods known to contain substances injurious to hum. an health are to be counted among so- ciety's greatest enemies, and should be dealt with accordingly. The pen. altics provided by the present law are inadequate, in the opinion of both these men, and it is not unlikely taat Dr. Wiley will recommend to the Taft administration that the law in certain respects be amended to impose severer on its violators.
 Observance of the pure food law has become passion with Dr. Wiley. Some of the methods he has adopted 10 carry out his plans have been crit. icized, but this criticism has come largely from his enemies, wao could hardly be expected 10 approve of the chief chemists "poison squad" and of his rather odd practice of entering barrooms to sample the quality of Ii. quor offered to the bibulous public. Whatever may be said in condemna. ton of these somewhat sensational ' stunts,' it must be admitted that Dr. Wiley has been the. agent of pros. eeuting one of the greatest reforms of the present century. His statement that since the enactment of the pnre food law sl00,000, ,0O0 has been saved to the people of the country through avoided sickness may be based more on sentiment than economic fact, but nevertheless it remains true that the people have been gathers by having placed the burden of the pure food light on Dr. Wiley's broad and cncr yetic shoulders. The president holds his view, too, and therefore the story that these two practical reformers have quarrelcd is likened to SO much
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Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
RECEIVER BECOMES MANAGER
tFrom Thursday'A Daily)


 C. F.. Bunker, until recently rceeiv CT of the Monica Mines Company, has been appointed general manager of the company. He is resuming wofk on the Monica mine and expects to have the mill running in short tim, A small force of miners is ,ow q work. The force will Do increased grdaually until a full complement Of miners is employed.
 General Manager Bunker has a high standing among mine managers of ,h. county. IL is predicted that the Mor. lea will prove n success under his d. rection by those familiar with th, mine and the new managers businea methods.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
CITY CRUMBLEs AWAY

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 9.-A special dispatch from Fulton, Ark, says that owing to change in Red hiver and the cutting away of point or land opposite Fulton, the full force "' 'he current now strikes the bank, endangering the town and Iron Moup. tain railroad bridge.
 several blocks nave already gone into the river, together with resi- aences' warehouses, and other proper. ty.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
THE STANDARD OF LIVING.

The question. "Who caused the pan who or what cured it. In some minds there i. still doubt whether the cure q. a- yet complete. Recovery has plainly begun, but its progress is moi nearly so rapid as was hoped. and a' many pretend to be tho ease. But -ucu is the rcigning optimism that most Americans are forgetting all this slowncss of recuperation and are se, ting down the hard times as thing definitely in the past, the only uncer. iaiuty left being who or what cause brought us ont of our troubles.
 Where the credit is due, we were told bv John Mitchell at the recent meeting of the Civic Federation. He then stated that it was the mainte- nance of high wages by the labor m ions which had carried ns out of inc panic. Of this argument, it may be said that it would be very able if the facts were not otherwise. In sober truth, laboring men suffered in the panic along with everybody else. They nad to put up with smaller income. They had to economize. Their 'pur- chasing power" was, in fact, eut down.
 There is. however, a certain truth m what he said There has come into new feeling about the minimum wage. They think of it as n sort of battle flag of their kind. They believe that they must insist upon it. even when they know that they cannot, for the time, get ii.
 Tine underlying sentiment is not SO much that of tradc.unionism as of class solidarity. Most workiDgmen have now come to feel that they will be workingmen all their lives. So they are more disposed to struggle for what they think their standard wages. in order that their scale of living may not have to be lowered Behind all ne talk about inc minimum wage lies the idea of minimum standard of living.
 Nor are the laboring classes the only ones to seek to pitch life high, The demand for certain range of comfort Is met with at every social stage. On every hand one encounters "things that we must have" Private expen- diture mounts, and public expenditure climbs with it. There hns come to be a tacit standard of liy.ng' which We exact from the city and the state.
 In every way, both public and pr. Nate. the demands which men and women are making, in the way of the facilities and the luxuries of life. are steadily greater. II is in this state of mind that economists must look for one efficient cause of rising index. numbers and the higher cost of living.
 We cannot get it without paying for it. Neither moral nor economic law will be suspended for the benefit of Americans. If they will not practice the admirable thrift, nor compass the artistic economies. of the French. they will not be able. like the latter, to be. come the bankers of the world" Our taxes will rise. Our rents will 20 up. We shall all handle more money, but have less left at the end of the year. And in connection with every advance in lavishncss, in the complex. itics of our civilization. in the height ened prices of what we have to sell and what we have to buy. the old doubt will persist in intruding itself the doubt, namely, whether we are not, for the sake of the apparatus of iife, losing sight of the ends of life san Jose Mercury.
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Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
SELF ASSURING CRITICISM.

\ farmers journal of the Mssissip pi valley indulges in few bits of ad vice to ifs readers concerning western investments. mining. irrigation and dry farming. The editor, Henry Wal lace. manifests a better understanding of agricultural problems than he does of mining, but, as is usual in such cases, he displays the most self assur. ance about the matter concerning which he knows the least. He says:
 "Don't invest your money in any mine of any kind located in these states and advertised in an agricul tural or other paper in the corn belt country, no matter what statements may be made in the advertisements. When analysed these advertisements are simply of speculative enterprises, and the guileless farmer is asked Co contribute ten dollars or some other sum as payment for glt.edged cer- tifcate of stock. This money may be used honestly in development or it may not. If it is invested honestly and the prospect proves to be worth less, the farmer is out his money and has had the amount of experience called for in his certificate. If the mine proves profitable, there is little probability tnat the guileless investor will ever receive any benefit when the operations are conducted by men who are total strangers. lt is very easy, when a mine proves to be valuable. to close it and say nothing about it until the investor becomes discouraged and charges his investment up to fool tax, when the promoter can buy it back for song, or it is easy Co charge SO much for expenses and salaries as to cover up any legitimate profits.o
 We never read such comment as this without bewailing the writer's loss of an opportunity to say something really valuable and influential. If this par ticular writer. for example. would dis. cuss the mining stock question as in- tclligently as hr does the question of irrigation. his words would carry weight. but Inc starts with imaginary premises and accordingly reaches con clus:ons that. while possibly suiting his purposes. do not accomplish any good. One does not like to he told thut ha ia L,,. .I. ... question accepts as his major premise the proposition that his readers are without judgment or business shrewd- ness, and from this premise he is able to build up very startling line of req. soning. If we possessed the same opinion of our readers that Editor Wallace does of his, 1t would probably reach the same conclusion, for if there is anyone who should let mining strict. ly alone, it is n person without judg. ment or business shrewdness. If we were to digest his advice. it would amount to this and nothing more: Don't be n fool.
 We do not know anything about the corn'belt advertisements referred to. but we do know that Editor Wallace does great wrong when he leaves the inference that westerners are ha. bitually dishonest and unworthy of trust. If he will take the trouble to inquire among his readers, he will find that great many of them already know more about the subject than he does, and that Is probably the reason why he feels himself called upon to advise them
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
CANVASS ELECTION RETURNS
From Tuesdays Daily,

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 The board of supervsors met yester. day and canvassed the election re. turns of the local option election re gently held in the Copper Creek dis. trict. Fifteen votes were found eas, m favor of local option and none against, as previously announced.
 A number of delayed monthly se. counts against the county for the month of December, 1908, were audit. ed and warrants ordered drawn for their payment
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-13
NEW BAND LEADER.

Herman Schloft of Los Angeles has accepted the position of leader of the Prescott Band. The band win have its first practice tonight under tine di. rection of the new director at it head. quarters.
 Leader Schloft was director of mus. ic in Fishers Theater of Los Angeles several years.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-11-10

pledges. Republicanism spells little
that is hopeful for New Mexico. Down
my way The impression a been Civ
en- that President Tafts visit helped
to throw cold water on statehood, and
I find the same impression here
Clovis Is forging right ahead. &C
cording to DIR. Scott. There are no
flies on Clovis" is the way he puts il.
People are coming into our country
every week. We now aav a popula-
ton of over 1000. That looks big for
so young a town. but it is "a fact.
The beauty about lows is h a
its growth Is substantial. We are
trying to avoid the mistake made by
some other places hat have grown
rapidly. Dur chamber of Commerce
is trying to discourage the specula-
tor, the man who is only a settler TO
get mis- 160 acres for speculation. and
also the incomers who are there to
watch land values rise and profit by
them. What lows wants is the rea
farmer.
The man who goes to work on a
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-11-10
Railway Business Men.

New York, Nov. 1O.-Members of
the Railway Business Association,
representing many leading systems,
net at the Wanorf-Astoria today in
annual session. A banquet will be
held this evening at which the speak
ers will include men prominent in the
railroad, business and financial world.
In his opening address, Pres. George
A. Pos said:
If the association Is to be made a
permanent economic force. which ma
ny of those deeply interested In rail-
way and allied interests nave vigor
ously declared should De done, tier
there Is need of a full and careful
consideration of the best means foI
charging its usefulness. The more
people who are actively interested In
it's work, the greater will be its influ
ence, and IL Is most desirable that If
in the opinion of any OF its members
its plan and scope should be broaden
ed or its methods changed, the annu
al meeting is the place for considera
ton of all such matters, to the END
that enthusiasm may prevail and al
may eel that they are important fac
tors in the movement"