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TWO WEEKLY JOURNAL-MINER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1914. mi icvi tit i wiowwt ai i. Oldest Paper in Arizona Established March 9, 18G4 Published by THE JOURNAL-MINER PUBLISHING COMPANY Members Associated Press Published Every Morning Except Monday J. W. MILNES, Managing Editor P.

R. MILNES, Editor OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS. "TOTING A GUN." According to Washington dispatches there is prospect that the effort to repeal the exemption clause in the Panama Canal I act will lead, in the Senate, to a general discussion of our foreign relations. The canal discussion will not have been in vain, what-j ever its result, if it can be made to lead to a better understanding of some things but little understood. Without questioning the i motives of either the president or secretary of state, we have trusting too much to their presumed infallibility in the management of our foreign relations.

In looking over the mes- TERMS: sages and documents of the president, we find that Mr. Wilson DahV, per year $9.00 has had the rare felicity of going longer without an inquiry of Daily, per month 75 some sort, or a call for state papers in some particular case, Weekly, per year 2.50 1 than any of his predecessors. Usually these, inquiries have been Weekly, six months 3.50 frequent, even in times of world peace, while in time of war Weekly, three months 3.00 in which any powers with which we have maintained close and Payable in Advance friendly relations were involved, they have been quite numerous. Entered at Posloffice, Prescott, as second-class mail matter Always, the records disclose, when there has been war in Mexico, the president and secrctarv have been almost deluged in this Under the requirements the new postal law, subscriptions are payable in advance i i i i i i i i in that the parr may be permitted to pass throush the mails as second-1 wav. liven Air.

Lincoln, harassed and menaced by internal war. class matter. Accnrdinsly, subscriptions will be stopped at expiration. All readins matter marked with one or more xtars () signifies that the same is advertising bad to tUHl aside Otteil Cither to permit Or refllSC the Sending of matpaidjror or agreed to be paid for. papers hy Copperheads" in Congress as to what we 1 were intending to do for the help of the Mexicans against Max-i imilian.

President Wilson has been fortunate in this respect. Dur- PLAYING WITH FIRE. Progre a number ing the special session, two great questions were under con- stant debate and obscured nearly everything else. Senator Pcn-j 1 rose of Pennsylvania caused a small Hurry when asking for in- iuiimniwii ci 3 iu nil. iitiimv.

kji nil. 1.1 v.uv.HLiai. ui ll imam iitiaiu ssive partv meetings have been held recently quite 4l 1 -T which was never furnished, at least pubhclv. At that time of states, from Aew ork to California. As might 1J.IV.U1I.

1.11.111 1IU111 Ul llli; UlldLU UH 1 llltlll have been expected, the declarations of principles have been nit- i i 1 iiii i delations, fearing the precipitation of a nood ot inquiries, plead- much the same evervwliere. Kansas alone, demanded a national, 1 1 ted with his colleagues of both parties to refrain. 1 is influence. prohibition law. In all of them were declarations for amend-.

and the confidence of the countrv the president mtcgritv. ments to the national constitution, to make it amendable, 1 to a silence winch has since continued. Ihere is no diminution easilv to nationalize the initiative and referendum, tor state and i ii i the countrv confidence in the president intention to do national recall of elective ot peers and for the recall of judges the ''est thing, as he sees it, but it would like to know how he and their decisions. Also, none of them missed advocacy of the, 7. nomination of candidates for all oftices bv direct primaries.

i 1 u- i view ot things through the co-operation and trained intelligence Perhaps not since the civil war period has this nation faced i ot men in Congress whose experience such matters is1 larger penis so fraught with dangerous possibilities as now. 1 hev are I than his or that of Sccretarv lirvan. the more threatening because of their possibihtv. Jo illustrate: Senator C) Gorman of New York, one ot the senators op- it sounded well for members of the house ot representatives to poking repeal of the exemption clause the Panama act. is declare for the right ot this nation to exclude from her shores i mentioned the dispatches as one who mav be expected to pet-pie ot anv nation or color she might choose, for any or no II riii 111 anv general discussion of our foreign relations.

he reason. Is not the will ot the greatest nation of the world su- -Neu iork senator is well equipped for such a discussion. His preme within her borders." 1 hat was the wav those statesmen 1 aiul JiiHicial mind, his great learning and his wide ex-put it. l.ut Congressman Mann arose and gave those reprcs- 1 penence, all quality him admirablv for such a leadership. His entatives a oriel, fatherlv talk which he 'explained to them the I 1 1 Icaderhip would be, too.

a pledge of sincentv, he being a Demo- dire possibilities involved. i 'J i 1 1 i ij huh ne may take concerning the acts of the administration, or any demand he mav make upon it for information. It can not beH is said to the credit of our representatives that, like a body of school boys they were quite ready to listen to reason, and they voted down the dangerous measures when the dangers of them had been pointed out. The same sort loose talk, that came near bringing serious embarrassment to the administration's foreitrn relations, is now being indulged regarding our domestic affairs. The Journal-Miner does not claim for a moment that there should not be changes made, now and then, in our laws to meet changing con- ditions.

lint such changes should not be, made because of ap-J peals, by demagogues from the platform and through newspapers and magazines, to the popular imagination. It is to pla with fire, and the terrible effects of it will return sooner or later to plague us. It is the duty of the citizen to consider the privileges that each eniovs under the written constitution of the United States i denied that an administration which, in its foreign relations, reaches the point of calling upon Congress to repeal its own acts under the urging of a foreign power, should not complain if such a demand leads to inquiry and discussion of the nature and tendency of our foreign policy in general. THRIFT. A Pcnnslyvania girl has won the prize that the American Society for Thrift recently offered for the best definition of Thrift.

"Thrift." she wrote, "is management of your affairs in such a manner that the value of vour possessions is coustantlv beimr in- The Indianapolis News relates that the other day a Baptist i a i. I jji ciwiiui isi at. Ills liuuiu iii uwu pistol. It fell from his pocket when he stooped to caress his two-year-old child. He had put it there, the report says, to keep it away from his children.

"Is it possible," asks the Xews, "that no place could be found to hide a pistol? This seems incredible. The inference rather is that the pastor preferred to carry the pistol with him. In the whole sad circumstances there must still be a fair criticism of a man going armed. He may have felt it necessary to own a pistol for protection against burglars, but it indicates how lightly some things, which once were regarded as fundamental, sit when a minister of the gospel goes armed. "Possiblv it is a relic of the time when a 'gentleman' used to send word to the other 'gentleman" with whom he had a quarrel that he would shoot on sight.

Perhaps it is the aftermath of our Civil War, which made people from; the merest children up familiar with firearms of all sorts. At all events, American civilization today is disgraced by the' pistol-carrying habit." And so it is. Hence it ought to be stopped. The News asks what business the pastor had carrying a revolver. We ask what business he had owning one.

For protection against burglars? Rubbish! A pistol in the hands of the average person is vastly more dangerous to. members of the family than it is to any burglar. The average home is better off, and far safer, without a revolver than with one. Waiting for the burglar, the pistol goes off and kills somebody. When the burglar comes at last, he is a desperate and wide-awake man.

armed to the teeth and watchful of every move and sound. If there 'is shooting, ten to one he shoots first. The sleepy-eyed and startled householder has lit tle chance against him. There is too much shooting, accidental and intentional, the country over. Something ought to be done about it.

The first thing to do is for magistrates to bear harshly on every man caught carrying a deadly weapon. The presumption that it is carried for mischievous purposes is not lightly to be set aside. There is law for it. and a few stiff jail sentences for the offense of bearing arms would, help a great deal. Minority Leader Mann seems to be the biggest figure in the House, not excepting Majority Leader Underwood or Speaker Clark.

It was he who was most influential in making the Democrats back up their own president in knocking the Japanese matter out of the immigration bill, and again it was he who smoothed the grim-visaged front of war when "coward" and "liar" injected themselves into the debate. It is difficult to see where harmony in the majority would be found if the minority leader should take a vacation. LICENSES ARE nrn lorn uLIUOOJ iu THREE I ATHEISM OF TODAY. I I I GRANTING THEM VOULD BE CONTRARY TO LAW, THE DECLARATION OF SUPERVISORS From Tuesday's Daily.) Three applications for saloon licenses in the county were turned down flat by the board of supervisors yesterday. The county fathers had their course pointed ou' clearly by the State statutes an! there was not the slightest chance in the world for the misguided ap plicants to procure their much desired permits.

The applications were from Ash Fork. Seligman and a point known as "Chicken Charlie's Ranch," catcd between Clarkdale and Jerome. The first two applications were refused upon the ground thai the law provided there shall be more than one saloon to every If? voters in any county district. It Scliman and Ash Fork, this spec I limit has Ionp; ago been shattered and the county fathers, desiring t-make the best of a bad situation, proposed to be strict in the future The so-called "Chicken Charlie" Ranch" is located within the six-mile limit of a railroad construction camp. The license was refused on this ground.

08. THACKER IS LOSER BE I LAWSUIT STADIE GETS JUDGMENT FOR MONEY HE ADVANCED HER TO EXPLOIT YAVAPAI MINE .1. ..1 1111.1-1 i i- .1. which va eMauusiicu uioiiusueti nairiois wuo joninu iui make the countrv free and independent. crcasc- There were "men livimr in those davs who oimosed a consti-' S-rI conicl l'rctty closc to hitting the nail on the head, tution.

They were not patriots. There were others, like Alex-iaml in simple language she has told the secret of how to create personal capital. pjuo.vv ipujAV uoiiupjsuoo in poAoqoq oij.u uojiiuiuji JOptlK 1 provide lor a strong" centralized' government controlled by the 1 his would be a discouraging world for the man compelled rich and the to start nc without financial resources if it were not possible for There are men today who do not want a constitution. him to crcalc -'alital for himself. Stimulated by shallow writers and halt-baked speakers, their Every man has the glorious privilege of work, and not the numbers are increasing from vear to vear.

Thev want a kind of 1 lcast ot tnc rewards of labor is the satisfaction of producing administration which, despite their argument, will lead to anarchy, something, and turning part of one's earnings into capital. The fir.t step toward anarchy is "more democracy." We use the Don't the meaning of the word capital. It term democracy with no reference to any political party. Pure isn a big sum acquired at one stroke of fortune. In is direct government bv the people.

Unchecked, such. nU)Sl 11 Vs tlIC aggregate of little sums, saved by slow Factions follow in its deirrees. A Chicago jurist, who is also somewhat of a student of religious philosophy, in criticising the recent utterances of President Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard, says whereas religion had to fight agnosticism in the last generation, it will have to fight atheism in this. The difference is that atheism flatly denies the existence of God. while agnosticism declares that we could not know such thing as the existence of God.

President Eliot may deny that he is atheistic: but his substitution of a blind force in the universe for a creative and directing power, amounts to the some thing. In other words. President Eliot denies the existence of spirit, as' distinguished from' matter. 1 The agnostic had no such view. He simply denied that we could have any positive knowledge of such things.

P.ut he did not deny the possibility of the existence of spirit and a creative, intelligent power in the universe. He might have his personal views, for or against the imminence of God in the universe, but he did not consider that his opinion on that matter was of the slightest importance. To him, there was not adequate proof. That was the view of Herbert Spencer. On the other hand, President Eliot's conception is a virtual repudiation of all that we have been in the habit of calling religion.

According to his theory, there can be no individual existence beyond the grave, and he repudiates the theory of the Uuddliist that we finally reach extinction after niillipns of years of transmigration. The Eliot view is not a pleasant one. and if it were generally accepted, it would be difficult to differentiate it from the old weary doctrine of the materialist: tomorrow we die." o- I MODEL CIVIL GOVERNMENT. government can have no wako. and factions destrov.

-Money besets money, but those without it sometimes complain The fathers of the republic saw the dangers which must "Rainst those who have it. forgetting that every fortune was born follow too much constitutional restriction and the still greater of hardship and sacrifice on the part of the present prossessor or dangers which come from unrestricted popular rule. Therefore somebody not very far back. they arranged a form of government, better designed than any Snd persons also seem to overlook the fact that by hard other form will ever be. to insure life and property and approxi-: thrift they themselves can build up the nucleus of a mate happiness and justice to every man.

rich or poor. fortune and put themselves in a position to enjoy the earning It is the constitution that insures equal rights not equality ol money. to every citizen whenever the people take enough interest in -votl 'jc able to live on your savings when you reach their government to invoke its powers for the abolitionof abuses. tlle time iu life when you ought to retire from active work? Dishonest men can he elected to office under a convention 0 -vou realize what you must do now to he able. later on.

stein, as well as a primary, there will be fewer of them to -vollr capital? For the average man the only way to under the convention plan. Dishonest iudtres and dematrotric reach that happy state is to save systematically a portion of his prosecuting attorneys can defeat the ends of justice when there income week by week or month by month. Colonel Goethals. as governor of the canal zone, will govern is no recall. Hut the temptation to follow the whinv of the mass- Hanks exist for the express purpose of helping people save that strip of country as soldiers arc trained to govern and to be ts will be far greater when the officers of the courts know they aml care for their money.

governed. Except as to judicial matters, he will have full power. subject to recall by popular vote. The recall of judicial de- Lie will appoint, remove, fix salaries and prescribe the duties and anions, whereby campaigns would have to be made on legal The president of the Chicago I.utter and Egg Roard savs that the number of employes. points involved and on the questions of fact of a case, is unthink- the very highest grade of butter is sold by wholesalers at '27 1-U' '''his is the way Cuba was governed by American soldiers, in able outside of the brain of a demagogue or an insane man.

cents and should be sold by retailers at :12 cents, but because the intervals of breathing time, before and between the strenu- The logical result of expunging from the constitution its housewives demand it and will not take the second grade ull native governments. It is the way the Philippines were go-fiiudauiental principles will be anarehv. Constitutional govern- which, bv the wav. he as an expert savs is "ood fm- erned until the democrats came into power and began to "re- iu rests upon the willingness of the people to surrender their anybody the retailers put the price up higher." This seems to platform pledges. In the canal zone it promises to personal advantages, theoretical or actual, to a svstem of govern- responsibility Pctwcen tne retailer wlio runs up tlic i- price and the housewife wlio lets him do it.

i those who mean to make civil government a protession. iui ul that will preserve equal rights to all. We have tint sort constitution today. If the theory of the demagogue is per-; congressional investigation of Mexico would he a great, Russia properly resents the appointment of an American to work its will, we shall not have that sort of thing if would consent to be quiet while it was going on. ambassador to St.

Petersburg being treated as a joke. morrow. A German doctor says sleeping witli a cat will cure rlieuma-. The new trolley line from Jerusalem to Rethleheni may do a If Senator Gore, is innocent, his enemies are taking a Stepping on one's tail will produce a like result. i good business but it seems sort of sacriligiotis.

(From Tuesday's Daily.) According to the Los Angeles Examiner of Saturday, last. Dr. Sr- Thacker lost a very import iiit In suit in the Superior Court of tint city, when judgment was ordered in favor of Robert Stadie and against her bv Judge Wellborn in the sum of Stadic stated on the witness stand that he had advanced the sum to the woman to exploit a mine in Bi? Bui? district, near Mayer, and that he took a claim on some property as security. When he attempted tn collect, he said, he found that titk to the property had been transferred by the defendant. Dr.

Thacker a short time ago involved in litigation over the boundaries of the Logos holdings near Mayer, winning her suit in the Sti perior Court of this county, and title to this property was the contention in the Los Angeles suit that has terminated adversely to her. Stadie claiming and proving that the woman's interest had been to others. TAKES OATH OF OFFICE. SAXTA FE, Feb. 16.

Lewis T. Carpenter took over the ofticv i collector of internal revenue on his arrival here today. As soon -s arrangements can be made the office will be removed to Phoenix. Earthquake Added. XEW YORK, Feb.

14. Tlu nt tbp American Mu- Eat, drink and be merry, forfscum of Natural Ilistorv here rcc- orded a faint earthquake about 5.40 this morning. of a blind man. If he is guilty, he should see too, iiearh to attempt to make another race for United States senator. It may be true that women live longer than men.

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