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WEEKLY JOURNAL-MINER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1918.
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J CONGRESS AND RECONSTRUCTION
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It will be admitted, vc assume, even by Mr. Wilson's most
pronounced admirers that his strongest claim to confidence is not
as an executive. From the beginning of his presidency lie has
seemed to turn with something like impatience from executive
problems and to resent any invasion on their behalf of his preoc
cupation witli those broader issues of policy in which he has
figured so conspicuously. His method has been to appoint agents,
with none too much care and circumspection, and to place parti
san reliance upon their efficiecy. This has brought the country
and its cause to the brink of disaster on several occasions, but it
would seem that Mr. Wilson learned little or nothing from these
embarrassments, for vc now have him adopting a complacent at
titude of laissez fairc toward the problems of reconstruction and
departing for Europe with the blithe assurance that matters will
take care of themselves.
This presents a situation full of peril for the whole country.
Business wrenched from its normal forms and channels by the
harsh exigencies of war cannot so readily return to them. The
government forced it to meet new duties and adopt new condi
tions. The government's aid is absolutely necessary to assist the
restoration of a normal situation.
Mr. Wilson obviously looks upon this vast problem with
vague eyes. He tells us that the agencies which were improvised
for the conduct of war will serve to conduct us back to peace.
They were created by him in the, main, sometimes tardily and
generally without foresight or grasp of the conditions they were
created to deal with. His present confidence in them, we cannot
believe, has any basis of concrete knowledge or careful considera
tion. Wc do not think so serious a group of problems ought to be
treated in so, cavalier a manner, and wc trust congress will take
up without any delay the duty Mr. Wilson has slighted.' Recon
struction will not take care of itself. On the contrary, it calls
for the prolnpt exercise of our best thought and the organization
of competent agencies to deal with its many difficulties. At pres
ent official Washington ought to be the center of national guid
ance and support. It has been the center of the greatest con
centration of effort in our history. It must preside over the
solution.
Mr. Wilson opposed efficient co-ordination and such as was
arrived at came after costly and dangerous delays, only under the
most overwhelming pressure. We have bin again objecting to a
broad and systematic treatment of our transitional stage, and wc
must rely upon congress to make up for his executive blindness.
Several plans already have appeared in congress, some of
them very promising. We hope they will be taken up at once,
and the best possible adopted.
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CROWN PRINCE TELLS
hor a man who looks as if he did not posess ordinary com
mon sense, it must be admitted that the former Crown Prince of
Germany said sonic rather sensible things in an interview publish
ed the other day. The Prince stated that in October, 1!)H. he de
clared to his father and the German high command that the Teu
tons could not win the war. This was'iniiuediately after the I 'at
tic of the Marne, and the Prince advised the making of peace ami
een suggested that Alsace be given to France. The Prince as
serts that the Germany military chiefs were stubborn, thick-head-id
even, and refuse to admit the truth. Constantly, says the
Prince, the power of America was belittled and jeered at. The
Prince- says his divisions were shot to pieces when they combated
against the Americans.
It is quite evident that this royal dweller in a bungalow on a
butch isle wishes things had gone on as they were going early in
V) 1, for he asserts emphatically that he was strongly opposed to
war, and never favored it.
As to the air raids on London and the use of a big gun on
Paris, the Prince declares it was foolish and a bad thing to do
from a military standpoint. Like his father, the former Kaiser,
the Prince blames everything on some one else. He says it was
Ludcndorff who ran things in the army, not 1 lindeiiburg, who
was onlv a figurehead.
Wc hope the supervisors will some of these days purchase a
lew good-sized planks and drape them at appropriate spots around
iH nc" court house o as to ae all of us the trouble and mental
argu"h or having to ade through the copious gobs of "dnbe
hieh arc festooned about the new tcmpk of justice.
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A Republican congress will be more sympathetic toward uni
versal military service than the Democratic congress. The Re
publican party is committed to universal service. The Democratic
party is committed against it. The Democrats have lost control of
congress. The Republicans have regained it.
After .March 4 a Republican majority will be in control of
national legislation under the restrictions of a Democratic adminis
tration. There are Democrats in favor of universal service Sen
ator Chamberlain, for instance, who spoke in Chicago Wednes
day before the State bar association in favor of compulsory mili
tary training; There may be some Republicans opposed to such
training. We might, with a change of control, hope for legislation
to establish this nationalizing and protective system, but every
indication of intent given by the administration is the indication of
an intent to destroy our present military organization, to suspend
military training, and to lapse into national weakness, relying
wholly upon idealistic conceptions of a new and endurable order
of human affairs.
With legislation given a fair chance we might get a proper
military system. The administration opposition is a serious handi
cap and one most unwisely imposed, we think. It is a handicap.
In the background of administration thought is the idea that a
permanent structure of world peace is to be erected. There is also
the persistent Jeffcrsonian opposition to suitable and adequate
military arrangements a survival of the Jeffcrsonian idea that a
flock of mudscows each armed with a small cannon could protect
the United States.
The consequence of the practical application of this idea was
that the American capital was burned by a small but victorious
invading force and that an American president and his household
took to the Virginia woods.
Shall wc never learn? Is it to be our fate that doctrine based
upon extravagance shall always guide us and experience with its
facts presented njevcr shall be admitted to our counsels?
Wc have a magnificent army. Wc have its material. We
have its men. We have its methods and machinery of organiza
tion. Wc have its camps, guns,
with all the possessions it needs to continue in being and to re
main effective for the protection of the United States.
We have a military institution which has protected the im
mediate security of the United States and one which, maintained,
could guarantee the future of the United States. It has been
raised by the utmost effort in the utmost need. Is it now, be
cause of a survival of the Jeffcrsonian scow boat idea, which pro
moted the burning of the American capital and the flight to the
woods by the presidential family, to be abandoned?
Wc view the prospect with dismay. The American nation
has become strong, and by becoming strong has not become dan
gerous. It remains the amiable nation seeking at present little
for itself, wishing well for all the world, content, happy and well
ordered, and it h .so afraid, of itself that it wjll not maintain the
elements and fundamentals of its security which it now has well
in hand and established.
Universal service would make us strong and dignified, secure
and protected. The doctrine which opposes it is a smear of in
utile altruism which commits the future of the nation to an optim
ism which the past of no nation has justified. '
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Political leaders of both parties in the State and newspapers
generally agree that there should be some amendment of the pres
ent primary law under which electors of one party may tem
porarily change their registration in any election to control the
nominees of the party with which they are not ordinarily af
filiated.
There are other well recognized defects in the direct primary
system, chief among which is
sitates two elections and does not result in the nomination of the
best men for office.
We doubt whether any amendment of the. direct primary law
would prove more satisfactory than the present arrangement. Un
doubtedly the combination of the direct primary and old conven
tion plan provides the most satisfactory method of nominating
the best men for office. Under this system, delegates to a con
vention are chosen at a primary election, and a method of select
ing the delegates to be voted upon by petition is provided by law.
Arizona never had a primary law providing this system. It
is certainly worth while trying and cannot be worse than the
present primary. It is in vogue in many States and others which
have tried the direct primary and found it a failure have return
ed to the modified convention plan.
We realize that such a system would greatly benefit the
majority party in the State in that it would result in the nom
ination of the strongest candidate for governor and where there
are two warring factions as in the last election in Arizona, the
selection of a compromise candidate satisfactory to all.
The fault which the ultra-radical always finds with the con
vention plan is that it fosters boss rule. Everybody in Arizona
familiar with political conditions knows that the State was never
so boss-ridden until the direct primary was adopted with the ad
mission of Arizona as a State. It took seven years to smash the
machine which George W. P. Hunt, the first State governor, built
up. He would have been brushed aside after having served his
first three years under the convention plan for the good of his
party and the State.
It would require a constitutional amendment to do away with
the direct primary. The only thing, the legislature can do is
to amend the present law and we hardly see how it can by
statute prevent a Republican registering as a Democrat or vice
versa where an elector is willing to commit perjury or change his
politics over night to look at it in a more charitable light. Many
proposed modifications of the primary law will probably be pre
sented to the legislature but they should be studfed carefully be
fore adoption in order that we may not go from bad to worse.
It is a question whether after all the safest course would
hot bi to ct at the root of tin. o ll and start in by amending the
constitution and returning to the old comention plan.
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instructors: we have it in being
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I A LEAKING
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(TUCSON CITIZEN) j
It is a popular pastime among papers of the State these days)
to advise Thos. E. Campbell, the new governor, how to run the
State. The Citizen has been indulging in this new indoor sport
along with the other dailies. The Phoenix Gazette thinks that the
greatest service the new governor can perform is to get rid of
some of the surplus job holders at the capital. The Douglas Dis
patch gives as its opinion that his first duty should be to cleanse
the Augean stables of the satelites of the Hunt machine. The
Prescott Journal-Miner also believes he should clean house from
cellar to garret and he has taken the advice of this journal by ap
pointing the editor his private secretary to help do the job. The
Citizen has already said that his "first task should be to fire the
board of regents of the university and sever Johnnie Hughes from
the office of chancellor.
On one point, however, all of the papers arc 'greed, and that is
that economy should be the watchword of the new administration.
The Phoenix Messenger, a democratic paper, which supported Col
ter, suggests that there be a thorough examination of the books of
all State offices, with a view to stopping the leaks. The Messen
ger docs not contend that there has been graft, but gross waste.
Arizona has been surfeited with money since the mines began
to bear their just burden of taxation and the State officers have
been spending it like drunken sailors. The sooner they are pulled
up short the better. If the legislature will give the new governor
its cooperation, wc believe he can save the taxpayers, thousands of
dollars, without impairing the efficiency of the State government.
It is true that liberal appropriations will be needed for certain
reconstruction enterprises, but neither the small taxpayers nor the
large ones will object to money expended for this purpose as long
as they get their money's worth. Now that the contract system
has been restored, on State work, it will be possible to make public
improvements at reasonable cost.
Everybody expects Governor Campbell to clean house on
January 1, but once this is accomplished, he must turn his at
tention to stopping the leaks in the treasury if he is to make good
as governor.
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Now there is talk of bringing the Kaiser to the United States
for trial. Where you going to get a jury that has not "formed or
expressed an opinion"?
There is a lot of talk of mandamus proceedings Just now.
Perhaps Mooney will mandamus the Governor of California to
let him hang.
RED CROSS SEEKS NATIONAL FOREST
TO ENLARGE
MEMBERSHIP
CAMPAIGN WEEK IN DE-j FEES TO BE UNIFORM
CEMBER TO BE DEVOT-i AND NOT SUBJECT TO
ED TO EFFORT TO EN- CHANGE DURING FIVE
ROLL AT LEAST 65 MIL- YEAR PERIOD BEGINNING
LION NEW RECRUITS. ! FIRST OF COMING YEAR.
(From Tuesday's Daily.1
"Make it unanimous," is the slogan
of the membership campaign of the
American Red Cross, which is to be
held between December 16th and the
23rd. The campaign in Prescott and
for Uic Yavapai County Chapter will
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the organization of this chapter. The
American Red Cross has. deservedly
earned the title of the "greatest
mother in the world." More than 22,-
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000.000 adults in the United States
pledged their dollars last Christmas '
to signify their belief in this theory.!
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Cross has done in the world war be-
come known.
At the Christmas roll call this na
tion is asked to enroll not less than
65,000,000 persons, which represents
the proportion in the 110,000,000 resi- j wlilcli it is issued except as may be
dents of the United States available ! rc(iujrc(1 for forest protection. Stock
for membership Red Cross .member-, . , lRu wll0 arc rcgu.
ship m the Pacific division nowi, r f ,. i,
amounts to 1.022.649 out of an csl-Ur ,lscrf of the forests will be gncii
mated population of 3.000.400. To at ' preference in granting the long
least double this number is the am- term permits, but. after their needs
bition throughout the division. 'are provided for. larger permittees
What the Red Cross has done j will be considered for as many stock
overseas has been told simply and ; as the range will safely carry,
splendidly in letters which have j yorc officials, believe that the
conic from the men themselves, and t.lk of tllc ,.rai;ng business upon
m articles written by professional , N-at;ona, irorcsts wiH soon bej
writers. Lach story has a heart -"u-,a' t.,.:.'
.i..t. I hand ed unon the long term basis
What the Red Cross has done at
home may he less thrilling but none
he less vital. Soldiers' families know
its details, communities feel the ef
fects, and the society has maintain
ed its equilibrium, through the de
monstrations of the American Red
Cross. With an understanding born i
of their own activity, the American i
people have definitely learned what
the Red Cross is. Thry will not for
get. In the United States an enor
mous war fund was raised last spring
and tlic year before: in each Red
Cross chapter throughout the uafioii
funds have been collected. Xow it is
not a war fund subscription: it is not
a contribiiatiou to the local chapter
that the American Red Cross asks of
each citizen it is his heart and his
dollar.
BROTHER KILLED IN FRANCE'
(From Friday's Dsily.1
Mrs. R. M. Rodgcrs of Prescott
yesterday received word that her
brother, Leonard Powers, age 21, had
been killed in action in France on
October Sth. The boy. who had been
serving in the regular army at the
time hi rouutrv entrd 'lis vw. "u
a resident of Green wile, S. C, in
which city his parents lived.
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TREASURY J
GRAZING
n o UPON
ALBUQUERQUE, X. M., Dec 10.
Xoticc has1 been received at Albu
querque by the district forester that
the question of charges for grazing
priviligcs on the National Forests
during the next five years has been
' lcfin;tciv decided by the Secretary
ioi .gncuiiurc. i uc yitmn
U.-111 lie uniform on all of the forests
of Xcw Mexico and Arizona and will
not be subject to change before the
end of the five year period beginning
Tan. 1. 101'J. The vcarlonir rates on
tj,c different classes of stock will be
c rn. ritln si no tmrsrs S1.25.
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, an(1 ,oats 25c and swine 75c.
AMhe same time that the new rates
will become effective, a wider cxtcn
sion of the five year term permit will
be authorized than heretofore. Such
a permit will not be subject to reduc
tion before the end of the period for
and predict -a more stable and satis
factory condition of the stock indus-1
try as a result.
YANKS HOLD FORTRESS
AMSTERDAM". Dec 6. Americans
troops on Wednesday cntcrcii .iains,
ihe capital of the province of Kiicm-
ish Hesse and one of the principal
fortresses of Germany on the Iefti
bank of the Rhine, according to the
semi-official Wolff News Bureau ofj
1JcrIin" j
LAND AT DEMING ,
EL PASO, Dec ". The army air
plane squadron, flying from Saul
Diego to the Atlantic coast, spent.
the night at Dcming,. Xcw Mexico,
engine trouble forcing the machines
to land there.
WARSHIP HITS MINE
LOXDON. Dec. 6. Eleven men
arc missing as the result of the Brit-J
ish warship Casandra coming in con
tact with a mine in the Baltic Sea on.
Wednesday night, the admiralty to-j
dav H""iounc d. Torpedo boa dc-.
strocrs rescued the remainder of the
ClosingOut Prices!
Until the end of the year we will
make reduced prices until the stock
is sold out. Thereafter the store will
be closed temporarily for repairs.
SAMPLE PRICES:
Apples, per lb 5c
Tomatoes, per lb 10c
Apples, per box 1.00
Beans, per lb 10c
Black-eye Peas, per lb 10c
Celery, 15c, or 2 for 25c
Just arrived
Fresh Prunes, per lb 20c
Just arrived i
Fresh Seedless Raisins, per lb. 15c
All kinds of nuts.
Candy, SO cent boxes for 40c
CALIFORNIA
COMMISSION HOUSE
216 WEST GURLEY ST.
PARDEE'S
Horse Restaurant
124 N. Montezuma. Phone 21
SADDLERS AND DRIVERS
THAT PLEASE
DR. C. W. PARDEE
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist.
CONGRESS
HOTEL
PRESCOTT, ARIZONA
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Distinctive for its Home-like
Comforts and Atmosphere, and for
the Courteous Attention Extended
to Guests.
Large Lobby and Broad, Sunny
Verandas.
Steam Heated. Electric Lighted.
H. J. M E A N Y
PROPRIETOR
HOTEL
VENDOME
When in Prescott stop at the
Vendome, the city's newest
and most modern hotel. Three
blocks from Santa Fe depot on
Cortez Street.
MRS. ROBT. BROW
For Retail and Family
Trade
CASCADE GINGER ALE
COCA COLA and SODA
WATER in all Flavors
Everything manufactured
with Sanitary Appliances.
Your inspection is cordially
invited
PRESCOTT BOTTLING
WORKS
Crystal Ice Co., Props.
Phone Black 45
THE NEW
Birch Cafe
ST. MICHAEL HOTEL BLOCK
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Catering to the Trade of Ladies
and Gentlemen.
Best Cooking In Prescott.
REASONABLE PRICES
Private Booths for
Those Who Want Them
CITY
CARPENTER
SHOP
J. P. ODELL, Prop.
Shop on Cortez Street, opposite4
Head HoteL
CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS
; ROOFS AND REPAIR WORE
I PHONE 310