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ARIZONA STATE MINER. formerly Golden State Miner of Rands burg, California. Published Every Friday In the Year at Wickenburg, Arizona. H. B. Watson, Editor and Pub lisher. Terms cf Subscription: One Year, $2,00 Six Months, $1.25 Three Months, 75 cents W 1 ADVERTISING RATES: Display, 50cper Inch one Insertion; Regular, $1.25 per inch per month; All Legal, $1 first insertion and 50c each subsequent insertion Reading notices, over four inches, 50c per inch; less, iOc per line, one inser tion and 5c each subsequent. All Advertising Agents 15 per cent off. ALL JOB PRINTING CASH ON DEI.IVEBT Harry B Watson editor and Publisher \ ear ONE up THE MOST COMPLETE JOB PRIINTING PLANTS IN THE STATE. 0000000-O-000-00-O-OOOOOO'O-OOO'OC X I can imagine no greater dis- I Y service to the country than to y 6 establish a system of censorship 0 a that would deny to the people of 5 9 a Free Republic like our own, the 9 9 indisputable right to criticise th< ir o o own public officials. While exer- 9 ¥ cising the great powers of the 9 9 office I hold, I would regret in a 6 5 crisis like the one through which 5 9 we are now passing, to lose the 9 9 benefit of patriotic and intelligent 9 $ criticism. - Woodrow Wilson. A 000000 oorvooooo 000000000000 Friday, August 22, 1919 EDITORIAL COMMENT Remedy for Profiteering. Never before in the history of the country have the people public officials and private citi zens alike—been so thoroughly aroused as to the dangers of pro fiteering as at the present time. The evils of exorbitant prices have become so great, and the demand for immediate action so universal and overwhelming, that everything else, even the tre mendously important Peace Treaty and the League of Na tions, has been overshadowed and is being almost lost sight of. —Glendale News. But the remedy. There’s the rub. The government’s method of granting a license! to individuals, corporations or companies, is the only practical solution. The towns, cities, counties and states are adopting it and offenders who violate the license privileges are faced with the penalty of losing their license and being denied a license ever after from catering to the public. There are many valuable properties around this section considered valuless, because of mismanagement, whose managing directors, knew little or nothing about min ing. Some of them would make better landscape gard ners, or orange packers, than handling a dividend produc ing mine, and the sooner com panies reconize this the bet ter for the mining business. Is the fellow who can puff up and actually fill a quart measure with three cents worth of wheat litterally blow it up —any worse than the baker who makes hole-(v) bread? The Phoenix papers on Tuesday rather ridiculed the governments attempts to sell food thru its postoffiee in that city by the announcement that not a single sale was transacted. It must have made that “profiteers’ friend” look like 30 cents worth of ice on a hot day to have to an nounce on Thursday that over S7OO worth of subsist ence foods was sold by the postoffiee, exclusive of orders received by mail carriers. I do not like that concession to Japan, but what could have been done in the surrounding facts and circumstances than was done? We who permitted Germany, without protest, to seize this Chi nese territory are in poor posi tion to question the right of Japan who took it from Germany —from Germany mind you, not from China—by force of arms. — Senator Marcus A. Smith. There is considerable agi tation of this Shantung affair that has furnished food for political thunder—gradually being understood and assist ing in a ratification of the treaty by both house and sen ate with reservations. Unscrupulous business, does not measure trade in terms of friendship. With them the slogan and concentration of all effort is “Get the money. Get it honestly if you can, but get it.” P'ollowiug up a course of training along such lines has forced the govern ment to step in and stop in discriminate exploitation of the masses, to say nothing of actually “skinning” the gov ernment itself in its purchase of food, steel, armor plate aud munitions of war. Are Dairy Commissioners Asleep? Aha, we told you so! The Phoe- j nix creameries propaganda for j skimmed milk has resulted in a raise of milk prices to 14 cents a quart. Mining Cos. Running a State University. The following from a*Tuc son paper gives a very clever expose how state institutions supported by the people are sometimes dominated by big mining men, who are “toad ied to” by foppish officials and addlepated students, that are seeking swivel chair posi tions in mineralogy: That a state university is an important adjunct to the politi cal activity of big mining comp anies would seem to be indicated by the case of Montana. Indeed, Montana is not the only state where the political tentacles of the mining companies have been extended to the educational insti tutions. The State of Montana has been woefully dominated by Senator Clark’s and other mining inter ests. They recently engaged in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the primary in that state. Their failure should be a warning to those in Arizona who have re cently been agitating for the substitution of machine rule for the will of the people. Within the past few years a president of the Montana State University has been ousted be cause he failed to measure up to i the ideals of the big companies. Fortunately for the people of that state he didn’t fold his tent j and silently steal away, but he ! ARIZONA STATE MINER. camped right there. He now runs several newspapers and is stir ring up more trouble than was anticipated. He seems to have the people with him, altho the mine-owned press has called him a bolsheviki, etc. More recently, Prof. Levine was dismissed from the State University for writing a book on mine taxation, in which it is said, he was guilty of telling the truth. He showed that some of the companies were not paying their just proportion of the state taxes. This was, of course, criminal and he was straightway dismissed. Any public institution, espec ially an educational institution, controlled by selfish interests, tho it stand out in material mag nificence, is but little credit to any state. Democracy Making Progress. The evidence is conclusive that democracy is advancing. If we are skeptical on this point, the recent action of the National As sociation of Manufacturers, would do away with our doubts. This organization is composed of, per haps, the most reactionary group of men in America. An address was recently issued by this asso ciation, which a few years ago would have been considered radi cal and socialistic. Even now the Bourbon, reactionary and mine-owned press of this state tries to brand anyone as a radi cal and undesirable who stands on the same declaration as this organization. This address shoots straight, and plainly admits there are causes for the present industrial unrest, and names some of these causes as follows: ‘ ‘Growth of great fortunes; un fair economic treatment of labor, regarding labor as a commodity; lack of sympathy in the treat ment of labor questions; malad ministration of government; un fair courts; political rings; in difference to civic duties.” The address goes even further and proposes a prohibition law for the abolishment of poverty. It de clares for ‘‘a permanent system of taxation, including taxes on incomes, profit, inheritance, etc., which will put the burden on the rich.” More amazing still, the Association urges the recognition of “the best element among the socialists” and proposes “to keep the active forces of public opin ion—the press, the pulpit and the forum —ceaselessly at work for the cure of evils.” The truth is pouring in upon us from every direction and if we fail to see it then we must be blind. The mining companies and other big financial interests of this state must quit trying to run this state with their newspa pers, deportations and lobbyists if they want to receive fair treat ment at the hands of the people. They are entitled to fair treat ment, but nothing more. NOTICE TO MINING MEN.-I will give half interest in my Silver and Gold Ledge for development work. Picked ore assays to the ceiling and a large vein only 2000 feet from a good auto road. See me quick. SAM F. POWELL. 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