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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19
TARfFF A La IRISH.

The Ata Californian in its issue of
Sunday last attempts to ridicule the
Mckinley tariff bill because it Ievles
a round duty upon many articles of
farm produce. The farming interests
we're represented before the committee
by practical farmers who asked that
these import duties be fixed as they
have been. 1t is barely possible, is it
not, that they may know something
about what they want. Even if the
editor Of the AHa is too ignorant or
too short sighted to know it, the day
is not far distant when the pampas of
South America-notably in the Ar
eentine confederation-will be dedi-
Gated largely to the culture of corn.
With system Of peonage, there will
be no difficulty in their competing in
our markets With the farmer of Hi
nois, Iowa, Missouri and the other
prairie states, except the tariff. 1t
has never been Republican policy to
wait till the horse was stolen to lock
the stable door. Does the editor of
the Ala believe that the wheat fields
of India, titled as they are by ryots
at wages of two cents day, are not
a standing menace to our farmers, or
that but for the 20 per cent tariff on
wheat they would not try to secure
market for portion of their product
here? Mr.. John P. Irish Is the editor
of the AHa Californian. He is
genial, whole hearted, brilliant, erratic,
mistaken Democrat. Mr.. Irish is the
gentleman who, it will be remembered,
came from California to "boss" the
last Democratic State Convention.
Immediately thereafter he undertook
to do missionary work in this state
for couple of months. Many of our
readers will remember Sydney Smiths
famous article on taxes and English
men. Mr.. Irish adopted this as
part of the speech he everywhere de-
livered just changing the form suffi-
GENTLY to fit the occasion. The result
of the campaign conducted by Mr..
Irish is yet fresh IN the minds of our
readers. 1t is however always to be
found at the Office of the secretary of
state endorsed, Vote of 1883, Re-
publican majority 74OO." Mr.. Irish
sometimes in his remarks had too
much regard for truth to use it on
such ordinary occasions. And when
in the editorial above referred to he
re-iterates the threadbare yarn that
the tariff forces the consumer to pay a
tax of Al per cent On the necessities
which he buys, Mr.. Irish knows-no
one better-that his statement is not
true. AS before stated he is man of
ability. But even man of medioc-
rity, or less, knows that everything
we purchase for use to-day is lower,
far lower than ever before. And in
no line of purchases does it show more
clearly than in clothing and farming
tools. A suit of clothes, horse rake,
q mower, wagon or plow cost far
less under a high tariff which has
prevailed nearly thirty years than
they did under any of the approaches
to free trade which at sundry times
haye cursed the country. We allude
to these articles because Mr.. Irish
selects them as a text from which to
preach. No, Mr.. Irish you are right;
The farmer will not be hoodwinked.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19
THE MONTANA MIDDLE.

The speech of Mr.. Spooner in the
matter of the contested senatorial
seats seems to have raised some issues
in the case which will sadly puzzle the
Democrats although they will doubt
less find it incumbent upon themselves
to attempt an answer. By proper
Interpretation of statute relative to
the qualifications of voters in the
territories it appears that by far the
greater portion of the Democrats who
attempted to vote at Tunnel "a in
Silver Bow county-the precinct in
dispute not legal voters of the
United States. The new view of the
matter from strictly legal standpoint
is evidently very embarrassing to
the Democrats who doubtless feel
that the law as well the facts are all
on the Republican side of the
case, and that they will now not be
able to change partisanship as they
hoped to be able to do. There is no
question but that the Republican con-
testants will be admitted. The Re
publicans 60 far seem to have made 1t
very clear that the Democrats having
the governor of the territory entered
into a conspiracy to secure two sena-
tors by the use of that executives GER
ti6cates of election in certain precincts
which they hoped to manipulate.
They are chagrined, to put it in a
word, that the Republicans have un
masked their efforts to capture state
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NOT INFALLIBLE,

We often find mistakes in proof
reading which are hardly excusable.
Yesterday, Sundays issue of one of
the papers published ON the Sound
an able editorial on a psychological
subject, "Anti-natal Memory" And
even Oregon's great daily-curiously
enough too ON this same subject of
memory few days since in quoting
the Virgilian line
Ceium uudique ct undique pontus
twice misspells ''celum", and then
furnishes this absurd translation: "the
sky and sea alike above u.s." A man
with the sea above him would like
McGinty be very wet. The simple
literal translation can never be im-
proved. "The sky everywhere, and
everywhere the sea-"
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early survey of unsurveyed public lands
in this state, that the same may be
claimed and occupied and tillers speedily
procured by bona fde settlers, under the
laws OF the United States. We demand
liberal appropriations by congress to Sc
cure that end.
FifteeHth-That while d,sclaimiug the
right to interfere with the administra.
ton OF internal affairs of foreign nations,
we sincerely approve the efforts of Irlsb
and English statesmen to secure by peace
full methods the American principle oil
home rule fer Ireland.
Sixteenth-That we denounce all trust
and combinations that have for their OBJ
Ject the controlling of the market value
OF the necessities of life, and that we are
IN favor of laws restraining and abolish.
ing the same.
HARRIsoN's ADMINISTRATION INDoRsED
Seventeenth That we congratulate the
country upon the success and the pros-
perlty that have marked the first year OF
President Harrison's administration that
We reJolce In the restoration of dignity,
vlgor and craftsmanship In the conduct
OF foreign affairs, which have settled
grave International complications upon
basis which secures every American right,
and which, by friendly advances and hes.
pitslity, have strengthened the words of
sympathy and interest which join US to
the republics OF the American continent,
paving the way to policy of peace. OF
extended commerce. and of ami.y among
all the nations of the new world; /;
that we commend the present ma
tional administration for applying tn,
surplus funds to the payment of interest
paying bonds, Us contracted with tn,
Democratic policy of lending the surplus
to banks which retained their bonds and
collected interest thereon while using the
peoples money, which should have been
applied to the payment of sand bonds.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19
FALSE PROPHETS.

The fourteenth of April has come,
and like other days passed peacefully
away. 1t will he in order now for
the poor deluded fools who were weak
enough to listen to the vaporings of
the Oakland prognosticators to sneak
back from the mountains to their un-
harmed abodes. If one were to invent
and disseminate ever 80 widely, some
prophecy Of great good, some piece of
vaticination which foretold only the
bright and desirable, he would not
nave hearer or a convert. But let
some ill-omened bird croak out dole
iul tale of wide and swift ruin and
lesolation and his following become
extensive at ohce. Which goes to
show, we imagine, that the human
family is inclined rather to pessinism
than otherwise.
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OUR NATY AND MERCHANT.
MARINE.

Not long since the house of repre-
sentative passed a bill preventing
aliens from serving in the navy of the
United States. 1t was we'll and
wisely ordered that American seamen
SHOULD fight the battles of America.
But how are we to keep ourselves
supplied with able seamen from whom
to draw in recruiting the ranks of
those who wear Uncle Sans blue uni
form. The merchant marine is the
nursery for American man-of- " ar's
men. A naval reserve must be com.
posed of sailors who are generally
employed in the merchant service.
We have not q merchant service in
such q state as it should be to supply
an ample contingent from which to
draw in time of need. The commit
tee on commerce and navigation have
bill for granting subsidies
to ocean going steamers Subsidies or
bounties, call them whichever you
please, are necessary to maintain sue
cess and supremacy. With them we
must certainly take first place on the
seas.
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THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.

One of the most important of the
recent elections was held in the state
of Rhod. Island. 1t was in fact the
only one in which the state officers
were chosen. But that which in
terested the public in the result vas
not the candidates who were before
the people. 1t was rather the ques-
tion whether the Australian system
of voting Rhich WAS on trial for the
first time in Rhode Island would
prove as successful there as it had in
Massachusetts. The two states had a
very different stalk upon which to
graft this bud of promise. Illiterates
were already practically deprived Of
the ballot in Massachusetts,. The
enemies of the new system have de-
clared that it would surely deprive
many men of the franchise on account
of their want of education. The
Rhode Island election seems to have
established one thing: the uninformed
and uneducated voters occasloned no
difficulty and scarcely any delay.
Sample ballots of different color
from the regular official ballots were
prepared, by one of the parties at
least, with the names of the party
candidates already indicated by q
cross. No man not an idiot could
POSSIBLY fail to understand the situa-
tion, or to vote intelligently, and
idiocy ought to disfranchise any man.
rhe Providence Journal condenses
the result into the following sentences:
1.-THE reports from all parts of the state
indicate the absolute and complete
success of the Reform Ballot Law in
facilitating convenient, unhampered
and even rapid voting. The annoy
ance of the usual gang of vote solic-
itors, distributors and political workers
of every kind was done away with at
the polls" If the new system should
bring with it no compensation but this,
il more than pays.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19
WLSCONSIN'S SCHOOL LAWS.

The intensely interesting and ex-
citing discussion now going on all
over Wisconsin regarding the pro-
priety of repeating the Bennett com.
pulsory school law can be productiv.
of good and good only. The one
clause which invites the hostility Of
those who fight the bill is one which
makes all schools illegal unless certain
branches are taught in the English
language. AS Governor Hoard says.
"the right of state to see that every
child receives the rudiments of an
education, and the right of every child
to receive such education are funda-
mental American principles" and the
sooner this Is thoroughly established
the better.
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THE TICKET.


The nominations made in Portland
yesterday may be received with en-
thusiasm in some portions of the state;
but not In Eastern Oregon. Mr..
Hermann for congress is strong
candidate; but Hon. w. r. Ellis
would have been equally as acceptable.
We believe the Portland delegation
made mistake when they placed the
name of Hon. D. P. Thompson at the
head of the state ticket. Mr.. Thomp-
son has been very good citizen, but
there are other requisites necessary
for the chief executive of the common.
wealth than simply character. 1t is
true he has exhibited ability of GER
tain kind in the accumulation of
money, starting in life as he did in
blacksmith shop at Oregon City; but
this should not be considered the
chief recommendation for official po-
sition. 1t must be acknowledged that
Portland, in politics, the same as in
business, controls the state; but in
regard to this nomination Eastern
Oregon is almost wholly to blame.
The delegates. east of the Cascades
went to the convention deter
mined on having the state treasurer
from this portion of Oregon, and
nearly every county had one or more
candidates. This gave the Portland
ring an opportunity to accomplish its
desires, and the advantage was not
lost. The names of G. w. Nc
Bride for secretary of state, P. Nets
chan treasurer, E. B. McElroy super
intendent of public instruction, R. s.
Bean supreme judge and F. G. Baker,
state printer, are excellent and could
not be bettered. Each one of these |
is peculiarly adapted to the position
for which he is named, and will carry
the full party strength in the state.
The joint representatives from this
and Sherman counties-Hon. E. o.
Mccoy and Mr.. G. w. Johnston
are very popular men, and no doubt
will poll large vote. Mr.. Mccoy
was a member of the last house from
this county, and made good record,
and Mr. Johnston is q merchant at
Dufur, where he has lived for a mum.
Der of yeers. He is yoang man of
most excellent character, and the
was o well-merited recog-
nition of his worth. The nomination
of Hon. w. II. Wilson for prose-
cutting attorney was expected, and the
in this regard voiced the
of the people of this dis
trict.
In looking over the ticket we can
but notice that Eastern Oregon is
almost completely ignored. Western
Oregon has every candidate except
one-Mr. Metschan, of Grant county. |
In the history of the state this portion
has been favored with only one sena-
Tor and two members of the lower
house in congress, while the William
ette valley has had almost continuous
representation in Washington City.
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of the feeling in Multnomah previous
to the holding of the primaries, har-
mony prevails and in all the list of
the possible names which have been
suggested for leading places on the
ticket there is not single ineligible.
Pennoyer will no doubt be nominated
against any Republican and with as
little doubt he villas he deserves
be soundly beaten.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19

To His Imperial Majesty, the Gear Of auts
RussiQs;

To His Imperial Agjestv, the Car Of all the
Russias:
We who petition your Majesty are
citizens of the United States of America.
We belong to people who have long
been bound by the natural ties of SYM
pathy and gratitude to the great Russian
nation and to the Czars clothed with her
majesty, who WELD her power and shape
her destiny.
1t is your Majesty's province to do for
Russia what We, in q certsin sense, do for
ourselves; and though the methods of
governmental action are different, the aims
of good government aIe the same: the
strength and true grandeur of the State
and the welfare and happiness of the
people.
For these things nations ere organized
and laws are decreed and executed; for
these things great Princes in the fear of
God exercise imperisIsway, and Presidents
are appointed.
Differ though they may in outward form.
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The plank in favor of the Aus
tralian ballot system in the Republi.
can platform adopted in Portland will
be endorsed by every patriotic Amer.
ican citizen. The purity of our in
stitutions is the greatest guaranty of
their perpetuity. and the absolute
freedom of the ballot should be care
fully watched. Politics should he
patriotism, and not system of Chi
canery and trickery to accomplish
personal ends. Our educational sys-
tenn is such that the elector has no
excuse for lack of intelligence, and if
he conscientiously exercises the priv
ilege of the elective franchise, the
voice of the people will be for the best
interests of the nation. The filth
which has accumulated in our political
system can be purified by strict sur
veillance over the ballot box, and we
dc hope for the permanency of free
government that the Australian sys-
tenn will be adopted by every state Of
the union.
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Times-s sYlgunataiaees.
BEET SUGAR:

A few days since our dispatches an
nounced that the steamer Nymphaea,
of 5000 tons burden, had arrived at
New Orleans with the machinery fer
the beet sugar factory now under con-
struction at Grand Island, Nebraska
She also brought fifty tons of beet
seeds. This factory and plant at Grand
Island will cost, completed, more than
100000, and will have daily capac-
ity to work more than 1000 tons of
beets. This brief piece of intelligence
is the text from which might be
preached one Of the most powerful
of sermons to the agricultural political
economists. Our space is too limited
to permit more than few pointed re-
marks. To begin with, capitalists do
not invest their money as freely as
this in visionary schemes Mr.. Spreck-
els has succeeded in this enterprising
industry in California, and the soil and
climate of Nebraska are even better
fitted for beet culture than those of the
former state.
Germany some time ago ceased to
be dependent on the worlds summer
countries for her sugar supply. She
grows her own beets, her own factories
make them into sugar, her own deal
ers sell them to her population and she
exports large surplus. The soils and
climate of our northwestern states-of
Idaho, Oregon and Westinghouse
especially adapted to the growth of
sugar beets, much more so than those
of Germany. 1t is a we'll known fact
that in skill our artisans are unsur.
passed in the world. We now import
so large percentage of our sugars
that larger and richer home market
is eagerly waiting for an immense
home product. And now we come to
the glst Of the whole matter. It is
this very diversi6cation CT his indus
tries that is the one thing needful for
the American farmer. Whec he learns
this fact and acts upon it he will real
ize his hopes Of a high degree of pros
perity; not only in beet culture either,
for fix, hemp, fruits, dairy products,
all and each of these are capable of
profitable and even indefinite extern
sion. Enslsnd is sure to extend the
wheat growing area of India, and the
Argentine Republic will gradually but
surely extend her corn product. Why
will not the American farmer grow
those products which nature indicates
as properly suited to the soil, climate
and the wants OF the people-products
with which India and South America
cannot compete-and he must look to
his home market for his best custom
ers. Of one thing he may feel as
sured; he will find home market for
all the sugar he can raise for many a
year to come.
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your government aad our government are

your government a1d our government are
brothers in their noblest duties.
Nor are our fraternal professions an
empty feeling; we remember, and We can
never forget, how the Gar, by his fifth
In the stability of the American Union
and by the presence of Russian ships in
the harbor of New York, strengthened the
Republic when it was supposed, by less
far-sighted sovereigns and statesmen, to
be ON the verge OF ruin. Our danger,
then, arose from au evil which your illus.
trious father, Alexander II, by bis exam Pile
helped our illustrious President, Abraham
Lincoln, to remove: and the great Prince
who liberated the Russian serfs and the
great Citizen who freed the American
slaves, by kindred deeds of humanity,
linked their countries together by endur-
ing ties.
Sharing, therefore, as the past has
taught us to do, in the thoughts that
concern the glory and happiness OF our
people, We have been moved to bring to
you, with good greetings, this petition:
That your Majesty will personally take
note of widespread interest, among Us.
in the workings and effects of the Siberian
exile system.
We do not forget the penal reforms
already accomplished in the Russian
empire. We are not blind to the mental
and physical sufferings that of necessity
are part of any system of punishment
for crime against individuals, society, or
the State; nor are we unmipdful of the
need of reforms which are actively en-
gsging the attention Of phi!anthropists in
our own methods OF dealing with convicts.
In this we are giving expression to the
feeling CT a friendly people. that in the
punishment of some of her subjects Russia,
whether from causes peculiar to her
people, or on account of ancient custom,
is not in harmony with the humanizing
sentiments of the age. 1t is our wish that
Dy the wisdom and power of the Gar and
and the favor of God, Russia may grow
in the admiration and sympathy of the
American people and Of the whole civil
lied world.
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The report is current that the end
of the railroad division will be re-
moved to Umatlla on May lst, and
this will cause the change of residence
of very many employees. The old o.
s. N. Co., or later o. r. & N. Co.,
have done very little for the develop
ment of Eastern Oregon, although
they have realized ten-fcld on every
dollar invested. This city must de-
pend on itself in the future for grow n
and prosperity. and the quicker it
learns to walk alone and exercise its
own muscular strength for deyelop-
ment the better. There can be no
excuse now for not putting on line
of opposition boats, and movement
in this direction should be made im-
mediatsly. The Union Pacific is q
transcontinental line, and cannot af-
ford to let the fact become widespread
that a city of 5000 population, 200
miles in the interior. can control the
route to seaboard by the expenditure
of $4,000. We do not desire con-
flict with great and wealthy corpo-
ration; but the preservation of our
business interests demands action on
our part.
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The Democrats placed full county
ticket in the field to-day, and the po-
litlcal contest is now fairly inaugurated.
We know nothing against the charac-
ter of any of the candidates, and if we
did should not consider the columns of
a newspaper the proper place to venti-
late it. Messrs. Gibbons, Crossen, Gates
and Frazer are well known to our citi-
zens, and in some instances have filled
official positions before. While saying
this much for our opponents, we can
truly state that the names placed before
the people of Wasco last week by the
Republicans are citizens in every way
qualified for the positions named, and
a better ticket could not have been
nominated.
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The Boise Statesman talks IN the following
very confident manner: 'Among the certain
ties of the early future may be safely set
down the completion of the Oregon Pacific
railroad to this city. This is no myth, no
dream or idle boast. Of course there may
be some doubts entertained as to what cor.
poration will continue the construction of
the road and control it after it is completed;
but if the Oregon Pacific has any real cause
of being or any rational future. these can
only be made manifest and rc.liEed by fol-
lowing out the original plan. which has never
been lost sight Of or modified, Of building to
Boise City.