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, 1890-08-21
THE 4 MEXICAN HOG.

The American hog has found q
faithful friend in Whitelaw Reid,
the brilliant editor and shrewd dip
lomat who represents the United
States at the French court. Nine
years ago France legislated against
the admission of American pork, on
the grounds of its seeming unwhol
oneness. A few weeks ago Minis
ter Reid called on the French min
lister of foreign affairs with view
to having the "harsh and unreason
able restrictions removed. He en-
deavored to show the mistake that
France was Taking in excluding
American pork, and hinted at the
possible prohibition of French wines
by the United States, owing to the
growth of the wine industry In this
country. The fight is still on, aud
with shrewd diplomacy Mr.. Reid
touched the tenderest chords of the
French heart when he referred to
the fact that France was discrim.
mating against America, her old
friend, in favor of Germany, Eng-
land and Italy, her old enemies.
With the French sentiment Is every
thing, and the thought that Ger
many is protiting by the exclusion
of Americao pork from France will
tend to create such feeling as to
force an early repeal of the odious
law.
Another wise suggestion made by
the willy diplomat and editor was
the possibility of excluding French
wines from American shores, for
France could, Ill afford the heavy
losses that would follow such a blow
to her wine industry. The people
there are still groaning under the
heavy taxes imposed to pay the
enormous war debt exacted by Ger
many twenty years ago, and the
heavy taxes necessary to maintain a
powerful standing army such as
Is deemed a necessity for the protec-
ton of her frontiers. The most
profitable industry to the masses of
the French people is the manufac-
ture of wine, and the effect of the
exclusion Of their wines from Amer
lea would cause dire distress and
great suffering among the French
vine growers and WINE makers by
shutting off their best market and
thereby materially depreclating the
prices of their wines. Minister
Reid saw these things, and when he
pitted American pork against
French wine he showed sagacity
that will ultimately rebound to the
glory of the American hog.
, 1890-08-21

81 sos, 200, u gratifying showing,
and one that never would have been
made had Oregon not adopted the
policy of retaining her members Ia
congress term after term. Without
an exception the Oregon delegation
has been In congress for many years.
Representative Hermann has been
In the house continuously since
1882; Senator Mitchell Is now
serving his third term In the
senate, and Senator Dolph his sec.
ond. Hermann is n member Of the
house committee on rivers and har-
bors, and Dolph is on the senate
committee. They are thus In posi-.
tion to serve their state effectively,
and the result is seen In the large
appropriations carried by the river
and harbor bill. Here Is lesson
that Washington can study to ad.
vantage.
Recognizing the fact that the de.
velopment and improvement of one
part of the Northwest has a tenden.
cy toward the advancement Of the
entire section, the REVIEW congrat.
llates the representatives Of both
Washington and Oregon upon the
able work they have done In secur.
Ing so large u provision for the i'm
provement Of the waterways of these
states, and the consequent upbuild
Ing OF the sections thereby benefited
, 1890-08-21
INDIAN NAMES

The Chicago Herald laments be-
cause "the people of the West have
done little to preserve the names,
legends and histories of the races
that first inhabited our forests and
prairles.n That may be true of the
states of the Mississippi valley, but
IL fails TO hold good upon the Pacific
coast, where hundreds of Indian
names cling to the streams, lakes
and mountains, as well as designat-
ing cities, towns and counties. And
very beautiful and melodious many
of them are. To the writer's fancy
no more poetic word exists than
"Multnomah. 1t designates
the most populous county in
Oregon, and at least one Oregon girl
claims IL for her name, n daughter
of Senator Dolph. Umatilla, Sno-
homish, Skamania, Okanogan, Spo-
kane, Kittitas, Yakima, Klickitat,
Willamette, Tualatin, Walla Walla,
Wallula, Yaquina, are all Indian
names, and full of melody. The list
might be extended into the hun
dred. More than half of our Wash
ington counties bear Indian names,
and scores of streams and lakes re-
tain the names given them by the
native races so rapidly disappearing
before the advance of civilization.
In the language of II New England
poet, "their names are on oui
waters we can not wash them out
The retention of these Indian
names Is hardly traceable to the po-
etic instincts of the earliest settlers.
1t is probably due to the fact that
the trappers and hunters who came
into this wild region in advance oi
the farmers dweit among the In
dians and married Indian women.
1t was quite natural that they
should adopt the Indian names OF
streams, mountains, ETC., and when
adventurous settlers struggled over
the mountains and invaded the fer
tile valleys they in turn took the
Indian names from the trappers'
tongues, and thus avoided the neces-
sity of taxing their own iInagina-
ton.
The three largest cities in Wash
ington bear Indian names Seattle,
Tacoma and Spokane, and there is IA
growing disposition to restore Indian
names, now almost forgotten, in
cases where the titles given by the
whites carry with them no historic
significance. We still have too
many "Clear Lakes" Trout Lakes"
and deep Creeks in the North
west, and 1t would be more pleasing
to the car and Imagination, and less
confusing, were Indian names sub.
stituted for part of them.
The best thing about the Indian
is his language. The names he gave
to the streams, the mountains and
he lakes should be retained where,
ever practicable.
, 1890-08-21
THAT PETITION.

The Yakima Herald supports Mr..
Turner's candidacy ostensibly for
the reason that 400 republicans OF
Spokane Falls have signed IA petition
asking that gentleman 10 become a
candidate before the state conven-
tion. Probably the Herald Is actu-
ated by other motives. If so, they
are of character that 1t prefers not
to advance. Since this is its only
apparent reason for opposing Repre-
sentative Wilson, and since the Her
aid has failed to substantiate that
declaration with facts, 1t becomes
necessary for the REVIEW to state
the true extent of the movement, "
and to glance briefly at the methods
employed in the committal of the
few republicans who really signed
that document.
Mr.. Turner has not been petitioned
by 400 republicans, nor by hall
that number, nor even by third.
The list given out for publication
contained 1O5 ames altogether,
and was rounded out by the phrase
"2lO others" The REVIEW has
been calling for the publication of
those 1910 Others" day after day,
and has repeatedly offered Mr..
Turner's friends the use of its col.
umns. Why has that offer been
dlsregarded? If 2l0 other republi-
cans signed the petition, why this
neglect to let the public know their
names? The disinterested reader
can form his own conclusions. The
friends of Mr.. Wilson and the sup.
porters of Mr., Turner need no en-
lightment upon his point. They
understand 1t quite clearly.
or the lo5 citizens printed in the
Spokane papers number have pub
licly declared that they signed the
petition under misrepresentation
and scores have admitted that they
attached their names thoughtlessly.
The general public attaches little
weight TO petitions of this character.
They are always signed in business
hours; they take the signer by sur
prise, and the average man, when
caught in a trap like that sot and
baited by Mr.. Turner's friends, pre-.
fers to make the best Of bad bar
, 1890-08-21
OUR EA RLIE,ST HXS7OR y.

A local item In THURSDAYS RE-
VIEW incidentally mentioned a
travellers visit to the old trading
post at the mouth of the Okanogan
river. The establishment of that
post is interviewer with the earliest
history of the Pacific Northwest,
and the circumstances that led to
its establishment are therefore rich
In interest for every person who has
adopted this fair land as his home.
Soon after the establishment of
the fur trading post Of Astoria, by
John Jacob Astor, in 1911, Indians
arrived from the interior with infor-
nation that the Northwest Fur
Company, with headquarters at
Montreal, was establishing post at
the upper rapids" The rivalry
betweed the competing COM
panies assumed an interna-
tional importance, and realizing
the necessity of meeting every
movement of the Canadian COM
pany, Mr.. Astor's partners in charge
of the great enterprise determined
upon sending party into the in.
terror for the purpose OF building n
branch trading post. At the cas-
cades OF the Columbia river this
party learned that the rival post
was farther toward the interior,
, 1890-08-21

showing his presidential hand IN "a
manner that must be particularly
disagreeable to Mr.. Harrison. Inc
shrewd secretary Of state evidently
is taking advantage OF the P,esl
dcnt's desire for harmony ana nor
ror of anything like rupture III ms
cabinet, at this critical juncture, 10
assert his own interests ana gather
support for the national conVeh-
ton. .
Speaker Reeds firm control OF tne
house Is said to have occasioneo
considerable discomfort among tno
republicans. 1t is claimed that ne
has shown favorltlsm toward the
members who have supported the
admi Illustration, and has attempted
to discipline those members VINO
disregarded the party whip. "A
Washington special attributes the
success of Representative wilson 10
his tact in preserving the friendship
of the speaker. =.
There is no concealing the fact that
the leaders of the republican party
are mt variance. Too many men
have their eyes upon the presidency
If President Harrison can reconcile
these differences, there Will be no
danger of defeat. But If this conflict
should bo carried into the conven-
ton, perhaps the party can solve the
problem by renominating MIR. Har-
riunn
, 1890-08-21

THE CHOLERA EPIDElI/C,

Asiatic cholera is not so terrible
to the imagination as it was a CEN
tury ago. The world has learned
that cleanliness Is the safest pre-
ventive. Cholera rarely turks in
cities where attention Is paid to san
itary laws, and 1t takes its victims
generally from the ranks of the poor
and the squalld. Eugene Sue, in
his Wandering jew" has given 10
literature II dramatic picture of the
terrors and horrors that attended
the ravGges of the Oriental disease
in France in the last century. It's
advent was always attended with a
popular superstition that the Wan
dering Jew was travelling over the
land. A vulgar belief existed that
Aslatic cholera and that accursed
wanderer went hand In hand, and
this was strengthened by the coin
cldence that the disease advanced by
easy stages such as would be taken
by II footsore and weary traveller.
The disease has been raging in
NJ ecca and Jeddah for some time
though 1t now appears to be decreas-
ing, while advices from Japan indl-
cate that 1t Is spreading there, hav-
ing driven nearly all the Euro peans
and Americans to the seashore. So
long as the cities of the Pacific sea-
board hold within their business
centers Chinese colonies similar to
those found at San Francisco and
Portland, there Will be more or less
danger of cholera gaining u foothold
therein. This danger will increase
with the growth of Oriental COM
merce. But even in the event of
the terrible scourge obtaining a foot
hold in those cities, Its ravages
would probably be confined to the
Chinese population and the lower
classes who disregard the laws of
health and the dictates of cleanli-
ness, and there would be slight dan
ger OF the epidemic carrying off any
considerable number of the W whites.
There would be great scare, how
ever, n rush to the seashore, a traffic
quarantine and prostration of busi-
ness interests that would be of itself
a severe blow TO the prosperity of the
afflicted city.
But even this remote danger
could easily be overcome by a little
, 1890-08-21
SUMMER RESORTS.

About this time Of year the crowds
who left the city to recuperate at
crowded hotels of summer resorts
are homeward bound. Their coun-
tenances are an interesting study,
IA mingling of tan, sun blisters and
repressed disappointment and dis
gust, illumined by ray of positive
delight over their return to the COM
forts and luxuries of home life.
1t is we'll enough for one to get
away from the city, provided he
goes about 1t In the proper way.
Rest and change of scene and air
are highly beneficial, provided one
Is not compelled to forego all the
comforts of home life; but if your
lot casts you at dusty, hot resort,
and you are compelled to sleep In a
stuhy little room, or upon the floor,
TO subsist upon poorly cooked food,
and fight flies at third-rate hotel,
and at the same time pay first-class
rates, you are apt to come home and
draw long sigh of positive relief.
An inspection of the back yards of
number of the summer resort
hotels is sufficient to give one the
malarial fever If nothing worse. a
number of Spokane people, who own
comfortable homes, are stopping at
hotels where the service Is poor, the
cooking abominable and the hygiene
a menace to health. Some are ben
eiited, because "a change of scene
and a respite from hard labor will
do much to rebuild wasted tissue,
but many delicate women and ch IL
dren come home in a worse condi-
ton than when they left 1t.
One proposition may be safely re-
garded. A man should never take
his family to IA summer resort where
the hotels disregard all the laws of
health, where the back yard is used
as kitchen hidden, and the food
is poorly cooked. 1t is flying in the
face of providence; it is courting the
germs of disease. Home is incom-
parably better place.
If one can not find hotel where
cleanliness and hygiene are re-
garded, 1t Is much better to go pre-
pared tor camping. A large, roomy
tent, pitched in grassy glade be-
meath the tall treas, and near rum
ming spring, or upon the shore of "A
lake, is infinitely preferable to a
crowded hotel like those described
above. Whether or not you choose
to employ help is matter for indi-
vidual determination. You avoid
the dust and the crowds, and the
food that experience has shown to
be best suited to yourself and fami ly
can be had. a sojourn in the noun
tains can thus be made beneficial
and pleasant. The mountains sur
rounding Spokane abound with in
Vulnerable resorts like that just out
lined. The shores of the lakes, the
banks of the streams, the glens and
glades of the mountains are around
us, and the pure air and balsamiC
woods are natures own tonics.
The REVIEW is not declaring that
all hotels at the surrounding re-
sorts are of an Objectionable char
actsr, but a number of them are Ger.
tainly neither appetizing nor con-
ducive to health.
, 1890-08-21

SIL YER'S FRIENDS AND
EO E,N

Silver has practically reached a
parity with gold. That Is, with the
white metal at Sl.20, o cents short
Of par, and rapidly advancing, the
government could safely coin every
ounce that might be offered at its
mints, without depreciating the
standard dollar. This Is not an ex-
travagant assertion, In view Of the
fact that the United States safely
coined ~, 1000, 900 monthly when bar
silver was worth only 90 cents an
ounce.
The REVIEW believes that the of.
ficial announcement that the United
States government would begin to-
morrow the free coinage of silver
would send that metal to Sl.29, and
that those figures would stand un-
shaken. Speculation could not force
1t beyond that point because the
government would not put more
than than dollars worth of silver
into dollar.
However, there is reason to believe
that the present law will send silver
TO par. Another week of advances
similar to those ofthe past week win
settle the silver question and take it
out of politics. Every day brings
fresh evidence of the wisdom and
safety of the silver bill just
enacted by the republican
party. And here IL is proper
to remind the public that the demo-
cratic party in congress opposed that
beneficial legislation, playing into
the hands of the gold men by de-
claring that 1t was in the interest of
Wall street, and that its effects
would be detrimental to silver. The
democratic party was hostile to sill
ver when 1t was In power, and now
1t is Juggling with the question in n
manner that proves its lack of sim
certify. Its efforts are thoroughly
understood by the mining interests
of the West, because the nineown-
ers have made study Of this ques-
ton, and can not be deceived by
clap-trap. They know that they
need hope for nothing but antag-
onism at the hands of Grover Cleve.
land, should the democracy again
be placed in control of the
government, and the attitude
of another candidate would be prob
lematical. But there is danger that
this juggling may deceive the
farmers, who have not studied the
question 30 thoroughly as have the
mine-owners. In the approaching
campaign 1t will become the duty
of the republican press and speak.
ers to present this question in a
clear and simple manner. The task
Is not difficult. They need only
point to the results of republican
legislation and contrast them with
the attitude of the democratic ad-
ministration under Mr.. Cleveland.
The records are before the public,
and no amount of juggling can hide
them from view.
Under q republican administra-
tion silver has advanced to within
a few points of par, Under demo-
cratic rule 1t was dishonored, and
the price steadily declined. These
facts can not be explained away.
, 1890-08-21
A SCION OF ROYALTY.

The Compte de Paris, who Is com.
ing to the United States in Septem.
Der, Is not stranger TO American
soil. He Is veteran of the war be.
tween the North aud the South,
having visited the United States In
1861, in company with the Due dc
Charities and the Prince de Joinville.
The party were In full sympathy
with the struggling government and
volunteered their services, refusing
to receive pay therefor. They were
attached to the staff of General Nc.
Clellan and were with him for u
period OF ten months, frequently
serving on detached duty and ex-
posing themselves to the fire OF the
enemy. At the battle of Gaines
Mill they displayed great gallantry,
freely exposing their lives in carry.
ing dispatches and endeavorlng to
reform our broken lines.
The counts first visit in America
will be to the battlefelds of Vir-
ginia, the scene of his services to the
Northern cause. His visit will
afford n reunited nation an excel
lent opportunity of mapifesting the
warmest gratitude. 1t Is not i'm
probable that the reception he will
receive at the hands of the American
people will resemble the welcome
that greeted the return of the Mar
quls de Lafayette to the shores of
America after the termination of the
war Of the revolution. The services
of the Compte de Parlsto the Union
came at a time when the sympa-
thies Of a nation Of our own lineage
and tongue Were VIGOROUSLY with
the conspirators who We're seeking
the disruption Of the Union.
American history shows that the
French have ever entertained the
warmest friendship for the govern
ment of the United States. The
only exception that can be cited,
and even that was inspired by pol
iticians rather than the masses of
, 1890-08-21
THE RIVER AND HAPBOR
BILL.

Although the appropriations car
ried by the river and harbor bill for
the Improvement of the Columbia at
the mouth and the cascades of that
river are credited to Oregon, Wash
ington will derive the larger part of
the advantages following the open
ing of that mighty river to unfretted
navigation. The Columbia and its
largest tributaries are confined
principally to this state. A few
miles below its confluence with the
Snake IL makes bold sweep to the
west, and becomes the dividing line
between the two states, but at no
point does 1t enter the state of Ore
gon, nor is it fed by a single
navigable stream from that state.
Since the Columbia and its trib-
utaries drain this state, 1t nat
urally follows that the commerce of
Washington will derive the ad-
vantages attending the opening of
that stream and the conseq uent
lowering of rates that inevitably at
tends free competition between rail
and river routes. 1t now seems
probable that congress will appro-
priate $3.50, 900 for the cascades and
an even half a million dollars for
the jetty at the mouth of the river.
These items are credited to Oregon,
because the improvements are being
constructed upon the Oregon bank
of the stream, but In reality WASH
ington will receive the major share
of the advantages. In addition to
this $50, 900 will probably he appro-
priated for the improvement of the
Upper Columbia between Rock ISL
and rapids and Priel. rapids, and
here also Washington will receive
the advantages.
The harbors of Washington re-
ceive little or nothing, because Of a
lack of preliminary surveys by the
engineer corps. This inequality
will disappear in time, now that
Washington has become u state aud
will have four members of congress
10 push ber claims.
Altogether the Northwest 10 given
, 1890-08-21
BLAINE AND REED.

The contest between the political
lightweights of Washington has
drawn the attention of the public
of this state from a much greater
struggle between men of national
reputation, IA struggle that has for
its theater the extreme northeastern
state of the union. Advices from
Maine, as we'll as from the national
capital, give indisputable proof of
the fact that the long smothered
fires In the breasts of Blaine and
Reed have broken out in open war
fare. 1t Is not alone struggle for
the mastery Of the state, 1t is n fight
for the leadership of the republican
party of the nation.
The fact is only too apparent that
the views of Reed and Blaine are at
variance, and reconciliation seems
out of the question. Mr.. Blaine and
the speaker can not agree upon the
sugar schedule in the tariff bill.
The former demands alterations in
the Mckinley bill calculated to
widen the foreign market for Amer
lean manufactures. Reed approves
the bill as 1t was laid before con-
gress, nor do the differences of these
great men end with the Tariff ques-
tion. Blaine likes not the attempt
to pass the Lodge bill. His quick
mind was not long in detecting its
lack Of support by public sentiment.
He sees that its passage would not
strengthen the party in any direc.
tion. and that IL carries with 1t ele-
ments of weakness and danger.
Reed, upon the other hand, insists
that the measure receive the sane
ton of the party.
In this emergency the president
is with the speaker. Mr.. Blaine is
, 1890-08-21

timely precaution, valuable asid.
from all possibility of n cholera epI.
demlc. Sanitary laws In the CHI.
nese districts should be needed mon
than at present Is the case. TA
best way to fight Asiatic cholera O,
any other disease, Is to adopt mn.
cautionary methods. Once thu
scourge gains a foothold medical
skill can accomplish little.
There Is no occasion for alarm
Still 1t Is wisdom to insist on cleanlI.
ness In large cities, because disease
gains only n slight foothold in towns
that are cleauly and amenable to the
laws of sanitation.