The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-21
TWO OF A KIND.

A few DAYS ago the CHRONICLE made
mention of the fact that a merchant of
this city was shipping his goods by the
Baker. In commenting upon it these
words were used:
There is no remedy left for the people
nothing they can do, save let severely
alone every merchant who turns traitor
to the best interests of the people.
When the merchants of this city are
standing shoulder to shoulder loyalty,
as one man, with only one exception, in
the support of the Regulator, the
CHRONICLE does not propose to be silent
and allow that man or any other man to
reap an advantage over the rest. If a
merchant becomes traitor to the peo-
pie for the sake of saving l5 cents on a
sack of sugar let him keep his sugar.
The people in that case ought not to buy
it and we greatly mistake their temper
if they will.
The CHRONICLE did not then and does
not now suppose that outside the en-
ployes of the Union Pacific there are ten
men in Wasco county who do not heartily
approve the spirit that prompted these
remarks. 1t was no wanton assault. 1t
was in no sense inspired by Il desire to
injure anyone. 1t was not written in
heat OF passion or revenge. Every word
was carefully weighed and every word
was written under stern sense of the
duty the CHRONICLE supposed it owed to
the public. 1t was only an incident in
battle the CHRONICLE had been waging
In the peoples interests from the time
the Union Pacific began its war upon
the Regulator till the Baker was tied up.
The shipment referred to was no secret:
1t was no secret that a sign had been
placed i'll front of the gentleman's store.
Yet the CHRONICLE was the only paper
that mentioned, we had almost said
dared to mention it. The others were
dumb as oysters. During all the anxious
and critical weeks that the Regulator
was fighting for her life they had moth
ing to say save to impugn the motives
OF the CHRONICLE or excuse their apathy
by stating that the Regulator did not
need the support of the press but
solitary reproof for the action of the
Union Pacific in cutting rates and carry
wheat for nothing to prevent the peo-
PIES boats from getting it-never. All
they did, absolutely all, as if to show
their sympathy was with the railroad,
was to find fault with the CHRoN1cLE.
And SO the Sun comes out and saws it
was mean of the CHRONICLE to attempt
boycott and then the Times Mountaineer
like blind parrot, says:
This is a mean, dirty insinuation
against the merchants of this city, and
if the editor did not have the courage
and manhood to name the man he
should not have mentioned the matter
at all.
Gentlemen of the Sun and Times
Mountaineer the CHRONICLE will not
name the man to please you or anyone
else. You know who he is fully as well
as we do and seeing you are so deeply
sensitive of the honor of the merchants
of this city against whom this smean,
dirty insinuation" has been uttered, the
CHRONICLE respectfully suggests that
you name him yourselves. 1t will be
the fist time you syer said a word to
hurt the feelings of the Union Pacific
Gentlemen of the Sun and Mountainee,
you dare not name the man. You
would lose the advertising patronage o.
the Union Pacific if you did. You're 8
pretty pair of editors, you are.
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