The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-03-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Judge in Astoria who sentenced
Mr.. o. W. Dunbar, of the Daily Talk,
TO the county Jail for one year and to
pay the costs of the action in a case of
criminal libel tried this week, is the
same judicial officer who sent Sandy
Olds to the penitentiary one year for
killing Webber and sentenced man
for stealing two salmon to three years.
: Oregon is the first state to give
verdict at the polls in this presidential
year, and 1t is very important that a
full vote be polled next june. If the
party is freed from bessism and the
control of cllques the Republican "'a-
iority this year will be IS large ID it.
xas in 1888, and all persons believing
in Republican principles should work
with this end in view.
1t is not known whether Salisbury
will agree to the n1OdaLS U1Ue7ad1 re-
garding the seal fishing i'll Behring
sea, and if this is NOT enforced this
industry will be nearly destroyed.
Great Britain is powerful maratine
nation; but the United States have
certain rights in this matter which
should be protected, and the adminis-
tration will receive the support of the
people in so doing.
The country knows how the De-
mocracy stand on the tariff, for the
leaders have caused the walls Of the
capitol at Washington to echo to their
eloquent denunciatlons of the McKin-
ley bill; but they have yet to define
their position on the currency, and
this will be more equivocal. They
could denounce protection as advo-
Gated by Republicans without offend
ing the corporations Of New England;
but when they advocate unlimited
coinage of silver Wall street will pro-
test very emphatically.
While it may be true that wages
are e'largely governed by supply and
demand, it is also fact that when
there Is a good price for articles em-
ployers can afford to pay lahorers more
per diem. This holds good every |
where, and if protection was taken
from American goods our factors would |
be forced to lower wages to the mini |
mum in Great Britain to compete |
with goods from that country. Eco
nomic rules are all right in their
sphere; but supply and demand is not
the only factor in determining wages.
The $435, 900 which the dispatches
to-day state will be recommended by
the committee on Rivers and Harbor
for the locks at the Cascades will
allow the work to be pushed forward
rapidly; and especially will this be
true If the improvement is to be COM
pleted under the contract system. II
the bill passes the house little fears
need be entertained that it will not re-
ceive the necessary vote in the senate.
The manner in which the work has been
delayed under the management of the
war department has been discoaraging
to the producers of the northwest, and |
any change will be acceptable.
The Democrats are attempting to
secure the vote of the laboring man by
representing the Republican party as
allied to wealth and corporations.
This is the shallowest of anything they
have said during the present cam
paign; for it is a well-known fact
that Jay Gould was the first
to extend congratulations to Mr..
Cleveland on his election, and there
has been no adverse legislation regard-
ing railroads during Democratic con-
troll. of the lower house of congress.
This is simply subterfuge, and will
be laid aside after this year for use IN
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the next presidential campaign.