The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-04-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A Cleveland organ referring to the
Hill faction remarks: "No army was
ever weakened by cutting the towards
out" That may be true, bat this is a
different case-it is cutting the fight
ing men out. Cowardice is not Hills
weak point.
A Willamette valley exchange has
an article on the consumption of sugar,
which is very pertinent to a subject
that interest all persons having the
least relation to this article of daily
consumption. We need sugar, and if
it cannot be produced in the country,
the bounty offered should stimulate the
home industry.
The southern states are having dis
couragingly hard times. While thous-
ands upon thousands of home seekers
are camping on the borders of Okla
homa, or bracing against the cold in
Dakota, the millions of fertile acres of
the south, with its glorious climate"
thrown In, go begging for occupants.
Why is it2 The men interested in
southern prosperity should find out.
There are millions in it.
1t is most frequently the case that
the people who have the most criti-
cism TO offer in regard to the conduct
and course of newspaper are the ones
who contribute the least towards its
maintenance and support. These
lines will possibly catch the eye of
some who will borrow copy OF the
Es-MoUNTAINEER this week to scan
its columns for the purpose of catching
some item that will give them an.op-
portunity to fud fault. A newspaper
is liable to err, but when it does it has
no apology to make to those who have
never been its patrons.
The sugar trust scarcely accom-
plishes the feat of removing one com
petitor before another springs up in
his place. One big refinery has just
been closed in Philadelphia, and the
transaction is scarcely consummated
before another refinery project is
formed on a scale as great as that just
closed up. As weIl-known English
economist recently remarked, trust
cannot be successfully maintained for
a long period in a country where COM
petition is free unless it keeps its prices
down so that individuals will not be
tempted to compete. That is proving
to be the case in this country, as the
experience of the sugar trust conclr-
sively proves.
"What the wooden manufacture of
the United States now needs, before
all else, is period of entire rest from
tariff agitation aiming at radical de-
parture from the. conditions upon
which industry is now organized, and
to which it has been fully adjusted" I"
So says the National Association of
Woolen Manufacturers in their pro-
test against the free-wool bill. These
manufacturers have sense enough to
know that they can not have protec-
ton for themselves alone and none for
other people. They understand that
American industries must stand to-
gether and make a common defense
against the assaults of the free trade
Democracy.
''The Mckinley tariff laws have
saved the knitting mills of America"
said E. V. Woodlin, of Newport, N.
Y, in q recent interview. "Under
the old tariff the dividends on our.
invested capital did not reach a saw
ings bank interest rate. The Nc
Kinley tariff saved many an old mill,
and is creating many new one. The
profit knit goods now return is fair
dividend OF the invested capital, and
has enabled us not only to keep our
mills open, but to increase salaries.
[ do not care to enter into negotia-
tions about locating in Wytheville,
Va, until after the next national
election, for it would seem inconsistent
to see the two hundred people would
employ there, and the people who
would have their property values in
creased by the location of my plant,
walk directly to the polls and vote to
ruin our prosperity"