The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-22
Great Britain will be censured Oh
every occasion.

every occasion.
The board of managers have decided
to close the worl1's fair on Sundays,
and this will undoubtedly satisfy the
sentiment of the highly sensitive
Christian people and replenish the
purses of avaricious Chicago saloon
keepers. They will be forced to en-
ploy extra help, and this will increase
the demand of the labor market.
The governor of Colorado, in the
recent silver convention in Denver,
was strongly in favor of war if the
white metal as dethroned. Yester-
day the first battle of the war that
his words would naturally cause hap
pened in the city in which the speech
was made, and several banks sus-
pended. To make silver king is to
weaken public condndence in money
centers, and banks collapse in conse-
quence.
Wool has not helped the northwest
but little this year, and the millions of
pounds stored and consigned have sent
few dollars in circulation by reason of
the shadow of free trade that has
covered the market. The next hope
of the people is that fair crop of
wheat with good prices, and the ex-
pectation that congress will not repeal
the Mckinley bill, will bridge the
chasm of hard times. These will en-
courage the farmer and sheepmen that
there is ga GOOD time coming"
Colorado's prosperity is built upon
silver pillars, and the declension of
this metal In the last few days has
caused mines to be shut down and
thousands of men to he thrown out of
employ ment. A country's growth
should be substantial, and to be last
ing must be founded upon the
development of natural resources.
If Colorado had been built up in this
manner the stoppage of the mints In
India could not have caused such dis
tress.
Lieut.. Totten, the fanatlcal advo-
cate of the end of the world at an
early date, sees in the present fnan-
cial crisis indisputable evidence of the
truth of his doctrine. There has
never been phenomenal occur
renee for the past fifty years that some
hare brained lobbyist has not con-
sidered indicative of the lend of
time" when the world should "melt
with fervent heat" By the way, did
not Mother Shipton have something
to say about free trade and protection,
bank failures, Democratic free silver
and stagnation in business
The United States grand jury in
Portland has been unearthing some
frauds in that city, and Nat Blum has
been arrested for smuggling opium
and placed under $4,000 bail bonds
This is the only one SO far who has
been arrested for defrauding the gov
ernment out of its tariff on this drug;
but there are intimations that there
will be rich developments regarding
bogus certificates issued to Cinnamon,
and other frauds, The people will
wait anxiously to learn who else has
been guilty of defrauding the govern
ment out of its revenue.
Yesterday was the 104th anniver-
sary of the fall of the bastile, the first
act of the great revolution that swept
over France in the last years of the
eighteenth century. 1t marks an era
in free government which was of great
Importance to all Europe, and has been
considered the inieiatorY step in the
overthrow of medlaevaI monarchy. As
such it is an event which should be
commemorated by all liberty loving
people, for the tottering to ruin of the
walls of the old prison caused the
foundation upon which rested kihgly
prerogatives and the arbitrary rule of
in the old world, to be-
come unsafe and begin to disintegrate.
An item is going the rounds of the
press that suicide club composed of
members exists in Portland,
and that It's personnel comprises two
bankers, three bank clerks, two mer-
chants, two real estate dealers, two re-
tired capitalists and two lawyers. We
discredit the truth of this item very
much, because of the professions and
businesses represented. Bankers, bank |
clerks and merchants, during these |
times of financial depression, may be
inclined to join such organizations;
but when real estate dealers and law
gers are included, it is absolutely in
credulous. There is such hotbed for
mushroom newspaper growths, in
The Willamette metropolis that some
editors should have been named to
nave made the matter plausible. The
evidently mixed drinks be-
'ore he handed the ''copy" to the COM
oosltor.