The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-05-27

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be acknowledged that it is proper and
! becoming that citizens so deeply inter-
ested in governmental affairs as farm
ers are, should have the right to free
ly express their opinions on all ques-
tions. The people can only become
educated on public subjects by free
and full discussions of them, and the
annual gathering of taxpayers and
producers is one available means for
so doing.
The question of the constitutionality
of the location of the soldiers home at
Roseburg was argued and submitted
to Judge Burnett yesterday afternoon,
and was taken under advisement. BY
this time perhaps decision has been
reached, and this will settle subject
which has been freely discussed by the
press of the state during the past few
days. The result of this suit for in
junction will be of great Importance to
all portions of the state, and especially
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city.
The Oregon Democratic bosses at
the national capital are having an in
teresting time, and if they had stayed
away from Washington City. this state
would have received larger share of
patronage from the administration.
As it is, the wrangles among these
representatives of the faithful In the
far northwest, have caused the presi-
dent to delay appointments. The
feeling at home, from the same cause,
is not of the most harmonious kind,
and In 1896, the Democracy of Oregon
will not enter the campaign in a solid
phalaux.
The arguments of counsel before the
Behring Sea tribunal have been
lengthy and exhaustive, and the
United States need not feel ashamed
of the manner IN which her side of the
case was presented. A report was
current in San Francisco yesterday
that decision had been reached in
Paris declaring the sea in dispute open
to sealing vessels. Whatever the
result of this arbitration may be, it is
confidently expected that Great Brit
ain and the United States will respect
the verdict. and there will be no fu-
ture international complications in this
regard.
The administration has signified its
intention of enforcing the Geary law
and sending back the Cinnamon who
have refused to register. There is not
much doubt if this act of congress had
not been suspended by President
Cleveland nearly all Chinese residents
would have conformed to the law, and
to-day would have had legal right to
remain in the country. AS it is, the
funds for the purposes of deportation
are very limited, and how to pay the
passage of the large number who must
be sent home is dilemma that will
require solution by the chief execu-
tive of the nation.
The temporary injunction against
establishing the Soldiers Home at
Roseburg has been sustained by Judge
Burnett, and this will suspend all
action regarding the home until de-
cision is reached by the state supreme
court. We hope this will have no eff
Ject upon the location of the branch
insane asylum in Eastern Oregon, as
the parent institution is now at the
seat of government. 1t is strange, if
Salem were opposed to the test of the
constitutional provision regarding pub
lie institutions, that one citizen should
have carried the matter into the courts,
and no public protest was made against
his action.
1t is expected that the Geary law
will not be enforced until a special
session of congress can appropriate the
required amount for deportation of the
celestials, and the same congress may
repeal the pension bills, inaugu
rate free-trade and free banks and
drive the Cinnamon from the country.
What a glorious future, gilded with
golden promises, is opening for the
American people during the present
Democratic administration. No Chi
nese coolies, no tariff, no national
banks, no pensions and no trusts.
The gray streaks of the dawn OF DEM
ocratlc reform can be dlscerned in the
political horizon.