The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-08-12
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Philadelphia, Boston and New
York have been 30.429,l74 pounds
less than during the corresponding
time last year. Then and now were
different People are asking for
reasons.
Mr.. Crisp, who has received the
caucus nomination for speaker of the
house, outlines congressional action
during the special session, and is in
favor of Democracy redeeming Its
pledges in the Chicago platform. If
that is adopted the worst distress has
not yet been experienced i'll this coun-
try, aid the present hard times will
be only the beginning of an era of un-
precedented depression in ell lines Of
industry.
General Weaver, with his little
party, contributed to the election of
Grover Cleveland last year. And now
he is kept busy peddling his panacea
for the i'll effects of that election;
playing the role of the doctor who set
about to cure an unknown disorder by
throwing his patient into fits, for
which allment he possessed dead sure
remedy. The general thinks the coun
try is now about sick enough to swal-
low anything, but he is, as usual, mis-
taken.
With the number of foreigners who
were expected to visit the country
during this worlds fair year, and the
amount of money they would neces-
sarily put in circulation, great hopes
were entertained that 1898 would be
the most prosperous of any that the
republi had experienced for long
time; but. instead of being one Of
prosperity, it has been year cf the
most dreadful financial disasters that
have ever occurred. The only appar-
ent reason is the expected "change"
promised to be introduced by the sue
cessful Democracy.
The grain harvest in Wasco county
is beginning, and the indications are
that the yield will be an average one
with large increase in acreage. With
fair prices in the market this will send
considerable money In circulation,
which is very much needed consider
ing that the wool clip realized little or
nothing. The Liverpool market is
eagerly watched, and if the great pow
ers of Europe would engage in deadly
conflict our farmers would reap the
benefit. When harvests are bountiful,
and the people free, happiness and
prosperity should bless the land.
The Samoan revolution was put
down in short order by British and
German warships These commanders
Of their respective sea monsters mott
fed the rebel chief that if he did not
surrender they would shell his camp,
and he wisely submitted to superior
force. But the question, whether they
had the right to Interfere, will admit
Of discussion. Might apparently makes
right in some instances, and the propo
sltlon will not be disputed when such
powers as Great Britain and Germany
are on one side and an insignificant
South Sea island on the other.
In the present condition of business
it may be expected that crime will in
crease, because many of those thrown
out of employment will be rendered
desperate by want and starvation. A
strict enforcement of the law, in such
an emergency, is necessary to pro-
teet property and life from the
vicious and every city should make
preparations to resist the inroads
of thieves and thugs. Municipalities
have duties to perform which they
cannot shift or shlrk, and strict en-
forcement of police ordinances is one
of the most urgent of these.
Republicans admit that the Sher-
msn act was the moving cause of the
financial depression; but the primal
one that set it in motion was the
election of a Democratic senate and
house and the Inauguration of Dem
ocratic president. These created
public distrust, and Immediately gold
began tc flow out of the treasury and
capitalists commenced to hoard their
money. To restore puslic confidence
congress should as soon as possible re-
peal the Sherman act, and emphatic
ally declare that tariff laws will not
be disturbed. This will re-establish
business on sound basis, and save
the country from the frightful disas-
tiers that are now threatening trade
and manufactures
The Democratic press will have ex-
hausted all their excuses for hard
times at the beginning of the Cleve-
land administration before the cam
paign CT 1896 opens. For over thirty
yCoio Ddu
blessed the country with prosperity,
and the Democratic president had not
been inaugurated four months before
the blackness of despair settled down
upon the land. 1t Is nonsense to say
the Sherman act produced this alone,
for it had been in operation three
years and no disasters to trade or
industry resulted As soon as the
people realized that there was danger
to the policy of protection public con
fdence became shaken, and business
became stagnant. The same laws are
in force as year ago, and the con-
ditions are the same that existed in
in 1892; but the Chicago platform
has caused the public to lose faith and
become weak when they were hopeful
and strong few months ago.