The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-04-07

citizens. The law was never favora-
bly, received, and it is now time it was
repealed.
Rev. F. w. D. Mays, Of the Pom
eroy Independent. does not want the
name God in the constitution for, he
says, SIT would be an insult TO the
Father of US all to have his name
taken in vain by the boodlers in con-
gress who can vote protective tariff
on goods and merchandise to rob the
laboring men and women of our coun-
try when God has shown in every act
of his creative energy that he Is free
trader and loves all his children alike"
This is dragging Deity down to very
low level.
The Republican state convention
will meet in Portland next Wednes-
day, and we are fully satisfied ticket
will be nominated that will be sup
ported by the full Republican vote In
June. 1t is very important that at
this time, while the Wilson bill is be-
fore the senate, that an emphatic con-
demnation of It's provisions should be
made by every state that desires a re-
turn to Republican principles. Ore
gon should be the foremost among
these, as no portion of the union has
suffered more severely FROM the Dem
ocratic attempt to inaugurate free
trade than the northwest. With good
men placed in nomination by the state
and congressional conventions, the Re-
publican majority will be larger next
June than vas ever given in this state.
In 1888, the Mills bill pending,
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster took a little band
of working women to Washington to
show cause why that measure should
be defeated. Some of the petitioners
had worked in Germany and knew
how unprotected labor Jared. On q
similar mission Mrs. Foster is now
bent. With about twenty Eve women
gathered from the industrial, centers of
Massachusetts Mrs. Foster has gone 20
Washington to plead the cause of one
half the wage-earners of the country,
namely, the toiling, silent, unrepre-
sented women. These women will
not form q hollow square outside the
capitol, nor invite congress to come
out and be told how to save the coun-
try-this function Is reserved for
Coxey and bis countless legions--but
they will tell the proper people how
they live and what wages they get,
also, how the European woman worker
lives and what wages she gets, and
then leave the case to the sense and
patriotism of congress. Though this
is congress not distinguished for
these illustrious qualities. Mrs. Fos-
ter's practical pilgrimage may do much
for the welfare of her sex.
The following is from the editorial
columns of Democratic exchange:
"The Democratic argument against
the imposition of tariff for protec-
tion applies to several of the schedules
loaded upon the Wilson bill by the
finance committee of the senate. The
imposition of these duties has brought
the total revenue to be derived from
the bill to more than is necessary to
run the government Taxes should
not be imposed upon the people to
create surplus and it is hoped that
the Democratic senate, when the bill
comes before it, will strike out this OBJ.
jectionable feature" It is : strange
that the organization with which our
contemporary affiliatss cannot view
this matter in the same light. The
Democratic party, although elected on
free-trade platform, dare not intro
duce such an economic policy. Our
contemporaries talk about stakes not
being imposed upon the people to
create surplus" sounds very querly
when the secretary of the treasury
has been forced to issue $50, 900, 900
bonds to keep the treasury to the
800, 100000 limit,