The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-11-10

| the politics of West Virginia. An
erica for Americans and England Cor
| Englishmen, are good notices for
citizens of both countries to follow in
the future.
American factories will be pro-
tected, and The Dalles should i'm
mediately inaugurate manufactur-
ing industries. A securing mill
should lead, aud this should be
followed by woolen mill, fruit can
merry, beef packing establishment and
other factors of development. Capt.
tai will take courage since the result
of yesterdays vote, and now is good
time to begin movement in the line
of establishing manufactures.
Secretary Carlisle has decided that
the import ted coachman OF Mr.. Nor
ton may remain in this country. Under
a provlsisn of some of the exclusion
bills to stop Mongolian immigration
that passed congress it was forbidden
to import any laborers into the United
States, and under this clause Mr..
Morton would have been forced to
send back his English coacbmah, who
had given complete satisfaction, and
with whom Mr.. Morton was loathe to
part company.
The dispatches stale the important
fact that Princess Alix has been an
nointed with oil by Greek Catholic
priests, significant of the act of re-
nouncing the religion of her mother
and that in which she consclen.iously
believes There are many poor peas
art girls in every country, who are
far removed from earthly royalty, but
who are so firmly allied to the nobility
of heaven that all the crowns of this
world could not induce them to abjure
a single article of their religious faith
Such compose the superior classes OF
the human race, and czars, kings,
queens and princesses and other
titled nobility, not possessed of this
high quality OF integrity, are a lower
grade of humanity.
Across the river IN Washington the
people are on the eve of most i'm
portant election. and the Republicans
of Oregon extend to them their most
earnest wishes for success. The con-
test has been very spirited. and ma
tional issues have been freely and fully
discussed by politicians of both per-
ties, and next Tuesday, at the ballot
box, the sovereign people will decide
which they prefer. Oregon led the
Republican column in June by 10000
majority, and Washington in Novem-
Der should give good account of her
self. This is year when those in
terested in the prosperity of the coun-
try can afford to mix politics and busi-
ness, as under the existing conditions
they are closely related. Give the
country good, sound, protection poll
tics, and business will soon resume its
former activity. The people under
stand this, and the 9th of November,
1894, will be eventful In that the
electors of the country will reverse
their decision of two years previously.
A Democratic free-trade exchange
says: Republican papers and orators
make much to-do over cheap labor
countries, predicting ruin in this
country in competition with them.
We do not believe these papers and
orators are sincere in this matter.
The south has had always the benefit
of cheap labor, so called, but the
north has always done the most busl-
ness and been the most prosperous.
The south of late has begnn to show
better progress and increased pros
perlty, but only to the extent that she
has engaged intelligent labor which is
not cheap" Before the war the
planters of the south were prosperous,
but the ''poor whites" and negroes were
so ignorant that they were simply |
slaves and serfs to the ruling classes,
who reaped untold wealth from their
labor. The free school has now been
introduced into all southern states,
and while there are not such vast |
of wealth as during
slavery days it is more generally dis
tributed, and the people aremore in
telligent, contented and happy.
Democrats, on every occasion, at
tempt to ridicule the idea of cheaper
wages affecting the modes of living.
However much wit may be wasted In
this futile attempt TO attract the at
tention of the public from the fact that
the decrease in the wage schedule has
caused great suffering in this country,
the people realize the truth of the
statement that If they work for Euro
oean wages they must follow the
nodes of living adopted there. If one
works for Chinaman's wages he must
i've like Chinaman, and if he works
or Italian wages he must live like
and so on. Under protection
received higher wages
han any other laborers, and en-
Dyed more of the luxuries of life.
During the past two years this has
'hanged, and Americans have been
orced to practice European economy
md thrift to keep themselves from |
want and starvation. This sudden
hange forced upon our wage earners
las been great hardship, and today.
n nearly all the states of the union,
hey. are making an emphatic protest
It the ballot-box against free trade
nd the consequent evils that have
ollowed the Inauguration of that
olicy.