The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-01-20

and New Mexico have not as much
population, and their industrial devel- |
opment has not so far advanced as
their Mormon neighbor; but If state
hood would be beneficial to them in
any particular, their requests should |
be granted after proper constitutions
have been adopted
The Arlington Record appears to be
antagonistIc to Mr.. Ellis reelection,
and says if Hon. J. H. Raley, of Pen
dleton. is pit.ed against him he will
lead Ellis in Eastern Oregon by 1000
majority. This is not true. Mr.. FL
lis is popular in his district, and, if re
nominated, will be elected by larger
majority than he was two years ago.
One term in congress simply intro
duces a uan into the vestibule of leg
islation. Another two years is hardly
enough to make him an effective
worker for the interests of his constl-
tuents.
Democrats, to, draw parallel be-
tween the present hard times and sim
liar conditions under Republican ad-
ministratlons. frequently refer to the
panic of 1873. That epoch was not
nearly as distressful as the present one.
If it were, the comparison would be
unfair, because at that date the coun-
try had not fully recovered from the
terrible drain of the civil war, and was
suffering the conseque mt reaction of
the initiation of the currency made nee
essary by the heavy expense of sup
porting an army of nearly half-ml
lion men in the field. History is sim
ply repeating itself now, for there
never has been an era in the history of
the country when an attempt has been
made to adopt free trade that financial
depression did not follow, from lS46
to 1898.
Democrats are taxing their imagin-
ations to their fullest extent to find In
the history of the.country, under Re
publican administration, parallel to
the present financial depression, and
every distrsssful year in business is
magniied largely Ia the attempt to
make it as disastrous as the present.
The long list of failures, with the
amount of liabilities are given, aud |
undou btedly there have been many in
the hundred or more years of our his
lorr; but the aggregate losses of any
two epochs will not equal those of the |
one which we are now suffering. In
the history of the republic the great
financial crisis of 1898 will be the one
that will stand far above all others,
and the most remarkable feature will |
be that it came in the midst of boun-
tiful harvests, and there was no war,
pestilence or famine to destroy the
products of honest industry or to kill
off the population.
To follow a man like sleuth hound
because he has committed crime and |
suffered tho punishment decresd by
statute, is wrong In principle. All the
rascals have net been in the peniten-
tiary; and if one who has been there
gives evidence Of leading an honorable
life be should be helped ia the en-
deavor and not bounded down like an
outlaw. The story of Jean Val Jean,
in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, is
true to life in many instances, and
there are in some few communities
worse men on the outside of prison |
walls than on the inside. Reformation
should be the object of the punishment |
attached to violationt of law; but this
can never be accomplished if social os-
tracism continues to the last day of |
the criminals life. ITO err is human,
to forgive divlne;" but human nature
is too fully developed in many individ-
uals for it ever to make the least ad-
vapcenent toward divinity.
Tho matter of the location of the
branch asylum has been decided in
favor of a point in Union county,
about 100 miles from Portland, near
the extreme eastern boundary of the
state. We have been satisfied for
some time that The Dallcs would re-
ceive little or no consideration from
the board, for several reasons. politi-
cal and otherwise. If The board had
decided in favor of this city; the nem-
bers would have aroused the antagon-
ism of all other portions of Eastern
Oregon, and this they could not afford
to do this year, when an important
election takes place IN June. It has
been nearly year since the bill passed,
and this provided that the site should be
selected within sixty days. Two visits
were made by the state board to the
points available for the location last
summer, and thes after an interval Of
. few months committee of physicians
was sent oyer the route to examine
into the sanitary conditions of the
places. We are glad the farce has
ended, fer we have considered the ac-
ton of the beard in this light for
long time. The Dalles presented many
advantages not possessed BY other
cities, and among these were climate,
easy access to wosd and water, cheap
of materials and con-
venience for exchanging patients; but,
apparently, these were overblancsd by
,ther considerations.
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