The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-03-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

One million dollars for destroying
Russian thistles seem large SUM to
rid the country of q nasty little weed.
Such bill is now before congress.
Our navy protected cur shipping at
Bio and may have to protect Aneri-
can rights in Behring sea. There Is
some use for ships of war even IN this
age of the world.
The worlds product Of gold In
creased $ll,000,000 in 1898 over
1892. This may be cheerful reading
to the army of unemployed who are
now planning a march on Washington
Oity.
The matter of the legality of Gov.
Waite's appeintees will be decided by
the supreme court of Colorado, and in
the meantime the bellicoss executive
must ''chew the bitter cud of disap-
pointment"
Aad new comes the Chinese govern
ment, through its minister at Wnsh-
ington City, and rotifies the United
States that those of its citizens In
China, who are laborers, must be reg
istered. This is simply tit for tat.
"A. w. d." the Washington City
correspondent of the 0regom;am, is in
bad repute with Oregon Democrats. If
he sends many more dispatches like
that of yesterday he will receive no
ovation from the Democracy when he
returns to this state.
The citizens of Walla Walla do not
feel happy ever the appointment Of
Dunphy to the land Office In that city.
He was not Endorsed by Walla-Wall-
ians; but then Grover Cleveland is
running the administration irrespec-
tive of the residents of Walia Walla.
The latest report from administra-
tion headquarters in Washington is
that the president will veto the Bland
bill This may cause the defeat of the
Wilson bill in the senate, and the
country will be saved from two Dem
oeratic evils, free coinage and free
trade.
In the Breckinridge Pollard suit the
evidence for the plaintiff has nearly
all been heard, and the reputation of
the Kentucky congressman is as un-
savory IS it could be. That he has
been guilty of most cowardly seduc-
tion is proved beyond question; but q
court of justice can never right the
wrongs suffered by Miss Pollard. and
a speedier and more effectual way
would be the usual method resorted to
in such cases.
President Cleveland must face the
music. If he refuses to sigh the Bland
seignorage bill the Wilson tariff meas
are will probably be defeated in the
senate, and if he does approve it he
will write himself political coward,
who has not the courage of his con-
The nation will wait with |
anxiety to see whether the great idol !
IF Democracy is brave enough to meet
;he dilemma boldly and honestly which
aow confronts him.
The Washington correspondent of
he Oregonian is rather severe on Ore
yon Democrats, when he says that q
member of the admins
ration stated If what these Demo-
rats said of each other were true
'thers were few of them that ought
o be outside the penitentisry." After
waiting all these weary months for
chance to feed at the public crib it is
.dding insult te injury to have such
anguage applied to the patient Demo
rats in this state.
The platform of the Populists
'dopted at Oregon City, endorse the
initiative and referedum In the first
flank. and the others may be summed
lp as denunciatory of everything and
very person in general who do not
oincide with their views on national |
uestions. Of course, the party Is
of disgruntled politicians
nd discentended citizens, and these
,,ght be expected to give utterance to B
tale of woe that would harrow up the
,ul of their fellow citizens. The ma
ainery Of the world has been going
rong. and the Populis.s constitute
,emselves the proper persons to set