The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-10-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The total cost of all the 4,343, 209,-
600 pounds of sugar consumed in the
country every year. at the Mckinley
price of cents per pound for refined
sugar, was $2l7, l60, ,450. Under the
German tariff at 81 cents per pound
it will cost the American people
1892, ,35S, 5S5, an increase of $65, 49,
l35 as the direct result of Democratic
taxation upon the American breakfast
table.
The Mugwumps in New York who
were the first to stimulate the forward
movement in Democracy have ascer-
tatned the rottenness of tho old hulk,
and are deserting it all over the state.
It is high time these malcontents
found out that the Republican party
has always been the. forerunner OF
progress, while Democrats have Jagged
behind and were content with the
tlme-honored principles of past his
tory.
The death of Oliver Wendell
II dimes yesterday in Boston removes
to the silent majority one of the best
known literary men on the continent.
He graduated from Harvard in 1929,
spent one year studying law, and re-
cciyed his diploma in medicine; but
he devoted bis attention to literary
pursuits soon after receiving his degree.
For many years his poems have
claimed the attention of the reading
public, and, in later life, his faculties
appeared as active as ever. Among
the great poets of New England
Oliver Wendell Holmes will occupy
no secondary position, and his life
work will last forever.
Civilization is marching on. 1t
never makes retrograde movement.
Japan has given encouragement to
her subjects to follew the western plan
OF education, ano has been immeasur-
ably benefited therehy in the war with
China. On sea and on the land her
navy and army have heen victorious,
and very soon Japanese soldiers will
surround the capital of the celestial
empire and demand its recapitulation.
They will succeed, and the mediaeval
civilization Of the Mongolisn race viii
be relegated to q by-gone age Life
means activity, and progress indicates
a constant effort in the line of untir-
ing energy. Inertia is death. and the
nation that chooses to be satisfied
with present attalnments will surely
sink into oblivion.
The Commercial Rsyiew, in CON-
menting ON the wheat situation, ha,
this to say of the Argentine product
European wheat importers have slm
ply gone mad over the large crop o
imitation wheat grown in Argentine
Republic last year. 1t is said thai
over fifty million bushels had beer
sent to Europe up to August I, and
that ten million bushels were then or
hand ready to export. That will max
total of sixty million bushels sent to
Europe, and out of it all there ls not 9
bushel that will make hours that car
be used alone in making bread. The
BEST of it is thin and weak, with ar
unpleasant odor and bad color, aad
the great bulk of it is simply "ne
good" 1t is superior to Indian wheat
| in one particular. 1t is not so nasty,
so loaded and impregnated, with in
describabls filth as the Hindoo wheat
Otherwise, it is ahA1bpSss.ssssg-- = Hrs ~
European millers, Who say the
gentine wheat simply because it il
dirt cheap, are very enthusiastic in
| its dispraise. Next winter the Ar
eentine weather may prove unfavor-
able. and then, in spite of . largely
increased acreage, the Sheat crop vii
sink back to its former NOTCH"