The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-08-11

OF building up notoriety ana poiiticai
influence by so doing. The true friend
of the workingman speaks for his in
terests even if it is against the action
the workmen may be taking at the
time. Strikes, like the last one, have
invariably injured the workingman
more than anybody else in the long
run ,and should be discountenanced on
that ground.
1t is very evident that organized
labor will make its next contest at the
ballot box, and In this it will undoubt-
edly be successful. Wage-earEers will
outnumber railway managers, and
they can make the political complexion
of state legislatures what they desire.
This will be the next arena where the
contest between labor and capital will
strive for supremacy, and the result
cannot be long IN doubt. If capital
is beaten In elections it will try the
power of money on legislators, and
this does not augur well for purity in
politics.
The senate conferress have not ar
rived at any agreement regarding the
Wilson bill, and it is yet uncertain
whether an agreement will he reached
Congress may continue IN session for
several weeks yet, if the tariff -tinkers
do not finish their work. 1t must be
a great hardship on the members to
be confined to Washington when the
woods of Maine are full of game, and
there is good fishing in the bays along
the Atlantic coast. The president. in
his delicate state, must be very weary
of protracted legislation when the
hunt is so exhilarating to him. What
great sacrifices are made for the good
of ones country.
The governments of Europe are
taking steps to eradicate anarchy, and
no doubt very repressive measures will
be passed. This political c'ncer may
be kept in quiet state for time;
but when the system is permeated by
the virus 1t is difficult to replace the
circulation with healthful flood. Long
centuries of oppression and outrages
have rendered men vicious and fiend-
isb, and there will be no permanent
remedy until the rights of all classes
of men are respected even by mon
archs. Treat the poorer classes like
brutes. and they become brutes; treat
them like men and they are manly
We have no apology for anarchy; but
it Will exist while the present unequal
conditions remain, especially in mon
srchical countries.
Gold in Bolivia is worth 249 cents,
and this Is country from which sill
verites should draw lesson. The
laborer works for less per diem than
in any country in South America, and
his hard earned coin will purchase less
of the comforts or luxuries of life
Thus, while the silver dollar may ap-
pear larger, and the toiler- may receive
more of them for days labor than
In any other country on the western
hemisphere. they will purchase less
than any where else. If Bolivia had
thepdouble standard, dollar there
would be dollar in Canada or the
United States, and its purchasing
power would be as great as it is any
where. It is well for laborers to con-
slider that the money received must be
gauged by what it will buy in the
market. A South American dollar is
not worth nearly as much as one from
the United States, ! which has one
hundred cents behind it and may be
redeemed in coin If desired. it is not
the amount of money one possesses
that makes him wealthy. but the num-
Der of comforts that the coin will buy
IN the market.