The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-06-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

mined to await patiently for their next
opportunity.
Sheepmen must bear the present ills
patiently. There are better times
coming, when the sovereign people, at
the ballot box, will express their dis
approval of Democratic free-trade fal
lacies.
There were only four counties in
Oregon in which Populists received
majorities, and these were Coos, jeff
erson, Baker and Wallowa. In these
Pennoyerism may thrive for awhile,
but with development the inhabltents
will look on political matters in diff
ferent light.
The people of Mississippi are agi-
tating the question of passing an anti
miscegnation law, and, as the Denoc-
racy has had control of both branches
of the legislature, success has not at
tended the efforts. Oregon is in the
front column of Republican states,
and has had a stringent statute against
inter marriage of whites with the col
ored race for long years.
A London dispatch of June 18th
contains the intelligence that Lord
Chief Justice Coleridge was dead. He
was leading jurist in Great Britain,
and patron of literature and art.
As the leading counsel for the defense
in the celebrated Tichborne trial he
enjoyed considerable fame, and his
mastery speech in that case, which
required more than a month in its de-
livery, was considered absolutely con-
cluslYe.
The Republican party in the senate
has fought the Wilson bill sufficiently
for the people to understand its po-
sitlon on the question, and, as its
passage cannot be prevented, any fur
ther delay will not help matters Let
it pass and become law, and the
Democratic party will be held respon-
sible for the Ill shaped thing. In 1896
the people will render their verdict on
this and other legislative acts of De-
mocracy.
The Populist members of the senate
have awakened to the Importance of
protection for wool, and undoubtedly
will be so amended. Wool can in no
wise be considered raw material, for
it takes labor of various kinds to place
the product on the market. This fact
is we'll known to every fockmaster,
and to be successful in this business
requires untiring effort and high de-
gree of skill in selecting breeds and
pasture, shearing and marketing the
fleece.
The Coxeyites are dwindling into
and there is scarcely a
devoted In the daily press
to their meanderings A few scattered
bands of "commonw wealers" still re-
main but these are rapidly disinte-
grating and becoming ordinary tramps.
There never was such an ill-advised
in the history of the coun-
try, and 1T would have fallen to
pieces long ago if it had not been KEEP.
prominently before the people by the
of reporters to ell the col
lmns of the papers on which they
we're employed with the latest sensa-
ional novelties.
From present indications. the north
vest will have the largest crop Of
rain that has been harvested for
many years, and if good price ID Of
cred the farmers will be in fair way
o recover from the losses of former
easons. The wheat market is governed
y supply and demand the same as
hat for other com uodities, and if
here is not surplus from other
ountrles the United States will preft
hereby. Adversities have followed
lose upon each other during the pact
8 e~syears, and it is to be hoped that
here will be a change in this line
oon.
The California Republicans exhi-
tied more sense in adopting q woman !
uffrage plank in their platform than
hey did in the one favoring free
oinage of silver at the ratio of l6 to
In this country where universal |
lffrage prevails an intelligent lady
Mould have as much interest in the
overnment as the horde of ignorant
oters who usually congregate aroung
,e polls on election days. Women, !
they would give more attention to
ne politics of the country and less to !
ome other uatters, would make very c
Intelligent and conscientious electors, a
nd there Is great deuand for an a
onest ballot.
The disclosures of the amount of t
oney made by the sugar trust are
mething this is truly astonishing,
I'd these are not one of the frauds
at have resulted from the operation n
the robber tariff. Sugar was on ;,
e free list during the Republican :,
lministration, and the trust grew :,
to gigantic proportions without the 81
ms of protection being thrown u u
ound the industry. The bill now =,
fore the senate will net to the mem "
rs of the ring over $40, 900, 900, and re
e consumer will be taxed annually d.
err $4O.000,O00 to supply this W
venue to the trust. III
One is almost excused for advocat- bs
Z mob rule in cases of dire disasters, to
ch as fires and floods in cities, when 10 IL
tty thefts are committed. To steal tt
IN persons who have suffered mis- "
tunes in such calamities is one of
, most contemplate crimes named,
the perpetrators should
only be severely punished Gt
t should merit the everlasting con- Be-
npt of any community. We have WI
ard of but few of such dastardly in
8 committed during the recent food; Ge
that such persons existed in The in,
lies at the time of this terrible Wis CO