The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-09-28

| TO come on. AT the same time there
is general and fervent hope that they
may get together and beat each other
| to death.
| THE bottom cause of the enormous
shipments of gold to foreign countries
is the fact that we have tariff framed
expressly to encourage the import OF
| foreign goods" The above from the
| Oregonian is fair sample of that pc
| per's honesty. For the past six months
it has been asserting that the financial
| system, not the tariff, was the bottom
cause of the shipment of gold. That
| kind of switching is what has given
the Oregonian the reputation of being
| the most unreliable newspaper on the
| coast. The tariff now and the tariff
| of 1888, which the Oregonian Endorsed,
| are almost identical.
The Republican county central COM
mittee at Chicago, got into a regular
knock down and drag out fight that
| would gladden. the heart of the veriest
ward striker. A member named Gard
was beaten nearly to death and was
thrown out of the room. This was
probably what caused the Inter Ocean
next morning to begin one of its lead
ing editorials with the statement that.
''Take the country over, and this is
year of remarkable Republican activ-
ity and anxiety to be in control of the
organization, coupled with harmony
and good feeling once the fight is
really over" Wonder if Gard would
indorse thai statement?
And now a dispatch from Golden
dale to the Associated Press, states
that Orvill D. Sturgess, cashier of the
national bank ut that place is in all
probability twice a millionaire. That
he is one of POO heirs to the S400, ,000,-
600 jennings estate in England"
Nearly every day some vast estate in
England or Germany is about to be
divided among lot of American heirs,
according to the dispatches. but no one
ever heard of one of these divisions
being made. Shystcr attorneys have
feeced foolish people into putting up
their money on these schemes. but
they, the attorneys, were the only ones
who ever profited by them. We would
be pleased to see Mr.. Sturgess, or any
other good citizen have such wind
fall, but the money will probably ma
terialize when the sky falls, and COM
mon people are catching larks.
The prosecution in the Durrant case
rested yesterday, having its evidence
all in. Curiously enough almost the
last witness on the stand, William
Sterling, the gas-fitter, who on April
repaired the gas fixtures in Emanuel
church, during his cross-eXamination
brought out the fact that the morning
of April the knob of the door lead
ing to the belfry was broken, and al
though Sterling tried to turn the knob
with his nippers he could not do so.
This door remained in this condition
until the day it was broken open in
searching for Blanche Lamont's body |
after the Williams girl was killed. |
This fixes the time at which the body |
was taken into the belfry at least prior |
to the morning of April 4. The de- |
Tense is now introducing testimony, |
and it is expected that the end of the |
case will be reached within two weeks. |
Our Republican exchanges are
agreed upon one thing, and that is
that Dolph and Mitchell will be
matched against each other for elec-
tion to the senate. Dolph's election un-
der any circumstances would be little
short of calamity to the state; but
it strikes us the whole discussion is
premature. Oregon is not Republi-
can state in the sense that it has a
majority of Republican votes. This
was shown IN the election of Pierce as,
a presidential elector. 1t is quite pos
sible, should the anti-Republican
that the Mitchell-Dolph controversy
will never materialize. The peace
and harmony now raging between the
factions in this state is
not of the kind calculated to insure q
party victory. 1t is safe enough to
let the Mitchell-Dolph matter rest, at
any rate until after next June.
The Oregonian yesterday said: "It
is curious, and will probably always be
that. the decline in the
of the Grand Army of the
should have been only about
half as much in 1894-5 as in 1894,
fiscal year, June 30"
We suggest to our big contemporary
that the cause is probably, due to the
Democratic ''tariff for deficit only"
that it talks about so much. That
same Democratic tariff has been made
for everything bad, why
not credit it up with some of the other
things? According to Republican au-
,hority the same tariff bill ruined the
wool industry long before the bill be-
came law; it caused spectators to
present paper money at the treasury
ind draw out gold; it caused the deficit
made by the Mckinley bill; it caused
,he demand for the free coinage of sill
yer; and it performed various and sun
Try other valorous deeds long before it
vas born. We believe, by the argu-
nent produced by our republican
riends, the Wilson bill must have
,aused the deficiency in the Grand
Army death list too.