The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-07-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Ex-senator James Harlan, OF Iowa
the only surviving member of Lin
| coins cabinet. is likely to receive tn
| republican nomination for governor c
| Iowa.
The celebration in this city yester
day was successful in every particular
From beginning to end our citizen
| imbibed the spirit of the occasion il
true patriotic fervor, and this Is tn
reason that it was success.
| Yesterday was rainy everywhere il
the state, and in Portland the rain fel
in true webfoot style. 1t may hav
had the effect of making a shade o
gloom pass over the 'countenances o
the people: but the crops smiled a.
they never did before.
The Oregonaan has reduced the pric'
of its daily, and is now issuing ;
monthly edition, descriptive of the re
sources of the state. This is indicativ,
of enterprise, for the reduction vii
place the journal within the reach o
all, and the Monthly Oregonidn will b.
an excellent advertisement for the
state.
A secret order to further the cause
of free silver has been organized il
Virginia. and is expected to secure
'-joiners" among those who favor the
white metal. The object of the organ
ization appears to be to food the coun
try with literature in favor of unlimited
coinage before the next presidential
campaign.
The fourth OF July was generally eel
ebrated over the state and nation, anG
it may be expected that the people
after listening to the lessons of patriot
ism, will have more abiding faith in
free institutions. Notwithstanding
political dissensions, there is univer
sal devotion to country which is above
all party differences on occasions of the
celebration of the birth of the republic
The loss in the coal strikes last year
in Illinois foots up over 81, 100000, and
this will fall upon the wage-earners
who inaugurated it. A lesson may be
learned from this result, which, if re.
duced to practice, will be of great
benefit to our laboring poor. If, in the
future, they will count the cost before
beginning strikes, their purses will re-
main more nearly up to the actual re-
quirements of living.
The railroads did not feel business
improvement as early as did the banks,
out it is striking them now. Brad
streets table of 123 roads shows an in
crease in May of 81 per cent. over that
month in 1894. A particularly encour-
aging feature of this exhibit is that
the gain extends to all parts of the
country. The rally is more general
than any which appeared before since
1879.
The steamer ChiHdgonq, which ar
rived in Portland a short time ago
with a cargo of $500 tons of tea, was
the first vessel to arrive of the new
line. She left for China yesterday
with full cargo of flour and canned
goods. The next vessel of the line
will be the Asloatm which has capac-
ity of 1900 tons dead weight. The new
line promises to open market for our
surplus flour and will prove of great
benefit to the state.
The railroad and coal strikes of 1894
cost the state of Illinois for military
expenses S254, 721. The men who struck
did not get penny added to their
wages, and many of them lost employ
ment in trades which they had worked
years to perfect. Heavy as was the
cost to the state it was a mere item in
the loss sustained by the misguided
men who went into the contests of a
year ago. 1t is as plain as can be that
questions between labor and capital
cannot be settled by strikes to the ad-
vantage of either side of the con-
,roversy.
The dispatches state that Cuba will
soon establish republican form of
government, and declare herself in
dependent of Spain. The Cubans are
a brave and genrous people. but unfor-
the methods of the Spanish
republics will be likely to obtain hold
there. No country can prosper when
its elections are held in the shape of
revolution, and where assassination is
considered a perfectly legitimate thing,
provided it is donein the name of
revolution or politics Cuba is en-
titled to self government, but whether
it is capable of it is an open question.
The Democracy of Colorado met to-
day for the purpose of denouncing the
sound money views. The
Democracy generally are badly scat
tered on the silver question, and the
Democracy of Colorado, are alone al
most unanimous in their views con.
,erningf money. That Cleveland's
views will be denounced in that con-
vention is foregone conclusion, and
hat Colorado will throw its vote to a
silver candidate for the presidency is
equally certain. But then Colorado
md Nevada, where the same ideas pre-
rail, are both small quantities in the
electoral college.
Notwithstanding the hard times
caused by free-trade agitation, people
Who come here from other countries
ire 10th to return to their old homes.
'ays the McMinnville Reporter. When
he Worlds COlumb bian exposition was |
ltlu Ul6 pTONlSlOHS VI Uu6 dllOu COLI
ract labor law were suspended un6il
me year after the close of the exposi-
ion, so far as the employees of the va
ious exhibitors were concerned. At |
he expiration of that time persons of
he class named who did not volun-
arily return to their own countries
we're made subject to all the pro-
esses and penalties applicable to
liens coming in open violation of the
aw. Congress made no provision for
he enforcement of this special law,
nd it is practically a dead letter.
of the persons who
anne in 1892 are still in the country,
nd propose to remain because they
onsider it the best country on earth
/ which to make living.
The man who assumed the name of
apt. Paul Webb, and who plunged
YER the falls in the Willamette river
n two different occasions, met his
cath yesterday in attempting to run
own a 30O-foot log chute in his barrel
ear Couer d'Alene, Idaho. Every l.