The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-09-14


OF seeds of discomfort, grand champion
of golden fees and free silver, we'll
have You done. Above the cries of
hate, your grip on fees, the grip of fate
awaken the land"
Miracles are not yet obsolete. From
the Heppner Gazette we learn that the
o. r. s. n. have asked and been given
a change of venue in the case involv-
ing bonds given by citizens of Morrow
county for the contraction of the
Heppner branch road from Morrow to
| Wasco county.
The Durrant case long since passed
the limits of common sense and has be-
come farce. The dispatches are pro-
fuse concerning what is going to be
proven, and what is apt to be proved,
but the case drags wearily along while
justice, not only blindfolded, but hob
bled, gropes helplessly through the
quagmire prepared for her. There are
some things more to be Stunned than
mob-law, and justice as it is admins
tered in San Francisco is one of them.
The Knights of Labor are boycotting
national bank bills, and insisting that
the national banks be done away
with. They never labored under
greater mistake. and their action
shows that they have not given the
matter much study. If there were no
greenbacks. no national paper money,
there would not he the drain on the
gold reserve there is. The greenkacks
and the silver notes, not the national
bank notes. make the raid on the
treasury possible. The friends of
silver would accomplish more by advo-
eating the calling in of all small bills,
and the stopping of their being issued.
On this coast silver Is in demand, be-
| cause we are accustomed to it, but in
the east its place is largely taken by
small BILLS
| Miss Bertha Martyr Gibson has
written poem with Mt. Hood for the
inspiration, which is printed in the
Oregon City Enterprise of the 9th.
The poem is far superior to the aver
age run of newspaper rhymes, and may
be classed as of real good quality for
the fall clip. The poem shows for one
| thing the effect of the New Woman
,raze, in that Miss Gibson calls Mt.
| Hood "She." Miss Gibson saw the
nountain from a different point of
| lew from that us bunch-grassers are
ccustomed to, hence perhaps her
Justification as to sex. Up this way
.dt. Hood has always been classed as
Thomas mountain.
This has been great day in Califor-
mia, and especially in Sacramento
which is the center of the celebration
for this year, of the anniversary of the
admission of the state into the Union.
Not only will this anniversary be cell
ebrated, but matter of vast local i'm
pOrtance will at the same time be in
augurated, and that is the introduction
of electricity generated at Folsom, y
blaze of light, and the largest crowd !
to celebrate. The trees in the park |
will be hung with colored electric |
lights, and on top of the dome of the |
capitol will be cluster of arc lights OF |
"a 900 candle-pOwer. CalifOrnians |
know how to celebrate, and as they |
have good reasons for this one, it will |
be sumner.
Those ladies who so strenuously OBJ
ject to the bloomers because as they |
declare, they are immodest and who
declare they will never, no never wear
them, should take look at the fashion
plates of say 1869. In those days the
immense hoop skirt, was in faision,
and one form of it was known as the
"tilter." 1t was bell shaped, with a
wide faring bottom, and as its proud
wearer ambled along, when one edge
of the skirt met an obstruction the
other edge responded by rising to the
occasion. When they first came out
there was a cyclone of opposition, but
everybody wore them. The bloomer
shows the shape of the wearer's leg,
nearly to the knee, but the tilter dis
counted that. 1t is true the latter
only gave occasional glimpses of the
wearer's legs, but when it did show
them, it showed them all.
In speaking of the silver question
Senator Mitchell expressed himself in
the following language, which cannot
we'll be construed to mean anything
but what it says: 81 have very de-
cided views, and for number of years
have had on the coinage question
that is, as to the coinage of gold and
silver and their use as money. l would
have the government treat silver both
as to the coinage and use precisely as I
it treats gold. l would have no limit
on the coinage and use of one metal as
a legal tender money that does not at I
favor of the free and unlimited coin I
age of, gold and silver into legal ten {
der money. I would have such money
treated and used as money of ultimate ,
/ would have the gov
ernment do this independently of the I
wishes or protests or dictates of Great G
Britain or any other power on earth. t
In the language of the last national T
platform: I demand the a
use of both gold and silver as standard t
f
The great smuggling cases in Port
and have at last come to an end.
Judge Bellinger yesterday fning
James Lotan $4,000, and Seid Beck
5000, and without adding any term of
The punishment is in g
/ sense light, but no doubt the Judge '
,ook into consideration the character q
If the testimony upon which the con-
yictions were had, in fixing the pun Q
shment. OF Lotans guilt the jury G
seemed to have no doubt and yet the Q
American mind is so constituted that =
is SympathleS are awakened In favor u
,f anyone even though that one be 81
,uilty of crime, who is convicted G
hereof by a fellow criminal and in "
ormer, whose testimony is forthcom- "
ng for the purpose of serving himself q
t has cost the government more than u
he amount of the fines collected to j
prosecute the cases, but indirectly it G.
will no doubt, go long way towards 81
preventing officials monkeying with o.
he revenue laws.
Since the setting Of the Portland
Jun the free coinage of silver is but .;
title discussed in this state. While q.
7e did not, and do not indorse the m
heories advocated by that paper, we p'
i've it credit for presenting some OF
orcible arguments and presenting le
hem clearly. The more the subject II
, agitated the worse it is for the IL
,iends of free coinage, and in this re- ID
pect the loss of the Sun was decided
1jury. We all want good money, n
nd we all want to see lots of it in o,
but coupled with this is 81
he necessity of having every dollar as OF
ood as every other dollar. For this In
eason, and because we want to see tn
loney abundant we are opposed to 10
le free coinage of silver. The
oment the free coinage of silver is
ermitted at anything like the ratio
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