The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-03

we produced 81 1881, 800, 600 of gold and
81, ,295, 100000 OF silver. Why has not
the gold standard ept more of it here?
Is there need for wonder at the con-
duct of Yale's hoodlums when the lead
ing newspapers advocating the gold
standard make constant use of such ex-
pres5ions as this from today's Oregon
ian? "The Army's duty of keeping in
check considerable portion of Mr..
Bryan's constituents will not lie less
ened. and in addition we must man our
new Notifications to protect from the
foreign foe." This is the concluding
sentence ofan editorial on the strength
of our army and navy.
The only remedy offered by the re-
publican party for curing present ills
is to return to the old policy of the
past twenty years, of contracting cur
rency and protecting manufacturers,
under which the favored classes have
become richer and the producing mass
es poorer. Raise the price of money
by sticking to gold standard and pile
up more taxes on the consumers is the
only offer the republicans make for
creating prosperity.
A strong man eau lift barrel of
-four from tie ground with perfect
ease, but child of five years could not
bulge it. Mexico has failed to main
tain parity between gold and silver
by the unrestricted coinage of silver.
and in its efforts it may be compared
to the child in lifting barrel OF flour,
while the United States may be COM
pared to the strong man. What a
country of 100000 semi-civilized
people fails to accomplish may be
easily done By ceantry of 65,000,000
OF the most civilized people on earth.
The deficit of $lCO,OOO,0OO in the re-
ceipts of the government over expen-
ditures during the two years since the
present tariff law has been in effect is
pointed to by the republican press as
an object of the failure of democratic
administration, but nothing is said of
how small the deficit would have been
had the supreme court not have knock
ed the income-tax provision out OF the
tariff law. The income tax was passed
by a democratic congress and annulled
by republican supreme court. Had
it been allowed to stand there would
have been no deficit.
The silver mines of Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada,
Colorado and California if running at
their full capacity, would furnish en-
ployment for half as many men as all
the manufactures on the Atlantic coast.
These men would receive better wages
than do the artisans in the mills of the
East, hence would become greater con-
sumers. They would create market
for the products of the Western farms
and Eastern mills: then why not give
them an opportunity to get to work
and furnish employment for hundreds !
o. thousands of men who, will become
consumers?
If there has been no change IN the |
sentiment of the voters of Oregon since |
last June, it will be impossible for the |
republicans to carry this state in
November. Taking the vote for su-
preme judge, CASTOR and Burnett had |
4,011 more votes than Bean. Then if |
the vote for congressman in the two
districts is taken as basis, and allow
ing that the Mckinley electors will !
receive all the vote cast. for Ellis, I
Northup and Tongue, they would lack !.
6,137 of majority, but this they will
not do, for at least 15f per cent of the
vote cast for the republican nominees
in June will go for Bryan electors in
A speaker at the meeting of the Nc
Kinley club in Pendleton got rid of
the following sentiment: "The repub-
licans,' he said, chad their Abraham
Lincoln, the democrats their Andrew
Jackson, and he thought tho mule
would fill similar position for the
1opulists." No wonder there are so
many in the opposition ranks" in this
county and state when republican cam
oaign orators resort to such references
ind dull their own argument by such
lncalled-for abuse. Both Andrew 6
Jackson and Abraham Lincoln were ,
Ibused in their time by their oppon- l
'nts in a similar way. History is for ,
yer repeating itself.-East Oregonian. g