The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-01-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

"A RepuDl1cdn cluD db TOrtIduu IL
said to have 96 of it's members in Office
and the other four are candidates for
delegates to the national convention.
Until the people learn to conduct
the nominating conventions that Sc.
lect their legislatures they will get nc
reforms at their hands.
The presidents Venezuelan commits.
sion is strictly non-partisan. Coudert
and Alvey are Democrats. and Brewer
and White are Republicans and Gilman
is mugwump.
Somtimes man suffers for being too
progressive. John Holdnock, of Penn
sylvania, invented flying machine
but when he tried it recently the peo-
pie thought he was devil and fred
rifles at him until they brought him
down.
The pension appropriation this year
will likely be s140, 900. 900, that being
the amount asked for by the commits
sioner of pensions. This is only $780,
600. 900 less than England pays for sus-
tanning her standing army and navy
the largest in the world-and for the
pay of pensioners.
It is apparent that congress has no
intention of relieving the treasury Of
it's embarrassment. The majority in
that body, in their desire to keep the
administration in hole.are willing to
sacrifice the interests Of the country.
Partisanism predominates over patriot
ism to an alarming extent in that body.
When California wheat Is shipped
to Australia and Pennsylvania loco
motives to Russia it indicates that we
are still doing business on both sides
of the country And when Mckinley
gets both items of news in single is
sue Of his calamity newspapers it is
likely to make him suspect himself of a
tendency to become q local issue.
Joe Simon thinks a thirty-mill tax
will be a. terrible calamity to Multi
nomah county, and he is right, but he
more than any other man in the
country is responsible for it. The Of
ficials whom he placed in office,
through the abuse of the trusts inn
posed in them created the debts which
have to be met by taxation.
The Salem Post suggests that the
sheriff of Douglas county should he
made take the place Of Brown, the es-
capped murderer, ,on the scaffold in case
he does not recapture him in time for
the hanging on the 3lst. This would
hardly be the right thing, but he should
be impeached for nonperformance of
duty.
One result of the bond sale will be
to revive the demand for popular
loan; that is for law authorizing the
administration when it has bonds to
put out, to put them out in small lots,
as desired by the public. The recent
success of popular loans on the part of
the city of Philadelphia affords an OBJ
ject lesson that will be used as an ar
gument.
The London Times comments un-
faverably on the personnel Of the
Venezuela commission, takioe especial
exception to the presence of Frederic
R. Coudert on the board However
this is commission in whose appoint
ment the English have little or no say,
and it is hardly to be expected that
they would be satisfied with commits ]
sion whose intention is to deal fairly
with all parties concerned.
The war cloud has blown over for q
time at least, and it is generally con.
ceded that there is little or no danger |
of the United States and England re
sorting to the force of arms to deter.
mine the Venezuela boundary. So far |
there is a preponderance of evidence
that the British government has no
right to the lands it claims in South
hence about all that is left i
for it to do is to submit The matter to
arbitration.
The state tax levy will be higher
this year than last, in fact higher than
It has been for many years. The ex-
of the last legislature Is
;he cause. The people received no
,epedt from this extravaganza, but
,olitical tricksters and their friends
lid. While the political parasites
,ocket the money, the people pocket