The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Wisconsin republicans are pushing
J. c. Spooner as a candidate for presi-
dent. The man may be all right, but
the American people can never swal.
low that name.
A high-protection paper says that
sin order to restore confidence it is
necessary first to restore the revenue .
But the revenue cannot be restored by
Irestoring the very taxes that were
raised to reduce the revenue.
The populist Of Marion county pro-
pose to go it alone this year, the CEN
trail committee Of the party having re-
solved to repel all propositions Of
fusion, denouncing fusion as an i'm
polite. unrighteous and unholy al
lance.
Gladstone looks to the Almighty to
save the suffering Armenians. From
the way the European nations allow
them to be slaughtered it appears that
their only hope of protection lies in
the intervention of Divine Providence
and if that does not come soon, there
pill be but few of them left to save.
The little scheme inaugurated by q
few admirers of Gov. Pennoyer to
place him on the populist ticket as q
nominee for congress, with the hope
that he would draw sufficient votes
from democrats to secure his election,
has met with such cool reception
that the ex-governor will hardly cut
much figure in state politics this year.
But it is not unlikely that he will be
candidate on an independent ticket for
the Office of Mayor of Portland.
That poor old British lions tail con-
tinues to get twisted. Uncle Sam, the
African Beers and the German Kaiser
have all taken recent twist at his
caudal appendage, and now the Rus
sian czar and Turkish sultan have en-
tered into an agreement which is very
distasteful to the English. It looks
like all the nations OF the world have
grudges against the British, and con-
slider this the proper time to agitate
them.
The Eugene Guard says "the only
appropriation the state university re-
ceives is the $4,000 given by the last
legislature, which is to carry on the
university for two years, thus making
an annual sum of $4,000" How is it
then that the item of $4,000 for the
support of the state university was put
in the amount to be raised by the tax
levy of 1895? Has the entire amonnt to
be raised this year? The Guard will
please explain.
The prospects of Inland Empire |
wheat raisers are brighter now than |
they have been for years. The crop
outlook in India. owing to drouth, is
very poor, and news from other sources
foretell shortage in the worlds yield |
of bread stuff : 1t is not, improbable |
that the next wheat crop will command
a better price than did the last, and
the farmers who have large acreages
In wheat may reasonably expect pros
porous year in 1895.
1t is rather a peculiar admission |
for Senator Mitchell to make ''that
our foreign indebtedness has greatly
increased during the last twenty-five
years." when he has been continually
pointing with pride" to the thirty
years OF unprecedented prosperity"
under republican rule. Is it possible
after all that the senator is going to
that this boasted pros
oerity was built up on the accumula-
ion of debt?
Senator Mitchell, however sincere
lie may be in his convictions regarding
he silver question, has not poured any
Ill upon the troubled waters in which
he Republican party of Oregon is
by announcing that he
7ill vote for the free coinage silver
ill. He is unquestionably a candidate
or reelection, but he has not inn
roved bis chances by this announce .
rent. There are many men in
is party who are honestly convinced {