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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-19
THE MKINLEY PRESCRIPTION

The medicine that DIR. MCKINLEY
and his supporters prescribe to make
the country more prosperous is taxes
taxes, taxes. Increase the duties
give us return of the 1890 tariff law.
make the farmers, the great mass
of producers, pay little more taxes
discriminate in favor of our manufac.
turers, our coal and iron minors, our
coal oil trusts, our glass and tin plate
makers and our sugar planters" say
DIR. Mckinley and his henchmen, and
then we will return to prosperity.
To raise the price of wheat, they
would give more protection to the
manufacturers of wool and cotton
cloths.
To raise the price of beef, mutton
and pork, they would give an extra
protection to the manufacturers of tin
plate and glass.
To raise the price Of wool, they
would extend more protection to lum'
ber men and the manufacturer of agri-
cultural implements.
And it continues through the whole
list in this line. To create prosperity,
to give the primary producers better
prices, they would increase the bur
dens of taxation for the producers and
give the favored classes more favors.
ssTax the people for the benefit of the
classes is the only prescription Nc
Kinleyism offers as medicine to cure
the evils that now exist.
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WILL ACT IN UNISON
Ambassadors at Constanti-
nople Form A Plan.
SPAIN'S OVERTURE
She Offers Home Rule to the In
surgents if They Will Lay
Down Their Arms.
ing the Past Eight Months-Gould
Makes a Big Deal in Mines

CoNsTANTINoPLE. Sept. IA, via Sofia,
Bulgaria, Sept. 15.-(Copyrighted,
1896, by the Associated Press. Am
bassadors of the powers held meet
ing today to lay out plan for measures
of protection for the different em-
hassies and foreign population gener-
ally in the event of a renewal Of the
disturbances here. The plan is un-
derstood to include the united action
of the warships of all the powers, each
ship being assigned to certain posi-
tion and the men to be landed at q
given signal to protect the threatened
points. The defenses of the embassies
will also, it is rumored, be consider
ably strengthened by an increase in
the number of men now guarding them,
and by other precautions which will
tend to make them capable of resisting
an attack for considerable time. 1t
is also reported that in case of possible
contingencies number of additional
warships of the powers will reinforce
the guardship5 now doing duty in these
watars
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-19
The STATE UNCHANGED.
First Day of the New York Democratic
Convention.

First Day of the New York Democratic
Convention.
BUFFALO, Sept. 16.-The platform
of the democratic party in the state,
as drafted tonight, will have as its
first proposition this statement:
iThe democrats of the state of New
York, in convention assembled, do
hereby unreservedly indorse and ap-
prove the platform adopted by the
national convention at Chicago, and
we hereby unanimously approve the
nominees of said convention, William
Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall,
and pledge them our earnest and cor
dial support"
The completi> i of the first days
Session of the democratic convention
has not disturbed in any great measure
the forecast that has been prepared.
The conditions tonight, however, are
rather interesting, because the inter-
nal fights, which are good. natured
upon their surface, are not wanting in
internal bitterness. The principal
strife tonight is to prevent the adop-
tion of the unit rule, and to prevent
thereby the nomination of any candi-
date without q fair, open fight.
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THAT INPERTLNEN1' Ii.

Ii Hung Chang, the great Chinese
statesman, is not out altogether for his
health. He is poking his nose into
eyerybody's business, and learning
everything he can that will be of bene-
fit to his government. His inquisitive-
ness is indeed admirable and leads
almost to impertinence, but he is a
"heathen Chinee" and is excusable.
The S. F. Examiner very appropriately
portrays his search for knowledge
when it pictures him having private
interview with Boss Hanna, and puts
these questions into his mouth:
How rich are you? Did you make
any of your money reducing working
mems wages? If the free coinage OF
silver would, as you say, tend to re-
duce the wages of workingmen, why
are you opposed to 1t? Who gives you
all the money you are spending now?
What do you promise in return for it?
How do you make Mr.. Mckinley do
what you tell him? Will he keep on
doing it when he is president? How
did you get hold of him first? Do you
consider those notes are good in
vestment?"
Although these questions are put
into the mouth of the great Ii, and
are about the catechism he would put
Boss Hanna through, they are ques-
tions the American people would like
Mr.. Esnna to answer just now.
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THAT PROSPEROUS ERA.

Something like one hundred thous-
and newspapers in the United States
are telling US that. the most prosper
GUS times this country ever had was
from 1880 to 1898, and the prosperity
was checked by change in the ad-
.ministration. They persist in telling
their readers that return of that
prosperity can be had by the election
of Major Mckinley to the presidency,
the adoption of q little higher rate oi
taxation and the maintenance of The
gold standard. Let us look backward
and see If we want to return to that
season of boasted prosperity.
Total number of business failures in
the United States first half of 1880,
1899; assets, s14,727 ,9O7; liabilities
$31. .00Os31, 1903. Total number first half
1890, 5,466; assets, $50, ,025, ,116; liabilit-
les s62, 1857 1853.
Total number of strikes in United
States in 1881, All; affected 2,528 es-
adjustments and threw 129, ,521 men
out of employment. causing wage loss
of SO, 372, ,578. Total number of strikes
in 1891, 1,71S; affected SILT establish
ments and threw 1854 men out of
employment with wage loss of s14,-
801, ia.
Acres of land mortgaged in 1880,
42,74a,ola for s71O,sSs,5O4. Acres of
land mortgaged in 1889, 7O,67S,257 for
s1,226, 1923, 900.
Mortgages of town lots incurred in
1880, 429, 1855 for 1858, 1922, ,037. Mort
cages incurred in 1889, 1,2S2, 1884 for
81, ,166, 1898, ,555. Percentage of increase
of real estate debt incurred in 1889
over 1880, 146 So.
Rate of taxation per capita in United
States in 1880, $500; in 1890, s7.53.
This is the effects of the ''prosper-
ity" caused by the retention of the
gold standard and the operation of the
high protective policy. Do the people
of America want to continue being
thus prosperous?
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ENGLAND WILL FOLLOW.

A correspondent to the New York
World, had about the right idea of the
effect of the adoption of free coinage
in America when he said: LET US sup
pose just for arguments sake, that
such would be the case, that our trade
with England for instance would be
completely paralyzed; what would be
the probable effect on the two coun-
triesp We get nothing from England
that we cannot produce ourselves. Our
tourists, instead of spending 5000, ,000,-
600 or $500, ,000, 900 annually abroad,
would go to Wyoming, California or
Alaska. where their dollars would pass
for 100 cents. China, who sells us teas
and silks; Brazil, who sells US coffee,
and Argentina, who sells US hides and
who takes comparatively nothing from
us in return, will buy from us when we
receive their dollars for 100 cents while
England allows them but so cents for
it. Our surplus cotton we would make
into fabrice and send to China, Brazil,
Argentina and other silver countries
instead of sending cash.
ENGLAND could not produce the cot
ton, wheat and meat she gets from US, nor
could she get them elsewhere, but then
she probably would not want them.
With her trade with the silver coun-
tries cut off she would have no market
for her fabrics and wares and no work.
men to consume our wheat and meat.
England will say all sorts of mean
things about silver and keep US in the
gold standard column as long as posi-
BILE, but when we once cut loose, when
we get the bit between our teeth and
go rearing and tearing like your old
white mule after free silver, England
will be so close on our trail that it will
be hard to tell which is really ahead.
Yes sir; let us elect a free-silver pres
ident and congress and England will
adopt free silver before we can get our
president and congress together.
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RESENTING COERCION.

The members of the American Rail-
way Union have come out boldly and
declared their rights and privileges as
American citizens to exercise their
right of suffrage as they see fit. and
will resent every effort to coerce them
into voting the gold ticket. On Sept.
the directors of the union issued an
address to all its members and to all
railway employees in the United States
denouncing the coercion of railway
employers to join Mckinley sound
money clubs, and calling on all West
erners to vote for Bryan. The address
is signed by Eugene v. Debs, James
Hogan, Sylvester Kelliher, William E..
Burns, R. NJ. Goodwin and M. J..
Elliott.
1t says the coercion practiced is of
momentous import, and describes the
methods practiced as "astounding."
The round houses, depots and shops,
says the address, have temporarily
been converted into political wigwams,
and employees are intimidated to join
sound-money clubs by the railway
managers.
"We know of many instances" says
the address, "where employees"are
given to understand that their con-
tinuance in service depends on their
supporting the gold standard candi-
dates. The country stands amazed at
such bold and shameless intimidation" :"
The address declares that it is not
free silver alone that has enraged this
railroad monopoly, but the attack in
the democratic platform on govern
ment by injunction. This, it says, is
the milk in the cocoanut.
The injunction history on the Toll
edo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan
road, and the injunction restraining
employees from quitting the service Of
the Northern Pacific because of a re-
duction of wages, under penalty of
being committed to Jail, are reviewed.
The election of Mckinley, it says,
would mean the perpetuation of gov
ernment by injunction, the supremacy
of the corporation and the helpless
subsection Of employees. The demo-
cratic platform is commended. In
closing the address says:
1--WE pledge our united and unwaver-
ing support to William ]. Bryan for
president and appeal to railway en-
ployees and all workingmen to join
with US in rebuking corporate tyrany
which attempts to wrest the sacred
rights of suffrage from employees, in
abolishing government by injunction
and in securing and maintaining every
right of citizenship vouchsafed by the
of our country.
The one federal judge who has
proved himself to be immeasurably
above the corrupting influence of cor
porations, who has earned the con-
fidence and gratitude of all railway
Henry C. Caldwell, has de-
,lared that the nomination of William
J. Bryan is the greatest since Lincoln.
"We heartily concur to the declara-
ion of the honest and distinguished
urist -
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such treatment Many women lie to the
doctor. That sounds hard, but it is uu-
doubtedly true. They know that if they
admit certain symptoms that the doctor
viii inevitably insist on an examination -
They do not give him all the facts in the
case, and so he works in the dark. Quite
often the doctor is too busy and too hurried
to make the necessary effort to obtain the
facts. He frequently treats symptoms for
what they appear to be on the surface, when
the real cause and the real sickness is deeper
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GOLD GOES ANYWAY.

One of the stock arguments OF the
gold press of the country against the
free and unrestricted coinage OF silver
is that it would drive gold either out
of the country or out of circulation.
Possibly this might be the result, but
the driving out process could scarcely
be any more rapid than it has been
during the past thirty years, for dur
ing that tine we have driven both
geld and silver out of the country very
rapidly, in fact at the rate of about
Z $40, 100000 year of each metal, or
about $50, ,OOO, 600 OF both.
The mint reports show that from
1860 TO 1894 We produced, from our
mines, 81, ,337 SOC, 900 of gold and 81, 1885,
200, 900 of silver. 1t is generally esti-
mated that we have in circulation and
horded in the treasury some $3.50, ,0OO,-
900 OF gold and about S575, ZOO, 600 of
silver, q total of 81 ,225. .OOO, 900. Allow
ing that We had $500, 600, 900 of metallic
money in 1880, and we really had more
than that, and that since then we have
produced g, ,6sS, GOO, 900, and now have
only 81, ,225, ,000, 600 Of metallic money.
we haye lost 81. .40s, 100000 in thirty
years.
Whether this drain has been caused
by our monetary system or whether it
has been through the balance of trade
being against US, we leave for the
goldltes to explain, but certain it is
that the metallic money that has been
dug from our mints has gone, and if
statistics are of any value, it has gone
more rapidly since we have been on q
purely gold basis than during any
other period of our history. Can it go
any faster if we open our mints to free
coinage? is the question that con-
fronts US. It seems not. II our mints
are opened to silver we will at once
begin the coinage of that metal, and
by causing an increased demand for
that metal will increase its production.
On the other hand our gold, even
though it goes to a premium. will be
in demand as the basis of commercial
transactions, and since it can find
profitable investment here, would not
necessarily be attracted abroad any
more rapidly than it has been in the
past. If it goes into hiding at home it
will cease to realize profit to its own
ers, and since there is no hope of its
becoming more valuable when another
metal is allowed to take it's place as
basic money, it would soon find its way
back into the avenues of trade.
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lIPORT AND EXPORT.
Merchandise and Coin Movement fo
Eight Months of 1896.

Merchandise and Coin Movement for
Eight Months of 1896.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-The month
ly comparative statement of imports
of merchandise, gold and silver, last
August, and during eight months end
ing August 81 last, which was issued
by the bureau of statistics today,
shows as follows:
Domestic merchandise exported dur
Ing August, 1896, S66, 1872, ,453; August,
1895, S54, 1927, ,l69. For the last eight
months, s575, ,279.427. For the same
period of 1895, $1,000, SOL. Imports
of merchandise during last August,
S49, : ASS, ,325, of which $20,644,S ,S71 was
free of duty. Imports during August,
1895, S71, iii .943, of which about one
half was free of duty. Imports during
the last eight months, SAT- ,222, 434. of
which s2l4, 4,2l6,671 was duty free; for
the same period in 1895 the total was
1886, 1877 ,S19, of which s254, ,469, APT was
free of duty.
The gold exports during last August
amounted to S1,971 ,544, as compared
with Sl6,667, ,261 during August, 1895.
For the last eight months, the exports
of gold amounted to $50, ,511, ,S11, which
is almost the exact figure of 1895. The
gold imo"ts during last August aggre-
gated s4,045,S85, as compared with
81 ,534, ,Q86 for the same month last
year. For the last eight months the
imports of gold exceeded those for
the same period in 1895 by about $2,-
$4,000.
The silver coin and bullion exported
during last August was S., 351, ,434. and
the imports $929,422. During August,
last year, the exports amounted to
81 ,553, ,a9S, and the imports to s1,l14,-
677. During the last eight months the
silver exports amounted to $40, 1872, ,41S,
and the imports to $8,7l2,959. During
the same period in 1895, the exports
aggregated s33, 1856, 216, and the inn
ports to SIS, ,199,471.
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THE EAST AGAINST THE VEST

The result of Mondays election ir
Maine, when compared with the demo
cratic landslide in Arkansas, to some
extent, illustrates the sentiment of the
people of the different sections of the
nation with reference to the issues
that divide the two great political
parties. However it cannot we'll be
taken as safe index of what the vote
in Maine will be in November. The
democrats were seriously handicapped
in the recent campaign in that state.
Before the Chicago convention was
held they nominated a gold man for
governor and adopted gold platform.
The nominee subsequently resigned,
and the platform was reversed, where
upon bolt of the gold democrats oc-
Cured, and a gold candidate and plat
form were put out in opposition to the
regular ticket.
The 100000 plurality for the
republican candidate for governor,
under these circumstances, cannot be
looked upon as much else than
victory of well organized party oyer
party that was disorganized, more
than it tends to show that in the ex-
treme East the sentiment is strongly
in favor of the republican ticket, while
the result of Arkansas election shows
the sentiment in the South and West
is the opposite.
Even the apparent republican VIC
tory is not discouraging to democracy,
for two years ago Maine gave repub-
lican plurality of 3S,97S, and in 1892,
when the republicans were anihiliated
in the presidential election, Maine, in
its September election, rolled up good
majority for the republican state ticket.
Maine and all other Eastern states
will of course give Mckinley a large
vote next November, while the South
and West, whose interests are with the
democratic nominee, will cast their
votes solidly for Bryan. 1t is expected
that the coming election will be largely
sectional, and that it will be an array
ing of the East against the South and
West
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THIRD TICKET PLATFORM.

In discussing the platform princi-
Piles of the boltercrats, on which Pal
mer and Buckner stand, the New York
World calls attention to some features
that are important to the voters of the
country and particularly to democratic
voters who are considering 1t duty to
vote for the third ticket.
The World says, a I" democratic plat
form of 1000 words surely had room
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His Leg Crushed.

ARLINGTON, Or. Sept. ia young
man, named Boyer, met with a seri-
Gus, if not fatal, accident at Condor,
in this county, this evening, He was
working for a threshing crew. In
stepping over tumbling rod, his foot
caught and he was wound around the
rods. Before the machinery could be
stopped the bones of his legs were
crushed in terrible manner. Ampu-
tation will be necessary.
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Guilty as Charged.

HEPPNER. Or, Sept. 16.-The jury
in the case of the State VS.. Chester
Sargent, charged with assault with in
tent to commit rape, was given the
case yesterday noon. The case was
taken up Saturday morning, and occu-
pied the entire time of the court for
two and a half days. The jury after
being out 81 hours, returned verdict
of guilty as charged, recommending
him to the mercy of the court.
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BANKRUPTCY CERTAIN.

One of the contentious for the re-
tanning of gold standard is that it is
q benefit to the borrower, since it
lowers the rate of interest he is re-
3quired to pay for the use of money.
sThis position seems difficult to sub
stantiate, for the price of morsy, the
Interest charged for its use, is governed
|mainley by the supply and demand
and the nature of the security pledged
for it's repayment. The purchasing
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.LABORiS "FRLEN.D.'

| The republican nominee for the
presidency is being made to pose as
the friend of laborers, and his election
is urged in behalf of the wage earners
of America, it being asserted that the
policies that will be adopted, in case
of his ascendency to power, will set the
mills and mines In operation, thus af-
fording employment for the great
army of workers. Were Mr.. Mckinley
standing alone in this campaign, such
a contention might be accepted with
degree of credence. But behind him
is Mark Hanna, and his hand will be
the one to WELD the power. hence the
question arises, what position does
MIR. Hanna hold toward labor? The
following dispatch, dated at Ishpenn-
ing, Mich, on Sept. IL, will tell:
"Robert Askew, president of the
Mineral Mine Workers Progressive
Union, arrived today from Chicago
where he had been to make special
plea to Mark Hanna in regard to the
unjust treatment received by employees
in the mines owned by the chairman
of the republican national committee.
Mr.. Askew is not satisfied with Han
mas attitude, as the latter is ap-
parently fighting for delay.
"For several months Superintendent
McMasters, who is employed directly
by Hanna to manage his mines in this
district, has been discharging members
of the union on the slightest pretext.
Members of committees who waited |
upon him to have certain abuses cor
rected have been instantly discharged. |
The condition of the miners and their |
families is deplorable, and it was
thought if Hanna was appealed to di-
rec6ly some change in the arbitrary
of the superintendent would
be made. The horrors of the situation
are sensational in the extreme. If it
we're not for the charity of the miners
Tor each other, deaths from starvation
would be of frequent occurrence.
None of the men employed in the
mines dare object to these conditions,
IS the loss of his position would be
,he penalty.
"Hanna is said to have requested
Askew not to mention the matter, but
% return home and prepare written
tatement of all the grievances and
ubmit them for his consideration.
This is regarded by the miners as a
cheme to delay the matter until after
he election, as in the meantime they
would be expected to remain. quiet.
After November the old order of things |
would be renewed, it is claimed, and
or that reason the miners will issue
n ultimatum that Hanna must right
II wrongs suffered before October 1st.
+ he does not the union will notify all
abor organizations in the country of
he situation"