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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05
Pioneer Wants to Know.

Mr.. EDITOR:
have read the report of our COM
mittee appointed to wait on Senator
Mitchell and Capt. Fisk, and don't
find that the senator explains why the
contract was given to Day Bros, un-
less it be to pay debts of last June; nor
does he exert himself or exert his inf
ence on Capt. Fisk to release the port
age road from being closed by Gov
ernor Day and Secretary Day of Cas-
cade Locks.
What difference will it make to
Eastern Oregon whether the locks are
opened November Is or the 18th of
next April, so far as crops are con-
cerned? either date will suit these fine
gentlemen noao, for both are after elec.
ton. Probably Gov. Day may get
tired or the o. r. & N. will not respond
after that time.
would like to ask Senator Mitchell
one question. Do you think you have
made friends by your actions in regard
to the locks? Our governor is after
your peace-playing for it hot. Which
will get it? Eastern Oregon can lay
back and smile. PIONEER.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05
THE COMMON COUNCIL.
Regular Monthly Meeting of the City
Fathers.

The regular monthly meeting of the
common council of Dalles City, was
called to order by Mayor Menefee last
night, there being present Councilmen
Nolan, Champlin, Kuck, Wood, Clough
and Saltmarshe, and the following pro-
ceedings were had:
Minutes of previous regular and
special meetings read and approved.
The petition of L. Gray and others
for purchase of lot on which to build
Lutheran church, referred to commit
tee on streets and public property to
report at next regular meeting.
Bid of Charles Denton to furnish
wood for Dalles City referred to COM
mitteo on finance with power to act.
Regular monthly report of treasurer,
recorder and marshal read and placed
on file.
The recorder was ordered to make
detailed report during the second
month of each quarter of the license
granted during the quarter, also to
have notices published in reference to
repairs on certain cross and sidewalks
in the city, and the matter of publish
ing said notices was referred to finance
committee with authority to enter into
contract for publishing same.
The following claims against the
city were allowed and ordered paid:
J Fl Blakeney, marshal % days S67 IS
G F Lauer, marshal 3 days. %
G W Phelps, recorder .......... so 90
G Brown, eng fire dept. ........ 10 90
G. j Crandall, treasurer ...... 20 90
G B Champlin, labor. .......... 13 so
Mays & Grove, mdSe. $50. -. l 80
Chronicle Pub Co, one years
printing 30 %
G. J Brown, labor. Is
Dalles Lumber Co. mdse. 5 40
G Cathcart, witness fees. ....... l 80
& Rubber Co, 500
feet fire hose. 500 90
Dalles Electric 1t Co lights for
Office and fire dept. .......... 13 go |
Maier & Benton, mdse. 35 |
Dallss Water Com, water rent. 32 90 |
] H Daniels, labor. .............. 90 |
F M King, labor. r.............. 6 90 |
Bolumbia Hotel, meals for Dris.. 60 |
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05

Johnston's cash store, next door to
A. M. Williams Sc Co., is the place to
get bargains in groceries, ~ -.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05

Messrs. John Rumech, Jake Ellerin.
ger and Fritz Armbruch, three prom
inent business men of Portland, have
been visiting in the city the guests of
August Buchler and Chas. Frank. To-
day they were driven out to Cello and
given view of the falls of the Colum-
hia -
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05
FACTORY NO. 10 los.

Cigars of the Best Brands manufac-
tured, and orders from all parts of the
country filed on the shortest notice.
The reputation of THE DALLES
CIGAR has become firmly established,
and the demand for the home manufac-
tured article Is increasing every day.
;ffEarE - A. ULRICH &, SON.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05

The Wasco Warehouse Co. beg leave
to inform farmers that they have stor-
age room for 200. 900 sacks of wheat and
any one wishing to store their wheat
and hold for later market can do SO
on usual terms. Also, they will pay
the highest cash price for wheat. oats,
barley and rye. If
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Mdwinter Fair. San Francisco.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05

Senator Mitchell has made dates to
speak at various points throughout
Eastern Oregon during October. Why
would it not be well to have joint
discussion between the senator and
some prominent democratic speaker at
each of the places he has designated?
The people want to hear both sides of
all questions debated, adm no better
plan could be adopted than joint dis
cussion.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-05

Dick Winters, of the Germania,
is again at his post, having been down
to Long Beach and other seaside re-
sorts.
d. P. Ketchum, Fred Young and
Alex Thompson went to Mt. Adams to-
day to look after the sheep ranges in
that vicinity.
The funeral of the late Henry A.
Dietzel will take place from the family
residence on Saturday afternoon, Sept.
5th, at o'clock.
Yesterday The Dalles Commission
Co. shipped a car load of prunes and
plums to Coicago, and another car was
loaded today and will be shipped to-
night.
The Degree of Honor. held o very
pleasant session last night. The Fern
Leaf, which was full of pith and humor,
was edited and read by Mrs. c. F..
Stephens.
The members of the Gesang VERNE
nave leased tne new Is. or L. nall, ana
their. next regular meeting will be
held there next Sunday evening, COM
mencing at o'clock.
Messrs. Chas. S. Thompson and JAS.
S. Reed, two insurance adjusters from
Portland, arrived by last nights train,
and left this morning for Dufur to ad-
just Johnston Bros loss.
Murchie Bros. have sold their livery
business in the East End to d. B.
Gaunt, proprietor of the Prineville-
Dalles stage line. Mr.. Gaunt took
charge of the business yesterday.
The D. P. & A. N. Co. has just COM
pleted new freight house on the lower
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09

Referring to that part of MIR. Scwalrs
letter to which ''in fine burst of DEM
agoguery' he leads up and in which
he has much to say about those be
hind the strong entrenchment" and
those unseltish mem who are leading
the assault. the Portland Advertiser
says: "All this appears to be intended
not Tor home consumption, but for
working on the feelings of the Western
ana Southern agraran element. 1t
does not go in Maine, nor yet in New
England. Behind those strong en-
trenchments- of the gold standard are
more than two-thirds of the voters of
Maine. DO these belong to dangerous
classes of the land?' Are they all the
whole $1,000 actuated by 'avarice and
unholy greed?' Every trust and com
hinatlon IS there, Mr.. Sewall saws js
the great combination of silver min.
owners there, the trust that aggregates
half billion dollars Hardly Or arr
THESE included among the disinterestod
ana unseltish men who pity the suffer.
ing W per cent and are righteous.y
Wroth at the robber gold?"
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from their losses as the man with less
capital, while he whose capital consists
chiefly in his ability to get and to do
days work would suffer most of all.
Unlimited coinage of silver if it re-
suited in bimetallism would not hurt
the trusts and if it resulted in a cheap
dollar would enable them to pay those
they owe, and trusts are founded
largely upon borrowed capital, in de-
preciated currency Those monopolies
with the strongest grip would survive
the panic and would then be in posi-
ton to take advantage of the chcap
dollar. The conditions that would then
exist would be as favorable to the
maintenance of monopolies and trusts
as are the conditions of today. No one
save the owners of silver bullion are
to get any of the cheap dollars with
out exchanging something for them
The proportion of capital distributed
among the people would not be
changed, except that there would be
taken from the wage worker the pos
sibilityof havinga bank account. which
he may now have in good times through
receiving more in wages than he is OBJ
liged TO spend in living.
Look at it from any view possible in
the light of reason and human cxperi
ence and not the slightest evidence can
be found that unlimited silver coinage
would do away with trusts and monon-
ones any more than substituting half
peck measures for pecks would do
away with the material to be measured
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09

November but to move out of the coun.
( ny he VIII never be able TO reconcile
4 himself TO continued residence in a
. country where it has been demonstrated
+ - IL VIII he. II the assumptions of Mi
/ Se"ail : letter are correct. that the great
+ nn11oflty q me people are thieves and
G Gont,ers s., Where Mr. sewall viii go we
4 EUROPE where he caA Fest content. be-
, cause the gold standard which per &c
ssrlhds the face OF the poor prevails
/ throughout that continent He might 70
TO China but Ii Hung Changes yellow
Jacket would constantly suggest gold to
nun ana the suforinGs of the people liv-
inG under that standard which would
WIRING his tender heart beyond endurance
re might go 10 Mexico. but it Is said
mat even in that haven of peace and
prosperity the workingmen only get ~
cents a day. so that his generosity and
desire TO elevate the workingman might
7 impoverisb him. The prospect of Mr.
/ Sewail hnd1ng a spot on earth where he
dark.
How the Hon. Arthur sewan loves the
people. What q horror he has of monop-
o .,i'.5 a ;,.a OF. OF the money power" How
there is one man in the State loyal to
their interests, While Democrats, such
as the Hon. James W. Bradbury of Au-
gusta the Hon. Charles F. Johnson of
Waterville, the Hon. E. b. Winslow of
Portland, and others almost innumerable
nave deserted the poor and gone over to
ti4t it4ptitS pONci ne las ehpou Ike a ROCK
for the people. And there Is no selfish
ness about this stand of Sewall's Years
ago he took it when he tells US in his
letter of acceptance "the hour of triumph
seemed remote and when the arrogant
money changers throughout the world
boosted that the conquest of the Amer-
can people was complete. There have
been men who have suggested that Mr.
SewalI espoused the cause of free silver
as furnishing an easy and efficient way
OF cutting down the wages of his en-
pioyes, but they were wicked men. en-
Nlous of the great heart that swells in
Mr. Sewall's bosom. When the poor hath
cried Sewall hath wept; though previous
TO his nomination for vice president he
did his weeping In secret, and permitted
not even his most intimate friends to
know what a tender heart he had.
But now that the ice of his we'll known
modesty has been broken Mr.. Sewall
promises to be a most valiant knight in
the battle for the poor Not Bryan him
self could excel his valor he hurls him
self In his letter of acceptance against
the ramparts of the money power behind
which are entrenched avarice and unholy
greed. Tremhie We avaricious and
greedy men. Sewall is on your track
Sewall the ex-president of the Maine Cen
trail Railroad. Sewall the president of the
a monopoly of the American carving
trade, Sewall. the president of the Bath
National bank. He knows how wicked
you are and understands the arts by
which you minister to your insatiablc
greed. You shall no longer cruelty labor
on Il cross of gold. Sewall has become a |
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09

There was a time when wealth was
individual and only the poor man Dor
rowed and the rich man lent; but that
time has become forever part of the
eternity past, and will never be part of
the eternity that is to come. Modern
society has become SO complex, men
are so wonderfully interlocked each
with the other and each with all, that
no such story will tell the tale p They
will compare this philosophy with the
minimizing, incendiary scream labor
against capital" How puerle and I'M
real the Organisms will seem in COM
parison. 1t will do those Western
producers favor to call their atten-
ton to the fact that wages and salar-
les make very near 10 per cent of the
total purchasing power of the country.
Lowering of that fund either by non
employment or by lessening of wages.
is check to progress and a eontinu-
ance of hard times. Wages are in
creased only after struggle. They
could be lowered only after a struggle,
the standard remaining the same. But
the lnsldious results of deplteciating
currency cannot be readily met. His
tory proves this to be no speculation. but
fact In brief it will do the West
good to listen to Tom Reed"
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Should Be More Explicit!

Isn't it about time the demagogues
who are bowling around the land about
the gold standard as a breeder of
trusts and monopoies and about de-
struction which they assume will fall
upon every trust and monopoly when
once our government shall coin I'M
limited amounts of silver into dollars.
isn't it about time that they told us
Just now 1t all is to be accomplished?
Not only is it proper that they should
do so, if they can, but provided they
couid make a clear case it would great
iy help their cause. Moreover there is
the more need that they do so. because
TOUR years ago they told us they would
give us a tariff, which would crush
monopoly and trusts to earth never to
rise again Some believed them and
without asking for a bill of particulars
simply took them at their word and
voted that way. OF course those protr,
ises weren't fulfilled. else there would
be no trusts and monopolies for them
to howl about now. So far they have
offered as their only reason why free
SILVER would do away with trusts. that
these monopoliesare all opposed to free
coinage. All who read, know. however
that the greatest combination of wealth
IN the country is furnishing the sinews
of war to the unlimited silver propa-
ganda. the combination Familiarity
known as the silver trust Why this
should be 50 is easily comprehended.
But assuming for the sake of argument
that all the other trusts in the country
are opposed to unlimited silver coinage
that no more proves that the silver
standard is to kill them than the fact
that vaccinated individual Objected
TO the Introduction of small pox into
the community in which he lived would
prove that he believed the epidemic
would result in his own death.
On the train from this city to Bath.
on the night of the Bryan demonstra
'ion' was young man, VIII. evidently
realized that his mouth was his prin
cipal stock in trade. If he didn't those
VINO heard him and knew of him did
He made a speech in course of which
he said: But they tell us free silver will
bring about a terrible panic. If so
say let it come" He was unconcerned
about terrible panic" He knew that
one doesn't necessarily lose his voice
in a panic of that kind and his mind
was easy. But how about the man
who doesn't expect to make his living
by demagoguery and who has laid by
dollar for rainy day, who thrjyes
with the cOuntry's prosperity. and not
by melting discomfort in times of de-
preston and panic? He breads panic
and so does the proprietor of a small
business, the man with a small and
with big bank account, and the more
money he has and the more profit he
expects to make during times of pros
peft@ the more interested he is in busi-
ness stability The trusts represent
large capital. OF course they dread a
panic Tor they would suffer from If
i''t they would not suffer so l,ecnlv
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i 99S9M939 @sSR|
Bryan and the American Workinoman.

Bryan, THE Friend of the People" (verv
very hoD:
Workman, thorn-crowned gold-crossed
impaled, and bleeding,
Dircful are your woes; oh, list to my
pleading,
Lashed by your masters of the money
The plutocs grin while fiends incarnat,
By corporate greed crushed. torn, and
mangled,
a Haunting mockery is the flag star
Spanslcdi
Venal are the courts. they smite without
conjunction.
Grinding to powder by the laws injunc-
ton.
Vote. vote for me- and drive all sorrow
hence;
Down with the dollar. up with the fifty
cents.
American Workingman mothing near as
hoU:
All, there. Billy Bryan, you're a clever
Greatly does it pain me thus to see you
suffer.
Fifty thousand yearly. Bless your weep
Presidential office is pretty prize
So, divide the people into castles and
classes;
SO, array the workers as Il herd of asses:
so. provoke to envy riotinE, and arson;
Here to burn a millionaire, there to hang
a parsOn.
Worry not with crosses, nor on thorns be
dwelling;
Save your tender heart its metaphoric
swelling.
Don't destroy your shirt In burning dec
laration:
Make your statements curt and in mod
Grafton.
Give us better reasons why we should as
sumo
Policy financial from the Montezuma.
When YOU have done this, l say it not In
choler
/ may still refuse IAN adobe dollar
Charles Dennis. indianapolis, in N. Y.
Sun.
One must wait for sunlight before
passing upon the beauties of the au-
tumn foliage.
Bucks Harbor after being settled for
over a century is at last to have a
daily mail. THE world do move.'
Bangor feels better over the water
works dilemma since it heard that a
3-foot eel had wiggled through Port
lands filter.
A Hope mans fondness for mutton
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09
If You Had A Friend

ABOUT 10 visit some section Of country
where maiarial disease, either in the
form of chills and fever or bilious remit
tent was particularly rife, what would
DC ABOUT the best advice you could give
nm. We will tell you--to carry along or
procure on arriving. that potent medic
MAJ safeguard. Hostetter's Stomach Ri
,eis, khoWn throughout malaria plagued
tsssloils, mere and in other countries nc
me me surest means of disarming the MAS
M, iiatic scourge. and robhing il of its fell
Gestfnc.ve influence. Not only does #
mo ~ the system by increasing its STAN
. n, me liver and the bowels. and conn
aeracis the unfavorable effects of over
,o Auai,oi,. bodily and mental exposure in
4oush Weather. or occupation too sada,,
tary or laborious. loss of appetite ava
.1ni. ,e nervousness. The functions Of
!, bilious secretion ana siee a.,
auxiliary ''''' relaDie
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Mr.. Reed in the Campaign.

MT. uceu III tne VdnpdtgH.
Mr.. Bryan may enjoy the distinction
of being an accidentally prominent
figure standing practically alone on the
national stump in the cause of Popoc-
racy. while on the other side are giants
in statecraft-not to mention Mr.. Nc
kinley, who cannot be said to be on
the stump despite the number of re-
making-Hon. Thomas b. Reed. ex-
President Harrison, Gen Palmer
dozen others that might be mentioned
all of whom tower head and shoulders
above the boy orator He and his
party areathrice welcome to all the dis
tinction thus obtainable. 1t cannot
however, escape the notice of thinking
voters that there must be some cause
for it all, some reason why these lead
ing intellects in the craftsmanship of
the day. men whose achievements in
the past assure them conspicuous
place in the history of the country. are
laying aside other political differences
and are working shoulder to shoulder
in advocacy of principles which they
believe are the most important pre-
scented to the American people in a
generation. We do not think the people
will err in forming their conclusions
respecting this conditions of affairs.
OF these distinguished men, who arc
lending the influence of their mastery
arguments to the cause of sound
money and national honor, Mr.. Reed
attracts especial attention at this time
All reports of the meeting in Boston
represent it as an ovation to the
eminent statesman. His speech was
one of the best he ever delivered. II
was trimming over with the philosophy
of the practical, rational optimist, who
has experienced much, studied much
and learned much; who has brought to
tilC ooiutioll VI tlItSc IIODltlllS d ulIHG
that has never been unbalanced by
ambition, perverted by disappointment
or weakened by the influence of wealth:
who is known of all men to think
straight and see clearly. In short
these opinions have been formed under
circumstances that afford the very
best guarantee of their soundness
They cannot fail to have great weight.
They are, moreover, ''indu'd with sane
tity of reason" They are character
lied by the sagacity that comprehends
the genuine, that detects the false, that
winnows the grain of fact from the
chaff of sophistry. The sanity. the
logic, the wholesomeness of Mr. Reeds
audiences who listen to him will go
away with a sense of wonderment that
they didn't see it that way before.
Their consciousness will tell them it is
true when once it has been placed be-
fore them in the clear light with which
Mr.. Reeds remarks are always lumin-
Gus. We want those people to hear
him say: corporate cooperation has
been born into the world and united
poor and rich into one chain of destiny
from which there is no separation. If
you strike the mass with the clumsy
scdge hammer of free coinage, rich
and poor alike will be in one red burial
blent."
1t will do them good to be reminded
that If corporations have no souls they
forget that the stockholders have" to
be told What slaves we are to the
memory of things dead and gone.
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Ex-Governor Campbell says if the
Republicans put the sum of $4,000 in
Ohio the last week of the campaign,
they will gain probably 10000 votes by
it, which would seem to indicate the
price the ex-governor has been accus-
toned to pay. Voters do not need such
inducements, however, to vote against
the free silver candidate Their own
self-interests and the welfare of the
country will impel them to do that.
1t is probable that the Bryanites, with
the enormous corruption fund fur
nished by the silver mine owners,
secure the distinctive floats: but the
patriotism of the country may, we be-
lieve, be depended upon to more than
overcome any advantage that may
accrue to the silverites from the cor
rupt use of money.
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The Democrats are welcome to all
the satisfaction they may get from the
fact that in 10 of the As Florida coun-
ties the Republicans cast within 600 of
as many votes as the Republicans and
Populists did together in the entire
state four years ago. In those same
counties the Democratic vote is over
not very good omens for the Popocrats
in the "doubtful'' states.
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Congress might pass a law that one
buffalo skin should be equal to a coon
skin, but if you want to know the ratio
between those skins you would have to
go to the fur merchant, not to the stat
ute books; and so it is precisely with
this matter of the ratio of one dollar to
another. The law can take the COM
mercial ratio or approximately and
hold and maintain the double standard
but it cannot disregard the quotations
in the market for these metals. Elk
President Harrison at Cincinnati.
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ParaIyzes Industry.


we DO not hesitate to affirm that a re-
turn TO bi-metallism by this country is a
measure that is inevitable. whatever may
election. Gold recommendation paralyzes
industry. and we have too great a coun-
try TO have its vast industrial systems
throtticd by a financial policy which uses
only one metal as Il standard. Hanger
Commercial.
Industry must have been fcarfully par
aiSzed from Washington's down to
Hayes administration; there were no
United States silver dollars in circula
ton. and barely fractional silver enough
TO make change and facilitate business.
Government up to 1873 had coined less
than eleven million silver dollars. very
seldom one was seen. hence all of the
prosperous decades of business which the
people enjoyed and in which they pros
without the use of silver -