The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-09-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The bankers are succeeding pretty
well in their patriotic" effort to main-
tain the credit of the nation and have
succeeded in getting the gold reserve
up to ll4,271,0 900. How long will it
take them TO deplete the reserve after
election day?
II the gold standard is good thing,
why do the republicans, in their
national platform, declare for bime-
| talism by international agreement?
which is an impossibility. Why are
they not honest, and declare for gold
| standard first, last and all the time?
Bryan had an audience of only about
$4,000 to hear him in Kentucky yes
terday, hence the Oregonian did not
see fit to mention his meeting.
Whenever less than $4,000 are out to
hear Bryan, the big daily down at
Portland considers it sort of a
''frost" unworthy of mention.
A republican exchange says there
can never be but one stable money
standard, and that must be gold. In
another paragraph it says it favors
double standard whenever the con-
sent of other nations can be secured.
According to its first proposition, it
favors something that is impossible.
The spectacle of Col. w. P. G.
Breckenridge of Kentucky making the
principal speech in the boilers con-
vention at Indianapolis leads some
people to wonder if Madeline Pollard
wouldn't be satisfied with even 53-cent
dollars in settlement of the Judgment
she holds against the old sinner who
ruined her.
We are continually reminded of the
fact that the enthusiasm in Bryan's
campaign is on the waue: that is the
republican press tells US so editorially,
but the dispatches report gatherings
of from 10000 to 10000 greeting him
wherever he goes. Only last Saturday
he addressed three meetings in St.
Louis, Mo-, at each of which there
were from 10000 to $4,000 people.
A large stook-raising corporation in
Crook county has given its employees
an "object lesson" by reducing their
wages to so cents day, and seeks to
emphacise the lesson by informing
them that if Bryan is elected they will
be paid % cents day. How does this
compare with the "pauper" wages of
Mexico? Only so cents day for toll
ing ten hours in the sun under this
beautiful gold standard of ours.
Since the Maine election the Ore
gonian informs us that Bryan will
carry no states except in the "black
belt" in the south. This rather con-
tradicts the statements of the Detroit
Evening News, which says Michigan,
which, by the way, is long way north
of the 'black belt" will surely go for
Bryan. Lenewee county, the strong
est republican county in the state, it
says, is given up to be solid for Bryan,
as is nearly every other republican
stronghold in that state.
Senator Mitchell is not proving the
"Moses" to lead the laboring vote to
Mckinley that was expected. In his
speech at Independence the other day
he undertook to justify President
Cleveland's calling out of the federal
troops to put down the Pullman strike.
Organized labor generally believes
Mckinley is the candidate of the rail-
road corporations, and when one of
his chosen speakers undertakes to JUS
tify federal interference in cases that
should be settled by state authorities,
it has the tendency to intensity this
belief.
For some unexplainable reason o
large amount of the Klickitat wheat,
which formerly come to The Dalles, is
now being hauled to Grants. Possibly
this is owing to the fact that the road
leading to Grants is better than that
leading to The Dalles and also to the
fact that the state portage has been
taken up, thus interfering with river
traffic. If it were only the wagon road
il could be repaired for 500, but if it
is for want of portage road, there is
no power on earth to overcome that
obstacle. The Lord down at Salem
has ordained it shall be destroyed and
there is no appeal from his decree.