The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Ex-Congressman William H. Eng
lish, who was candidate for vice-presi-
dent on the democratic ticket in 1880,
died at Indianapolis yesterday.
The price OF wheat is really en-
couraging for better times in the near
future. Farmers are in good humor.
The prosperity of the country depends
upon agriculture. Isn't it about time
to quit growing.
The dead-locks that occur in differ
ent leglsla lures over the election of
United States senators ought to serve
as an incentive toward fastening the
submission of constitutional amend
ment providing for the election of sena-
tors by direct vote.
Sullivan. Illinois, has been dis
graced by the lynching of murderer.
Now it may be that the howl which the
Chicago papers have been sending up
tabout the too frequent lynching
south of the Mason and Dixon line
will be turned toward the citizens of
their own state.
The loss in wages to those engaged
in strikes in Connecticut last year, as
estimated by the state bureau of labor
statistics, was 1929, 400 The loss to
employers was 1872, 800, less that one,
tenth of the amount lost by the wage
cal ners. And still some will argue
that strikes benefit the laborers.
Mrs. Fred Schwatka, widow of the
Arctic explorer, who died from injuries
received by fall while in drunken
condition, has been granted special
pension of $50 a month by congress.
It seems to US that all the pension
money we can spare at present belongs
| to the old veterans and their families.
l-Roseburg Review.
Civil engineering has no doubt
been reduced to very fine science, in
fact too fine for practical purposes in
some instances. For nearly twenty
years the rock wall on the north side of
the canal at the Cascades has been con-
sidered impregnable. but now gov
ernment engineer has discovered that
it Is liable to crumble down in case
water is turned into the canal. He is
probably little more scientific than
his predecessors
The Salem wing Of the old Portland |
ring seeks TO throw dust in the eyes of |
the people. But the people are going !
right ahead with their work. They
accomplished a partial victory over
the old machine in the last legislature.
The nexs legislature can make clean
up OF the job.-Capital Journal. Was
the victory the appropriation bills
that made 4.8 mills tax necessary?
If it was God deliver US from the clean
up next January.
The papers which are asserting that
the financial question will not be a
factor in the coming national election
certainly are not close observers of the
farce that is going on in congress at
present. Silver may not be the lead
ing issue, but the question OF taking
the government out of the banking
business, the retirement Of its credit
currency, and placing the finances of
the country on more business like
basis will be an issue tn at none of the
nartiaa can dodua
If an individual spends more than he
earns, his credit is not likely to be
good in the community where he re-
sides. 1t is just so with the United
States. 1t is living beyond its income.
1t is paying entirely too much for
everything it gets, especially for Off
cial service from president to the poor
est paid officer. What is needed to re-
store the credit OF the government is
to cut down expenses, and not to in
crease taxation as some of our pro-
tectionist friends insist upon.
Senator Cogswell says that while in
more than a year ago he
discovered that the democratic party
must disintegrate or adopt free-silver =.
policy, and for that reason he determ-
med to leave the party. Then why
lid he not have common decency
enough to withdraw from the party at
hat time instead of undertaking to :
'emaih in touch with the party and S
lictate to the federal appointments in T
ibis state? +
We complain about the money that 8
8 sent abroad for foreign goods and 8
hat that is expended by. American n
travelling in Europe, but
here is not much complaint heard
bout the traffic in foreign husbands n
ndulged in by American heiresses, II
which the Chicago News Alminac es- o.
imates to have cost this country $780, W
1000 in the past twenty-five years, r
n doweries lavished upon American A
iris who have married titled foreign m
rs. 1t is about time some student of
economies were devising a plan to stop
his traffic, or at least to offer pro-
sction to the American youths who te
re in the market fer heiresses. M
Weyler, Spain's new general over I'll
ne Spanish forces in Cuba, has started ae
/ to suppress the rebellion, but before
9 has proceeded much further he will
iscoyer that battling against freedom
not what it seems to be. The patri- -
Is of Cuba are class Weyler has -
ever before met. They have princi - -
e at stake that to them is as dear as
fe itself, and will never lay down their :.
ms until Cuba is an independent
Spain's only hope of
ccess is to exterminate the Cuban
'triots. ICa