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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The senate don't want any tariff
tinkering and the house won't have
free silver. So there you have it, a
deadlock in the great legislative body
of the nation.
One of Oregon's greatest needs is
more employment for laborers and less
employment for politicians. More far
mers, mechanics and day laborers and
fewer Office holders would mean pros
perity.
The democratic party is by no means
short of presidential timber. 1t has
Olney, Morrison, Pattison and Whit
ney, any one of whom would be accept
able to the masses of the people.
The house very promptly sat down
on free silver, defeating the substitute
by an overwhelming majority. While
the senate has sort of silver liring
the house still remains true to sound
money.
If to secure Office is the only object
to be gained in politics, then fusion
with any and all parties is desirable;
ut if we have principle to contend
for, the democratic party cannot afford
to unite with any other at this time.
John Burns, the English labor leader
and socialist. recently coined this epi-
gram anent the Venezuela dispute: "If
England is wrong, fighting won't make
it any better; if England is right, ar
bitration will not make it any worse"
The present congress is making
grand success at doing nothing, and
unless the members begin to get
move on themselves this session will
go down to history as the greatest fail
ure on record. Appropriation bills
are about all that atreceive consideration.
They seem to have the right-of.way.
Ex.Gov. R. E. Pattison, of Pennsyl.
vania. is being urged for the demo-
cratic nomination for president. His
record while governor of the Keystone
state showed him to be well fitted for
an executive officer, and man OF the
people, one in whose hands their
offices are safe.
Senator Sherman cannot be classed
among those Western republicans who
are berating the administration for
not spending more money on unneces-
sary public works Ito give employ
ment to the people," He says Presi-
dent Cleveland would be be justified in |
suspendiny all public works that are
not absolutely necessary. By so doing |
he would stop the deficit and place the
treasury balance on the other side.
Not only unnecessary public works,
but whole lot of unnecessary public
officials could well be suspended, and
the country would get along just as
veil
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
FAIR TRADE a ND THE TRUSTS

Every man who is engaged in legit-
innate trade is endeavoring to supply
the largest possible number of people
with all they can possibly use of the
article in which he deals. Profits thus
acquired are fair profits because they
result from work which has benefited
everybody.
The principle involved is at all times
a touchstone of trade. ALI commerce
that complies with it is fair, useful and
profitable to all who do not forfeit by
incompetency.
AS trade departs from or defies this
principle it becomes unfair, because it
endeavors to take advantage of the
wants and necessities of the largest
possible number of people to extort
from them the largest possible profit
by supplying them the least possible
quantity of what they need and pay
for.
This is exactly what the members of
the.coal combine" are doing. This is
why their undertaking is dishonest
and criminal. This is why every man
of them is damaging the community
and demoralizing trade.
They are conspirators and law
breakers. Why should not the laws
be enforced against the lawless?-N. |
Y. World.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
4 BUSINESS PROPOSITION.

Within less than four months the
people of every county in the state of
Oregon will be called upon to select
their public servants for the coming
two years, and it behoves them to be-
gin exercising their judgment as to
who will best serve them in the differ
ent official capacities. And is there
any reason why business methods and
common sence should not govern them
in making these selections? Why
should honest men, men successful in
business, shrewd merchants and sue
cessful farmers think of placing civic
power in the hands of professional
politicians, who use such power to de-
stroy the credit of the county and state
by incurring needless expenses, and
whose sole regard is for the emolu-
ments of the offices to which they may
be elected? Why should such men be
allowed to manipulate conventions and
name tickets which the voters of the
respective parties are expected to
march to the polls and blindly support,
simply on party grounds, regardless of
fitness, honesty or claims to public
support? Why should not the busi-
ness men of the state take the
management of conventions out of the
hands of professional politicians and
see to it that only honest, capable men
are named for the different offices?
Public affairs can be conducted
on business principles if business
men are elected to all offices, from
constable to governor, but this will
never be if professional politicians
are allowed to name themselves and
their underlings for Office. 1t is now
time that the business men of the state
bestir themselves, and by attending
primary meetings take hand in choos-
ing who shall be named by cOnven-
tions to ask public suffrage in elevat-
ing them to Office. Politicians, who are
in politics for revenue only, have run
the affairs of Oregon long enough.
1t is time that those who pay the .axes
take hand. Let them consider the
choice of officers as plain business
proposition, and the system of or
ganized piracy that has prevailed in
the state in the past will disappear.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
NO DANGER OF COMPETITION.

In recent editorial on the possibil-
ity of competition with Japanese man
ufacturers resulting disastrously to the
American manufacturers the Oregon
ian said: "This consideration is of
special interest when we turn it to-
ward the field of our greatest indus
tries-iron and steel, wool and cotton
manufactures. With ocean freights
to pay each way, and with an
increasing wage scale, japanese COM
petition is scarcely to be considered in
these lines. Considerable attention
has been paid to an order from Japan
ese syndicate of spinners for $4,000
bales of American cotton. But as our
annual crop is between 6,500,000 and
$780, 900 bales the goods made from
this order or from others like it are
more apt to be consumed in Japan than
cross the ocean again in manufactured
form. The great staple raw materials
are our own. Under wise policy we
shall manufacture them ourselves.
We shall be excelled and undersold
for time in ornamental articles and
fabrics. But the gains as time goes
on should be all on our side."
This admission on the part of the
Oregonian is not compatible with the
songs that great daily has been sing
ing in the past. 1t has always held
that the manufactures of America
could not successfully compete with
those of Europe because of the differ
ence of wages in the two countries,
and has ever held that protective
duty in favor of the American manu-
facturer was necessary. Now it sees
no danger of competition with c0un-
try that pays lower wages than any
other in the world except China If
it is true that we need no protection
against the ''pauper' labor of Japan,
how then is it that we need protection
against those European 'paupers"
who command twice the wages of the
JanS2
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
Speaking of the wheat market O

Speaking of the wheat market out
look, the Liverpool Corn Trade News
says that the combined stocks in
Europe and afloat have decreased dur
January 5000, 900 bushels, and still
further decrease is looked for. Europe
is eating up all its stock of wheat, and
is not getting enough to supply its
place. The shortage cannot be made
up until supplies begin to come from
Russia. And If there should be any
chance TO have failure there too, we
should get back to the old prices. The
outlook for wheat, therefore, looks
highly encouraging.
The Portland University has found
it impossible to pay interest on its
bonded debt, and receiver for the
institution is asked for. Educational
institutions like the State university,
Monmouth normal school and others
that haye "pull' and are feeding at
the public crib, are able to raise
teachers salaries and indulging in
other extravagances. No wonder such
institutions object to being choked of
from the public teat.
Baxter, the Portland wife-murderer,
who attempted to commit suicide after
cutting his wife's throat, is being
nursed back to life by the physicians, to
finally be tried by court, convicted Of
murder and hung blythe sheriff. Why
don't the fool doctors let him die with
out heaping up expense on the taxpay-
ers, and forcing the brute to undergo
more suffering?
The Roseburg Plaindealer Is raising
a great howl in opposition to the fusion
of the democrats and populist parties
in Douglas county, evidently fearing
the combine, If effected, would capture
the county offices. Happily, though,
the Plaindealer has not been called
upon to dictate what policies those
parties shall pursue. They have not
burdened it with such responsibility.
The aspirations of Senator Quay
certainly cannot be seriously con-
sidered by the republican party of the
nation. Whatever other sins the re-
publicans may have 70 answer for,
they cannot afford to add to them by
giving this old reprobate the nomina-
tion for the highest Office in the gift OF
the people.
Mrs. Lease has given up politics and
entered the ministry. After wasting
her eloquence for years in an effort to
convert people to populisn, she has
discovered her mistake, and will enter
the field in higher calling. 1t is to
be hoped that she will meet with better
success converting sinners than she
did converting voters.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
MARTIAL LAW IN CUBA.

AS was expected, General Weyler
has issued number of proclamations
declaring himself supreme ruler of
Cuba, and announcing the island under
martial law, threatening the direst
vengeance upon all supporters of the
rebellion, and giving authority to SUBJ
ordinate officers to cause the death
penalty to be inflicted for offenses of
treason, etc. General Weyler is a most
brutal official, and a Cuban patriot
who falls under his displeasure can
expect no mercy at his hands. Nothing
short of death will appease the wrath
of this unjust and barbarous soldier,
and crimes against all laws of civilized
warfare may be looked for under
his rule. With such a tyrant in COM
manduof the Spanish forces in Cuba,
and in the absence of Intervention of
foreign power, to prevent his cruelties
to unfortunate rebels who may fall in
to his power, there is but one course
open to the patriots, that is to assassin
ate Weyler. which will undoubtedly be
the result if he persists in carrying
out the terms of his proclamations.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
The chicago Strike.

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Following the
action of the meeting of the Clothing
GUITARS & Trimmers' Association last
night, 400 or 500 cutters quit work to-
day. The strike will be long and
bitterly contested, and 10000 or $4,000
people are likely to be thrown out of
work.
The issue seems practically whether
the cutters shall work on the piece
system. Cutters. are paid a minimum
salary of s20 week, for the maximum
cutting Of IA suits per day. The manu-
facturers object, saying they are will
ing to pay the minimum salary of $40
but cutters should be unlimited in the
amount of work.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
A REPUBLICAN, HEREST.

The majority of the republicans from
the west say that, during the very
hard times, when democratic politics
have thrown so many people out OF en-
ployment, is the time when the govern
ment should push the government work
authorized, and expend all the money
possible, so that there may be more
work for the people and money kept in
circulation. This has been claimed as
the true policy, and democrats have
been arraigned for not doing this in
the past.-Oregonian's Washington
Correspondent.
Is indeed the democratic party being
arraigned for not having spent money
extravagantly? Do the republicans
desire to make this question an issue
in the coming campaign? viii they
advance as their policy that the "gov-
ernment expend all the money possible.
so that there may be more work for
the people?" If they do, they had as
we'll adopt the free silver policy OF the
populists. join hand and glove with
Coxey in his demand that the govern
ment supply the populace with means
of earning a living. surrender party
identity, and become out-and-out com
munists.
The idea of the government furnish
ing employment to the people sounds
well; it is nice theory, but in prac-
tice it is failure. The people are the
government; it has no smeans of OBJ
tanning money except by imposing
taxes upon the people, then when it
furnishes work for the people it simply
takes money from them to giveit back,
less the cost of collection.
The idea of creating good times by tax
ing one class of people to give work to
another is a heresy that none but hair
Drained communists will accept, for it
results in placing unnecessary burdens
upon the farmers, the actual producers
of the country, to give employment to
a lot of poorly-paid laborers and we'll
paid officials. 1t is heaesy that will
not be accepted by the masses, and if
the republicans adopt it as party
principle, they do so at their peril.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
HO W 1T WORKS.

A practical illustration of how the
endless chain of greenbackism is en-
riching British usury at this country's
expense was unexpectedly developed
the other day in New York. When
the steamer St. Paul ran ashore on the
Jersey coast, says the Portland Tele-
gram, she had in her hold 81, 10000
in gold. This gold was taken out and
returned to the sub-treasury at New
York, where it was found, upon ex-
animation, to be the identical metal that
had been taken out of the same SUBJ
treasury for export short time before.
1t had been sent to Europe and shipped
back again Immediately, bearing all
the costs of freight and insurance and
dangers of shipwreck.
Thus was inadvertently exposed the
game of hide and seek by which the
bond subscribers, foreign and domestic,
have been attempting to cover their
tracks. That gold had been drawn
from the United States treasury and
shipped to London for the osten-
sible purpose of meeting the ordinary
requirements of exchange, but in real
ity it was taken out to precipitate an
other call for loan by this govern
ment and to be returned to the
treasury in payment for its equivalent
in bonds. Ere now it probably has
been restored to the treasury reserve,
but only to be drawn out again via the
greenback route just as soon as the
requisite amount of currency can be
scraped up and presented for re-
demption. The most grevious feature
of this expose is that it shows the new
loan, like all that have preceded it, is
paid ultimately, except an inconsider-
able fraction, with gold Withdrawn
from the treasury itself. 1t also en-
phasizes the fact that so long as the
greenback redemption system makes
the periodical issue of bonds necessary,
just so long will it be impossible for US
to prevent the money-makers of Lon
don from profiting by it. Engishm en-
may, through their financial agents
here, maintain run upon our treasury
If they please, and we cannot put an
end to it so long as the legal tenders
are outstanding.
1t is rather costly price we are pay
ing for the poor privilege of seeing a
clownish congress do nothing.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
Coolest of the Season.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2o.-Chicago is ex-
periencing the coldest weather OF the
season. Since yesterday morning the
thermometer has not risen above zero,
and with bitter north wind blowing,
much suffering has ensued. AT 6
o'clock this morning 8 deg. below
zero was reached, but some ther-
mometers in the suburbs indicated IA
below.
Michael Hughes was frozen to death
on his way to work, and John Bradley
was overcome by the cold and fell into
the river.
Scores OF people compelled to re-
main out of doors have been severely
frost bitten. The cold snap is general
over the Northwest.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
BURGLARY AT HILLSBORO.
Safe at the Depot Blown Open an
Thirty-Eight Dollars Taken.

Safe at the Depot Blown Open and
Thirty-Eight Dollars Taken.
HILLSBoRo. Or, Feb. 20-The de-
pot of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, located in the southern por-
tion of town, was entered this morn
ing about 2 o'clock, the safe blown
open and it's contents. S3S, taken.
Twenty-Five dollars was in gold and the
rest in silver. Entrance to the wait
ing-room of the depot was effected by
breaking the glass, then unlocking the
catch, after which the window was
easily raised. Once in the waiting
room, the bolt of the night-latch on
the Office door was broken by prying
the door open with a chisel. A hole
was drilled in the safe door and filled
with explosives. In the safe were a
gold watch and. pin, aud other val
uables that were left untouched.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
BOLD BANK ROBBERY.
The Cashier and ook-Keeper Shut In the
Vault.

The Cashier and Book-Keeper Shut In the
Vault.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. lS.-Three
masked men entered the Market-street
bank, small institution in the
Spreckles building, shortly after 10
o'clock this morning and ordered
cashier Hopkins and book-keeper Hay
hurst to throw up their hands Hop
kins, who was at the counter, refused,
and one robber fired bullet past his
head, but which struck neither official.
The three robbers then climbed
through hole in the wire screen at
the cashiers window and seized the
two bank officials and hustled them
into the vault. A piece of carpet
caught in the door of the vault, and
the robbers did not take time to fasten
the vault door. Hastily dumping the
pile of gold on the cashiers counter
into the sack they ESCAPED.
Although Market street was crowded
with passing people the robbers made
good their escape. 1t is supposed they
secured only $500.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
THE DEADLY DYNAMITE.
Great Loss ofLife and Destruction of Prop
Rrtv.

Great Loss ofLife and Destruction of Prop
erty.
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19.-An explo-
sion of dynamite has occurred at Wen
dendorp, and the poor quarter of the
town has been blown to pieces. Hun
dreds of houses are in ruin, and the
havoc wrought is fearful. A number
of persons have been killed and the
populace has turned out en- masse, and
is working to rescue those who may
be buried in the ruins The windows
of every house in johannesburg were
broken by the explosion.
The dynamite that caused the catas-
trophe filled eight trucks, which were
being shunted. The explosion caused
an immense hole 80 feet deep. Every
house within radius of half mile
of the explosion was razed to the
ground. Forty dead, nearly all of
them terribly mutilated, have already
been taken from the ruirs, but the
work of searching the debris has
scarcely begun. Two hundred of the
most severely injured were admitted
to the hospital, where several died. 1t
is believed only few white persons
were killed.
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Barely Escaped Burial Alive.

FORSYTH, Ca, Feb. 19.-Mrs. jeff
Mapp, middle.aged woman living
several miles north OF here, has been
very ill, and day before yesterday
afternoon she was supposed to have
expired. To all appearances life was
entirely extinct and the body was pre-
pared for burial. While being placed
in the casket the body was seen to
move. In another instant those
around Mrs. Mapp were startled to see
her open her eyes. The casket was
hastily carried from the room and a
physician summoned. Mrs. Mapp,
though very i'll, is still alive and there
are indications of her recovery.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
Will Not Interfere,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The presi-
dent has refused a pardon in the case
of F. M. Ohalston, sentenced in Ore
gon to ten years at hard labor, for for
gerry. The president, in his indorse-
ment, says: 81 am decidedly in favor of
the strict punishment of persons guilty
of crimes for whi b this prisoner IL
now suffering imprisonment. An Of
fense involving forgery, swindling the
poor and needy veteran soldiers, and
the prostitution of the benevolent con-
ditions of the government, as en-
bodied in the slightest degree move
me to clemency.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22

heavens was only 100000 miles
away from the earth yesterday and is
now coming toward the earth at the
rate of 100000 miles a day. Profes-
sor Lenschner says there is no cause
for alarm. He has figured it out that
the comet will take a new tack on
March l and sheer off from the earth.
The calculations made at the state uni
versity are the official figures.
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No Clew TO the Thieves.

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 19.-The DO
lice have no clew to the identity of the
masked trio who robbed the Market
street bank of $1,000 yesterday. The
detectives working on the case insist
on the genuineness of the robbery, but
have small hope of capturing the
thieves, although the bank officials
have furnished descriptions of the
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
KILLED His Partner.


GREAT FALLS, Mont, Feb. 19.-Re-
ports have reached here of a fatal
shooting in Cherry county, fifty miles
north of this place. Mike Clancy
went to Fort Benton and told that he
had shot and killed T. J. flanagan,
his partner -iu the sheep business.
Clancy claimed that flanagan shot at
him with a rifle and missed, where
upon he CLANCY seized shotgun and
fired, the charge entering his oppo-
nent's breast and causing almost in
stant death. The coroner's jury re-
turned verdict that the deceased
came to his death by a gunshot wound
at the hands of Clancy.
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Berrine's Comet.

OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 20.-Professor
Lenschner, of the state university, has
just completed his calculation of the
orbit of the new comet discovered
by Berrine, of the Lick observatory,
a few days ago. The stranger in the
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22
Lost on the Ice.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 20.-The re-
port is current that ten or twelve men
we're lost on the ice outside the har'
bor during last nights storm. They
went out yesterday afternoon to fish
through the ice, and were blinded by
the squall that arose afterwards. 1t is
possible they have landed somewhere
along the shore.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-02-22

Ordinarily it has not been the
policy of the government to allow
internal improvements once be-
gun or completed to suffer for want of
appropriations with which to prosecute
work or keep them in repair, hence
there is little need of uneasiness about
what action congress will take in refer
ence to appropriating more money
with which to perfect the canal and
locks at the Cascades. But it is often
difficult to get appropriations for the
of new works, there
fore the energy of all is required in an
effort to get an appropriation for the
boat-railway project.
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rhex Max FIeht on a Barge.

GALVESTON, Tex, Feb bs19.-A rumor
is current here this morning that
Maher and Fitzsimmons will leave
Ell Paso tonight and arrive in Calves
ton Friday afternoon. They will take
a steam tug with barge attached, go
three or four miles into the Gulf of
Mexico and fight for the champion
ship before kintoscope and few
witnesses. It is said the kintoscope
people are willing to pay the purse and
all expenses, and Stuart will do any,
thing that will let him out of the deal.