The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

and puts Oregon's in that list That
is about as reliable as its usual utter
ances, and will attract no attention.
The city of London is now called
upon to support II, 500 pauper children.
London is in country that has enjoy
ed gold standard for eighty years,
still we are told gold standard is the
best safeguard against poverty.
The opening of the locks at the Cas-
cades will mark the beginning Of pros
perity in The Dalles. and in fact of all
Eastern Oregon. Therefore let every
patriotic citizen lend his aid to make
the celebration of the event grand
success.
Remember, farmers. that this saw
full good" dollar that we hear about is
the one that measures the price OF
your wheat, oats, fruit, vegetables,
wool, horses, beef and mutton. The
more it buys the fewer dollars you get
for what you have to sell.
1t is indeed unfortunate that the
| farmers could not have unloaded all
their wheat while the price was up a
few days ago, but they will have
abundant opportunity yet to get good
prices, for the visible supply is not
sufficient to meet the demand in Eu-
rope.
The republican press says the free
coinage of silver will benefit the silver
miner. If this is true. which it un
doubtedly is, then the free coinage of
gold is a benefit to the gold miner.
What free coinage does for one it will
do for the other, then why not treat
both alike.
The national democrats" have pub
lished a fiYe-column article in the
Oregonian setting forth their princi-
Piles and endeavoring to show that they
are not endeavoring to aid in the cleo
tion of Mckinley. 1t is space and
time ill-speut, for the intelligent voter
will not be lead astray by such a sub
terfuge.
"Start the mills and the mints will
take care of themselves" says Mr.. Nc
Kinley. Yes, but how long will the
mills run if the consumers and pro-
ducers have no money with which to
buy their output. We say give the
people good prices, and there will
never be good prices so long as money
is scarce and high, and the mills will
start themselves.
The organ of plutocracy at Portland
takes Hon. J. B. Montgomery to task
for deserting the republican nominee
and going off after the "heresy" of
free silver. Mr.. Montgomery justifies
his act by citing the expressions of
James G. Blain in the senate in 1878,
when he pronounced himself as firm
advocate of bimetalism, independent
of all foreign powers.
They say we want the best dollar,
the dollar that will buy the most. Let
the farmer remember that this "hest
dollar" is the one that will buy his
products, and the laborer that it is
dollar that will buy his wage. If 1t is
a.dollar that will buy the most, it is q
dollar that will be paid you for your
products and your labor, hence it is
dollar that will buy the greatest
amount of each.
We are pleased to note that our es-
teemed contemporary has at last found
one old veteran who is farmer and is
supporting Mckinley. 1t was so pleas
ed over the discovery that it devoted
half column of editorial the other
day to boasting oyer what the old
veteran from Klickita5 said about
having been comrade of Major Nc
Kinley. a4z
The Ohio miners have accepted re-
duced rates for extracting coal from
the mines, but the price of coal fixed
by the trust has not fallen. There
must be a hitch somewhere in the
theory that the favored classes want
higher prices so that they can pay
higher wages, or that they want lower
wages in order to reduce the price OF
their products.
Hon. Ben Butterworth of Ohio, who
has tried to escape his record by
coming beyond the Rocky Mountains
to talk for his friend Mckinley, is on
record as late as March 26, 1895, when
in letter to Senator Teller he says in
part. "The gold policy has been pro-
NOTED in the name of an honest dollar,
the descriptive term, "honest" being
used for what has proved to be the
dishonest purpose of fleeing every
producer in the land, until the people,
debt-ridden, tax-ridden, monopoly
ridden aud mortgaged to the lip, are
10 state of rebellion" and yet now,
like our own Mitchell, who used to
think, or say that he thought with |
him, he is engaged in belying himself |
and his record.
Here is another sample of abuse so
with the republican press and,
questioning the honesty of voters who
nave joined together for a common
,ause, that of restoring silver to its
proper place as q money metal. 1t is
rom The Dalles Chronicle: "Fusion
eldom succeeds; it ought not to sue
'scd. 1t is directly contrary to every
principle of honest citizenship" In
this means that there are
10 honest citizens among the silver re
'ublicans, poDulists and democrats of
his state. Is it argument to question
he honesty of men like Judge Seneca
'mith, Judge Dell Stuart. J. B. Mont
'omery, of Portland, and a. J. Brig
lam, M. j. Anderson, w. H. Staats
nd Willard Vanderpool, of Dufur?
.hese men have fused with theothsr
liver forces.
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