The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

| NHII OuIhE NOl ED.
If gold standard tends to keep up
wages, why are people working for 25
and so cents Gay in England, Ger
many and Italy?
The free excursions to Canton con-
tinue to draw crowds to the home of
Mckinley. Wonder how many he
would get to come to see him if they
had to pay their own expenses?
| When the silver mines of the Pacific
Coast were in full operation, there was
q ready home market for all the beef,
| mutton, pork, fruit and vegetables pre-
duced in Oregon, Washington and
California. Where is that market now?
Hon. D. P. Thompson in a recent
letter to the Oregonian from Japan
says money is plentiful, business pl os-
porous and times geod in that country.
Japan is one of those dispised, anar-
| chistic governments that is on silver
basis, too.
OF course there is no silver senti-
ment in Massachusetts,, but the dis
patches say 10000 or 10000 people
were out to hear Bryan speak in Bos-
ton yesterday, and when the Associate
Press dispatches confess 10000 were
present it means over 100000.
Chairman Bynum, of the gold-demo-
cratic national committee, gloats over
the hope that Mckinley will carry
New York. Thus it becomes more
evident that the move of the gold
democrats has but one purpose, the
election of Mckinley.
The press reporters for the Oregon
ian seem to have not yet discovered
that there were STEW" Bryan meet
ings being held throughout the state.
Every day the Oregonian becomes
more and more of a party organ, refus-
ing to give the news that does not fit
its political prejudice.
1t is favorable sign perhaps, of
more decent methods, in politics, that
our friends the geldites are enlisting
the service of gentle woman as a cam
paign faction. Of course, also, they
will have less to say hereafter about
Mrs. "Mary Yellin Lease" They are
always consistent you know-like
Mitchell.
Elect Mckinley and you may expect
four more years of uncertainty, four
more years of bond issuing to main
tain the gold standard, four more years
of deficits in the national treasury, for |
it is conceded fact that no legisla-
tion 10 create revenue can pass the
senate that does not provide for the !
free coinage of silver.
A republican exchange says "Bryan
draws as large crowds, or even larger,
in New England than he did in the
West. So far as presidential candi-
dates are concerned, crowds do not
We would like to ask, if this is
the case, why Boss Hanna is running
so many free trains into Canton to get
crowds before Mr.. Mckinley?
''The United States is using thre
times as much silver as any free silver
says republican exchange.
The report of the director of the mint
shows the Uunited States has S62l, ,OOO,-
300 of silver, India S950,000 900 and
China $685., 200. 1t may be held these ,
ire not now free coinage countries,
nevertheless they are on silver basis.
There is statute in Oregon making
& crime to encourage, aid or abet
lots. That statute should be enforced :
gainst the Telegram and Oregonian
or encouraging fire bugs to burn down
he city of Portland. The articles that r
ave appeared in those papers the past +
ew days in reference to the changes >
lade in the fire department are moth :.
ng short of an encouragement to in -
endiaries to apply the torch to the a.
ity. -
Vice-President Hobart, on the re- p
ublicau ticket, is the organizer of a l
pal pool in the East which has sue -
eeded in raising the price of coal to :
onsumers. Profits for the few must
| the nature of things come from the
any. The people who pay the xtra
ice for coal will undoubtedly support
n. Hobart at the polls in November. J
en- seldom persecute their oppressors, |
1t invariably turn against those who
Ould save them.-East Oregonian.
The Rev. DR.. Charles Parkhurst
Tired up hornets nest among his
ew York congregation Sunday by
eaching too much politics from the
lpis. Parkhurst has always been
ted for his indiscretion, as are ALI
lnisters who undertake to connect d
litics and religion. They are two sc q.
ings that do not go together in the pl
lpit. A preacher has as good right sl1 er
discuss politics as any one else, but lei
should go out. of the church to do it. We
says SIT is better to open Sc!
, mills than the mints," bat how ac,
es he propose to find market for sid
, products of the mills with the es, pu
sat producing and consuming he;
sses receiving nothing for the fruits Sis sts
their labor? BY putting a heavier "I
upon them to protect the mills. lot ior
at is he will make their burdens rad
'ater and at the same time reduce mo
ir ability to buy. &c
The
All the gold will be driven from trol
country by the free coinage of sill lon, lon,
)" is an argument we hear on every Sl;l on;l
ID. A gold standard however seems | you
all in keeping either gold or silver able able
he country, so there is little need ny Ss
ear. The Oregonian in one article like
we have besn on gold STANDARD was as
q IS43, and in another says (,
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