The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-10
paying foreigners interest on what we
foolishly borrowed from them in times

paying foreigners interest on what we
foolishly borrowed from them in times
past.
One paper objects to the annexation
of Hawaii because the islands are not
Americanlzed. But they are not in
habited by hostile savages as was most
of the territory we have annexed here
tofore. The Americanizing process
will be comparatively easy in Hawaii.
Weyler continues to heap indigni-
ties upon defenseless women and chill
dren, insrlt American citizens in Cuba
and murder pacifcos, but the adminia-
tration at Washington does not call q
halt. What has become of our boasted
justice to all men and our affection for
the down trodden?
Democratic snators are not obstruct-
ing the tariff bill, but on the contrary,
many of them are endeavoring to hurry
up the passage of the republican ex-
pertinent. This is right, for it is desir-
able that we have an object lesson of
high tariff as soon as possible so that
the people can learn just what has hit
them, and prepare to overcome the
conclusion at the next general elec-
tion.
Ex.Gov. Wait, of Colorado, who was
an advocate of woman suffrage, has
gone back on the fair sex. He says:
'To offset the votes of the intelligent
women are the votes of the ignorant
women, and hence it's all the same.
Not one single solitary good has come
from womau's votes in Colorado. Three
of them were elected to the legislature
and they were worse than the men,"
Little is heard now regarding the
Greco-Turkish troubles, the war with
bullets having settled down to war
about money, consequently the head
quarters have been removed from Crete
to the offices of the European money
changers. Instead of being q question
of territory that is in dispute, now it is
a question OF how much indemnity will
be allowed and how much the brokers
can make out of it.
A woman's character is likened unto
postage stamps. One black mark will
ruin it. Man is like a treasury note;
no matter how many stains it has IL
will pass at par. When a woman falls
from grace her character is ruined for
ever. On the other hand, a man may
straighten up and be received in the
best society again. All of which is too
true-but being true does not make it
right.
These seal fisheries in Alaska may
yet involve the United States and
Great Britain in serious trouble, since
President Mckinley seems determined
that England shall live up to the agree
ment of the Paris conference. The
president is to be commended for the
stand he has taken in this matter, and
if trouble results it will cause no dis
sension among Americans for England
has bulleyed long enough, and it is
time she was taught that agreements
must be lived up to.
The Dingley increase in protective
taxation on cigars is placed at S150,000
a year, while on wrappers, the raw
material for cigars, it is about eight
times as much. This is not result of
'protectionist principles. 1t is done,
says the New York World, because the
people who want the raw material of
the country's great tobacco manu-
interest thus taxed say that
unless they get their full share of
spoils the republican party will not be
to keep the vote of Connecti-
cut.
AD evidence of the activity of the
Germans in all commercial undertake
ings is furnished by some Swiss stat
istics recently published. In 1856 there
were AIT foreign commercial trav-
elers in Switzerland, and of these 1852.
or not far from three-fourths, were
Germans. OF French there were 1851;
Italians, 235; Austrian, 129; and Eng
lish, so. Not an American appears in
the list, and we suspect that if similar
records were kept in other foreign
the showing would be about
the same. It is wonder that the
United States has so large an export
Of manufactured goods, when so little
effort is made.