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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
A TRUST MAY DO GOOD.

Since sentiment in favor of abrogat-
ing the treaty with Hawaii admitting
raw sugar free has become so strong,
the sugar trust has turned its atten-
tion toward annexation as the next
best means for advancing their inter-
ests, and if their plans work out sue
cessfully, it can be said that trust for
once has been Of some benefit to the
country. Hawaii should belong to the
United States; it's interests are iden-
tical with ours, and in case of war with
any Asiatic power it would become a
necessity almost to this government,
therefore if it can be acquired peace
ably and on advantae eous terms, an
nexation is to be desired.
The form of a treaty for annexation
has been prepared, and it is stated on
good auuaer;.r Rat it meets the ap-
proval of President Mckinley and
Secretary Sherman. though it is not
probable any definite action will be
taken until the tariff has been dis
posed of, as the president does not
favor complicating the tariff situation
by the introduction of any foreign
questions.
The treaty is on the general lines of
the treaty negotiated during the ad-
ministration of President Harrison,
and withdrawn by Cleveland. 1t pro-
yides for annexation without exacting
conditions on the part of Hawaii as to
the form Of government to be vouch-
safed to Hawaii. leaving that question
to be disposed OF by the government of
the United States.
The United States will agree to as
sumo the debt of the present Hawaiian
government. but will come into pos
session of all the Hawaiian crown
lands and other possessions.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
PETTY PROSECUTIONS.

1t is frailty of human nature thai
when man has supposed grievance
against peighbor he will rush into
court with complaint, have hi:
neighbor arrested on criminal charge
and prosecuted. And this frailty is G
source of unnecessary expense to tax
payers and annoyance to the one pros
ecuted. Criminal courts are main
tanned to enforce the law, and thereby
prevent crime, but not for the purpose
of settling disputes between individ'
uals or to persecute individuals who
unfortunately incur the displeasure OF
some revengeful person.
Too often people who imagine they
have been wronged, or perhaps haye
received deserved drubbing, seek re-
course by having their adversary ar
rested and prosecuted at the expense
of the state. and when the case is in
vestigated it is found no crime has
been committed. Nevertheless the ex-
pense of such malicious prosecution
must be born by the taxpayers, and
no possible good results therefrom.
This could be averted generally if
committing magistrates would require
bond for costs of every complaining
witness who asks for the commence
ment of a criminal action. Possibly
the enforcement of such rule would
in some instances work hardship
upon the complaining witness, and oc-
casionally prevent really guilty persons
from being brought to justice: but it
would at the same time result in only
meritorious cases being brought into
court. Very few would commence q
frivalous criminal actions if it were
known that the complaining witness
would be required to pay the costs in
case the prosecution were shown to be
malicious or without foundation. And,
too, it would be an unfrequent occur
renee where complaining witness
who has really meritorious case
would be unable to furnish bonds, for
whenever a crime has been committed
there are always those who are ready
to see that the law is enforced, so few
guilty parties would escape, and tax
payers would be saved great expense
that Is now thrust upon them by the
indiscriminate issuance of warrants in
petty cases.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
WHO ARE THESE NABOBS? Z?

The Portland Telegram, comment
ing upon the acts Of what it calls the
"honest democrats of Oregon" IA hand
full of corporation attorneys) who gol
together in Portland last week and
refused to have anything to do with
the regular democracy, says it is ''grat
flying that the spirit of mo comprom.
ise' seems to be general in tho sound
money ranks" and that this absence OF
q compromise spirit from the better
elements of both parties is good
thing for the country." hen speaking
of the regular democracy Of the state
it calls them opportunists and bush
whackers. whom the "honest demo-
Gratis" refuses to follow or affiliate
with.
Now, who tre these honorable gen.
tlemen, these nobabs and dignitaries,
who are too Immediately pure to as.
sociate with the common herd? So
far as known they are Bent Killen, G.
e. 5. Wood, Zera Snow, Thomas G..
Green. G. B. Williams, Daniel r.
Murphy. Richard Nixon, rhos. Black,
and a few other fortunate ones,
on whom fortune has smiled, or gold
standard administration has favored
with federal offices. They are prinei-
pally men who live off the misfortunes
of others, whose business thrives when
the common herd is being oppressed,
or who have lived on stated salaries
for so long that they do not realize the
hardships of the producers whose prop
erty has steadily diminished under the
workings of the gold standard.
And who are the bush-whackers, the
disreputable characters with whom
these fine gentlemen refuse to form an
alliance? They are the farmers, the
laborers, the ordinary business men.
those Who produce the wealth of the
country.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
THE MEN WHO MADE OREGON

Were it not for the annual reunions
of the Oregon Pioneers, we of today
would almost forget those to whom we
owe at least a debt of gratitude, the
men and women, who fifty years ago.
blazed the trail across the then Ameri-
can desert, and forged out into the
wilderness of the sunset land, paving
the way for civilization, wrestling from
savages territory rich in the bounties
| of nature, where cities have been built,
homes erected, aud where happy CON-
| munities now exist.
In these times trip across the con-
| tinent is but picnic excursion COM
pared with the journey of fifty years
ago. Now the immigrant coming from
the Atlantic coast to Oregon has only
to enter car at any city in the East
and need not leave it until be is land
ed at city on this coast. The trip is
made in as many days as it required
months fifty years ago.
These conI eniences we owe to the
sturdy pioneers of half century ago,
and what grand and courageous men
and women they were. The immigrant
when he crossed the Mississippi bid
farewell to home, friends and civili-
zation. Behind he left all that per-
tained to luxuries and comfort: ahead,
toward the setting sun, were hardship,
| deprivation, savages, a land unex-
plored. To embark on such a journey
required more than ordinary fortitude
and bravery; it required men and
women who were possessed of mental
and physical strength and determine
tion, but of such were those who
made Oregon, and from them have
sprung a race of hardy frontiersmen, a
race of men and women who have
built upon the foundations laid by
their ancestors.
But to return to the pioneers, those
who have brayed the perils of six
months journey across the plains,
making roads across unknown hills
and valleys, who brought civilization
to the Pacific coast. Though their
ranks are thinned, and but few of the
silyer-haired pioneers remain, still
their memory is dear to those of US
who enjoy the comforts that have
grown out of the hardships they en-
dured. They were men and women of
whom any state might well be proud:
they were patriotic, courageous, en-
ergetic; they were Gods choicest pro-
duction, and when year after year the
remnant that remains assemble to
talk over the trials of early days and
refresh past acquaintances, every
Oregonian that teels pride in the
state does honor to the pioneers.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
THE SUGAR TRUST.

Pine only real issue in the debate
Upon the sugar schedule. now in pro-
gress in the senate, is how much
special protection the sugar trust
should receive; that is, how much duty
should be put upon refined sugar. in
addition to that upon raw sugar. The
business of the trust is to buy raw
sugar, make il into refined sugar, and
sell it to consumers. Only about one
seventh of the raw sugar it buys is
produced in this country. There being
no domestic competition to sell, the
amount of ali duty on raw sugar is ad-
ded to the price paid by the trust.
Then, of course, the trust adds it to the
price of refined sugar to consumers.
$50 the trust neither gains nor loses by
the duty on raw sugar, provided there
is duty on refined sugar, exactly
balancing that on raw, SO That import.
ers of the latter cannot undersell the
trust.
If there is duty on refined sugar,
higher than is necessary to balance
the duty on raw sugar, it is pure
bounty to the trust. There being no
domestic competition to keep down
price, the trust adds the whole duty on
refined sugar to the price and pockets
the difference between it and the duty
on raw it has paid on imports. This is
what is called the sstrust differential. -
It has always existed, having been in
herited from the time when there was
domestic competition among different
refineries.t to keep down the price. But
it has been diminished steadily with
every tariff law, as it ought, as the re-
fining industry has been progressively
organized into a trust, thus steadily
reducing cost of production and in
creasing its own profits. Under the
Mckinley law, the differential was !
cent per pound; fun der the Wilson law
/ cent; the Dingley bill made it 1-5
cent; the senate bill cent, and the
senate amendment makes it about 3-5
cent.
Now the trust, having organized the
business of refining so as to reduce the
cost of production to q minimum, has
made enormous profits under all these
duties. 1t is believed that it would
make large profits without any differ.
ential at all. being protected against
its most formidable competitors by the
special duty on bounty-nade beet
sugar, which is provided by all laws in
addition to the duties specified above.
This is the ground of opposition to
both the house and senate schedules.
They give the trust double the
protection of the Wilson bin. and
more even than the Mckinley law.
The Dingley differential, which is
the lowest ever proposed, is still too
high. There should be no differen-
tial at all, because the sugar trust
needs no protection.-Oregonian.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
THE PAST is FORGOTTEN.

President Mckinley and party were
received in Nashville the other day by
a soadron of ex-Confederates in
uniform and escorted from the train to
their hotel, so we are informed by the
dispatches.
What better evidence than this
could be required to prove that the
South has forgotten the past, and that
the people who composed the Confeder
ate states are today as loyal citizens as
those who fought for the Union dur
ing the unpleasantness thirty years
ogo? t.s'rs.
We haYe president who was a Union
soldier during the war, who was OPP
posed to every principle advocated
then by the Confederates, who was not
endorsed by the people of the South
for the presidency, yet who. on visit
to the South is received by the old
soldiers of the "Lost Cause" and by
tnem is shown every courtesy and
honor due the high station which he
occupies.
The troubles of 1850 have been for
gotten in the states south of the Mason
and Dixon line; secession has long
since been buried in blood, and the
stings and sorrows OF rebellion would
seldom be referred to were it not for
such as Senator Ingals, General Alli-
son and few of the ilk who wave the
"bloody shirt" for partisan reasons.
The people of the South are will
ing to let by-gones De recorded in
history, and are today as loyal to the
Union as the citizens of any Of the
Northern states. They are true
Americans, eyer ready to show their
loyalty by such demonstrations as that
at Nashville when called upon to do
honor to the president.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE

In one of the speeches delivered by
President Mckinley while on his re-
cent Southern trip. he said:
Business activity will return, con-
fidence will come back, courage will
take the place of fear, work will be re-
sumed, and prosperity will come to
bless and benefit US all.
"Our policy seeks to give situation
to every man in this country who
wants work.
"What we want to do is to start the
idle mills, start the factories and open
the markets which have been closed.
This we can do by restoring the coniid-
ence which has been lost 81
"Start the factories and put Ameri-
can machinery in motion. Plenty and
prosperity will return to us again"
This is fine sentiment, and would no
doubt create general prosperity if it
could be accomplished by the policy
which the president and his party will
adopt. If we could start all the mills
and give all the idle employment.
there is no question but good times
would be universal; but will an increase
of tariff duties accomplish all this?
1t is indeed doubtful. The mills and
factories have now more goods on
hand than the people are able to buy.
Warehouses are filled with products
for which there are no purchasers, and
until there is an increased purchasing
power among the masses it would be
useless to manufacture more.
There is no question but the presi-
dent is honest in his judgment regard
ing the policy to be pursued in bring
ing about better times, but in his
theories he has got the cart before the
horse. His idea is to first make the
wrong man prosperous. He would be-
stow favors upon the manufacturer
without first putting means within
f~.ch of the buyer to purchase the
manufacturer pr oduct But if we
would have general prosperity we must
first help the producer of raw mater
ials who is the greatest consumer and
wealth Garner of the land. We must
raise the price of wheat, butter, eggs,
wool, meats, lumber and mine pro-
ducts, SO that the producers nay real
ize more for their labor. When this
is accomplished there will be demand
for the output of the mills and they will
start without the fostering care of the
government. This can only be done
by increasing the volume of circulat-
ing medium to an extent that money
will be less valuable for boarding than
investment. Throw open our mines
and mints, and the dream of the
president, when the wheels of the
factories will again be in motion, will
be realized. But this will never come
from taxing the people more on every
thing they consume and reducing,
through the scarcity of money. the
price of everything they have to sell.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
BAD FIRE AT NEW YORK.
Government Immigrant Station on Ellis
| Island Destroyed.

Government Immigrant station on Elis
Island Destroyed.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Fire this
morning destroyed the immigrant
landing station that covered almost
all of Ellis island, causing a property
loss of about $7S0,000 to the United
States. All of the government records
and the baggage of immigrants was
burned. Two hundred and fifty i'm
migrants were rescued from the struc-
lures and brought safely to this city.
Not one of them received a burn.
There were 40 patients in the wooden
hospital building in the rear of the
main structure, who were carried out
just before the hospital took fire.
The cause of the fire is as yet a mys-
terry. 1t started in the east end of the
main structure, which was more than
1000 feet long and five stories high.
The first floor of this building was
given up to baggage, while the eastern
end of the second story was used for
offices. The third story was used as
reviewing gallery. The middle and
southern portions of the first two
Stories were used for landing bureaus
and detention rooms. 1t was in this
part of the buildings that most of the
were sleeping last night.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
TammnnY,s Celebration.

New YORK. June 15.-The invita-.
tions to speakers for the fouth day
of July celebration of Tammany
Society have been issued. On the
list are John NJ. Palmer, General
Simon B. Buckner, W. D. Bynum, w.
C. Whitney and other leaders of the
bolt against the Chicago platform.
WI Bryan is also invited.
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to pay them. But legislative bodies
generally are SO liberal with the money
wrung from the people in taxes that
instead of cutting down salaries too
often raise them, despite the fact that
profits in all branches of business are
diminishing, hence it is that such ad-
vice as that given by Governor Hast
ings should be followed more closely.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
A Tariff on immigration

WASHINGTON, June Is Senator
Tillman today gave notice of an amend
ment he will offer to the tariff bill
providing for head tax of 500 on all
immigrants to the United States. The
amendment makes it misdemeanor
punishable by fine and Imprisonment
for any person to enter the United
States for the purpose or engaging in
trade or manual labor without fntend-
ing to become a citizen. These pro-
visions are modified by proylso to
the effect that they shall only remain
in effect until silver shall be admitted
to our mints for coinage at the rate of
16 to ! on the same conditions with
gold
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
PeriIs OF alaska.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, June H.
Interesting news was brought by the
steamer Alki, which arrived this morn
ing from Alaska.
Three days before the Alki sailed
from juneau the steamer Bertha ar
rived from Cooks inlet, bringing news
of the recovery Ct the bodies of Bot
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19

Bimetalists in Europe have made
great advance in the past few years, so
far as talk goes, having shown re-
newed interest in the subject of action
which will bring about an increased
Use of silver, but the money loaners sit
back complacently, satisfied that they
have such firm grasp upon the pow
ers that be, that no change in the
monetary systems of Europe is possible
without their consent, and this will
never be granted until it is forced by
the United States opening her mints
to silver.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
aARD FOR Los EXTRA WIVES,
After July Indians Will BE Allow ed but
One SQuaW Each

PERRY, o. T., June l5.-The Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indians were
wrought up over the new law which goes
into effect July /, relating to polygamy.
After that time each of the 40 Chey-
enre Indians who have more than one
wife will have to choose one of the
two, three or five wives that he has,
and the cast-off wives must leaYe him.
To the squaws who have become en-
lighteued as TO their situation, the
matter has become tragic. Every
squaw who wants to remain with her
husband is doing her best to please
him, so that she will be the lucky wife.
There are 40 of these polygamists, and
in all they have over 100 squaws.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
Lindsay.s Amendment Defeated.

WASHINGTON, June l5.-Lindsay' 's
amendment to reduce the sugar differ
rental was defeated in the senate to-
day by vote of 30 to 80.
Tho antitrust amendment to the
tariff bill offered by Senator Pettigrew,
was taken up by the senate shortly
after 2 o'clock. Pettus took a decided
stand against the Pettigrew amend
ment, and urged that the senate should
not disturb the Industries OF the
country by hasty and inconsiderate
oofion
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
The oldest odd Fellow Dead

BALTIMORE. June 15.-Henry L.
Buchier, the oldest Odd Fellow in the
world, is dead. He was a pioneer
member of William Tell lodge, and
associated with John Wilder, the
fornder of the order. of which he was
a member for Ga years.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19

Next Monday the people Of The
Dalles will be called upon to elect q
mayor and one councilman for each OF
the three wards. With the city in its
present financial condition 1t is all
important that conservative business
men be elected to Office, so that
the present economical methods
of conducting the city government
may be continued. The Dalles is too
deeply involved to now indulge in any
extravagances, but with careful man
agement taxes can be kept down to a
reasonable limit, and with q council
composed of such men as are now In
office, we need have no fears OF an
exGravagant administration.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
Cured Fruit Rates Agreed to,

WASHINGTON, June 16.-The senate
today agreed to the rates on agricul-
tural products as fixed by the republi-
can members of the finance committee.
The rates on fish were adopted. The
senate also agreed to the committee
rates as follows: Figs, plums, prunes,
prunelles, 2 cents per pound; raisens
and other dried grapes, 81 cents; dates,
cent; zante and other currants, 2
cents; olives, 25 cents per gallon;
olives in casks, l5 cents per gallon.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19

LONDON, June ia heavy gale &C.
companied by torrents of rain, is pre-
vailing in the Irish sea. Admiral
Nelson's old flagship Foudroyant,
which has been on exhibition at Black
pool, has been driven ashore and it will
become wreck.
A lifeboat saved the crew OF the
steamer Susannah Kelly. which foun-
dered in Belfasts Tough, but 10 passen-
gers were drowned. Many fishing and
pleasureboats have been lost. Dis
patches from different points show that
the storm is spreading inland in a
southerly direction.
The coasts are strewn with wreckage.
Fears are entertained that the storm
will reach London and damage the
decorations already put in place for
the iuhilee
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.
A Wealthy Tennessoean Terribly Beaten
Near ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, June &c. D. Collins.
wealthy Tennesseean.wasl lured to his
probable death Tuesday night By a
man he had known since boyhood.
His assailant is Martin Ensley. of
Memphis, whose father, Colonel Ems
ley, was one of the most prominent
owners and planters of the South.
Ensley induced his companion to
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dozen or more "heirs' who have laid
claim to the estate of Barnato, the
South African millionaire who recently
suicided while crossing the Atlantic
ocean. Men and women who probably
never before heard Of the dead specu-
lator, now claim to be his direct des-
cendants and children born of his for
mer wives. If their stories are true
Barnato was indeed d muchly married
man,
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out of bed if his breakfast doesn't taste
good il he feels utterly incapable of work.
it is pretty sure sign that his digestion q
put of order-that his principal trouble Is
constipation. If he lets this condition run
on, there is no telling where il will stop.
Nine tenths of all human sickness comes
from constipation. The first thing that
every doctor asks when he Is called to see a
patient is whether the bowels are IN good
order. II is nonsense to call doctor for
such simple thing. 1t is nonsense to let
such simple thing grow into such serious
thing, as It always does if neglected. DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure Constipation.
They not only afford immediate and pleas.
ant relief from all the distressing syfnp
toms, but they cure permanently and posi-,
lively. There are 10, 600 medicines that can
be taken, to give temporary relief The
y Pleasant Pellet5 " are the only things that
really cure.
There are plenty Of druggists who will
try TO sell you something else You know
Just as we'll as we do that an honest
druggist wouldn't do such a thing -
that an honest druggist would give you
what you ask for. You know that when a
druggist insists on giving you something
else, there must be a reason for It We
know what that reason is-he makes big
ger profit on the other thing. Any drug
gist in America will supply the Pellets
If you iHsiSf on it.