The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

I the WOOL at present.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Durrant has been photographed
with view to selling the pictures.
Photos taken about three minutes
after the drop would take the best of
any.
A few days ago cloudburst in Pen
nsylvania destroyed several thousand
| dollars worth of Mark Hanna's prop
erty. Is this q forecast of tie deluge
! that will strike Mark Hanna later on?
Andree can add to the sensational
features of his polar balloon flight by
landing in the new Alaska gold mines.
That would fill the air with balloons
starting from every point of the COM
! pass.
"The new sugar schedule, as amend
ed by the conference, offers distinct
| encouragement to the beet sugar in
dustry," remarks the Globe Democrat.
1t might well have added to the sugar
trust industry.
Undoubtedly the Clondyke gold
fields are great, but tits we'll to remem-
ber that the tales of the successful
ones are now being told, and that there
are the tales of the disappointed and
the broken down yet to be heard.
I When Speaker Reed appointed the
committees for the 55 congress last
Saturday he gave Oregon two places.
Congressman Ellis was assigned to the
committee on public lands and Con-
gresham Tongue to a place on the
agricultural committee.
The Ding ley bill is an attempt to
force up the cost of living in the
United States in the expectation that
it will be easier to get dear living
than cheap one. If the theory works
Mr.. Dingley will be entitled to insert
himself in American history as
greater inventor than Keelev.
A year ago the republican party
promised the country an honest dollar
aud a protective tariff. 1t has given
us protective tariff with vengence.
the highest ever enacted in America,
but as to the honest dollar, it has not
yet relieved US Of the dollar that has
the faculty of being awful scarce and
dear.
No doubt some of the coal magnates
now wish they had Eugene v. Debbs
again behind prison bars, for he is
making his power among the laboring
classes more felt than ever before.
Debbs failed in attempting to engineer
the great railroad strike but he will
win the coal miners strike beyond
doubt.
: President Mckinley has named as his
controller of currency Robert B. Traces
we'll, of Indiana. This is ole Of the
most important offices in the United
States, since the entire national bank
ing system is under the supervision of
a controller, and it is certainly to be
hoped Mr.. Tracewell will prove more
efficient than did Mr.. Eckels.
Alaska is almost as large in area as
the entire United States east of the
Mississippi. 1t is rich in mineral
wealth. and has already yielded many
times its cost in the precious and |
other metals. Every year its valne to
the United States is Increasing, and |
yet 1t is entirely isolated from the rest |
of our territory-just as Cuba would |
be were we to acquire it.
The president refuses to give up |
Notwithstanding the senate |
refused to confirm his appointment to
be commissioner-gen Of immigra-
tion, and has reappointed him for that
position. Whatever else that may be
said against President Mckinley, it
must be conceded that he is true to his
friends as is shown by his persistency
in forcing Powderly upon the people.
/. The members of the Woman's Veg
etarian union in London have a new
craze. 1t is for vegetarian dress. They
have concluded it is as wrong to kill
animals fer clothes as for food. They
want vegetable boots, vegetable
gloves, vegetable gowns and even
vegetable note paper. They have de-
,ided that the kid, the calf and the
sheep shall be spared, if their influence
,an do it.