The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

lute Tree IrauefS, tney are consistent
in declaring for the gold standard.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Now that MIR. Bryan has left the
state we presume the Oregonian and
Telegram viii let up on their choice
nick-names of fWind .Puncher" and
"Billy Boy"
A New York man who is studying
out social problems writes: "Let us
agree that the sum each of US may
hold shall be limited to $500, GOO.
Agreed, says the Tacoma News. Now
then, how shall we get it?
The tariff conferees are slightly out
of joint, and are slow to come to an
agreement. Those from the house
want the bill as IL passed that body,
| while those from the senate will hear
to nothing but the senate amendments.
The conferees on the tariff bill are
holding sessions behind closed doors,
fearing too much interruption if they
| nothib pGOiiS. uio 10 IL hCCDlDS
with the ''star chamber" methods that
| are gaining precedent in our system of
government.
The gun factory at Watervliet, N.
Y, makes more guns than any other
establishment in the world. Its out
put of big guns last year was $500 tons
valued ut 80, 100000. If Uncle Sans
army is small, he has the facilities for
enlarging it at short notice.
Nothing now remains in the way of
giving Hawaii to the United States
but the ratification by congress of the
annexation treaty, the senate commit
tee having agreed to report the resolu-
tion without amendment. Following
this, however, scrap with Japan may
be necessary.
Once more Oregon has been recog-
nized by the administration. Hon.
John F. Caples, of Portland, has been
appointed consul at Valparaiso, Chile.
Mr.. Caples was faithful supporter of
Mckinley, and has received fairly
good office in payment for the labors
he performed for his party last fall.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, died
in Washington last Friday. He was
governor of his state during the re-
bellion, and one of the oldest bembers
of the senate, an honest man and true
to his own convictions. He had the
respect of his opponents as we'll as his
own partisans.
Now that the tariff bill is virtually
out of the way, President Mckinley
can begin shaking the plum tree and
awarding the faithful. He doesn't
need to hold whip hand over congress
ano longer, and can now begin turn
ing the wheels of the appointment
machine at rapid rate.
The republican press is now busy
giving ADVICE to the populists. Popu-
lists are not susceptible to that in
duence and space might just as well be
saved and devoted to the tariff ro
nance of "How the foreigner pays the
tax" Advice to populists is an evil
dence of the great republican dilemma.
Senator Teller did not vote for the |
tariff bill, neither did he vote against
it, but he said it was the worst tariff
bill ever passed; that it was all in the |
interest of'the trusts and the combines;
that they had entirely too much to do
with the making of it. All this is
true, and the judgment of Senator
Teller viii yet be the Judgment of the
American people.
The sultan insists that the Peneus |
river, the ancient name of the Salem
bria, must constitute the new frontier |
of Turkey. This would give Turkey q
large slice of Thessaly, including the
town of Trikkala, and it would place |
Larisss under Turkish guns. The Sa-
lembria is the principal river of Thes-
sally. 1t is ITO miles long and empties
into the Gulf of Salonica.
The question OF connecting the At
lantic and Pacific oceans by means of
canal across the isthmus of Panama
is being agitated in Europe. the plan
tain, Germany and the United States
in the scheme. If the two oceans are
ever connected it will probably be by
some such plan as this, as there IS little
liability of the Nicoragua canal
being built during the present age.
1t is reported that President McKin-
ley may modify the Cleveland civil SER
vice order. This will, no doubt, be
done as the hungry Office seeking re-
publicans have already worried the ad-
ministration nearly to death in their
efforts to secure q place. Civil service
is a mighty goJd thing in theory but
in practice the republicans believe in
the old adage ''To the victor belongs
the spoils."
Already there are said to be 10000
on file at Washington for
federal appointments, and at the rate
at which they are being received,
about 800 daily, the creation of numer-
Gus new Offices will be necessary in
order to satisfy the appetites of the
faithful who are hungering for an OPP
portunity to feed at the public crib.
We would suggest that as soou as con-
gress disposes of the tariff bill. and ad-
journs, another extra session be called
to create some 200 600 new federal of
fees, SO that all those who want fat
jobs may be supplied.
@Tessa Some men are afraid
FEssSSs.sSE5iA of death, some are
EA not. Most of us
~ SsESgS3 would rather not meet