The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-24
BORN
this city, July 2lst to Mr.
and Mrs. T. A. Wilhelm, a daughter.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

How the gold fever is talking holt
of the coast is illustrated by the fol
| lowing from The Seattle Times: Seven
teen of of fifty men engaged upon the
Times were all ready last evening tc
| give up everything they had on earth
for transportation to the Yukon-and
even a greater number of newspaper
men were agitating the proposition oi
how soon they would be able to set sail
for Alaska. If every department OF
business and trade is as much agitated
over the gold discoveries in Alaska as
is the newspaper business. and all OF
them could get away, there would not
be left in Seattle to exceed IS men by
the close of next week. When, how
ever, the next steamer shall arrive,
with about $50 weather beaten, half
starved gold hunters, who have been
up in that cold region for the last two
or three years and found "nothing"-
but hardship the chances are that the
feverish condition which now affects
about go per cent of the entire popula-
tion will promptly subside.
The seasons wheat crop which will
be disposed of at remunerative prices
promises to greatly improve conditions
in this section and make times better
than they are at present. Farmers
and others who have not been free
from debt for 10 years are likely to be
able to 'squsre up and have balance.
1t is hoped that those who can do so
will get out of debt and, when once
out, stay out, to the benefit of them
selves and the country. There is
nothing that so contributes to the ar
rogance and enrichment of one man
and the Incidence and poverty of nine
men than debt. 1t is for this reason
that debt making should not be en-
couraged by law under form of gov
ernment calling itself democratic, a
government of the people. If it is con-
tinued in the future as in the past the
truth is q peoples government will
perish from the face of the earth.
In Marion county the county court
has refused to pay deputy assessors
81 day. 1t is discovered there is no
warrant of law for paying deputies "a
a day or any salary whatever. 1t may
be agreed upon between the assessor
and the county court what the pay of
deputies should be. However. just
and equitable assessment is more i'm
portant than per diem of deputies, but
such it seems we cannot have. In
Linn county the assessor demanded SO
a day for deputies. The court offered
him $1.50, which was all he had offered
to pay his men. The assessor en-
ployed lawyers, but they could find no
law. So he concluded to take Sl.50 q
day and did so.
With large crop of wheat at home
and small crop abroad, the con-
ditions appear to be very favorable to
the American farmer. The farmer,
like the worker in most other fields.
has been hitshard by the industrial
stagnation of the past four years, but
but better times for him and them are
at hand. The improved agricultuI al
outlook is one of the most encouraging
features of the general business situa,
tion.
The fact that Gomez's army can go
with entire safety to within a few
miles Of Havana, as it has just done,
shows the folly of all the Spanish
''paciication" talk. Weyler is some-
where in the island with large force,