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

Possibly Senator Hanna was right
when he said this was not the proper
time for coal miners to strike and de-
mand higher wages. 1t has disturbed
business to the extent that there is a.
coal famine in several Ohio cities, aGd
it looks as if the owners will be COM
PEELED TO meet the miners demand.
This viewed by Hanna, would be a
misfortune, for his solicitude for high
wages TO laborers is not nearly SO great
as it was year ago.
The receptions that have been ten
dered VIM. j. Bryan on his visit to
this coast are evidence of two things.
That the cause of silver is not waning,
also that Mr.. Bryan is today the most
popular man in the United States.
No other defeated candidate for presi-
dent ever held the place in American
hearts that Mr.. Bryan holds today,
and were an election to come off now
he would be almost the unanimous
choice for president. s.
For years an effort has been made by
some of the leaders OF protestant de-
nominations to unite all evangelical
churches into one organization, and
while their efforts have not been
crowned with success. the advancement
made of late years by the Christian
Endeavor seems liable to result in one
great church organization. When 35000
delee ates can be assembled in Chris
tian cause. in one convention it ap-
pears that there should be no difficulty
in uniting all protestant churches
under one head.
The Ohio coal miners are told by MIR.
Hanna thatNthis is the wrong time to
strike for higher wages; but he fails to
tell them when the proper time would
be. Had he enlightened them on tn is
subjert he would have put off the time
a century. But an inquiry into the
amount OF wages they receive indicates
that necessity demands they strike
now or never, for if they wait longer
they all will have starved. Their
average wages since April have been
So IA cents for each two weeks, and
their expenses are double that amount.
We complain that we are tax-bur-
dened people, but we are not much
more heavily taxed than the people of
Great Britain. The expenses of that
government are $500, 900, 900 yearly or
nearly $1,000 a minute. The people
are taxed to meet this at the rate of
S16 second, but the system of tax
alton is more equitably distributed
than it is here. They have an income
tax, hence the rich as well as the poor
bear their share of the government
expenses. Here we tax consumption
and let wealth go free.
In the Illinois legislature, which was
about the most rascally den OF thieves
ever assembled, was one man whose
character is irreproachable and who
retires from legislative houors with
out a blemish on his name, not haYing
made a dishonest dollar during the
session, or been reproached for being
a boodler. The man is John Huffman,
who prior to his election was farm
hand in a rural district. His official
life furnishes a hint to all states and |
parties. Give professional politicians
a rest, and elect farm hands to legisla-
tive offices, then possibly we may get
clean government.
One of the most forcible tariff |
speeches ever made in the world was |
delivered by Mr.. Pitt in the British |
house pf peers years ago when he said:
'My lords and gentlemen: To levy
lirect tax of per cent is a dangerous
in free country, and may
ncite revolt, but there is method by
which you can tax the last rag from
,he back and the last bite from the
mouth without causing murmur
against high taxes, and that is to tax
yreat many articles of daily use and
necessity SO Indirectly that the people
will pay them and not know it; their
then will be hard times,
,ut they will not know that the hard
lines are caused by taxation" Our
Yankee statesmen were not slow TO
ee the force of his argument, and for
great many years have successfully
pplied his idea. u