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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-04-24
LINING UP FOB 1900.

Senator Hanna is becoming alarmed
at the inroads being made by W. j.
Bryan and the popularity that gentle
man is gaining both among the So
called business men of the country and
the masses. and to forestall any effect
which the brilliant young man from
Nebraska may have upon public senti-
ment. has begun lining up his forces
for the campaign of 1900, with a view
of perpetuating President McKinley's
reigme. He has caused petitions from
the New York branch of. the Sound
Money League, calling for contribu-
tions to the 1900 campaign fund, to be
widelycirculated, and they have met
with response that is encouraging
to the mover in the matter.
Contributions thus far are so liberal
that Mr.. Hanna is confident of raising
a million-dollar fund in a short time,
and Henry Clews, one of the contribu-
tors, is quoted as saying that the first
object is to offset what Bryan is doing,
and the next. presumably will, be to
overcome the opposition to Mr.. Nc
Kinley in his own party, which by the
end of his administration, unless it is
most successful. will be no small factor.
This will require both time and money,
which Mr.. Hanna fully realizes. and
is taking time by the fOrelock thus
early in order that he may be we'll for
titled to oppose all republican oppon-
ents before the convention and Bryan
after the campaign is once on.
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CANNOT SUIT EVERYBODY.

Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa, is
not at all pleased with the turning
down of his amendment to the tariff
transferring hides from the free to the
dutiable list. He thought the farmer
was entitled to this measure of protec-
tion, and there are good many cattle
raisers of the same opinion, but Mr..
Dingley opposed the amendment on
the ground. that our leather industry
has been adjusted to free hides, that
we have large foreign markets for
leather that would be jeopardized by
putting hides on the duliable list, and
also that hides imported were not
really competitive product, the hides
of our cattle not being of a quality to
replace those imported. Careful in
yestigation," said Mr.. Dingley, chad
shown that our cattle, raisrd in cold
climate, were covered with much hair,
but thin hides, and that the cattle of
South America had little hair, but
thick hides, to protect them from the
stings of equatorial insects" the in
ference being that the leather manu-
facturer must have the hides of South
American cattle, and that the hides
from America could not be substituted.
Mr.. Dingley was arguing for the
leather manufacturers as did the sup
porters of free wool for the wooden
manufacturers four years ago. They
held that certain fine woods from
Australia and New Zealand were
necessary in the manufacture of fine
cloths, for which we had both a foreign
and home market, that could not be
made from domestic wools, hence to
benefit manufacturers they demanded
free wool. Those people were ''free
traders" Mr.. Dingley is "protection-
ist," still neither of them meet the ap-
prevail of the producers of wool and
hides, and Mr.. Hepburn was justified
in the taunt he threw back at the
chairman Of the ways and means COM
mittee when he said: II am a re-
publican, but I am tired of having
tariff bills made in the interest of Fall
River and contagious territory. 1t
is time to legislate In the interest of
the United States, and New England
cannot dominate the country"
This is pretty strong language for
member of the ways and means COM
and republican at that, though
it is evidence that the tariff bill can
not be made to suit everybody, and
that the interest which can deliver
the most votes at any coming election
will be the one that receives the great
est consideration. The two interests
wool and hides-are on an equal footing
30 far as their general use is concerned,
both enter into the comfort and nec-
sssity of the masses, and any duty
placed upon them must increase the
price to the consumer of the articles
into which they are converted. But
the wool raisers are sufficiently or
yanized to deliver votes to those who
advance their interests, while the hide
-aisers are not.
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is THIS PROPHECY?

If the expressions attributed to ex-
Senator Mitchell by the Journal are
correct, he is entitled to take first
rank as q prophet. When opposing
the seating of Senator Mantle, who had
been appointed by the governor OF
Montana, after the legislature had
failed to elect, Mr.. Mitchell is credited
with having said:
Suppose at the end of my present
term should be a caucus candidate
for reelection. Suppose the re-
publican party should have majority
of the legislature ofthe state of Or
egon; suppose that some man with un-
limited wealth should induce major
ity of the legislature to prevent an or
ganization, thereby preventing the
legislature from performing its func-
tions. Suppose the man of wealth
should be on intimate terms with the
governor of Oregon, and that it should
be arranged between them that the
governor should appoint the man who
corrupts the legislature in order to
prevent an election. Suppose that
then the governor should appoint the
rich man in spite of the will of the
people to the contrary. Should such
a man be seated in this senate? 1 say
most emphatically, no."
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SPAIN'S DISGRACE.

Spain is guilty of another of those
atrocities that have characterized its
manner of warfare against the Cubans,
and which forfeit all claims to civili-
zation. Last Monday Pedro Garcia
was taxed out of prison and shot for
rebellion. Six months ago Garcia was
arrested in his fathers house on sus-
picion of being a rebel, and week
ago was taken before a summary court
and tried. The entire court-martial
lasted no more than a quarter of an
hour, and Garcia was sentenced to
death. though the death warrant was
not read to him until twelve hours be-
fore the execution. Tnen he was led
from prison and butchered, the ex-
ecutioners being poor marksmen, were
required to fire three volleys into their
victims body before life was extinct.
No other nation that pretends to be
civilized, except perhaps Turkey, re-
sorts to such barbarism as does spain.
Prisoners of war, are with other coun-
tries at least given fair trial before
an unbiased court, and are held until
the war closer, or are exchanged, but
Spain treats her prisoners more cruelty
than do many sayages of the present
time. Such damnable practices should
cause the nations to rise up in indig-
nation, and annihilate a government
that practices such cruelty. Human
ity demands that an afflicted people
should not be subjected to such butch
cry. The United States, being the
liberty-loving nation of the world,
nation of Christians who hold justice
in high esteem, and haye ever been
ready to relieve the downtrodden and
oppressed, cannot long allow such
cruelties to exist. The pretext that
Spain is friendly nation will not long
suffice as an excuse for non-interfer-
ence, and if the government does not
soon take measures to stop such
the people will espouse the
cause of the Cubans and drive the
Spanish soldiers from the island,
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KEBELlIoN IS ALMOST ENDED.
Bonilla Has Crushed the uprising in Hon
duras.

Bonilla Has Crushed the uprising in Hon.
duras.
NEW YORK, April PA Herald dis
patch from Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
says:
President Bonilla states that he has
practically suppressed the revolution
in the republic. There have been sew
eral skirmishes between the rebel
forces and the government troops in
the eastern part, but none of them is
Of great Importance, so far as learned.
The government is still concentrat-
ing its forces in Villa Nueva, and will
not attack the rebel positions until the
army is modified and is certain an at
tack will be attended by success.
General Terencia Ezeta took charge
as commander-in-chief of the army to-
day.
Domingo Vasquez, formerly presi-
dent of Honduras, who recently left
San Salvador, it is reported, is on the
frontier raising men, and will try to
join the rebel army and place himself
at the head of the provisional govern
ment. Enrique Soto now occupies
that nOsiti0n
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TO RETERSE PROTECTION.

David Lubin and his associated
grangers in different states are pushing
their bill for the payment of bounties
on the exports of agricultural produce,
which they claim will put the farmers
on an equal footing with manufac-
turers in respect to favors from the
government. Their idea is to reverse
protection in way that will encourage
and foster agricultural pursuits, and
increase prosperity among the real
wealth producers of the country, by
creating fictitious prices for their pro-
ducts, as is done for the manufacturers
by the workings of a protective tariff.
They haye presented memorial to
the senate that says "the idea upon
which protection was originally based,
that of a temporary means of building
mp new industries, has been aban-
doned, and has been supplanted by the
new and different conception, that it
should be permanent means OF ex-
cluding foreign competition in par
tieular trades. This system cannot be
applied to industries, whose products
are exported and must be sold abroad in
competition with the products of
foreign labor" 1t is we'll established
rule of trade that the price in the for
eign market for any article of which
we produce surplus for export, fixes
the home market. The price of wheat
and cotton in America is fixed in
London and Liverpool. "Selling the
surplus as we do at international
prices" says the memorial, ''compells
us to sell the greater quantity for home
use at the same price for the export
and home price is always the same. It
follows that the American farmer is
handicapped by the protective tariff.
and that he can be recouped only by
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bounties on his export" Mr.. Lubin
and his fellow grangers ask that law
be passed to pay to any exporter OF
agricultural products, grown in the
United States, at the rate of ten cents
u bushel on wheat and rye, fifty cents
per barrel on flour, five cents per
bushel on corn. one cent per pound on
cotton, and two cents per pound on
tobacco and hops. In order TO en-
courage shipping, it is proposed that
when these products are exported in
American bottoms, the bounty shall be
increased ten per cent. Incidentally
the memorial severely criticises the
bill for discriminating duties in favor
of imports in American. bottoms.
This, it says, would be simply an ad-
ditional tax on the farmer without any
compensation whatever to him.
"The great advantage of this plan,"
says The Nation, in an able editorial on
the subject, sis that it would give to
the farmer much more money than it
would take from the treasury. Lubin
and his associates show that the cost
to the government of the proposed
bouuties on wheat, cotton and corn
would be only S41, 100000 per annum,
while the enhanced price of the same
articles retained for domestic consump-
tion would be at least $40, 0,000, 900.
OF course this would have to be paid
by the consumers of agricultural pro-
ducts, who are the whole people of the
United States. The memorial ac-
knowledges this fact, but insists that
the same is true of the protective duties
on manufactures. Whatever increase
of price takes place must be paid by
the farmers, who cannot, under
present arrangements, recoup them
selves for this loss. Mr.. Lubin lays
down the broad principle that all the
money raised by protective duties
ought to be distributed to the classes
who are not protected. Failing in
this, all protective tariffs ought to be
repealed" The memorial concludes
by saying:
"The abolition of protective tariff as
a means for the protection of manufac-
turers would do away with the claims
for protection by an export duty; but
so long as moneys are received on i'm
ports for the protection of manulac-
turers, these moneys, or portion
thereof, should be paid out primarily,
not for government expenses, but for
export bounties to protect the staples
of agriculture, and thus equalize pro-
lection by extending it to agriculture
as we'll as to manufacturers, protecting
thereby the farmers and manufacturers
in the United States against the farm
ers and manufacturers of foreign
counties, and thus DO away with the
injustice of the present system, which
protects the manufacturers at the ex-
pense of the farmers"
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$50 tons a day land any smaller factory
would be inexpedient) would cost in the
neighborhood of 100000, and besides
warehouses, sheds and other buildings
will increase the cost some $4,000 or
$4,000. Then to supply such factory
planting of 5000 acres of beets, and as
there must be rotation of crops, land
producing good crop of beets only
every other year, the factory must be
situated within easy reach of 5000
acres of land adapted to beet culture.
The factory must be situated within
easy reach of the growing grounds, for
beets must be supplied at from $3.50 to
81 per ton in order to make the manu-
facture OF sugar profitable, hence the
cost of transportation from the farm to
the factory must not be great. Other
requirements of location are accessi-
bility to lines of transportation and an
abundant supply of pure water. A
factory with a capacity of $50 tons
daily uses 100000 gallons of water,
and as one ton of lime is required for
each ton of refined sugar, freight rates
must be reasonable, or this item alone
would eat up all profits. The matter
OF fuel is also an important item, u
factory of the capacity mentioned
above consuming about 100 tons OF
coal or its equivalent daily. In view
of all these requirements it will be
readily seen that there are few loca-
tions in Oregon suitable for thu es-
tablishing of beet sugar factory.
Possibly Union, which is surrounded
by large area Of rich soil and is ac-
cessible to an unlimited supply of lime
and fuel, is better situated for such an
industry than any other point in East
ern Oregon, but the matter of freight
rates will be drawback to that place.
Or The Dalles, provided coal is dis
covered, would have all the necessary
requirements except that of land near
by where beets in sufficient quantity
could be raised. The farming country
in and about Dufur is perhaps adapted
to beet culture, but the cost of hauling
the raw material to the factory would
be too great for beet culture even in
that section to be profitable. So far
as experiments have been made in this
state, the average yield of beets per
acre is about 20 tons, which at 81 per
ton would yield the farmer $50 an acre,
while the cost of cultivation and
other expenses in preparing the beets
for market are about S35 an acre,
still these experiments have been
made on a small scale, and the
yield of large fields would probably
not be so great. Taking everything
into consideration it is indeed ques-
tionable if the beet sugar industry will
ever be made profitable in Oregon, or
if it will soon be inaugurated in the
state
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INHERITANCE TAXATION

Probably there is no more just tax for
raising revenues with which topay the
expenses of government, both state and
national, than that levied upon estates
inherited. 1t cannot be considered a
tax upon thrift or prosperity, as the
income tax is often dubbed, for the
party who inherits fortune has not
accumulated wealth through his own
exertions, but simply acquired it
through the good luck of having been
the beneficiary of some thrifty ancestor
or generous friend, therefore he can
not justly claim that he is taxed upon
the result of his own energies, but is
made to pay something for sustaining
government out of property which
through good fortune he has fallen
heir to.
The scheme for taxing inheritances
first took shape in the staid old state of
Massachusetts, but it was in crude
form, for it proposed to tax remote in
heritances per cent, and left all di-
rect inheritances on the "free list,"
but a more practicable measure has
lately passed the New York assembly,
which taxes direct inheritance / per
cent when the estate does not exceed
81, 900, 900, and adds one-half of one per
cent on each $3.50, 900 additional. Per-
sonal property passing to collateral
heirs is taxed 5 per cent, with an in
crease when the amount of property
exceeds 100000, a provision being
made that no estate shall be taxed at
more than Is per cent. Such tax i'm
posed by New York will result in
revenue being derived from q source
that will suffer but little from bearing
its portion of state expenses, and will
lessen the burdens now resting upon
the real wealth producers.
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ing upon all citizens to arm themselves
in defense of the country. Every stem
possible is being taken to defend the
place against the Turks, who are re-
ported to have captured Tyrnayo, 10
miles from here, and to be pushing on
to Larissa. The minister of the inter-
ior has issued orders TO the projects
throughout the country calling upon
them to summon all citizens to arms in
defense of Greece now invaded by the
Turks. 1t is reported the Greeks have
captured 200 Turkish prisoners at
Vjplia.
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ANOTHER BLACK EYE.

The sheeplraisers of this section seen
in decided bad luck with reference to
securing.summer range for theirflocks,
and it begins to look as if many of
them would be forced to close out
business unless some relief is granted
through an act of congress or procla-
nation from the president setting
aside the order closing the Cascade
timber reserve to the ranging of stock.
The quarantine law of Washington
has shut them out from large ranges
on the opposite side of the. Columbia;
and now Judge Bellinger has rendered
decision in the case of the United
States vs.. the Tygh Valley Land &
Livestock Co. overruling the demurrer
to the complaint, that virtually ex-
cludes the sheepmen from the Cascade
reserve.
The government brought suit to
restrain defendants from pasturing
sheep on the Cascade reserve. De-
fendants demurred to the complaint on
the ground that it had been the de-
clared policy of the government to
allow stockmen to pasture their herds
on its domain. 1t was also set up that
the government had no recourse
against persons pasturing sheep or
cattle on its domain, because the lands
were not fenced, as the supreme court
OF this state had several times decided
that, unless owners of lands had them
fenced, they could not proceed against
the owners of stock pastured thereon.
The court held that the government
in pursuance Of an act OF congress,
having set aside the lands In question
as reservation, it was no longer a
part of the public domain, and that the
government had the right to protect
them, and that the generally declared
policy of the government to allow
sheep and cattle to be pastured on its
domain. does not apply to the lands set
aside as reservation. There are
several other cases of the same nature
In the court, to all of which this deei-
sion will apply.
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An oner From Greece.

PARIS. April 22.-According to dis
patch from Constantinople, Greece has
informed the powers she will abandon
her claims to the island of Crete if the
powers will force Turkey to cede her
Epirus and Mount Olympus, accorded
to her by the treaty of Berlin.
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EASTERN OREGON CROPS.

From all indications the grain crop
this year in the great Inland Empire
will break any previous record. The
spring rains have thoroughly saturated
the ground and it is in the best con-
dition for growing crops. Reports
from country points indicate that an
enormous acreage of wheat will be
planted besides increased acreage of
other cereals. Vegetables are also
being raised on a more extensive scale
than ever before, and it is highly
probably that farmers in this imme-
diate section will devote more atten-
tion to gardening in the future than in
the past, since their products last year
found ready sale in the Portland mar
kets, and being now favored with bet
ter freight rates than ever before, can
enter into competition with the Port
land gardeners on comparative equal
footing.
So far as the raising of wheat is con-
cerned, the good prices of last fall en-
couraged many of the farmers who had
about given up hopes of ever again
getting any profit out of wheat raising,
and they have decided to be really for
good prices this year by raising a
larger quantity. AS aresult very
large acreage of wheat is being sown
in every section. Not only the old
ground will abont all be sown, but a
large amount of new land is being
titled this season both in Wasco and
Sherman counties, and with favorable
weather from now until crop time.
the yield will be the greatest in the
history of the country.
The prospects now for a prosperous
season and an abundant, yield are in
deed good, and it is believed the de-
mand will be equal to the supply, for
the wheat crop in many of the great
wheat producing regions of the world
is short, and the floods of the Mississ-
ippi valley will prevent the raising of
sufficient bread stuff to supply the local
demand which will have to be
furnished probably from this coast.
The reports from the numerous
orchards throughout the country are
that the trees are generally in healthy
condition and are loaded with bios
SONS and buds, which indicats heavy
yield may be expected. And as better
freight rates on fruit may be obtained
this year than last, the fruit growers
should realize fair prices.
On the whole the outlook for i'm
mense crops in all branches of agri-
culture throughout Eastern Oregon is
really hattering, and if expected prices
are realized, the farmers of the Inland,
Empire have a better future before
them than for many years past.
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To save Darrant's Neck.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2l.-Much
local interest has been excited by re-
port that an effort is being made to
commute the sentence of Durrant to
life imprisonment. Those working for
the condemned murderer of Blanche
Lamont are taking hope from the an
nouncement that three of the state
board of prison directors are about to
petition Governor Budd to commute
the sentence.
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ATHENS, April 20.-All members of
the gen d'armerie and other police
forces organized as military are now
going to the frontier. Citizens have
volunteered to guard the town. The
same conditions prevail in all the
other towns in Greece. On all sides
there is a firm determination to meet
the Turkish invasion, and every man
who can be spared and who can bear
arms is going 10 the front.
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Am Insnrcant Yictorr.

HAVANA, via Key West, April 22.-
From Puerto Principe comes news Of
severe fighting which lasted ten days
between the Spanish columns of Colo
nels Riza and Cruce Gonzales, and
several bands of insurgents number
ing 1000 men, which resulted after
series of skirmishes in great victory
for the patriots, the Spaniards losing
800 men,
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Tyrnavo Is Taken.

BERLIN, April 20.-An official tele-
gram from Constantinople says the
Turks have captured all the positions
commanding Tyrnavo, thus confirm
ing the dispatches from the cor
respondent of the Associated Press at
Turkish headquarters at Elassona.
The telegram referred to also says the
Turks have not sustained great dam
age at Prevesa, bdt two Greek war;
ships were compelled by the Turkish
fire to retire from there today, and
this afternoon there are no signs of the
Greek fleet in the vicinity of Prevesa.