The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-03-06

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favored classes may fry little more
fat out of the masses. 1t is for the
purpose of taking from those who have
little in order to give to those who
have much.
If King George, of Greece, can call
all his relatives to his support, there
is no question but he can bid defiance
to Turkey, but if he listens to the
pacific advice of his kiusmen among
the crowned heads of Europe there
will be no war. He is a brother of the
Cars mother and of the Princess of
Wales, and his wife is the Princess
Olga, first cousin OF the late czar.
The Davis house is getting down to
a sensible business procedure and
proposes to test the loyalty of its Or
ganization in the courts. Had the
Benson house adopted such methods a
month ago, there would have been
some sort of an organization OF the
legislature ere this, and the people
would have had an idea where they
were at.
The bill for an international none
tary conference having passed con-
gress, the incoming administration
will be given an opportunity to test
the merits of its provisions. and ascer-
tain what little attention European
powers will give the matter. The pro-
position is very popular in the house,
having received all but three votes,
but how it will be received across the
waters is another thing.
A lot of ministers are doing Col.
Ingersoll great favor now. He had
almost disappeared from public
view, until two or three misguided
ministers referred to him, and now we
are to have arevival of the Ingersoll
wave. The church has done more to
make Ingersollism than even the abil-
ity of Ingersoll. But the church will
go right ahead advertising him by its
unlimited references to him.
Chas. H.. Finn, formerly of La
Grande, but now located at Boise City,
is again in trouble before the Oregon
bar, with a good prospect of being
disbarred. II his ambition to win q
certain case before the supreme court,
it is alleged that he resorted to the
fraudulent issue of several affidavits.
The grievance committee of the Ore
gon Bar Association has turned the
matter over to the supreme court.
Finn will make no defense.
The date has arrived when according g
to ante-election pledges, all laborers
were to be employed at advanced
wages, when prosperity was to be re-
sumed, and when every citizen from
the lowest to the highest was to see a
restoration of business activity not
known since March 4, 1893. But
somhow there has been q miscar-
riage in the arrival. Will our friends
who made the promises please explain
the cause of the non-arrival?
One of the great needs in Oregon to-
day is few more political bosses. In
order to be made perfectly happy we
need few more joe Simons, Harvey
SCOTS, Jonathan Bournes, John H.
Mitchells, etc. Some of these days the
people will begin to wonder what in
terest they have in legislation, any
way. and will begin to realize that the
state has been run exclusively for the
bosses. Even now there are few sim
pie enough to believe the bosses could
be dispensed with; but the majority
still hold that leaders are the salvation
of the country.
A war between the United States and
Spain at the present time would free
Cuba and the Philippine Islands i'm
mediately, complete SPAIN bankruptcy
overthrow her present dynasty, and
reduce her to the rank of fourth or
fifth rate nation. These are the reas-
ons why war will not take place. The
Spaniards are obstinate and ignorant,
but they are not going to deliberately
commit political suicide. All reason
able demands which the United States
makes on Spain-and the United States
has not made any other sort of de-
mands-will be complied with.
The wheat raisers of Sherman county
have long waited for the constr uction
of railroad, tnat would tap that great
wheat country. and now their hopes
seem likely to be realized. The Co
lumbia River & Southern r. r. Co.,
that has just been incorporated, pro-
poses to reach out into that section.
There is no better opening for short
railroad than the one proposed by this
new company, reaching from Biggs
possibly as far as Moro, and if it is con-
structed that far it will be one of the
best paying little lines in America.
The man who steps out of the White
House today retires from that high
position little regretted and less loved.
Today Grover Cleyeland is not the
idol of the nation that he was four
years ago. Then his name was on
every tongue; he had been returned to
the presidency by an overwhelming
majority. given him by people over
confident in his ability, integrity and
honor. The expectations of his ad-
were great, and the con-
fidence in his capabilities was without
limit. The hopes of the people that
his administration would be success
were not realized, and in consequence
those who were then his friends are
now his enemies. Today Grover Cleve-
land is small man in the eyes of the
people, but twenty years hence when
his history is written, he will be ac-
corded place beside the great men of
the nation.
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