The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

We cannot lose sight of the fact that
prosperity must begin with the pro-
ducing classes. Give the farmers large
crops and good prices, and everything
will thrive.
Any enterprise in The Dalles that
will employ 100 men even at Sl.50 a
day will be of more lasting benefit
than half dozen railroads leading in
to the interior. What is needed to
make the business of the city perma-
nent is more mouths to feed, more
people to clothe, more laoorers on
steady salaries.
Only short time since four men
were sent to the penitentiary for rob-
hing the grave of w. S. Ladd, the
Portland millionaire, with the hope
of securing a reward. Today two ad-
venturers are turned loose after rob-
bing 50 graves on Memaleuse Island,
in the Interest of science" What q
wonderful thing science is, anyway It
has saved many felon from life with
in prison walls.
Tt is high time President Mckinley
call home from their FOOLS errand his
International monetary commission.
They have sufficiently humiliated
American dignity by their begging
other nations to permit this country
to establish monetary system to its
taste, and now that it has been de-
monstrated beyond question thei" mis-
sion is hopeless they should be called
home so as to stop their salaries if
nothing more.
No better time ever presented itself
for establishing manufacturing indus
tries in The Dalles than the present.
Money seeking investment will be
plentiful after the wheat is harvested
and sold. land values and labor are low,
and while every body is on the road to
prosperity is the time for general ad-
The Commercial Club
could render good service by taking
up the question of starting manu-
featuring Industries now.
Now that the wave OF prosperity is
striking the country, a motto that
should be pinned in every mans mind
Is to get out of debt and stay out.
Prosperity can never be permanent so |
long as three-fourths the population is |
paying interest to the other forth. But |
people will at least be independent if |
they get out of debt now when they |
,an, and neve" again go in debt. or at
,empt to do business on borrowed |
,apitai.
Oregon will this fall put on the mar
zet very nearly 2O,O00,000 bushels of
wheat that will distribute fully Sl5, ,O00,-
100 among the farmers. The greater
portion of this money will come from
Ibroad, thus increasing our circulating
Medium to that amount. AS result
will be prosperous on ac-
ount of an increased per capita circu-
alton. And still after this is realized,
here will be people who will say that
he hard times were not brought on
~ scarcity of money.
It is announced that General Weyler
as resigned. This is the most sens
BILE thing he could have done, and
bout all he could do to escape respon-
ibilily for the humiliation of Spain's
rmy of 200, 900 men placed under his
ommand. Under the leadership of
be gallant Gomez the insurgents are
,eadily closing in on the Spanish
,rces, and Weyler sees his only hope
retiring with any honors left is to
lrow up the job before the final crash
1mes.
Senator German is making the fight
his life to carry Maryland so that
e may again misrepresent the people
that state in the U. S. senate. Cor
an is nothing but political boss
ho is in politics for revenue, hence
10 democracy of Maryland have little
terest in the coming election. 1t
ould be fully as well for the nation I
I'd a good thing for the democratic !
lrty if Maryland should go reppbli-
n this fall, for that is the only way S
shelve German.
While many Oregonians are rushing g
,ll-mell to Klondike in search of for y
pes In the mines, the more eonserva- J
We prospectors are deyoting their at 2
ntion to the Blue mountains, and
e making more rich discoveries than
IL probably be made in the whole 4
ukon region this winter. But the b
ue Mountains are near at hand and a
sy of access. hence have not the s.
,rit of distance to lend enchantment 3
half the Oregon money that has B