The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-21
lgklondike were spent prospect

in Baker and Union counties, we
I Venture it would bring double the re-
turns.
During the year ending June 30 this
country sold to foreign countries ST.
032, POI 300 worth of goods and pro-
ducts. This was done under the work
ings of that much abused Wilson ''Gree
trade" tariff bill. Now if the foreign
| business for the present year, under
| the Dingley bill shall be as great we
| shall have no cause of complaint. IF
it is not, we will find ourselves in q
bad plight, for it takes about all the
| profits on billion dollar business to
pay the interest on our foreign obliga
| lions.
Cotton mills throughout New Eng
land are reopenins and turning out
| immense Quantities of fabric. but this
cannot be attributed to The enactment
| of the Dinghy tariff bill. because the
| rates on manufactured cottons were
not materially changed. Their open
ing is simply on account of an in-
creased demand for cottons created by
an increased ability of the people to
buy, brought about by more money
| being put into circulation through the
| sale of farm and other products at ad-
| vanced prices. This is a verification
| of the argument of us "popocrats" that
| it was more money and not more taxes
needed to create PROSPERITY.
The expenses incurred by the late
so-called legislature are destined to
cause Secretary of state Kincaid no
small amount of worry when he comes
to apply the recent decision of the
supreme court in deciding it they
should be audited. Justice would cer-
| tainly demand that the mileage and
| per diem of senators and the salaries
of persons employed by the senate
shonld be paid. although they were of
no actual service to the state. How
! ever, the senate was regularly Or
ganized, and persons called in as clerks,
pages, etc., were there at the command
of the regularly organized body. But
it is equally clear that the bills of the
members of the house for mileage and
! per. diem should not t e audited, for the
house rendered no service vhatever,
nor would it allow any rendered.
When there is no work to be had,
not even enough to secure square
meal, one can have sympathy for a
tramp who accosts him on the streets
and asks assistance to get something
to eat, but at times like the present,
when farmers ara looking for laborers
to help them 10 harvest and are willing
to the use of profane language in ex-
pressing his contempt for an able
bodied beggar who asserts that he is
begging for the price of neal. There
is no excuse today for anybody being
idle in Wasco county, for there ,s
abundance of work in the harvest
fields; farmers are short of help every:
where. A tramp who asks for bread
NV" NOoSA 'Co SCOpihS q otohO'
Spain's final effort to conquer Cuba,
by ordering General Weyler to ad-
vance upon the insurgents, is meeting
with the usual success that has attend
ed all former attempts. The Cubans
seem to be On the conquering side,
and the strategy of Weyler fails before
that of the more shrewd and wiley
Cuban commanders, and Weyler's
troops have the misfortune of falling
into the snares arranged to defeat
their best laid plans. The recent
Cuban raids made in Havana Province
and the latter engagements in the
province of Matanzas, in which the
Spanish advance movements we're
made under the directions of General
Weyler himself, have proved disas-
troas to the Spaniards, and. Weyler
finds it necessary tomake aretrosrade
movement. In fact the Cubans are
more formidable than ever before,
being better equipped with the most
modern munitions of war, with num-
Der of rapid firing guns, and this has
so dishearteded Weyler that he wants
to resign and go home.