The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.


The discovery of an error in the
Latin inscription on the Shaw monu'
ment at Boston has revealed the inter.
esting fact that no two Latin scholars
in the city can agree as to how ii
should be corrected.
The alleged photograph of the mir
age of a mysterious city in Alaska has
been shown to be made from spoiled
negative of the city of Bristol, Eng
land. A professor of the new journal
ism managed the hoax.
Fifty-seven senators are counted on
as being certain to vote for the ratiti
cation of the Hawaiian treaty. This
is only three short of the requisite two
thirds, and as there are only eleven
who are opposed to the treaty it will
most certainly be ratified.
Never did employers of labor reduce
wages more persistently than they are
doing this year In all branches of in
dustry. This is occurring, too, not
withstanding the fact that the passage
of a new high tariff bill is a certainty
within a few weeks.
The idea of Senator Tillman to tax
immigrant laborers $l00 would be a
more effectual protection to American
labor than all the duties that can be
piled up on manufactured or raw i'm
ports. The measure is worthy of q
place in the protective tariff bill that
is soon to be enacted into law.
At the meeting of the peoples party
county central committee of Lane
county at Eugene last week the reso-
luton to endorse the "middle-of-road"
action of the state central committee
was tabled by an almost unanimous
vote. IL seems to have been the belief
of the committee and members of the
party present that a union of all silver
forces is essential to success.
The sugar trust has a firm grasp upon
the senate, and is certain to get all the
concessions it wants from that body.
A test vote was taken last Friday on
the proposition to raise the duty on
refined sugar from 1.0S75, as fixed in
the house bill, to 1.095, and the amend
ment carried, 32 ayes to 30 noes.
Secretary Gage says we are to have
currency reform, aud from appear
ances it will be the retiring from cir
culation of about $3.50, ,0O0,O of paper
that now circulates on a par with gold.
But this is what the people voted for
last fall, and we should not complain,
since it will not reduce the price of
farm products more than about 33f per
cent.
Tammany has indorsed free coinage.
This is one of the signs of the times
that there will be united democratic
party in New York, and this means
united party throughout the nation.
Cochran, Carlisle. Brice and Whitney
may pull away and join the republi-
cans, but that is where they belong.
They never were very good democrats,
Broadstreet's giving the trade re-
view for the week ending June II gives
the encouraging announcement that |
business is improving throughout the
country, and says it is better than q
year ago, but spoils the statement by
giving the number of failures through
put the country for the week, which
we're 256, compared with lat the week
before, 234 in the corresponding week
Of 1896, 232 in 1885 and 227 in 1894.
After all the fuss that has been made
IN the senate over the tariff bill, it will
20 through that body with very few
changes in the form that it passed the
house. Dingley will be able to recog-
aize his bill when the senate gets
through with it, and 80 will the i'm
oorters who have been favored by the
senator's in being granted plenty of
lime to get foreign goods in before the
1ew law goes into effect.
The "Oregon style" of journalism
has not entirely DIED out, as the fol-
owing excerpt from the Sunday We'll
,ome demonstrates: "The battleship ,
oregon will not come to Portland, and
night have come if the narrow, jealous, ,
mean, growing, snarling, contempt =
BILE puppies of the Astoria press had :
lot kept up their coyote.yelping; but {
he character and the calibre of their
title, measly, sour, sordid, envious :
ouls and brains is on exhibition. just =
he same" n
The greed of human beings for un- t
armed wealth is evidenced in the J.