The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-11-05

the past year OF nearly SIC, ZOO, 600 ir
bank note circulation. To the exten,
that this has increased the volume o.
money. it has aided in better prices.
Secretary Long is in favor of in
creasing the permanent strength o
the navy to 10000 enlisted men.
Trade follows the hag," and 10000
Yankee sailors, scattered over the
seas, will not be an excessive number.
A Baltimore genius claims to have
hit upon aD easy process Of extracting
gold from sawdust. Instead of criti-
cising the administration and bowling
calamity any man can prosper nova
days who will say nothing and keep on
saving wood.
The money in the national treasury
is to be applied under the gold bug
system in paying-of and retiring the
green 5acks-or non-interest bearing
Indebtedness. In the meantime. any
excuse is to be seized that will increase
the issue OF bonds-or the interest
bearing indebtedeess. The gold bug
system of fnanciering is the marvel
of the age.
Secretary Alger is so well satisfied
with the York of the soldiers in the
war that he will recommend stand
ing army of $4,000 men. While re-
commenting he had as we'll suggest
the appointment of new secretary of
war to preside over the destinies of
the large army he would have organ
lied. With him at the head 1t would
require re-enlistment every year or
two, for Alger would starve such an
army to death once year.
In the whole United States there is
not republican candidate for con-
gress or republican newspaper tell
ing the people that If a republican
congress is elected that 1t will stand
pledged to the redemption and can
collation. of the greenbacks. Yet this
is the chief aim of the bill prepared by
Hanna's self-constituted monetary
commission, and which is endorsed by
President Mckinley and Secretary
Gage.
Federal Office holders will not be
slow in taking the hint conveyed by
Perry Heath, first assistant postmaster
general, when he said, in published
"There is absolutely moth |
ing in the civil service laws that for.
bids postmaster or any other govern
men: official, from participating in
making political speeches
DR. exercising any of the rights that be-
ong to him as private individual.
For my own part | have never been
able to see why the mere fact that a
nan holds an office should make it i'm
possible for him to exercise his privi-
eges as an American citizen or to ident
fly himself with the party to which he
yves allegiance.
This Is truly an age Of invention,
md there is no telling how soon we
nay arrive at that state pictured by
ifferent writer's where physical
nergy will no longer be a necessity, ,
7here the simple pressing of q button
'ill accomplish all the tiresome tasks
+ everyday life. The first practical
tep In this direction has already been
,ade. A man named Kelly, who per-
acted the pneumatic dispatch tube =
ow used by The postal authorities at :.
Washington, announces that beforei -
ing he will have ready for operationi :,
system OF S-inch tubes by which the
pliers in great cities can have their
inches dispatched from their restau-t
Ints or from their homes to their
most to that of a telegraph message. :,
The Pendleton Daily Tribune has sus- ~
ended publication as has also the daily 20
lgene Register. These were two of
q most virulent gold-bug prosperity III
outing advocates In the state. There Io
no more certain barometer of ? bile n
than the receipts OF the ,h
cal paper, and when tw y OF the most -,
ciferous shouters of the beauty of
g single gold standard are forced to
9 wall, the fact tells its own story.
Iere are other papers OF the same ilk ha
1t are giving evidence Of being In q th'
~ wobbling condition OIL
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