The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-07-30

Is SELDOM one HShfs DOlStFOua ldiSudH
on the streets, and if it were prevalen
the city authorities would soon gathe
the offenders into the fold of justice.
After having counted the Spanisl
soldiers that have surrendered in TIL
province of Santiago it is found ther
are $4,000 of them. This is prett.
good sized crowed to feed at Uncl,
Sans lunch counter, and the suoue
they are sent home the less burden
some they will be.
Spain offers employment to al
officers who may be returned from
Cuba by tie ,.;narican t,.vernment a.
prisoners of " II. Tho Sprnish gov
erment makes this offer to keep dowr
| threatened insurrection. Thus the
Spanise peasantry will be taxed 6
little longer to keep the throne from
toppling over.
Frank Davey, an all-arouad news
paperman has been appointed to 81 y
900 clerksAip in the internal revenue
department. He halls from Marion the
hOma OF Governor elect Geer, Collec.
tor of Custom like" Patterson and
Appraiser Bob Hendricks. The Salem
''hog" always plays in luck. No re-
Election, Davey, only congratulations.
Harold M. Sewall, minister to Ha-
waii and son of Arthur Sewall vice
presidential candidate in 1896, has
been endorsed for governor of the an
nexed islands, by leading business
men of Honolulu. 1t is thought. how
ever, that President Dole will be given
the position and he certainly deserves
this recognition.
I he shrewd and skillful from the be-
ginning of time have, as under the
present system of taxation, thrown
the burden of government on the shoul-
ders of the dull and patient. The
same is true with the war taxes. Those
who are abundantly able to pay them
are evading them, while many, least
able to pay them, are paying double
share in consequence.--Ea Ore
gonian.
The Oregonian remarks that Bryan
having enlisted in his country's SER
vice and put himself under orders from
the man who defeated him for the
presidency, thus placing himself be-
tween the guns of a foreign foe and
the land he loves, has disarmed criti-
cism and estopped inquiry into his
Bryan's motives bu5 those who had
doubtful motives themselves.
Partisanship should never be taken
into accord in selecting leaders in the
army or navy. Capability, courage
and ability should be the only tests.
But in the management of the present
war it seems partisanship has cut con-
siderable figure. If not why has Cen
eral Lee, whom everybody recognizes
as the best equipped general in the
army for the Cuban campaign, been
held up at Jacksonville?
The students of the Eugene divinity
school are circulating petitions to the
Legislature. asking that body to pass
resolution submitting to the people
of Oregon an amendment to the con-
stitution prohibiting the sale of in
tOxicaticants as a beverage in the
state. A prohibition amendment was
voted down at special election in
Oregon eleven years ago, being de-
feated by a majority of 1885 in total
vote OF Al, ,O31, and if again submitted
to the people would probably meet
similar fate.
The Evening Telegram apologies
for the non-arrest of numerous old
time, bunco-men in Portland on the
ground that the policemen being all
new aud green appointees are not ac-
quainted with the professional crooks
and that the public will have to suffer
until their peace officers gain knowl-
edge. 1t is all right in the eyes of
that sheet for Mason's policeman to be
and inexperienced but all
what howl it made every
time culprit succeeded in eyading
the clutches of the Pennoyer police.
was difference between
and tweedledee!
The insurgent leader, Aguinaldo
who sold out to the Spaniards for a
arge sum of money, and then re-en-
tered the war against the ones he had
agreed to fight no more, had better not
Try any such games on Admiral Dewey
Ind the generals in charge of the
American army of occupation. 1t
would not be a safe venture on his
part and there would be no price set
or his head either. He will have to
m bibe few lessons in honest dealing
f he continues in the lead on his na-
i've heath, and in the first place he
lad better abandon the dictator busi-
less.
j. D. Merrima1-a brother-in-law of |
Tom Tongues to be !
hief deputy collector of customs un-
Ter Collector like" Patterson, at
Portland. 1t is stated on excellent au-
hority that Tongue would not agree
o Patterson's appointment until prom
sed that this man Merriman would
'e taken care of. Senator Mcbride,
Ellis and Tongue are
onstantly guilty of most fragrant nep-
tism, all of Them having provided for
elatives at the public crib. In the
resent case, L. A. Pike-a man who
nows more about the duties of the
ustoms service than any other man
d Oregon-is to be replaced.
Another victim to temptation has
cen run down in the person of Louis
late president of Hampshire
Tational bank, and treasurer of
1e Hampshire Sayings bank, of
Torthampton. Massachusetts. War
er betrayed the confidence re-
osed ir him. speoulated on the banks
loney anc filched them out Of S640, 900
efore he was detected. He skipped
1t last April, and has just been
lught at Louisville, KY. Being
ightoned thief he will probably be
spared the humiliation" of term in
Ie penitentiary, but had he been
me poor, Insignificant fellow who