The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-15


its little squirt of better. times, but ht'
cut his candor by following with the
assertion that congress must adopt
gold standard legislation before we
can have permanent good times. .-=-l
Some of Senator Teller's republican
colleagues think it unkind of him To
bring up that old Stanley Matthews
resolution, which was adouted by the
senate nearly twenty years ago, de-
claring that all U. S. bonds are pay
able in silver dol ars, at the option OF
the government, and insisting uEon
their voting upon it.
Jackson county merchants have
registered a great long kick against
the state. board of equalization be
cause there is raise Of so percent in
the assessment on stocks in merchan-
disc. Evidently the state board did
not have much confidence in the in
tegrity Of the jackson county assessor.
or they thought merchants in that
county had done some responsible
buying. Anyway it is not likely that
the raise is-anytning but just: -: "a:
Corporal Tanner, who wasHarrisoh's
commissioner of pensions, and who is
one of the worst demagogues in the
country, thaeatens to turn 2,000.0U0
votes against Mckinley unless he pur-
sues wide-open policy towards PEN
sioners. But on the other hand, if he
keeps up his howl and President Nc
kinley has the bravery to establish q
just and equitable policy toward PEN
sioners, that will result in only those
entitled to pensions receiving them.
he will merit the plaudiJs of II. .000. 5000
voters, and will endear himself to the
taxpayers of the nation.
The pension payments for this year
amount to 81 for every man, woman
and child in the nation or about $40
for every voter. Did all this amount
go TO those who fought to sustain the
Union, the-e would be little complaint
even from the overtaxed people, but
as more than half of it is paid out to
pension attorneys OR children who
were born long after the war clo- ed,
those who pay the taxes feel that it is
an unjust burden. They feel that the
soldiers widows and orphans are no
more entitled to government aid than
than are theirsoWr.
That man Fox, who was recently ap-
pointed collector of customs for the
district of Oregon, is all right, viewed
from the politicians standpoint. He
has always huRg on the public teat
whenever opportunity offered. At
present he is one of the pilot commits
sioners for the state, a perfectly use-
less Office, and shonld the senate fav-
orably consider his appointment, he
will again be foisted into an Office that
has little work and fat emoluments
to it. Fox is one of the !.
who get positions when
really deserving people fail.
: Our republican friends in this state
are having a sort of "monkey and
parrot" time. Mr.. Mitchell's follow:
ing have issued a proposition for bar.
mony with the string on it that Mr..
Mitchell shall be reelected to the sem
ate, and his opponents refuse the offer,
declaring that all good republicans
must fall down tfiguratively speakingl
and worship the Oregonian's 3 golden
calf before they can be received into
the fold of the s'blessed." The out
come will be either two republican
tickets next June or one wing of the /
republican party supporting the demo-
cratic ticket.
Stanford university has set a good |
example. Forty-one idle and dissolute
gs,aths have been turned out. as being
/ hiudrance to good work by the in
1us,rious. A number of them had
noisily paraded the streets of San
Francisco when the Stanford football |
,eam defeated the state university |
;eam. They were boisterous. carous-
ng and offensive. Much may be al
owed in treating the natural efferves-
,ence of youth, but the college yells
md the general noise and folly that
mark the athletic games of students
ire becoming offensive, especially
ince the athletic feature of college
ife is becoming the most prominent
me.
We are told that the English press
8 insisting that the United States re-
orm its currency in order that British
apital may continue to be invested
Iere. just so. But the truth is, the
american people will be better off if
lot a dollar of British capital is in
ested in the United States. Nothing
7ill so impoverish a section as paying
interest on outside capital. There is
90 much encouragement of money
ending by law already, and it is time
hat this phase of paternalism was
bated. II reform of the currency is
or the purpose of securing more Brit
ii capital for investment it had better
OF be reformed. East Oregonian.
General Gomez. the Cuban rebel
hief, has addressed letter to Marshal
lauco that we'll defines the sentiment
the Cubans. He says in part: sour
is well known and
atent. Neither determination nor
admission would mean peace. In view
this fact appeal to you, as to Gen.
al Campos: Let this hloodshed STOP
pain should not allow Cuba to owe
Or Independence directly or indirectly
outside help Let the deep abyss
,tween the Cubans ana the Spaniards1
sappear by SPANS recognition of the
lban republic. Then there shall be
ernal peace. Otherwise there shall
blood and FIRE. That would be the
mmand of our honor and dignity.
e will follow it until victory. which
ways comes to those who fight for
stice, settles our fate"
Judge Stephen 81. Lowell is men,
med as a possible candidate for goy- 1