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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-29
HERE YOU HAVE. 1T.

Supporters of the gold standard
want no personal or factional conten-
tions. They are more than willing to
let bygones be bygones. But the gold
standard must be upheld, and gold
standard men will not support for
either branch of congress anybody
who does not declare for the gold
standard, in plain and out-spoken way.
No equivocator can be smuggled in,
no man who tries to escape the issue
through use of loose and doubtful
phrases. The question is far too seri-
GUS. Politicians must face the music
Office-hunters, out for grubstakes,
may as well take notice. No evasiye
arguments about "sound money" or
international agreement" will avail.
The plain questions the candidate
must meet are these: Are you for the
gold standard, or not? Are you for
free coinage of silver. or not? All
parties want these questions answered,
and only deceivers or towards will try
to dodge them.-Oregonian.
And this is the fat that goes out
from the headquarters of the gold
standard wing of the republican party
in Oregon. Wonder how it rings in
the ears of the friends of Hon. John
b. Mitchell? How will it suit them to
see their leader fall down before the
cross OF gold and take solemn VOW
that he has forever renounced his
allegiance to bimetalism? It puts Mr..
Mitchell between the devil and the
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-29
OPPOSED TO UNION.

The Times-Mountaineer has for
some time been convinced that John
C. Young, chairman of the populist
state central committee, was laying
populist party into the hands of the
republicans, and this theory is con-
irmed by the letter Mr.. Young pub
lished in Mondays Oregonian. In it
Mr.. Young gives his hand away, and
any one can read between the lines
and see that his sole purpose is to get
a middle-of-the road populist ticket
nominated, not with any hope of its
election, but to divide the.vote of the
reform forces and to insure therelec-
tion OF the nominees whom Simon,
Scott and Mitchell will compromise on
and nominate.
Young is inconsistent in the reasons
he presents for opposing union. The
fact that the democrats and silver re-
publicans have criticized the actions
of SOME populists for having entered
into an agreement with Mr.. Simon to
hold up the Oregon legislature. is
childish and absurd. When he as
sumes that the populists in the last So
called legislature were above censure
for their acts, in which he and Mr..
U'Ren played such a prominent part,
he talks like child, and shows be-
yond question that he has but one ex-
cuse for being in politics-to gather
in the spoils.
The principles of the republican
party, as at present outlined, are
directly in opposition to every primo
iple dear to the true populist, and his
implied threat of throwing the popu-
list vote to the republicans is evidence
that he is unsincere. Since Mr.. Young
has shown his hand it is evident that
his sole object is to aid Simon and the
in debating the adm;nistra-
tion of Oregon the next four years.
However there is q large majority of
populists in Oregon who hold principle
above spoils, and will accept the decree
Of the state central committee, that the
question of union shall be lett to the
different county conventions. They
will not submit to the dictates of a |
boss who proposes to
them to the party that is
opposed to every principle they profess.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-29
THE WEAK GOLD STANDARD

Even the frmest advocates of the
gold standard are beginning to realize
what frail thing it is and are enlarg-
ing upon the dangers that might beset
it if its stability is put to test. One
of the staunch supporters of the gold
standard sounds the alarm thus:
Payment of the public debt in sill
yer, or refusal of gold, even in part.
would, under existing conditions,
shake the confidence Of the world in
our monetary system. That confidence
is weak already, and it would be quite
easy to destroy what remains of it.
"Such an act could not but be inter-
preted by the world as sure proof
that we were going to silver basis.
This would make run on the treasury
gold. for holders of notes would make
an effort to get gold while they could.
Again declaration that the bonds of
the United States were to be paid in
silver would be considered tantamount
to notice that free coinage of silver
was to follow. Our whole monetary
system would go to'pieces like a house
Of cards."
If our present money system, based
on the gold standard, is really so weak
that the mere attempt to pay the obli-
cations of the nation in the coin Of the
realm would knock it to pieces like a
house of cards, then the system is de-
,idedly in need of fixing. If it is really
10 weak as this, it is about time that
some other system be inaugurated, for
Instance it might be better to discard
he gold standard and 60 back to
by the opening OF our
hints to the free coinage of both
metals. Then we would not have two
,inds of money-one for the bond
lolder and one for the laborer.
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Mails for the.Yukon.

WASHINGTON, Jan 25.-Postmaster-
General Gary has issued an advertise
ment inviting proposals for carrying
the mails in safe and suitable steam
boats during the season of navigation
of 1893 on route No. 1907, from San
Francisco or Seattle, or any other sea-
port postoffice in California, Oregon
or Washington in connection with
Unalaska, Alaska, ST. Michaels and
points along the Yukon river to Circle
City, Alaska, or to Dawson City, Can
ada, if steamers run to that point and
back.
The contractor will not be allowed
to carry more than 1000 pounds of mail
each way per trip. Proposals will be
received until February %.
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THE MERCaANTs' PAN.


A System for Currency Reform Presented
by the New Yorkers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26.-The follow
ing statement OF its currency views
was prepared for the Associated Press
by the Merchants Association of New
York:
First-The legal tender note COM
monty called the greenbacl1 should be
retired by the use of money in the
treasury and by the issue of longtime
low-interest bearing bonds. Bullion
heretofore held as basis for treasury
notes will by this retirement become
available as additional security for
silver certificates still outstanding.
Second-National banks should be
allowed to purchase these bonds and
use them at par as the basis for circu-
lating notes, no notes to be issued for
a less denomination than $40. The
features of the present law relative to
the tax on circulation and the 5 per
cent redemption funds should remain
except that the tax be re-
dueed to one half of per cent, which
will be ample to provide for the ex-
penses of the Office of controller of the
currency.
Third-All national banks shall be
required to redeem their notes at their
own counters, at the treasury of the
United States or at any subtreasury in
gold coin, and all deposits for the 5
per cent redemption fund shall be in !
yold coin.
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49,
deep blue. sea. as it were: His record
SIS an advocate of bimetalism is SO well
known that more than an ordinary
oath will be administered TO him be-
fore "bygones are allowed to be by
cones" That 81 am a republican
will no longer suffice In defining his
position. What will he do? What
will bis supporters do?
Without the assistance of the gold
standard element he cannot hope to
carry majority of the next legisla-
ture. How far will he 90 to get that
support? Will he submit to the test
prescribed by the Oregonian? If he
does, will he retain the support of
those followers who have stood by
him through thick and thin the past
twenty years, because of. his opposi-
tion to the gold standard? Can they
stick to him after he has renounced
all his former principles and made his
bed with those who have always been
his enemies?
Ihere are still IN the republican
party of Oregon many who honestly
believe in bimetalism, and who sup
ported Mr.. Mckinley in 1896 because
they hoped through his administra-
tion to secure bimetalism by inter-
national agreement. This pronuncia
mento of the Oregonian affects them
the same as it does Mr.. Mitchell. Be-
fore they can be seated in the councils
of the party they must, in unmistak-
able words, declare for the gold stand
ard pure and simple. 1t says, "no
evasive argument about sound money
or international agreement will avail"
Will they humiliate themselves by ac-
cepting these terms. or will they tell
the gold standard republicans to go
buy some birthstone and start little
place of their own?
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-29
BEAUTIES OF PROTECTION.

This mornings news brings out two
pictures on the diverse side of sue
csssful protectiye-tariff law. In south
ern Italy and sicily oranges and lemons
hardly pay for tho picking, because
the higher American duty cuts down
the price at the groves. In Great
Britain many industries languish, be-
cause of our higher duties on textiles.
These are deplorable consequences of
tariff wars, and we must say, like old
Kaspar in Southey's story of Blenheim:
"Things like that, you know, must be,
after famous victory" The victory
Is ours, and the losses theirs. Yet
some loss is ours also. Not much
American -four can these poor italian
fruitgrowers afford now. Not so much
American iron and steel will the
British factory towns require. When
we have reduced the European laborers
quite to penury, whittier shall we
tura for markets for our teeming
acknowledgements.
This Comparison might proftably be
carried further, especially by the
food producer. It is an undisputable
of human nature, that
we patronize those who patronize us.
If the European producers cannot sell
auy of their products in America.
where will they look when in need of
,raaa and meat? VIII they scrimp
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-29
4 UNIQUE DEFENSE.


The defense offered in behalf of
Chris Merry, now on trial for wife
murder, in Chicago, is unique, but it is
the natural outcome of the latitude al
lowed for defense in criminal cases.
Merry's counsel have advanced the
theory and will attempt to support by
''expert' testimony that the defend
ant is q degenerate. Prenatal in
nnsnce, heredity and the surroundings
of his childhood, are to be in evidence
to show that he is the natural product
of crime and no more responsible for
his criminal actions than the person
who dies Of consumption is responsible
for an heritage of pulminary disease.
Any advance of the defense along
such lines should be promptly stepped
by the court. The theories of Pro-
fessor Lombroso and DR.. Max Nordau
are intereting as sociological studies,
but are not so sufficiently definite to
be held in opposition to the criminal
code. There is no doubt that Merry
is degenerate" So are all cold
bleoded murderers; but this is no reason
why society should not be protected
from them. Little time is wasted in
studying the causes of hydrophobla
when mad dog breaks loose in the
streets, nor should time be wasted in
considering the causes that lead to
cold blooded murder. The murderer
may be degenerate" may have
none Of the feelings of humanity in
his soul. and that is the greater reason
that he should be dealt with speedily
before his degeneracy shall claim an
other victim. 1t is ever better that |
the willful murderer be hanged than
that he be turned loose to murder some |
innocent and law-abiding person.
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negfects these troubles is laying the follB.
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sQUINTESCENCE" OF FOLLY.

Gov. Lord should get move on and
convene the legislature. Oregon
standing on one leg in the senate when
she has abundant ability that could
aptly represent her is the quintescense
of egregious folly.-Linn county Re.
publican.
It is but natural that the Re-
publican should see but one service
for an Oregon legislature to perform
that of electing United senator, re-
gardless of cost or consequence, since
it is paper just sprung into existence,
having for an excuse for its birth the
advocacy of that gentlemen's interests
whose only use for the taxpayers of
the state is seat in the upper house
of congress.
We agree with the republican that
Oregon has abundant ability from
which to make senator's; it is hanging
around loose everywhere; it is going
to waste; in fact we have q surfeit of
senatorial timber that would perhaps
serve the nation better following the
pillow.
With such an abundance of ability
on every hand it may be folly for
Oregon to "stand on one leg in the
senate" at least that is the opinion
of the liability" especially one par
tlcular gentleman who considers
himself especially fitted for the place.
But we would ask, what is Oregon
losing by thus being "one-legged" in
the senate? And what would it cost
to ssapply the missing "leg?" At
present there is no legislation pending
before congress in which the state
of Oregon is so deeply interested
that it can afford an expenditure of
$50, 600 to s50, 900 to get full represen-
alton in that body. Besides the state
is fairly well represented, numerically
at least. and moro than this, ,one of our
former senators demonstrated that the
states interests could be fully repre-
sented by one sen ator, when he deserted
his post of duty at Washington in
January and February CT 1897, and |
came home to look after his reelection. |
There are many reasons why Coy. |
Lord should not ''get move on" and |
convene the legislature. Principal
among these is the expense that would |
be incurred, with little hope of any |
direct benefit except saddling upon the |
nation the salary of one more senator
and more taxation. 1t would |
cost anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000
to conduct an extra session for twenty
days, and what could the people ex-
pect from it? In the light of the ses-
sion of 1895 and the so called session of
1897, nothing. 1t would be the worst
sort of folly for the governor to place
an extra burden on all the people of the
state Just in order to satisfy the desire
for Office possessed by one man, and
few of his strikers.
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pEErNsEs ARE COOP.
Spanish Troops Unable Even to Approach
the Cuban,s CanitaI

NEW YORK, Jan. PA dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says:
The spanish acccun. of the victory
of General Casteilanos and the capture
OF the headquarters of the rebel gov
ernment in the town of Esperanza is
now proved to have been fabrication.
There is no such town as Esperanza
near Cubitas. The name of the town
founded and occupied as the capital
by the rebel government is Agramonte.
Spanish troops are unable to get near
this place, always being repulsed in
the mountains and forced to retire with
heavy loss.
Latest adyices state that the rebels
are still besieging Holguin, and that
the garrison cannot possibly hold out
without supplies and reinforcements,.
General Pando finds it impossible to
send these through, though he is MAX
ing desperate efforts to do so, General
Pand's army is still along the banks of
the Cauto river ard 'intrenched, but is
unable to assume the aggressive.
General Gomez shows no signs of
taking the field and conducting an
active campaign. He states as his |
reason that he is short of cavalry and
cannot operate successfully against the
Spaniards, who have plenty OF horses.
At this rate tire war in the eastern
part of Cuba can last for years. In
,he western provinces. however. the
roops keep pretty well on the move,
,ut neither side has achieved decisive
esults.
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WOULD DEBASE. .o1IRRgNeY.

80 - 49,
The controversy over the Teller res
olution, to require the United States
treasury to pay bonds in either gold or
silver, has lead the gold-standard press
into deep water from which it is difh'
cult to extricate themselves. Fer in
this discussion they have shown who
are the ones that are undertaking to
debase the currency of the country.
This they have laid at the door of the
silverites in the past. but now they
have proved beyond contradiction that
it is the gold advocate who is causing
distrust in the money of the United
States and would debase every kind
except gold. Even the Oregonian has
lent its effort In this direction by in
sisting that tho bondholder must be
paid In nothing but gold, while all
other creditors of the government must
accept whatever they can get. For
instance, it says:
upon what is the demand for pay
ment'of bonds of the United States in
silver based? On the knowledge that
silver is not as good as gold. Hence
the wish to make the public creditor
take it. So long, indeed, as the gold
standard is preserved, silver and gold
are equal; but to give notice that the
debt of the United States is to be paid
in silver is to weaken, perhaps destroy,
the gold standard"
When analyzed, what does this
mean? Simply that every class of
money issued by the government ex-
cept gold is of inferior value. For if
the government discriminates in favor
Of the bond holder and permits him to
dictate in what class of money he
shall receiye his dues, it says to. the
world that all other money is base.
What then will be the result? Every
other creditor will refuse to accept sill
yer or paper money in payment of his
claims. And the final outcome will
be, congress will be asked to pass
resolution that we have no money but
gold, that officers salaries and all
debts of the government be paid in
gold, for if silver and paper are not
good enough for the bond-holoer they
are not good enough for other cred
itors.
Further or in the same article, the
Oregonian continues to show what
what effect the agitation of the gold
press has had in creating distrust. 1t
says:
1--WE have seen from experience
how difficult it is to maintain that
reserve. Government even now gets
no gold through its revenues. If it is
compelled to have gold, it can get it
only by sale of bonds. But it is not
very probable it could sell bonds for
gold, under notice that they were to
be paid in silver"
Already those who owe the govern
ment have begun to doubt the gen.
uineness of the credit currency and
are paying their obligations to the
nation in money they fear is question
able, and why?, Because tie gold press
of the country has led them to believe
that nothing but gold is good enough
for the bond-holder.
If we are to have one kind of money
for the bond-holder and one kind for
the other creditors, there will ever be
distrust in our financial system, and
this distrust has boeu brought about /
by the gold-standard press. They are
the ones who seek to shake confidence,
which Is nothing short of debasiug the
currency.
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Ef,ect of the Alaska Rush.

TACOMA, Jan. 27.-The rush to
Alaska lis greatly stimulating every
industry at this port. The barks
Shirley and Canada are each loading a
million feet of lumber and will sail in
a few days for Skagway. Three other
vessels are due to load lumber for
Alaska ports. Lumber ships are also
loading now for France, South Africa,
Hawaii, San Pedro and 81. Nazzaire.
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and esonomize to save up pennies to
send over here in payment for our
wheat, corn and meats, while we say
to them, you shall not sell to US?
This is question that Is worthy the
consideration Of the farmer who has
been voting for protection that will
build up market for hts cereals, his
cattle and his hogs, and should cause
him to enquire, "Where am benefit
ed by protection?" The past year has
evidenced what an important factor
the farmer is when he produces good
crop and is able to sell 1t at fair
prices. Had it not been for him and
his mammoth crop harvested last year,
together with the shortage in the
cereal crop abroad, the prosperity OF
1897 would have been penury and
want. Still the farmer was not the
sole cause Of our recent prosperity.
The European consumer Is entitley to
o portion of the credit. Had he. dur
ing past years, been reduced to starry
alton by not being able to sell the
products of his labor. he would not
have been able to buy and pay
cash for the products of our soil. In
that event our abundant harvest would
have gone begging for a market, and
our farmer instead of receiving fair
compensation for his products, would
have put them on the market for what
they would bring. This will be the
result if we pursue onr present policy
OF shutting out what the world has to
sell. Should abundant crops be har-
vested throughout the world this year,
our farmers will find themselves with
out a maj ket abroad, for the European
consumer will buy where he can sell.
In this event we will ceme to full
realization of the beauties of protec-
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The Pacific coast has lost its repre-
sentative in President McKinley's
cabinet since McKenna has been ap-
pointed to the supreme bench, and
John w. Griggs, of New Jersey. has
been appointed as his successor. 1t is
to be regretted that the president has
not named some man from the coast
for attorney-general. as it is all i'm
portant that the section west of the
Rocky mountains be represented in
the cabinet.
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CANADIAN THE LOWEST sIDDEa.
Alger's Reindeer Will Probably Come West
Over That Lihe.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Bids for the
transportation of 500 reindeer and
the attendants from New York to Port
land or Seattle have been opened In
the Office OF the quartermaster-general.
About 25 railroads were represented
at the bidding, the lowest bid being
that of the Canadian Pacific, which Of
fers to transport the reindeer and at
tendants with forage and food supplies
for the party at the rate Sf S47.00 per
car. Other bics ranged as high as
$4o0 per car. The reindeer will be
used in the government relief expeii-
tion to the Klondike for which $780,
900 has been appropriated by congress.
The expedition will leave for the
Pacific coast about the middle of Feb
ruary in charge of Brigadier- General
Merriam, U. S. A. The supplies
which the government is sending
through for the miners in the Klon-
dixie consist chiefly of bacon, bread
and coffee.
Lieutenant D. D. Devore and Rev.
DR.. Sheldon Jackson went to Norway
some time ago to buy reindeer to be
lsed in the expedition, and succeeded
n buying 500 at from $40 and
Sl5 head. They also hired 75 Lap
auders VINO with their families and
lousehold effects will be part of the
elief expedition.