The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-09-24

Portland or Puget sound points. The
liberal offer of AstOria's prngres
sive association and chamber of com
merce will never secure much wheat
unless backed up by something prac'
ticable.
The issue in the Washington cleo
tion will be the money question, the
republicans having declared for the
present gold standard, and the fusion
lists for free coinage. 1t will be the
contest of '96 over again.
l is said that when President Nc
Kinley visits the Omaha exposition he
will make an ascension in one of Gen.
era1 Skaters balloons. Conldn't he
prevail on Alger to go along? We
might get rid of him that way.
If there is any doubt about the legal
status of Mr.. McKinley's war investi-
eating committee, as Mr.. Sherman
thinks there will be, there will be none
about the congressional committee
that will later on make an investiga
tion.
The giving one railroad monopoly
of transportation to and from Camp
Wikoff, at Montauk Point, as well as
the exclusive privilege to conduct a
store and restaurant at the camp, is
sufficient reason why the camp should
be abolished, and another count in the
long Indictment against the war de-
partmept entered.
Presiden6 Mckinley proposes to ap-
point commission composed OF lot
of political hacks to investigate the
care of the army during the recent
war. Such commission would do no
more than whitewash the head of the
war department. If the president
can t remove Alger, he would do him
sell credit by leaving the investigation
to congress.
Should the United States ever get
into another war with a foreign
country, it would be sure winner to
hire Alger out to the adversary, and
get him put at the head of the enemy's
war department. He is the most sue
cessful exterminator of an army known
to the present century. He can starve
soldiers faster than they can be killed
with bullets.
The Washington republicans, in
their state platform, say: "We indorse
and approve tine administration of
President Mckinley and his cabinet.
This we presume includes an indorse-
ment of Alger's misadministration of
the war department. 1t will prove
pretty heavy load to carry to endorse
the starving and neglect of the Ameri-
can army.
Those who are so rampant for
absorbing the Philippine islands with
their 1000, 600 barbarians cannot but
have their ardor cooled when they
read of how the Filipinos are unable
to agree among themselves, and how
they are ready to spill each others
blood. They are an unregenerate
race that might govern themselves by
brute force when the stronger had
killed off the weak, but they could not
become American citizens.
The dispatches announce that every
thing is in readiness for the special
session of the legislature that con-
venes on the 26th. This means that
the Salem "hog" has been turned
loose, and the "grafters" are in posit-
ion to fleece the innocent taxpayers as
of old. During the week there will be
few hundred would be clerks assemble,
and they will be so hungry for places
that they will have to be awarded for
their faithfulness at the expense of
the state.
Those brave men who enlisted few
months ago for the nations defense
continue to die in the horrible hospi-
tails and camps provided for them, and
disease increases in their ranks, and |
Alger's heart remains un.
moved. He holds on to his fat job,
OF his incompetency and
the suffering of the men for whose |
comfort he is responsible. Will the |
old farce never resign? If not, the |
president ought to have enough de-
;ency LETT to remove him.
The Washington and Michigan rep
ablican platforms endorse Alger and
the conduct of the war throughout"
8 approved. Nothing is criticised:
is swallowed-Alger's poll
tical schemiug and blunders. the hor.
'ors of hospital ships, the hunger and
neglect of our forces at Santiago, the
conditions in camps
ast and south. All these unhappy
onditions were the outcome Of AL
,erian methods and Algerian incapac-
ty, and as Alger was member of the
epublican administration, they had to
e swallowed, and they would have
'een swallowed if they had been
vice as deplorable.
With an overweening confidence in
is own heaven-born genius and ab-
ity to do everything himself from his
flee in Washington, through the in
of political satellites
hat have been appointed to positions
,r which they are wholly untitled, Mr..
lger has completely muddled the
fairs of the department. of which he
as unfortunately appointed the re-
ponsible head. When he and his
olitical appointees relinquish Office it
ill take experienced and compe tent
len long time to undo their mis-
Ikes, and the sooner it is put out of
heir power to make many more the
ghter will be the task.-Boston. Tran
,ript.
The Journal published at Prineville
somewhat of dreamer, and has con-
uded the Times Mountaineer is a re-
nblican paper. 1t is wonderful what
feet Imagination will have on the ,
inds of some men. No expression of :,
le Times-Mountaineer could have led
le Prineville editor to believe it had
lvocated the principles of the repub- 1;
can party of today. We must plead
lilty of having given voice to some
the doctrines taught by Abraham
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