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

Is, and then all will know whether o.
not to support it.
A vote for the single gold standard
is vote pure and simple for an In
terest bearing, everlasting bonded
Indebtedness, only that and nothing
| more.
In the different departments al
Washington there are said to be over
700 Ohioans holding positions. Sena-
tor Hanna is industriously paying of
his debts to his political friends by
furnishing employment at the ex'
pense of the government.
Operator Loucks of Virden declares
that he will operate his mines even II
he has to pile up dead niggers by the
cord. Mr.. Loucks is one of those
able and sympathetic gentlemen who
shed tears OF sorrow over the woes OF
the poor laboring man during the cam
paign Of 1895.
The war did not cost $500, ,OO0, 600 and
the war tax is bringing millions month
ly in excess revenue, but the entire
issueof 5000, 900. 600 has been made. Its
wise finarciering, indeed. that borrows
| money when there is no need OF it,
but the bankers demand the bond is
sue.
And now we are told our peace COM
missioners at Paris propose to take in
all the Philippines, and will probably
pay Spain for them. 1t looks rs If our
people are not taxed heavily enough to
suit the powers that be, and this ad-
ditional burden must be thrust upon
them. Certainly this seems to be
time when there is no limit to taxation.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat rises
to the defence of Alger because as it
says. to attack Alger Is to attack Nc
Kinley. OF course. Mckinley is pri-
marily responsible for having in his
cabinet the cowardly skunk that was
censured during the war of the rebel
lion by Sheridan. Custer and Merritt.
No paper in Washington is making
a nobler fight for the rights OF the
people than the Spokesman-Rev
The argument it has submitted has
no: yet been refuted by any OF the cor /;
poi alton papers in the state. The i
Spokesman-Review; is fearless, inde- !
pendent paper that merits the esteem |
OF all right minded people.
There is more gold per capita in
actual circulation on the Pacific coast
than in any section of the world. Yet
any man knows that, If depended up
on alone as a circulating medium,
business would stagnate in q single
hour. Then why prate of supply and
demand in the money market? Gold
cannot fill the demand.
Yes, the country is prosperous.
Only S452, ,OOO, 900 issued In longtime,
interest bearing bonds in the last FIVE
years and $500, ,00O, 600 of idle money in
the U. S. treasury. Such financiering
must cause the very imps in hell to
smile at the people hoodwinked by the
phrases "single gold standard" ''sound
and an "honest dollar"
The campaign over In Klickitat
county is q warm one, and Messrs.
Hugh Golrley and M. P. Isen burg,
,wo OF Wasco county orators, have
been called there to dispense re-
publican doctrine. They are canvass {
ng the entire county. F. x. Sohoon-
maker, the New Jersey montebank. is t
Ilso dilating upon the beauties of re-
in Washington. Z
The presidential party snubbed 4
General Miles at Chicago and Omaha. t
The people may think Miles vain, /
,ompous and aristocratic to the verge G
II being un-American but they have q
aith in his courage and manhood and
wait with An increasing interest his c
'fhcial report on the war, knowing O
hat if necessary, he will tell the truth b
Alger and Algerism. b
The Oregonian imagines 1t would be =
terrible calamityif Washington were
o cast It's votes for the silver ticket .
ext week, and stand along beside its
eighbor states for the money of the :
onstitution. 1t stood by them in = =
S96, and We fail to see where it has
uttered any great calamity. 1t has !"
cen about as prosperous IS the state :
hat voted for gold. :,
The defeat OF Senator John L. Will b
On for reelection in the state Of v
Vashington would be heartily ap- ii