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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
WHO IRE COPPERHEADS?

The senators who oppose the issu.
auce of $500, ,OOO, 900 interest bearing
ponds to create war revenue are de-
nounced as "buccaneers" and "copper".
heads" because they will not place
the necks of 100000 American peo-
pie into the collar of the oondholders.
Peanut" orators say they are not
patriots because they oppose the ad.
ministration's plan for raising money
with which to prosecute the war.
These orators however do not stop to
explain that those senators stand ready
to vote for any war revenue bill that
is 1easonsble, and are anxious to sup
ply all the money the president may
want to conduct the war, but they will
not permit the people enslayed and
future generations loaded down with an
unnecessary debt. The real patriots
are the men who protect our people
against debt and at the same time sup
port the administration in prosecuting
the war. The copperheads are the
ones who would fasten upon the nation
q bonded debt of $500, ,OOO.OO and
mortgage the country to Wall and
Lombard streets. There Is no GER
tainty that the expenses of tho war
will reach $500, ,0O0,0OO or any sui
nearly equal thereto, and even should
it, congress will be kept in session
during the war, and can arrange for
the expenses as they are incurred At
present there is oyer S200, 1000, 600
available cash in the treasury, and un-
til this is exhausted, the authorizing
OF another bond issue would be
robbery.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
SIMON PULLS THE STRING.

When Hon. T. T. Geer was nominal
ed at Astoria for governor, some of
the anti.Simon republicans consoled
themselves with the belief that they
had at least one candidate on the
ticket whom they could rely upon as a
friend, and they had hope if Mr..
Geer was elected he would be free
to act independently as governor and
be free from the influence of Simon,
but recent events cause this hope to
vanish.
1t is an open secret in Portland that
in case of Mr.. Geer's election, Graham
Glass, jr., secretary of the republican
state committee, is to be appointed
private secretary to the governor.
This cannot but be taken as an evil
dence that with Mr.. Geer in the
.gnbernatorial chair, Joe Simon
will be the power behind the
throne. This must be bitter pill to
the friends of Mr.. Mitchell and Mr..
Ellis. Glass, the protege and lieu
tenant of Joe Simon, their bitterest
enemy, to be secretary to the govers
nor. How will it suit them? Who
will be governor while Mr.. Glass is
the private secretary? Will it be
Geer, Glass or Simon? OF course it
will be Geer in name, but Simon will
pull the string while the marionettes
dance.
Mr.. Glass may deny that an agree
ment has been reached to give him
the appointment, but let Mr.. Geer
deny it also if he will. The people
will not be satisfied without anything
but fat denial from him.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
WE ARE PATRIOTS.

The attempt OF the republican press
to create discord between patriots, by
claiming the war is republican
measure and stirring up partisan
feeling, and appealing TO the voters on
that ground, meets with the just con-
demnatien to which it Ii entitled, even
from the more liberal republicans.
The following is from the Portland
Tribune, a gold standard republican
paper, although it is fighting Joe ST.
mon in local affairs. This attempt to
drag patriotism In the dirty mire OF
politics, ought itself to cost the gold
standard people votes among fair men.
The article is as follows:
"With characteristic venom, ignor-
ance and intolerance the Oregonian
denounces democrats and populists as
traitors because they will not vote the
Simon-repnblican ticket. It uses ths
war with Spain as mean and con-
temptible pretext for declaring that
patriotism means the support Of its
own ticket in this county sad state.
"How narrow and bigoted is this
course! How stupid and nearsighted!
Votes are not won by calling men
traitors. How absurd is 1t to main.
tain that practically half Of the people
of Oregon are traitors to their eoun.
Try, willing that Spain shall win!
l.Is IL not ths height Of treschsry TO
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
TAXES ARE TAXES.

In times past, people haye been
hoodwinked into the idea that indirect
taxes did not affect the consumer or
the producer, as they were "paid by
the foreigner" but they are coming
to realization of the fact that "taxes
are taxes" no matter how they are
levied and that they fall on all alike,
whether they are levied directly upon
property owned by the taxpayer or
upon what be consumes. The New
York Evening Post makes the matter
Of taxation quite prominent when ii
says:
"The discussions of the war revenue
bill in the senate are doing at least
this good. that they bring to light
some elementary principles of taxa,
ton which have been long obscured
in this country" Senators complain
that this or that proposed tax will be
"burdensome." Somebody will have
to pay it, will know that he is paying
it, will not like it, will grumble, will,
perhaps, even begin to doubt the
supernal wisdom of senators who lay
the tax. Such is the result of years OF
teaching that taxes for federal pur-
poses are something that no American
has to pay. 1.-THE foreigner pays them;
they come secretly and automatically
out of the general business OF the
country; they flow into the treasury
like the gentle rain from heayen-the
treasurer peeps in, and there is the
money, he knows not whence
but no citizen ever puts his
hand in his pocket and forks
over to the general government"
This has been our complacent theory,
which the indirect operation Of pro-
tective taxes has given the demagogue
q show of reason for asserting, and
the ignorant a plausible ground for
believing. What abuses and e1trava-
gance have sheltered themselves be-
hind this opinion we all know. If
there had been perfectly clear rela-
ton between every inflated pension
bill and the margin of saving of each
citizen, we should not have seen what
we have seen. But the war and the
Dingley deficit combined are giving
us saner notions. Taxes are so much
taken from the wealth of the nation,
and the process by which it is taken
cannot be concealed. when a resort to
direct levies has to be made, as now.
Let US hope the lesson will not be
forgotten before the war comes to
teach it over again.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
STATE SUPERiNI!ENDENCY

If any Office in the state should be
partisan it Is that of superin-
tendent of public instruction. 1t mat
ters not whether the incumbent of
this office be a republican, democrat
or populist, or in fact if he has any
partisan afiliation whatever, if he is
competent, honest and free from any
influences that would be detrimental to
the public schools of the state or to
school patrons. But it is all important
that the incumbent of tkis high office be
not entangled in any alliances with
corporation or combination that would
be or is detrimental to the interest of
school patrons.
J.H. Alderman, of Portland, is so
tied up with a corporation known as
the American Book Company that if
elected he would not be free to act in
selecting text books for the state when
that matter shall come up in 1901. He is
the candidate of that institution, and
If elected will be under the control of
his master. His influence will be
used in perpetuating the monopoly
that concern has upon the text book
business of the state. The result will
be his influence must go toward giving
the company new contract that for
ces school patrons to buy inferior books
at outrageously high prices.
H. S. Lyman, Mr.. Ackerman's oP.
ponent, is not tool of the American
Book Company or any other combine.
He opposes monopoly in any form.
He will therefore use his influence to
encourage competition between pub
fishers, and as result will get the
best books at the least possible cost.
He will be free to act in every way for
the interest of the public schools of
Oregon.
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thus aid and comfort the enemy by
sowing dissention and discord at home?
"Happily the American people, ire
speetive of politics, democrats, silver
republicans, populists and republicans
alike in this state and in the nation,
men who vote for Hume or for Simon,
for Geer or for King, are united in
support OF the president. There js not
a break in the ranks. The distinctions
OF politics have been swept aside by a
lofJier patriotism. The president will
have all the money and all the men
that he needs for the war. The gal
liant men who will march through
Cuba and the Philippines and the bold
sailors of the sea are patriots, not
nartiaana -
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DON'T BE FOOLED.

The Oregonian runs double col
umn catch phrase, intended to attract
the attention of laborers, that reads:
"The humiliation of the Spanish
feet by Dewey was not more complete
than will be that of the silver party ss
soon as the wags-earners awake to q
realization of the self-evident fact that
the cheap dollar promised by silver
advocates cannot be substituted for
the present dollar without reducing
all wages; and that, therefore, free
silver means relief by reducing all
wages moro than one-half."
In reply to this fallacy, we would
ask the wage-earners of the country if
they haye not had their wages suit in
two by the operation Of the gold
standard, and If they do not find it
more difficult to maintain themselves
and families than they did prior to
1873, when they had those hated free
silver dollars? We would also ask
them If the wages Of lsborers have
been advanced since Mr.. Mckinley
was elected? If so, why did the coal
miners of Pennsylvania strike because
of proposed reduction in their
wages? Why were the wages of the
operatives in the New England cotton
factories reduced after an administra-
tion went into power that was pledged
to the gold standard? And what can
the wage-earners see in the future for
themsn money is made more scarce by
legislation, but a reduction of wages?
Most laborers are willing to take sill
yer dollars for their work If they can
but get them, but under the workings
of the gold standard they have not
been able to get even silver; they can
not get work at any price in either
gold or silver. They are convinced
that employers must be able to hire.
help before they can get work, and
that they cannot hope for an increase
of work or wages while the amount of
money In the country is being reduced
by the enforcement of the gold stan
dard. They will not be deceived by
such assertions as the one above
quoted.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A vote for the republican nominees
for joint representative is an endorse
ment o. past legislative extravagances
and the hold.ups of 1895 and 1897.
Nobody has a pull on Mr.. King ex-
cept the people of Oregon. He will
be the governor of the people, not of
any faction.
The Office of circuit Judge is not
political, nor should it be held by q
politician. A rabid partisan is liable
to permit politics to sway his opin-
ions.
There were 81 clerks employed in
the senate in 1897, and they had moth
ing whatever to do but draw their sal
aries. This is one sample of republi-
can economy,
IKE Driver will be the next sheriff
of Wasco county, and he will be q
good one. He will be attentive to
business, and will conduct the Office
economically.
Remember the failure of the last
two sessions of the legislature to
abolish needless and expensive eom-
missions as the party in power promis.
I'D it would do.
Our supreme court should be nom
partisan, or at least diyided politically.
Judges Bean and Wolyertoa are re-
publicans, and they should haye Judge
Ramsey, democrat, for an associate,
Mr.. Geer as governor will be the
same as Simon for governor. He is
under Simon's thumb, and will be
dutifnl to bis master. Do the people
Of Oregon want Simon az the head of
the state government? I
In 1891, when the o. r. & N. had I
Of the carrying trade In
Eastern Dragon. bill was introduced
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
CLAPTRAP POLITICS.

The demogogical systems resorted to
by some politicians is amazing. G. W.
Fulton has recently been campaign
ing through Eastern Oregon, and on
his return TO Portland, informed the
Oregonian that many who voted for
Bryan in 1875 would vote the repub-
lican ticket this year, saying:
"The principal reason assigned for
the change is that it Is considered the
duty of every American citizen to sus-
tain the administration at this time.
Such feeling prevails, irrespective of
party, and it is realized that defeat of
the republican party in Oregon would
be construed as condemning the ad-
ministration in declaring war against
SPAIN"
This is indeed cheap method of at
tempting to steal patriotism, fer it is
an effort on the part Of the republicans
to pose as the only patriots. Nothing
more fallacious could be perpetrated.
All Americans are patriots to cer-
tain degree, and that degree is more
intense in the one who offers his life
as sacrifice to the nation than the
one who is seeking to loan his money
to the government on interest," bearing
b0nos.
Every American citizen is today up
holding the administration in prose-
cutting the war against Spain, but to
uphold the administration in this re-
spect does not require that he vote the
republican ticket. 1t is the sheerest
folly TO say that q refusal to vote for
republican nominees would be con-
strued as "condemning the administra-
tion in declaring war against Spain"
Nobody questions the necessity of de-
claring war against Spain. In fact the
opposition to the administration was
the loudest in its demands for such a
declaration of war, and stands today
ready to support the administration in
every effort to prosecute the war to
successful termination. However much
the voter may approve the administra-
tion's war policies. it does not follow
that he must vote the repu blican ticket
to express his approval. for that is not
the issue in the present campaign.
The administration is already endors-
ed on this proposition, but to vote the
republican ticket, one must endorse
the financial policy of Mr.. Mckinley,
which is to irrevocably fasten upon
the American people the single gold
standard, the issuance of interest bear
ing bonds without limit, the contrac-
tion of the currency, and the turning
over of our financial institutions to
the bond holders and national banks.
Let not the voter be deceived by the
claptrap statements of Mr.. Geer and
his ilk. It is not . necessary adjunct
to patriotism that we vote to place
ourselves in financial bondage. 1t is
not necessary that we vote to endorse
the Gage currency bill and the issu-
snce of half billion dollars of bonds
in order to express our approval Of the
war with Spain.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
OMAHA EXPOSITION
is OPENED.

The World Is Represented by Exhibits
and Displays.
OMAHA. June This is a gala day
in the city. The Trans Mississippi ex-
position was formally opened this
morning and bids fair to rival the
Chicago exposition in the matter of
attendance and displays.
Nearly every nation in the civilized
world, except Spain, is represented
here with exhibits in some form or
another. The attendance is all that
could be expected and Omaha is de-
lighted with the certainty of the ex-
position being a marked success.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Last year the farmers of this coun
try exported 331,722 cattle, for which
they received $50, 0,6o3,7 ,796.
1t is a surprising fact that the
bakers of America last year sent abroad
l4,206,314 pounds of bread and biscuit
for which they received $634,eo
Only 9,437 bushels of rye were sent
abroad last year, for which we received
t5,340. The fact that rye is leading
product in Germany, France, the Scan;
dinavian countries and Russia accounts
for the small export,
j. E. Gore, writing on 'The Size OF
the Solar System" says that enormous
ly large as the solar system absolutely
is, compared with the size Of our own
earth, it is, compared with the size OF
the visible universe, merely as drop in
the ocean,"
An acute musical ear will detect Sc
slight difference in tone between two
notes as the one-sixty-fourtho of semi
tone. This means that IN the II octaves
that the human ear compasses there
would be at least some 5000 or 1900
consciously different notes.
-MuIhan estimates that the total
production of gold and silver since 1892
has been E 1,461 ,e0O, 900; of this enor.
nous amount, e 439, ,00O, 900 have gone to
India and China, never to return; e552..
100000 have been consumed in the man.
afactures and arts, and only e193,Ooo,-
300 have been minted or used as cur.
cency.
Important improvements in Roent-
'en photography are announced from
Berlin. The most interesting is a simple
method of phetegraphing the stomach
md intestines, 1t is only necessary for
he patient to drink some harmless so.
ution of mineral salt, such as lime
pater, which is as inpenetrable as bone
x rays, and excellent results are OBJ
aimed.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04
WHERE is CERVERA?
Paris Papers Claim He Is Sailing To-
ward the Philippines.

PARIS, June 3.-Papers here claim
that Cervera was never in Santiago
harbor. and that he is now sailing
down the South American coast en-
route to the Philippines.
1t is asserted on what appears to be
good authority that only one of his
vessels went inside the harbor, and
that for repairs, while the remainder
of his feet, after cooling outside the
harbor, sailed away toward the South.
This statement corroborates the one
published at Madrid few days since,
that Cervera was not at Santiago, and
would appear where least expected by
the Americans.
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! through the rebellion. Besides he has
two sons at Corvallis who have en-
listed and are holding themselves in
| readiness to enter the army in defense
OF the nation. Is he not patriot!
Mr.. Aldrich also possesses unusual
qualifications for assessor, having
served two terms as deputy assessor in
Benton county.
| When here last week Mr.. King ex-
planned his atitnde toward the state
militia to the entire satisfaction of the
| most enthusiastic militiaman and
patriotic citizen In the state. The
vote the -Oregonian says he cast
against the militia appropriation bill,
was never cast. because Mr.. King was
at Corvallis when it came up for final
| passage; but had he been present he
would have voted against it, for it pro
posed to double the appropriation,
aud being representative of the tax
payers, he would have opposed that or
| any other measure that proposed to
uuueCoSSdrliy iuCTodSO UhO Jul doao vi
| taxatioh.
Much has been said about the ratio
| of 16 to l and it's dishonesty by the
gold bugs. but we want to tell them
that 16 to l is the ratio established in
the bonds of the United States which
are payable in ''coin" of the United
States by the act July II, 1870, and that
no other ratio is recognized by law.
And free coinage of silver was law at
that time and all the silver men ask is
that :7e may pay those bonds according
to contract. A man who lives up to
his contract is considered an honest
man. The silver men wish to live up
to tie contract, but it is the gold bugs
who want to violate the contract by
refusing to take in payment the money
that the bonds call for.
The souvenir edition of the Baker
City Democrat, issued May 20, is at
hand. 1t is splendid edition of 46
pages on enamel paper with hand
somely engraved covers, and is ela5or-
ately illustrated. The edition con-
tains descriptive al ticles of Baker,
Union, Grant, Harney and Malheur
counties, and is a publication that is
very creditable to the enterprise of the
publishers and the counties it repre-
sents. The edition is similar to the
Times-Mountoineer souvenir published
last January, and if it results in as
much benefit to the country as did our
illustrated publication, will prove a
good investment to those whose enter
prise made Its publication possible.
One of the dirtiest pieces of cam
paign political chicanery that has yet
been perpetrated, Is the affidavit of
John A Dooley and T. A. Bowen set
ting forth the fact that Will R. King
is a member of the A. P. A. or rganiza-
tion at Baker City. These men both
testify that they are not members of
the organization themselves, yet they
attempt to swear that they know he is,
and pretend to give dates when he
paid his dues into the organization,
Their affidavit gives itself the lie,
even were it not known that they are
two irresponsible creatures. Dooley
is renegade politician, who has no
standing whatever at Baker City
where he is known, and Bowen is
tool of John c. Young, ready to do his
bidding, and is editor of the Epigram,
a middle-of the-road populist paper,
that hates Young worse than it does
the devil.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-06-04

WASHINGTON, June AT the open
ing Of today's session the senate passed
a bill comforting American register
upon the steamship China, of the Pa
cific Steamship Company. The China
has been chartered by the war depart-.
ment to transport troops to the Philip
pines, Consideration of the war rev,
enue measure was then rusumed, But.
Ter, of North Carolina, addressing the
aanata
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Warming Up in Portland.

PORTLAND, June 1.-Up to the pres
ent time there has been but little in
terest taken in the coming election,
outside of local politics, but today the
result of the state election is attract
ing attention. and some bets are being
placed on the election of state officers.
One bet of $500 was staked today on
Donaldson and Moody even.
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New Cavalry Bill.

DENVER, June "A special dispatch
from Washington says:
The bill calling for two more indepeu-
dent cavalry regiments has already
been informally and favorably con-
sldered by the senate military COM
mittes, and is known to have the
presidential approval. Senator Mantle
will be named colonel of one of
these regiments and Senator Clark of
Wyoming will probably get the other
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WILL LEAVE FOR
MANILA TUESDAY.

The Second Expedition Received Or
ders to Go to the Philippines.
SAN FRANCISCO, June Orders
were received last night for the second
Manila expedition to sail from here
next Tuesday The troops are ex-
pected to hold themselves in readiness
to embark Tuesday morning SO that
the transports may clear in the after
noon.
At present there are over 10000
troops here, though probably not more
than 5000 can 60 with the next expe-
dition. The soldiers are tired of life
at the Presidio, and all are anxious to
get away for the Philippines.
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CARRYING COAL
SAnn NH OpAH
TO THE SPANIARDs.
An English Ship Has a Cargo on
Board.

WASHINGTON, June L. The gov.
ernment is informed that the British
steamer Remembrance, which sailed
from Falmouth, England, has on board
Spanish government packages, and
full cargo of coal for the Spanish feet
in Cuban waters.
This information causes some cen
lecture - to why the ship was per-
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a WARNING.

1t is said that the enemies OF Mr..
King are intending to circulate, just
before election, an alledged affidavit
. arging him with being member of
the A. T. A., etc. A queer thing
about the affidavit is that the two men
who make it, testify that they are not
members of the order themselves.
This Of itself stultifies the charge. 1t
is case of men swearing to some-
thing they know not of, and voters
should beware of such testimony. 1t
is said, however, that Mr.. Geer is q
member of the A. P. A. organization,
but of this we have no knowledge, and
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