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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
TRUSTS AND TRUSTS.

Despite the decision ofuthe supreme
court sustaining the antitrust law,
big Misunderstanding concerns go
right ahead organizing trusts for the
purpose of limiting the product OF
their commodities, preventing COM
petition and keeping up prices.
Prominent among the industries that
refuse to recognize the antitrust law
are the sugar reflners, coal oil manu-
facturers, glass manufacturers and
rubber goods manufacturers, and now
it Is announced that the linseed oil
manufacturers have com bined for the
purpose of controlling the output of
this article, and have organized with
a capital stock of S50,000.000. In the
combination are all the principal
linseed oil factories in the United
States and they will be able to control
the OUTPUT of linseed oil, regulating
prices to suit themselves.
With this preponderance of trusts
throughout the country, in what con-
ditlon will the producers of the country
who cannot form trusts find them
selves? Most assuredly at the mercy
of the trusts, forced to pay whatever
price the trusts may demand for their
products and forced 20 sell the product
of the farm at whatever price the
trusts may fix.
With the farmers the formation of
trusts is impossible. The output of
the farm can never be foretold, hence
it cannot be regulated. No one can
ever tell in advance what the seasons
will bring forth, hence when grain is
planted no one can tell what the har-
yes will be, consequently the output
cannot be regulated. But with the
it is different. The
output can be controlled so that there
can be no domestic competition so long
as all interests in one line can be
combined and protective tariff pre-
vents competition from abroad.
Hence it is we have trusts and the
producers will be at the mercy of them
80 long as present systems prevail.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03

duction Of gold for the year 1898, will
be at least S275, ZOO, 600. For the calen-
der year of 1888, the production was
ouly Sll0,000,000 showing the sur
prising increase In the yearly pro-
duction of gold of S165. 900, 900. There
are now in the mints of the govern
ment Sl34, 100000 worth Of bullion
awaiting the minting process.
If America annexes the Philippines
and offers an "open door to imports
from other countries, where is the
, revenue To come from to run the
government? 1t will require no less
than $lOO, ,OOO, 900 to govern the islands,
and if this cannot be collected as i'm
port duties, where is it to come from?
Probably off of the alre ady overtaxed
people of the United States.
Ten clerks in the senate and twenty
in the house should be enough to per-
form all the clerical work in the state
legislature. II C greater number Is
employed at the regular session it will
be an extravaganza. Our law makers
should not disgrace themselves by
paying off their political debts with
appointments to clerkships in the
legislature. Only such number as Is
actually required should be employed.
Next year promises to be busy one
among railroads in the Northwest.
The o. r. &. N. and Northern Pacific
are arranging to build number OF new
lines throughout Eastern Oregon and
Washington the coming year. Two
big crops harvested in the Inland
Empire have put new life into rail-
road companies. Thus it is that upon
the farmers prosperity all other in.
dustries depend.
An extra session Of congress is
almost certainty, as 1t Is insisted
that there are numerous state matters
that cannot be disposed of at the
short session soon to convene. But the
real demand that will be made for an
extra session is for the purpose of re-
forming the currency. There will b.
nothing done in this line in the 90
congress, and those who are most
anxious for reform CO not care to take
chances on delay. They fear that
should congressman elect be allowed
to remain with their constitutions too
long, they will get ous of the. notion OF
retireing credit currency.
Some people would have our ex
presidents made public wards by
placing them on pensions after they
retire from official life, but this Is en-
t:rely unnecessary in the case OF the
two living ex-presidents, for both OF
them are able to take care of them
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03

"The importer pays the tax" is the
favorite argument submitted to excuse
the theory of protection. Now If this
is trne. who. will pay the tax on Ameri.
can imports into the Philippines after
we have annexed them. II there is a
duty levied on American goods i'm
ported into the islands, American pro.
ducers, we presume, will pay the tax.
If there is no duty on American i'm.
ports and we corral the business
of the islands, then the Ameri-
cans will have to pay the expense of
maintaining the colonial government
just the same.
The sugar beet producers are pre-
pairing to get their hands into the
states pockets by asking that a bounty
of one dollar ton be given on all
sugar beets produced in the state.
This is a little request they will make
Of the next legislature that should be
voted down. If the beet sugar industry
cannot thrive without bounty it is
undesirable in this state, for it will ever
be q burden upon the taxpayers. A
business that must be boIstred up at
the expense of the state is not wanted.
An Indiana man who is looking
sharp for business says, There are
400, ,O00, 900 Chinese and every mothers
son of them ought to have folding,
bed and bicycle" To which the
Tacoma Ledger adds, washington
follows in the same practical vein,
that she can furnish wheat, -four,
lumber. fruit and fish for the Chinese" ,"
and she has entered upon the under.
taking, with encouraging prospects.
Every public official should be paid
q reasonable compensation for the SER
vice he renders and the responsibility
he assumes, only this and nothing
more. When high her salaries are paid |
the office holder ia getting something
for nothing, and the taxpayer ia un-
Justly burdened. This is the state of
affairs that exists ia Oregon today.
There should be pruning down. J
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
Dressing Sacques
discredit upon themselves or their

discredit upon themselves or their
SUI e.iors, and as result, when the
report is made by the committee 1t
will be that there has been no una
voidable suffering either in the field
or in camp, but that the soldiers have
been supplied with every comfort
possible.
Had; the members of the committee
really wanted to get at the real found.
alton of the complaints, they would
! have called as witnesses the enlisted
I men who are supposed to have been
imposed upon. Thew are the ones
who are most competent to give tes-
timony as to the treatment received,
therefore when congress makes in
vestigation they will be the witnesses
who will be heard. 1t is but fair that
the soldiers as we'll as the officers
be given an opportunity to tell what
they know, for in this way only can
the whole truth be arrived at, and
that is the purpose ofan investigation.
Forty.three mem bers of the present
congress will not be members OF the
next. OF this number twenty-six are
republicans and only three democrats,
eleven are fusjonists and three are
populists. AS rule men who had
attained little distinction in past
sessions were retired. The men who
came to the front as faithful advocates
of the rights OF their constituents,
were retained in districts where their
parties had an even show. This is an
evidence that the people require active
service from their public servants.
A Dalles boy at Manila writing
home says he cannot save anything
out of his $3.50 a months pay as it
takes about all of it to buy extras to
live on. This is a disgrace to the
nation. Our soldiers are supposed to
be fed and should be provided with
every necessity of life. They should
not be required to take money out of
their scanty pay to buy extras to live
on. In the tropics they should be
supplied with something besides bac-
on, beans, hardtack and coffee. The |
department. needs re-
forming.
Millions of dollars are hid away in !
and obscure places, that
Keep money out of circulation. because
people who own it have not confidence
n savings banks or have not access |
to them. A system of postal savings
banks would prevent this, for every.
body has confidence in the stability of
he government, and such institutions
would be accessible to all. Then why
'hould not congress give us postal
avines bank system?
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
1T RESTS WITH Us.

Twenty years ago few prosperous
miners who had been successful in
LeadYille conceived an idea of making
great city OF Denver. They bought
inside property and begun building up
huge buildings thereon. At that time
there were few pretentious buildings
in Denver; in fact, while it was
lively western town, it had not as
sumed metropolitan airs. But as a
result of the investment of these
miners it took on new growth, and it
grew in population from $4,000 to a
city of over 100000 inhabitants in
twenty years, and has become one OF
| the foremost cities Of the west. Denver
had little to recommend it as the cite
| of great city; its resources, outside
of the surrounding mining industries
were extremely limited; it is far in
land and has no water power or other
natural advantages. Therefore its
growth and prosperity can be attribut-
ed only to the indomitab,e energy of
the few rich men who built it up
despite adverse circumstances, men
who said Denver should be q city and
made it such.
From Denver The Dalies may we'll
learn lesson. What made Denver. a
great city If applied to The Dalles
would make it the foremost inland
town on the coast. Here we have
every natural facility for building up
manufacturing town and great trade
center. We are surrounded with one
of the most productive farming sections
in the world, by soil and climate that
will produce anything common to the
north temperate zone;tributary to US is
one of the great grazing countries of
North America; at our very doors are
the falls of the Columbia, Deschutes
and Klickitat, if utilized, would fur
nish unlimited power for turning ma
chinery; within easy reach are the
forests of the Cascade mountains that
are destined soon to furnish the
lumber for the world; we are beside
one of tae mighty rivers of the contin.
ent that flows untrameled to the sea,
hence we are accorded the cheapest /,
possible freight rates to all parts of the !
world. What better advantages could |
there be for building up great and |
city?
Why The Dafles is not city of 20,-
900 or 80. 600 inhabitants is a question
that puzzles the stranger who visits
the place and does not enquire into its
past history. The reason is we have
lacked in Enterprise. We have been
too easily satisfied with what came to
as and to let we'll enough alone,
not putting forth any effort to
better our condition or build up the
city.
While we have no wealthy mining
men to take hold of the place and give
it new life, yet we have sufficient
capital to put in motion ;he wheels OF
industry and convert this city into the
liYeliest place on the coast. We can
Inaugurate manufacturing industries,
we can develope the supposed coal
mines that lie almost within the city
limits. We can offer inducements for
the farmers and stock raisers of the
interior to make this their trade
center. In short; it rests with US who
are located here to make of The
Dalles a great thriving city, or to let
It dwindle down to simply a way
station on the rail road, place where
people and capital may locate when
hey can go nowhere else.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
BOTHERSOME PROBLEM.

| Now that we have the Philippine
islands. what are we going to do with
tnem? What kind of government
| will we establish In that far east
country. The sentiment of q majority
of people in this country is on the side
Of expansion, bus the public generally
haveI not counted the cost er con-
sidered the responsibility of undertake
ing to govern 5000, 900 semi-civilized
people who are a mongrel race and
have never known what freedom is.
What to do with the new acquisitions
in the Pacific will be one of the most
complicated questions this govern.
has had to solve in many years. First
of all, the Fllipinos are opposed to an
nexation to the United States or any
other foreign power. They want in
dependence, and believe they are cap
able of self-government. Therefore it
will be with reluctance and possibly
at the point of the bayonet that they
will submit to any attempt of this
country to assume control over them.
People governed against their will. or
by force, are never good, loyal citizens.
They are rebellious. hence a military
form of government is all that will
keep them in submission. IL would
seem then that the only way to con:
troll the Philippines Is to set up a
dictatorship over the archipelago
backed by strong army and navy.
II this shall be the outcome it is
questionable if the Filipinos will be
in much better condition than they
were under Spanish domination, and
that the new acquisitions will become
an additional expense to this. govern
ment is certainty. We fear the |
United States will YET rue the day
when the treaty Of peace with Spain
was signed.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03

US to train our guns on the people
| whom few months ago we were
fighting to liberate from Spanish
tyranny.
Should the 100000 Filipinos COM
bine under one leader to oppose
America they would become formid
able enemy, but this is hardly likely.
They cannot all agree among them
| selves, for there ara numerous dis.
senters within their ranks, yet enough
can be concentrated to cause no end of
bother, and to keep up a desultory
warefare for years.
Should the Filipinos carry out their
desire to become an independent
people, it will become a djsagreeable
task for American soldiers to advance
upon them. When it comes to whip.
ping a people into submission, as
Spain, England and France has done
in the past, it is contrary to the
American idea that the governed are
entitled to choose their form of gov
ernment. The Filipinos do not stand
in the same position as did the people
OF the South when they undertook to
break away from the Union by seced-
ing and sought to tear down our civil
institutions. They were rebels against
the government, and it was with
hearty will that the men who were
loyal to the Union took up arms
against them. But the Filipinos, if
they choose to resent our domination,
are only carrying out their former de-
sire for independence.
They have never been part of the
Union, al least with their consent,
hence cannot be classed as rebels.
Under such conditions liberty loving
Americans will not readily engage in
war against them. When this govern.
ment calls for an army to subiugate
the Filipinos it will find comparative
ly few willing volunteers, for the
American people as q rule are opposed
to wars of conquest of subjugation.
1t is not pleasing outlook TO think
That our newly purchased ''citizens"
in the Philippine islands are display
ing rebellious disposition so early.
1t portends trouble ahd bloodshed. and
the intr oduction of new class into
our institutions-people who are not
citizens but subjects. and are to be
made subjects against their will. !
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03

In 1865, at the close of the civilwar
the people of the United States were
practically free from debt. The
public. private and corporate debts o.
the United States now approximate
forty billion dollars.
The American flag will float over
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine;
as an emblem of freedom. This flag
abhors despotism. Beneath its folds nc
form of slavery can ever be establish
ed.
The strength and permanence OF
nation depend upon the masses OF
The people being independent, self
reliant home owners. II the gold
standard is not abandoned our people
are doomed to become dependent
tenantry.
If a treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain is presented
TO congress at the next session free
from the taint of corrupt deal with
Spanish bondholders and simply rep
resenting the just and legitimate fruits
ofvictory, it ought to be ratified with
out unnecessary delay,
Ithas been suggested that when the
United States assumes control of the
Philippines one of the islands be
made leper colony. Wouldn't it be
first rate plan to include as its in
habitants lot of the worse than lepers
the professional politicians of this
country who have no other interest
in the nation than to live off the
people and build up the burdens of
taxation?
Salem Is confronted. with a more
serious problem than almost any otter
city in the state. Its expenditures
exdeed its revenues from 5000 to $l0,-
600 year. and the people are begin
ming to ask where they are at and
where they are going to. 1t is the
condition that will confront every
other city that ia victim of official
ism. where public officers have no
other object than to fleece the tax
payers.
In his annual report Secretary of
the Navy Long states that during the
war with spain the enlisted men in
the naval sesvice was increased from
12,5 800 to 24,l23, and during the en-
tire war there were only II death
among the officers and men in the
service. What a contrast this is TO the
fatalities in the army. There was
good management in the nsvy depart
ment and bad management in the war
department which explains tho pre-
ponderance of fatalities in the latter.
1t is estimated that the worlds pro-
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
PHILIPPINE COMPLICATIONS.

Though the war with Spain is ended
and the treaty of peace will be signed
within week. the prospects for peace
with our newly acquired possessions
are not fiattering. Advices from the
Philippines that the insurgents will
not recognize the cessation of the is
lands to the .Unised States, and that
they will resist American authority
are not by any means encouraging.
This may involve US in war with the
natives of the Philippines and cause
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03

The REPUBLICAN papers, particularly
those that lean to protection ideas, arc
quite amusing these days. They are
busy explaining to their readers
the difference between "the open door
policy'' of the administration TO be
put 10 operation In the government OF
the Philippines and Porto Rico, and
free trade. The explanation Is quite
plausible, but it does not remove tho
fact that stares the protectionist re-
publicans in the face that the advocacy
Of worlds money by any party must
in time lead to an advocacy Of
worlds trade-free trade-by that
party.-East Oregonian.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
Tempt palliative or remedial treat

attempt palliative or remedial treas-
ment accordinly.
The other recent use of the Roentgep
ray of special value is in observing the
movements of the stomach and its con-
tents in the preliminary digestive pro-
cess. By mixing subnitrate of bis
muth, which is said to be a harmless
powder, with the food, the movements
of the stomach may be seen by means
of the Horoscope under suitable con.
ditions. The knowledge thus gained
is of great Importance to the physi.
ologist and the physician. and many
facts hitherto unknown are revealed.
1t is not strange that an English
writer playfully remarked that the 4
ray may yet be employed to read the
riddle of the Sphinx. It iis certain
that Professor Roentgen gave to the
world a discovery which is bringing to
mortal gaze many of the deep-hidden
mysteries of nature.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03

An appropriation Of state funds for
the maintenance of state fair is a
waste of public money. The state at
large does not derive any benefit from
the fair. All the good it does is to
make times lively in Salem for a few
weeks each fall.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
;. Competition is the Life of Trade.


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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
This weeks news==partIy told.

We would like holiday
wearing make the getting of
we a per purchase of
stock Fancy Silk No
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
Fur COllaretteS.

Real beauties, every enc Of them. and no
two alike. Stone Martin, a aska Sable,
French Seal, Black AStrochans and other
choice furs are used in the making of them,
$3.50 to $500.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03
Golf Cloakings.

Holiday buying will soon absorb your at
tendon To help you in deciding on what
to buy we will make numerous suggestions
in this space from now until Xmas Golf
cloakings in newest combination at So 90
So. SO and $500.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-03

Cheviots, Coverts,. Assebet suitings and serges
there is selection, but blindfold choosing of a
size would mean the getting of an exceptional va
lar values are from $l2 to SlS.
Evening star., 1898-11-03
IMPORTANT NAVAL STATION.
Miller Says Pacific is Second
if Not First.

CHICAGO. November a.-Rear Admiral ].
Hawaiian Islands and proclaimed them part
Of the United States, left this city today,
after a days stay. for Springfield, Ohio,
his boyhoOd home.
Il believe" said he 1.-The Pacific station
to be second in Importance. if not the most
important. of our naval stations | think
so not because | have commanded our
aeets in those waters many years. but
because the rapid growth of the west coast
cities indicates that large population will
eventually reside there. | am, therefore,
greatly gratified that the government has
seen fit to send such two magnificent battle
cifc station"
With regard to the lessons gained by the
late war he said: First and foremost,
think the necessity for the Nicaraguan ca
nal is a thing of prime importance to our
navy. country which has such a vast
coast line on two oceans needs d route by
which warShips can be transferred from
ocean to ocean instead of the present neces-
sity of circumnavigating continent.
think the Nicaraguan canal will be built
in eight years. 1t is the only practical
passage"
With regard to Hawaii he said: 1T was
especially pleasant for me to close a long
service by presenting my country with a
large and fertile territory. Ever since my
first visit to Hawaii. in 1855, | have been
convinced that the islands should belong to
u.s. / have visited Honolulu many times
and have always been accorded a royal
American city. and We did right in taking
Il in"
Evening star., 1898-11-03
Poison Bottles.
From the New York Tribune.


Another death caused by the administra-
ton of poison from a bottle supposed to
contain medicine has revived discussion of
the possible means of preventing such fatal
accidents. Again it is proposed that legis-
laticn shall be invoked to compel the use
of bottles not only labeled to designate
their contents, but peculiar and distinctive
in appearance, form and surface, so that
they may be recognized for what they are
at touch as we'll as a glance. Careful
druggists now take pains to preclude the
chance of mistakes, and We see no objec-
ton to requiring universal obedience to
even more stringent regulations than they
have adopted; but there is not much rea-
son to believe. human nature being what it
is. that adherence to any rule in drug
stores would prove an effectual bar to care
lessneSS ct home.
To many persons it appears amazing that
anybody under the pressure of any emer-
Sency should take or administer a drug
without reasonable care to ascertain in ad-
vance what it is. TO grope in dark closet
for a bottle and. having found it, to pour
out a dose in the dark cannot pass for
anything but recklessnes SIS. Yet that is con-
stanty done and presumably will continue
10 be done to the end of the chapter.