The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-08-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

| Senator Simon has been down to the
mouth of the river inspecting the jetty
and ascer.aining what can be done to
deepen the channel. He can render
good service TO the state if he will
push this matter along in the senate,
and get Oregon's harbor improved so
that the largest vessels can enter.
Secretary Root contemplates calling
for more volunteers to take the place
of the soldiers now in the Philippines
because they are worn out and unfit
for longer service. If he does he
should get authority to call for enough
not only to subdue the war but hold
the country as it is taken. If.the war
is to be continued it should be done
right.
Dreyfus is now the hero of France
Only a short time ago he was a prisO-
ner on DEVILS island, held unjustly
because of prejudice and the unfair
methods that prevail in that country.
Dreyfus will pe declared innocent at
a trial now being conducted at Rennes,
because public sentiment is in his
favor, not because France desires to do
him justice.
| France has some peculiar methods.
| When man gets troublesome to the
government or is in the way of some
| high official, he is either sent to prison
| or falls victim to some hired assassin.
M. Labori, principal counsel for Drey-
| fus, furnishes an example. He was to
examine General Mercier, before the
court-martial, but was shot to prevent
his appearance in court.
There will be no war between the
United States and Great Britain
over the Alaskan boundary dispute.
Johnny Bull is only running little
bluff, and when Uncle Sam calls it the
matter will be settled amicably Be-
sides both countries are too busy with
Imperialism to fuss about few acres
of ice up north Mr.. Bull has his
hands full of Beers and MIR. Sam has
the Philippine niggers to look after.
Now Robert B. Scott, of Ohio, comes
to the front and offers to buy a seat in
congress. He is willing to put up
$4,000. His plan is to give his entire
salary for the education of four youths
whom his constituency may delegate
TO be sent to college. This is rather
practical. especially in Ohio, where
politics are run strictly on financial
basis. Mr.. Hanna seems to have the
Ohioans pretty we'll educated in cleo
tion schemes
Col. Plummer, OF the Thirty-ffth
regiment now recruiting at Vancouver,
says he expects many of the Oregon
Manila to re-eniist in the regular army
for service in the Philippines. They
may. but judging from the sentiment
expressed by the men who came back
to The Dalles the number will be
small. They seem to have had ali
they want of the Philippines, and be-
sides they are not generally in SYM
pathy with the war.
Alexander Mcdonald, the mining
king of the Klondike, furnishes an
example of true American grit. Four
years ago he went to Alaska and carv-
ed out fortune that six months ago |
was estimated to be from 10000, 900 to |
$50, 100000. He has failed and his |
liabilities are S6,000,000. Mcdonald
tunred over his property to his cred
itors, left his young bride in Dawson
City, shouidered pick and started
out to make another fortune. Such
men cannot fail to succeed.
Since Alger is out of the way the re-
publican press are leveling their guns
at General Otis, because he is claimed
to be Land are severely de.
nouncl his conduct of the war in the
Phil ines. They waste their powder
in suvu attacks. Otis is not to blame |
for his weakness, neither was Alger.
The real party to be censured is the
man who appointed them to the posi-
tiOns. Mr. Mckinley is the man re.
sponsible for their acts, for he it was
who gave them an opportunity to dis
play their incompetency.
The announcement that President
Mckinley will not relieve General
Otis of command in the philippines
has familiar ring. He said he would
not retire Alger. but he got Vice.
President Hobart to ask him to resign.
1t is now in order for the president to
ask the vice-president to ask some
body over in Manila to ask Otis
l. he will please request to be
relieved. The president is entirely
too courteous a gentleman to directly
remove an officer, especially if he has
a political pull. and they are.the kind
that hold positions under him.
Aristocratic circles have queer
'treaks in England. Because Lady
Churchill wishes to marry a
nan almost young enough to be her
ION, her friends violently opposed and
he young mans relatives are in a
renzy. Lady Randolph Churchill is
till young enough to be intensely
.ttractive and the young man is
lot contemplating marriage beneath
lin when he aspires to her hand. The
My drawback appears to be the dis {
arity of age, and it would seem to the
mortal that the matter con- J
erns only the contracting parties.
And now it is announced that the !;
)regonian is to feel the cold and =
lammy grasp of the trust, not an in t.
ustrial trust, but the political trust
he Oregonian has incurred the dis. q
leasure of the administration, at
Washington by criticising its short
omings. This has raised the ire of RI
[r. Hanna, and if reports are true, he I'll
ill discipline the big daily by start. g
lg an administration paper in Port b
nd. If this is to be Mr.. Hanna's VI
ethod he will find it an expensive CT
b he has undertaken. If he pro- &C
,ses To start an OppOsition to every e.