The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-21

The contest between the Colum bia
has thus far displayed the American
supremacy in yacht building and sea-
, manship over the English This was
to DE expected since the Yankees have
ever outdone the British N all things.
The Beers are not meeting with the
success expected at the outset OF the
war with England. If they cannot
whip what few Britiskers there are in
South Africa now, there will be but
little show for them when General
Butler gets Gown there with his vast
army.
The men and the party that would
hoist the American flag over the slave
pens and harems of the Sulu Islands
are not to be trusted as guardians of
the lives and liberties of the people
here or anywhere else. Their prin
cIples, morals and religion can be ex-
pressed with dollar mark.
The New York World regrets that
1t did not energetically work for the
election of Bryan. The Hanr AM c.
Kinley- Alger-EaganC Carter-em balmed
beef administration has dis usted the
World as well as tens of thousands of
other democrats who were hoodwinked
into the support of Mckinley.
Some of the misguided but exceed
ingly active Filipino insurgents in
vaded the territory WI ich General Otis
has thoroughly "paclied" the other
| day and cut all the telegraph wires.
| A scarcity of news from Manila at any
future time may not necessarily be due
to Otis's censorship. 1t may mean
that the insurgents have cut the
cable.
Governor Geer left Tuesday for
Chicago to attend the laying of the
building in Chicago, which will be
| conducted by President Mckinley.
Many governors will be present and
all will be quartered at the same hotel.
that it believes the governor went at
his own expense, which it appears to
| think is an ancom mon thing for his
excellency to do.
Good old Queen Victoria does not
| favor the war against the Beers, be-
| cause she knows it is Unjust, but her
ministers covet the gold fields of the
Transvaal, and she cannot stay their
greed. They know the outcome of the
| war means the overthrow of the Trans
vaal republic and the transfer of the
territory to British domain, hence
thy will lot listen to her pleas for
peace. Victoria has some Expansion
lists" of her own to deal with.
The war in Africa arose over the fol-
lowing propositions: England demand
ed that the English in the Transvaal
be given the right of suffrage after five
years residence without taking an oath
of allegiance to Dom Paul's govern.
ment. The Beers offered to confer
the privilege after seven years resi-
dence and representatives of the two
governments to meet at Cape Town to
prepare and agree upon the wording |
of the proposed law. England's claim
can have no other foundation than |
that of might.
The New York democratic state GEN.
trail committee refers TO w. j. Bryan /
as ''the rational and approved leader
of the democratic party of the nation"
This means that the New York delega-
tion in the national convention
will favor his denomination, and
also that Bryan's popularity is grow.
ing in the far east. Bryan has had
every opportunity to ruin himself
politically by talking, but he appears
to have gained strength in the past
three years. Few public men could
have been so outspoken at all times
and on all subjects ana not closed their
careers, but Bryrn is an exception.
That was very pathetic statement
of the president of the Orange Free
States in casting the lot of his republic
with that of the Transvaal in which
he said, that as soon as rich gold
mines were discovered in Orange the
British would make preJext to over
throw the republic and seize the terri
tory. 1t is indeed sad commentary
On the inhumanity of the English goy- {
srnment that free and Independent 7
people are forced to pray that their +
ands may be barren of the precious q
metals. Thou shalt not covet" was
meant for nations as well as for in =
lividuals. O
The money expended in the war in A
he Philippines woull have turned in
o veritable garden spot all the half q
esert lands of the great arid region of "
he United States and Expanded" the
A merican continent so as tG max +,
omes within our own boaders for n
lany millions of Uncle Sans citizens d
-and yet it is solely from Materials n,
lc standpoint that Asiatic expansion NJ
advocated. The cost of the Philip II
luO war lOI q SluRlC ody WOulo Duilu al
nat portage railroad around the m
allies of the Columbia river, and net is
ne grain growers of Eastern Oregon, dc
and Idaho a million dol ia
lrs annually in freight rates. SEX le
ansion" comes high and the road of th
Imperialism is an expensive one to ne
, follow. vi
Senator Simon had been interviewed re
= the .Oregonian since he returned Is
ON Washington and said the Amer pa
an people are not going to be turned wi
1t of China any more than they were po
1t of Oregon fifty years ago." This
refreshing, but who is to be bene. thu
ted by our not being turned out of ist
" port of Asia where labor works to
mere pittance, and cannot even Ha
t wheat bread because it is too dear? sti
e are spending at the rate OF over ma