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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
BRYAN ON TRUSTS.

w. J. Bryan. in his great speech at
Milwaukee, said many excellent things,
and said them in his excellent way.
He struck at the great trusts from
the shoulder. Whatever Mr.. Bryan
touches upon, he does it in an original
way, and people love 10 read what be
says: Here is short extract from his
speech:
"The trusts are now absorbing an
increasing share of public attention
because Of their rapid growth during
the last two years. We had sugar
trust and an oil trust some years ago.
We now have bicycle trust and a
match trust and meat trust-in
fact, a trust in almost everything
that is used. The milk trust
reaches the infant as he enters
the world. the ice trust cools him in
the summer, the coal trust keeps him
warm in the winter, while the coffin
trust waits to receive him when life's
fitful dream is over. The people are
begin ming to see what the principle of
monopoly really means. and yet the
principle of monopoly, 60 plainly
illustrated by the industrial trusts,
does not differ at all from the
principle of monopoly which under.
lies both the gold standard and the
paper money trust"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29

NEW YORK, April Pa special to
the Herald from Washington says: 1t
is understood that the cabinet has de-
cided not to send Major-General
Wheeler to the Philippines. The
general officers who will be assigned
to duty under general Otis will be
Brigadier Generals Young, Grant and
Bates.
1t is proposed, however, to place
General Wheeler on. active duty, and
to this end the organization of new
department to be known as the de.
partment of Texas. is contemplated.
General Wheeler will be- assigned to
that command until next November,
when lie will be relieved and come to
Washington to assume his congress.
sional duties.
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n the presence of his former sweet.

in the presence of his former sweet
heart.
The Porto Rican swore vengeance,
and one night finding Burke drinking
with several companions, rushed up
behind him and cut his throat.
Ortiz was seized, convicted and sem
fenced to be shot. He was to have
been executed at San Juan the day
Secretary Alger reached Caguas on
his tour of inspection. The mother
and sister of the condemned man and
several other natives lined up on each
side of the road and stopped the pro-
gress of the secretary The mother
and daughter knelt and pleaded for
his life.
Secretary Alger suspended execu-
tion of the sentence until the case
could be looked Into by the president,
who today commuted the sentence to
life Imprisonment.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
WHAT CAN BE DONE?

Every vestige of tariff duties that
serves to erect trusts and monopolies
should be wiped from the federal
statute books. If these combinations
can be killed at all, it will be by these
means. Attorney General Griggs con-
tends that under the constitution con.
gress has no power to destroy such
gigantic trusts as the iron, steel,
cracker, oil and other trusts, that the
power to do so remains with the states.
And yet every attempt that has been
made in this direction has signally
failed. Gao it be that every branch of
the government stands helpless
against these monopolles? 1t would
appear so. If so there is only one
remedy, and that is the one proposed
by senator Pettigrew-whenever a
trust is created on any article or any
product, let the president have power
TO Immediately place that article or
product on the free list. If that plan
does not kill it, nothing else will.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
STILL AFTER QUAY

Ex-Postmaster.General John Wana-
maker was most active in the en-
deavor to bring ex-senator Quay to
justice by forcing him to trial on an
Indictment for conspiring to defraud
the state, and the old merchant is not
discouraged, but will keep up the fight
until justice is done. In a recent In
terview the Mr.. Wanamaker said of
the result of the trial which terminated
last week:
Notwithstanding all this proof, en-
anating exclusively from the lips and
pens of himself and his closest friends,
and in the face of his own silence and
failure to testify to lis innocence, be
was acquitted. This is new chapter
OF shame for Pennsylvania, new
record of failure in the administration
Of justice, that will do much to encour-
age corruptiOnists and public plunder-
ers generally throughout the country.
"The first shout of defiant exultation
n his acquittal has proceeded from the
governor of the commonwealth, who
has promptly appointed him United
States senator, without authority, and
In violation of the law, and in defiance
of the will of the people as expressed
by the votes OF the legislature. 1t is
fitting in every way that the capstone
should thus have been put on the edi-
fee OF boss rule and machine jobbery
by the Quay representative in the gov
ernor's chair.
'But friends of good government
should not despair. There are other
indictments to be disposed of still
hanging over Quay. The contest
against the degrading forces, prac-
tices and principles which Quay and
his machine represent will be carried
on until justice and right, morality
and honesty shall triumph.
"Today's verdict settled nothing but
the fate of the single bill of indict-
ment upon which Quay was tried?"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29

Eastern Oregon wool growers are
getting little 16 to experience that
they were not looking for when they
supported Mckinley in 1896. 1t now
takes about 16 pounds of their wool to
bring one dollar profit, whereas they
were promised 16 cents pound for it
in the last presidential campaign if
they would vote for ''protection to
American industries" They voted
that way, and as result they voted to
protect the woolen manufacturers to
the extent that he has such monopoly
on the American market that he can
palm off goods one third shoddy, one
third cotton and the rest wool, and
give the wool grower just what he can
get in free trade in England less
freight, comm ssion and insurance.
Next election they will cast about 16
votes for themselves and one for the
manufacturer.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29

A travelling man, representing one
of the leading factories in the United
States, and who has voted the repub-
lican ticket all his life, visited The
Dalles few days ago, and in discus
sing current events. stated that he had
voted fora republican candidate for
president the last time. because" he
stated, trusts are the offspring of
republican principles: they have been
fostered by republican legislation and
grown into dangerous monsters under
that party. Trusts are detrimental to
the welfare of the masses and men,
ace to American liberty, therefore 1
am done with the party that is respon
sible for their creation" He further
ventured the assertion that w. J.
Bryan would be nominated on an anti
trust platform and would be elected,
even if he was welded to the 16 to l
s'heresy." There are thousands of
others who have come to the conclu-
sion arrived at by this drummer"
that no relief from the encroachment
of trusts can be expected 80 long as
the republican party is in power.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
CALUMPIT HAS
BEEN TAKEN
Macarthur Invested the
Place After a Hard
Fight,

WASHINGTON, April 25.--The fol-
lowing has been received at the war
department from General Otis:
MANILA, April 25.-Hale's brigade
McArthur's division, moved down the
right bank of the Quinqua river yes.
terday to the vicinity OF Calumpit, and
was joined by Wheaton's brigade on
the left bank. Hale encountered fierce
opposition driving the enemy with
heavy losses and taking his entrencb-
ments in the flank. Hale's casualties
were six killed and II wounded.
"The division has now invested
Calumpit, which will be taken today.
Lawton. with part of his command,
will reach Norzagaray this evening,
where he will be joined by the center
column from Bocave.
Extreme heat, rain, high streams
and bad roads made the march very
difficult. He has not met opposition
since, leaving Noyaliches, the enemy
retreating in his front south of and
near Manila. The enemy has force
of 1000, making demonstrations daily,
so can be easily taken care Of.
1t cannot communicate with the north.
OTIS"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
Five Were Murdered.

ST. LOUIS, April, Pa special to
the Post-Dispatch from Dexter, Mo-,
says: One of the most fendish crimes
ever committed in Southeastern Mis-
souri, was the murder last night of
Mrs. Jane Tuttleton,, widow of Wash.
Tuttleton, prominent man of that
section, and her four children, whose
remains were partly incinerated by
the burning of their home, II miles
south of Madden. J. 81. Tuttletou, son
of Wash. Tuttleton by his first wife, is
under arrest for the crime, and all the
circumstances seem to point to his
guilt.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
MADE COINS IN PRISON.
Clever Counterfeiters Among the Colorado
Convicts.

Clever Counterfeiters Among the Colorado
Convicts.
CANYON C1TY, Colo, April SO The
discovery has been made that some
very successful coiners have been oper-
ating inside the state penitentiary
here. The counterfeits are silver
dollars, and it is believed they are OF
com bination principally of babbit met
al, which was used setting the graf
ings during the construction of the
prison. 1t is supposed the coins were
made in plaster of paris molds.
The coins were first detected by
merchants who sold delicacies to the
prisoners. This led to an investiga.
ton, and % of the bogus dollars were
found In the possession of the prisoners
though no clew was obtained as to the
identity OF the coiners. The coins are
SO well executed as to deceive any
one.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
Engineers for Manila.

NEW YORK, April 25.-Major ]. X.
Knight, of Fort Totten, Villets Point,
has received orders from the war de-
partment to make preparations to send
80 engineers to the Philippines. The
men will be selected from companies
B. and D; those desiring to 60 will be
given the preference.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
Crocker Was the Star.

NEW YORK, April 26.-Richard
Crocker sailed for Europe today on The
American liner New York. Hundreds
of enthusiastic friends were at the
steamer to wish him safe voyage.
Sir Julian Pauncefote and Speaker
Reed were passengers by the same
steamer, but were scarcely recognized
in the excitement and enthusiasm
which attended the departure of the
Tammany leader. Reed said he was
going abroad for vacation of three
months, and upon his return would
settle in New York. He refused to
discuss the political outlook.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
ONE SECRET OF PROSPERITY

The two past years have unquestion-
ably been prosperous generally speak
ing throughout the United States, and
the cause of the improvement in busi-
ness is found in the immense increase
in our exports over imports as com
pared with former years. Whenever
we sell more than we buy, money is
certain to become plentiful, and when
there is plentitude of money, if it is
properly distributed, times cannot but
be good and prosperity general. Dur
ing the past two years the distribution
has been in the proper channels for it
has gone largely to the eagriculturalists,
who have caused it to circulate among
all classes.
According to comprehensive report
just prepared by Frank NJ Hitchcock.
chief of the section of foreign markets
of the agricultural department. the
total value of our domestic exports
for the twelve months of 1898
reached the enormous sum of 81 ,21O.-
1.913, exceeding the record breaking
figures of the preceding year by Sl78.-
284.310~ On the other hand, the i'm
ports during 1898 were the smallest
since 1885. their value being 1915, ,049,-
654. decline of $14s, ,685, $3.50, of the
figures of 1897.
Broadly stated, for every dollars
worth of foreign merchandise brought
into the United States. two dollars
worth of our products found market
abroad.
Our domestic exports as compared
with our imports showed an excess of
1894, 242, 25s. or more than twice the
excess for 1897, which was the largest
previously reported.
An interesting fact developed by the
report of Mr.. Hitchcock. is in the in
crease in the exports of agricultural
products being 1898 per cent of the
total or 1856, ,5O7:942, a gain of nearly
26 per cent over 1897.
Exports of this class also show a
greater gain proportionately than nom
agricultural exprots.
Our purchases of foreign agricult-
ural products in 1898 amounted to
only 1914, 4,291 1876, as compared with
s4O0, 81 1853 in 1897, decrease of $685.
579.672, or about % per cent.
The value of the American farm pro-
ducts sent abroad during 1898 was
much more than double that of our
agricultural imports. the excess on the
former over the latter amounting to
44,2l6, 146. In 1897, the excess on the
side of agricultural exports was only
s2Ss. 1888. 725, and in the years immedi-
ately preceding still smaller.
The increase in the volume of ex-
ports cannot be attributed to any
system of legislation that has been |
recently, but is the result of |
,hortages abroad ard abundance at |
nome. We had immense crops of GER
Gals, while there was a shortage in |
,ther countries. They required our
surplus to make good their deficiency,
md were compelled to pay good prices
or II. This Il the whole secret Of our !
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
HALE's BRIGADE ENGAGED.
They Did Some Hard Fighting Before
Columpit

HALE'S bRIGADE ENG AGED.
They Did Some Hard Fighting Before
ColumpIt
MANILA, April 25.-General Hale's
brigade, consisting of the Nebraska,
Iowa and South Dakota regiments,
with three guns, which left Malolos
Monday, followed the west bank of the
Rio Grande river to ford. Many
small bands of rebels were encountered,
and during the afternoon the Ameri-
cans discovered several hundred of the
enemy entrenched near Pulitan, north
of Quingango. Our troops attacked
the rebels, losing six men killed and
II wounded
General Hale's troops claim that
nearly 200 dead natives were counted
along the country traversed. Among
the dead was Spanish captsin.
The South Dakota regiment bore the
brunt of the fighting, and had five men
killed and nine wounded.
The country traversed by our troops
is thickly wooded ard hardest for fight
ing. The rebels along Bagbag river
reinforced from Calumpit as the troops
under Hale approached. During the
day the Americans captured 35 prison
ers.
AS this dispatch is sent the rebels
are retreating in the direction OF Cal
umpit. The Filipino troops engaged
were we'll uniformed and we'll drilled.
AS the campaign progresses the work
of the rebel troops is improving. They
are adopting American methods, and
the accuracy of their shooting is evinc-
ed by the fact that five Americans
were shot in the head.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
MALOLoT To BE EVACUATED.
Americans VIII Make No Attempt to hold
the City.

AmeEAcons "hh MAKO NO attempt 70 hOio
the City.
NEW YORK. April 2l.-A dispatch
to the Herald from Manila says: The
movement of the American forces on
Calumpit has begun. General Hale's
brigade crossed the river at Quingua
and moved down the bank toward
Calumpit. Many insurgents were
driven from in front OF the line of
march. Fifty of the enemy were killed
where the American loss was only one
killed.
1t is reported that General Near
thur, with Wheaton's brigade and an
armored train, is waiting at Malolos
for the strategic moment for an ad-
vance on Calumpit. This advance
from Malolos is momentarily expected
to begin.
The town of Malolos will be evacu-
ate1, only the railway station being
held. The natives are returning
there In great numbers. All are pro-
fessed non pcom batants.
The army gunboats being unable to
ascend the river and CO operate in the
on Calumpit have returned
to Manila.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
RATHER ROMANTIC.
How Alger Saved the Life of q Porto
Rican MurdarAr

How Alger Saved the Life of q Porto
Rican Murderer.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-President
Mckinley las commuted the death
sentence of Rafael Ortiz. of Caguas,
Porto Rico, who murdered private
Burke. of the Forty-seventh New York
infantry, to life impris sonment. Sec
retary Alger was instrumental in
securing this act Of clemency, as the
case was brought to his attention
when he was in Porto Rico.
Ortiz was in love with Porto Rican
girl before the arrival Of the American
soldiers in that island, and was loved
in return. Burke won the heart of the
dusky maiden; and when Ortiz pro-
tested the American .slsppsd his face
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
NO MARKS OF v1oLENCE.
RadIr and Hickman Died of Ptomaine
Poisoning.

Radrr and Hickman Died of Ptomaine
Poisoning.
ASTORIA, April 27.-The bodies of
w. T. Radir and P. G. Hickman were
brought from Seaside yesterday, and
an inquest was held this afternoon.
No new facts were learned, except the
testimony of DIR. J. A Fulton, who
made q pOst-mortem examination of
the bodies this morning. He said
that he had found in each case severe
Inflammation of the stomach, and that
the stomach of each vas comparitative-
ly empty, with the exception of small
quantity of domestic onion In each.
No undigested food was found. The
bodies were we'll preserved apd there
were no marks of violence or injury,
Death, in his opinion, resulted from
an irritant poison that had been in
troduced into the stomach. The kind
of poison was undoubtedly ptomaine,
which is caused by the putrefaction of
animal or vegetable matter. DIR. Full
ton was poaitive that the poison was
not arsenic or strychine, rs the sym
toms that accompany these poisons
were not observed in the bodies. A
death resulting from poison of this
kind, he said, was always preceded by
acute pain for several hours. While
the bodies were In good state of
preservation, he believed that the men
had been dead for some time. The
jury did not arrive at verdict, but
took an adjournment until the body
Of A. j. Cloutrie, the fourth member
of the party, is found.
81. A. Smith, of Portland, who came
here to take charge of w. T. Radir's
body, returned with it on the evening
train. In speaking of the party being
10 the woods, Mr.. Smith said that Mr..
Radir had interested party of Penn
sylvania capitalists in a large tract of
timber land comprising over 5000
acres, principally in range north,
townships 6, and 8; that the purchase
would aggregate 100000. The men
who met their death were in search of
q feasible grade to build railroad
from this timber land to tide water, or
to connect with the Astoria & Colum-
bia River railroad.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29

The sentimental claim that "where
the stars and stripes have once been
raised they should never be hauled
down." so frequently made use OF by
imperialist papers, is the worst kind OF
rot. Wherever they have been raised
in opposition to freedom or for the
userpation Of the rights of any people,
they have been raised dishonorably,
and it is not disgrace but an honor
to bring them down. The em 5lem of
liberty, the proudest flag of the world,
was never made to float over the heads
of any people without their consent.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
ANOTHER WHITE WASH,

The court of inquiry has about fin.
ished its labors, and has made up its
findings in the beef investigation.
What the report will be has already
been forestalled. 1t will sustain the
administration, and hold that the beef
was all right, regardless of the testi-
mony that was submitted. But Alger
had TO be whitewashed and he will be.
Though the report of the stool pigeons
who served as members of the court
will not suffice to overcome the testl-
mony of reliable soldiers, nor will 1t
convince the people that there was no
blame to be attached to the admins
tration of the war department for
furnishing such stuff to the army.
Eyen the most loyal republican jour
nails condemn the court in advance OF
the report which it will make. and the
Oregonian is forced to say editorially:
"Half of the evidence given in sup
port OF the charge that the refl igerated
beef of the army was treated to chemi-
as applied to it, appropriate as desig-
nation of its condition, satisfied the
country that the charge was true,
the beef court, however, does not find
the entire volume of proof sufficient.
1t admits. though somewhat guardedly
and with apparent reluctance at being
compelled to imply censure of 80 high
minded and capable an army officer as
General Eagan, and so honorable and
painstaking a cabinet officer as Sec
retary Alger. that the canned roast
beef furnished the war department
was 'unpalatab ble.' AS to the rest,
General Miles is to bs reprimanded
for not filing his objections to the 'un-
palatable ration with the secretary of
war-though as everybody knows, he
would have been snubbed for his pains
Lad he done so. However, the beef
court has done all that commission
appointed to wh:tewash the secretary
of war and his chief commissary could
reasonably be expected TO do. II the
findings do not tally with the facts as
brought out over and over again in
evidence, no one need be surprised.
1t NAV be added, however. that there
is no doubt about the conclusions the
people have reached in the case.
Canned maggOts are something more
than 'unpalatable' in their estimation,
and 'em mbalmed' beef something more
than repugnant as an army ration"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29

In the settlement of the great ques-
tion now before the people of this
country the writings and sayings of
Lincoln and Jefferson can be drawn
upon with great profit. Both of these
great men understood the principles
on which this government of the peo-
pie was founded and in their public
lives gave expression to wisdom that
is of service to the plain people of the
land in forming their conclusions
necessary to the performance of their
duty as citizens and patriots of the
greatest republic that the sun ever
shone on" Both Lincoln aud Jeffer-
son stood for human liberty and de-
clared against the false doctrine that
''only rich men or only white men OR
only Anglo-Saxon white meu are enti-
tied to the privileges and benefits OF
self-government''- blessings
enumerated in the chart of the coun.
try's liberty-the Declaration of In
dependence EAST Oregonian.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
CH1oaeo rEeeoEs no pRorssr.

Anti Lynching Services VIII Be Held Next
Sunday.
CHICAGO, April 26.-In behalf of the
10000 colored residents of Chicago the
local auxiliary o. the national Afro
American council is arranging for q
series of meetings to be held in the
churches next Sunday night to protest
against the lynching OF the Rev. Lige
Strickland at Palmetto, Ga. by mob
of white men.
President L. F. Barnett, of the local
organization, and his wife Ida Wells
Barnett, secretary of the national
council, have arrangements in charge.
In the five African churches sermons
will be preached with special reference
10 the lynching, and addresses by
other speakers will follow. Resolu-
tions appropriate to the occasion will
be offered at all of these meetings for
adoption.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
UP A BUNDLE BEE.

There is report in the air that
General Miles will be courtmartialed
! for finding fault with Alger and Eagan.
Already administration papers have
discovered a danger signal hoisted
over such procedure. and are sound
ing warning. They known what
muss it would kick up If the admins
tration were to attempt TO discipline
khs general for bsying told the truth.
Hbe Oregonisn 10 one Of the faithful