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Hay. Neither of the officials would
disclose anything as to the nature of
the exchange that took place.
The arrest aud detention by British
naval officers of German subject is
one of the most dangerous features of
the controversy. 1t is said,the consuls
of the three powers stationed at Apia
claim extraterritorial jurisdiction, in
volving the right to try the subjects
of their respective countries for any
offenses alleged to have been commit
ted. Under this practice the German
consul Rose, may demand the surren-
der of the German. If the man is
guilty, it Is considered improbable
that he will be delivered except on
some adequate guaranty that he is to
be sufficiently punished. 1t is not be-
lieyed likely that Rose will make such
promise.
1t is believed Admiral Kautz, with
the cooperation of the British, will
continue his efforts to bring the
rebellious natives to terms. This is
not likely to be an easy task, in view
of the somewhat small. force at his
command, but it is said the British
government may accept the PROPOSE
tion OF the authorities of New Zealand
to send regiment of soldiers to
Samoa. No protest thus far has been
lodged at the state department against
Admiral KautZ.
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THE QUESTION OF RATIO.

1t seems that there is or has been
some correspondence between Lord
Aldenham. director of the Bank of
England, and officials at Washington
concerning the reopening of the silver
question with reference to the resump.
ton of silver coinage by the Indian
mints, and it appears from Lord Al
derham's statements that the ratio
suggested shall be % to l. Why should
this ratio be suggested by such "able"
financiers? They have held all the
reasonable, because the commercial
ratio is nearer SO to /, urging that
free coinage would not change the
ratio or raise it above the commercial
value of silver. Were they to now de.
termine upon ratio of % to l they
would belle all their arguments, for
they would evidently expect their sill
yer coin to circulate at par with
gold coin, though it did not contain an
equal value of metal. To be con
sistent they cannot decide upon any
ratio whatever, for they are firmly on
record as saying that silver must ever
be commodity regulated by the law
of supply and demand. and that silver
coin not backed by gold cannot be of
stable value. For them to suggest
coiDing silver at % to l, is according
to all their past statements, an absur-
dIty so long as an ounce of silver can
be bought at the present price. If
they insist on ratio at all they must
make it equal to the market value of
silver, or they become as inconsiste Mt
as they claim the advocates of 16 to
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WOOL AND TARIFFS.


Under the above head the American
Economist, one of those ultry protec-
Zionist papers that still holds to the
theory that even the price of wheat in
this country is governed by the duty
placed upon importations of breadstuff,
quotes the following from a speech
delivered by DR.. James Withycomb
before the annual meeting of the Pa
cific Northwest Wool Growers Asso-
citation at Pendleton last March:
"The wool market has not blossomed
forth to degree that inspires hope to
many growers, and in some directions
loud mutterings are heard and many
articles are written tinctured With
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THE PASSING OF QUAY

Senator Quay. of Pennsylvania, al
though one of the most successful poll.
ticians the United States has ever
known, is now called upon to make the
hardest fight of his life. For two
months past he has held his forces in
the legislature against the strongest
opposition; while he has not been able
to elect himself, he has held up the
legislature of the great state of Penn
sylvania, and prevented tine election of
anyone else. But now he is confronted
with condition that is more serious
than any he has hitherto undertaken.
His task now is TO keep out of Lhe PEN
itentiary instead of irving to get in
to the United States senate. If Quay
is convicted on the charges of conspir-
acy on which he is being tried in
Philadelphia the remainder of his life
must be spent in prison. If he is ac-
quilted it is hardly likely that he can
succeed in win ming over enough legis-
lators to secure his election. There
fore it is quite certain that his public
career Is at an end. The state
of Pennsylvania is rid of one of the
most unscrupulous bosses ever known
and the United States senate of use-
less member, one who has heretofore
held his seat, not for the benefit of his
state or the nation. but for his own
personal interest.
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PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

A writer in the kindergarten Maya
zine for April makes some valuable
suggestions regarding practical educa-
tion that are worthy of being read by
all. While the writer of the article is
probably somewhat radical, and does
not credit present educational systems
with what is due them, yet their is
considerable truth in his statement,
that there is lack of practibility in
the education of the youth of this gen.
eration, and that too much attention
is given to fitting them for cultured
men and women at the expense of edu-
eating them to become self sustaining
bread winners. Among other things
the writer says:
The present educational system
.eaves the child with an equipment of
intellectual training, but the moral
and ethical faculties are almost un.
touched except as the community life
in Christian state developes them.
He has not learned to use his hands
except at marbles, shinny, baseball
and football. The love of sport is not
by love OF work. He
has not learned gardening. botany or
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PORTLAND'S MISTAKE.

"Chickens will come home to roost"
and some of Portland's offspring are
returning with vengeDce, much we
fear to the disadvantage of that city.
For years Portland business men
have been all for Portland, have Ia
bored for their own upbuilding at the
expense of the rest of the state. In
the past when merchants of the in
terror have complai led at discrimin-
ating freight rates and have appealed
to Portland for assistance in gettin g
rates reduced, their appeals have been
unheeded and they have been told
that Portland could do nothing for
them. Now Portland is being dis
criminated against, in favor of San
Francisco, in certain localities reached
by the Oregon Short Line. and bitter
complaints are entered. Because d
higher rate is charged from Portland
to certain points in Idaho than are
charged from San Francisco, Portland
merchants have begun an INJUNCTION
suit asking the courts to adjust the
matter.
There is no objection to this. for it
is Portland's privilege to get the best
rates obtainable and place itself in
position TO be successful competitor
with other wholesaling cities; but it
fails to elecit the sympathy of those
who have in the past failed to get the
influence of Portland in their behalf.
A few months since when The Dalles
papers were insisting that this place
should be given terminal rates on Car
load shipments from the east, Port.
lands leading paper informed Us that
we could not be accorded such privi-
leges. because we were not on cOmpet-
ing lines of railroad. Portland finds
itself in somewhat the same condition
when competing for Idaho trade. 1t
has but one direct line reaching that
section, and is therefore placed al a
when compared with
San Francisco. Had Portland in .he
past pursued a tittle more liberal
course toward interior points and en-
deavored to get them better freight
rates, it probably would not now be
forced to go into the courts to get its
rights. for it would have a rate estab-
lished that would be satisfactory to
itself. Portland has been short sight
ed in the past and is now suffering the
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HARD FIGHTING
IN SAMOA
Two American Officers Killed
In the Battle.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand. April II.
Dispatches from Apia, Samoa, under
date of April |, say that party OF
los American and British sailors were
forced to retreat to the beach after
having peen caught in ambush on a
German plantation that day. The ex-
pedition was led by Lieutenant A. H.
Freeman, of the British third class
cruiser, Taranga.
Lieutenant Free man and Lieutenant
P. L. Lansdale, of the cruiser Phila-
delphia, and Eusign j. R. Monaghan,
of the United States cruiser Philadel-
delphia, were left on the field. Ensign
Monaghan remained to assist Lieuten-
ant Lansdale, and was shot in retiring.
Two British and two American sailors
were also killed.
The natives engaged were some of
Mataafa's warriors. They severed the
heads of the British and American Of
6cers killed Priests of the French
mission afterwards brought the heads
into Apia.
The manager of the German plan
tation has been arrested and detained
on board the Taranga. Affidavits
have been made declaring that he was
seen urging the rebels to fight.
In a previous engagement 27 OF
Mataafa's warriors were killed and
there were no casualties among the
European forces. 1t is estimated that
about 800 warriors attacked the Anglo
American party from ambush.
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DALLAS AND THE DALLES,

The enterprising town of Dallas, in
+ size ofJhe Dalles. and in no respect
so favorably situated for manufactures
as is this place, has as a payroll from
its manufactures, including saw mill,
woolen mill, foundry, tannery, aour-
ing mill and sash and door factory, of
S., 900 per month. This means $1,000
a month distributed among the resi-
dents of Dallas that would not go into
circulation were it not for the manu-
featuring industries located in the
town. II means $50 600 a year paid
out in.that place for wages, the greater
portion of which finds its way eventu-
ally into the pockets of the business
men of Dallas, for the wages earned
are mostly spent by op sratives in the
factories for living expenses.
AS result Dallas has no vacant
business houses. they being all occu-
pied with thrifty merchants and arti-
sans, for the stimulus given business
by the monthly payroll added to the
business that centers there from the
surrounding farms keeps trade lively
the year round.
The two leading manufacturing in
dustries in Dallas, the Pioneer wooden
mills and Suitor & Thurston's saw
mill employ 130 hands and are running
on full time, evidently making profit
for their owners and giving thrift to
the place If few manufacturing
Industries in Dallas can create such
thrift, what would similar industries
on larger scale ccomplish for The
Dalies?
This place is especially adapted to
manufacturing, being located in the
heart of the most productive section
of the state, with more varied re-
sources than any other locality on the
Pacific coast and with an open river 10
the sea that insures very low freight
rates, The Dalles could and should be-
come the manufacturing city of Oae-
gon.
Such illustrations as Dallas presents
should stimulate the people of The
Dalles to inaug urat, manufacturing as
the chief industry of the town.
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Pone WIN atte,.d serxice.

NEW YORK, April ia dispatch to
the World from Rome says: Despite
the advice of his doctors, the pope in
sists on attending service in St. Peters
next Sunday. Great preparations are
being made to insure his safety and
comfort A cardbo tiara is being
prepared, to save him from the fatigue
of wearing the genuine diadem. Forty
thousand admission tickets are to to
distributed. The doctors greatly fear
the result of the strain.
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sharp criticisms of the present wool
,,,;H

sharp criticisms of the present wool
tariff. A careful and dispassionate
examination of the present tariff on
wool should convince any grower that
the late Congressman Dingley fully
considered this matter. True, the
present law in some respects could be
improved; but, as whole, The law is
good, the wool growers interest being
fully protected.
The dull and featureless wool
market is not due to domestic over
| production nor to excessive recent
importations, but to the immense
| quantities of wool and woolens accu-
mulated under the Wilsol bill, and to
the continued demand for the cheaper
grades of domestic woolens.
| ''The custom house figures will fully
| substantiate the statement so often
! made that the Wilson DILL should be
held responsible for the present de-
moraiized condition of the wool mar
ket.'
Both DR.. Withycombe and the Econ
omis5 seem TO forget that all the wool
imported under the Wilson bill was in
this country prior to 1898, when the
price of wool was 80 per cent higher
than it is now If it were the foreign
woods that were imported duty free,
prior to the passage of the Dingley
law. that we're affecting the price of
wool at this time. why should they not
have had worse effect in 1898, when
the warehouses were full of the i'm
ported staple, than now when good
portion of il has been consumed?
There is no denying the fact that a
duty on wool would raise the price of
raw wool we're there 20 complicating
features. But in the operation of the
Dingley law there are some things
that tend to bring down rather than
raise the price of raw wool. Presum-
ably it gives the American wool grow
er a monopoly of the American market,
but in actual practice it places him at
the mercy of the American mauufac-
ture. There is such duty placed on
manufactured woolens that none can
be imported except of the finest and
most expensive quality. This gives
the manufacturer monopoly of the
market on all inferior or cheap goods.
He can therefore manufacture an ar
ticle of half wool and half sho Idly (the
duty on shoddy is only nomiual) and
being protected by a prohibitive duty
he can force it upon the market, since
imported pure wool goods can not come
into competition with him. He is
thus required to buy only limited
quantity of pure wool, and can and
does pay the grower just what he
could realize by sending his wool
abroad, paying freight AID selling it
in competition with the wool of the
world. The Wilson tariff was pretty
severe blow to the wool growers, in
that it brought them in competition
with the wool growers of the world,
but the Dingley tariff is proving equal
ly hazardous to them, since they
cannot realize any more than free
trade prices for their product. And
it is detriment TO the consumers of
woolens since it forces them to pay
exorbitant prices for imported pure
woolens or pay pure wool prices for
goods that are half shoddy,
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horticulture. He does not know the
com mon field plants and flowers. He
has not learned the interdependence
of social life nor become self-sustain-
ing factor of the same. If he cannot
get clerkship in a legislature or a
bowling alley he has no existence, ex-
society. And what is more pitiable,
after all, than young man or woman
without trade, with nothing to do,
waiting for tbs opportunity that never
comes, for the simple reason that we
do not live in world of chance, but a
world where there is very poor
chance for the victim of an education
al system that leaves him cripple.
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WHERE is THE GAIN?

1t is urged by many of the imperial
lists who are strongly insisting that
the Philippines be held as American
territory that the annexation of the
islands will result in the building up
of an immenseStrade and open profit
able market for our surplus products,
and for that reason the war should be
pushed to final termination and the
Filipinos made subjects" of the
United States. This reason is justi6
ed by those who view right and wrong
only from a mecenary standpoint: but
they have evidently not carefully
considered the proposition from
financial standpoint or they would not
so urgently insist that retaining the
Philippines will be a paying invest
ment.
1t is estimated that there are 9,000,-
900 people oo the islands, and it is
asserted that they live on 15 cents
day, or for the entire population, their
living would represent an expenditure
of S493, 100000. OF this the greater
part, at least two-thirds, is tha product
of the ISLANDS. Allowing thas we
should secure all the import trade of
the islands, that is, That we should
furnish all the islanders are com PEELED
to buy abroad. it would represent
trade of some $l65. 100000. Allowing
ha hol Z. h,
producer. it would only be clear gain
of 49,, ,O0O.O "a
To gain this trade it will first
become necessary TO subdue insur-
rectioDists, and the officers at MaLila
now state that an army of 100. 900 men
will be required to quell the insurrec-
tions and hold the territory as it is
taken. The wages of such an army
will amount to $4,000, 600 year. To
clOthe and feed the men will cost an
other 20,000,000 Salaries of officers
S3U,OOo,OO0. Making the cost of an
army, sufficient TO quell insurrection
anL enforce government, $70,000,00O a
year, and there will necessarily be
civil officers whose salaries will run
into the millions, SO the entire expense
of maintaining the government of the
archipelago will easily be 100000, 900
year; or loss of several millions
after deducting the prohts that might
accrue from securing all the traffic of
the islands. 1t is difficult indeed to
discover how this government can
make d profit out of the islands on
the other side of the Pacific ocean.
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SANTA MARIA ABANDONED.
FilipInos Flee Before the Americans Un-
der General Wheaton.

FilipInos Flee Before the Americans Un-
der General Wheaton.
MANILA, April 12.-General Wheat.
on started daylight with the Tenth
Pennsylvania and the Second Oregon
regiments, and two guns, to drive the
rebels from the American right flank
between the railroad and the foothills.
He met with slight resistance near
Santa Maria, and one man was wound.
ed, but the enemy bolted when shelled
by the artillery. and burned and aban-
doned the town of Santa Maria, where
1000 rebels were reported to nave been
concentrated.
During the rest of the day the enemy
was in full retreat toward the noun
tains, burning villages behind the re-
treating force. Occasionally few
rebels dropped to the rear and fired at
the advancing American troops from
the jungle, apparently with the idea
that this would check our advance and
cover the retreat of tine Filipinos.
Finding these tactics Intellectual, these
rebels scrambled after the main body.
The Americi IN guard along the rail-
road has been materially strengthened
add it is not likely the rebels will
succeed in getting in the future to as
close quarters as they did yesterday,
even if they return from the noun
tains. s-,..,..
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Justice Fields Funeral.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-Impressive
funeral services were held over the re-
mains of the late Justice Stephen j.
Field at the church of the Epiphany
this morning, The church was
crowded with distinguished company
gathered to pay their last tribute OF
respect to the memory of the great
jurist. Among those present we're:
President Mckinley, Secretaries
Wilson and Long, and Attorney Cen
eral Griggs and many senators and rep.
preseut utatives. Rev. Saterlee, bishop
of Washington, officiated. Chief JUS
tice Fuller and his associates on the
supreme bench acted as honorary pail
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FAVOR AkNExarroN. !.
J ---titltt ~ tl'ltti;'f
.Cubans in Mexico Think the Island
Should BE Annexed to the
United States.


Should BE Annexed to the
United States,
MEXICO CITY, April 1.-THE resi-
dent Cubans for the most part favor
the annexation of the island of Cuba
to the United States, and the Spanish
capitalists who have left Cuba and
taken up residence here are of the
same opinion. The Mexican Herald
says on this point:
SCUBA. like Spain, and like the
United States, has its class of profess
sional politicians, who are a menace
to its peace and tranquility. This
mob, hungry for salaries, is threaten
ing all sorts of deviltry if it is not pro-
vided for. All this will have famil-
lar sound at Washington, and even
the politicians there must have senti-
mental clamors and fraternal feelings
for the clamorous claimants of Cuba,
but what Cuba wants for the sake of it's
hard-working peasantry and properly
owners is a long period of peace. and
the United States should definitely
announce that the Americans will
garrison the island for IO years and
not day iess.'
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EngIand's Representatives.

LONDON, April lit is officially
announced that the British ambassador
at Washington, Sir Julien Pauncefote,
and the British minister at The Hague,
however haye been appointed British
representatives at the peace confer
ence called By the czar, which is to
meet at The Hague. They will be as
sisted by Vice-Admiral Sir John Ar
dagh, respectively naval and military
eXDerts
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Menace to the Troops.

WASHINGTON, April ia cable
gram received from Consul Wildman,
at Hong Kong, contains the single
word "Piague," thereby announcing
the annual appearance of the disease
on the Chinese coast. 1t will require
the most energetic efforts of the medi-
cal officers at Manila to prevent the
plague from being imported from Hong
R0po
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More opportunities are open tC
President Mckinley to expand. The
republics of Haytie and San Domingo
are on the eve of war, and NORWAY and
Sweden are getting wrathy at each
other. Why does not the president
step in as mediator, make peace be-
tween the governments, and then an
mex them to the United States. If
they object just send few thousand
soldiers and some war ships after them
and lick them until they will be good.
While we are expanding we had as
well gobble up everybody that gets in
to trouble.
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One of the most expressive cartoons
we haye seen lately is published in the
St. Louis Republic. 1t represents
Uncle Sam leading Filipino with a
ring in his nose up to a bulletin on
which is written the proclamation of
the Philippine commission that says
"you can have honest government and
time to cultivate letters. science,
liberal and practical arts" and Uncle
Sam is made to say: "By gum, this
ought to satisfy you-it's more'n I've
got"
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A few days ago we were told by the
imperialist press-the Oregonian. St.
that the war in the Philippines was
about over and that the insurgents,
recognizing that they could not hold
out against our superior forces. would
lay down their arms and quietly sub.
nit TO our government. But now the
officers in the Philippines-men
capable of judging--say the war is far
from an end and that 100000 soldiers
will be needed to subdue the ''rebels.
This is not an encouraging outlook for
imperialism
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ORDER REsrORED AT PANA.
business Has Been Resumed and the CITY
is Under Martial Law.


PANA, Ill.,, April 1l.-Business,
which was interrupted by the rioting
yesterday, has been resumed, and the
city under martial law is quiet and or
derly.
Miss Felix of the Harrison hotel,
who was shot while waiting upon
guests, will probably die. All the
deputies have been disarmed and the
soldiers alone control the city.
The Penwell and Pana mines are
not in operation today, and the negro
miners, feelingssecure under military
protection, swarm the streets and
mingle freely with the white strikers.
1t was found today that six miners
at the Penwell mine were wounded in
Yesterdays fight.