The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-11-18
EDITORIAL NOTES

1t is safe to say that the L1nnton |
borse cannery will keep in operation
| as long as the war in the Philippines
| continues.
And now it is said the Union iron
works at San Francisco are about to be
absorbed by the trust. One by one
our big Industries get into the com
| bine.
"Iy'e got Aguinaldo surrounded"
Alegraphs Otis one dav then the next
| he don't know where the Filipino
| general is. He must be slippery
fellow indeed.
| Jones, who ran on the Golden Rule
ticket for governor of Ohio, was de-
feated by Nash, who ran on Mark
Hanna's Brass Rule platform-which
| is, "do the other fellow before he does
you"
The correspondent at Manila who
fixes up intercepted" dispatches from
Aguinsldo is doing some pretty
coarse work. The effect it has upon
the people here is not worth the price
of transmitting the dispatches. NJ
| A dinner pail brigade working on
| good salaries make a town prosperous.
community filled with farmers raising
good crops and selling them for fair
prices make tie country prosperous.
Dalles property owners should see the
| point.
An almost certain cure for trusts
would be to limit the capital stock of
any corporation outside of transporta-
tion companies TO S5,C00,000. With
| such a limit there would be no one
company able to exclusively control
any industry.
The year 1900 must witness the es-
tablishment of some manufacturing
! enterprise in The Dalles, or the city
will begin backward career hard to
stop. The tributary territory is being
made less and less every year by the
| extension of transportation lines and
our citizens must be up and doing or
trade will be lost.
Every citizen Of The Dalles should
labor Increasingly for the material ad-
vancement of the city. Factories must
be built to attract trade and give en-
ployment to labor, or The towns pro-
gress will cease. OF course, this is
everybody's business, but each citizen
should make it his own business. One
good, strong pull, all together!
E. W. Harden, the newspaper cor
respondent who was toe first to send |
th3 rews of Dewey's victory at Manila,
h. ,st returned to Washington from
tL, philippines. Asked for an opinion |
of General Otis, he is quoted as saying:
81 would like to say, and you may
quote me, that General Otis is fussy
old man. His proper place is at the
head of an old ladies' home"
The so-called atheletic clubs about |
New York and Brooklyn are becom-
ing nothing short of prize rings. Their
scientific glove contests" would have
been called first class prize fights in |
the days of Henan. Our boasted |
morality and civilization is not made
more brilliant by these exhibits of
british science" but it is fad that
certain class has become Intoxicated !
with.
The staunch protected cruiser
Charleston has been wrecked on a
reef off the coast of Luzon, and thus |
one of our nations defenders has been
sacrificed in the advance of imperial
ism. The Charleston was built by the |
Union iron works. at San, Francisco,
and cost, besides it's armament, ST. |
OF 800. At the time of the accident it |
was in command of Captain George !
". Pigman.
The war revenue tax has been in |
operation fifteen months and under it |
$125, 100000 have been collected. |
While this tax'has been borne cheerfuly |
by the people, they are beginning to
wonder if it will ever cease. The tax |
was inaugurated Tor the purpose of |
giving freedom to Cuba, but now it |
is being used for an entirely different
purpose, and there are rnutterings |
against its payment.
1t is said that Mckinley raires as
running mate a hero of the late war
Well, there are several of his pets to
choose from Sampson for instance,
Or Shafter, or Otis, or Eagan, or, If he
really wants to do the right thing by
an old friend be sacrificed, there is
Alger. Captain Carter is laboring un-
der disadvantages at. present that
neither he nor Mckinley could control,
and is probably out OF the race.
With 81, 900 soldiers under his COM
mand in the Philippines, Otis might be
able to crush out the insurrection if
given as much authority as Butler is
in South Africa. But hampered with
instructions from Washington he can
do but little. When we conduct a
foreign war we should place it in the
hands of competent general, and not
hamper him with orders. His only
orders should be go into the field and
win every battle.
Sheriff Withers settled with Lane
the $1,000 6efalcation of his :
Ascending depury, Henry J. Dag,
Immediately upon the discovery of the
shortage. This was a commendable
action upon the part of Mr.. Withers,
and the people of Lane county are to
be congratulated upon having so
faithful public official. There are
many men who would have put the
county to the expense, delay and un.
of a lawsuit
he Heppner Gazette nominates
* Congressman Ellis for judge of the
ixth district aud Marion A. Butler
or prosecuting attorney. From this
Z would seem that Mr.. Ellis has given
'p hopes of being appointed sergeant
t-arms of the national house of repre-
entatiyes, position 10 which be has
spired. However, to the Times
dountaineer it seems that Mr.. Ellis
las had about enough official honors
upon him, aud that it is
ime he was settling down to private
ife.