The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-04-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It's now in order for the governors |
OF Delaware and Utah to appoint sem
ators to ill the vacancies the legisla- |
lures left. The senate won't have |
much to do for while next winter |
but pass on such fool appointments.
Commlssary- General Eagan said he
made contract with the beef trust
because it WAS Secretary Alger's wish
chat he should. Who stood behind
Alger and demanded that the donors
of campaign funds should be rewarded?
What is The Dalles going to do this
year regarding the encouragement OF
manufacturing industries locating
here? These are dull times when
merchants and other business men can
devote little time to discussing mat.
ters for the upbuilding Of the place,
and such matters should be of frequent
consideration.
Keeping everlastingly at it is what
accomplishes any end, and the people
of The Dalles should practice the policy
Of hammering away until the wheels
OF manufacturing industries are hum
ming in every corner of the town. We
will never have good, old time prosper
ity here until this becomes manu-:
featuring center.
The Philippine war has only just
commenced. An army OF $4,000 men
will only be able to keep up little
fighting here and there. 1t will re,
quire an army double this size to es-
tablish the semblance of authority
over the islands. The gritty Filipinos
have fought one hundred years for
their freedom. and will continue the
fighting.
Although the volunteers in the
Philippines who re-enlist will be given
bonus of $500 cash, there is not more
than seven in a hundred who are
desirous of going into the regular
service there. This shows how anx-
ious the volunteers are to risk their
lives in the unholy war against free
dom which the administration is
mercilessly waging.
Shall we continue to select out the
physically perfect young men of the
nation and send them to the opposite
side of the earth to either meet death
or contract physical and moral disease,
under the mistaken notion that it is
our duty TO continue the work of muir
dering an uuoffending people who
were our allies In the late war with
Spain, and whose only crime is that
they have accepted the teachings OF
Washington and the revolutionary
fathers.
The suspense of Californians and
Pennsylvanians, concerning the dan.
ger of extra sessions of their respec-
tive legislatures, is ended for the time
being, the governors of the two states
having made appointments, and as
nowadays the principal duty of
legislatures, in the eyes of politicians,
is to elect senators, the two politicians
who hold down the gubernatorial
chairs in California and Pennsylvania
will see no need of convening the
legislature until the senate shall re.
fuse to seat their appointees.
AS was to be expected, Alger has
decided that the firm of Swift & Co.
were not responsible for the loss of
100000 pounds of refrigerated beef
shipped to Porto Rico last summer
and condemned, and has directed that
they be paid for it. Alger can be
relied upon to see that his favorites
do not lose anything on their con-
tracts, no matter how neglectful they
are in filing them, With Alger at
the head of the war department any
thing can be furnished the army by
rich corporation and it will be paid
for.