The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-12-23
Editorial NOTES..

man in the death of General Lawton.
he was. fearless soldier, as were hun.
dreds of the private soldiers who have
been killed in the PHILIPPINES, sacri.
feed on the altar of imperialism.
The sheriff of Multnomah county is
travelling over the county buying
calvary horses for the government,
and we presume at the same time
drawing his salary as sheriff. Are not
the taxpayers of Multnomah paying
for service they do not get? And is
ing the turn?"
Were not the United States engaged
in war of acquisition the administra-
ton would call upon England to stop
its inexcusable war in South Africa.
But the president is in no position to
stay the hand of aggression while en-
gagged in scheme to acquire territory
by the sword. An oppressor cannot be
the friend of the oppressed.
England is threatened with q more
serious trouble than the war against
the Beers. The emperor of Abysinia
believes this good time to repell the
invasion of his empire by invading
some British territory. The difficult
ties into which Engiand's greed for
territory has got her should be a
warning to the United States.
The postmasters at Provo City and
Logan, Utah, appointed by President
Mckinley, are polygamists, so is the
sultan of sulu, whom President Nc
Kinley has subsidized to becomes an
American citizen. The president
seems TO stand in pretty we'll with the
polygamists. and to be consistent
ought to welcome Mr.. Roberts and his
three wives to the national capital.
Republican leaders are now 80 c,nfi-
dent that Mckinley will lead their
party in the next campaign that they
are now talking about making the
nomination by acclamination. and
they also think of putting Secretary
Root up for e.president without op-
position. The bosses have the party
go well in hand that they can do this.
but the people will see to it that their
ticket is not elected by acclamation.
The New York World gives list of
"a senators who are reputed to be
worth over million dollars each.
Wm. A. Clark, of Montana, is credited
with s5O.OOO,OOO. and our Senator
Simon is put down for 81 900, 600. Mr..
Simon is not paying taxes on million
in Multnomuh county, and if the
Worlds figures are correct it will pay
the assessor of that county to look
into his private affairs.
In San Francisco there is preacher
named F. B. Cherington. who thinks
congress would be justified in depriv-
ing Utah of statehood by reducing her
to the condition of a territory. II
rev. Cherington can describe the con.
stitutional process by which this may
be effected, he is able to do something
which no lawyer was ever able to do.
But, then, many of the preachers oi
the land are able to settle off hand,
when speaking from their pulpits,
problems over which all other men
stumble. They are especially strong
in law and economics-these clergy
men of MIR. Cherington's kind.
After having surveyed himself in q
glass, Senator Depew is moved to re-
mark that there is no falling off in the
high intellectually of the United
States senate. "There are," he says
men in the senate in no respect in.
ferior to Henry Clay or Daniel Web
ster." OF course it Is modesty which
moves Mr.. Depew to use the plural.
He really means that there is ''a man.
in the upper house who could give
Clay and the modern Daniel cards and
spades and perhaps little casino and
still make them look like 30 cents and
even a smaller amount. Modesty is
Mr.. Dope VS. most charming character.
istic, as he demonstrated in 1882, when
he shirkingly declined the solicitations
of the bribery Investigation committee
to come and zee it at Albany.-Astoria
Budget.