The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-07-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The transports with our boys ough
to reach San Francisco by the 18th @
July. They may then be expected Il
reach the Columbia by the 18th. Man
an anxiobs parent has begun to coun
the days when those dear to them shal
once more be in the family circle.
The French government, since un
der Loubet it has come to its senses
is treating Dreyfus honorably and
dealing with him in apparent goo'
faith. But the great jury of the civi
lized world reserves its judgment un
til it sees what kind of trial he will
be given.
The czar can hereafter rightfully lay
claim to the doubtful honor of beine
! the author of the most solemn ant
nonsensical farce ever enacted oa tn,
great stage of history. In dignified
elaborate aud formal nothinsness, Tht
Hague conference has never beer
equaled; and it is hoped never will bt
again.
The administration wants to add 6
"colonial'' department. to this govern
| ment When nation becomes i'm.
| perialistic such a department is one oil
It's first requirements. The tendency
of the times could hardly be more
plainly indicated. A republic has nc
need for such a department.-Portland
Dispatch.
Senators Hanna, Lodge, Wolcots,
Hoar. zones and Spooner turned up at
the United States embassy the other
day. whereupon Ambassador Choate
asked them t. be seated, and await the
arrival of quorum. Perhaps if they
had telegraphed to Paris for Tom
Reed thay might have had one counted
without waiting.
The shame of electing such crea-
ture as Hanna to the United States
senate is intensified and rendered
painfully acute to self respecting
Americans when he goes abroad and
poses as the leading representative of
American craftsmanship. 1t is no
wonder refined and conscientious
Englishmen despise the American re-
public.
Nothing has more impressed the
sense of mankind with the intolerance
with which Dreyfus has been treated
by the French nation than has his
pathetic Homecoming. The extreme
rigor of his punishment, as depicted
in his wasted and hopeless appearance,
tells story so discreditable to the
French government that it we'll might
wish to expnnge it from its history.
General Nelson A. Miles is COM
pesent soldier, and, as such, a com
petent Judge of soldierly qualities.
His eulogy of the soldiers of the Sec.
ond Oregon, and incidently of Western
men, as soldiers, is appreciated-not
because it is needed, since the fighting
record of the Oregon boys is their
sufficient eulogy-but because COM
mendation from the most competent
military authority is pleasant.
A provision in the will of deceased
husband. flei for probate in New York
recently. enjoined upon his widow
compliance with his wish that she be
come the wife of his brother, James.
1t has heretofore been supposed that
the testamentary provision by which
widow is to receive the fortune of her
husband on condition that she does not
marry again was secure in its place at
the head of post-mortem tyranny, but
this seems to have beeH mistake.
Wonder if Governor Geer will head
the regiment he says Oregon is ready
to send to the Philippines. He ought
to by all means, for be has his mouth
on the gun reiteratlng his allegiance
to Hanna and crying down with the
rebels in the archipelago and the "cop.
per heads" at home. Timothy is so
full of fight lin his correspondence
that he would make an admirable
Now that he has an oppor.
tunity to enlsst, he certainly will do so.
He can't afford to let his actions belle
his tongue. Come, Governor. get on
your shoulder straps.
The reports from the banks of Oreg-
on and the Pacific Northeast show a
very large aggregate of money on de-
posit-over 10000, 900 in Oregon and
about $23 ,000. .00U in Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho--which is both a good
and bad indication. 1t is good as
showing that our people have been
making g great deal of money and
saving good portion of it; and it is |
bad as showing further that this money
saved is idle, or only drawing bank in
terest, initead of being put to work |
developing our resources and building |
lp needed manufactures. 1t is money |
invested in industries, not lying idle,
that makes country great.
In the 1900 elections in Oregon the |
.epistrv law will he in force This law