The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-06-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Just now it is a question what the
state of Kentucky is most celebrated
for-her fine horses, beautiful women,
good whisky or family feuds.
Poultney Bigelow Ia telling the
people something about Algerism, and
the unfortunate part of it is that what
he has been uttering are cold, hard,
unvarnished chunks of truth.
So far as strikes are concerned,
Cleveland seems to be about as sorely
harrassed by these unfortunate troubles
as any other city in the country. 1t is
an extraordinary year when she
doesn't have to wrestle with lockout
of some kind.
The assassination of General Luna
will make Aguinaldo's road much
harder one to travel than ever. If he
is not very careful of himself-as, how.
ever, he seems to be-he may soon
meet the same fate at the hands of
Luna's partisans.
Count Christiani has been sentenced
to four years. imprisonment for
smashing President LOubet's hat.
At that rate, it he had smashed the
presidents head, he would have ''gone
up" for life. Perhaps the next ram.
pant royalist will let Mr.. Loube5's hat
alone.
Dewey cables that the money col
lected to buy him house should be
used for establishing home for sailors.
In matters of this sort it seems that it
is as easy for Dewey to decide what is
the proper thing to do as it was to pass
batteries at night, destroy Spanish
feet or send German admiral about
his business.
Pittsburg would have been a way
station, and Lowell a country village
had it not been for manufacturing
Industries that were instituted there
Neither of those great cities have the
natural advantages for manufacturing
that are possessed by The Dalles. If
we would be like those great cities we
will start factories going here, even If
we haYe to do it with local capital.
Tacoma and Seattle people know
which sido of their bread is buttered,
or at least which side may be buttered.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana. one of |
the most influential members of the |
senate, is visiting the sound cities, and
they haye started Fairbanks presi
Dental boom. They have taffied him
all right, and as result Tacoma and
Seattle get anything they want in the
senate that Mr.. Fairbanks can give.
The Nicaragua canal commission
has made it's final report. and the es-
timated cost of constructing canal and
locks from Brito, on the Pacific coast,
to Lake Nicaragua, and from the lake
TO Greytown, and the Atlantic coast,
s S11, ,113, 100. At the next session of
congress, an effort will be made to get
IN appropriation for that amount, and
+ it is not passed, there will be a
warming up of Pacific coast represen-
atives and senator's.
The dream of universal peace van.
shes more into the distance the longer
he conference at The Hague continues
o sit. Germany refuses to consider
he arbitration proposition and Eng
and is by no means ready to spike her
Evidently che nations of |,
be world are not ready TO Say that !
ifierences will be settled without :
esort to arms. There is yet too
,uch humanity in the world to expect
niyersal peace to prevail. +.
What might have been expected is 8
ccurring in Cuba. Having been OPP
ressed for years by Spain, the Cubans
re naturally suspicious of all man
ind, hence they haye little ontidence b
the promises of good government &
fered them by representatives of the g
nited States. As a result, whenever q
Cubrn soldier comes In and gives up Il
Is arms and receives his S75, he goes IL
raight away and buys another gun. p
ltting himself in q position that he CT
IN fight If things do not go to suit p'
i'm. tt
General Corbin has endeavored to y.
cate the impression that the volun- y,
or army In the Philippines was o'