The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-05-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
An exchange says American bellies
in Havana have adopted the Spanish
custom of flirting with fan. That
must be mistake. No truly Ameri-
can girl would be content with flirting
with anything bnt man, or some
other woman's husband.
How vast is the political patronage
of the director of the new cencus may
be gathered from the fact that 500
supervisors, and more than $4,000
enumerators are to be appointed, in
addition to about 0,00O subordinates
and clerks of various grades who will
be employed in the main office at
Washington.
California's late legislature passed
an anti-cartoon law making it fine
able offense for paper to print the
picture of any individual without his
consent, but the papers of the golden
state are ignoring the law and making
W whatever pictures they see fit, and no.
body seems willing to make himself
ridiculous by testing the law, for it is
we'll known that it will never survive
before the supreme court.
The Dalles must turn its attention
to manufacturing if it would reap the
full benefit of its natural surroundings,
but it cannot interest capital in manu-
featuring unless it offers substantial
Inducements. What can each busi-
ness firm in town afford to give as a
bonus to encouraging industries that
will employ people and create a
monthly pay roll? Now is the time to
consider these matters if we would
reap full benefit this year.
A list of grain ships that cleared
from Portland between July l, 1898,
and April 20, 1899, shows the number
to haye been 80. OF this number, 80
were British. 13 German, three French,
one Austrian, one Danish, and one
Norwegian. Not single American
ship was in the list. Every dollar that
was paid for shipping our grain abroad
during the past ten months went to
foreign ship owners. Is 1t not time
something was done to keep portion
of this money at home?
The preamble to the Declaration OF
Independence affirms that ''all men
are endowed by their Creator with GER
tain unalienable rights. among which
are life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness.' If the American people deny
the truth of this declaration and assert
that might constitutes right in the
Philippines, they must repueiate the
principles for which the revolutionary
fathers pledged their lives, their
liberty and their fortunes to sustain.
Representatives Moody and Tongue
haYe expressed sensible views on the
question OF the selection of speaker OF
the next house. Locality should cut
no figure in the matter. 1t is ques.
one state or another is of little conse-
quence. Whoever is selected should
be a broad minded man, one who
knows no sectionalism, one who will
consider the interests of the entire
nation above the interests of any par.
ticular locality.
The new mode of wireless telegraphy
has created a great furor and our gov.
ernmept is going to make a very thor.
ough investigation of the whole matter.
1t is not more mysterious to the public
than the teleg ram of half century ago,
nor the telephone, phonograph and
other inventions of the latter half of
this inventive century. The public
will watch these developer snts with
great interest and is willing to believe
almost anything if there are grounds
for such belief.
There are seven prominent candi-
dates for speaker of the 56th congress.
They are Joseph, G. Cannon and AL.
bert ]. Hopkins, of Illinois; S. E.
Payne and James s. Sherman, of New
York; W. P. Hepburn and David B.
Henderson, of Iowa, and Charles Gros
venor, of Ohio. All are men of promi-
nence and worthy of the honor they
seek, but it is indeed questionable if
any of them possess the ability of the
big man from Maine who has just re-
tired. There are few men who are
such leaders as Tom Reed.
The East Oregonian very appropria,
tely remarks: The next United States
senator to be elected in this state
should be from Eastern Oregon, This
section of the state deserves repre-
sentative in the senate. There are
any number of men who would be good
timber for the office, but all OF them
have one failing. Not one of the
available candidates has the necessary
wealth to spare with which to bid for
the Office. If an Eastern Oregon man
is elected he will be poor man.
Poverty is getting to be a crime in
American politics! But nevertheless
an Eastern Oregon man should be
elected. A poor man invariably has
more energy and ambition than rich
one; and as often he thinks more of
the peoples interests. OF course there |
are exceptions in either case.
U. s. SECRET SERVICE WORK
The leaders of the dynamiting mob