The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-06-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A London editor got little "huffy"
because Ambassador Choate classed |
Sampson in the same level as mill |
tary genius with Dewey and Nelson.
He certainly had grounGs TO kick.
Time is fieeting. and if somebody
dosen't rustic, another year will go by
without The Dalles seeing any manu-
featuring industries inaugurated.
Gentlemen of the manufacturing COM
mite, procrastination is the thief OF
time.
One of the radical imperialist papers
boastingIy remarks that "the war so
far has cost only $500, 900, 900, which is
scarcely half the amount that was pre-
dicted year ago." Well, isn't this
enough? 1t is over 1923 for every voter
in the United States.
AS the result of his observation
while in the east, Col. Bryan said:
"The democratic party is in better
shape now than it was year before
the last national campaign, and the
platform is stronger than it was in
1885," Such an opinion is decidedly
encouraging.
The editor of a country paper inter-
viewed the Inhabitants of his town
recently and he finds that nearly all
the successful business men were freely
thrashed when they were young, while
among the street loafers twenty seven
where mammals darlings, and the rest
were raised by their grandmothers.
This is very encouraging to the boy
who gets his nightly trimming in the
woodsbed.
Secretary Alger's plan of recruiting
the army from the population of our
colonial possessions seem to have died
''a bornin.' The scheme is imprac-
ticable at present for the fact that the
problem most interesting the war de-
partment now is how to get the arms
the natives already have out of their
hands, since they have proven them.
selves rather dangerous friends so
long as they have guns, and it will be
some time before Uncle Sam makes
the mistake of giving them more guns.
Millionaire Huntington thinks the
American masses are TOO highly edu-
Gated. More work, he says, is what
they need. Well,t the American masses
have done good deal of work helping
Mr.. Huntington pile up his millions,
and those whose brains have been moist
in this avocation will differ with the
great fnancier. Haffairs were proper
ly adjusted and Mr.. Huntington had
had to work for a portion of what he
has accumulated he would think as
the toilors do-that education is as
necessary to thsm as to him.
President Mckinley has knocked a
pretty big hole in the civil service law
by issuing an amendment to the rules
that releases from the operation of the
law about 1000 officers in government
employ. Among them are pension
examining surgeons. Indians employed
in the Indian survice, and many places
in the engineers, quartermaster's, or.
ordinance and subsistence depart
ments of the army. These places will
hereafter be filed without civil service
examination of applicants
The administration begins to realize
what the people have known for some
time-that the Filipinos cannot be
brought into subjection with a small
army, and that 100000 men will be
needed to shoot Christianity into the
"heathens" and hold the territory
that has been taken. If we are to hold
the Philippine islands, we had as we'll
face the problem of maintaining vast
standing army there, and the sooner
the president calls for the $4,000 ad-
ditional recruits authorized by the
last congress, he sooner will the war
cease.
The Baker City Republicans insists
that it is the duty of all true Americans
to stand by the president until the
war in the Philippines is over, no
matter whether he is right or wrong,