The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.


Commander Shaw, m,-piae -to-ieeue
patriot pension bonds" in order that
the nation may carry the burden 10 be
imposed BY the new pension leg islation
ask for by the G A. R., is not likely
to meet with many endorsers outside of
that organization. II is more than
likely TO have contrary effect.
A trust Is monopoly possessed of
despotic power in the matter of regu-
lating the supply of d commodity, fix
ing it's price and determining To what
extent it will fleece the people. Its
object is gain. The foundation of a
plutocracy has already been laid
through the multiplication of trusts.
The license of the U. S. transport
Tartar authorized her TO carry 800
passengers and some freight. The
Hong Kong authorities found she bad
1900 returned soldiers and refused
clearance Until the War Department
explained the 400 soldiers were not
passengers but freight. That's just
like Coruin.
Trusts destroy competition, and
through brute force set at defiance
economic law and become law unto
themselves. Yet the Republican
party insists upon tariff to enable the
trusts to go deeper into the pockets of
the American pe'ple and to prevent
the people from fading relief from
trust extOrtion.
Some papers are mentioning H. W.
Scott, editor OF the Oregonian, as
suitable tin, Der for United States sena-
tor. There is no question but MIR.
Scott has tie ability to make good
representative of the state. but his
afd iiations with corporate interest are
so close that iG would be- ro benefit to
the masses IT, send him to the senate.
Scott is not the mao to represent the
people.
The desire for soft jobs in public |
places knows no limit, and in order to |
satisfy the greed of Office seekers it is |
said the president favors the establish. |
Ing OF department Uf industry-an
that will furnish more fat |
to the tax eaters. The name o. the
new department, however. does not |
signify that there will DC any too much
industry in it or that any great num-
Der of The employees will more than
earn their salaries
1t was left to the Moro Leader,
among all the thousands of papers
published in the United States, to dis
cover that Admiral Dewey, ''in a re.
cent Interview had most emphaticaliy
given it as his opinion that the Fill
oinos are in no way competent to gov.
ern themselves" That recent inter.
view must have originated in the
ertile Drain of the Leader editor, for
certainly no sucn expression from
Dewey has been reported by the press
dispatches.
The simple fact that the government
will mint one million dollars of sub
idiary coin per month, will have no
PRESENT effect upon the market price
It silver. The minting of the smaller
liver coins is in response to the popu-
ar demand for them. The people are
hort on halves. quarters, dimes anu
ickles. the money of the working
passes. and the government is long
q its seignorage, which it gained
nder the Bland.Allison act, and the t
liver purchasing clause of the Sher- t
ian act, and it can work off some of it | I
, supplying the shortage. The ad. c
Illustration evidenced commend t
BILE spirit in ordering this coinage. i
he demand for silver dollars is 4,
lually as great, but it is question q