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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-14
CARPETS
ATTRACTION SATURDAY NIGHT
BILLS New and Novel Vanity Eair-At the
VOet.

Bilrs New and Novel Vanity rair-At the
Vogt.
Something distinctly new, novel and
startling is offered as an attraction in
the near future in Hills travesty and
extravaganza, which will be one of the
principal attractions of the opening
season here.
The title is VANITY Fair"-the sup
porting company an excellent one 1t
is said will present mixture of uni
que musical effects. farce skits, aero
batism and high class vocalism, making
most delightful performance.
The gruesome and ponderous melo-
drama has had it's day-the so-called
farce comedy replete with horseplay
has been shelved-on.y the best re
maih 10 amuse the theater-goers, such
as high class comedy-the play of
analysis-the tragedy of Shakespeare
and the lighter-up-to-date extrava-
ganzas. Among the last named will
be found pre-eminantly bright and
fresh HILLS vanity Fair" with all its
cosmopolitainism of artistic worth,
who have won high distinction in all
OF the best theaters in America.
Vanity Fair" will be seen here at Il e
Vogt opera house on Saturday mig ht
Oct. 14th.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-14
SHORTAGE IN WHEAT.

The American Agriculturalist esti.
mates the total wheat crop harvested
in the United States this year will
amount to S.. $50, 600 bushels. short
age Of 149 ,652. 900 bushels as com Dared
with last years crop, and the quality,
the country over. is somewhat below
the standard of the crop of 1898. The
crop throughout the world is some
what better than for the past two years.
but there will still be a shortage of
several hundred million bushels.
With such a shortage prices should
be higher for wheat than they are now,
and for No. / will certainly range
higher within a few weeks than they
are at present. That prices will not
be lower is quite evident, ar d farmers
will not lose anything, and stand a
good show to make a fair profit. bv
holding good wheat. But with infer
ior grades the situation is different.
There is an immense amount of dam
aged wheat all oyer the Northwest
that is of little value except for feed,
and the supply is evidently greater
than the demand will be, hence our
advice to farmers is to store and hold
their good wheat for a few months,
and to sell their damaged grain as
soon as they can get it to market.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-14
MARh HANNAISN.

The ST Louis Republic draws a les
advocacy of the trusts that are COM
bining bilious of dollars of capital
with which to control industrial and
manufacturing markets. The Repub-
lie says:
MARK Hanna il lot a pleasant fig
ure to contemplate in American public
life. He stands for all the evil devel
opments in that life brought about by
the lowering OF political standards CON
stituting so dep!orable a phase of
recent years. He is the antithesi5 of
the American statesman Of this coun-
try's better and purer days. The pin
ciple controlling his public service is
that Of >eltish devotion to he almighty
collar. His Real constituency is com
posed of multimillionaires aud monop-
olists desirous of increasing the num-
Der of their millions and stren ngthen-
ing the grasp Of their mOropolies.
The common people represent to Mark
Hanna Only the material ont of which
TO squeose those things desired by the
syndicates.
"This man. however, is serving
good purpose in American politics.
He is sickening the people OF states
manship for the benefit of the rich at
tie expense Of the poor. He is cau>-
ing American gorges to rise at the de,
Veloomeuts possible to prO.tituted
politics He is proving the danger
aud degradation inevitable to party
" mich subordinates principle to pelf.
When Mark Hanna retires frum pub
lie life he will have. bui ded ',etter Than
he knew. He Will have made it i'm
possible 'ur inaur years Ju wlLuessa
r petition of uauuai.rn as The 'nn-
trJ,iing factor in Il parry IL which tie
people ha.: enjrus, t isthe management
of national affairs for the best interests
Of IA nation "
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-14
DANGER OF MILIPARISM.

1t is plain that the miscarriage OF
justice in the Dreytus case was due to
the fact that the French army has
grown too powerful and is looked upon
as being state within the state. The
army authorities have assumed that
there is one legal rule of conduct for
the civilian and another for the
soldier. says tho Astoria Budget.
Tue people of the United States can :.
not be warned too often or too earnest
ly against allowing this form of mill
tarism to gain foot hold among US.
We are naturally prone to glorify
the military hero as one who has
achieved higher distinction than is
possible to a peaceful and useful in.
dustry. A captain in the al my .of in
dustrial workers must bow in humble
admiration before the man who has
led company to slaughter. When a
successful soldier wants political
office we are expected to be duly CRATE.
full and elect him without being so
impertinent as to inquire into his
fitness for the place. This may be
comparatively harmless feature of the
hero-worship which is common among
US But if we enter policy of military
conquests there is great danger that
there will grow up distinct caste, or
privileged class, like that in France,
whose memters will point to their
uniforms as proof that they are law
unto themselves and demand that |
civilians shall stand uncovered in |
their presence.
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is GENERALLY RIGHT.

For one who speaks on all subjects
and expresses views on every issue,
there are few men who are more gen.
orally right than w. j. Bryan. His
ideas are liberal and broad, and when
sounded down to their true worth are
very nearly in accord with those of
the best minds of the nation who are
not prejudiced or warped by personal
interestes on the question of trusts
the tariff, money and the rights and
privileges of citizens his statements
are such that .hey are no. often sue.
cessfully contradictel, and at Des
Moines the other day he was requested
to express his views concerning the
and If he would have the
American army Withdrawn from the
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-10-14
THE RESERVE PROBLEM.

There is no question of more impor'
tance to the stock interest of Eastern
Oregon today than that of retaining g
the Cascade mountains for grazing
purposes. The power delegated by
congress to the interior department to
at any time close the timber reserves
to the grazing of stock is one that
leaves the stockraisers of Oregon solely
at the mercy of that individual, there
ore their business is made uncertain,
or may be said to rest with the caprice
of one official. for should the forest
ranges be closed stock raising on an
extensive scale will be thing OF the
past in this part of the state.
That there should ever have been an
attempt to close that portion of the re-
serve south of the Warm Spring
agency. was mistake. and it is to be
hoped that the efforts being put forth
by the stockraisers will prevent any
order being issued closing it perma-
nentIy. The meeting held in Portland
Tuesday, between representatives of
the Oregon Wool Growers Association
and the trustees of the Portland Cham
Der of Commerce will have a good eff
feet towards keeping the reserve open,
for Portland's influence with the de-
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This elegant reservoir stove enameed 21nch oven,
weight 275 pounds. $3.50
,artment will be greater than that of

partment will be greater than that of
the stockraisers.
However. the stockraisers should not
ask TOO much, and should carefully
consider the interests OF others, while
demanding privileges for themselves.
They should not ask for that portion
of the reserve north of Warm Spri ng
agency, for that is contiguous to a
large and thickly settled farming
country that gets its water supply
from the Cascade mountains as does
also the city of The Dalles, and auy
attempt on the part of fiOak owners to
make sheep pasture of the section
drained by the creeks which furnish
the water supply for the farming COM
munity and this city VIII be met with
opposition. The stockraisers are en-
Titled to the freedom of of a portion of
the reserve, and the interests of the
country demand that il be given them,
but they are not entitled to that por-
tion north of the Indian agency, nor
should they seek to encroach upon the
rights of farmers or persons owning
land adjacent to the reserve.
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IT SEES THE POINT.

The following from the Oreeonian
scarcely requires comment. However
the Oregonlan sees what effects as
sessments on postnaster5 for cam.
paign funds in Ohio, will have on
voters, and hastens to sound its disap.
proyal of the method. The circular
referred to is the one printed in these
columns several days ago.
"The Oregonian is in doubt how gen.
orally the public looks with approval
upon the use of certain portion of
government salaries for support of
political parties Avowed champion
ship of this application of money taken
from tax payers for the sopport of the
government is, it is true, very infre-
quent; but apathy on the subject is
widespread. If a postmaster took $40
out of citizen's pocket to put into a
campaign fund, the action would be
denounced unsDaringly. But when
the money comes out of the general
treasury, the process is so indirect
that few persons have time to get ex-
cited about it. When a democrat is
buying cigars or postage stamps, he
doesn't stop TO think that 10 this way
he is putti; g up money for the post
master, when his salary comes round,
to send to Oaio To help elect Nash
governor and inderse Mr.. Hanna's
ideas of politics.
I'm another columnwe print the ext
of a circular sent ou5 by the repu blican
managers TO postmasters. L. explains
to the pOstlnasters how TO violate the
civil service law with impunity. No
matter how large corruption fund
the federal Office holders raise, o. to
what uses it is put in Ohio this year,
the law enacted to purify our politics
will be observed. because the money
will go to republican managers instead
Of republican office-holers. 1t shows
hat the professions of the Mckinley |
Machine for civil service reform are as |
sincere as dicers' oaths. 1t shows /
hat those who defended the recent +
.ivil service order as step In the
direction of reform assumed to speak /
uthcritatiVely whereof they knew
Iothing 1t unmistakably shows that,
nth all the money, they can raise in
ohio, the uses they have planned for
! exceed the supply: and it certainly
indicates that the administration con-
iders its cause in danger. The coun-
" will sympathize with the Mckinley
lachine in its hour of peril, for should
'hio go democratic, we might be in
he unspeakable extremity of having
put up with Dewey or Roosevelt in
le presidency"
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THEY COLLECT RIBUIE.

Exaction of outrageous prices, tar in
excess of legitimate earnings of capital
invested. by the trusts organized in
the United States is legaiized robbery.
1t is none the less robbery because the
tariff law of the land affords the oppor-
tunity, says the Helena Independent.
Extortion is moral crime, as a hold
up is statutory crime.
The average protection afforded by
the Dingley bill is 55 per cent. There
is no such difference in cost of produc-
tiou here and abroad. The difference
is very slight, and in many lines there
is no difference whatever. unless it be
in favor of production at home.
This /, I'm illustration of the oppor-
tuDity Of The trust which is monopoly:
The foreigner can produce necessary
the American manufacturer cnn pro-
duce il for 81: il would cost the for
eigner five cents to ship his goods 20
the United States and get them on the
market, in the retail stores, where
they would compete with the home
article. A FIVE per cent tariff would
give the home manufacturer all the
protection required to put him on
even terms with the foreigner; l5
per cent tariff would give him 10 Ler
cent advantage over the foreigner and
special privilege giving that advan-
tage- would seem TO be sufficient, in all
reason. But no: the Dingley bill
gives him a rs per cent cinch on the
home market; with the difference in
original cost not exceeding 10 per cent,
and tie foreigner compelled to pay
trans sportation charges across the
ocean 10 addition, it is seen that the
home trust has an advantage OF from
40 to 43 per cent.
Now what has the home concerns
done since the enactment of the Ding
ley bill? They haze formed trusts to
prevent competition and to kill uppo-
sitivu. Having effected their trust Or
gauizations, they began the work of
increasing prices, and the following
table shows how they have done it:
Increase of price duty.
Articles Per cent Per cent
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The judgment OF the Beers in at.
tempting war with the strongest
nation on earth is not. commenda BILE
but their pluck is admirable, and the
ultimatum proclaimed by President
Kruger was about the nerviest act
that has been performed for some
! time.
The war in South Africa can have
! but one termination--that is the ulti
| mate success of the British army.
! The Beers are not numerous enough to
cope with England. but the sturdy
: Dutchmen will die hard and will take d
lot Of Englishmen to the other shore
with them.
They are having good deal of
trouble In Chicago over the servant
girl question. The demand exceeds
the supply by 40 per cent. A way to
remedy this difficulty has recently
been suggested by the mayor of Mar
shalltown, Iowa. He put block In
the way of his cook leaving him by
marrying her.
It is doubtful if the Klickitat farm
ers who are storing their grain along
the railroad at Biggs, Grants and
Rufus will profit thereby iu the long
run. While prices are as good there
at present as they are in The Dalles.
when their wheat is all stored and
they get ready to sell, they will prob
ably ind a considerable difference in
price. When their wheat is stored on
the railroad it will have to be hauled |
to market by rail, whereas if it were !
stored in The Dalles they would have !
the advantage of competing lines and !
buyers.
Prof. Parson has a new theory. Be-
cause one-thirti eth of US were city
dwellers in 1870 and one third in 1890,
all of US will eventually live in town.
More of US live in penitentiaries and
asylums than formerly. Therefore
the future will find US all Jail birds and
Iunatics. The age is big with theories. s
70 be called professor" and hatch /
deals in the holy name of science is /
bur crowning ambition. Healthy i'm
lgination is one thing. and diseased
another. There is diff
erence between thought-curbed night. I.
mare with the bit between its teeth.
The Grand Army wants Evans re-
moved. If he be derelict, remove him,
I he be conscientiously blocking
rands retain him. There are mil b
ion pensioners. Pensions are asked u u
DR. everything. We do not believe in Il
ensioning a widow whose husband E
led of grief last months because he Y
as too old to 60 into the army when Il
he war began, nor in subsidizing a &C
ian who caught consumption in W
anada during our domestic fracas. tn
be Grand Army should lead the in ca
No man who cannot ci nS
low his discharge should receive a
,nsion.
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TOO VISION 4fY.

Hugh Wallace. of Tacoma, former
democratic national committet ma n
from Washington. is out for Dewey
for President with both feet Here is
the way he expresses himself:
There is one power that can pre-
vent Aim raj Dewey from being the
next president" ay. Wallace. That
| il himerlf. No maj has eyer declined
| the presidency, Ind Admiral Dewey is
too patriotic tn +, SC 10 take orders
from the people. The admirals nomi-
| nation by the 4 N ,,."ati'' p:irty will re-
move. all past d if-rences, and unity
the forces. The. tide in mis- favor will
he so sweeping and overwhelming
that it would not surprise me if the re-
publican convention RAJ fed -ha rcm'-
nation. No democratic platform will
be necessary, because the American
people will abide by Dewey's judg
ment."
Mr.. Wallace's enthusiasm seems to
be unbounded, but his ideas are vision
ary Were Dewey before the American
people today he probably might be
elected president without a platform,
but the national election is year
hence, and it is not probable that the
enthusiasm for the gallant sea fighter
will be as warm year hence as it is
nov. Besides there are issues before
the people, that must enter into the
coming national election on which the
More than this, nobody knows 0hethee
Dewey is democrat or a republican.
IF he is d democrat and accepts in
general the declarations of the Chicago
latform, is opposed to trusts and en-
dorses the doctrine that the right to
govern must come from the consent of
tie governed. he would most likely be
the most popular man the democratic
party could dominate. But to say
that he could be elected without
platform, Mr.. Wallace draws strongly
upon imagi inatiou. Votes are neces.
sary for the election of a president,
and voters must know where man
stands before they give him their sup
port
The suppositio1 that the republicans
would ratify his nomination is alike
visionary. Mark Hanna and William
Mckinley will rot he scared out of
making 3 scruggle for Office by the
popularity of Dewey or any other mal.
They make politics business. They
have been successful financially
while at the head of the government.
and do not propose to surrender to
any man whom they cannot control.
If Dewey would consent to become
tool in their hands and do their bid
ding, they mig bit consent to his being
made president, otherwise they would
fight him as bitterly AS they would w.
j. Bryan or any other man who may
oppose them. But Dewey will not be
anybody's tool, therefore it will be
impossible for him to be republican
nominee for president or for him to
receive the endorsement of the leaders
of that party.
In the selection of candidate for
president, the democrats cannot af-
ford to rely on sentiment such as is
expressed by Mr.. Wallace. They
must select man who is known to be
on The side of the people on every i'm
portant measure. If Dewey is, if be is |
an out-and-out democrat, he is the |
most available candidate for president |
in 1860, but his convictions on the |
|. I.eat national issues must be made
known before he can receive the en-
iorsement of the party.
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IN HARD STRAITS.

Our Republican friends in Ohio are
in pretty hard straits for campaign
funds, and view with alarm the proba-
bility of McLean's election, if the fol.
lowing special to the ST. Louis Repub-
lie from Chicago is true:
Every postmaster and perhaps every
other Federal officeholder in Illinois
who is not specifically protected by
civil service has received from W. F.
Burdell, chairman of the finance COM
mittee of the sOhio republican state
central committe, circular letter urg-
ing the recipient to send a cash con.
tribution to the Ohio republican cam
paign fund, on the ground that "the
defeat of the party in the presidents
state would be heralded by the oppo-
sition as rebuke to his administra.
tion."
"Copies of this daring 'sandbae' are
now in possession of officers of the
democratic State Central committee.
"Secretary Nelson today received
visits from at least twenty five demo
Gratis hailing from as many counties in
the Southern AMI central parts of the
state, every one of whom mentioned
the Ohio circular and stated that
copies had been received by the post.
masters of their towns. Several post |
masters haye forwarded letters to the |
postmaster general complaining OF the |
attempt to mulct them in the name of |
the president
1.-THE circular is comprehensive
document. 1t was written on the 10Th
of September, and says, among other
things:
"a democratic victory in Ohio this
fall would carry with talmost full con-
troll of the political machinery of the
state, thus enabling the opposition to
entrench itself for the opposition cam
paign of 1900. We hope you will be
able to contribute to the legitimate
expenses of the state central committee
in it's efforts to maintain republican
On account of the i'm
portant bearing which the result in
Ohio this year will have upon the
greater contest in 1900, and because of
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PLAN OF THE BOERs.
VIII Act in Two Columns, From North to
| SDuth

VIII Act in Two Columns, From North to
| south.
LONDON, Oct. I2.-All kinds oi
rumors are telegraphed from South
Africa regarding the Boer movements.
Apart from the advance of the Volks-
rust and Vanreenan command, reports
having arrived of concentration of the
Utrechts and Vryheid commands to-
ward the drifts along buffalo river east
of Dundee. Official confirmation OF
the announcement that the Orange
Free State burghers haye entered
Natal by way of Vanreenan's pass is
at hand. It leaves no futher room for
doubt that acts of war have already
been committed and the campaign has
begun.
News of invasion of the northern
border is also generally accepted as
reliable. 1t seems improbable, there
fore. that clash between the forces
of Briton and Beers can longer be
delayed if, indeed, it has not occurred
already.
This morning dispatches furnished
ample details of the situation on the
frontier and enable clearer exposi-
tion of the military status. 1t now
seems that the Beers intend to act in
two columns. those from Transvaal
working from the north, and those from
the west, with the object of keeping
the British forces at Ladysmith and
Du ndee occupied, while parties of the
Beers slip past to destroy bridges along
the railway forming fine of commun-
ication between the British and Dur.
ban, Natal, the advance base at PETER
at the front.
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HE HAS GahAr HOPFs.
Archbishop Chappelle Believes He Can
Bring Peace TO the Philippines.

Archbishop Chappelle Believes He Can
Bring Peace to the Philippines.
NEW ORLEA $, Oct. l2-Arch-
bishop Chapel =, lsi,al delegate to
the Philippines, rave ont his first
interview rega .il- his important
mission today.
81 have talk .i over my mission
thoroughly with President Mckinley" /"
he said. "and vs. understand each
other. My erraad Is oae of pacifica-
tion. hope to accomplish what the
army of the United States has failed to
do-to bring peace I'd the islands. l
am hurring the arrangements for my
departure regardless. II all else, and
will leave at the earliest possible
opportunity. ieei that will be
successful in what / AN gong TO try to
accomplish.
The archbishop vas asked as to what
would be done Wits The clurch property
in the Philippines.
"This matter b., been discussed bv
me with the authorities in Washing
ton," he answered. aud we understand
each other. Tl4 report that the
are joiu.iy heii in the name
Of the church an crow is erroneous.
The property belnpg9 and have always
to the church. IL will be
simple question Cf proving title.
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A much abused Whitman connt

A much abused Whitman county
man calls upon the law to rid him from
the CALLING chains of matrimony.
Welded life for him las not been
what it is cracked up to be. He pro-
nounces marriage a failure and as he
recalls the woes of Socrates and Zan-
tippe meekly but fervently murmurs
''me, too. He alleges that a violent
temper on the part of what he supposed
was to be q better half has made life in
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Great Britain is very generous to-
ward the Beers, as she always is to-
ward people over whom she would ride.
She says they can buy peace if Presi-
dent Kruger will disarm his soldiers
and will pay En2Iand an indem nifty of
si,00C,00 to defrav the expenses of
preparing for war. She made sQme'such
offer to the Am rican colonies little
over one huadreG wears ago.