The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-08-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.


Il Prineville by Maupin ferry would bold
4 all the trade of Crook county to The
U Dalles until railroad is built into tbs
. county. Is not the trade worth what
q the road would cost?
8 The Glacier insists that the people
, Of Hood River put up $1,000 to pay for
the condemned lands needed TO make
of the river a public highway. Then
r ceed to improve it. Their 81, 900 with
} another thousand would accomplish
the job.
The decision of the British Indian
commission to force gold standard
upon India means that the demand
for gold will so far outrun the supply
that the general level of prices must
continue TO fall until the gold stand
ard is abandoned and bimetallism
restored.
A lot of girls in Southern Kansas
have formed themselves into clubs and
have resolved never to marry any
young man unless he served with the
Twentieth Kansas in the Philippines.
Kansas will probably have whole lot
of spinisters unless the girls change
their minds.
| Governor Pingree proposes to give
| Alger a royal reception when he re
turns to Michigan and will parade him
as martyr. Pingree has his razor
| out for Hanna, Mckinley and McMil-
Ian, and If he can't elect Alger United
States senator will prevent the election
of the administration candidate.
We complain of high taxes and
wonder why it is that governmental
| affairs cannot be run cheaper. If we
would watch the innumerable little
leaks where public funds get out of |
the treasury we would know the cause
OF our burdens. If public affairs were |
conducted as economically as private |
business, taxes would be lighter.
In few days Alger will be back to
his own state as a private citizen. He
will then have no strings on him
and will begin telling some of the
secrets of awarding contracts for army
supplies and transportation. The
people will know whether he or the
man behind the serene in the White
House was to blame Tor the manage.
ment of the war department..
1t is rather surprising that the
Oregon editors who have been so loud
in their demands for prosecuting the
war in the Philippines, have not en-
listed since opportunity is offered and
men are wanted to fill up the ranks
OF the regiment now organizing at
Vancouver. Where is Scott, of Port
land; Hendricks. of Salem, and Pal
mer, of Prineville? They should put
their words into action.
The name of Hon. John ]. Lentz has
been suggested by a number of Ger
man papers as the proper running
mate of William ]. Bryan in 1900, says
the National Watchman. 1t is, how
ever, not foregone conclusion that
Mr.. Bryan will be the candidate of the
democratic party. A good many demo-
Gratis think he is too prominent for
successful candidate, and some other
good democrat may be selected as the
standard bearer.
No reasonable expense should be ! :
spared in bringing criminals to justice 9
or ferriting out crime, but such things
can be carried to an extreme. When i,
a suspected law breaker is given a r
hearing and discharged he should not !
be rearrested except on the finding of
new evidence that Is convincing. The .
case that was tried in the Justice court q
here last Saturday was an unnecessary
expense. for the second examination
was had on evidence that had no ?
weight whateyer.
The disarmament congress at The
Hague had its final sitting last Satur- :
day, and what it accomplished might :
well be designated by zero. There .
was not binding agreement signed
by the powers represented, as nothing 2
was unanimously agreed to. Evident !,
ly the human race that comprises the
nations Of the world has not advanced
to that state of civilization where it is
safe to turn swords into plow shares :,
and cannons into car wheels. The
lamb and the lion are not ready to
lie down together yet. When univer.
sal disarmament occurs the year of the
millinium will have arrived, and
evidently that lis Ion g way in the :
future.
The cinch the railroad companies Y
have had on the wheat farmers of {
Eastern Oregon and Washington in I
the past will be broken inside of an. t
built around the dalles of the Colum. c
bia in time to carry next years crop
of grain, and line of boats will be
put on the river capable of handling Z
the business. Capital sufficient to do e
this work is already available, and
work on the portage road will be COM q
menced early next fall. In this e
is an opportunity for The
Dalles to reap profit. The road will
be built on the north side of the river, 9
but If bridge were put across at the
narrows the lower terminus could be
made here. Does The Dalles want it? :
Or can The Dalles afford to let it be at 9
any other place?
The Budget struck the nail squarely
on the head when it gave expression
to the following, and what it says of :
Astoria is true of every other city in
the state: "The people of Astoria and
Clatsop county have at last awakened
to the fact that railroad was not all
they needed to make tine community
prosperous. A railway is a good thing !
for a town, but it will not make city
unless the people do something them
selves. We are pleased to note AS
torians are beginning to realize this
fact and are, some of them at least,
bending their energies to developing
the country and the fostering of new