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THE DALLES WEEKLY . CHRONICLE,. FRIDAY,: DECEMBER 2, 1892.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF WASCO COUNTY.
Entered at the Poetofflce at The Dalles, Oregon,
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MR. HARRISON'S OPPORTUNITY.
A 'special from Washington says:
"President Harrison, is his message to
THE SIL VER QUESTION.
. character now atfo7aT3T5y"Tn?"7e7fl'3
can party. But the people have spoken,
emphasizing a different opinion. That
Mr. Harrison has shown himself to be a
wise and worthy president is the verdict
of republicans and democrats alike.
The closing months ot nia service as
chief executive of the nation are very
generally expected to add in no small
measure to his great and honorable
fame. But the impression grows that
the singularly clear expression of the
people in favor of a cbange in the na-
tions's tariff policy should receive ready
recognition from the president. If the
majority is fitted to rule, the unequivo
cal command of the majority, given with
all formality and seriousness through
the medium of the ballot; should re
ceive the calm and ready acquiescence
of the president and congress.
Being a republican because he believes
that partys doctrine to be the best, and
its rule the best for the nation, it is
clear that Mr. Harrison should, with
propriety, think the present adminis
tration at least as worthy as the coming
one to begin the policy of tariff reform
so ardently desired by Jthose who lately
made the democratic majorities. He
and his party are unquestionably the
friends of the protective tariff. If he
and his party shall demonstrate at the
coming session of the present congress
that both are ready to bow to the will of
the people, that both can take the peo
ple's view of tariff reform which shall
-still protect American industries and
-American labor, while giving relief to
the consumers of American products
the present administration can cut out
the work for the next, and can win the
respect and admiration of all the world
Mr. Harrison has been in the closest
accord with his party from the time
that he assumed its leadership at the
call of the republican convention of 1888.
If he shall take the wise view that the
people know what they want, and are
entitled to what they want, if he shall
take up the work of tariff reform at the
beginning of the coming session of con
gress, he will do a graceful act, an hon
orable act, an act of wisdom, that will
render him great and his party strong.
It is a situation worthy of his honestv
-of purpose and his cheerful obedience to
the will of the people who have honored
him with the highest office within their
gift. He can render the second admin-,
istration of Grover Cleveland merely a
-continuance of the administration of
.Benjamin Harrison if he chooses to do so.
In these days when the real soldiers of
the war are growing few and fewer there
is a marked increase of generals. The
ready acceptance of military titles by
men who never wore the blue is a trifle
surprising, So readily are they put on
that any general manager, general
-superintendent or general passenger
-agent becomes endowed with the glitter'
ing prize. We are a peace-loving people
and should at least try to keep down the
list of generals by bestowing the title
only on those who have served three
months, in the militia or have viewed
without flinching the awful carnage of a
battle cvclorama.
G. W. Williams, owner of the steamer
Norma on Snake river, has petitioned
Secretary Elkins to compel the IT. P. R.
company to put draws in its Dridges at
the mouth of Burnt river, at Hunting
ton, and at Kyassa. The petition was
received at the war department Novem
ber 16th, forwarded to the chief of en
gineers the same day, and on the 17th
- forwarded with a letter of instructions
to Capt. Symons, ' United States engi
neers, by whom it was received yester
day, which goes to show that there is
not much red tape used by the war de
partment. Capt. Symons is instructed
to investigate the matter and submit a
A young lady of Sprague has just
made final proof on 150 acres of land,
' located southeast of that city. She is
one of many girls in Washington who
'has taken up and improved homesteads.
The Elzivir Publishing company have
' issued the finest edition of "Evangeline"
extant copy of which is acknowledged.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
believes that the only safe solution of
the silver question is that advanced by
President Harrison, an international
agreement to restore bimetallism. Un
less this shall be done, in its opinion,
silver must suffer further debasement,
and eventually decline to fifty and pos
sibly forty cents an ounce in the open
markets of the world. Viewed in this
light, the international conference as
sumes tremendous importance. Should
silver, by any possibility, decline to
fifty or forty cents an ounce, a great
American industry would be wiped .out
of existence. ThiB evil, however, would
be slight in comparison with the tremett
dous losses that would fall upon the in
dustrial classes of the world. It is esti
mated that the silver coinage of the
world now carries $3,000,000,000, of
which the United States holds twenty
per cent, of the whole.
Of course if silver should drop to forty
cents an ounce the government of the
world would be required to complete the
work of demonetization. That would
entail a total and immediate loss of $1,
500,000,000, and upon the United States
of 1300,000,000; five dollars for every
man, woman and child in the country.
This loss would result in an immediate
gain of like proportions to the gold
holders and creditor classes of the world.
But this immediate gain would be small,
contrasted with that which the moneyed
and creditor classes of the world would
reap from the sole use of gold as money.
Every note, every mortgage, every bond,
would show a sharp enhancement in J
value. Upon its face the figures . would
be the same, but the producing classes
would be required to carry to market
more of the fruits of their toil before the
creditor could be required legally to
linquish the bond.
In the end, however, the consequences
would be disastrous to all classes. So
sharp a contraction of the currency
would certainly precipitate a tremendous
financial and industrial panic, and
vite insurrection and rebellion from the
producing classes of the world. This,
however, is the question viewed in its
worst aspects. At present the situation
is encouraging. We carry our silver
with ease ; one dollar is as good as an
other and the per capita of money was
never greater. The possibilities we
have painted are nothing more than a
little cloud upon the financial horizon.
An international resolution to restore
silver to its rightful place in the mints
of the world would eliminate this cloud
THE FARMERS OF THE FUTURE.
and create universal confidence.
Several Spokane business houses have
recently been victimized by men passing
bogus $10 pieces upon them. It is said
that a ii. ore successful work of imitating
the $10 gold coin of the United States
has never been got out in this country.
The weight and size is perfect to any
man only ordinarily used to the hand
ling of money. The metal is an alloy
which, when thrown on a counter, will
spjn and ring like the genuine article.
The engraving cannot be detected with
the eye in the smallest lines from the
government work, and above the eagle
the motto, "In God we trust," is exactly
after the style of coin of that date. To
avoid possible suspicion the makers hav,e
taken the newness off and they have an
exact appearance of a coin that haB been
in use for 36 years. They are thinly
washed and a knife will soon bring to
the surface the black metal that com
poses the body of the piece.
The cost of good roads is discussed
considerably of late. The graveled
streets of East Portland are the worst in
the world, both for the animal and the
tax payer. Good country roads, dry the
the year round, may be made at $7,000
to 2,000 per mile, and even less accord
ing to location, and the expenditure pays.
To pull a ton on macadam costs just
half as much as on hard dirt, and one
fourth as much as on sand. It is esti
mated in England that improved
roads have made it possible for three
horses to do the work formerly done by
four, thus saving $100,000,000 annually.
It is also stated that with improved
roads, the farm produce could be hauled
for $15,000,000 per annum less than now,
and that $160,000,000 would be added to
the value of the farms.
Unless work is resumed on the Pana
ma canal by February 3d, the concession
of the government of Colombia to the
old company will lapse. An attempt is
being made by some French capitalists
to form a new company with $36,000,000
capital to take the assets of the old com
pany and continue to work, but the
Panama bubble has already cost the
people too much money with too little
returns for this to be likely to succeed.
The Panama route has buried enough
men and money already. Let it be
abandoned and the Nicaragua canal constructed.
Oregon almonds will be on the mar
ket some of these days from Southern
Oregon. Ten distinct varieties' were
grown this season in Ashland, and G.
W. Pennebaker has made a collection of
them which show that they are as fine
nuts as are grown anywhere, with shells
as thin almost as tissue paper or gossa
mer web. Almonds ought to be a prof
itable crop. - E. D. Briggs intends to
plant 400 more almond trees in his or
chard tract south of Ashland next spring.
An article in a recent issue of the Cen
tury upon the homesteads in blue grass
land, Kentucky, with very few modifi
cations could be cut to fit almost any
other portion of the United States.
This writer says, in answer to a question
as to the future of that region ; One
seems to see in certain tendencies of
American life the probable answer to
this question. The small farmer will be
bought out and will disappear. Estates
will be fewer and larger. The land will
pass into the hands of the rich, being
too precious for the poor to own." Im
portant changes in the conditions of
land tenure and the farming industry
have been creeping upon us almost una
wares for years in various and widely
separated portions of the country.
What is said to be true of Kentucky is a
truth that has been frequently recog
nized and discussed in these columns in
connection with the farming interests of
certain portions of Oregon.
The old-fashioned farmer, with his
thrift, his generous shrewdness, his in
timate acquaintance with the responsive
secrets of nature, his wholesome content
and his sturdy family of helpful sons
and daughters, expecting to maintain
his stake in the soil when he should
leave it, has very few successors today.
It looks as though, here too, the small
farmer would be bought out and disap
pear, and as if estates would grow fewer
and larger. The movement in this di
rection has not merely begun, but has
attained considerable proportions al
ready. It is better to recognize this
transition and prepare for it, than to
waste our time in unavailing regrets for
a past that cannot come again, because
the conditions under which it flourished
do not now exist.
Hardly any single cause is sufficient to
account for the altered status of the
small farmer. It cannot be charged to
the deficiency of the tillers of the soil,
because men s minds are more acute
than ever; education is more widely
diffused ; there is more impatience of
the old conservatism, and more eager
ness to. keep in touch with advanced
ideas. But it is quite probable that
these very facts have worked against the
prosperity of the old system of farming.
What is called liberal education is more
general, and by it tastes are developed
and aspirations stimulated which can
not be satisfied within the narrow limits
of the farm. Society has become more
gregarious within the last quarter of a
century. It longs for closer contact
with the great movements of the world
than can be had upon the farm. It
seeks for richer and more exciting asso
ciations than rural seclusion affords.
Luxury is . more pecessary to it than
formerly, and in thickly settled commu
munities it can at least see it if it cannot
more intimately enjoy it.
But a more potent reason than that
mentioned is the fact that modern agri
cultural methods put the American
farmer at a very serious competitive dis
advantage. The great farming opera
tions of the country are largely con-
ducted by machinery, and machinery
costs money and presupposes business
on a large scale. The hundred-acre
farm does not give it opportunity to pay
for first cost and maintenance, while the
man who tries to do without it, is work
ing against as great odds as the shoe
maker at his bench who tries to com pete
with a modern factory. Many men,
even now, make independent livlihoods
upon limited acres with perhaps a little
over, but the business ability and push
that will accomplish that in a farm will
achieve larger results in other pursuits
iae logic of events, therefore, seem to
point to larger farms and the investment
of more capital in their cultivation.
The small farmers will be the agents and
Stewarts of the new dispensation, and
their experience and labor will receive
larger rewards in those capacities than
they are now receiving in their struggles
aa proprietors, while the land will in
crease in value and productiveness.
This may not be an ideal solution of
the problem of land distribution, but it
is a solution that would much improve
the present condition of the agricultural
communities, and seems the only practi
cal one under the present circumstances.
It would certainly make the hills and
valleys of our Inland Empire more
beautiful and productive than before.
Then, with a, tariff system that would
allow to some of us the leading manu
factories, this section would attain a de
gree of prosperity that would stand the
closest inspection and be proof against
the most adverse criticism.
ttl. H. Young,
BiacKSiii&waooiSfiop
General Blacksmithing and Work, done
promptly, and all work
Guaranteed.
D RUGS
Snipes & KinersLy.
-THE LEADING-
Hopse Shoeing a Speciality
DRUGS
TUM Street opposite Hie old Lieoe stanl
"The Regulator Line"
Tie Dalles, Portlani ani Moria
Navigation Co.
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Handled by Three Registered Druggists.
ALSO ALL THE LEADING
Patent : (Dedieines and Druggists Sundries
HOUSE PAINTS. OILS AND GLASS.
Agents for Murphy's Fine Varnishes and the only agents in
me vviiy ior ine onerwin, Williams (Jo.'s Faints.
-we are-
THROUGH
Freignt ana PcSsengGrLine
inrougn aauy service (Sundays ex
cepted) between The Dalles and Port
land. Steamer Regulator leaves The
Dalles at 7 a. m. connecting at Cascade
Locks witn steamer Dalles City.
Steamer Dalles City leaves Portland
(Yamhill street dock) at 6 a. m. con
necting with steamer Regulator for The
Dalles.
.The Largest Dealers in Wall Paper.
Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic Cigars.
Agent for Tansill's Punch.
129 Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon
JOLES BROS.,
: DEALERS IN:
Staple aqd Faocy Groceries.
Hay, Grain and Feed.
PAS8KNOKK A TBS.
One way
Round trip.
2.oo Masonic Block. Corner Third and Court Streets. The Dalles.Oregon.
Freight Rates Greatly Reduced.
Shipments received at wharf any time,
day or night, and delivered at Portland
on arrival. Live stock shipments
solicited. Call on or address.
CHRISMAN & CORSON,
-DEALERS IN-
B. F.
W. C. ALLAWAY,
General A great.
LAUGHLIN,
General Manager.
THE DALLES.
OREGON
FSEflCfi & CO.,
BANKERS.
TRANSACT A GENEBALBANKINO BUSINESS
Letters of Credit issued available in he
Eastern States.
Sitrht Exchange and Teletrrarjhic
Transfers sold on New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, Kan Francisco, irortland Uregon,
Seattle Wash., and various points in Or
egon and Washington.
Collections made at all points on fav
orable terms.
A NEW
GROCERIES,
Flour, Grain, Fruit and Mill Feed.
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR PRODUCE.
COR. WASHIN TON AND SECOND ST.,
THE DALLES, OREGON
FLOYD & SHOWN,
-DEALEB8 IN-
PPJNZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN
Furniture and Carpets.
we nave added to our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
Remember our place on Second street.
next to Moody's bank. '
DRUGS, MEDICINES AND CHEMICALS,
Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Perfumery, Etc.
Pure Liquors for Medicinal Purposes.
Physicians Prescriptions a Specialty.
Corner Union and Second Streets, The Dalles, Oregon.
HORSES
A. A. Brown, j. S. COOPER,
Atmf a tun wwui uucut vi
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Corner Barn, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois. '
The Largest and Only Strictly Commission Dealer
in Horses in the United States.
and Provisions.
which he oflert at how Figures.
Commencing the 3rd of August and every month throughout the year will hold
Special Extensively Advertised Sales of
WEST6RN RHNGE HORSES.
SPEGWL :-: PRICES
to Cash Buyers.
Reference
(National Live Stack Bank, Chicago, HI.
(Chicago National Bank, Chicago, 111.
Write for Particulars.
Hiilest Cash Prices for Eis ami
Dflier Produce.
Washington jQtll DclllSS, Wastl'ngtQ
170 SECOND STREET.
SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
The SL" -Charles Hotel,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center In
the Inland Empire.
Best Selling Property of
the Season In the Northwest.
This old, popular and reliable house
has been entirely refurnished, and every
room has been repapered and repainted
and newly carpeted throughout. The
house contains 170 rooms and is supplied
with every modern convenience. Rates
reasonable. A good restaurant attached
to the house. Frer bus to and from all
trains.
C. W. KNOWLES, Prop.
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