THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1893 The Weekly Gbroniele. OFFICIAL I'AFKK OF WASCO 1'OfXTY. Senator Dolph went alter the Cleve land Hawaiian nonsense vigorously yes tervlay. Mr. Dolph sizes up "Para mount" Blount ud in doing so voice the sentiments of the American people. Whatever the opinion of drover Cleve land and his man (.ireahutn umy have does not coincide with our American ideas of consistency. Director Preston, of the mint bureau, has prepared a statement showing that from the date the Sherman act took ef fect, August 30, 1S90, to the date of its repeal, the amount of silver purchased was ltiS,674,500.40 fine ounces, costing $155,030,940.84, the average cost per ounce being $0,9244. The present mar ket price is about 60 cents per ounce. A report from Washington says it is broadly hinted that the Chinese do not intend to register under the extended exclusion act any more than they did ' under the original law. There is no reason why they should. The adminis tration sided with theru once and there is reason to believe it would do to again. The Chinese can snap their fingers at laws and sing, "what a friend we have in Cleveland." Senator Dolph has been criticised for being early in his denunciation of the Hawaiian policy. This is absurd. If the president has not grossly exceeded his authority he h&s assutred an im portance throughout this matter that does not belong to him rightfully, and has practically set; himself up as a dicta tor. Congress should be as quick a pos sible in making a thorough investiga tion of the matter, and demand all in formation as to what has been done and the existing status of affairs. Oregon, having swept the field in awards for the best timber in the world, the beet and biggest fish that swim, the richest of nickel and other mines, the greatest wheat and oats that grow in the the world, the most wonderful plums, prunes, peaches, and pears, and the best flavored big red apples on earth now comes to the front in her usual get-away-with-everything-in-sight style and captures four premiums in the state school exhibit. Superintendent Me Elroy has received oflicial notification that Oregon's educational exhibit has been awarded four prizes for Its special features, indicating the advancement of education in Oregon. The new tariff bill places a higher pro tection on one of the most universally used articles thau McKinlev ever dreamed of. Our readers will remem ber the fearful hubbub raised over pearl buttons by the democrats, but they have put upon the thread, to sew them on with, a tariff of 18 cents per dozen spools. McKinley's tariff tor cotton thread amounted to cents per pound, or 3?4 cents per dozen spools. Thus it will be teen that the proposed change is more than quadruped the former tariff, which will result in the retailer charging 10 cents for a single spool of cotton thread. There is no article in more universal use than cotton thread. There is no child, girl or woman who does not possess, if nothing el'e, a thimble, needles and thread, and the lowest beggar on the streets must have thread to keep his garments togther. Con sistency thou art a jewel. Criticism has been laid upon the Car lin party for abandoning the cook Col gate to a lonely death among the soli tudes of the Bitter Boot range, says the Spokane Beview. Unquestionably the act was not heroic. It was selfish in a measure; but most men, placed under similar circumstances, would have act ed just as the members of the Carl in party acted, and some men would not have made so great a struggle to save the exhausted man. To git in a com fortable room or office and pass judg ment upon men fighting for existence is an eay matter. Under different cir cumstances men think and act differ ently. Ordinary human nature will not endure the more terrific tests; in the presence of great danger, even if fear be absent, the reason usually drives away sentiment. No man can determine what he would do under trying circum stances nntil he has been put to the test. With the snowy wilderness around them; face to face with danger, and playing at desperate odds with death, the Carlin party took a philosophic view of their duty and their requirements. It was clearly an impossibility to bring Colgate out of the wilderness. As the party taw their situation, they could not help him by remaining. So they pat away sentiment and sacrificed some thing to their own instinct of self-preservation. One point, however, in this connec tion, calls for further explanation. When Lieutenant Elliott met the wan derers, why did he (ail to dispatch de tail of his party in search of the aban doned man? Here was a case where nothing should have been left to doubt, There ought to have been at least a de termined effort to reach the point where the Carlin party parted company with the unfortunate roan. If Lieutenant Elliott bad made such effort there would now be not the slightest blemish on the laurels which he has fairly won. THE IXCOXE TAX. It has been stated that the income tax scheme evolved by the committee on ways and means proposes to put a tax of 2 per cent, on all incomes from f4,000 to $-0,000. Upou higher incomes up to $50,000 a tax of 5 per cent, is to be Im posed ; and for all incomes above that amount the Ux is to be 10 percent. This is, in effect, says tlte Philadelphia Record, the plan of the progressive in come tax embodied in the platform of the populists. In order to make the scheme as popular as possible it is to be imposed on a very small minority of the people. Whatever this minority may think of the policy, it has been gratuously assumed by its authors and advocates that the great majority of the American jieople would welcome a scheme of which they would share none of the burdens. If an income tax is to be imposed upon the people of this country, in obe dience to the demand ot the populists, let it, at least, be given a more equita ble and democratic character than is possessed by the bill that is said to have been incubated in the committee on ways and means. A progressive income tax, with a rate running up to 10 per cont., would undoubtedly have much attraction for those who would not be obliged to pay it; but experience has shown that such a method of spoliation is not calculated to yield a large amount of revenue. The higher the tax, the more determined the efforts to evade its payment. The history of the brief experiment with an income tax in the United States, from 1S63 to 1S70, affords ample evi dence on this score. In lStiti, under a uniform rate of tax of 5 per cent, on all net incomes over i00, the revenue amounted to $72,982,15!). Subsequently the tax on incomes above $5,000 was raised to 10 per cent, and still later in comes above $2,000 were subjected to a uniform tax of2'J per cent. In 1S71, the last year of the tax under this rate, the revenue fell to $l!).lC2,0ol. Under the mast democratic form of an income tax, such as that of lStt, there would slill remain a large class of ex empts hovering just a little below the margin of taxation. But system of tax ation, of whatever kind, which would bring the largest possible number of citizens within its operation would be more in accordance with the epirit of American institutions than a svstem which proposes to discriminate against a verv small portion ol them, reopie who pay taxes are, as a rule, jealously watchful of public expenditure. People who do not pay taxes give then.elve small concern about the extravHgurn-)--of the government. 'When the patri cians of Rome contributed the public revenues, and out of them furnished the populace with bread and ciicti.-c, the republic perished. When the first income tax was im posed the democrats denounced it as a violation of the constitution, which de clares that "no capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration" of popula tion. The supreme court, it is true, had anticipated this objection ; but sticklers for a strict construction of the constitu tion sometimes change front with nmuz ing facility when they find it convenient to evade the provisions of that instru ment. The worst feature of this business, however, is tiiat a comprehensive and almost revolutionary scheme of taxation is lobe sprung upon congress and the country without tiie least note of warn ing. In the platform of neither of the two great parties in 1802 was there the slightest hint of an income tax. There was no discussion of the subject among the people outside of assemblages of the populists, whose orators showed how easy it would lie to relieve the masses of all the burdens of taxation by a system of progressive taxation upon the incomes of the hated possessors of capital. The scheme in the committee on ways and means is the first installment of the populist programme. What is the need 50 foot mail and baggage car costs 1:1,500, a second class vmu'U $4,S00. a first class coach $5,fttK), while a first cla Pullman car costs $.15,000. Scientific American. "Jack," the Indian condemned to death for the murder of Pittendrigh at Westminster, B. C, is actually dying with fear. Physicians cannot discern any other cause for his sinking condi tion. They are feeding him like a doomed Thanksgiving turkey, but he sits in his cell the entire day shaking like a dice box and fading away at a rate that would kill an ordinary living skeleton with envy. Medical men agree that he cannot live to appease justice on Janu ary 15th, mm According to the last McClure's Mag axine McKinley Is the best known and perhaps the least understood of any of those who began public life with him. It is sometimes said that his success was served by chance or circumstance ; that his faith is cool calculation, his enthu siasm a simulation, his public manner the posing of an actor, his gravity an affectation of self-praise. But those who have been near hiin for many years do not speak thus of him. (!ov. McKin ley's career seems to have been logically indicated when he, a youth not long out of the army, his shingle just swung over the door of a country law office in Can ton, met his opportunity aud took it. It is a tradition which his iieighltors like to tell, that at that time there came a cunning lawyer to his town, who matched himself against McKinley in debate, and beat him and his feeble ar gument for protection down by the force ful pleadings of a pronounced free trader; and that then the iron entered McKin ley's heart, and he said to a companion : "Hereafter no man shall overcome me so; I know that I am right in this matter, and I know'that 1 ran show that I am right by and by." Thenceforth he studied books and men and facts and his country, that he might lie fortified in maintaining his principle. JOo lb for winter and 30c for summer. 1 trussed, light $1 lb, heavy .ic lt. Hcar skins, H(u$l2 ea; leaver, $3 50 lb; otter, $5; fisher, $.n.i $5 5u : silver gray fox, $10(.i$25; red fox, $1 25; grey fox, 2 f0,..$3; martin, $U"$1 25; mink, 50c55c; coon, ftik-; covote, 5lV(ci75c ; lutdger, 25c; lecat, 2;h'("45c; com mon house cat, lOcci 25c ea. NEWS OF THE STATE. Mason and Watson have Iweu indicted in the U. S. court for sending obscene matter through the mails. Edward F. Terry, the inotorman of the electric car lues, which plunged through the Madison-street drawbridge Novemlwr I and killed and drowned seven people, has been indicted. The indictment against Terry recites that ho is guilty of manslaughter, and says that "while in the commission of a lawful act without due caution aud circumspec tion" he did feloniously and involun tarily kill one Charles Beekinau by then and there feloniously aud involuntarily operating a certain car, the Inez," upon which Beekman was a passenger. Th Treahlolit Will Com-ily. Wahhinctos, Iec. 7. From the fact that the department clerks have lteen ret to work making copies of all Ha waiian documents not already in type, it is inferred that the president has given instructions to comply with the Hoar resolution adopted by the senate yesterday. Indeed, an authoritative statemont to that effect is made. MARKET REPORT. Very IJul.t anil (tuiitatliina Cnrt)aiigfl HtMfile I'riitluca, Kto. Fkiuav, lec. 8. The Dalles markets are very quiet and dull in everything. Prices have continued unchanged for the week. The supplies of all kinds of pro duce is sufficient to meet all demands and quotations remain sti a ly. F.L'gs, through the influence of warm weather, are now plentiful and the mar ket has a downward tendency. Butter is likewise in full supply and the market i- dull. Inquiry for poultry is very light. A : den er says realy there is no demand, ! although buyers take all offerings at nominal figures, for shipment to Port i Mini markets. Thf iive stock market is quiet. Pork on foot is in demand, but buyers are in clined by reports from abroad, to shade under quotations somewhat and conse quently 4t cents per lb. gross iH the out side figure. The grain market continues inactive and dull. There is a little t tetter feeling in foreign markets within the past few day.'', aud the same thing prevails in the ea-t. While our own western markets are steady there seems to be a buoyant ! tune and the inference is that a light mi valu e may be looked for before the New Year. The Wilson bill, placing wool on the free list, hail the effect to depress the wool market very perceptibly since the 1st of the month. Quotations are ax low as at any time during the past six months. Wheat I.'! to 4iio per bu. Bahley Prices are up to 55 to COc cents er 100 lbs. Oats The oat market is light at 60 to 85 cents er 100 lbs. Mii.i.ktitkh Bran and shorts are quoted at $18 00 per ton. mid dlings $22 50 to $23 Ol) per ton. Boiled barley, $23 00 to $24 00 per ton. Shell ed corn $1 25 per 100 II. s. Fi.oi'H Salem mills flour is quoted at H Jo per barrel. Diamond lirand Kansas Farmers' Alliance. ImI. Toi'kka, Kan., Dec. 7. The Kansas farmers' alliance is now politically dead. A long secret session was held today, but enough is known to positively state the politicians have won. The Omaha populist platform has been adopted. TIIE Oldest Agricultural Paper in America. ESTABLISHED 1818 To all cash suhscriliers of Tiik Ciihomi'I.e paying one year iu advance. The American Farmer, 1729 New York Avenne, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE AMKHII'tN I UIMKK. whll'll l I1.IW enter Ink ii-miii im 7.1th year, l tin- .luiiwr tanner Miir in the cnuiifrv. It i a Untv elulit twin imtier. mnl contain V. cnlutntia of tlii I'lii.inut HiftK'tiltilrrtl stiil liter nry litttttrr, 'ilelltllllllv nntH.'llMluvl with hue iUustrslluns It in NATIONAL IX CHARACTER, N ml UfitU with fitrmliiir mid dinner tiit;rft on briMul, (irm'tirul lino, it EMPLOYS THE BEST WRITERS IX TIIE COtXTRY, and vryThlnff that HpfwnrN In If cotnninit i of thu h.Khf'tWiiirni'iVr. hvry il .rtrm'nt w( ttur ! frtrrm'ra tmtiKn I iIi-m'.ism'-I lit mi rnrmt, 1 iritcMifii.l wy. looking U tin- nrrt-Atcjii prmlt nml ' ixfriftii u iitc imnier sinci ni iit'iiny. It aptNNir mi ttn Ut mnl I tti m ettcli month ami 1 (urn.ahtil ut tli luw pik-. ol 50 CEXTS A YEAR In mtvance. ThU Dial. It tli rhrirt agricultural paper lu Mi cmiutry. FARMER LEGISLATION. jMtrin Hip routing yenr theft will I nit Im nieriM- immU-r nf iu.ittr nf th nmt vltiit in tertt to furintTi tlnttl with hv omen' nml thf Kirrijtivn lM'.rirtmntt at Wn-hi nifton It lt hiifhly iirifMirUnt that tli In rim-1- U k'pt prompt') nml fully inforiut-l it to whut 1 Immiik pliimifti nml ftoiiM a fit-tunc th'-tti Ht thf Nittionnl ( rtpitJil. 1 li-'y Nhmiltt nil, thiTfiorv, tak inr A KRKI'AN I AHMKK, H ll It'll. l 1 1 1 IT on ttl ff'OIUld, hw bs'ttfr fuWIith thiin Mir. nthor tntr (or Ffttmc (hi Infotintitlon, nml t-v lt'lf to Kim iliity They ill nml In It -o,irmiliv H K r-ut miioiint of vHlnnhlv Information that they ran fH In n.othr j hit. I nk Amkkii as Kakmkk am! Tiik ( iihunh i.i n il! bo M'litoiit yftir lor ll.T.i. Blakeley & Houghton DRUGGISTS, 175 Second Street, - The Dalles, Oreg A full lino of all tho Standard Patent Mi(licin Drugs, Chemicals, Etc. 8!' .'.-ARTISTS MATERIALS,-,., , I AUaFTountry and Mail Orders w ill rectiivs promjit attentiou. ' I. C. Nickelsen, The Dalle, - Oregon, I'.STAFILISH KD INTO. The oldest, lnrtfetat, nnd test manjjej house In Sctiool Hooks, find Desks NIuKloeil lriNlrurnuiilM, Watches, Jewelry rl Sporting Goods. Ant. Hamburg-Bremen Steamnhlp Com Tlokata to and from Kurop. Tkomit Attkntios. Low Piiickh. I'r to tiik Timkh. TIIE DALLES LUMBERING No. 07 Washington tvruKKT. . . The Dallj WlioU'Htile mid Ketail Iienlers mid Manufacturer of Building Material and Dimension Timber. Doors, Windows, Moldings, Ilona FmiiiU Special Attention given to the Manufacture of Fruit and r 1 Potory mxxd liuxubor Yrrt At Old irt.D DRY Pine, Fir, Oak and Slab WOOD DelhwJ any part of the city. lpc,i!.ers Harne Si IT'sEtx-lev eft? XzrctxilsL, Suivemors to I.. I). Frnnk, deet'umid.) OF ALL . 2CI3STI3S . OF A Oenerul Line of Horse Furnishing Goods. KEPAIRIISrO PROMPTLY d NEATLY XX2L WMcsale and Retail Dealers in Harness, Bridles, Wbips, norsc Msh,h Fell Assortment of Mexican Saddlery Plain or Stanipei SECOND STIIKET, TIIE DALLES. i New - Umatilla- House' THE DALLES, OKEGON. PILES 141 f ITCHING PILES SWAYNE'S OINTMENT mmm tlhtmm mm 4 of a ropuliiit party, after all, when dem-1 1: (x) h. per ton and :t 2' p;r bbl. ocratic committees In conifresH ctand j etail. ready to execute its dyintt beliegts? I Hay Timothy bay ranges in price . . from (X) per ton, iiiTimliiivt U) The fight is raging aifainl.ctweenl'un-1 ,'"i;li,VV ""l" con,lit Y1'1 Ui? U ,, , , . . .. . , in full itUx-k on a limited demand at uieton anu Lnion lor tne rxtion ol the w U) m m per ton. branch insane imyluni. The Dalles will lf,rATO1SH40 to 50n ir 100 It, not enter this undignified contest, while IScttkr Kresh roll butter at M to 50 not withdrawing its candidacy, but will cents per roll, in brine or dry salt we rest content with what an impartial in-! quote Ii0 to 40 cents jr roll, vestigation will bring forth, and rely j Khou Good fresh egjrs mill at 2." to upon the integrity and good judgment i "' '- ce"t8- of the board of Jphysiciarw who are to V- 1 "L'T- 1 ar,e 'l""t,,, at decide im,K,rUnta,atterto the life f, , tiV" interests of so many human fxings. ! Bkkf a Mutton Iteef cattle are in The story of millering in Chicago ap peals to the sympathies of the American people. The roofs of the churches shel ter the homeless and hungry, which is a new use for them, but an action which will call forth the approbation of all mankind. The greatest of virtues is charity, a fact which the Savior himself especially dwelt upon, and it is highly proper that the costly edifices where it is designed to worship God, should re spect humanity as well. A flat car costs about $.'W0, a flat bot tom coal car V)", a gondola drop bot tom o00, a double hopper bottom coal car fol!r), a doable hopper tbotlom coke car ."40, a box car $500, a stock car t.Vio, a fruit car (ventilated) $700. The prices given on the above cars include power brakes and vertical plane couplers. A hotter demand at $2.00 per 100 weight gross to $2.L'o lor extra good. Mutton is now quoted at $1.7.") to $2.25 per head. I'ork offerings are light and prices are nominal gross weight and 4.j to 4?4' cents dressed. STAPI.K UROTKKIKS. Coiter Costa Idea, isnuoted at 24c per II)., by the sack. Salvador, 23'!,c. ArbiK.'kles, 2."m;. KurMK Golden C, in bbls or sack , $5 12; Extra C, $" 37; Drv granulated $l 12 In boxes, D. G., in .10 lb boxes, $2 75. Ex C, $2 25. OC $200. liicg Japan rice, (i'JWTc; Island, rice, 7 cts. Bkans Small whites, 4)i(5'11'c ; I'ink.ftcper Kjolbn. Salt Liverpool, 5111b sk, 65c; 1001 b sk.$l 00; 2(H)lb sk, $2 00. Stock salt, $i:i 50 per ton. MIIIKH AMI) Kt'HH. Hidks Are noted as follows: 2V lb; green, .. Siibi:p I'ki.ts 25 to 50 ;a. Divrskins, Dry, Tfi3 GoliimDia Packing Ea.. PACKERS OF Pork and Beef MANUFAl-Tt KKRrl OK Fine Lard and Sausages. BRAND SINNOTT & FISH, PROP'S. Ticket and Uaggage Oflice of the I'. 1'. K. K. Cuiiany, and office ot tlx H" I'liion Telegraph Oilii e are in the Hotel. Fire-Proof Safa for the Safely of all Valuables. LARGEST : AND : FINKST : HOTEL : IN : OKEGCf IF YOTJ WISTT Govrmmcnt, State, or Dalle.'; Military Road Lani i ai.i. on Thomas A. Hudson Hni v..pr In Thtirnhiiry A lliiilmni, 83 W.-8hlnffton St., THE DALLES. OR. Curers of -y Sams anil Bacon, Dried Beef, Etc. Administratrix Notice. 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If jroo ranmit call, wrllfi. and your Inttora will lio rotnptly There is No Undertaker Trui I WII.I. fl'ltM.xll AWTIIINi; VI i. i,i i. i.i.,.ii i u i-ti.rari u ill . ,.ii.ni "",.. riirl Irmii nnviiii). who ilm-a nut l.,,i,v ' tit. Ap...nliiill,'ainl I have a I M-r I UvIiik hik.Mi tliv iir. ,vnry irai-nl limtrui'tl n In hiiil..iliiilim. I mil i.nriiauil t 'lt,m iiniiK "--rmiiuiiK ici inr linainiwR. On.ml V--n -. nil .a -rVTiarllta '''vJ' K yy IH HISKHH -Cimiirnf Thlnl ami W.iahliiKlon ntrnotn. KKHll'KNCK-l'",","t ..iiniiK,,,,, nin-in, aii nnii.r. iriniiitl) nlli'iiilwl to. I'll TI KKM nuilKI) To IH'.liKK AT HlltMtT HOTM'K. WM. M1CHELL, Undertaker and Embalm; I I 1 Vj REMEMBKH 1)ai7iTks Tci Ti-ONicEE Twloo J. Wools. From Now to December 31st,