THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1896. The Must be closed out by of April next, regardless reasonable offer refused. The Weekly GMoniele. THE DAI-IiES - - - OUEGOS SUBSCRIPTION RATE8. .... . BT KAIL, POSTAGE VBBPAJCi-iN ADVAJICB. sVcstly, lyenr., .-...rr..'. I 1 60 " ,6-toOntha 0 76 y -J a -O'jO Doily, 1 year 6 dO 6 months 800 ' per ' 0 50 Address all communication to ' THE CHRON ICLE." The Dalles, Oregon. STATE OFFICIALS.. n.womoT . W. P. Lord Secretary of State H K Kincaid Treasurer Phillip Metschan Bupt. of Public Instruction U. ii. Irwin Attorney-General CM. Idleman . ((;. VV. M (-Bride S-snators jj u. Mitchell ( P.. nermann Congressmen JvV. R. Ellis State Printer W. H. Leeds COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge Geo. C. Blakeley Sheriff. . T. J. Driver Clerk A. M. Kclsay Treasurer Wm. Michell , . (Frank Kincaid Commissioners 1A s Biowers Assessor.. F. H. Wakefield Surveyor E. F. Sharp Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley Coroner W. H. Butts NATIONAL LIFE OK SILVER. "No protection until there is a straight and genuine Republican senate and a president of the same pattern." This is the answer, says the Tribune, of the Democrats, Populists and silverites to the overwhelming majority by which the people have demanded the restora tion of protective duties. And there are Democrats so obtuse that they imagine that this condition will help their party. The American people do not take a slap in the face with meekness, if Demo crats only knew the fact, but are in the'. habit of making their will known and respected. They strike back, sometimes smashing things which at first they had not recognized as hostile to their wel fare. In 1856 they demanded no further extension of slavery. The Lecompton Democracy disregarded and insulted theiu. When they struck back slavery went out of existence as an enemy of national life, and Democracy went out of power for thirty years. Sq in 1894 they demanded a restoration of protec tive duties. The Democrats and silver ites defy and insult them. The Ameri can people will strike back; of that every man who knows America is sure. It is not their way to smash only the tricksters and demagogues who appear on the surface, but tho causes behind them which make such demagogues pos sible, and which threaten the nation's prosperity. Their natural impulse will be to smash the silver interest bodily every fragment or trace of intention to use) silver as money except as a token, just as paper is used to represent gold. That has not heretofore been the temper of the nation. It was not the temper of the nation to destroy human slavery until slavery made war. But anything that threatens the nation's life and prosper ity, be it what it may, Americans will treat as an enemy. Had any slave holding state instantly stamped out dis loyalty, and made it known that slave Holding was not necessarily hostile to national life, the result might have been different. The silver states will now proceed to show, and quickly, whether they mean to put silver before national -welfare and national honor. If they mean that, the people- will quickly and -.surely make an end of all talk of bimet allism in this country, and of every thought of compromising with an inter est which threatens both the honor and the prosperity of the nation. ' Predictions are not expensive or valu able, silver men may eay. The best that any friend can do today is to state without reserve precisely what public opinion is in regard to the latest mani festation of hostility to the public wel fare. For it must not be forgotten that thesilver bolters are exactly in the atti- . tude of the slave-holding rebels who put their personal convictions and interests before the welfare of the Nation. These , silver men avow a conviction that pro- tection of American industry is neces sary to the Nation's prosperity and the well-being of 20,000 ,C00 wage-earners, wool-growers and lumbermen ; but they deliberately threaten to deny this ad mitted public need in order to serve in terests of their own. The kindest thing that anybody can do is to tell them that ho who makes war on the welfare of the! Entire American people goes down, and cannot begin to gue&s how far popular indigna tion may alter- previous inclinations re spect'.iig'the interests which thus defies Tthe declared will of the nation. Men who'have honestly advocated bi metalism, but not free coinage -f silver by the United States alone, have been placed in a false position for years by the demands of the silver interest. It is the naked truth that most of them are today in the humor to treat the whole business as the nation treated slavery, when that interest was not con tent with toleration, but demanded ex tension into every territory or disrup tion of the union. Men of great power are now saying to each other: "This has gone too far, and if bimetal lism means destruction of national in dustries there must be an end of all compromise or concession." Nobody except the silver men themselves can check or modify that feeling. They can do it only by buryiDg out of sight every politician who attempts or threatens to put the Bilver interest before the welfare and the honor of the nation. For the nation needs protection of its industries, and will have it. The nation knows that its honor requires revenue large enough to cover its expenses, and will have that revenue raised. The men who refuse both are going to find a tre mendous national and loyal feeling, even in the etates which they imagine exclusively devoted to the silver inter est. TRADE WITH CHINA AND JAPAN The Pacific coast is interested in the forefgn trades policy of the country more now than 't ever was before. Not only has one of its chief industries that of wool raising been dealt a heavy blow, but all. lines of export business have suffered from the operation of the bill." Especial at tention has been directed to the activity which China and Japan are displaying in manufacturing. The victory of the Japanese in the late war has caused them to leap into place among the prominent nations of ttie worid and the industrial development now going on bids fair to maintain the position that country occupies. The crippling of China by her defeat will cause concessions to be made that will infuse into that lethargic nation the stimulus of foreign capital. Labor in China can be secured.iat a figure which provides a mere existence for those that toil-t-its degradation can be measured when the fact is known that eo small a denomination as one-tenth of aMexican cent Is need in business intercourse. Where labor is bo cheap capital will come to take advantage of it and the output of China is sure to increase greatly in the next few years. Not only will the United States feel the effect of this Japanese-Chinese manufacturing revival, it is doing so now.. During the. last fiscal year the commerce between the United States and Japan amounted to $28,000,000, but there was a balance against this country of $19,000,000. With China the showing is but little better, out of fa trade esti mated at $25,500,000, the balance against the United States being $7,200,000 one cf the worst features being the small proportion of this trade carried in American ships. Not only is the American v laborer an tagonized by the cheap labor of China and Japan, but while the balance of trade is so largely against us, all lines of business ieel the competion. The oft repeated declaration of the Democratic party that the bringing of the cduntry to a free trado basis would increase our ex port trade proves to have been a conclu sion reached from false premises. Great Britain is selling to the nations of the earth and we are buying from them. Ecenomists ' look upon China and Japan "as coming factors in the industrial world and it is poor policy for this country to help in a development that 60 far has proven antagonistic to its own. Like Great Britain we should aim to sell what we could to these nations and buy as little as possible. The rein act men t of a policy that protects the in dustries of this country and a generous treatment by congress of American mer chants who are seeking to increase our export trade would- accomplish both theee results. the 20th day of COST. No CHASING FALSE GODS. The approach of the time for holding the Republican state convention is causing the political situation to become more interesting every day. While there is no state ticket to be nominated at this time, the choice of congressmen and selection cf delegates to the national convention, together with the fact that members of the legislature Will be nom inated, all combine to. make the next few weeks exciting ones for politicians and incidentally for the people of the state. The congressional situation has changed considerably since two years ago. Then the .opposition io Hermann and Ellis, while it existed, was not of the kind nor degree to bother these gen tlemen, and their re-nomiuations were easily secured. . This time, however, de feat ia hovering near, and in the case of Mr. Ellis it looks as if he will fail to obtain any delegation save from his own county. Hermann will be more fortu nate, and it is possible he may muster votes enough to secure the victory. The opposition to Ellis comes from several sources. There are those who think he has not accomplished for the state dur ing his fonr years inenmbency, what he should have, and for this reason think some other man could be sent to Wash ington whose efforts would redound more to the material progress of the state than Mr. Ellis'. Then, there is an other class of people who can. always be counted upon to oppose the mm that is in. This class comprises the rival can didates and their friends, and the influ ence they possess can be exerted to but a limited extent. The real opposition to IIis comes from another direction, and is tar more formidable. The people of this district have learned a good deal this last year or two, and manv who failed to under stand the vital principles of our mone tary system then, are beginning to seejthe light, and are able to -appreciate, in some degree, the necessity of a sound and stable enrrencv. Ellis votes for free silver, and by doing so, no longer represents the thinking portion of bis constituents. Stranger things have happened than that Mr. Ellis should be re-nominated, and if be is, he ought to be, and will be, elected. A free silver Republican is better than a free trade Democrat ; and so long as our present congressman votes for a dnty on wool, he is better than the man who by voting otherwise aids in de Btroying this industry. We are not among those who think the money question is the paramount one. The tariff exceeds it in import ance, and to just such an extent Mr Ellis is more right on national questions than wrong. But why choose a man who but partially represents the state when one can be elected who will do so entirely? There are more reasons for Mitchell's re-election tha'n there are for Ellis', since the former has proven himself an unusu ally successful worker for the needs of the state, and so his silver record can, to a certain extent, be lost sight of. Mitchell, however, is an unusual man, and Mr. Ellis cannot expect that the same charity that is given to Senator Mitchell will be extended to him. - Oregon does not want to be known as a free silver state, and so should look well to the choice of her delegation. THE COMING PRIMARIES. At the primaries, which will be held next Saturday, every Republican should vote. The success of the party this year can only be jeopardized by the nomina tion of unworthy men whose choice would be repulsive to the voters through out the state and county. The make-up of a ticket can, in a large degree, be de termined by the result at the primaries, and it is of vital importance that repre sentative citizens, who will vote as they think and are not subject to the control of any chaue, be sent to the county con vention. The man who stays away from the primaries is neglecting a duty, the performance of which is &s neces sary as that of voting at elections, . Another thing voters should keep in mind Is to select only such delegates as will surely attend the convention.. The proxy system is fraught with dangers, j and by It the will of the people in the locality from which the proxy ia eent is often defeated. No man should he choaen a delegate unless lie has interest enough in the party and community to cause him to attend the meeting of the convention. Let representative citizens be chosen to name the ticket, and let only those be elected who are certain to attend. In this way the ends of good government will be served. - A comparison of the national debt during the Harrison and Cleveland ad ministrations is one of the strongest ar guments the Republicans can produce to disclose the criminal incompetence which marks this Democratic adminis tration. On March 4, 1SS9, the day of Harrison's inauguration, the interest bearing debt was $844,106,220. Four years later it had ben reduced to $5S5, 034,260. a decrease of $250,000,000. Al though Cleveland has been in office but three years, the debt has risen to $S50, 000,000, and is still rising. It is bare facts like these that make the cause of the Republican party the popular one. It is to .the everlasting disgrace of the American people that they overthrew the Harrison administration and sub stituted the Cleveland regime. The mistake can be partially corrected by a return to Renublican ways, but long years must pass before the damage will be fully repaired. The present admin istration will stand in history blackened as the most profligate, incompetent and un-American the nation ever experi enced. The last three years have taught the peop'e a lesson which should suffice for one generation. THE CASCADE LOCKS. Mitchell Monitor: The -people of Eastern Oregon and Washington are again doomed to disappointment in re gard to an open river. The locks are nut open at the time agreed upon, nor is there any certainty about when they will be opened. It is, to say tbe least, very strange that the government en gineers should wait until now to dis cover that certain things must be done before the canal conld be used. It looks as though some "influence" had blinded the eyes of those whose duty it is to oversee the construction of government works. But it is idle to speculate on tne course ot sucn vexations delays i lie lact remains teat tne locks are un opened and will remain so for, perhaps, a year or two. Goldendale Sentinel : March 1st has come and gone and the locks at the Cascades are as useless to the Inland Empire, so far as their present benefit is concerned, as they were before a stone bad been turned preparatory to their construction-. For these public works Uncle Sam has squandered a large sum of money ; but from them, as yet, our citizens have reaped no practical benefit. Their early completion has been prom ised once too often, and the people of tne inland Empire will not be bood winked longer. With a great deal of bombasity on the part ot "Col." Day, the work was promised to be so far ad vanced as to allow boats to pass through by the fin-t of this month. Only another broken promise. lnerefore for good and sufficient reasons are The Dalles pa p rs aroused and wish to know the whys and wherefores for theee delays. The people have been duped long enough, ana henceforth will not sit idly by. in aequieecent silence and wait, meekly wait, auu murmur not. Jiverv news paper situated in the territory contingent to the great Columbia should no longer remain silent, but arouse public opinion to that extent which will bring so great a pressure to bear on our senators and representatives that they will heed and obey ; then will, .the time soon come when the waters of the mighty Oregon will roll on unchecked to tbe sea, bear ing on her broad bosom the products of the great Inland .Empire, which will re' main in unbroken bulk until they have reached the briny waters of tbe sea. The Mystic Shrine. Tbe Mystic Shrine, A. F. and A. M. meets in Portland Saturday evening, March zstb, and invitations are gener ally extended throughout the state to its members to be present. There will be present the imperial potentate, Chas. L. Field. Tbe recorder says: There is no use to disguise the fact, that to have an enjoyable trip we must have tbe vulgar dollar, for they are handy things to have around. A Shrine meeting without candidates, is like onto a desert without an oasis. On this oc casion it will be proper to honor our dis tinguished noble and bid him welcome with that moss-covered vessel we all hail as a treasure : The old oaken bucket, Tho iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, Which hung in the well. "Uniform politeness is a species of godliness; it may not make a saint of a man. but it makes a lovely sinner." Nobles something new come into our yard and slide on Malcolm's cellar door. Fax and Tiger Claws requested. Should there he a change in the time of meeting, due notice will be given in tbe dailv papers." Remember, no candi dates, no water. Mr. A. Bunnell Suffers Paralysis. Mr. A.- Bunnell, formerly of The Dalles, suffered a complete stroke of paralysis at Lewiston, Idado, on tbe 9th inst. He seomed to be in perfect health up to the time of the Btroke, and had just recovered from an attck of la grippe. The stroke deprives him of the use of every muscle and of speech. Mr. Bunnell had been in the tinware business in The Dalles since 1861 until seven years ago, and resided here four years after that time, when he removed to Lewiston. Mr. Dennis'' Bunnell re- ceived the sad -news Saturday that be was no better. - COHI.NO aVJENTS. Republican National Convention St. Loots. Statu convention Portland April Oth. County convention March 88th at The Dalle. Primaries March Slat. First District Oregon congressional con ventionAlbany April 7th. second dis trictPortland April 8lh. Teople l'arty National Contention St. Looii Jnly 22d. State convention Salem March, 28th. Democratic state convention meets at Portland April 9th. County convention April 7tb; primaries April 4th. THE CHURCHES. AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH. The sermon at the. Baptist church, Rev. O. D. Taylor pastor, was from Phil. iii:9: "Not having mine own righteonsuess, but the righteousness of Christ, the righteousness that is of .God by faith." The Savior often rebuked the Eelf-righteousness of the Pharisee, and taught his disciples that except your righteousness exceetl the righteous ness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God. Paul, by birth a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and by education and belief a Pharisee of the Pharisees, Until his con version depended upon the righteous ness which is ot the law, or self- rignteousness. Alter his conversion we find him no longer trusting to the deed of the law, but to tho righteousness which he describes in my text. Self- righteousness Is offensive to God, be cause it assumes as unnecessary the sacrifice of Christ. This was illustrated by the Savior in the parable of the mar riage feast where came a man without tbe wedding garment. In response to the question, "Friend, how earnest thee in hither, not having on the wedding garment," the man was speechless, and he was cast out into onter darkness This man's sins was not that he came to the feast : on the contrary he did well to come, for he had been invited; but be insulted the king's son by refusing to wear the weeding garment, which had been provided for every guest. So the man insults God who trusts to his own morality for justification, and thus re fuses the garment of Christ's righteous ness, in which to appear at the marriage supper of the Lamb. This doctrine of grace, while it is humbling to the flesh honors God, in ' that it exalts Christ and gives all glory to him as the author of our salvation. It also places all on an equality before God and before Him their is neither Jew nor Greek, nor bar barian,' Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all. M. E. CHUBCH. The morning eermon was an appeal to Christians to "Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might; ' i-pn. vi : 10. After the sermon one person was received into the church. The subject for the evening sermon was "Know Thvself," taken from the story of the prodigal son, Luke xv:17 Attention was called to tbe disastrous effect of not "knowing thyself," so com mon in the experience of men. . We must know ourselves as creatures among creatures, that we may be humble and feel our - dependenco upon God. We should know ourselves as man among men, that we may know our fellowman and perform our duty toward man in the fear of the Lord. By knowing our selves we may save much time, escape mnch sorrow, and save ourselves from eternal loss. Various agencies are em ployed in bringing man to himself, such as adversity in business life, physical affliction and loss of loved ones. The two special agencies are the preaching of tbe gospel ' and tbe influence of tbe divine spirit. Tbe prodigal eon came to himself after having wasted time, money and influence; yet in time to save himself. A SURGEON'S KNIFE Hves vou a feelinn- of horror and dread. There is no longer necessity for its use in many diseases formerly regarded at incurable without cutting. The Triumph of Conservative Surgery is well illustrated by the fact that DI1DTI1PP or Breach Is now radi IVUrl UIU tally cured without the knue ana witnout pain, uurasy, cnai ing trusses can be thrown away f They never cure but often induce inflamma tion, strangulation and death. TI lMftP Ovarian, Fibroid (Uterine) 1 UillvlvO ana many others, are now removed without the perils of cutting operations. PILE TUMORS, pTsTuVaTd other diseases of the lower bowel, are permanently cured without pain or re sort to the knife. CTHVP n tne B'add""' no matter AjlvFillw how large, is crushed, pul verized, washed out and perfectly re moved without cutting. QTPIfTIlPP of Urinary Passage is 01lVlUIL, also removed without cutting in hundreds of cases. For pam phlet, references and all particulars, send lo cents (in stamps) to World's Dis pensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. MOTHERS and those soon to be- come mothers, should know that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription roba childbirth of its tor tures, terrors and dangers to both mother and child, by aiding nature in pre-oarine- the system for parturition, sf. -r-s Thereby "labor "F;: and the neriod of 1 ,v ' confinement are ' greatly shortened. It also promotes the secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. - Mrs. Dora A. GuTHitnt, of Oakley, Overtoil Co., Tenn., writes : " When I began taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I was not able to stand on my feet without suffering almost death. Now I do all my housework, washing, cooking, sewing and everything forany family of eight. X am stouter now than I have been in six years. Your Favorite Prescription is the best to take before confinement, or at least it proved so with -roe. I never suffered so little with any of my children as I did with my last," MARKET REPORT. March 18, 1S90. There has been no material change ir the local market since our last issue, ex-f cept in butter and eggs, which have de clined slightly, owing to the increased! supply. Tbe cheese market is firm, good qual ity being in demand. The wheat market is dull and de pressed and prices here are nominal. We quote from the Boston Commer cial Bulletin on the wojI market: "The whole trado is steeped in stag nation to the lips. Fleeces are steady, but territory clothing is lower attain this week. The curious phenomena of for eign wool advancing and domestic de clining in the same market at the same time ia doe to tho fact that American wools have no forelgn'outlet. Foreign scoured and South American wools are being re-exported. Though the lack of demand from American mills is cutting down sales, there wiil undonbtedly be a short uupply of wool tbe coming season. The drought in Australia just ended has killed -,500,000 sheep. The coming Australian clip will be 180,000 bales Bhort. Special official statistics fur nished the Bulletin by the U. S. depart ment of agriculture shows a further decline this year of 4,000,000 sheep in the Cmit'ed States, and a consequent shortage in the American clip of 1S96 of at least 20,000.000 pounds." And from tbe London sales of yester day : There was another sale today, but there was an entire absenco of American demand. Several American representa tives have left. The offerings were 10,530, of which 300 were withdrawn. Floub Per bbl, $3.30. Wheat 50 to 55 cents. Oats White, 75 cents per 100. Barley 75 cents per 100. Potatoes Per sack, 30 to 40 cts. Butter Dairy choice, 40 to 50. Hay Timothy, $10 1.0 $11.50 per ton bailed. Wheat $9 to $10 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $10 per ton; chop $16.' Poultry Chickens per doz, $2.50 to . $2.75. Eggs 9 cents per doz. Cheese Cream, 20 cents ; cream, 15 cen.s. Vegetables Cabbage, 1 cent per lb. Fresh Fruit Apples fancy, $1.25; choice, 75 cts to $1 per box. Hides Dry No. 1, 16 lbs and up wards, 7 to 7 per lb; culls, 6 cents. Pelts 6 cents per lb. Hogs Choice heavy, $2.75 to $3; light, $2 50. Veal Small, 5 cents; large, 3Jj to 4. Mutton Gross, weathers, $2.75; ewes, $2,50. Beef Gross, top steers, $2.50 to $2.75 ; cows. $2.o0. Chance of a Lifetime. Owing to the death of the proprietor, the Dufur Roller Flour Mill is now for sale at a purprisingly low price. It is a 50-barrel a day, up-to-date mill, with all the latest improvements. Water power. The property for sale includes mill, with fine feed chopper attached; warehouse; 16 4-5 acres oi nne land, two good dwelling houses, a greenhouse and a splendid orchards The surrounding country yields No. 1 wheat, . and the market for flour is unsurpassed. An excellent propert3r at a won derfully low price. Will sell partly on time, rienty ot fine wheat in warehouse "if wanted. . Call and be con vinced that it is a bargain. For further information ad- dress MRS. E. DUFUR, Lock box 138, , Dufur, Or. Sheriff's Sale. Bv virtue of an execution and order of sale is sued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Ore gon for Wasco county upon a decree ani judg ment, mnde, rendi-red and entered by said Court on tbe 11th day of Kebruaiy, 1S96, in favor of tbe pliilntiit in a suit wherein the American Mort vage Compsnv of Scotland, Limited, a coriora- tlon, was plaintiff and K. P. Wc-idner, Thomas J. FrMlenhnrir. M. Fredcm-nrir. O. Fit denbunr. O.I. Tyalor, Snruh K. Taylor. Lorenzo Francisco, C. W. J.Cather.C.Flanders and Joseph A.Johnson were defendants, aud to me di.ccted and delivered, commanding me to levy upon and tell the lands mentioned and described in said writ and here inafter described, raid duly levy upon and will sell at nnhH auptinn. to the hizhest bl'irtRT for cash in hand, on Saturday the'ilst day of March, 1H96, at two o clock in tne aiternoon oi snia aay, at tbe front door of the County Court house, in Dalles City, Wco County, Oregon, all of tbe lauds and premises described in said writ, and hereinafter described as follows, to-wit: The Sou h-hslf, and the Northwest quarter, of the North-east quarter, and the North-cast quart er of the North-west quarter of Section twenty eigbt, in Township One North of Range Ten Kast of the Willamette Meridian, In Wasco County, Oregon; or so much thereof as shall be sulllcient to satisfy the sum of t745.-IO.with inter est there--n from the 11th day of Feb naiy, WM. at the rate of eight per cent, per annum : $7S at torney's fee, and tho further sum of of t'27 costs in said suit, together with cost of said writ aud accruing costs of sal. Dated at Dalits city, Oregon, this utnuayoi February, 18U6. f22-ot T.J. DRIVER, Sheriff Wasco Co., Or.