THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1896.
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BTATB OFFICIALS.
Governor W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H R Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bnptof Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attnrnev-General C. M. Idleman
.. (G. W. McBride
Benaton - Ij.h. Mitchell
IB. Hermann
Congressmen jw. R. ElUs
State Printer W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge .' Geo. C. Blnkeley
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A. M. Kelsay
Treasurer Win. Michell
. . (Frank Kincaid
Commissioners U s Blowers
Assessor '..F. H. Wakefield
Surveyor E. F. Sharp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Coroner W. H. Butts
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ICLE," The Dulles. Oregon.
the platform: wanted.
"When the great council of Repub
licans, conies together to represent
the wishes and the needs of Ameri
can citizens, its declaration on one
question will have supreme import
ance to the people. Every man
has a direct personal interest ia
in the question, saj's the New York
Tribune, of duties on imports. Four
years ago a great many working
men were persuaded by leaders and
demagogues that neither their wages
nor their employment would be ma
terially affected by any change of
the tariff that was possible. Years
of bitter experience Lave tr.ught
them better. They know now, be-
yond all possibility of dispute, that
reduction of duties may, and in
many branches of industry actually
does subject them to an enormously
increased foreign competition, which
lessens the number of persons who
can be employed in this country and
the wages that can be paid to them
It is no longer a vague theory which
they have to confront, but a prac
tical experience which will riot be
forgotten so long as the worVers of
this generation live. Thejr have
seen their employment, reckoned in
.days or hours, reduced by a large
percentage in consequence of this
foreign competition. At the same
time thev have seen wares of labor
. generally reduced more than at any
other time for twenty years.
The .wage earning millions form
-the main body of every political
party. Practical politicians, who are
accustomed to run thiugs in villages
and wards, or in districts and states,
think much of the distribution of
offices and contracts. But these
thing3 interest at the most 200,000 or
300,000 persons. The waes of
labor and the condition of indus
tries directly interest more than 20,
000,000, many of Vhom are voters.
If the convention finds a' candidate
and adopts a platform which ex
presses in the most distinct and em
phatic manner the desire of the wage
earners respecting foreign competi
tion ana duties on imports, mere
will not be very profound interest
felt, -it is possible, in the rest of its
deliverance. . The people will vote
for Republicanism and prosperity,
implicitly trusting the Republican
party to protect the national honor
in foreign affairs or in monetary
matters, as it has done for many
years. .
It is therefore important that the
convention should be prepared to
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declare its position on the tariff
question so distinctly and unmistak
ably that there shall no loDger be the
shadow ot an excuse for any man to
pretend that he is a Republican if he
subordinates the protection of home
industries to his notions about cur
rency, the coinage of silver, or any
other question. It does not answer
to be a Republican provided one can
have his own way, against the will
of nine-tenths of the people, about
some question of that sort. The
people need defense of their indus
tries, whether they get something
else or not.- They need genuine
Republicans to make their laws,. not
men who have gone so far in their
devotion to the silver interest or
some other that they are ready to
destroy national prosperity if their
pet theories or wishes are thwarted.
When the national convention
pledges the utmost efforts of the
Republican party to restore full pro
tection to home industries, it does
not mean that a Republican will do
this after le has done something else,
or provided he can do something
else, but will refuse if he cannot.
Men of that stamp need to be told
in the most emphatic manner by the
national convention that they must
either serve Republican principles
unconditionally and faithfully, or
cease to be reckoned with the great
party which has never yet paltered
with its pledges from the first elec
tion of Abraham Lincoln in this
hour.
If a man has the notion that lalior
cannot be sufficiently protected with-l
out cheaper money, that is not an
honest reason for refusing to give
labor such protection as he can. If
he finds a measure pending which is
not half what he wants, that is not
an honest reason for refusing to do
what he can in the direction of his
principles and pledges, Neither is
it an excuse for refusing to carry out
one pledge of the Republican party
that a man considers it has also
promised something else which nine
tenths of its members never meant
to promise. The national conven
tion will need to be decidediy blunt
and explicit, and cannot speak too
plainly for the 20,000,000 of wage
eirners. HISTORY RECALLED.
The newspapers of Spain prcfess
their inability to understand the at
titude maintained by the American
people regarding the Cuban revolu
tion. The Spaniards accustomed
for centuries to monarchical rule fail
to realize the passionate desire for
freedom, which the' people of the
Western Hemisphere possess. Captain-General
Weyler expresses aston
ishment that a nation like the United
States, which has long been on good
relations with Spain, should declare
its sympathy with the men who are
struggling against Spanish domina
tion in Cuba. -
The circumstances in this instance
are peculiar, ine situation is not
that of two nations fighting for
supremacy, but of one people strug
gling for independence, for release
from foreign rule, which has ever
been cruel, exacting and but little
removed from barbarism. General
Weyler can find the answer to his
queries in the history of the former
Cuban revolution, which occurred
some twenty years ago. The whole
story of that pei lod is black with ,
Trunks,
Valises and
Telescopes.
Lace Curtains, Bed Tickings,
Black Alpacas, Bleached Muslins,
Bleached. Sheetings,
Ladies' and Children's Underwear.
Ladies' Hosiery, Ladies Corsets,. .. .
Ladies' Umbrellas,
Lace Embroderies, .
Ribbons, Velvets, fcc, &c.
- IMCa'C3L.
M. HONYWILIi
Spanish atrocity, no incident of
which tells a more fiendish tale than.
that known as the Virginius massacre,
This occuirence is recalled by the
publication in an illustrated weekly
of the pictures published in 1873
depicting this bloody slaughter.
The Vireiniua was an American
steamer which had been purchased by
friends of the Cuban revolutionists,
In 1873 she set sail for. Cuba, but a
' break in her machinery caused
temporarv stop at Jamaica. After
leaving that port the Virginius was
pursued and captured by a Spanish
man-of-war and taken to the port
Santiago de Cuba. Notwithstanding
the fact that the Virginius was cap
tured in British waters while flying
an American flag, the Spanish offi
cials disregarded all rights of foreign
intervention and by a drum head
court martial condemned the cap
tain and crew to death.
The number of the unfortunates
exceeding two hundred, it was nec
essary to divide them into dctach-
ments,and within a few hours af
ter their condemnation tbirty-six
men were led to the slaughter house
for execution. The men were lined
alons a trench with their 'backs to
the soldiery, and, as described by an
eye witness,-"the commanding i
cers gives the fatal signal, the men
fire, and the wretched objects of
Spanish hate and vengeance fall
headlong into the shallow trench,
some dying and others wounded but
alive. Then comes the crowning
barbarity. A company of artillery,
till now kept in reserve, gallops for
ward and crushes, with the broad
and heavy wheels of the guns, dying,
dead and wounded into one undis-
tinguishable mass." The remainder
fortunately were saved by the time
ly arrival of a British war ship.
This was Spain's mode of warfare.
It is the same yet, and if the occa
sion arrive, like crue.'ty will be
shown. It is the recollection of the
Virginius massacre, and such atroci
ties that makes America sympathize
with Cuba and long to aid her in this
final struggle for independence. The
cause of Cuba is just and whether cr
not it is officially sanctioned by this
country, the hopes and sympathies of
freedom -loving Americans are with
the patriotic revolutionists.
Postmaster General Wilson; who
lectured Saturday in Middleton,
Connecticut, was given an ovation
by the students of Wesleyan Uni
versity. If the causes were analyzed
it would be difficult to see the reason
for such a demonstration. The gen
tleman in question has proven a
monumental failure in everything hej
has undertaken-' save, perhaps, in the
vocation of school teacher. As the
author of the infamous "Wilson bill,
he contrived a measure which has
brought untold misery upon the
American people; as postn-aster-gcneral
he has succeeded in making
that office remarkable for its deficits;
even as chairman of a national Dem
ocratic convention he showed his in
capacity to govern a body of men,
Altogether thi3 pscudo statesman is
of a cheap-John variety, and the
sooner he is sent back to his West
Virginia honde relieved of the cares
of state, the better it will be for the
nation he has helped to mismanage.
Kb more BOILS, no more PIMPLES'
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Kineraly Drug Co. Telephone No. 3.
THE ADVANTAGE OF SITUATION.
Pendleton is greatly exercised be
cause through a change in the O. R.
& N. time card, traius from Spokane
to Portland go . through Wallula
instead of -making connections at
Pendleton ns formerly. It is thought
by some pessimistic souls that the
change "will injure Pendleton some
what iD a business way. While this
fear is undoubtedly unfounded, yet a
city that depends entirely upon rail
road commurication doesnot pos
sess the resources for growth that
belong to a place situated as The
Dalles is upon a navigable river.
The Dalles, once was dependent
upon the whim of as ingle railroad,
but that condition has been done
away through fhe labors of energetic
citizens, and by the agency of our
boat line we have competitive rates
that prevent exorbitant freight
charges.
Either with or without the open
ing of the locks, The Dalles will find
its gieatest treasure the Columbia
river, upon whose broad bosom the
commerce of a great empire will
some day float to the sea.
The building of good roads into
the interior and the establishment of
one or more manufactories will give
this city such an impetus that atten
tion will be attracted to it from all
over the coast.
FROM. THE FRYING PAN
INTO
THE FIRE.
Already the rush to Alaska is
having disastrous results. The in
flux of miners has been so great that
there is neither food nor accommo
tion for those who have rushed
northward in search of gold. The
stories that come from Juneau indi
cate that trouble is imminent and
that the men who have been disap
pointed iu their hopes will resort to
extreme measures.
The eagerness with which these
deluded men took advantage of the
cheap transportation rates to seek
another land is only another evi
dence of the unsatisfactory condi
tions that exist in this country,
The good times promised by the
Democratic party have failed to
come, and in their place we have dis
organization and distress.
jNot until a protective system is
again in force and a currency estab
lished beyond danger of debasement
will the conditions change for the
better. It is idle to talk of revived
prosperity till these conditions are
brought about. Until that time cap
ital will be unwilling to invest, and
without capital there is no work
for the laboring man.
Tonight the Commercial Club will
hold an important meeting. The
subject of the Fossil road will be
considered. No matter of more im
portance to the town has come be
fore our citizens for many months,
and a large number of business men
should attend this evening and by
presence, at least, leud encourage
ment to the work the Commercial
Club is trying to do. Merchants,
capitalists and professional men are
all interested in th expansion of
our city's trade. The opportunity is
offered us of attracting business
from a rich and extensive count ry,
and it is a patt of wisdom to hasten
an acceptance. A large attendance
at the meeting tonight will show that
our business men are awake to the
citys needs and encourage those to
whom the work of investigating the
project will be delegated.
The Oregonian has gone into the
letter publishing business again.
The printing of some interesting
communications yesterday illustrates
the old apothegm that it is safe never
to write a letter nor burn one.
COMMENT ABOUT THE LOCKS.
Vancouver Columbian : The Dalles
Chronicle has had its X rays- focueed
upon the Cascade locks and after giving
credit to its congressional representa
tives says : The men whom we distrust
are the government engineers and the
contractors. Our faith in them is at a
low ebb. In the interest of a suffering
people it is to be hoped that if this
money is secured from congress it will
be so distributed that the purpose for
which it was appropriated may be
served.
...
Troutdale Champion: Is it possible
that for fear pf not getting the last ap
propriation granted, which was at that
time thousrht sufficient to complete
them, that this work was not taken in
consideration, thus not only deceiving
congress, but the farmers who have
waited so long and patiently to see the
uascaue iocks completed It is about
time the government put a stop to this
procrastination as to wnen. tne locks
should be opened by granting the neces
sary funds and insisiLm upon the entire
work being completed with no more
spasmodic jobs tacked on.
Walla Walla Statesman : It was an
nounced a few months ago that the locks
at tna uuscades would be completed by
aiarcti 1st. When that date came it
was suddenly discovered that the walls
of the channel were not eat'e, and that
many thousands of dollars and several
years of labor would yet be necessary in
order to make the locks of any practical
service. The people of Eastern Wash
ington have about lost all patience with
theso repeated delays. They demand
that the work be pushed to immediate
completion, and they are ready to vote
for a representative in congress, regard
less of party, who will do most toward
haying the work of improving the
channel of the Colombia pushed to an
early completion. They should make
their will manifest in the congressional
conventions, and thus make sure that
there shall be no further trifling with
this vital question.
PASSED THE HOUSE.
The
S20.000 Appropriation for
Locks Went Through Today.
the
A dispatch received today from Hon.
W. R. Ellis says the senate resolution
appropriating $20,000 for the immediate
use at the Cascade Locks has j let passed
the house.
Having passed both houses of congress,
all that now remains is to get the signa
ture of the president, which in this case,
is a mere matter of foim. The whole
amount will thus tie at once available,
and will be used to complete the middle
lock. Work at ths Locks lias been
temporarily stopped on account ot the
high water.
The contractors have sent for a 40-foot
dipper and will start the dredger again
as soon as it arrives.
A SUIT FOR $25,000 DAMAGES.
Badly Injured In an Accident
at ens-
cade Locks.
Henry Smith yesterday filed suit for
$25,000 damages in the state circuit court
at Portland against J. G. and I. N. Day,
and The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Nav
igation Company.
Smith states, says the Oregonian, that
on December 10, 1895, be engaged pas
sage on the steamer Dalles City, which
was then lying at a floating wharf at
Cascade Locks, and was on board of the
boat with other passengers; and that at
the time J. G. and I. N. Day were en
gaged in blasting rocks. Smith com
plained that they well knew that the
passengers on the boat were in danger of
being struck with flying pieces of rock,
and, by their negligence and careless
ness, he says, be was hit by a piece of
flying rock, occasioned by a blast from
giant powder, producing rupture of the
drnm of the right ear, and causing
paralysis of the muscles of both eyes and
destroying the use of both eyes, and
causing great and irreparable damage to
his head, ears and brain, and which in
juries he believes are of a permanent
character.
Smith further alleges that he was
taken by the defendants, after the acci
dent, to St. Vincent's hospital, and that
he has expended otherwise (50 in
medical treatment. He charges The
Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation
Company with imprudence in permit
ting the steamer Dalles City to be
moored in proximity and within reach
of the blasting.
Smith in conclusion' says he was for
merly a robust man, and is now inca
pacitated from performing his accus
tomed business and labor.
It is thought in The Dalles that while
the D. P. & A. N. Co. is a party to the
suit it is very doubtful if the charges of
carelessness made by the defendant can
be successfully maintained.
Died.
John Austin Gilliam died suddenly at
his home at Lyle, Wash., yesterday.
No premonition of bis death was given.
He had eaten a hearty breakfast and
gone to the barn to saddle his horse.
An hour later, about It o'clock, he was
found across the manger, dead, the
horse having been bridled and saddled.
He bad been subject to epilepsy, and
there is no doubt that this was the cause
of hie death. He was aged 36 years.
Funeral sen ices will be held at Lyle to
morrow at 10 o'clock, Eev. Wood offi
ciating. Mr. Gilliam was well known in The
Dalles, and was the son of the late
Porter Gilliam. His brother, Mr. S. R.
Gilliam, his mother, Mrs. S. C. Gilliam,
O. W. Cook and wife and two children,
and Mrs. Emery Campbell took the Reg
ulator this morning and will attend the
funeral. :
Died.
Peter, the son of P. A. Johnson, who
was injured at play, died at 4 o'clock
this morning. The cause of his death
was being struck in the abdomen by a
plank revolving on a pivot, which re
sulted in inflammation and his death.
The funeral will take 'place in the
Catholic cemetery.
The Dalles Commercial Cine. .
The Oregonian of yesterday thus
speaks of The Dalles Commercial and
Athletic Club:
The newly organized Commercial and
Athletic Clnb at The Dalles has the
best appointed and cosiest rooms of any
zssz
For Infants and Children.
Caatorla promotes Digestion,, and
overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour
Stomach, Diarrhoea, ond Feveriahnesa.
Thus the child Is rendered healthy and its
sleep natural. Castorla contains no
Morphine or other narcotic property.
" Castorla is m wll adapted to children (hat
I recommend It as superior to any prescription
'known to me." H. A. Abcbkr. M. 11.,
Ill 6outh Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
" For several rears I hare reoommerifcled jxynt
'Castorla,' and shall always continue to do so,
aa It baa in variably produced beneficial remlta.
Edwiji F. Pardis, M. D.,
125 Lh Street and 7th Ave., Mew York City.
"The l
of 'Castorla ia so universal and
Its merits so well known that it seems a work of
supererogation to endorse it. Few are thein-
telitgent families who do not keep Castorla
wiuuii easy roacu. -
UUUMAUKTIfl,
New York City.
Tna Cshtaub Oomfast, 77 Hurray Street, N. T.
club in the state outside of Portland.
The bowling alley is built on the same
plan as that of the Multnomah Club in
this city, and the gymnasium is fully
equipped with all the latest devices for
muscular improvement. The club has
a membership of over 200, with' Mr. J.
S. Schenck, president of the First Na
tional bank, as president, and Roger B.
Sinnott, secretary. The reading-room
is supplied with all the latest papers
and periodicals, and furnishes a con
venient place for the members to pans
an hour in useful enjoyment. Follow
ing the example of other clubs, there is
no bar attached to the clubrooms at The
Dalles, which meets with geVeral ap
probation of the citizens.
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The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science baa
been able to cure in all its stages, and
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medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
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fiSSold by Druggists, 75 cents.
'The Confederate Spy."
"The Confederate Spy" is to be pro
duced at the Baldwin opera house April
9th by local talent, assisted by Prof.
Rasmus, the well-known actor of Port-
and. It is a play of thrilling interest
and contains many pleasing musical
specfaltie?. . A synopsis of the piny will
be published later. The following is the
caet :
(ieii. Wntermiin (a young Unionist). N. J. Sinnott
Pnlilp iirHdiey (auonieuerute spyjK. u. LonulHle
Fred Alnsley n rebel) K. W. Wilson
Maior-Cicncral BHnks (O. 8. A.) D. C. Herrin
Colonel Willard (U. 8. A.) J. R. McAvoy
omcer Aiuigarry (one oi me nnesi wnen out
of danger). John Hampshire
Clay (a gemnien of color what knows whar
de chickens rootit John Hnrtnett
Sockery bchnel.lkbecker ( the drafted Dutch
man) Wm. Rasmus
Rastus (the unknown) Lonsdale-Hampshire
Mrs. Waterman (mother of George and wid
ow of Cspt. Waterman... Mrs. G. C. Blakcley
Maud Bradley (a Southern belle and sister of
spy) Rose MicbeU
Nora McLeggin (down on the "hay then Chi
neezer'' Lillian Snell
Rose Southwick (lady presenting flag) Lena Snell
A Bank
Failure.
AN INVESTIGATION
DEflANDED.
A ecneral nankin? business is done by
the human system, because the blood de-.
posits in its vaults whatever wealth we may
gain from day to day. This wealth is laid
up against "a rainy day " as a reserve fund
we're in a condition of healthy prosperity
if we have laid away sufficient capital to
draw upon ia the hour of our greatest need.
There is danger in getting thin, because it's
a sign of letting down in health. To gain
in blood is nearly always to gain in whoU'
some flesh. The odds are in favor of the
germs of consumption, grip, or pneumonia,
if our liver be inactive and our blood im
pure, or if our flesh be reduced helow a
healthv standard. What is required is an
increase in our germ-fighting strength. Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery enriches
the blood and makes it wholesome, stops
the waste of tissue and at the same time
builds up the Strength. A medicine which
will rid the blood of its poisons, cleanse and
invigorate the great organs of the body,
vitalize the system, thrill the whole being
with new energy and make permanent work
of it, is surely a remedy of great value. But
when we make a positive statement that cj8
per cent of all cases of consumption can, if
taken in the early stages of the disease, be
CURED with the Discovery," it seems like
a bold assertion. All Dr. Pierce asks is that
you make a thorough investigation and
satisfy yourself of the truth of his assertion.
By sending to the World's Dispensary Med
ical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., you can get
a free book with the names, addresses and
photographs of a large number of those
cured of throat, bronchial and lung diseases,
as well as of skin and scrofulous affections
by the "Golden Medical Discovery." They
also publish a book of 160 pages, being a
medical treatise on consumption, bronchitis,
asthma, catarrh, which will be mailed on
receipt of address and six cents in stamp.
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