THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY. JULY 4, 1898.
The Weekly Chfqniele
STATE OFFICIALS.
0jrernor
(Secretary of State
Treasurer
Bnpt. of Pnblio Instruction..
Attorney-General y .
Bsoators.....
Congressmen. '.
State Printer ...
..VT. P. Lord
......H RKincald
..Phillip Metschan
...,..G. M. Irwin
. ..CM. Idleman
(G. W. McBride
" J. H. Mitchell
(B. Hermann
i W. E. Ellis
W. H.Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge.....
BheriffL
Clerk.....
Treasurer
Commissioners..
.Geo. C. Blakoley
T. J. unver
A. M. Kelsa
m. Michell
(Frank Kincaid
Assessor:........ .:....F. H. Wakefield
Barveyor E. F. Sharp
taperintendent of Pnblio Schools. . .TroyShelley
)A. a. Blowers
Coroner W. H. Butts
THE TARIFF LEAQUE.
The American Tariff League has
issued a ' manifesto signed by it?
president. uosneuus in. unss. J.ne
v work of the league in the cause of
iMntaMmn hoe frrpof rA.
suits wherever it is known, and the
scope of its influence should be made
coterminous' with the country. The
, league will dissiminate tariff litera
ture extensively during the coming
campaign, and Republicans would cio
well to take advantage of its libeial
offers and post themselves with facts
and figures to overcome their free
trade friends. We gladly publish
the announcement of the League:
"The American Protective Tariff
League is grounded upon the funda-
. mental idea that the American peo
ple ought to Droduce for itself all
those things which it needs except
those upon which nature has placed
an embargo, llius, as far as our
- present knowledge goes, tea and
coffee cannot be naturally and eco
nomically produced on American
soil. It would, therefore, be an of
fense against sound policy to seek
by tariff measures to encourage their
production here. On such articles
. yne uuty would ne purely ior reve
nue. Another condition,' however,
' appears when the disadvantage un-
der which we labor arises out of the
wage cost of human effort. This
raises at once the question of civili
zation, for it is indisputable that the
comparative return which labor re
ceives by way of reward for its ser-
. . 'vice in the main determines the qual
ity of the civilization which the vast
tbody of people may be able to sus-
, lain. ' " '
'The Tariff Leigue, therefore, finds
its field in educating the people to
understand that the simple and onlv
, way in which that standard can be
: maintained is to put such a tariff
duty on articles produced in another
nce between the labor cost in this
and the other country on like prod
acts', This is simply the difference
'between the monev cost of maintain
. ing the civilization of the competing
country. 'Rightly understood, this
' will famish the raison d'etre of the
Tariff League. , . '
' '. "It does not, however, seek to fur
nish specific planks for Republican
platforms. It desires only that
every tariff shall breathe the spirit
of the League's philosophy, which is
r - -1"?'u
. maintain what the Americans rightly
demand their homes shall be. The
AnnliVat.inn nf this roar in nnxr nnr-
"i t j t"-
ifn1ar inrliiRr.rir will nf. Anna Burrocst
j - &r-i -
the substance of a party plank and
the suitable scope of a tariff law
which will make it effective, and the
American producer should . have the
Denent 01 any aouot as to tue amount
of. protection necessary to produce
..mis result
. The death of Harriet Beecher
Stowe has, long been expected.. Her
.. j uu
.she has' been waiting in shadow the
last summons. ' She has filled a part
in American life that posterity will
remember. Her death takes away
nearly the last of that group of nota
ble who by tongue and pen aided in
' the destruction pf slavery. Like
TVhittier her deeds were quiet, but
none the less effective. She has pre
pared her own monument, which will
' be more enduring than marble or
. brass. . '" -.' .-
Congressman Ellis has been heard
; from and declares that the St. Louis
be pushed along. , Incidentally he
remarks that it is not opposed to the
free coinage of silver at a ratio dif
ferent than 16 to L Mr. Ellis has
the happy faculty of seeing things as
he wishes" to see them, not as they
really are. !.
OVER IN WASHINGTON,
Some silver Republicans of Wash
ington have hied themselves together
and instituted a new political organi
zation. It will be known as the Bi
metallic Republican, party, and its
only object and concern is to brin
the countrv to a silver basis. A
delegation will be sent to the Na
tonal Bimetallic .Convention, which
meets in St. Louis July 22d. The
delegates will be instructed to work
for the union of all the free sL'ver
forces in the United btates. and in
the coming campaign in Washington
fusion will be sought with the silver
Democrats, Populists and silver Re
publicans for the nomination of a
silver state ticket and silver county
tickets. Everything will be silver-
lined.
This silver- movement was the
inevitable result of the St. Louis
declaration for the preservation of
our financial credit, but it is just as
well that it has come. The Republi
can party iiirougn its past glorious
history and present prosperity has
attracted to it many men of loose
views and " whose views are limited
by the narrow range of selfishness.
These men, blinded by the glamour
of the silver shield, are taking their
leave of the Republican party just
as their predecessors in error Dane
good bye to the country some thirty-
six years ago. Their places will be
filled by patriotic Democrats, who,
rather than sec the country brought
Over the verge of bankruptcy,willrise
above party considerations and vote
for the good of the nation.
The make-up" of this Bimetallic
party of Washington consists mostly
of disgruntled politicians who es
poused the silver cause because they
thought individual success laj in
that direction. Now that the Re
publican party has taken a diametric
ally different position, the doors of
political advancement through the
old' party are closed to them, and
nothing remains but to form a new
organization.
Ex-Governor Moore, who made
the principal speech for free silver,
a broken down politician whose
life has been a series of attempts
after the unattainable. By a lucky
chance he received the appointment
of governor of Washington, which
he held a few months prior to the
admission of the state into the union
Geo. Turner ot . Spokane, another
prominent member of the new party,
has been a perennial candidate for
United States senator since the ad
mission of the state. Although an
able man in many ways, political
ambition has made him the champion
of demagogical theories.
The Bimetallic party of Washing
ton will.be a'gathering place for
Populists, believers in fiat money
and fifty-cent dollars. It will create
somewhat of a fervot during the
campaign, poll' some votes, but die
away after the November election.
The men who are at the head of it
have never been successful In lead
ing political bodies before, and they
are not going to be now.
The people, of our neighboring
state are not going . to transform
"Washington's glory" into "Wash
ington's shame."
Eight thousand men have been
thrown but of employment in Ohio
awaiting a settlement of wages.
And yet It used to be said that Mc
Kinleyism was the cause of all
strikes. Perhaps it will be declared
that his nomination and impending
election are the causes of the trouble.
This would be as good a reason as
the average free trade argument.
Pendleton is thinking of contrib
nting $2,000 towards building a tel
ephone line from that place to Can
yon City. ' The investment would
ultimately prove a good one, and aid
in securing trade from a large area.
One of ;these days The Dalles will
extend a telephone ;line to the, in
terior, and the sooner it is done the
better. 1 " , " - : '
By direction of the postoffice de
partment The Dalles has been raised
to the grade of a second class post-office.-
At - the same. time Pendleton
was reduced from a second grade to
a third
The Dalles is all right.
THE MOSEY ISSUE.
' The campaign of this 'year, says
the Globe-Democrat, bears a close
resemblance to that of 1860 in the
respect that it involves a plain issue
of right ' and wrong. ; It took the
people some time to get. over the
habit of dealing with slavery in s
conciliatory and compromising way,
Thev did not call it by its right
name .and assail it in a plain and
postive way,' but spoke of it euphe
mistically and opposed it by ronnda
bout and ineffective means. At
length, however, "the time came
when a courageous and straightfoi
ward policy had to be adopted. The
evil had jrrown by indulgence and
concession until it could no longer
be tolerated, and there was no es
cape from the duty of making a di
rect and determined fight upon it.
In other ivords, the logic of circum
stances forced a square test between
freedom and slavery. Men quit
talking about expedients of & mild
and paltering nature, and insisted
that the question should be settled
on its merits. the courage and
conscience of the country took hold
of the matter and disposed'of it thor
oughly and permanently. It was' a
severe contest, but a necessary ODe,
and the result was a triumph of
right over wrong that removed a
great national reproach and added a
splendid chapter to the history of
civilization.
In a sense, the issue now before
the people is as important as that
which was presented in 1860. It
relates in a serious' way to the pros
perity of the country and to the
credit and honor of the government.
There .is much more in it than a
mere difference of opinion about the
best way to promote the welfare and
happiness of the people. It has a
moral aspect, aDd compels a choice
between honesty and dishonesty.
The maintenance of the gold stand
ard implies adherence to the rules of
right, justice and propriety,, while
the free coinage of silver means a
violation of those rules and a resort
to false and mischievous v financial
methods. The gravity of such an
issue is easy to comprehend. It
comes directly home to every citizen,
and calls for the same patriotic
action that wa3 required to settle the
slavery question. The menace of
dishonest money should unite all in
telligent and upright voters in a res.
olute fight for honest money, which
is essential to coumercinl safety, to
national solvency, and to the success
of all forms of industry- It is im
possible to mistake the signigcance
of the contest ; and it is equally im
possible to believe that the people
will fail to decide it in accordance
with the declaration of the Republi
can party upon the subject.
The carrj ings on at Richmond do
not strike the American people in a
pleasant manner. The speeches
made by Gordon and O'Farrell one
a United States senator, the other a
governor show that the war spirit
of the South is not yet dead. There
is 'no disposition upon the part of
the North to wave the bloody shirt,
but such utterances as are being
made at the Confederate gathering
in Richmand do not aid in re uniting
the country".-
Whitney, Harrity and Hill are
trying to prevent the Democrats
from declaring for free silver. It
is too late now. Such work of edu
cation shoald have been begun long
ago, but it would not have changed
the result. The Democratic party is
incapable of learning.
Multnomah county is not through
with her 'political troubles. The
Mitchell Republicans have instituted
a contest on the legislative ticket.
and' will seek to obtain an entire
recount. Portland will get through
one campaign about in time to begin
another. ' .
Outside of Colorado, Utah and
Nevada the silver bolters are meet
ing with ' little enthusiasm. ' There
seems to be a feeling in other places
that the speeches of the silver men
have a decidedly metallic ring. The
sincerity of their convictions is be
ginning to be questioned.
: July 4th.
of the day.
Many happy. . returns
Tongue Safe an the Money Question.
Both before the recent election and
since, the Fopulist newspapers, and
several Democratic ones too, are con
siderably exorcised over the . views en
tertained by Mrv Tongue on the 'silver
question. Some contend that he is, or.
has been in favor of the free and unlim
ited coinage of silver, others that he is
an extreme gold bug, others that be has
been inconsistent with himself at one
time for free silver, anil then against it.
The Hillsboro Independent has inquired
into the matter , and pronounces all of
the above the veriest kind of nonsense
There has been no doubt about Mr.
Tongue'd position on the silver question
to any who have known him or have
heard bins discuss tbe question.
In the campaign two vears ago, and
again in every speech, that he has de
livdred during this campaign, be has
stated as clearly and unequivocally as
words could state, his views upon that
question, and his interpretation of the
meaning of the platform adopted by the
national convention four years ago. He
believes in the largest possible use of
silver, consistent with maiutainins tbe
two moneys in circulation at par with
each other. He does not believe that
this could be done under a system of
free and unlimited coinage of silver, and
therefore opposes it. :
No one who heard him daring the
campaign can have any reasonable ex
cuse for undertaking to say that there
was any question about where be stood
on this subject. People who lavor ffee
coinage of silver understood so well his
position, that they not only voted
against him, but worked against him,
and united-their forces against him. It
was for this reason that thousands of
Democrats voted for Mr. Vaoderbnrg.
After the election, two years ago, the
Oregonian and other leading newspa
per throughout the United States were
advocating that a large quantity of our
paper money should be retired and de
stroyed. That we should adopt a policy
with reference to silver that would per
mit it to wear out and be destroyed and
thereby contract the circulation. Mr.
Tongue opposed this policy in a well-
written letter to the Oregonian. Imme
diately that journal desiring to move as
much as possible any senatorial candi
dates that might be in the. way of the
re-election of Senator Do! pb, 'denounced
Mr. Tongue as being in favor of free
coinage. - newspapers favoring this doc
trine were anxious to receive with open
arms a convert and began, also to claim
that Mr. Tongue was supporting free
coinage. JUe immediately wrote to tbe
Oregonian, stating that both sides were
mistaken and disclaiming that any such
misrepresentation should be placed upon
his letter, and calling attention to the
fact that there was not one word In it in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver, or that could by any reason
able intendant be so construed. -, ,
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