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THE D ALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 1896.
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NAlIOm REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM M'KJNLEY. . .
Ohio
. For Vice-President, ,
GAS RET A. HOBART ...New Jersey
' For Presidential Electors,
T.T. GEEE... .....Marion County
8. M. YOKAN.. .Lane
B. L- SMITH.. :. ...... ...Wasco
J. F. CAPLES. ......Multnomah
BTATB OFFICIALS.
" aovernor J......W. P. Lord
Secretary of State ..'....H B Kincaid
Treasurer. -. ... ..PhlUlp Metschan
' Bnpt. of Publio Instruction O. M. Irwin
Attorney-General CM. Idlemnn
Banatora f w- McBride
owiaiora.... J, H MitcheU
j&.!ern
State Printer W. H. Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Count;
ty Judge.
Robt. Mays
T. J. Driver
....A. M. Kelsay
Soeri
Clerk
Treasurer
..Si. h. Phillips
I A. 8. Blower
)D. B. Kimsey
W. H. Whipple
, J. B. Holt
. Commissioners.
Survero
For. . .
SU'
perlntendent of Public Schools
C. L. Gilbert
W. H. Butts
Coroner.
THE SILVER CRAZE WANES.
There is a prospect that the silver
question will, before the end of next
month, have declined to.a secondary
place, and that it will cease before
election day to be discussed as a mat
ter of business, because it is artificial
and fraudulent. The real matter of
moment before the American people
io nucuici iucj ntuj ujJVll tuilk nuig'i
is essentially European suggestion,
vote to overthrow their republican
form of government, and do it upon
pretenses ridiculously false. , The
platforms of the Democratic and
Populist parties are revolutionary,
We are encountering an outburst cf
. political, plague. Either bur Revo
lutionary fathers were greatly want-
. ing in wisdom when they made the
constitution of the United States or
these revolutionists have mistaken
: their line of public usefulness.
it will not bear the hammer, the
rock-crusher, the fire test and the
chemistry that in the smelting work,
. wherj the ore is rich, yield a ' stream
. of precious metal. The silver indus
try is one of iirmorlance. and its his
torv shows vicissitudes. The market
value of the metal has declined
largely within a few years for the
, same reason that wheat has done the
same thing.
In this connection Murat Halstead
. has made several simple statements of
fact aud among them are the follow-
. in: . ..
The silver propagandists' cry that
. there was a great crime committed
in 1873 by the demonetization of
silver is a faUe charge. There was
no dark design, no .deep secret, no
wrong done, no human creature in
jured. In fact, . nothing happened
.' with which the American people were
. :i : .. . i. i. 1 1 :
ana information permuted.
This was the ideal time to make
1 : a i
' considerations of uniformity or cou
venipnoe? for wb do nnt. nffp.p.fc hniai.
' . . 1 1 , i rM i
tion so much referred to" as the Cen
tennial crime was an omission to or-
der the coinage of silver dollars. We
. had . become unaccustomed , before
specie suspension to their use; and
; we had tried an experimental trade
dollar as a supposed bid tor Asiatic
commerce, and it was a failure.
- Jefferson had stopped the. coinage
of the silver dollar in 1806 because
it was exported as fast as minted,
and he did not want monev sncnt
. with no return in running the mints
shnnA nf nnr 'rintlftro. Trip t.ri-iri1o
with the dollars was that to " avoid
the trouble Jefferson found we over
valued silver, making our ratio of
goia ib to l, instead ot tnat . oi the
French, 15 to 1. . - .
1 - There was no news in the world in
l: 1873 to show that silver was about
to depreciate, and our coinage reu-
! 'lation omitting the white dollar had
so more to do with the decline of the
white metal than , the late eclipse" of
the sun, visible on! on the globe in
Northern Asia.- - ;J ' " : f.
" As uie case stands there, is ..do
wroDS to redress behind -.the silver
nansion. ' There is 110 cause for the
silver propaganda . but ' merc selfish
ness and a propensity to make mis
chief. Tnere is no . support for the
present -movemeiit in historj, science
or good sense.
There i not even enlightened sel
fishness in it, for free coinage would
not. in' the judgment of close stu
dents, raise the price of silver: a
fraction even one day. The "mints
would be free to all silver. including
spoons. s,nd Mexican dollars, and
European hoards ' sent to be ex
changed for gold and sold for what
they would bring.
REPUDIATION WELL EXFO UN BED
The New York Tribune says:
"Who excuses, accuses." In the
present case the rule applies with
uncommon force. Mr. Bryan's lab
ored apology for the Chicago plat
form was really a damning, if indi
rect, indictment. But some other of
his utterances, explanatory of that
detestable document, directly "and
unmistakably stamp it as a demand
for sheer repudiation. Here, for ex
ample, is what he says concerning
the meaning of free coinage of sil
ver at the ratio of lb to 1 :
"Sixteen to one means this, that if
you owe a debt you can go out into
the market and buy silver aud have
it coined, and use that silver to pay
your debts.".
"There you have it, plain aud flat."
That is Mr. Bryan's own interpreta
tion of the Chicago financial plank
"If you owe a debt" which you
have contracted on the basis of oue
hundred cents to the dollar, and
which justice and honesty require
you to pay on the basis of one hun
dred cents to the dollar "j'ou can
go out into the market and buy sil
ver at the market rate, oi course,
of 4124 grains for fifty three cents
"and have it coined" at the rate of
41 2$ grains to the so-called dollar j
"and use that silver to piy 3'Our(
debts" use, that is, what cost you
fifty-three cents to pay a debt of one i
hundred cent5. If that is- not repu
diating 47 per cent of the debt, what
is it ? And why should you not go
into the market and" buy paper and
have it stamped, and use that paper
to pay your debts ? ,
" No better description of sheer, de
liberate, unblushing repudiation could
easily be made than that which Mr.
Bryan has given us in that speech.
A far more able and distinguished
man gained vast notoriety by begin
ning an oration with "I am n Demo
crat." Mr. Bryan ought to begin!
every speech he makes with "I am a
repudiator."
The venerable Senator Morrill, of
Vermont, who understands the sub
ject of finance and currency as well
as any other man in this country, has
written a short letter to the farmers
of Western New York, which should
be read and thousht about by that
clas3 of citizens in all of the states.
It is as follows:
"Plain farmers must be able to see
that they have nothing to gain by ac
cepting a cheap dollar lor all they
have to sell. They will realize less,
much less, as none of their products
will increase in nominal value to the
safiie extent as the fall in value of
silver. ' The silver standard would
force our people to livo on the lower
scale of comforts and civilization of
other silver standard countries, or as
they do in Mexico and Japan, and
then pay for :ill our tea . and coffee
and for th-s greater part of our sugar
and all merchandise from Europe in
gold. Farmers and wage-earners
will not be slow to find out all this."
Not long ago mention was made
of a vote taken among the American
passengers on an arriving steamship,
in whish McKinley was ahead more
than ten to one. A contemporary
remarked that this was no fair test,
as the passengers belonged to the
plutocratic . class. " It - is useless to
urge that they weie from all parts of
the United States, so here is another
trial. -The Pittsburg Chamber of
Commerce was. canvassed a few days
ago, and of the . 600 members only
twelve voted for Bryan., Probably
the contemporary will now enter
some objection to the Pittsburg mer
chants. . ;. -: .
..fVB.h LIBRE
,i;Thr heroic strii irsle for liberty, in
Cuba continues.; The dispatches to
day tell of the wonderful resolution
of the insurgent geireral, Maximo
Gomez,, and his no less wonderful
ability . to 'manage the campaign;
What interests us most as Americans
is his estimate "of ohr people and the
effect America has on the Cuban
cause. A tinge of shame must suf
fuse the cheek of xe very patiiot when
he reads "Mr. Gomez just remark:
"Long ago I realized we must "fight
this wnr nlone and unaided.. . We
can win our. independence while the
executive of the United States is
consideiing the question of our pos
sible belligerency." s Yet there is
comfort in his-succeeding utterances
which show that the masses of the
people have their sympathies enlisted
for Cuba. "Gomez says: "Many
Americans are fishtine in my. ranks
and good, true men they arc. The
chief of our artillery is an American
from Boston, and no braver nmri
lives." . ".. '
Cuba has beeu called the key to
the Gulf of Mexico. For this rea
son the United States would not per
mit any great European nation to
acquire the island lrom Spain either
by purchase or by force of arms.
Yet our liberty-loving people - look
with shame upon the do-nothing pol
icy of the executive, and congress
When the heel of a despotic nation is
upon the necks of a people struggling
for liberty at our yery doors. Every
part- platform has expressed sympa
tic for the Cubans, but, after two
years of fighting, this nation has not
even got so far as to ascertain that
there isii state of belligerency going
on in that island.
The people of Spain are taxed
$50,000,000 a year. This is one-fifth
of the annual product of the coun
try. AmeriCRiis sometimes ' think
thej' are taxed heavii3', but suppose
they were asked to pay 2,0 per cent
to another country. . It leaves noth
ing for educational purposes ancK 75
per cent of the Cuban population
can neither read nor write. There
arc no roads, bruises or ten ics ; no
public buildings; nolhiug but des
potism and desolation. The people
arc plundered by other forms of tax
ation than direct. The tax on flour
is levied enormously high to keep
out the flour of the United States,
and compel Cubans to import Span
ish flour, and on that was so high a
duty that bread costs 25 cents a
pound. The Cuban people Are thus
driven to use a substitute for flour,
when it should cost little more than
in America.
, The American struggle for inde
pendence had not one-tenth the
wrong to redress that Cuba has. We
had suffered no despotism, nor tre
mendous taxation. We merely , con
tended that having taxation, we
should have representation.
In a speech in the senate on the
4th of March last, Hon. Itoger T.
Mills made this eloquent appeal:
"Suppose the suffering people of
Cuba should say to us : 4 You have
forsaken us ; we have appealed to you
time and again. Every generation
that has come from the, womb has ap
pealed to you, and gone down to the
grave marked by Spanish blood and
dishonor. So farewell; we are going
now to appeal to England ; she will
give us the mild government, she
gives to Canada. She will let us
govern ourselves iu all our domestic
affairs; she will let us raise what
taxes we are willing to pay and ex
pend our revenues on educating onr
children and buikfing up our coun
try, and protect us against invasion
from Spain or any other foreign
power.' What would be our . re
sponse ? Columbia . would come out
with her flags tlyingj and her drums
beatingvand answer in tones of thun
der, 'England shall not assume sov
ereign rights over one square foot of
Cuba. We will see that Spain keeps
Cuba against all the world except
ourselves. Then if we have fixed
the destiny of Cuba we owe it to our
own honor, we owe it to humanity,
to protect the wretched and misgov
erned people jof that island against
Spanish barbarity.'" ,
";" believe it is a good deal better to open
up the mill) of the United States to the
labor of America than to open up the
viinWof the United Slates to the tilver of
the world." William McKinley.
Consent of Other Nations.
, Post Intelligencer : " ;
Free silveritea barp onr the string that
ibis; nation ' is powerful enough to do
anything it wants to w ithout the "con
sent" of other nations. It is bot con
sent'' we ask, but agreement we insist
npon. . .
We have the right to open our porta to
the free admission of all products of the
world, coal, iron, lumber, silver, any-j
thinj;. This does not need the consent i
of any other nation.
But suppose the Uoited States threw
open its ports; mills, factories and mints
to the products of 'any other country
say Russia. Suppose that Rnssia took
advantage of it, to pour in all her sur
plus products into this country, but ab
solutely retard to admit our products to
her ports. In a very " short time we
would be - prompted t say to Russia:
"We will admit your iron to our fur
naces, your eilver to our mints, bnt we
insist that yon do the sainn with ns.
We are - being made ' the dumping
ground, yet you refuge to put us on the
same footing. We refuse to admit your
iron or silver unless you reciprocate by
similar legislation. "
If Russia yielded that would be inter
national agreement; that would be ob
taining her consent.
If any other nation had proposed to
as that, while refusing itself to coin
silver at the racio of 16 to 1 of fold, we
should take all its silver at double the
market, price of the world, we would
have roared with laughter.
Yet that is what the free silverites are
proposing we should do of our own ac
cord not to one nation but to anv
which chooses to profit by our folly. '
Nebraska for MoKlnley.
v Hcppner Gazette.
The following letter received by a gen
tleman now in this city from a Nebraska
friend gives a very encouraging report of
the political situation in that state : '
"I suppose you know that Nebraska
is furnishing the Democratic lamb of
sacrifice this year. Our William, as he
is familiarly called, I understand is go
ing to swamp things out your way. Of
couree you are excusable ; had . you a
personal acquaintance with the gentle
man's abilities, you would do juet ' like
we shall do snow him under. Nebras
ka will go for "McKinley .by an over
whelming majority. I hope you people
will not go wild over our William. He
is not to blame for all this hubbub.
Yon can place Nebraska in" the McKin
ley ranks for a certainty."
' The article below relative to a partial
canvass of Lincoln,' Bryan's home,
strongly substantiates the above state
ment. - :
"News was given out last Tuesday of
a partial canvass of Mr. Bryan's town,
Lincoln, and the county of Lancaster,'
in which it is aituated. The county Re
publican committee distributed blanks
and sought to secure an active canvass.
Iu two precincts reported the result was :
-"McKiuley 219; Bryan 44. .
'The poll of University place, a lead
ing center, was : McKinley 126; Bryan
14; Prohibition 19; uncertain 22.
"It is claimed that,, while the returns
are incomplete, they establish the gen
eral character of the whole." v
The Nicholas Shaft.
Work has stopped for a few days on
Mr. Nicholas' shaft on Cbenoweth creek,
by the breaking of a cog wheel. Mr.
Nicholas has more pertinacity than any
man in town and positively refuses to
yield to any discouragements. If there
is anything of worth attainable between
here and the center of the earth Mr.
Nicholas will doubtless discover it. For
months he has been drilling in an
emery-like rock so bard that the finest
steel drill does not cut more than an
inch or two a day. His partners and
co-laborers have long since given up, but
with a persistence characteristic of his
race (English) Mr. Nicholas keeps on
deepening his shaft. It 'is now about
750 feet below the surface, and about
650 feet below sea level. The worst luck
we can wish him is that he may event
ually make a strike. If "keeping ever
lastingly at it brings success," as Geo.
P. Eowell says is a true axiom concern
ing advertising, it is only a question of
years till Mr. Nicholas finds something
worth while.
Fits the Condition,
' It is hard to make the boys campaign
hats show juet exactly the spirit of the
wearer, but the effort is not lacking.
A McKinley cap this morning had the
names concealed by a band neatly sewed
on by the boy's mother. The gold but
ton and cord were, however, conspicu
ous. It is very probable that that boy's
father is a gold Democrat, and to pursue
the logic further, it is also reasonable to
suppose be is quite elderly. A young or
middie-aged Democrat wonld have no
hesitancy in voting for McKinley because
be Is merely an exponent representinghis
principles, and is not to be considered
either as an individual or a .Republican.
A Democrat who would not do this mast
have been born a Democrat and have
voted that ticket since 1840. - ,
McKlnley's Strength Grows,
There has been a good deal of bustle
and preparation about Republican head
quarters in the Chamber of Commerce
building daring the past week," says the
Oregonian. . Chairman Hirsch, ot the
state centra committee, and Secretary
B1
i EST with a bitr B. BUokweU'a Genuine
Durham Is In u class by Itself. Ton wUl find
coupon inside each two ounce bai&and two
pons lnsido each fctir ounce bag of
., ' . - - .
v Blackwell's
lonuino Ourliam
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I&rySvbacTof this celebrated tobacco nd read the coupon
Waloh gave a ustofvaluable presents and now to get u
r
Denny have been overwhelmed with de
mands for literature, and thousands of
pieces are daily sent out. Reports from
interior counties received at headquar
ters are most encouraging. In localities
where ono month ago all the talk was
Bryan and silver, a decided change of
sentiment is reported.' People are com
mencing not only to read, but think,
and this bodes no good to Populism.
The reports from Eastern Oregon are
particularly encouraging. The Bryan
boom in that section of the state is ap
parently rapidly dying out.
Misinformed.
We are informed by Mr. Thos. Moore,
of Antelope, that Bro. Shutt, of the An
telope Herald, is the happy father of a
pair of bouncing, baby boys, the advent
ot whom, in the exuberance of joy, he
failed to chronicle in the Herald.
Mitchell Monitor. '
Would that the above was so! It
makes as mad as a wet hen to think
that we are, through the public press,
accredited with ' ability that we do
not possess; but this lamentable defi
ciency is attributable to our ancestors,
and not to the editor of this excellent
family journal. To satisfy our aroused
curiosity, however, we this . week took
another census of the Herald family's
increase, and found that the grand total
foots up the same as it did four years
ago one sun-burned boy, with lungs
like a bellows and an appetite like a saw
mill. Antelope Herald.
- A Vigorous Statement Criticized.
Editor Chbohicm Fhe following is
a sample argument ( 7) from the Ure
gonian of August 22d : -
.The loot of modern buccaneers of com
merce is a false foundation for education
effort. Both Stanford and Chicago uni
versities, founded with millions immor
ally acquired, teach public immorality
In classrooms and from the lecture plat
form. The reformed pirates would better
found hospitals than colleges.
The above will undoubtedly make
many friends for the Oregonian and a
vast number of votes for "sound money"
among the friends of the two universi
ties referred to. Honest Money.
He Earned His Dinner.
A returned traveler tells this story :
In Mitchell, South Dakota, a tramp
sitting on the depot platform, said to bis
partner : 'I am getting tired of this free
business.' It's been free soup houses,
free lunch, free sleeping and free every
thing; now-it la free. silver. I am tired
of the whole business. What I want is
something to do. I want to go to work
and not have so much free business'.'
A traveling man who overheard the con
versation, said to the tramp: "Come
on and yet your dinner. A -man who
can make a speech like that ought to
have his dinner.'". " .
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How many suffer torture'day after day, making life
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- Mosler Notes.
Editor Cbsokicu : --
Mr. F. M. Hunter is up from Portland
doing the ranch act on his place.
J. M. Carroll visited The , Dalles last
Saturday. . ,
Mrs. R. A. Power, while on her way
to Portland last week, stopped over one
day. . , - '
Mr, A. B. Craft and wife are visiting
friends in this vicinity. Mr. Craft was
a delegate to the St. Louis convention
and spent some time visiting different
parts of the East.
Mrs. Jackson of New Whatcom,
Wash., arrived on No. 2 Friday on a
visit to her sister, Mrs. Mosier.
. Mr, Koontz finished his term of school
on the hill and took the traiu to your
city on Saturday.
Messrs. McGuire and Gordon came up
on the local today from Hood Eiver.
While Hood Eiver may have its at
tractions, the boys say that Mosier takes
the cake for handsome and entertaining
ladies. Come again boys.
Messrs. Gibson and Stewart will beat
home to their friends after September
1st, at bachelor '8 hall."
Arrangements are being made for a
grand ball at Bachelors' hall on tbe
evening of September 1st, in honor of
the birthdays of two of our young society
people. . , I
. . Mosikh, Or., Aug. 23d, 1896.
Novcs Homo..
Fruit packing and shipping are on the
increase. A carload of peach plums was
shipped from Cove last week. Frnit
packing is especially active in The"
DaIIpR- Hrwirl "Rivpr anrl rVnillplnn.
Straw berry men are gathering the late
product, and some are enlarging their
acreage. Potatoes are showing' the re
sult of the warm weather, and the yield
is not expected to reach the average.
All kinds of melons and garden truck
are plentiful.
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