THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1896.
The Weekly Gitf oniele
8TATK OFFICIALS.
SjTCrnoi W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H R Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metscban
Bupt. of ruDllc instruction j. Ai. irwin
Attornev-General. C. M. Iclleman
u..t. JG. W. McBride
Senators jj. h. MitcheU
- in. nermann
w. R. Ellis
State Printer W. H. Leeds
' COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge ..Bobt. Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A. M. Kelsav
Treasurer C. L. Phillips
. . I A. B. Blowers
viiiuiuuiiuiicii in. 8. Kimsey
Aessor W. H. Whipple
Surveyor J. B- ''Oit
Superintendent ol Publio Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
Cjroner W. H. Butts
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President, "
WILLIAM M'KINLEY .Ohio
For Vice-President,
GARRET A. HOBART . . . .New Jereey
For Presidential Electors,
T. T. GEER Marion County
B. If. YOKAN Lane
E. L- SMITH Wasco
J. F. CAPLES : Multnomah
THE WORK IS NOT COMPLETED.
The enthusiastic meeting at the
courthcuse last evening indicates
that Republicans in this vicinity are
in earnest. The success of that
meeting must not, however, be mis
leading. Securing u large list of
members is a good thing; but no one
should for a moment think that this
ends the work to be done. We have
about 350 members enlisted on our
side, these members must now be
organized for active work in their
own and other precincts, and recruits
should be added daily to the list.
Every voter who expects to vote for
McKmley, who has not already
united with one of the numerous Re
publican clubs in the county, should
be influenced to put his name on one
of the club rolls and go to work.
This is a campaign in which there
is no danger of having too large a
majority. Every precinct in the
county should be thorough can
vassed, and in this work our club
can and should be of great assist
ance. TVe have in The Dalles a
number of young men who should
be put into active campaign work.
There are many communities aay
from the railroad which cannot be
reached by speakers from abroad,
and these should be looked after by
our club. The time is short, the
work to be done is great, and the
result to all is of the utmost import
ance. The state of Oregon cannot afford
to take its stand with Bryan, Altgeld
Till man and Waite, and the outcome
in this state may depend upon the
work done by the largest and strong
est political club in Eastern Oregon
the McKinley Club of The Dalles.
, Senator Jones was originally an
ultra free trader. lie afterward be
came an ultra-protectionist. "When
asked by Hon. David A. Wells, in a
familiar conversation, what was the
cause of his conversion, he replied
"Don't you see, David ? How could
I ask the governmeut to regularly
purchase our product of silver and
refuse to give the iron manufacturer
in Penn. the tariff protection which
he needs to maintain his prices?"
, Jones was one of the fellows in the
senate who recently declared that
mere snouia De no tarm legislation
which does not provide for free coin
age of silver. He is now, and al
ways has been, an ultra-protectionist
of Jones.
was all very veil when the great
transcontinental railroads were being
built in this country to give them
aid by land grants, etc. ; the people
then favored that policy. Now it is
the most unpopular thing our gov
eminent ever did. In Mexico the
subsidy is an agreement to pay cash,
in some cases from month to month,
to continue for years.
NOT AN IDLE THREAT.
Taking the average prices of labor
and commodities in 1860 at 100, the
price of labor in 1891 was 160.7. and
of commodities 92.2; that is, labor
made a gain of 60.7 per cent, and
what laborers buy with their wages
fell 7.8' per cent. From 1870 to
1891 the gain in wages was 12.9 per
cent, and the lowering in prices 30.7
per -cent. '
Our Popocratic cotemporary: re
fers to the statement of a prominent
sheepman of this county, . recently
made, that he will raise no sheep
next year if Bryan is elected, as an
"idle threat," and proceeds to in
quire: "It capital is drawn oui or.
active employment by the election of
Brvan. where will it eo to? Will it
seek iuvestment in other countries
where profits are less, or will it be
locked up in safe deposits for the
next four years, there to lie idle and
earn its owner nothing?"
This question has been frequently
presented, but we have not before
known as intelligent an authority as
the Mountaineer to consider it worth
asking. Bryan asks it over and over
again, but he does it to fool people
who give the subject no thought.
The particular capital of our par
ticular sheepman will not go out of the
country, unless perchance all or a por
tion of the capital he has been using
belongs to someone in Europe, as is
the -case ' with some of the capital
used in Wasco county by sheepmen.
If it is owued in Europe,' it will be
recalled and will not again be em
ployed here to give employment to
labor. If he owns all the capital in
vested, not the usual case with men
engaged in any lanre industry, this
particular capital will not go out of
the country nor lie idle; but may be
used elsewhere to fill' the place of
other capital, which will certainly go
out ' of the country. There is today
considerable amount of capital used
in Wasco county which is owned in
Europe, not by corporations or banks,
but by individuals. This will cer-
tainlyvbe called home. The Oregon
fitfortgajre Company, the Northern
Counties Investment Trust, and per
haps a dozen other money lending
corporaiions, also have money loaned
in this and adjoining counties.
These loans will be withdrawn as soon
as practicable. The withdrawal of
this and other capital for the same
condition exists in all the states west
of the Mississippi will cause a scar
city of money with which to carry on
the business in which it was invested ;
the rates of interest will increase, and
the capital now used in Wasco county
by this sheepman ' whl find employ
ment elsewhere, or in some other line
of business which can pay a rate of
interest higher than the profits of
sheep raising.
But, says the Bryon man, the bor
rower of this foreign capital can
borrow the silver that is to be coined.
The silver is not now coined, and
enough to fill the place of this foreign
capital could not be in time to aid this
industry. The rate of interest will
not fall, but is more likely to rise;
silver will be depreciated, as most
men, even among the silverites, ad
mit, and a man will have to pay ten
per cent for money less valuable
than the gold he is now using. Nei
ther farming nor sheep raising will
warrant it.
The result, as we view it, will be a
contraction in business ; a lessening
of business enterprises, and conse
quently a diminution in demand for
labor.
Every principle that Republicans
have worked and fought for since
the issue ot slavery was disposed of,
finds an opponent in Wm. J. Bryan.
He ieeks to conceal this opposition
under a new issue or'what he claims
is a new issue. As a matter of fact
it is the same issue as that which the
American people voted down by an
overwhelming majority in 1868. At
that time the declaration of the
Democrats was: "Where the obliga,
tions of the government do not ex
pressly state upon their face, or the
law under which they were issued
does not provide that they shall be
paid in coin, they ought, in right
and in justice, to be paid in the Law
fcl monev of the United States,
, '
One currency for the government
and the people, the laborer and the
office holder, the pensioner and the
soldier, the producer and the bond
holder." The same arguments were
then made for a depreciated cur
rency; the same attempts were then
made to excite the prejudices of the
people against capital and capitalists;
the same denunciation of men who
have saved a competence from a life
of active labor, and who have their
savings invested in securities; the
same senseless harangue about "Brit-
ish gold," as are now being made by
Bryan. The same arguments were
then used, although there was no
"crime of 1873" to point to and use
as a scapegoat. The Republicans
denounced repudiation then, as it has
now, and carried the election by a
majority of 111 in the electoral col
lege and a large popular majority,
just as it will in 1896.
NEW . YORK'S DEMOCRACY.
YOU YT
ILL.
The silver miners of Leadyille
have forgotten that Bryan is not yet
president. They are unsatisfied
with $2.50 per day so long as the
silvei mines pay large dividends, and
they proceed to coerce their employ
ers by burning up property and blow
ing up buildings and people, who are
willing to work at $2.50 per day,
with dynamite. The Colorado peo
ple are advocating a government
which tolerates that kind of "liberty,"
and thev ought not to complain.
"Bloody Bridles,'1 Waite, Altgeld
and Bryan are all on the same plat
form, and all have the confidence of
Colorado people. These riotirg
miners should have the good will and
support of all who are supporting
Bryan, Altgeld and Waite.
. - New York's Democracy has left
the Democratic voters in that state
in a peculiar dilemma. The Buffalo
convention declared for free silver
and pledged Bryan its support; it
nominated a candidate for governor
who finds; it necessary to expressly
promise to vote for Bryan; but at
the same time says he is not in ac
cord with the Chicago convention or
the convention" which nominated
him, on the question of finance. He
then, as an apology, for his position,
declares that the governor of New
York has nothing to do - with the I
question of national finances.
The inevitable result will be that
every honest Democratic voter in
New York who is opposed to free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and
who votes his . ticket, must vote
for a man who is allied with a
cause and stands upon a platform
which he .knows to be wrong. By
thus voting he must, by implication,
endoise what he cannot honestly en- Mr. Geo. T. Prather of Hood River,
dorse. In other words, in voting for wno ia in town today, eays that his see
the man he believes in, he votes for "on wiU produce two or three times
.... large a strawberry crou as the naHt sen.
a principle ne believes to De dis-i. T .k . .l .
r son. If that is the case strawberries
honest. w;l n onl frnm there Kit ha train lo
On the other hand, every free next season, for twice during last June
silver Democratic voter must be I the output was two fall carloads from
working and voting for a man who Hood River. Mr. Prattler's prediction
has heretofore, and now savs, that is DtiDg" course, npon the season
t a .-. - k a be,DS favorable, which it was not this
.jau uU u.a wjuw. .u uc yea, A farther reason is that the acre
wrong. He votes for a principle he 8ge has been doubled. So many new
believes in, bul for a man who de- plants have been set out that they rose
c.'ares that principle wrong. The greatly in price over any former year.
result will be that both Thatcher and H8Ua"y there ar.e pIantB t0 Bive awtty-
ne states, as an instance of the remark-
cican
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Nothing
BUT THE
GENUINE
m
Ton will find one coupon
' Inside each two ounce bag
and two coupons inside each
four ounce bagof Black well'
Durham. Buy a bag of this
celebrated tobacco and read
the coupon which gives a
list of valuable presents and
now to get them. 1
The Immensity of It.'
day to come. Tbey were assured that
Dnforites would open their hearts and
homes to all Christian Endeavorers of
the connty who would attend, a good
time is assured and everything is now in
readiness. Those wishing to attend will
send their names to the connty secre
tary, Misa Etta Story, The Dalles.
O. E. WOBKKB.
Little Emma Nelson's Find.
Bryan will fail to carry the state.
It looks as though Hill and other
leaders there were purposely plan
ning to throw iiryan. overboard in
order to save the state government
from the hands of the Republicans.
able increase of planting, that within a
radius of a half mile the following new
patches have been set:- Bateham, 7
acres, Watson and Loy 15 acres, Coe and
Stranahan 5 acres, Davenport 6 acres,
Jones 4 acres. The fame of the Hood
River district is growing rapidly as a
The removal of the loose rocks
upon the main streets of our city
would be highly appreciated by every
bicyclist and every other person who
uses the streets. A few days of hobo
labor, properly , directed, would do
the business, and our street commis
sioner would thereby confer a great
favor upon a long-time and badly-
jolted community.
,: It is claimed that Mexico is pros
perous because it is adding largely
to its railroad mileage. These rail
roads are being subsidized by the
government, and the day of account
ing will come, as it has with us. It
Popocrats will get small consola
tion from the position of Hoke Smith.
Before the Chicago convention he
denounced the free coinage of silver,
and in a speech at Dalton, Ga., Sat
urday he declared that his financial
views were unchanged. He will
probably, not be invited by Chair
man Jones to take the stump outside
his own state.
Subscribe for Thb Chboniole.
Betting is by no means the best
criterion of the result of an election
but sporting men keep well informed
of the conditions in uncertian locali
ties, and their conclusions are more
frequently correct than otherwise,
Betting in Portland is now two to
one that McKinley will be elected,
In New York City the betting is re
ported ' to be ten to seven that Mc
Kinley will be elected. The fact is,
the opinion is becoming very strong
everywhere- that he who desires to
vote for the successful candidate
must cast his ballot for McKinley
and Hobart.
If gold goes to a premium of
twenty per cent, every man who
borrows to meet obligations made
under a gold standard will have to
borrow $120 for every $100 he has
to pay. In other words, he will, in
effect, be paying twelve per cent for
capital to meet his obligations made
under the gold standard.
Thos. B. Reed has done most ex
cellent service in his own state for
the party. If he could be induced
to spend ten days or two weeks in
California, that state would no longer
be in the doubtful column. No one
man in this country would have as
great an influence with Californians
as Speaker Heed.
One of our Popocratic contempo
raries gets consolation out of the
Maine election thus : "Ii is not sur
prising that Maine cast so large a
Republican vote, because it is the
home of the brainiest man in the
Republican party." If he had said
men" it would have given the tiue
reason.
The weight of $1000 in standard
silver 'dollars is 58.92 lbs., and $34,
000 in these dollars will weigh a
little over a ton; The weight of
$1000 in gold is 3.68 lbs.
Ripe tomatoes for catsup s entsper
pound at Dalles Commission Co. s!4-2w.
That McKinley will carry New berry producer, and will soon be the
York is now settled. subject of as much speculation in trade
reviews as the orange groves of Florida.
The statement has been repeatedly the Mississippi cotton belt, and the
made by Ponulists and Ponocratic grape-growing regions of New York
newspapers that a lupee would buy
the same amount of wheat m India i A Brym Meeting,
now as in 1873. It is like much of Judging from the comparative attend
the stuff that is being published, not ance Friday and Saturday evening at the
because it is true, but because the court house, The Dalles is safely a Mc-
Dublishers of it think it falsitr win- Hunle7 town- At tb0 Bryan meeting
J I QnnMAM r l. i i u . l
not be shown. The statistics pre- .u.-.j. . ,7 . . xr ,
1 thirds the attendance of the McKinlev
served Dy me government or JLnaia meeting the evening previous, and
show the condition there to be gov- portion even of these were well-known
erned, as everywhere, by supply and McKinley supporters. The principal ef-
demand. The amount of wheat Iorl WB8 maue D? jun8e nnett, wnoee
, , . . argument is already made familiar by
pk.. n,, extravaeant claims of the Brvan
load was i S.t per cent or ,tie party press. Other features of the even-
amount it would purchase in 1872, a ing were a long and labored effort by
fall of 22.8. The fall in the United Mr- Thoe- Harlan of Mosier, an unintel-
States was about thirty per cent.
The fall in price in India from 1872
to 1892 was 31.3. In 1893 India
had only 27,950,445 bushels for ex-
ligible address by an old - gentleman
named Willis living near the city, and a
rambling discourse by Mr. Thos. Den
ton. The meeting was not marked by
the enthusiasm of the night previous,
port, whereas in 1892 she had 56,- and we advise those spectators who were
t Ac e .u:t. present to attend the meeting next
, . . ' . , , Thursday evening, at which Hon. H.
LUt uC wOC 0. h, cuu uUU, w Craven of geattle and Hon H L
to 1893. There is absolutely, no Wilson of Spokane will expound some
foundation for the rupee argument good Republican doctrine,
Mr. John Short came up from the Sa-
sanville country last night, says the
Milton Eagle, and relates that a short
time ago little Emma Nelson picked up
a small piece of quartz while at play on
the hillside above her parents' bouse.
The little tot carried her find to her
mamma and eagely remarked that she
believed it contained gold. Her mamma
laughed at her and thought nothing
more of the matter until evening, when
the father returned home, and Emma
lugged forth her find and exhibited it to
him. His experienced eye quickly
caught indications of the precious metal,
and securing a hammer to crush the
quartz, he found on closer examination
that a solid bar of gold extended through
the entire piece. Mr. Nelson separated
the gold from the quartz and cleaned
up $75.
The result of little Emma's find will
be invested in a secure place at interest
until she is of age, when the principal
and accruing interest will be given her.
The child mentioned above is the same
who was lost for a whole week last July,
in the mountains back of Susanville, of
which village her father is postmaster,
and was found several miles from home
tired and hungry, but uninjured. She
was evidently born under a lucky star.
. Popocratic newspapers quote Mc
Kmley'8 declaration of 1890, when
he said "I am for the, largest use of
silver in the currency of the country.
I would not dishonor it. I would
A Gritty Tonng One.
The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Benton felt from bed about 3 o'clock
this morning and broke her collar bone.
The little one crawled back into bed and
slept till morning without crying, and
give it equal credit and value with her injury was not ascertained until
gold," and claim that he was then in about 7 o'clock this morning, when she
favor of free coinage of silver at 16 cmPlanea P'? "ticting &er sboui-
,, . , aer. uo examination the lagged end ot
They may make their readers k . .!,, ..
J la bone was eeen to be nushinar nn the
believe the construction they put kin. Mr. Benton saw at once that her
upon those words, but no intelligent collar bone was broken, and summoned
man will find anything in that utter- Dr' Hollister by telephone. The child
did not cry or squirm while he set the
ance different from
latest declaration :
lican party) will keep in circulation, mother, "Mamma, where did that coon
and as good .as gold, all of the silver I go to?" Tbia is realiy the pluckiest
. . , Donee in place ana Danaagea them, and
'It (the KePu- when he lnft. anlemnlv InnnirBd of her
and paper money which are now in
cluded in the .currency of the coun
try. It will maintain their parity;
it will preserve their equality in the
future, as it has always done in the
past." The two statements are not
only consistent, but are the cor rest
statement of the position of the Re
publican party now and always.
James Hamilton Lewis keeps his
mouth open most of the time nowa
days. He, like Bryan, will be fully
advised on November 3d that mouth
ings count for little with intelligent
people. It is an old adage, but a
true one, that "empty wagons make
the most noise." '
News comes from Butter creek that a
vine is again springing up tnat nas
caused considerable trouble at different
times.' It is said the seed comes with
the alfalfa seed, which has been pro
cured from Salt Lake. The peculiarity
of the weed is that when - above the
ground it will leave the root and cling to
any vegetation that may be near, from
whith it draws its sustenance.
child we ever heard of.
A Neglected Industry.
Though not an ideal bee country, the
industry in Wasco county has been
almost totally neglected. There could
be considerable money made in this
business by some one possessing the
knowledge and inclination to handle
them. C. L. . Johnson, who lives two
miles north of Hillsboro, has bees to the
number of twenty-four colonies. From
these he has taken 1,700 pounds of as
nice honey as ever went into market.
Mr. Johnson is a skilled and painstak
ing apiarist, and the honey from his
colonies is sealed by tbe bees in new
white-wood boxes, that go to market in
fine shape. June and Ju'.y were good
honey months.
Christian BndesWor.
President Alfred Hoering, of the
Wasco County Christian Endeavor
Union, accompanied by E. H." Merrill
drove out to Dufur yesterday to perfect
arrangements for the Christian Endeavor
convention to be held-at that place
October 6th and 7th. They found tbe
Endeavorers very enthusiastic in regard
to the convention, and anxious for the
( Mr. Henry L. Wilson of Spokane, who
will speak, at the conrtbouee Thursday
evening, is a brother of Senator John L.
Wilson of Washington, and has a repu
tation for being one of the best all-around
political organizers of that state. Tbe
Oregonian today contains an interview
with him a column in length, which we
would be glad to publish if space per
mitted. He talks very encouragingly of
the eituation.
Mr. Winans' ledge of building stone
is but twelve miles from the town of
Hood River, instead of twenty-five, as
stated the other day in Thk Cheoniclk.
He has surveyed a practicable route for
a narrow guage railway to it, and some
time in the future it will be a valuable
addition to tbe resources of Wasco
county.
Geo. Watson was relieved of the ac
cusation against him and the charge of
obtaining money under false pretenses
by being declared insane at tbe court
house today, Dr. Kane conducting the
examination. Watson is a reputable
citizen 60 years of age, and a property
bolder of considerable amount. So far
as known be has always previously
borne a good character.
Last night, at tbe residence of Mr.
S. L. Young, a permanent musical club
was organized by the members of Fern
Lodge, D. of H. This organization will
be known as the "Werlin Glee Club."
The name is in honor of E. Werlin, G.
M. W. of Oregon, who united with Fern
Lodge, D. of H., while visiting in our
city last week. The club will meet every
week and will be an attraction to the
lodge. Mr. J. C. Crandall will be mu
sical director. ,
The force at Herrick's cannery has
been reduced to about sixteen, tbe sal
mon run having become lighter in the
past few days.
Paying an Obligation.
Geo. Watson was tried before Justice .
G. T. Prather at Hood River Saturday
and committed to jail in the sum of $500
bonds, to await tbe action of the grand
jury. ' The complaint was brought' by
Lillie Anderson for obtaining money
nnder false pretenses. It is alleged that
Watson had given Lillie a watch to se
cure a debt of $2.50, when it transpired
that the watch belonged to Dr. Adams.
He claimed tbe property, which was
given op, and now the Anderson wants
the $2.50. .
Kerer was a more grievous wrong done
the farmers of our country than tbat so
unjustly Inflicted during tbe past three
years upon the wool grower. Although
among our most useful citizens, their In
terests bsTS been practically destroyed.
KeBUnley's letter of acceptance.