THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1896.
The Weekly Ctooniele.
STATE OFFICIALS.
a jvernoi
Secretary of State
Treasurer -.
Bapt. of Public Instruction
Attorney-General
Beoators '
Congressmen
State Printer
..W. P. Lord
EE Kincaid
...Phillip Metschan
.....G. M. Irwin
CM. Idleman
G. W. McBride
J J. H. Mitchell
I B. Hermann
W. K. Ellis
... ....W. H.Leeds
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge.....
(sheriff.
Clerk
Treasurer
Commissioners . . .
Assessor
Robt. Mays
T. J. Driver
A. M. Kclsav
C. L. Phillips
I A. B. mowers
JD. H. Klmsev
W. II. Whipple
Superintendent of Public School. . .C. L. Gilbert
droner W. H. Butts
fn rvfvur .- ........... - -
Surveyor.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY Ohio
' For Vice-President,
GARKET A. HOB ART . . . .New Jersey
For Presidential Electors,
T. T. GEER Marion County
B. M. YOkAN Lane
E. L- SMITH Wasco
J. K. CAPLE8. Multnomah
FALLACIOUS IN EVERY
PARTICULAR.
The following clipping is sent us
by one who does not clearly see its
fallacy:
A Michigan farmer sends the follow
ing to his home paper, which comes very
dupe to the mark: '.General Alger is
right. I he price of everything else has
gone down with silver. I know this be
cause I can take fifty cents' worth of
silver today and bay as much horee, as
nuii'h cow, as much hog, as much grain,
as much n'uol, as much, butter, as much
eft:, and. in fact, as much of any farm
produce as I could with one dollar's
worth of pilver when I bonght my farm
in 1870, hut when I come to make a pay
meet on in v mortgage, which is not al
together wiped out, I still have to put
up one dollar's worth of silver (a gold
doll, i i. pay one dollar's worth of
liiortvate. in other words, everything
ii' v farm produces, except the mortgage,
has gone down half in value. That is
why I am a silver Republican, and why
the man who holds the mortgage is a
gold Republican. Hurrah for Bryan!"
Its fallacies are numerous. First,
General Alger never said, and it is
not true, that the price of everything
else has gone :iown with siver.
Second, Michigan farmers in 1870
rUd not sell produce for silver, but
or paper money worth 75 cents in
cold. Third, Michigan farmers in
1S70 did not give gold mortgages
thev received for their mortgages 75-
tent currency. Fourth, the farmer
does not now have to put up one dol
lar's worth of silver to pay one dol-
l.-u's worth of mortgage; fifty-three
cents' w.ir.li of silver now pays one
doilni'n worth of gold mortgage. A
silver dollar pays just as much of
the mortgage as it did in 1870, and
will continue to do so unless Bryan
is elected. It will drop to its bullion
va'.ue the moment the treasury re
fuses to pay gold when gold is de
manik-d by the creditors of the gov
ernment. Then the farmer whose
farm is under a gold mortgage will
indeed have to pay one dollar's worth
of silver for every one dollar's worth
of mortgage; and then will he curse
N the day Bryan was elected.
There is further fallacy in this, i.
e that the increased purchasing
power of a dolar of today is not con
sidered in the least. It is fallacious
all through.
A national campaign is usually a
great educator, and on that account
a great benefit to all contending par
tisans. The result of this contest
will be, upon the one hand, the dis
siminatioti of a vast amount of valu
able information; but, upon the
other, the excitement of a bitter
prejudice, which will require years
to allay. There is no stronger proof
of Biy. in's narrowness and incapacity
than his nppepls to the prejudice of
the people and the excitement of
hatred among ignorant people. He
is no friend of the people whormjie
is trying to excite; he is simply a
polished sand lot orator.
No man since Washington has had
as complete control over the policy
and destiny of a nation as did Bis
marck in Germany from 1871 to
1885. No one man ever did more
to bring a nation into a position of
power, national importance and pros
perity than did Bismarck. He it
was who established and maintained
the gold standard in Germany, and
during the many years he ruled that
great nation he never advised a re
turn to the silver basis. His advice
to the United States, therefore, to
go to the silver basis should be
viewedwith caution. The fact is.
he is still jealous of Germany and
Germany's greatness, and no man
would be more pleased than Bis-
marck to see the United States crip
pled commercially.
BISMARCK MISREPRESENTED.
The Chronicle suggested some
weeks ago that no party can afford
to prevail in this struggle through
decention or misrepresentation; the
result of election to office by such
methods at this time means a condi
tion hereafter little better than revo
lution. We believe the same sug
gestion applies to success by means
of appeals to passion and prejudice,
for this is but another and more des
nicable method of deception. In all
these respects Mr. Bryan's campaign
has been most unfortunate. His ex
ample of so stating partial truths ,as
that false inferences will be drawn
from them, is followed by all his ad
vocates, many of whom go farther
than he sees fit to go. A marked ex
ample of this is new disclosed with
lespect to Bismarck's letter to Gov
ernor Culberson. The original letter
is now published in the language in
which it was written, with a transla
tion accurate and wholly unlike Cul
berson's version. The following is
the letter as correctly translated for
the World by Judge Julius Schutze,
editor of the Texas Vorwaerts :
Fbiedeichsruh, Aug. 24, 1S96.
Honored Sib: Vour esteemed favor
of July 1st has been received. I haye
always had a predilection for bimetal
ism, but while I was in office would not
consider myself infallible in opposition
to experts. I believe to this dav that
it would be commendable to obtain, by
endeavors of those nations chiefly en
gaged in the world's commerce, an agree
ment in the direction of bimetalism.
The United States are, in political
economy, less hampered by their gov
ernment than any one of the European
states, and, if North America should
find it compatible with its interests to
take a substantial step in the direction
of bimetalism, I believe that such step
would exert a beneficial influence upon
the establishmentof international agree
ment and the union of .the European
states. Assuring you of my highest re
spect, I am your most obedient servant.
V . BI8MABCK.
It will be observed that the whole
-letter was garbled and erroneously
translated by Culberson. Bismarck
did not write : "I hold that this is
the very hour that would be advisa
ble to bring about between the
nations chiefly engaged in the world's
commerce a mutual agreement in
favor of the establishment of bimet
alism. The United States are freer
by far in their movements than any
nation of Europe, and hence, if the
people of the United States should
find it compatible with their interests
to take independent action in the
direction of bimetalism, I cannot but
believe that such action would exert
a most salutary influence upon the
consummation of international agree
ment,' as Culberson claimed.
Mr. Bryan has been misled thus
into misrepresenting one of the great
statesmen of the world. He may
have been innocent in so doing, bu t
it will cost him many a vote.
The Democratic papers quote, in
support of their contention that the
Act of 1873 was clandestinely
passed, a portion of the Congress
ional Record of May 28, 1873,
"showing the evident anxiety of
Chairman Hooper to force through
his bill, and the actual misrepresenta
tion resorted to by him to accom
plish his purpose." This is another
lie; the act known by Popocrats as
"the crime" became a law February
12, 1873.
There is a heap of wind do am
South just now. JEolus has not
only sent thither his windy son from
the banks of the Flatte, but he has
turned loose all the" winds at once,
and it remaias to be seen whether
the boy will blow back the uncon
trolled forces which have escaped the
old gentleman, or he himself will be
blown ont. It is a contest of wind,
so far as Bryan is concerned.
The grape industry in Wasco
county is in its infancy. Two years
:tgo a German who was familiar with
the vine-producing countries of Eu
rope came up the river by boat, and
while wondering at the grandeur of
the Scenery commented ,with surprise
that our hillsides were not utilized
for grape culture. When the pecul
iarities of our climate were described
he declared that the day was not dis
tint when the Columbia river valley
east of the Cascades would be the
exeat vinevard of the world. A few
days ago a gentleman from Southern
California purchased and shipped
from Grant, twenty-six miles east of
The Dalles, a carload of grapes
which he pronounced as fine as ever
weighted a vine or pleased a palate
We have' a few vineyards now, but
not sufficient to make carload ship
ments. We have near us, both cast
and west, an extensive country, con
tabling a large population, in which
to market them, and there is no rca
son, unless it be lack of knowledge
as to bow to do it, why we should
not utilize our hills and make them
profitable.
THE
DAILY PAPERS IN THIS
CAMPAIGN.
Mr. Bryan says : "We have not
ihe daily papers with us in this cam
naign, and hence we must oiscuss
these issues from the platform."
There probably never was a cam
paign in this country wheie ' the
daily press and the leading periodi
cals were so generally united in op
position to one candidate. From
Maine to the Pacific, and from the
lakes to Mexico the great newspapers
newspapers pwhicb have become
great because of the ability of the
men who edit them, and the vast
number of people whose, opinions
are to a large extent formed by
them stand boldly and firmly
against Biyan and bis platform.
While daily papers form the opin
ions of the people to a great extent,
it is also true that many of them are
susceptible themselves to the influence-
of public opinion ; each watches
and shapes the other to a large de
gree. But the papers most My
edited are most fearless of the opin
ion of its readers, and, in case of
conflict, invariably come off con
querors. That the papers of the
South and the great Democratic
papers of New York should stand
together in their open opposition to
the men and principles of their party,
is a very powerful argument against
the safety and wisdom of the leaders
and platform, and at the same time
a greater or less indication of their
approaching failure.
Notwithstanding their opposition,
the daily press has given Bryan every
opportunity to present his . views.
His speeches have been as fully and
accurately reported as McKinley's;
the enthusiasm with which he has
been received everywhere has not
been belittled or misrepresented
the thinking, reading public, and
those whose judgment is best upon
these great questions, are uninflu
enced. by these speeches or shouts of
the people. In November they will
vote against the party and principles
of Bryan, Altgeld, Tillman and Pen
noyer; against repudiation; against
the supremacybf the state over the
federal government.
The following figure," serve to
answer several of the so-called argu
ments advanced by the silverites
The relative decline in railroad rates
and price of wheat and cotton is as
follows.
PER
TON
' 1873
PER
MILE DECLINE
1895
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R...3.78
Lake Shore 1.335
Chicago, K. L & Pais.'. . . .2.29
1.G6 56 per cent
0.561 58 "
106 54 "
0.88 77 "
Mobile & Ohio 3.88
GOLD VALUE OP YIELD FEB ACRE.
1873 1895 . .
Wheat . 13.39 6.99 48 per cent
Cotton ,...24JU 14.74 41 perceut
We venture to. say that there is a
greater amount of mortgage indebt
cdness today against the railroad?
than against the farms of this coun
try. Yet we never hear the Popo
crats referring; to the fact; and, in
deed, the people who have given
mortgages feel that they are pecul
iarly deserving of aid because they
went into , debt. We don't believe
in this", because a law that does not
treat all alike is unconstitutional,
and we are sure these mortgaged
railroads will demand all that the
farmers get in the way of relief from
debt. .
In 1880 our. whole public debt,
national,- state and municipal, was
IG0.73 per capita, and in 1890 it
was but 32.37. In 1880 the amount
of property per capita was $870, in
1890 $1039.
Not one farm mortgage in twenty
is over five ears old today. The
same financial system was then in
vogue as, now. Prices have fallen
perceptibly, but the causes are easily
found in the 'closing of factories and
consequent distress among laborers,
increased production elsewhere, and
many other influences. The mone
tary system now in force was inau.
gurated over twenty-three years ago,
Almost eveiy private obligation, and
all national obligations, except the
Pacific railroad bonds, have - been
contracted under this svstem.
All that Bismarck said in his now
famous Culberson letter was: "I
believe to this day that it would be
commendable to obtain by endeavors
of those nations chiefly engaged in
the world's commerce, an agreement
in tne direction of bimetalism."
When a trnthful translator gets hold
of that letter it is found that Bis
marck agrees exactly with the Re
publican party. Culberson ought to
be kicked out of the country for his
contemptible trick in mistranslating
this letter of Bismarck.
Carl Schurz, who was a member of
the senate in 1873, said in his great
Chicago speech, Sept 5, 1896: "I
wish to be scrupulously courteous to
my opponents; but as a conscientious
student of contemporaneous history,
I am bound to say that in the forty
years during which I have been an
attentive obseryer of public affairs, I
have never witnessed nor heard of
such unscrupulous shameless, persis
tent, audacious, cumulative, gigantic
lying as has been, and is now, done
with regard to the Act of 1873, its
origin, its nature and its conse
quences." A most excellent service for law
and order was done at Joseph Thurs
day by the young man who killed
oce bank robber and wounded an
other. This will have a very strong
tendency to discourage young men
from entering the bank robbers'
premises. It takes away the romance
to be shot down, saj'ing nothing of
ihe profits.
There were no appeals to passion
or prejudice in Senator Mitchell's
speech, but there was a very strong
appeal to the patriotism of his audi
ence. The financial question, as well
as all other issues, was discussed
with the utmost of candor and fair
neas, as well as great ability.
The convention which nominated
McClel'an declared the war a failure,
and so it will have been to a very
large degree if the poliiy advocated
by Altgeld, Pennoyer-and Brj'an as
to national supiemacy shall now be
adopted by the American people.
For Sale, Kxchaacje or Lease.
A good, unencumbered,' perfect title
wheat and stock farm (epecii.lly adapted
to sheep) of 800 acres, well watered and
"o located as to c ntml a good range;
600 acres fenced ; 300 under cultivation;
200 ready f ir grain lhit fall ; 41 10 tons of
hay; 6 room house. 2 barns, etc., 2 miles
'nun echoolhouse, 4 mile from post
ffioe with semi-weeekly mail; 65 or 70
head of good brood inaies and a thor
oughbred imported Clydesdale stallion.
Will sell either separately or all together
on easy terms.- Or will exchange fur a
-mall, well impro ed, unencumbered
farm in Oregon or Washington west of
the Cascades. Or will lease same to re
sponsible part for five years. Old age
a the rep eon for wanting a change.
Call on or address resident, owner,
r. J. Moffit,
s'J-wtf Gorman, Sherman Co., Or.
Epworth League officers.
At a business meeting of the Epworth
League the following officers were elect
ed to serve six monlii:
President W. A. Kirhv.
First Vice-Pres. Clara N ckelsen.
Second Vice-Pre Eliih Kxiidall.
Third Vice Pres. Je-sie Bn'ler.
Fourth Vice-Pres. L- nii-e Ruch.
Secretary Mahel Cross.
Treasurer Hilda B- i-k.
Chorister Prof. Lmder.
Organist Edith Rmdall.
Asst. Organist Nellie Sylvester.
Supt. Junior League Mrs. R. Warner.
Asst. Supts. Junior League Jessie
Butler and Martha Whealdon.
Low Kates for September 5th.
For train No. 1, Sept. 25th, and train
So. 7, same date, the O K. & N. Co.
will sell tickets to Portland and return
t the extremely low rare of 3.15, good
to return until Sept. 27th.
18-dt25 E. E. Lyle, Agent.
Clark, the East End jeweler, mak-s a
specialty of fine watch repairing, Call
and eee him.
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IMPORTANT MEETING.
The City Council Consider Lights, Public
Health, Loose Cows, Etc.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
city council Saturday night there were
present Mayor Menefeeand Councilmen
Nolan, Johns, Thompson, Ross, Wood,
dough, Kuck and Champlin.
A communition was read from Mr. J.
L. Story offering in payment of the
city's claim against him, sufficient land
where the peat house now stands to pay
the claim, Mr. Story representing that
owing to the stringency of the money
market it is impossible to borrow money
upon real estate security. Referred to
judiciary committee.
A petition from the council of the
Lutheran church, I. C. Nickelsen chair
man, asked the city council to postpone
the auction sale of certain lots desired
by the church until spring, as the
council have decided they will not build
a church until then. No action re
quired. Councilman Johns of the committee
on streets and public pioperty, made a
verbal report in the matter of lighting
the streets. The committee had eeeu
the president of the electric light com
pany who stated it was impossible for
the company to furnish incandescent
lights, owiDg to the extreme demands
now made upon the plant for lights now
in use. They would furnish arc lights,
upon condition that the city would make
a contract for three to five years time, at
the old rates of $12 per light, and to take
twenty lights. The matter was passed
at this time without comment, but came
up later. The mayor thought some
action should be taken before next meet
ing, as the days were getting short and
lights of some sort were badly needed.
Mr. Lauer stated that twenty-three
lamps can be fitted up of the old supply,
designed for coal oil. Ross favored oil
and the old lamps. A motion was then
I maile Dv Thompson that the matter be
referred to committee on streets and
public property and prepare to light the
streets with ffie lamps available, and to
procure as many others as are considered
necessary. Carried. But Councilman
Nolan continued the subject and put
another motion in relation thereto,
which was also carried. He said he re
garded the oil lamps merely as a make'
shift and would not prove satisfactory to
the people, that he bad been trying to get
the matter in shape for some company
to furnish Hithts, and would now move
that the recorder be instructed to sdver
tiseiDtbe Oregonian inviting bids for
lighting the city by incandescent lights
The motion unanimously carried.
The committee on streets and public
property recommended that the petition
for opening the street west of the fair
grounds be not granted. Report re
ceived and recommendation adopted.
For the committee on health and po
lice, Councilman Thompson reported
that the street in front of D. L. Cates'
property (Fulton street) was made filthy
by an open sewer. Marshal Laner re
ported that under the old Lusher barber
shop there was yet a pool of stagnant
water three feet deep and bad been there
all summer. Councilman Nolan called
attention, on request of Mr. Hudson, to
the sewerage situation near bis place
which required attention, dough re
ferred to some like bad places on Front
street. Wood reported (hat a very bad
condition existed throughout the block
where his butcher shop is, and said that
some culverts should be opened through
the railroad track. In this connection
the mayor said his attention had been
called to the unusual amount of sickness
in town, and that possibly the city
water was at fault. He therefore sent
Maishal Lauer and Supt. Norman up
the creek to investigate and that he
would be glad to hear a report. Mr.
Laner, for the committee, said they went
np to the Meeplie reservoir, where they
found everything clean and in perfect
condition ; then to the flume, which was
arso satisfactory ; from thence to Sandoz
place where they found a pigpen which,
if it rains, might wash some filth into
the creek, but none so far; then to the
fork 9 of the creek and found no possible
source of pollution ; then to Ericheen's
and found nothing; very little water, if
any, flowed back into the creek from ir
rigation ditches; be believed from the
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investigation that the water was no
purer at the very source than it was
when It entered the city pipes; return
ing he got the promise from Mr. Sandoz
that he would put the pig pen on higher
ground. Thompson corroborated Mr.
Lauer's rebort. He bad been up there
lately and found the water pure and
clean, and no filth from the. sheep cor
rals. The council reached an under
standing that the stagnant places within
the city should be at once looked after
and remedied.
The city officer's reports were then
read, showing last month's receipts to be
$433.62, warrants redeemed, $898.61,
leaving a cash balance of $8,000.01.
The following bills were then allowed :
Chas F Lauer, marshal salary $75 00
Geo Brown, engineer 75 00
J J Wiley, nightwatchman 60 00
C J Crandall, treasurer 20 00
G W Phelps, recorder 50 00
J T Peters, wood 7 60
Dalles Lumbering Co, lnmber.. .. 145
Maier & Benton, tndse 2 04
Dalles City Water Works, water
rent for September 32 00
C V Champlin, labor streets 102
Dalles El Lt Co, lighting offices
and fire dept -. 13 10
Oaks & Stringer, hauling 1 25
MT Nolan, mdse . 1 00
Mays & Crowe, mdse 1 05
Pickings & Burggraf, meals to pris
oners 13 35
Columbia hotel, meals of prisoners 3 35
J Staniels. labor streets 2 80
James Like, labor streets 14 80
Nolan called attention to the depreda
tion of cows, and after some comment,
the marshal was instructed to enforce
the ordinance, and to employ help if
necessary, the impounding fees to reim
burse the assistant so employed.
Marshal Lauer reported another list of
defective sidewalks, which went through
the usual course looking to their imme
diate repair.
Engineer Brown requested some sup
plies for the engine house. There was
some suction hose needed for the Jack- '
son engine, some torches, lanterns and
axes; a new chimney should also be
built in the engine house. Referred to
fire and water committee, with power to
act.
The mayor said that some property
owners on residence streets desired to
replace the old wooden sidewalks with a
four-foot asphalt walk, with two ieet of
gravel or cinders on each side, and de
sired favorable legislation by ordinance
permitting them to construct such a
walk. No action, but council was favor
able. - Nolan moved that - gravel be
placed at the corners by crosswalks.
Carried.
Adjourned.
The Cow Ordinance to Be Enforced.
The marshal informs us that the cow
ordinance will be strictly enforced from
today. Owners of all cows who have
been in the habit of allowing them to
roam about the streets will act the part
of wisdom by hereafter keeping them
confined. The loose cows have been a
source of great annoyance all summer.
There is one that has run after children
several times. Many of them can open
a gate as quickly as the owner and often
injure gardens, lawns and trees. The
increasing duties of the marshal, espe
cially since the office of street commis
sioner ba merged into it, has rendered it
impossible for that official to rundown
and impound cows. Saturday night, there
fore, the council took suitable action in
giving the marshal authority to hire an
assistant to do (his work, the fees to pay
for the service.
Mr. Turner's Body.
The body found in the river Saturday
proved to be that of Mrs. Turner. The
fisherman who discovered it' floating
took it for a sturgeon, but rowing to it
found it was a human body. He was
unwilling to secure it then, bnt going to
Hood River told Mr. Winans, and both
returned for it. It was fastened with a
rope and the coroner summoned. The
water had preserved the body very well,
and but for the face being bloated looked
very natural. The clothes, shoes and
stockings showed no evidences of wear,
except the sleeves of the dress, which
were missing. The arms were spread
widely apart. A coffin was taken to the
riverside and the body placed therein
and taken to The Dalles. The deceased
was buried yesterday morning adjoining
the grave of Mrs. Whittaker.