THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1896.
TheWeekly Ghroniele.
KOTICK.
All eastern foreign advertisers are
referred to onr representative, Mr: k.
Katz, 230-234 Temple Court, New lork
City. Eastern advertising must be con
tracted through him.
STATIC OFFICIALS.
ajrernoi
Secretary of State
Treasurer
Bnpt. of Public Instruction.
Attorney-General . .
Senators
Congressmen .
State Printer
W. P. Lord
H R Kincnid
...Phillip Metscban
u. oi . irwin
CM. Idleman
IG. W. McBri
J J.'H. MltcheU
I B. Herman
" IW. K. Ellis
W. H. Leed
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. .R9btsys
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk a. in. neiBay
Treasurer C. L. Phillips
1,1. (A. S. Blowers
Commissioners D. B. Kimsey
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Surveyor ........J. B. ioit
Superintendent of PubUe Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN . TICKET
For President,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY Ohio
For Vice-President,
GARRET A. HOBART ... .New Jersey
be closed to all papers which use
them, as they are to obscene litera
ture. If people must hare such
stuff, let them buy the papers which
make no pretense of furnishing any
thing else, or if they i-.mnot buy
them,they can always bonow them
at the barber shops.
TO OVR WHEAT KAISERS.
For Presidential Electors,
T. T. UKER Marion County
8. M. YORAN Lane
E. L- SMITH Wasco
J. F. CAPLES Multnomah
SOLD TO THE PIE-EATERS.
"The middle-of the-road Populists
all over the union have my sympathy
and admiration. They have been
sold out, and their party made a loot
mat for Democratic politicians to
wipe their feet on under the hypo
critical pretense of patriotism. The
fusionists have abandoned principle
and gone into a mad scramble for
the pie counter. If Mr. Bryan is
defeated, it will be the fault of the
traitors in his party the ones who
hove ignored the St. Louis compro
itnise, and tried to force the Populist
vote for Sewall, the bond-holder, na
tional banker, corporation plutocrat
mnd gold clause millionaire."
Thus says Mr. Wateon to the Poo
"ulist state chairman of Kansas.
His words are certainly true and his
bitter complaint is well founded
Mr. Bryan will find that he canno
have two running mates going in op
posite directions ana make a very
satisfactory race; When Banker
Sewall was placed on the ticket Bry
an's biggest gun was spiked, and now
Watson proposes to scuttle the ship
rather than be cast overboard as
Jonah. His bitterness is natural, but
not very encouraging to the boy
who now stands on the sinking ship.
The banks are the eje sore of all
Populists; they are looked upon as
the very enemy of the people be
cause of their holding money from
circulation, liut aid it ever occur
to our Populist friends that the
banks own a very small portion of
the money in the vaults. A few of
our Populist friends themselves own
a portion of that, hoarded capital
This cannot be said of many Popu
lists, it is true, but now and then we
find a man in that party who has had
business sagacity sufficient to lay by
a iew aoiiars. vvnat would you
have the banks do? Should they
open their vaults to every man who
comes along and let go the money
which belongs to their patrons? We
wish such a course were possible,
for some of our delinquent subscrib
ers might possibly get a haul and we
would have some hope of gathering
it in.
Newspapers wonld better serve the
people and the cause of morality if
they would forever banish the car
toon and the sensational illustration.
The press of Sau Francisco is little
Deiier man tne I'oiicc liazette in
vuio icocvb, uo ncii its in tue mailer
which is daily placed before the peo
ple as news; but other papers', mak
ing, some claim to decency, are fol
lowing the example of these greater,
but less useful papers. The cartoon
ing business is . becoming absolutely
disgusting to decent people; they
make no friends for any cause or
party ; they cater to a depraved taste,
and tne United states mails should
Mr. Bryan's cause, so far as wheat
farmers iare concerned, had its only
standing upon the oft repeated prop
osition that the "demonetization of
silver" by the act of 1873 has caused
the depreciation in the price of
wheat. In vain has been the argu
ment that the price of wheat was
determined by the inexorable laws of
supply and demand; in vain have
figures and lacts been presented tend
ing to show that neither free silver
in India or Argentina, nor legisla
tion in our own country, had any
thing to do with the price of wheat.
Men would listen to no argument in
support of the claim that over-production
and under consumption could
effect the price; Ihe fact that the
price of wheat and silver bad fallen
remained and was quite sufficient to
satisfy many that the price of one
follows the price of the other.
Today an actual demonstration is
placed before us; a shortage in the
crops in Europe and Asia creates a
demand and the piice of wheat rises
rapidly and naturally. It is no sud
den fluctuation, but a positive and
healthy advance in price resulting
from a demand. The suppl3' is in
adequate to meet the demand, and
the thing happens which every Re
publican, and many of the Demo
cratic papers and statesmen have de
clared would happen, regardless of
silver, whenever the conditions were
right.
Our Populist friends cannot avoid
the force of the argument, and they
do not want to. It is useless to say
that it has not been claimed that the
price of silver follows every fluctua
tion in the price of wheat. The con
tention has been, up to within two
weeks of this time, that wheat fol
lowed the price of silyer, regardless
of the laws of supply and demand,
and that the price of wheat would
not advance until there was legisla
tion in favor of silver. But sudden
Jy wheat turns its back on silver,
leaves it still sinking lower and lower,
and its price rises to the natural level
fixed by the laws of commerce,
which everywhere and at all times
govern the price of wheat, silver and
all other commodities.
BRYAN AND ALTGELD.
Altgeld and Henry George spoke
for government without federal in
terference at Cooper Union, New
York, Friday evening. They talked
about the four "blighting sisters in
our land'" which Altgeld designated
as "federal interference, government
by injunction, usurpation by the
supicme court, and corruption,
These, he declared, were allied with
the go.'d standard in bringing ruin to
onr country.
Eveiy man who votes for Bryan
on November 3rd will vote to place
at the head of our government a man
who believes as Altgeld believes,
that the punishment of bomb-lhroi
ers, car-burners and thugs is a crime,;
who believes that the United States
government has no right to prevent
any interference by a mob with its
business, and that any - armed body
of men, in,the name of a labor union,
may dictate to the United States
upon what terms its business shall be
conducted. This is what Altgeld
teaches, it is what the Chicago plat
form demands, and Bryan is in sj-m-pathy
with both. (
friends have been promising in silver
dollars. Give us 75 cents per bushel
for wheat and Bryanism will die a
natural, but sudden, death. It will
be a genuine case of heart failure.
"The bankers caused the financial
crash in 1893; now they are seeking
to cause another." So say the great
prophets of Fopoeracy. The banks
were the first and greatest sufferers
in 1893, as thej are in every financial
disturbance. Then come the manu
facturers, merchants, laborers and
producers in their turn. If Bryan
could be elected every depositor who
has funds in the bank, including our
Populist friends, who have not al
ready drawn out their funds, would
draw out their deposits, and every
bank which is not rrepared to piy
gold or secure gold payment would
be placed in the hands of a receiver,
and every depositor would then be
paid in depreciated silver. Every
debtor who had property would be
forced to pay, and a crash such as
has never been known in this coun
toy, would follow. These are just
the reasons why every banker, busi
ness man, manufacturer, and a ma
jority of the farmers and laborers, j
are opposed to Bryan's election.
A man who claims that congress
clothed the creditor with authority
to refuse silver in case of a stipula
tion in the contract, is simply talking
nonsense. As well might it be
claimed that the sixth command
ment madejt a crime to murder. As
the sixth commandment simply de
clared what was already an offense
against both God and man, so con
gress, in the l:tw of 1878, simply de
clared what was always the law, and
what will, by the courts, always be
declaied to be the, law, that where
parties agree as to the kind of money
in which a contract shall be paid, a
judgment shall be given accordingly.
A GtRL CARTOONIST.
Miss Viola Kent Exhibits Great Natural
Talent as an Artist.
Tillman never, by any words or
acts, made any man a better citizen;
patriotism is not in his line. - His
whole life has been devoted to stir
ring up discontent and bitter hatred.
His weapon is a pitchfork, and with
it he stirs up the debris which breeds
political malaria. He is a coarse
and vehement demagogue, whose
work in Oregon will hurt the cause
of the men who imported him.
The national debt, less cash in
treasury, on July 1, 1889, was $975,-
939,750.22; on July 1, 1893, it was
$838,969,475.75, a decrease during
Mr. Harrison's administration of
$136,970,274.47. The average rate
of decrease in the national debt from
June 30, 18C6, to July 1, 1893, the
time when the Republican parly was
in a majority in congress, was $70,-389,713.70.
In anticipation of the. election of
McKinley there is a sharp advance
in the price of wool in Boston.
When Bryan was first nominated and
there ' was some anticipation of his
electiorr, there was a very rapid ad
vance in prices, but the movement
whs in the wrong direction.
Our Popocratic friends complain
because Mr. Schoon maker is assigned
to speak at The Dalles the same even
ing as Mr. Tillman. The fact is, Mr,
Schoonmaker's date was fixed long
before Mr. Tillman was expected to
visit The Dalles, and while his en
gagement here was cancelled,, the
cancellation was withdrawn within
few hours. Mr. Tillman fixed his
date here knowing that Mr. Schoon-
maker was to speak here the same
evening. But our friends ought to
rejoice that .theie will be some ex
cuse for people s absenting them
selves from Tillman's meeting, for
the more of the better class of citi
zens who hear meD of Tillman's
stamp, the fewer votes Bryan will
receive.
The per capita consumption of
wheat in this country in 1892 was
5.91 bushels, and in 1894 3.41 bush
els. Had the people of this country
been as able to buy flour in 1894 as
in 1892, the entire surplus which
was. exported in 1894 would have
been used at home. In other words,
when the people are employed they
live better, the producers have bet
ter markets and realize higher
prices. Our local consumption of
our own products was greater during
the three years, 1890, 1891 and 1892,
than in any three consecutive years
in our nistory, ana lanor was in
greater demand. During those three
years we were under a Republican
administration and . ' a protective
tariff. McKinleyism is no experiment.
The report that Pennoyer and
Bourne have joined hands in com
pelling the policemen and gamblers
of Portland to contribute to the cam
paign fund of the Popocrats would
be incredible were it not for the
fact that Bourne and Pennoyer have
formed a partnership. That Bourne
should be taken into the Popocratic
camp for any purpose is sufficient
evidence to ordinary men that he'
went in to do any dirty job neces
sary. Pennoyer had some reputa
tion for honesty, but Bourne had
none, and if he deemed the assess
ment of gambling houses a certain
method of raising boodle, they would
be assessed. .
The Popocrals send Coxey, "Cy
clone" Davis and Tillman to Oregon
to- instruct the people as to their du
ties as good citizens. The advice of
such men never has and never will
result in good citizenship or a safe
government.
Mr. Tillman boasts that he is from
the state which was the "mother of
secession." Oregon voteis should
have no use for men who thus pride
themselves. ,
All silver coinage, except that of
the silver dollar, was, by the act of
1853, placed in the hands of the gov
ernmcnt. From that time on up to
1873 there were coined in all $5,528,
848 silver dollars. During the first
ten years after the government took
charge of the coinage of dollars,
1873 to 1883, we coined on an aver
age or lb,'Jle.b02 per annum, or
nearly three times as much as was
coined in twenty years before the
crime. If a large coinage of silver
could make us prosperous, we ought
to have been about sixty times as
prosperous after 1873 as we were
from 1853 to 1873.
Gold has suddenly depreciated ; it
will no longer buy twice as much
wheat as it did in 1870. But
"where is silver at?" It ought to
buy as much wheat as it did in 1872,
but it will not.
Do the farmers realize that the
price of wheat has been put up by
Lombard and Wall streets for the
purpose or affecting the election in
the United States ? The way it was
done was this: These plutocrats.
who have their clutches upon the
throats of the world, simply caused a
drouth in India and some similar
trouble in Russia, and the business
was done. These robber barons
have a cinch on the whole world, in
cluding the winds and rains, and can
fix us whenever they- please.
If large audiences would elect any
candidate, Palmer and Buckner
would stand a show of election.
They are listened to at all points in
the South by large and enthusiastic
audiences.
A remarkable cartoon, both in design
and execution, has been drawn by a 15-year-old
school girl in The Dalles, which
shows' a comprehension of the political
situation and aptitude for sketching
amounting to a revelation as to the edu
cation and the capabilities of the child
ren who attend our public schools. The
picture is a double one, each side reveal
ing points that shows much past study
npon American politics and? the effect
that the different policies of the great
parties would have if in operation.
The left half is devoted to the situa
tion if Bryau was elected president.
Ships are arriving from foreign countries
loaded with manufactured products and
raw materials. Bales of American wool
are stacked up ou the wharves, bearing
the significant label "no sale." A hat
less newsboy is trying to sell bis papers
with apparently poor success. An un
employed workman is sitting npon a dry
goods bor, and a look of hopeless dejec
tion is given his features by the talented
young artist. A wretched-looking
women in rags and tatters is leading a
. . . . .
uDDgry-iooKing cnna. A cartdriver is
urging his dispirited horse along. The
cart is empty, so is the horse's stomach.
The only thing pleasing abont the pic
ture is the look upon Bryan's face, as he
stands in the door of the White House,
pouring silver dollars into the sack of
the silver mine owner in return for the
bullion he had taken to the mint. The
American flag is furled.
The right half of the picture shows a
great contrast. Major McKinley has a
contemplative cast of countenance as he
looks with evident satisfaction over the
whole country. He sees American ships
laden with American goods leaving our
ports for their trans-Atlantic journey ;
factories are belching out great clouds of
smoke, while the placard appears ou the
walls, "Workmen wanted." The news
boy has no trouble to sell bis papers;
well-fed and well-clothed school child
ren are trudging along to school with
books under their arm ; the horses hold
np their heads and work like their
drivers, with spirit; everything betokens
active life and employment, and the, flag
over the White Honse flies in the breezj.
The keystones of the two pictures are
found iu the banners respectively over
each, "Free Trade," and "High Tariff."
The cartoon is an able conception and
shows the creator, though a girl of 15,
to be possessed of much intelligence and
a fair general knowledge of American
politics. The gifted young lady, who
under proper training, will make forher
self an enviable reputation and a good
competence, is Miss Viola Kent. She
has great natural talent, and should re
ceive every encouragement in the pur
of this art.
the profits of piano or organ sales en-
tirely, could undersell any uletman,
that has to jockey his pianos from one
town to another and "socks" it to the
first customer1 be runs across so that it
is necessary to more to the next town
and hunt other victims.
The beat motto to observe, "large
sales and small profits," I am afraid
cannot be applied to Mr. Toner aud to
the contrary, if reports are true, it has
been principally all travel end no sale
with him. I hope Mr. Toner's wind
pipe will last a little longer, as I want
walking advertisement during
E. Jacobben.
some
"Fair Week
EFFECT OF MUZZLES.
the
Their Enforced Use Has Changed
toreed of London Doffs.
The muzzling order has now been so
long- in operation that one is able to nee
its practical results, at all events so far
as London is concerned, says the Lon
don News. They are really very remark
able, especially from a point of view not
likely to be immediately taken. .
The supremacy of the fox terrior is
gone. One misses the little, vivid white
spots tiat moved about so quickly and
made streets and thoroughfares gray,
and, it must be admitted, noisy. Most
of these dogs were mongrels, and. being
ot no appreciable value, and probably of
no clearly defined ownership, they
passed quickly in a wholesale way into
the lethal chambers. London is rid of
them, but at all our towns the white
terrier with the odd markings is still in
the ascendant.
On the other hand, here in town we
have the Irish and the Scotch. These
are as yet pretty pure; they keep rather
to themselves, after !the manner of the
provincials, but in a couple of years
mongrelism will. assert itself, and Lon
don will.be ovprrun. As it is. the hardy
little Aberdeen, with his long body,
short legs and nondescript markings
of black and gray and mustard, holds
the street, and the Irish terrier loafs
about, social and easy-going.
They are both excellent in their own
way, but, for all that, one misses the
sharp, quick vitality of the fox terrier.
Even as a mongrel he seemed to concen
trate in his active little body all doggy
qualities, especially fidelity and hatred
of cats.
A Letter of Interest to Women.
As the price of wheat goes up, so
will the price of land ascend, and it
will not be any cutting-our-dollar-in-two
process either. If wheat remains
high, as it in all probability will for
a year or more, land will bring, in
gold dollars, what our Popocratic
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs has an officer in each state, known
as the state chairman of correspondence.
This officer's duty is to inform herself
concerning women's clubs in the state;
to interest them, if possible, in the aims
and work of the General Federation ; to
aesist in any way she can in forming
new clubs; to furnish all clubs, desiring
them, with programs of study, copies of
constitutions, or any other printed mat
ter issued by the General federation.
Mrs. U. U. Wade was Oregon's first
state chairman, and was reappointed at
tne Dienmai meeting ot tne uenerai
Federation at Louisville, Ky., last May.
There are three clubs in this state be
longing to the General Federation, but
the state chairman is interested in all
clubs, and would welcome a correspond
ent from each and every one in the
state. She bas thus far been able to
learn of only about a dozej, and feels
sure that there must be many more to
bear from.
Many of the states have State Federa
tions, and our own great state should
not be the last to organize such a federation.
Women's clubs, wherever they exist,
are helpful in furthering the best in
terests of society. The club woman is
the better wife and mother for the
broadening influence of her club.
The state chairman earnestly wishes
for and cirdiallv invites the co-operation
of all the clubs in the state. Without
this she can do very little. '
All letters should be addressed to Mrs.
C. B. Wade, Pendleton, Oregon. -
Never was a more grieTons wrong done
the farmers of onr country than that so
ud justly Inflicted during the past three
years upon the wool growers. Although
smonf onr moat useful citizens,, their in
terests have been practically destroyed.
McKlnley's letter of acceptance.
Noisy Toner.
For some time past I have remained
silent, thinking that perhaps that
jockeying general manager of the Sher
man Clay Company, Mr. Toner, would
quit telling falsehoods and stones about
me. I presume it is the way some
managers do business and,, tell a etory
any time in oraer 10 sen an organ or
piano, but it won't go any longer un
noticed, and I want to say to Mr. Toner
right here, that he shall have all the free
advertising he wants, and by the time
I get throngh with him, If the public is
unable to see that be is about as big a
fake piano or organ salesman that ever
landed in the city of The Dalles, it won't
he any fault of mine. However it is no
wonder, and it don't snrprise the writer
that it is rather hard for a man like
Toner to do business.
Why should people buy away from
home when they can get instruments
from a home dealer at closer prices than
from a man that is jockeying and haul
ing bis instruments from one town to
another, as Mr. Toner has been doing? '
It stands to reason that a dealer who
sells small goods, and don't depend on
Bryan's Rotten Egg Argument.
- As a contribution to financial and
economic thought the following utter
ance of Mx. Bryan, made in Kentucky,
is the most remarkable yet offered even
by him:
"If any man in this community would
offqr to bny all the eggs produced at 25
cents a dozen and was able to make
good the offer, nobody would sell eggs
for less, no matter what the cost of
production, whether 1 cent or 5 cents a
dozen. So with silver. Free coinage
wonld establish the market price of ail- .
ver at $1.39, and nobody would sell it
for a cent less."
Why limit the price of eggs to 25
cents and of silver to $1.29? If the rea
soning is sound, the price in each case
might easily be doubled, and the conse
quent benefit to the human race corre
spondingly increased. And why stop '
with eggs and silver? Why not mark np
the prico of everything yon wish to
f bny offer to pay double or treble what
is asked for it and keep on paying that
price to all comers hold it there?
That's all you havo to dohold it
there. "Nobody would sell it for a cent
less," says Bryan, so long as you held
it "So with silver." And the man
who is putting forth such thought as
this is a candidute for the presidency of
70,000,000 of people in the closing
years of the nineteenth century!
0 to 8" Nothing; to Ate.
Pat Ikw do you sthand on the silver
question, Moike? )
Mike Me? Sixteen to wan is moi
platform.
Pat 'Tin, is it? Well, me laddybuok,
if you and the long phiskered cranks
win I'm thinking that by next winter
ivrybody's platform will be, "Nothing
to ate." Detroit Journal.
The farmers complain because they
cannot find markets for all their prod
note. How would the doubling of prices
under free silver enable the working
men of the cities and factory towns to
buy more than they do now?
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the estate of S. Hauser. For informa
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Valley, or the undersigned.
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sl6-d(swlm Administrator.
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CLOTHING, HATS, "
Boots and Shoes. Djn't f aT
to examine our new stock,
which we personally selected
in New York City and Phila
delCa. ' ' We guarantee the
lowest prices in town.
Vogt Block.
H. Herbring.