. THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1897.
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DISCRIMINATING DUTIES.
The American Economist has taken
occasion to discuss quite fully the
subject of discriminating duties in
favor of goods brought here
American bottoms, ort per contra
against good? brought here iri foreign
bottoms. This proposition was draft
ed into a bill and offered in the
United States senate by Mr. Elkins
of West Virginia, and known as sen
ate biil No. 3232. The measure has
for its obiect the encouraging of
American Merchant Marine, and pro
poses that goods brought to this
country in foreign bottoms shall pay
ten per cent duties ad valorem more
than if brought in American bottoms.
It is the principle in this law which
we wish to advocate rather than the
rate of additional duties proposed,
It will be adn'itted that the same
proposition when a law) was very
successful iu the establishment of the
American Merchant Marine iu the
early history of tie government. In
fact, it is conceded by all historians
that a law similar to the bill intro
duced by Mr. Elkins was the direct
cause of the great growth of Amen
can shipping.
The Protectionist stands for pro
tection to the employees of American
transportation companies on land ; be
also stands for the protection of
American seamen. It is a well
known fact, and enforced by our
shipping laws, that American seamen
receive higher wages than any sea
men in the world. We are crediia
bly informed that the cost of oper
ating American' ships, based simply
on the question of wages, is nearly
double that of other nations. It is
manifest that American shipping can
be fostered in on!y two ways viz,
by bounties and subsidies, or by dis
criminating duties. The American
people are not in any temper to take
op an elaborate system of subsidies.
but they have declared themselves
in favor of protection upon land and
sea.
The discriminating duty plan sim
ply means that goods brought here in
American bottoms shall pay the rates
of duty laid down by law, and that
goods brought hero in foreign bot
toms shall pay an additional duty.
The difficulty to American shipping
is not in securing a cargo going
abroad, but rather in securing a cargo
returning to this country. A home
ward cargo aided by a discriminating
duty would unquestionably make a
great demand for American ships,
and it is believe 1 that everv shipyard
from Maine . to the gulf, and on the
Pacific northward; from San Fran
cisco to Puget Sound would be busy
with orders. This is not simply: an
opinion, fcr the same policy when in
effect during the first decade of this
centnry accomplished the same re
suit.
We regret to know that there is
opposition to this wise measure of
protection, and especially coming
from Philadelphia, as expressed in
the resolutions or. memorial adopted
by the Maritime Exchange of that
city last week. The Maritime Ex
change, like some other organizations
of the kind, may be simply the agent
of the North Atlantic shipping pool
a foreign trust which should be in
vestigated. . The foreign shipping
interests have become so powerful
in this country and so involved with
the transportation interests that it is
not difficult to secure opposition to a
measure of this kind. It is also
quite possible that the American line,
owned by the International Naviga
tion Company (now heavily subsi
dized), which has fully as : many
ships under, a foreign flag as' under
the American, has taken an interest
in defeating this patriotic, proposi
tion. This : measure! would create
activity in shipbuilding and restore
the American flag in the Merchant
Marine. Every one who favors ade
quate proteHion by- import duties
should favor the policy of discrimin
ating duties, for it will accomplish
for American shipping the-same
grand results to American interests
in the ocean carrying trade that pro
tection has given upon land. .
, dwindled our.
A quartz -mine gives out in two
ways, the one is known as "pinching
out," where the walls gradually ap
proach eaco other until they meet,
The other is by littie stringers break
ing away from the mam ledge, one
at a time, the ledge steadily nai row
ing from that cause, until there is
nothing left. This is known as
"petering out."
It is by the latter process the Ore
gon legislature is adjourning. Yes
terday the Benson house adjourned,
and the senate also bv a vote of 19
to 11, voted to adjourn; but Simon
declared the senate could not ad-
lourn constitutionally. in conse
quence many of the senators gath
ered up their belongings and left for
home, leaving Mr. Simon and some
ot the senatois: but they will soon
drift home, if they know the way,
and so the legislature will just dwin
dle away until there is nothing left
of it but Joe.
It is amusing to see Joseph, the
law-giver, declaring the senate can
not adjourn sine die without the
consent of the house, and in the S3me
breath insist that there is no bouse,
If his position is correct, the senate
will have to remain in session until
its successors are elected and quail
fied.
It has been but half a victory
after all, for Simon. He has succeed
ed in defeating Mitchell, but that is
all he can do. He cannot name his
successor, lie has also succeeded in
settling his own political bossism, for
the next senate will not elect Joe.
He would not have been elected
this time as president, had not some
of our big American citizens been
afraid of him. But he will get there
no more.
ONE WEEK MORE.
One week from today G rover
Cleveland will retire from the white
house, to again take up the duties of
private citizenship, for which he is
so eminently qualified, liis History
will be written later, and it will be
a history the future generations will
wonder at. Jackson was a -.great
man, and . the one distinguishing
characteristic of his was bull-headed-ness.
Cleveland has the same thing
in a worse degree, the complaint ex
tending even to his neck. Jackson
fired his cabinet officers when they
would not do his bidding; but Cleve
land went him one better by taking
his party by- its collective nose and
leading it to destruction. It will
take it years to recover from the
cts of Cleveland ism ; but it will
recover, it is HKe a cockle-burr,
indestructible.'
Cleveland bas been at the head of
his party for sixteen years eight as
president; four as its candidate,' and
the four new on as its betrayer. He
has for eight years out of twelve re
ceived a salary of $50,000 a year,
and by rigid economy has saved, it
is said, $6,000,000. His party will,
perhaps, never forgive him, but the
balance of the country will, on one
condition that he refrain from writ
ing a book.
Nevada doesn't do things by
halves, and since prize fighting has
been declared a legal pastime, the
leading citizens have requested, and
have had their request granted, that
ladies be permitted to attend the social
functions. This is quite proper.
Did not Caesar's wife play "thumbs
up" at the gladiatorial contests? Did
not the beauty and the wealth of
Rome satisfy their longings for
amusement by watching the starved
lions tear and rend their human vic
tims? Did not the royal ladies of
England only a century or two ago
lend their presence at the tourna
ments where one gallant knight
jabbed .his t wooden ; tpad,-stabber,
through some xther knight's giblets
Then , why not the elite of Nevada,':
capital lend their presence while the
crop haired representatives .of ou
modern civilization punch :jeach
other's mugs ? Go to! thu effemin
ate descendants of - an" effete race,
Git! .,- v :- -
THE DA VIS HO USE.
- The Davis house now hoMsthe"
boards at Salem. . The dispatches
yesterday stated that tbe-Davis house
met, with twenty-one ' members re
sponding to their names, and that
about thirty would be present yester
day afternoon, and that then "meas
ures would be taken to notify absen
members to attend."
Has Speaker Davis had a sudden
change of heart? When the house
was first organized, some forty-seven
days ago, Mr. Davis, as speaker, re
fused to put any motion or to enter
tain any proposition except a motion
to adjourn, until forty members were
present. That's the reason the house
could not organize, and that was the
reason the house fired the contempti
ble tool of yet more contemptible
bosses from the speakership. AU
that is needed to confirm the opinion
held of the truckler by the people is
to have him now rule that he was
wrong fiom the start.
If the people do not get tired of
the game before long, and send
delegation to throw the whole, measly
outfit "out of the capitol building,
then Americans have indeed lost their
manhood. Tar is cheap and feathers
plenty, and a few reception commit
tees, provided with these materials,
to welcome the return of that gallant
band of patriots who could not find
their way into the state house until
after the forty days of the regular
session had expired, would be a great
object lesson for the guidance of the
people's "representatives" on future
occasions.
A SMALL DIPLOMAT.
Cleveland's foreign policy has been
conspicuous by its absence. After
the death of Gresham, the present
secretary, 01ne3r, leaped into promi
neDce, heralded by the Democratic
press as one of the greatest of secre
taries. The results bf his labors, now
that his term of office is about to ex
pire, do not bear out tne statements
made concerning him. He was neat
ly trapped in the arbitration treaty
by England's diplomats, and was
only saved by the newspapers of the
country calling the public's attention
to the dangers lurking in that treat-.
American citizens have been im
prisoned and murdered by a little
fourth-rate power within a hundred
miles of our territory. And today
this same putty-kneed secretary of
state refuses to even answer the ques
tion of U. S. Consul Lee as to wheth
er he will be backed up by the ad
ministration if he protect American
citizens. Imagine Secretary Seward
letting, such a question as that re
main unanswered three hours, let
alone three days.
We know not what bis successor
may do; but if has no more Ameri
canism, no more backbone than
Richard Olney, President McKinley
should trade him off for Coxey. Ol
ney is great in little things; little in
great things.
Queen Victoria was born in 1819,
and while there are several reigning
sovereigns older than Britain's queen,
there are none who have reigned so
long. She ascended the throne June
20, 1837, and on the 20th of June
will have completed full sixty years
of sovereignty. Other rulers of -England
have approached this length of
set vice, but none have equaled it.
George III reigned 59 years and
3 months; Elizabeth 44 years; Ed
ward III, 50 years; George II, 33
years, and Henry VlII, 38 years.
So it will be seen that Queen Victo
ria has exceeded them all, except
George III, by ten years or more.
The anniversary will be observed in
grand stye.
It will tbe President McKinley
after next Thursday noon. It is a
day anxiously looked forward to by
every true American citizen who de
sires to see Americans protected
abroad. The disgracefulnegligence
of the present administration in the
matter of allowing Americans to be
imprisoned by the butcher, Weyler,
for no other reason than that Jhey
were Americans, has awakened
feeling of :; contempt for Cleveland,
even, jpmong those who voted for
him. With the advent of, Mckinley
this, we hope, will bet changed.
The Oregonian reporter at Salem
writing up the legislature situation,
saysi. "The senatorial question hav
ing been eliminated from the house
organization dispute, a fine opportu
nity is pow presented for aH legisla
tors to forget faction and remember
the taxpayer and his heavy burden.'
This is cheerful and "patriotic" ad
vice from" the big daily that has so
far insisted upon the right of the
minority to' organize the house and
to dictate the senatorship. We fancy
the Oregonian little understands the
temper of those composing the Ben
son house if it thinks they will submit
now to the dictation of Jonathan any
more readily than they did during the
weary forty days that they stood for
their rights.
Strange that our great contempo
rary, tne Oregonian, has not wailed a
wail over the fact that the Portland
charter is not changed. Was it not
that paper that was going to show up
Pennover and raise ructions gener
ally? It was; but then it got put in
the little trundle-bed, along with his
side-whiskers and the proverbially
unlucky 13" Populi&ts. As long as
Joe remains, in session, however, it
need not entirely abandon hope.
If Mayor Pennoyer had ever toyed
with the nickel in-the-slot machines,
he would know that they are not
gambling devices. To constitute a
gambling device requires that the
element of skill or chance enter into
it. But the machines named are
only receptacles tor te nickels of the
charitably-inclined. They are a
dead shot. .,
The Oregonian prints what pur
ports to be a letter from Senator
Mitchell's brother in its issue today,
The letter is addressed to "The lead
ing Republican paper ot Portland.
Oregon." This being the case, the
Oregonian should bo prosed ted for
opening letters not its own.
There is one great thing about the
legislative placenta I. N. Jones and
few others through it have discov
ered the way to the state capitol.
The More- Observer says that I. N,
Jones has proved that it does not
necessarily follow that a good sheep
herder is a good statesman.
Funeral Servloe at Muster.
Abel William, son of William G. John
son and riiB wife, ISertha Webere, was
aken . to his last rest on Wednesday,
t eb. 24, 1897.
He was born en the 2 J day of Novem
bar, 1896, and after a brief life of 3
months and 19 days, he died on Fsb.
21st. The kind care of his parents,
combined with tbe skill of his physician,
could not prevent his early death, and
althongh his death brought much grief
to bia parents and their many friends,
yet they also find much consolation in
tbe sure hope that he bas only preceded
them on their journey to a better world
fhe funeral service was conducted by
Rev. L. Grey, of The Dalles, who' spoke
at
to
the house of Mr. Johnson at 1 p. m
a large audience, pointing them to
Mark- x:13-16, where Christ speaks of
His saving grace as instituted especially
tor infants. The music rendered by the
Mosier choir - was verv good, and added
much to the impressivenees of the ser
vice.
As tbe funeral train proceeded from
the bouse to the graveyard many others
fell in line, so that the audience at the
graveyard was qnite large. In view of
this, Mr. Grey was requested to speak
also at the grave. Taking the words of
Christ, "I am the resurrection and the
life," as a text, Mr. Grey plainly eluci
dated the fact that. there can be no truth
the theory of an inate purity of in
fants and a salvation for infants apart
from Christ, either according to philoso
phy or according to divine theology.
Sin being the cause and death the effect,
if is impossible to admit tbe effect and
at the same time to deny its only cause.
Where death is, there sin must be pres
ent, not only in theory, bnt also in real
ity, and in fact prior to death, tor sin is
the only cause of death. Mr. Grey fur
ther said that from a theological posi
tion it is also impossible to support the
theory of sinless purity lq infancy with
out denying tbe authority of scripture at
the same time. Christ's position, name
ly, "That which ia born "of flesh, is
flesh," bas the common consent of all
scripture,' and it cannot be denied, or
converted into any other premise with
out denying tbe very existence of sin as
far as scripture is concerned. Farther
on it robs infants of tbe merit of Christ's
redemption, for, according to his own
woras, vnrist came to save the sinner
ana not tne saint, it infants are pare
without Chsist, . then ibey. evidently
have no part jri Christ. And finally it
denies that in Christ is oar only salva
tion, for it establishes a salvation apart
from Christ. Mr. Grev said that while
the Lutherans abhor the theory of ein
less purity in infants, they have a far
better and more substantial basis for in
fant salvation, namely, "the redemption
through the blood of Christ. Christ has
died for infants, and in his redeeming
grace we may rest our faith and hope
with absolute certainty. The service
bu made a deep impression on the
audience and they are now looking for
ward to the time when Mr. Grey will
favor them wi th a service in their house
of worship. ' L.
Public School Statistics.
First month's total .enrollment
and
average daily attendance for September:
AV.
ENROLL- DLT
VENT. - JLTTD
Sept.
88 .
89 .
x,90.
'91 .
'92 .
'93 .
'94.
'95.
'96.
360
375
304
S20
302
308
389
393
486
543
607
..360
..384
..428
..443
..567
..612
..685
8CMMABY OF ANNUAL EKPOBTS.
School census, 4 to 20 years of aee
School vear, 92-93, 907 : 93 94, 1058 : 94-
95, 1212; 95-96, 1282; 96 97, 1310.
Total No. enrolled 92-93, 530: 93 94.
570 ; 94 95, 707 ; 95-96, 774 ; 96 97, 779.
Average No. beioneine 92-93. 391 :'93-
94, 427; 94-95, 533; 95 96. 607; 96-97,
652.- ' - - -
Average dailv attendance 92 93. 375
93 94, 414; 94 95, 517 ; 95 96, 584; 96 97,
Namber of teachers employed 92 93,
11: 93 94, 11: 94 95. 13 fall. 15 8Drine:
W SB, 10 ; 96-97, 16.
Fall term, Sept. '96 to Feb. '97,
. , Literary Notes.
In view ot the present uprising of the
Greeks in Crete, an article the last from
his pen by the late Prof. John Stuart
Blackie, the celebrated Philologist and
Phlihellenist, is very timely in that it
gives an absorbingly interesting and elo
quent account of the present political
and economic positron ot Greece. Prof,
Blackie very pertinent!? remarks that
although tbe Greeks have been miser
ably downtrodden by the Turks (or lour
hundred years, there nevertheless lives
behind the outward show of slavish de
basement, a heart of sturdy independ
ence that cherishes the patriotic memor
ies of ages and seizes eagerly on every
chance that may enable it to stand be
fore the world as a noble people deter
mined to die rather than live tbe slave
of hateful tyranny. - With its finances
on a stable basis, he predicts tbe glorious
future for Greece. .
Concerning; -Curtains.
The audience left the Vogt last night
before tbe final tableau which was to
have closed . the entertainment, being
misled by the curtain. In all shows the
advertisingcurtain is displayed nntil the
orchestra begins to play,, then the ad
vertising curtain goes up, showing the
regular curtain, which goes up at the
beginning of the play and only comeB
down at its end. Tbe advertising
curtain is need at times during the play
when the scene is desired to be pnt well
up to the foot-lights, bnt the play is not
ended until tbe regnlar curtain . comes
down. The entertainment will end to
night with a tableau of all the chai
acters participating. Wait for it.
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