THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. JULY 14. 1897.
The Weekly Ghroniele.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
CrantT JuJire..- .' Boot Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer C. U VhHlips
I A. . mower
Commissioners D. KlmseT
Anetnr W. H. Whipple
Surveyor J. B. oit
Superintendent of Public School. . .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
STATS OIFICIAI8.
3-rrernoi . .W. P. Lord
Secretary of State H R Kiucaid
Treasurer -Phillip Metschan
Bnpkof public Instruction. u. m. irwio
Attnrnev-General C. M. Idleman
a.t. JG. W.McBride
8DBtor.-..4..iv. - Jj.'H. MitcheU
Connwnn. .
State Printer..,
(B .Hermann
IW. R.EUi
,.W. H.Leedr
'? Weeklv Clubbing Bate, r
Chronicle and.Oregoniao.. . $2 25
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Tribune. 1 75
Chronicle and N, Y. World. 2 00
WHERE CHARITY BEGINS.
It is amusing to see the spasmodic
throes of virtue which our content
porary, the Oregonian, actually suf
fers from when the San Francisco
newspapers are brought to Its atten
tion. Those papers may be, proba
bly are, salacious, but the general
condemnation of San Francisco and
California on that account is inex
cusable. The Oregonlan runs on
high moral plane sometimes con
demns, sensational news items, and
publishes them; plucks greedily at
.the California mote, and is silent as
the grave about the beam, aye! gird
eis, joists and mudsills, in the Orego-
Di'an optic.
It is a fact well known that for
vice and immorality Portland will
hold its own with any city of its size
in the United States. Morally and
politically it is rotten, and the Ore
gon ian not only . knows it, but at
times when it goes after Hume, Pen-
noyer, or someone else it does not
like, says it This docs not make
San Francisco better, but it
should prevent it being held up as
tnouei or immorality oy tne news
papers (or rather the newspaper, for
there is only one) of Oregon. When
it comes to vice and crime, Portland
has added a codicil to the decalogue.
and has degrees and depths of both
that would make Paris despair of
keeping inside the distance pole in a
contest with her. The business por
tion of the city is only reached from
her railroad depot by passing through
a wilderness of vice. Phryne, a little
-decayed and wrinkled with age, but
.haLd-painted and kiln-fired, exposes
herself in scant garments at all hours
of the day and night; opium joints,
Above and below ground, foul with
villainous smells, fetid air, and orna
mented with rare old China bric-a-brac,
lure the young and foolish of
either sex to their everlasting un
doing. But we are dealing with, and not
' in, sensational journalism, hence can
only pan the rim-rock; the pay and
conditions lower down need a little
.giant, and should be worked only
with a hydraulic.
We suggest, in the light of these
things, that our big contemporary
turn its hose on Couch precinct for a
starter, and . let the sweet morsels of
its tender charity remain at home.
GIVE IT A CHANCE.
Already it is being asserted that
the new tariff bill will not produce
revenue sufficient for the needs of
government! and already the asser
tion is being hotly denied by the
Republican press. It is not only
possible, but probable, the revenue
will be insufficient, and for the best
of reasons. One, if we go to
the direct cause, instead of laying
the blame on the effect is the inordi
nate desire of a lot of garrulous old
men in the United States senate to
indulge in that propensity. The
result was unnecessaiy delay in pass
ing the bill, and the consequent im
portation of millions of dollars' worth
cf foreign products, for the avowed
purpose of putting the money that
should go under the new law into
the vaults of the government, into
the pockets of speculators. In wool
alone it is estimated that enough bas
been imported to meet all require
ments for more than a year. In this
item alone the Dingley bill will be
robbed of its power to produce reve
nue for more than a year, and the
amount is in the millions.
So with other products on the free
list under the Wilson bill, but sub
ject to tariff under the Dingley bill
There is a handsome surplus in the
treasury, which the importations of
the past few months have largely in
creased, but it is extremely prcbable
this will be used up before the iull
effect of the Dingley bil! can be felt,
That bill may or may not produce
sufficient revenue; but before It is
condemned on that account, it should
at least be given a chance.
BLIND CAPITAL.
The present strike of coal miners.
the Albany (N. Y.) Journal says "is
impolitic on the part of miners,". and
the' Rochester Herald says "It comes
at an unfortunate time." The New
York Commercial Advertiser that "It
can hardly fail to end disastrously,'
and the New York Tribune that "It
will bring in machinery."
It may be said, in reply to these
fonr great journals that a strike (in
America) is always impolitic be
cause it is un-American; that it al
ways comes at an unfortunate time
for coal miners, for they have been
for years in a condition bordering
upon want; that "it can hardly fail
to end disastrously," for the reasons
already given namely, that it is un-
American and the strikers are with
ont means of support, and like a
besieged army are easily starved
into submission ; and that "it will
tend to bring in machinery because
capital was born greedy, educated in
greed, and will live by greedas
long as it can.
We have no kick coming at capi
itaL It is probable, extremely prob
able, that any one of the strikers
could be suddenly change places with
the mine-owners, would commence
putting the screws on labor just as
hard as the present mine-owners do.
But that does not alter the princi
ples.
Americans are the greatest con
sumers on earth, for the simple rea
son that wages in America have been
the highest on earth. They have
had more to purchase with, as the
result of their toil. Capital seems
blind to this, and yet it is the great
underlying principle of the protec
tive tariff system which most of them
advocate. If the manufacturer of
the East cuts wages, which he has
done steadily, he expects to make
thereby a greater profit from his
goods. But does he ? The farmers
are, after all, tne foundation on
which the business of Jhe country
rests. When the prices of his- prod
ucts fall, the whole country feels it.
With small prices he has nothing
with which to buy the products of
eastern factories. And here is where
the fatal short-sightedness of the
great manufacturing and mining
companies shows itself. When their
laborers are so illy paid they cannot
buy the products of the farms, farm
produce falls, and the companies'
customers, the American farmers, be
ing deprived of money, cannot buy.
There is a limit beyond which
wages cannot be reduced and the
country survive. That limit is the
wage that will enable an economical
and industrious man to feed, clothe
and school his children, and that
mit was passed long ago in the case
of the coal-miner. There is a com
mon ground on which the two things
indispensible to each other capital
and labor should meet, but which
the former fails to either understand
or believe.
Truly the coal-miner strikes at an
unfortunate time, for he is already
hollow of eye and gaunt of flmk.
His income is at once shut off, while
his opponent (I will not say his
enemy) immediately puts money in
bis purse by the rapid advance in the
price of his commodities. The evil
exists, but who is there shall find the
remedy?
IS IT PHILANTHROPY.
John D. Rockefeller Las notified
the Des Moines (la.) Baptist college
that he will give $3 for every dollar
the college will raise from other
sources. This is a commendable way
to get rid of some of his money, and
yet there is a moral to the tale other
than would appear at first glance.
The spending of money for the en
lightenment of the world for better
ing the conditions of man, are among
the noblest objects that move human
ity. On this coast was a notable ex
ample of this kind of philanthropy,
the establishing und endowing of
Stanford university by Leland G.
Stanford. Yet the same moral may
be drawn from that story as from the
other. There can be no quarrel with
the donation, no looking of a gift
horse in the mouth, no tank finding,
because forsoooth some of the money
that supports the college comes from
making of wine. .The gift is only in
the nature of a restitution, the money,
and much more, was taken from the
people. In Rockefeller's case the
money which Le so generously offers
was taken from the consumers of
coal oil, through charging a price for
it so far above the cost of produc
tion that profit ceased and larceny
began. True, put in his place, prob
ably every man in the United States
that had his opportunities and his
business ability, would have done as
he did paid as small wages and sold
for as big prices as he could get.
Yet, because of this we say the
gifts are not philanthropic, but re
storative. Philanthropy would have
left the larger portion of the Rocke
feller millions in the pockets of the
consumers of coal oil, instead of
reaching to the bottoms of their
pockets. It was the same with Stan
ford. He levied an unholy tax on
the people in railroad charges, robbed
the government, and eased his con
science and gratified bis vanity just
as the bandit does who exacts ransom
from a prisoner and gives part of his
plunder in charity.
It would be better if the money of
the people could be left with them
if business, especially such business
as Rockefeller and Stanford were en
gaged in, could be so regulated by
law that its profits could nol go be
yond a certain per cent Yet this
will probably not be done this side
of Utopia. The gifts of these men
and others have been munificent, bnt
so were their schemes of plunder,
and their magnificence is what blinds
the world to the criminal manner in
which the money that made the gifts
possible was produced. Had the
thefts been smaller, they would have
been looked upon in a different light.
Down on the load between White
Pine and Pioche, in .Nevada, a man
named Charley Daly took a horse
from a rancher, not for himself, but
just to permit a poor fellow who was
broke, sick and sore-footed, to ride
out of the country. The act in one
sense was pure philanthropy, and yet
that ranchman, assisted by some
hard-hearted neighbors' who were not
esthetic enough to appieciate the act,
but set it down as a sase of horse
stealing, caught Charles Daly, and
with scant time, but abundant rope,
hanged said Charles Daly to the end
of a wagon pole, set on end for the
purpose. And yet Daly gave all
that he took to the poor.
Wherein is the difference between
the cases of Rockefeller and Stanford
and Charles Daly?
FATAL HEAT.
. The hot wave in the East is un
precedented in its fatalities. .The
number of deaths directly due to
heat was . placed at 350, while in
directly there are perhaps ten . times
that many- One brought up on this
coast cannot understand how the
heat can have such a terrible effect,
for ganged by the mercury, we have
much , wanner ... weather . than our
brethren of the East, without any
bad effects. For instance, at Cleve
land thirty-two prostrations and five
deaths were reported with the high
est temperature only 97. Here Sat
urday we could beat that one degree,
yet nobody noticed it, nor would
they have dene so had it been 102 or
105, other than perhaps to hunt the
cool places a little more persistently.
In California men work in the har
vest fields at Red Bluff and iu the
upper Sacramento valley with the
mercury standing at 116 and 118 in
the shade, and feel no bad effects
from it.
It is accounted for in two ways
the humidity of the air, which, cou
pled with the heat, produces that
sultry and oppressive feeling, and
the further fact that here the nights
get cool and sleep is possible. Our
people rise up from refreshing sleep
fortified against the demands of the
day. while in the East the cooked
citizen gets up as weary as when he
went to bed.
HORSE MEAT FOR THE PARISIANS
Packing Company Shipping ACK UlCl lUX JjlUU-
bvuo carrel.
Portland
Navigation Co.'
strs. Regafatbr & Dalles City
Tiie Topeka woman who ran away
from her husband to go with the En-
deavorcrs to San Francisco has
caused considerable newspaper com
ment that does not go to the gist of
the matter. The offense she com
mitted was probably in marrying
the man, and the running away only
involved the offense of taking ad
vantage of excursion rates. She
went just as far as she could for the
money, while be paid full fare to find
ber. She was false and a financier;
he was fond, faithful, and a fool to
follow the fickle female.
An. order for 800 pounds of butter
a day from a single London firm
one result of one of the efforts of
Secretory Wilson's late experiments
in making a better market for our
dairy products abroad. He has just
received a communication from
London firm asking that the entire
butter product of the Iowa State
College, amounting to about 800
pounds per day, be forwarded to
London regularly nntil further
notice.
The conference committees of the
senate and house are making good
progress ; but there is a possibility
they may lock horns over the sugar
schedule, each body thinking its own
rates the better. The necessity of
revenue will decide the matter,
whichever plan will yield the most
winning. ' " :"
There are three things that should
not be overlooked at any time in the
providing of revenues, those are in
toxicating liquors, tobacco and in
comes. All three are "luxuries."
SMILES.
The new tariff law will, it is confi
dently believed, produce ample rev
enue to meet the running expenses
of the government after the first few
months of its operation. The fact
that several months' supply of for
eign goods, including a year's supply
of wool, has been imported since the
introduction of the Dingley bill ex
plains the prospective shortage in re
ceipts during the early operations of
the law.
The Sumpter News reached us
this morning. It is published at the
thriving little town of Sumpter, the
terminus Of the Sumpter Valley rail
road, and is filled with news of that
section.' We gladly welcome it to
our. exchange list, for it tells the
news of a country that in the near
future is to be one of the great min
ing sections of the world.
Detroit Free Press: "What made you
quit the club, Billy?" "Reason enough,
I can tell you. I worked five years to
be elected treasurer, and then they in
sisted on putting in a cash register."'
Yonkers Statesman: Jack Where's
Bill?" Jill "Out West." "What do
ing?" "Raising palms." "What?"
'Raising palmB making the tenderfeet
throw up their bauds." .
Ohio State Journal : "Daughter, what
time did your company leave last night?
'Why, papa, he started home at half "
"Sever mind when he started I want
to know when he left."
Atlanta Constitution : The following
lines have been carved on the tomb
stone of a North Carolina moonshiner :
Killed by the government for making
whiskey out of corn grown from seed
furnished by a congressman." '
Cincinnati Enquirer: "I find the Am
erican farmer so interesting," twittered
the poetess. "I manage to extract a
good deal of interest out of him myself,"
was the answer of the short, elderly,
double-chinned gentleman, who, as it
afterwards developed, was in the mort
gage business.
Beaaona Wk) Chamberlaln'a, Colio
Cbolara and Diarrhoea Rem
edy la the Beat.
1. Because it affords almost instant
relief in case of pain in the stomach,
colic and cholera morbus.'
2. Because it is the only remedy that
never fails in the most severe1 cases' of
dysentery and diarrhoea." '"
3. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure epidemical dysentery." ' ' '
4. Becanse it is the only remedy that
will prevent bilious colic.
5. Because it is the only remedy that
will cure cbroic diarrhoea. . '
6. Becanse it is the only remedy that
can always be depended upon in cases of
cholera infantum.
7. Because it is the most prompt and
most reliable medicine in use for bowel
complaints.
8. Because it produces no bad results.
9. ' Because it is pleasant and safe to
take. '
10. Because it bas saved the lives of
more people than any other medicine in
the world.
The 25 and 50c sizes for sale by
Blakeley & Houghton.
TU D..il....l TT ' -t
whose plant is located at Linnton, em- IJig POlM M MM
yiujiiiK jo uieu, is now aoing a inriving
business. The company, among whose
principal members are Ben Selling and
Mr. May 8, some months ago received an
order for 5000 barrels of cured "horse
meat from dealers in Paris, France, and
the contract is now . being filled. The
plant, which has been idle since last fall,
wis started up again about four weeks
ago, and since that time 800 horse have
been slaughtered. Fifty, were killed
yesterday. Each barrel is labled "horse
meat," and is thoroughly 'inspected by
an inspector sent here from Paris. The
Paris purchasers, before making this
contract, bad the plant thoroughly ex
amined, and satisfied themselves that
the prod acta; would be up to the required
standard.- Parisians were the first peo
pie to adopt bora emeat as an article of
food, and tbedemaud for it in the French
capital is constantly increasing.
xne norses tor the Lannton plant are
secured from Eastern Oregon, and are
what are known as caynses, worth in
the market about $2.50 a piece, on the
average. There is an abundant supply
to araw irom ana tne sooner they are
cleaned out the better. The horse pack
ing company expects to build up a large
business with Paris dealers, and hope
also to find a market in Japan and Chi
na. Every part of the horse is utilized
in some way. The choice meat is cured,
and all other parts, including hair, hide,
bones and even blood, are used for com
mercial purposes.
Tbe Teachers' Institute.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER LINE
' BETWEEN " ' '
The Dalles, Hood River, Cascade Locks and Port-
. iana aauy, except Sunday.
GOOD SERVICE. LOWEST RATES
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If so. save moner and enlov a beantlfnl trin an
the Columbia. The wet-bnund train irrlra t
The Dalles in ample time for passengers to take
the steamer, arrivlna in Portland in time for tho
outgoing Southern and Northern trains; asl-
couna passengers arriving in The Dalles in time
to take the East-bound train.
For further Information apply to
. N. HARNEY, Agent,
Oak Street Dock. Portland, Oregon, .
Or W. C. ALLAWAT, Gen. Agt.,'
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The Dalles, July 13, 1897.
Editor Chronicle:
Learning by study must be won ;
'Twaa ne'er entailed from son to son.
As long ago as 1886 tbe advisability of
holding one month's normal institute in
Wasco countv was discussed by tbe
officers of the teachers' reading circle at
that time. How to raise the requisite
funds to pay instructors was the diffi
culty, some proposing to ask the county
court to support it from the county
fnnds. We believe, however, that the JYfJ TraUSCOntinBntal
tnontn s wont acme last year was tne nrst
of that length, and tbe good results of it
have been observed all over tbe county.
Again this year the teachers and
others have responded to the call of tbe
superintendent to pay each a fee of two
dollars and fifty cents to make up tbe
deficit in the institute fund. This is' all
the more commendable when it is taken
into consideration that tbe average
amount of salary paid male and female
teachers is materially less than last year,
besides having shorter terms. : Low
wages, - however, do not indicate a lack
of interest on tbe part of school patrons.
as will be seen by the generous statistics
of tbe last annual report, which shows
3983 persons between 4 and 20 years of
age residing in tbe county, with an en
rollment of 2592, and an average daily g ATT FRANCISCO. CATV.
attendance oi iuv. .Besides mere were
eigbt private schools, having an enroll
ment of 159 pupils. It will be seen that
tbe percentage of attendance would be
greater bad we statistics of tbe notnHer
of pupils between the ages of 6 and 20
yea-s, instead, of 4 and 20. In the
sparsely settled districts many have far
to go to school..
There were 98 teachers employed in
tbe public schools during the year end
ing the first Monday in March, 1897, of
whom .fifteen held first grade, twenty
nine second grade, and fifteen third
grade county certificates, twenty-nine
state diplomas, and eleven permits were
issued.
WOKK JDONK YESTERDAY. .
Lessons were assigned in grammar,
English literature and composition.
Physiology -Discussed the Inestima
ble value of the study in youth. An
alysis of the skeleton. ;
Arithmetic Problems in proportional
parts in Brooks' mental.
Bookkeeping Arrangements were
made to take np a thorough discussion
of the principles, and at tbe same time
work out as many sets as' time will per
mit. Double entry will be studied first.
Spelling
For full detail call on O. It & Co. a Agent at
The Dalles, or address . - . . .
, . W, H. HURLBTJRT, Gen. Pass. Agt .
Portland, Oregon
E. H'NEILL President and Manager
TIME CARD
No. 4, to Spokane and Great Northern arrive
at p. m., leaves at 6:05 pi m. No. 2, to Pendle
ton, Baker City and Union. Pacine, arrives at 1 :1b-
a as., departs at 1:20 a.m.
No S, from Spokane and Great Northern, ar
rives at 8-80 a. m., departs at 8:85 a.m. No. 1,.
from Bakr Cltvand Dnloi. Pacific arrives at
8:5a. m., departs at 4:00 a-m. '
Nos. 23 and 24, moving east of The Dalles, will
carry passengers. No. 23 grrlves at 6:80 p. m.,
departs at 12:45 p. m.
Passengers for Heppner will take train leaving
here at 6:05 p.m.
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Geograpby Considered tbe earth in
its relation to the solar system, its size
and form. Proof of the spherical form
and oblateness were made subjects of
study.
General History Imperial Rome.
Writing Blackboard exercises.
School Law Discussed, the necessity
of teachers and school officers being
familiar with the law. Applicants for
life diplomas must pass examination in
Same.
Theory Order of growth of mind, as
a basis for educational work. ' "
Physical Geography' Consideration
of the general laws of nature as affecting
the earth, the properties of matter and
principles and laws of gravitation.
U.' 8. History Mound builders in
America and early discoverers.;
Algebra Review of preliminary defin-
Ifrtfin thoriAa ' an A ' inAma OntlinA int
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Teachers enrolled today: Nellie Hud
son, Dufur; W. H.Walker, Wamic.
Do von want vour windows cleaned,
carpets taken up, beaten and re laid, or
janitor work of any kind done by a
first-class man t i so, teiepuuua aoaij
Johnson at Parkins', barber shop.
Phone 119. atu-tt
W. C. AULA WAY. Agent,
The Dalles, Oregon
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