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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19. 1898.
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The Weekly GMmiele.
COBNTI OFFICIALS.
Conner Judge. Eobt Hays
8hiiflU , t. J. unver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer C. L. FhlHips
Commissioner.. i !D u. Kimsev
Assessor . H. W hippie
,8arveyor -J. B. oit
Baoenniendent of Pablic Schools. . .. L. Gilbert
Croner W. H. Butts
8TATK OFFICIALS.
BjTernot..' .....W. P. Lord
Secretary of State HE Kincaid
Treasurer Phillip Metschan
Bupt. of Public Instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney-General C. M. Idleman
(G. W. McBride
Benatoia jj. h. Mitchell
1 B Hermann
Congressmen jw K.Ellis
State Printer W. H. Leeds
Weekly dobbins; Rates.'
Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Inter Ocean 1.85
Chronicle and Tribune 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00
THE YAWf OF DAVID.
Men with good .memories, and
who are ibe sort that delve into ibe
obscurities of mugwumpian lore, re
member that in J892, cr thereabouts,
a person known to folly as David A.
"Wells published in a free trade mag
azine " an article under the bead of
"Death in the Pot."- Death was
taken to mean shoddy, and the pot
. was the McKinley bill. That bill
placed a bigb, and all but prohibit-
.'" ory, duty on shoddy, and moderately
-.protective duties on wools. David
- t.rnlv iipsnrmrl fihnddv to hp trip
product of rags cast off by lepers
' and rejected by the hospitals of the
- old world, a vile refuse, fetid and
foul, and carrying with it germs of
' disease. But how, now that the
people have recovered from the tem
porary insanity that afflicted many
! 1 flft. J si ft 1 a T ? Jl
proposed to restrict the importation
of shoddy to the United States? By
making the duty , upon it still more
onerous? Oh, no! Such a scheme
would have been open to suspicion
of sanitv.
David gravely fro posed to elimin
ate shoddy by making it and wool
alike free of duty. "When both are
-admitted free," argned, or rather
.-said, David, "men will choose and
use the better, and the worse will be
reiected." ' A sane nerson would
iiave said, "When two articles, one
-vile and cheap, and the other excel-
lent but more costly, can be import-
the vile can be madevto l-aok, but not
to wear, as well as the good, then
dealers will force the vile upon the
market at just a shade below the
. jjrice of the good." But David
never yet spake in the language of
reason.
' However, 1892 was a season of
temporary aberration, and it happened
as David desired. The Democrats
and mugwumps prevailed, and made
. -a tariff bill wherein wool was free.
Did free wool chase shoddy out of
' : . M J
chasing pure wool out of the market.
During the last year of the opera
tion of the McKinley tariff our im
ports of shoddy were, practically,
nothing; 143,000 pounds were all
that came in during twelve months.
But in the first year of the Wilson-Gorman-Wells
tariff our imports of
shoddy rose to 14,000,000 pounds,
, next year to 18,000,000, and for the
year ending June 30, 1897, the last
m k i 1 1.V- - ' i i . ' rp jo aa
. or. mat miserauic tana to io,vv,
.000 pounds. '.And while the rotten
. rags of Europe, disguised in the 'sem
. blance of good cloth, were being
dumped by shiploads on our shores
and sold -as "all wool clothing,"
thousands of bales of pure wool were
, rotting along the railway routes of
Montana, Texas and Wyoming, un
? marketable? at cost of freight from
West to East. Moreover, 75 per
cent of the woolen workers of this
V country were idle, because tbe pro
: ducts or pure wool could not compete
with the cheap shoddies 'imported
from England. The "English pot
boiled merrilly, and the shoddy that
David had likened unto death, was
cooked in it for American consump
tion. .
V Why do we write this? Because
JDavis bas been silent for the space of
- three months, and it is about time
. - for him to open bis month again.
7 We areanxious that when he next
doth yaup bis yaup on shoddy shall
be remembered against him. Inter
Ocean.
THE MEANS AND THE END.
... ...
The following ' editorial from the
Inter Ocean makes thj best presenta
tion of arguments for, Hawaiian an
nexation we have seen. While there
may be many things of' weight said
on the other side, yet this editorial
presents the matter in a very favora
ble Ubt: -"
"It is deplorable that many sena
tors still close their eyes to the im
portance 'of the Hawaiian question.
It is amazing that, in - a matter so
vital to our national safety and com
mercial prosperity, the gentlemen
whe bold the fate of the treaty in
their bands should palter over trifles
and quibble over platitudes. The
orient is being torn by many hands.
The long arms of European powers
are being stretched forth to all parts
of the Pacific. The key to our west
coast is in danger. Ibe trade of a
new commercial world is at stake.
Yet the senate hesitates.
"Most of the opponents of annexa
tion, whatever their motives may ue,
fortify themselves with the argument
that annexation is against our na
tional policy. They forgot, or do
not care to remember, that a policy
is not an end, but only a means; that
it is a line of conduct marked out to
serve some particular purpose. For
instance: Bismarck, wished to see
tbe Hobenzollern dynasty rule a
united Germany. To accomplish
this he adopted first tbe war policy,
which he followed from 1864 to
1871, and tben the peacp 'policy,
which he adhered to from 181 to
1890. He and all other statesmen of
his sagacity have made national pol
icy their handmaid, not -their mis
tress.
"One heritage from the wise men
who brought forth and cradled this
great republic has been the national
determination to avoid foreign en
tanglements, ' to keep far from our
shores the dynastic quarrels and
ceaseless controversies of Europe, and
to develop in independence and
safety tbe institutions on which we
have staked our national existence.
That was the purpose of our early
statesmen national safety, tar re
moved from the menace of foreign
aggression. The policy mat tney
followed to realize this purpose the
means which they used to the end
varied with every passing decade.
Sometimes it brought peace; some
times war. But war or peace, the
main purpose was kept ever in view
and the policy fitted to its demands.
"In obedience to the same con
siderations the' United States govern
ment has favored annexation . of ter
ritory at one time and opposed it at
another. We took Florida; we took
Louisiana; we took Texas, and we
took the vast lands-covered by the
Mexican cession of 1848 and the
Gadsden purchase of 1853. So,
through the first half of this century,'
we stood committed repeatedly to
the policy of annexation. We stood
thus committed because the policy of
annexation served directly our pur
pose as designated by the far-seeing
statesmen of revolutionary times and
followed by their successors.
"Under such circumstances, it is
folly to fold our hands and shut our
eyes. . It is folly to bow down to the
fetich of a policy but forty years old,
and now utterly at variance with tbe
changed conditions that confront us.
Our main purpose in foreign affairs
today, as ever before, should be to
maintain our splendid isolation, our
safety from foreign agression. To
realize it we must do as our fathers
and their fathers did take the most
effective means to the end and aban
don " the courses calculated only to
meet emergencies of other times."
Wnat we did in 186fJjor 1870 can be
no standard ot judgment now. If
we do .not take Hawaii, others will.
It is to be ours or theirs.
The demand on the senate for ac
tion is loud and clear. Keep in
view the traditional purpose of this
government; hold off foreign powers
from our doors; ; stand fast by the
principles of our wisest statesmen,
and maintain them by all the "means
that will strengthen us against tbe
land hungry nations of Europe ; meet
the issues of today as our govern
ment met . similar issues in the first
half of the century. Annex the
islands." '
Whatever the administration may
think of il, the people are eager thatj
seme pretext may arise for Ameri
can intervention in the Cnban Strug
gle. r.An attack on the American
consulate in Havana might percipi
tate this, and then the white squad-
lon would .be much in evidence,
Nothing nobler is recorded in history
than the perserverance of the Cuban
patriots. Their deeds deserve chron
icling with those of their American
prototypes who won independence
one hundred years ago. The victory
will be all the sweeter if they win it
unaided;, but the nation is weary of
seeing tbe unnecessary butchery con
tiniie. Cuba is destined to be free,
and, as liberty loving-Americans we
pray that the day of deliverance
may be hastened.
AGAINST ANNEXATION.
Yesterday we published an article
from the Inter Ocean 'favoring the
annexation of Hawaii. Today we
print one against Hawaii taken from
au article in the New York Inde
pendent. In these two communica
tions are presented the best argu
ments pro and con, and present suffi
cient facts from which a conclusion
may be drawn :
"We should not annex Hawaii, in
the first place, because we do not
need it and should not annex any
territory that we do not need. We
have needed all the tenitory that we
have acquiied, except Alaska. It
was really essential that we should
possess ibe whole water front from
Maine down the Atlantic cotst and
around the Gulf of Mexico as far as
the Rio Grande, including the mouth
of the Mississippi and tbe regions
tributary to that river; it was equal
ly essential that the republic should
have a broad sweep along the Pacific
coast. It is only the logical devel
opment of the country when we took
in Florida and tbe Louisiana pur
chase and Texas and the Pacific
slope. We bad then all that was
necessary. Alaska was bought, not
because it was essential to us, but be
cause Kussia wanted to sell it ana
we were anxious to accommodate a
fuend. 'One of the chief motives,'
wrote Simon Cameron, who was fa
miliar with the negotiations, "was to
show our regard for Russia for tbe
part she had taken during the war."
The nation is quite large enough
already. What we need is not more
territory, but 'a-more perfect union'
of the still inharmonious parts of
what, we now have. There is too lit
tle community of interest between
the various sections that exist.. Our
first duty is to bind these more
closely together. The stretch be
tween Maine and California is quite
as long as the yet lightly knit bonds
will endure. .
"We should not annex Hawaii, in
the second place, because we should
be worse off with it. than we are
without it. If we make it a pait of
the union we shall have an isolated
and exposed territvry over v 2,000
miles away, which we must always be.
prepared to defend. We must build
extensive . and expensive fortifica
tions, and we must maintain a much
larger navy than we ,ow require.
The mere acquisition of the islands
will not give us 'control of the Pa
cific.' Captain Mahan, tbe ablest
champion of a 'forward policy for
tbe United States, admits this. He
pronounces tbe theory that such an
island or such a harbor will give
control of such a body of water 'an
butter, deplorable, ruinous mistake,
since it overlooks the 'other implied
conditions of adequate protection
and adequate navies.'
There is no possible . gain that be
gins to counterbalance tbe losses
thus inflicted. We have never
needed to own Hawaii in order to
carry on (profitable commercial rela
tions with it. We can continue to
enjoy all of the advantages that we
now have without - incurring any of
the responsibilities that ownership
would impose.
"We should not annex Hawaii, in
the third place,. because we have no
way to govern it. The only proper
conception of the union is a collec
tion of. self-governing states. We do
not know today . how , to govern
Alaska, because it lacks what should
be the first qualification of a terri
tory assurance that it . will grow
into a state that will strengthen the
union.
, "Hawaii has about 110,000 people,
of whom 'nearly 40,000 are natives,
about 24,000; "Japanese,. 21,00Q Chi
nese, 15,000 .Portuguese and, only
3,000 Americans, 2,000. English and
1,500 Germans and French. ' Such a
population, by its very constituent
elements, is unfit for democratic rule.
It never had such rule before the
revolution of 1893, and it has not
had it since then. Tbe existing
government represents but a very
small fraction of the population; and
it would not dare to submit its
claims to a vote of all tbe people, as
we use - term people in this country.
"The great bulk of tbe people in
Hawaii represent races w'hich have
never shown an' capacity for self
government. If one of the forty-
five slates now composing the onion
had such a population as tbe 110,000
in these islanis, we should despair of.
its future. We should consider
niue-tenths of tbe people unfit to
vote, and we should shrink from the
idea of letting tbe other teeth rule
this vast majority and help to de
cide presidential elections. The in
stinctive feeling of every thoughtful
man about Hawaii was well ex
pressed by the venerable Senator
Morril of Vermont when he declared
that 'it would bo a farce o give the
natives or any others there state
powers and equal representation In
the union with New York, Pennsyl
vania, 'Illinois, Ohio and Massachu
setts.' ".
NEWS NOTES.
: Saturday's Daily.
This morning's bulletin states that a
furious riot was raging in Havana last
night.
An estimate of the state tax for the
year . has been made. It will be less
than usual.
The eenate committee has decided that
Corbett is not entitled to a seat in the
senate. His chances look blue at pres
ent. - McKean, the Portland embezzler, was
discharged, as the evidence against him
was not strong enough to incriminate
him.
The steamer George W. Elder tbat
started for Alaska last night, went
aground opposite the Portland Flouring
Mills, and at last reports had not gotten
off. - - -.
The honse Thursday completed the
consideration of the agricultural bill in
committee of the whole, and thee ad
journed, on motion of those opposed to
the printing of another edition of the
famous "Horse-book."
The warships at Key West have taken
on coal aud provisions, and are being
held in readiness to proceed to eea,
should occasion require, 'x'he Marble
head will proceed to Navassa island
upon the arrival of the Detroit from
Hayti.
The latest official death . list shows a
total of forty-three lives lost in the tor
nado which swept through Fort Smith,
Ark.,. Tuesday night. ' Not less than
seventy others are injured, a large num
ber of them seriously, and several are
expected to die. ,
It is reported tbat an important en
gagement has taken place between the
Spaniards and the insurgents . under
General Eabi, in tbe district of Manza
nillo, in which the insurgents lost 100
men killed and the( Spaniards 140 killed
aud wounded. . '
Monday's Dally.
Latest advices from Havana say tbat
an ontbreak at tbat place may be looked
for at any time. -
The Summer home of ex-President
Cleveland was entered Saturday night
and robbed. ' ;
Advices received last night state tbat
Chas. M. Sbortridge, formerly editor of
the San Francisco Call, was dying.
Advices received this morning state
that Ben Batter worth, , the statesman
and politician, is dead.
President Dale, of Hawaii, arrived in
in this country yesterday, on. bis way to
Washington.
Yesterday Senator Hanna made a
hasty departure for Washington. .
Late advices from- Dawson state tbat
the miners want ' mail worse than they
want food, as they have not heard from
the outside world since last August. ,
Kid McCoy has offered challenges to
Fitzsimmons and Corbett.
Tuesday's Daily.
The business houses of North Yakima
have agreed to close early.
There are two telephone lines be
tween Dyea and Lindemaun. "
' T. E.. Needbam baa juBt started 'the
Stickeen Biver Journal at Fort Wran
Jtel. . - : ,
The weather is so moderate at Juneau
tbat the people are not wearing over
coats. It is estimated that the carrying ca
pacity of Portland and Puget sound
steamers foots up 10,000 passengers per
month. .'; "
The steam schooner Noyo arrived at
Seattle last night from Stag way and
Dyea. - Among her passengers was Hans
Larsen, of Circle City, who came out to
iliflirilliii
A YOUflG LIFE SAVED
111 A REMARKABLE fMlHER.
Flsrcnee Sfurdiiant, of Grindstone Island, Saved from
en Untimely Death Her Dangerous Predicament.
. From " On The 8L Lawrence," Clayton, N. T.
Among the Thousand Islands is one called
Grindstone. It is seven miles long and three
wide. The inhabitants of this island are a
weu-informed class of people who devote
their energies to farming and quarrying for
a livelihood. In the home of one of these
islanders resides Florence J. Sturdivant, the
tour-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William II. Sturdivant She had a remark
able experience recently.
FLO BENCH J. STUEDIVAlfT. - -In
an interview with a reporter Mr. Stur
divant said : " Florenoe wag taken sick in
February, 1896. with aoarlet fever and we im
mediately called a physician. After two
weeks the fever subsided but Florence was
left with a very weak back.- Severe pains
were constantly in the back and' stomach.
The difficulty seemed to. baffle the efforts of
the physician. .
" Finally at the end of four months of
treatment, we round our patient completely
f Special peatiir -
Of The Chronicle office is the
Job priQtii?
T Dpartrveijt.
w We have better facilities for
doing- artistic work in this line
Y than any office in Eastern Ore-
T gon, and this branch of our.busi-
ness is in the hands of expert
. J T workmen.
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both as to high grade work and
J reasonable prices.
Dyea with a dog train by way of Dawson
City. He says there is plenty of lood at
Circle City. He also confirms reports
that there will be no suffering at Dawson
this winter from lack of provisions.
Big strikes occurred amongst the em
ployes of tbe cotton mills in the east
yesterday. Over 100,000 operatives are
affected. . k ,
Twerity-two Klondike ' miners came
out yesterday. They brought very lit
tle gold with them, but have over one
million dollars in: drafts for the claims
they have sold. :
The bop market in Yakima last week
was quiet, jack Man en on- wonaay
shipped 117 bales of the Brown & Lowry
crop, grown on the Rich ranch, below
Kiona, paying therefor 13) cents. ' He
bought 46 bales from Wallace Wiley at
9 cents. v
John South, who' for several years had
charge of- the P ranch, under Peter
French) has been selecUd to take charge
of the French-Glenn' Livestock Company
in Harnev countv. Mr. South has been
resident of . San Fruncigco (or Come
time and has not been on tbe ranch in
Harney county during the last five or
six years, Dut ne is penectiy laminar
with the affairs of his former employer.
He is now at tbe P ranch, as is also Mr J
Glenn, one of the company. V
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Remington Typewriter with walnut
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Call on or address
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jl8 3t . The Dalles, Or.
Cash in Soar Checks.
All county warrants registered prior
to Nov. 13, 1893, will be paid at my
office. . Interest ceases after Jan. 15th,
1898. C. L. Phillips,
' r Coontv Treasnrer.
When yon want a good smoke, be sure
and call for Fonts' high-grade cigars.
For- eale by all first-class dealers. tf
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prostrated. At this time we railed an emi
nent physician, who agreed with the diag
nosis of our physician. He prescribed a
course of treatment and we followed it faith
fully for three months, but instead of im
proving, Florence failed.
"A brother of my wife, who resided in Cana
da, but was visiting us, advised us to use Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peopfe, and I
purchased a box of the pills and began to
give them to Florence. This was in October,
1896. After using the pills a short time we
could see an improvement. Her strength be
gan to return and her appetite was restored.
When she had taken one box. the pains in
her back and stomach ceased and her re
covery seemed certain.
"We eagerly purchased a second box ot
pills and watched with delight the change for
the better that was being wrought daily.
Florenoe finally beqfme strata; enough to
walk a little. She rained in flesh and
strength rapidly. By the time she had used
three ooxes ot the pills she was evidently
well. We continued the treatment nsinir
another box, the fourth, to prevent the pos
sibility of a recurrence of the difficulty.
" We cannot praise too highly the value
of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. I am positive
that without their use our child would have
been a confirmed invalid."
(Signed) William H. Sttbdivant.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
sixth day of April, 1897.
H.W. Morse, Notary Public
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People .
are sold by all dealers, or will be tent post paid
on receipt of price, 60 cents a box, or six boxes
C 0 EA 1 J 1 It 1
for t2.50 fthev are never sold in hnlk nr hv
the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Mdioin
IO., sonenectaay, j. x.
PIN FEATHERS.
The roosts should be low, especially
for large, heavy fowls, and should all
be of the same height.
When the. hens stop laying perhaps
they can be started again by changing
thefeed. Give less grain and more meat
and skim milk. s
. Turkeys must have a good range to
be profitable. They are bug eaters by
nature, and must have a good stretch of
territory to forage in order to do well.
The revival of activity in the poultry
business is gratifying, anil its good ef
fects -are shown in the energy with
which enthusiastic pdultrymen are tak
ing hold of shows and exhibitions and
pushing them to success.
Chickens must have grit and they
beem to like a variety. Glass is quite a
dainty for them and they will swallow
large pieces.' Pounded glass is as good
a grit as pounded oyster shell and makes
a pleasing variety. .. .
Choice Shoalwater Bay oysters served
in every style at tbe Columbia Candy
Factory. Give us a trial and we will
endeavor to please you. ' -
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