THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1898.
The Weekly Ghfoniele.
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COUNTY OFFICIALS.
..Robt Mays
T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Keltay
Treasurer C. L. t hilllps
, , . ia.s. Slower
Commissioners Jd. 8. Kimsev
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Surveyor - . B. oit
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. L. Oilbert
uoroner
Weekly Clubbtna; Rate.
Chronicle and Oregonian. $2
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Inter Ocean 1.85
Chronicle and Tribune 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. Wortd 2 00
THE PRESIDENT IN NEW YORK.
The president's New York speech
could not have been more timely.
The financial question was just then
at the front in both branches of con
gress. The senate bad before it,
sure to pass, the Te.'ler resolution ;
the house had ; before it, only not
sure to pass, the Gage bill. Without
directly alluding to either, the presi
dent clearly set forth the policy of
the Administration upon both. Not
that he committed the administra
tion to any particnlar bill, but he
did declare in favor of the actual
passage of a bill embodying the line
of finance laid down in the St. Louis
platform. As to the Teller resolu
passed; but now there is no little
popular misunderstanding, and, what
is more, no actual legislation on
finance can be expected from this,
congress.
An aggressive campaign for sound
money may give us both the bouse
and the senate during the last half
of the McKinley administration.
Then, and only then, wuld tbe mon
etary issue be settled, and settled
right.
THE NATIONAL ISSUE OF 1S98.
The Inter Ocean had the follow
ing in regard tc the Teller resolution
which rvas defeated in the houce a
few days since:
Hardly had the fifty-fifth con
gress met in regular session before a
kind of rivalry sprang up at the cap
ital between the Teller resolution
and the Gage bill. It was evident
that one or tbe other would deter
mine the line of battle for the con
gressional campaign of 1898, and it
in the far East; and very critical the
situation' is. '
All the greater pewers but Great
Britain want to possess the whole or
a part of China. They want it, ex
cept it be Russia, for their trade.
Russia wants it in part for pride
of greatness. Whenever any one of
the three, Russia, Germany or France,
gets possession or control of new ter
ritory, the first thing done is to close
its potts to foreign commerce.
French commerce is free in French
Africa, German in German Africa :
but the commerce of other nations is
excluded by high duties. This fos
ters their own manufactures and
their own shipping at the expense of
all others. But Great Britain does
no such thing. When she takes pos
session of India, she opens every
port equa'ly to all nations. Canada
or South Africa or Australia, as soon
as they have parliaments of their
own, put their tariffs on British as
freely as on French imports. Great
Britain believes in free commerce,
wna fpitninlv n. mnt.lpr of the in'ohpst
- " i, v,..t 11.,
political importance it should.- With -
their old-time facility for blundering,
the Democrats took it upon them
selves to make repudiation the issue,
In a general waj tbe bill and tbe
resolution involve the same issue
sound money and financial honesty ;
tion, he hit it squaiely in the face but from the strategic point of view
without naming it. Here are the it was greatly to the advantage of
two salient passages of the speech, the Republican party that the fight-
which exactly fit the two branches of ins should be on tbe line of this
congress :
It is not sufficient for citizens now.
adays to say simply that they are in
favor of sound money. That is not
enough. The people's purpose must
be given the vitality of public law,
Better an honest effort with failure
than the avoiding of so plain and
commanding a duty.
Nothing should ever tempt ui
nothing ever will tempt us to scale
down the sacred debt of the nation
through a legal technicality. . What
question: Shall the United States,
which has always paid every debt in
full, pay what remains unpaid at
about 56-cents on the dollar? In
adopting a proposition so monstrous
the Democrats of the senate did tbe
Republican party .a great campaign
service. luere every Democrat,
with one lone 'exception, Supported
the Teller resolution. The leader
ship of Bryan in 1896 was bad
ever may be the lani-uare of the enough, but the leadership of Teller
nntrant Vtr. TT Z : 1 1 J I . ....
v.... uC umiCu Miej wui ins- m j.a8 is a still more egregious
. vuurge an iw oongaiions in tne cur- blunder,
rency recognized as the best through-
out the civilized world at the times 1U0 Uemocrats were nnrter n
jof payment. kind of necessity to take the initia-
It . is impossible to mistake the tive . Their party is not responsible
-meaning of either of these declara- for the government. Four years ago
r-tions. Not once did the president lhe Republicans lived up to their
- mention gold or silver, Greenbacks or privilege and let the Democrats go
hank notes, but there is no sugges- on forco tDe figbtmg. Tbe
tion of evasion. On the contrary, it Democrats could have done the
is a bugle call to the forces of sound same in lnis case Tue Republican
; money to rally upon the open field house would have been obliged to
-Jfor an aggressive campaign. Pas.s a "venue bill, or been open to
ETt is by no means improbable that the charge of cowardice. Unfortu-
tbe great battle for sound money is nate,y or the Republit-an party, no
to . be fou ght at the congressional monetary bill could pass the present
polls of this year. It may be re- nouse wnich would not be distorted
called that the final victory over fiat- bi' tbe enemy into the raising of the
ism was won at the congressional single gold standard. Many a voter
election of 1878. That was the one who would be utterly opposed to al-
lssue of the campaign. From one lowing the silver dollar to fall below
. end of the country to the other, the gold standard would be no less
wherever there was a free vote and a utterly opposed to the abandonment
: ir count, the question was m one- of genuine bimetallism. . The Gage
tary. Not that every Democrat was bill is not such abandonment, but a
for fiat money or every Republican good many people might have been
or sound money, but it was every- persuaded that such is the case, es
where recognized that the Repubii- pecially as Mr. Gage has made tbe
can party, as a party, was committed mistake of talking too much. His
and that the Greenbackers had con- bill is sound and conservative, but
trol of the Democracy. It is the its passage would have made all his
same way now. Twenty years ago speeches and interviews available
James G. Blaine was the most elo- campaign ammunition. But now
quent champion of sound money, the Democrats have rushed in and
He made a grand tour of the North- diawn the line of battle outside the
west in advocacy of hard .money, as field cbvered by the Gage bill, or
the term then was. No more effect- any like measure,
if 3 series of political speeches was The truth is that the Teller reso-
ever made. lution carries repudiation farther
If William McKinley were free than the Greenbackers ever pro-
from the burdens of the presidency, posed to carry it. At ' no time after
he could do for the same cause in the war and during which greenbacks Great Britain and Japan, with its
a sua . as ettective service as Mr. were below par were they worth any- overwhelming superiority, Japan can
uiaine ciici m 1878. From the na- thing like so little as the silver dol
ture of the case he cannot go about lar is-today. Tbe intrinsic value of
from place to place discussing the the silver dollar is only about 56
financial question, but if necessarv cents, and the undisguised meaning
he can submit to congress' a special of the resolution gathered by Teller
message covering the ground. is that the United States cheat its
The New York speech made no creditors out of about 44 per cent of
attempt at discussion. It defined their just claims. Twenty years ago,
the monetary position of the presi when the last great fiat campaign was
dent and called upon the friends of waged, the zreenback lacked only a
sound money, in congress and out, few cents of being worth its face in
to come to the rescue of the country gold.
from the peril of a depreciated and The good came of the country
dishonest currency. This appeal does not admit of any hesitation in
should call out responses from both repudiating repudiation. The whole
ends of the capitol. The senators country and the intelligence of the
arad representatives in congress world at large should be at once no
ehould heed the voice of the presi- tified !that tne Republican party
dent, not only in the their votes, but standsa for national honesty, without
in their speeches. Last spring and any Paying or dallying with na
sammer .it was 'all very well to let tional dishonor.
the free traders do all the talking.
The people understood the matter.
and a protective tariff . was .to be J Trade is the key to the situation
the enterprise of ber people to create
and preserve markets. She has suc
ceeded better than any other nation.
She basltbree-fourthsof the commerce
with tbe far East, and she wishes to
keep it.
In order to preseive an equal right
with other powers in Chinese mar
kets and China, with her immense
population, is expected to be 'the
great market of the world for Euio-
pean manufactures Great Britain
has her treaties with China granting
her privileges equal to those of the
most favored nation. Those treaties
would lapse if portions of China
should be alienated to other powers.
Tbcy would not properly lapse un
der terms of a lease, such as that by
which. Germany has taken the mag
nificent port of Kiao chau ; and Ger
many under English pressure yielr-s
the point.
Great Britain has now declared
that ber trade in China shall not thus
be excluded. Gi eat Britain lives on
her trade, and she can protect it.
She has publicly declared, with the
direct threat of war, that she will
not allow Russia to close any Chi
nese ports. What she asks for is
more open treaty ports where all
commerce shall be equally free to
enter, subject only to tbe equal tariff
which China puts on all commerce.
She offers a great and needed loan to
China, but on this condition, among
others, that three new open ports
shall be created, one of them Talien
wan, which is in Northern China,
which Russia proposes to secure for
herself. To this Russia strenuously
objects, because she wishes to be
able, before long, to control its com
merce for herself. Great Britain has
the fleet; she has Japan behind ber;
she has behind her the moral support
of tbe United States.
All these powers wish free com
merce with China; and Great Britain
and Japan have a fleet in tbe Chinese
waters big erough to allow them to
do what they please. It looks like a
show of force. The European powers
have imagined that Great Britain
was such a lover of peace that she
would submit to anything. But the
British government has spoken, and
behind it is tbe total sentiment of the
empire, and. with it is Japan; and it
seems probable that Russia and her
allies, Germany and France, must
yield.
Besides the combined navv of
The impending partition of China
seems just now to be delayed by the
act of Great Britain, who declares
that she : will fight rather than allow
other powers to shut her out of tbe
Chinese trade to which she has, and
to which she will insist on baying,
equal rights. This is the key of the
situation. A few weeks will show
whether Russia will back down, or
whether we shall have war. We
prophesy peace, for Russia is not
ready to fight in Chinese waters.
NEWS NOTES.
Wednesday's Pally.
Appearances indicate that the Ha
waiian annexation treaty is doomed.
A dreadful storm is raging on tbe At
lantic coast. Trade is paralyzed and
the coast is dotted with wrecks. Many
lives have been lost.
The stock inspector of Crook county
has been inspecting sheep in the Cherry
creek country, to see that the owners of
tbe animals comply with the law in ief
ference to treatment for scab.
Last night Hon. Claude Gatcb. of Sa
lem, was elected president and C. 'W.
Fulton vice president of the Republican
League, while Roger B. Sinnott, of The
Dalles, has been appointed a number of
the judiciary committee.
Contractor J. C. White has , finiehed
1500 lineal feet of levee on the Powder
river, in Baker City. It is expected that
the levee will save much valuable prop
erty, as the river last spring did nearly
$1000 damages in Baker City.
' A young man named Cole, mining near
Hornbrook, Cal., recently struck a poet
ei, irom wnicn ne tooK f-'uuu in one
v.cto. onowu. now mucu more coancil chambers. Mavor Nolan pre-
u .ctu.. bltuvk in me 8-ded and tne cpuncilmen present were
same leage a uumoer oi montns ago Dy Knck, Johns, Johnston, Wood, Thomp
mo iurm uwuere, wuica yieiuea o,uuu. B0Df StephenB and Clough.
Thursday's Daily. The minutes cf the meetings held dur-
The state Republican convention will ing the month of January were read and
be held in Astoria on April 14th. approved, after which S. S. Johns, of
A report received this morning states the committee on streets and public
that the steamer Oregon on her way to property, made a verbal report stating
Alaeka picked on the crew of the Co- 'hat tne committee bad decided to cover
If vou want to riavA .
f
-FRUIT-
You must Spray and Prune. We have
The Bean,
The Myers and
The Demming
Spray Pumps.
? can give yon comPlele outfit for from $5.00 to
$25. OO. Take a look at them before you buy.
In Pruning Goods we have Saws, Shears, Buckeye Prnn
ers, 2 and 3 foot, and Water's Tree Pruners 6 and 8 feet long.
Our Prices are Right.
MAIER & BENTON,
i?;cery The Dalles! Or.
0
tbe brewery grade as far oat as the city
limits, with crushed rock. . The commit
tee also made a favorable report allow
ing the Zion Ji.vaagelicl Lutheran
church to put a gasoline tank on Seventh
street. .
deavonng to affect a onion of forcee, n Vurht. atataA thot tha w K,
to consult with Mr. Parrott, who has the
rona.
Germany prohibits the importation
of American fresh fruit. The reason
given for so doing is that California
fruit pests threaten their fruitt
Friends of Hawaii and Cuba are en-
and a victory may result. It is tbe in
tention of the friends of both ot those
issues to precipitate a crisis as soon as
possible.
A tbree-maeted schooner, believed to
be the Charles S. Briggs of Bath, laden
with coal, was wrecked off Little Na
bant, Mass., last night. It is believed
there were eight men in board, ' and all
are thought to have been drowned.
project in hand of lighting the city by
gas, and they asked for another month
in which to report.
At this time Councilman Saltmarehe
came in.
S. S. Johns, of the committee on
streets and public property, moved that
a special ordinance declaring Seventh
street, between Union and Court, a
Lyle wagon road. The road is to be
completed by June 1st of this year. The.
lucky bidder was Contractor Mason of
Hood River. Mr. Mason has had much
experience in grading, and among his
workmen is a band of Japs, who will
soon be placed on the work alonz Big
Klickitat river, in getting out from Lyle
and reaching the wheat belt proper of
the valley.
Business men of Goldendale are much
elated over the assured prospect of the
proposed road. It has been predicted
that this year's Klickitat wheat crop
would be marketed at Lyle.
The wool men who summer their
flocks about the Mount Adams country
will in many instances ship their late
spring clips of this season to Lyle ; pos
sibly the entire clip of Klickitat, if
the road should be completed in time
for this year's maiket.
Dalles Public Schools.
The administration has determined sixty-foot street according to the on
to send the United States man-of-war ginal plat, and granting the privilege to
Montgomery to Cuba. The armored the Lutheran church to place a tank on
Following ib the report for the quar
ter 15 weeke) ending Friday Jan. 21, '98.
TEACHEK3.
j
THE CHINESE SITUATION.
put a well equipped army in tbe field,
much superior to anything that Rus
sia . can supply. Japan has not for
gotten how, vunder the' threats of
these three combined powers, she
was compelled to evacuate China,
holding only Wei-hai-wei until the
indemnity should be paid. Since
then she has enlarged ber navv ; a
determined cabinet is in power; and
the chance may have come which
seemed to be hers at the close of ber
war with China, when China and
Japan will unite against foreign ag
gression, and with Great Britain to
help them. It is true that still' China
is but an eggshell that can be cracked
by the slightest blow ; but this may
not long be so. The regeneration
that has come to Japan may yet
come to China; and it may come
rapi Jly if the pressure of foreign ag
gression throws China into the arms
of Japan and Great Britain.' '
cruiser Brooklyn will alfo leave in a few
days for a cruise in the West Indies.
The mission of both is reported friendly.
The storm which began at New York
Sunday night swept over the state with
great fury, and yesterday was central in
tbe New England states. Northern
said street. The ordinance was placed
on final passage and received the vote of
the entire coancil
'The claims of tbe finance committee
were read, approved and ordered paid
by the council.
A bill of Geo. T. Thompson for $5.75
New York is- snowbound, and the extent waB teai' and y recommendation of the
of damage' in New. England cannot be street committee ordered paid
approximated. S- S. Johns reported .concerning the
Th monthlv BtPn.nt nf th nnhii- 8PrinB on Ninth street, and stated that
rloht !,, rnriv..w. t.w . .k nothing could be done with the same
clo8e of bnainesa Mondav. th rlht. nntil the 8ewers were properly prepared
...i, i .u ,j . , I A motion was tben made that the
011.701.338. n innrBaB fnr th month i recorder be informed to correspond with
tia.ran.77i. Thi inorpas i ..nnnnt ht Portland authorities concerningithe k
for by the decrease in the amount of
Eatt Hill Primam?
Miss Nan Cooper 1 and 2B 47
Mrs. Koche 3, 4 and SB 49
Academy Park.
Miss rtilrman 1 50
Mrs Baldwin . n
MissFllnn . 2 and 3D g,
Miss U Rintonl 6 54
Miss T. Bintoul 6 A and7B 491
union Street
Miss Rowe 1 62
Miss E. Cooper 2 B 51
Miss Sneli 4 B 49
MissCbeese. 4 A and 6 B 50
Union Street Annex.
Miss Ball 5B 49
Court Street.
Miss Micbell 7 A and 8 B 55
Miss Hill... ( Bieh School 8,9,10
Mr. Landers j find 11 A Ul
Totals.
53
43:10
42; 6
I -5010
8316
45il2
45 6
4713
4J; 7
481 4fi; 6
! 46; 4314
45; 0
-9 714'ff
1
1C8
caBh on band.
Friday's Daily.
Gus Wachline, tbe Ililisboro murder
er, was hanged at 11 o'clock this morn
ing.
Tbe Cuban war according to present
indications is rapidly drawing to a
close.
The steamer Elder will sail tomorrow
night with tbe largest cargo of freight
and passengers she has yet taben to
Alaeka.
Senator Caffery contends that Gover
nor Lord has no authority to appoint H.
W. Corbett to a seat In tbe senate. A
vote will soon be reached.
Among the fruit exporters in Califor
nia the news of the action of the German
government in prohibiting tbe exporta
tion of American fruit created no Alarm.
The general sentiment is that California
sent too little fresh fruit to Germany to J G Thompson,
license for the nickel-in-tbe-slot ma
chines, and ' an ordinance will, .in all
probability, be drawn np concerning the
same.
As this concluded the business for tbe
evening, a motion was made and carried
to adjourn. .
The following bills were allowed dur
ing the meeting :
CFLauer, marshal $ 75 00
Geo Brown, engineer 75 00
J S Wiley, nightwatchman 60 00
C J Crandall. treasurer 20 00
R B Sinnott, recorder. 50 JO
Mays & Crowe, mdse 19 14
Dalles Water Works 32 00
Dalles Lumbering Co, mdse 48 15
Electric Light Co do ..... 27 40
Maier & Benton,- do 35
J T Peters & Co, do .... 19 93
Wood Bros. do 2 00
Dalles Packing Co, do 5 69
W A Johnson. do -is 7
F A Sandrock, labor 1 50
H Clougb, do 1 50
Dnfar & Menefee, prof per vice. . . 15 00
Gunning & Hoekman, labor 1 60
feel the prohibition. .
W.T.Giles, of Freeport, 111., is dead
at the residence of his son, W. H. Gilee,
in Chicago, after a brief illness. Mr.
Giles is an old and weil-known newspa
per man and had the distinction of hav
ing established more newspapers than
any man in the country. He was in bis
75th year.
' Captain Pal mgreen, of the schooner
James A. Garfield, while at tbe wheel of
bis vessel and crossing Gray's harbor,
was thrown over the vessel's cabin.
Three of his ribs were broken, and be
suffered internal injuries. He is now
resting easy at St David's hospital at
Hoquiam. . -
r" COUNCIL MEETING.
J J Hecker,
A C Arbeit
William Norman
J A Hebner,
J A Like,
C B Flenrer,
L M Wilson,
Cbas Jones,
J A Lane,
H L Lane,
A Johnston,
W H Higby,
A A Kenechtlev,
J Burns,
McTimmons,
J S McMillan,
J A Dellinger, "
A A Uatbcart,
do 5 75
do 1 60
do . 1 00
do ..... 1 70
do 35 60
do 30 00
do 35 40
do 42 40
do 42 60
do 24 40
do 27 60
do 14 00
do 13 00
do 14 40
do ..... 6 80
do .... . 2 80
do 12 80
do 2 80
do ..... 20 00
No. days of school, 24.
Per cent of attendance on number be
longing, 95.
The average daily attendance for the
above quarter is the greatest in the his
tory of the district and exceeds tbe same
quarter of last year by 44.
John Gavin, Principal.
Boyd Notes.
California Reetrurant, meals.'. . . 5 40
GOLDENDALE-LYLE ROAD.
Boslnes Transacted - Lai NightBllla
Allowed. .
The Contract for .Construction has Been
Awarded.-'
Boyd, Or., Feb. 1. 1898.
Editor Chronicle:
Mr. B. B. Allard has resigned his po
sition as teacher of the Boyd school, in
order to accept the position as principal
of the Hood River schools. Mr. D. C.
Allard was elected to fill the vacancy
caused by his brother's resignation. The
Boyd school is in fine condition, atd
will undoubtedly need two teachers the
coming year.
The first of a series of entertainments
for the purpose of establishing a library,
in the Boyd school was given on Friday
evening, Jan. 28th. It was a geunine
success, if one may base bis judgment
on the words of approval coming from
tbe audience. The principal feature was .
the comical farce entitled "Jumbo Jum,"
rendered by tbe Boyd Amateur Dram
atic Club.
Teachers Examination. -
, Notice is hereby given that for the
purpose of making an examination of all
persons who may offer themselves as
candidates for teachers of the schools of
this county, the county school superin
tendent thereof will bold a public exam
ination at the courthouse in The Dalles,
beginning Wednesday, February 9, 1898, ,
at 1 p. m.
Dated this 31st day of Jan., 1898.
C. L. Gilbert, School Supt.,
Wasco County, Oregon.
Tbe Klickitat county commissioners
The regular monthly meeting of the I Wednesday let a contract for the imme-
city council was held last night in the ( diate construction of the Goldendale and
B S HUKTINGTOlf HI WILSON
CNTINGTON & WILSON,
ATTUlMiEXa AT UW,
inn VALAJLH, VKEUON
Office over First Nat Bank.
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