THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE.- WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1898.
The Weekly Gbronicle.
COUNTY OFriClAX.8.
County Judge... .'. Eobt. Mays
Sheriff.
Clerk
Treasurer
Commissioners
Assessor W. H. Whipple
Rnrvevor J. B. -oIt
Superintendent of Public Schools.
Coroner .
T. J. Driver
....A M. Kelsnv
.. C. L. ehiUips
1 A. S. Blowers
( II. B. iwiiuBejr
C. L. (illbert
W. H. Butts
.Weekly Clubbing- Bates.
Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25
Chronicle and Examiner 2 25
Chronicle and Inter Ocean 185
Chronicle and Tribune .- 1 75
Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00
to the square inch than any journal
in our observation, and that ia why
the people dislike the Oregonian. . ,;It
does not know how to be fair. ' ; ';
TRIUiltH.' OF PROTECTION.
WHO THE "BOSS" REALLY IS.
The Oregonian, in yesterday's is
sue," published an editorial which
was in the main a strong protest
against the evils of bqssism, which
every observer will agree have grown
to an alarming extent But the Ore
gonian has reached that stage .of
prejudice where it can but rarely.
comment upon any subject without
bringing in a slur upon John H.
Mitchell, which, in many cases, is en
tirely uncalled for and unfair.
In the article referred to, after
summing up the situation in Penn
sylvania and New York, the Orego
nian asks. 'What does Quay, or Piatt
or Mitchell care for the gold stand
ard, except as it may be employed as
a battery under which he may march
to the senate and distribute the
spoi.'s of office among his craven fol
lowers?"
As regards Quay or Piatt, The
Chronicle has no concern; nor has
it any regarding Mr. Mitchell, except
as be is a prominent figure in- the
politics of this state, and as such, es
pecially under the circumstances at
present existing, comes in for a good
deal of newspaper comment. The
Chronicle is not a Mitchell paper,
.nor is it devoted to the political in
terests of any one man or set of men,
but it does like to see fair play, and
thinks that the time has come when
Mr. Mitchell should be allowed the
same treatment as other men are, and
not made the especial and constant
target for the venom-dipped shafts of
the Oregonian, representing, as it
does, Mr. Mitchell's bitterest ene-
jnies.
The Oregonian talks of bossism,
-and then brings in Mitchell's name
-as a sample of such men. Whatever
. may be said of Mr. Mitchell,. be can
never be charged with being a poht
ical boss. He has aspired to a seat
'in the United Slates senate, and used
11 his endeavors as far as we know,
honorably to secure an election.
He has been honored by the people
-of Oregon and has served his con
stituents abler, perhaps, than any
senator ever chosen from Oregon.
At the last attempted session of the
legislature Mr Mitchell said time and
again that he was willing to withdraw
if such action would in any way sim
plify the situation. Mr. Mitchell is
not a boss, and the Oregonian by
calling him one does not establish
the fact.
Who then is the "boss" of Oregon ?
It is the master of the Oregonian
-the man who can swing that journal
o the right or left ; the wrecker of
party harmony in Oregon, and a
man altogether unlovely politically
in the eyes of the people Joseph
Simon. He is the man who planned
and carried into effect the last legis
lative hold-up. He is the man who
is preventing an extra cession of the
legislature because he fears that
should it meet, Mr. Mitchell might
be elected a senator. He is the
"boss" along with Piatt and Quay.
The Oregonian talks about these
bosses parading under the gold
standard simply as a subterfuge to
secure spoils for "craven followers"
Joe Simon again the high-minded
statesman who consorted with Popu
lists and free silverites of all descrip
tion at Salem last winter and be
trayed the sacred trust of leader
ship. Simon, if he had wings, would
chase a silver cloud Or golden sun
beam, without regard to the- ratio of
ffold to silver, if bv so doins it would
bring him political advantage. And
Simon, according to the Oregonian,
is little less than a god.
- As we have often said, the tOrego
faian is an able paper, and when it
divorces itself from local politics has
few equals; but when discussing
matters of local concern it can show
node prejudice, unfairness and venom
The culminating triumph ot the
system of protective tariffs applied
to Ameiican industries is that it has
taught the old world that low wages
do not of necessity insure low cost of
production. It is simple truth that
the manufacturer of iron and steel
goods in the United States pays from
thirty to eighty, or even one hun
dred, per ceni more for his labor
than his European rival, and that,
i hough he has to haul his raw mate
rial ten times os far from the mine
to the furnace and shop, be produces
a better article at a lower cost. In
its beginning protection increased
the cost of some articles to the Amer
ican consumer, but this was duilr.g
a short stage of commercial exist
ence. Protection stimniatea output
and stimulation of output involved
fierce coga petition for possession of
the home market, and that resulted
in low prices.
At last, says the Inter Ocean, the
American output has exceeded, all
possible demands .of the home mar
ket, and foreign trade has become a
necessity. To the astonishment of
Europe it is proved that goods made
by men who earn from $1.50 to $4
per day can be soli as cheaply as
those produced at a labor cost of
from $1 to $3. America is teaching
Europe a lesson in sociology.
The low-paid laborer ot Europe
often is a tool rather than a me
cbinic. He woiks as he was taught
to work by his father. He improves
upon nothing; he discovers nothing,
He eats, he sleeps, he works ; be does
not think. The better paid artisan
ot America is better educated, more
ambitious, and infinitely more inven
tive. He is paid far more than the
European, and he lives upon a tar
more liberal scale, but he produces
far more and of better quality, al
though' he works fewer hours in each
day.
The European plan has worked to
the degradation of the workman ; the
American method has worked to his
betterment. Thus we now are able
to produce pig iron at from $2 to 13
per ton less cost than rules in Eng
land, and this saving pays ocean
freight and leaves a margin of profit
on foreign sales, we are selling
steel rails to London, and covering
the roads of Europe with American
bicycles, and are putting American
sewing machines into European
shops and houses. We are furnish
ing Japan, China, Australia and
British Africa with steam warships,
locomotives, electrical appliances and
all materials of railway plants.
It is, paradoxical as it may seem,
to the high- wages that our protective
system fostered that our success in
foreign trade is due. Competition
for possession of the largest and
most profitable home market of the
world stimulated invention, and the
intelligent ambition of our artisans
made them specialists and inventors.
Protection insured us a home market,
and commercial activity in that wide
area has strengthened the arms of
our commerce and manufactures till
they have become able to reach out
for and to grasp a large and increas
ing share of the trade of the world.
cities in Cuba, and siicerety-desire
tue iiuerauun ui i.uak laiauu, ucuto
would 'not deplore arif Incident that
would bring on hostilities.' 'But the
De Lome incident, of itself, is no ad
ditional - occasion ' for war-, with
Spain. Tribune.
THE "BOSS" AGAIN.
The Oregonian having charged
Mr. Mitchell with most of the offenses
in the catagory, has -discovered a
new one, and accuses him of being
the political boss of Oregon, equal in
turpitude to Quay, Piatt, Croker, or
any other man who may happen to
be in popular disfavor just at pres
ent. It is useless to waste words in
showing what petty motives of jeal
ousy actuate lue uregonian in tnis
instance; and it is equally useless to
call attention to the unfairness of
the charge. ' "
In the same article wherein Mr.
Mitchell is charged with being the
Unsavory "boss," Joe Simon, the
little man who says nothing, but does
a whole lot, is pictured as a clean
minded individual, who never knew
anything about politics and has had
nothing to do with the machinery of
the Republican party in Oregon.
Simon, according to the Oregonian,
is a simple-minded little bor, who
never put up a job or packed a pri
mary, and to whom the devious ways
of pclitics are as a sealed book.
All this is rot, and the Oregonian
knows, or if it dcesn't it ought to
know, that such stuff will never be
swallowed by fair-minded Republi
cans. It will take more sophistry
than even the Oregonian possesses to
convince the people that" it was not
Joe Simon and his fawning followers
who made the coalition with Jona
than Bourne and the Populist last
winter, which made the hold-up at
Salem possible. The Chronicle
does not care to attack Mr. Simon,
because his political reputation is
known to the peop'e of Oregon, so
that the words of the Oregonian will
fall of their own weight: nor does
The 'Chronicle sare to be continu
ally defending Mr. Mitchell, because
he . is able to stand upon his own
merits. But the ravings of the Ore
gonian are too amusing to be passed
unnoticed.
Bosses are never popular, and Mr.
Mitchell's popularity in this stale is
sufficient to prove that he does not
belong to the kind of men called
bosses. Fancy Joseph Simon and
John H. Mitchell running against
each other for an office in the popular
vote, and the result would clearly
show that the people do not regard
Mr. Mitchell in the colors the Orego
nian paints him.
But enough of this. The Orego-
nian's latest attack on Mr. Mitchell
simply- shows to what extremities
that paper is driven for ammunition
in its jealous warfare against this
gentleman. - ..
RULER OF THE NAVY.
THE DE LOME INCIDENT.
Either by the acceptance of dis
graced De Lome's resignation, or by
his recall, it matters not much which,
he was summarily ousted from the
honorable and onerous position
which he has proven himself unfit to
fill. It was a bad faux pas for so ex
perienced a diplomat to make, even
in a private letter.' No true gentle
man and diplomat could have so far
forgotten bis position and the re
spect he owed to the chief magistrate
of this great government.'
The United States will not lay De
Lome's fault at the door of the gov
ernment at Madrid, and the incident
need not necessarily cause any offi
cial rupture between the two gov
ernments, though it is likely to in
crease the hostile sentiment among
the people of both countries. The
intelligent people of the United States
do not hate the Spaniards as indi
viduals, but they despise the Spanish
government, and reprobate its atro-
Secretary Herbert Haa Power Which
-J -. . Cannot Be Cahuald. ' a
"There , is one man in the United
States who has more power than the
president and all the federal courts
combined," said a naval officer recent
ly. "The secretary of the navy is the
man. nis power over officers of the
navy is autocratic' He can without
the aid of a court fine an officer all the
way from four .hundred to four thou
sand a year, according: to his rank, and
simply to it the whim of the secreta
ry. Unlike officers of the army, offi
cers in the navy are not paid a uniform
and fixed compensation. In the army
the salary of an officer is fixed by law,
and no one, not even the president,
can deduct a cent from that pay with
out a court-martial. In the navy there
are three regular grades of pay. In
the case of a rear admiral, which is
the highest rank in the navy, the pay
at sea is six thousand dollars. On
shore duty this is reduced to five thou
sand dollars, while if the officer is on
leave of absence or 'waiting- orders'
this is reduced to four thousand dollars.
:"JJow suppose a rear admiral is or
dered to tne command of the fleet in the
North Atlantic. The secretary of the
navy proposes to visit the fleet. He is
received on board the flagship with all
the honors due 'his station, and the ad'
miral does his best in the way of enter
tainment. Suppose again, when the
secretary sits down to dine at the ad
miral's table he firids that a cheap
brand oi American wine is served in
stead of his accustomed Chateau
.Yquem. The secretary determines to
resent this indignity.- He goes ashore
and decides to relieve an admiral who
knows nothing of the first principles of
hospitality. He issues an order de
taching the admiral and placing him
on waiting orders. Then on the fol
lowing day he determines to punish
him still further. He calls in the chief
of the bureau of navigation and directs
that Admiral Bowline be given an in
definite furlough. That means that
instead of drawing six thousand- dol
lars a year as he was yesterday, the
late admiral of the North Atlantic finds
his income suddenly reduced to two
thousand dollars, and all because he
has offended the ruler of the navy in
some slight matter.
"Cannot the admiral appeal? Cer
tainly not. ; There is none to whom he
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power to review the" decisions of the
secretary of the nary in matters of this
kind. This is an extreme case, of
course, but it would not be difficult to
point out where lieutenants have had
their pay cut from two thousand six
hundred dollars to nine hundred dol
lars by a secretary who had a grudge."
INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.
The gradual increase of the re
ceipts from the Dingley tariff seems
to justify its friends in their predic
tions that it will soon produce suffi
cient revenue for the uses of the gov
ernment The customs returns for
January were $14,300,000 in round
figures. This indicates an increase
over the uecemoer returns or
600,000. and is exactly $3,000,000
more than the receipts of January,
1897., Beginning with August, the
first full month of the Dingley tariff,
there has been an increase every
month. This increase amounted to
$900,000 in September, to $1,800,000
in October, to $100,000 in Novem
ber . and $1,900,000 in December.
The receipts for the early days of
February indicated a decidedly up
ward tendency, so that a considerable
surpluses expected at the end of the-
present month. "
Mr. F. A. Seufert has achieved
fame through his refusal to join with
the fusionists. The action of the
Democrats in cleaving unto the Pop
ulists will turn many men away from
their party, as it seems to have
done with Mr. Seufert. The fight is
squarely on between free silver and
sound money, and it is not difficult
for each voter- to determine where
he belongs. .
Yon can't cure consumption bnt you
can avoid it and cure any other form of
throat or lung-trouble by the use of One
Minute Cough Cure. It cures quickly.
That's what you want, Snipes-Kinera?
ly Drag Co. ;;. . ; T : ; .
Melon mice are ruining crops in the
neighborhood of ruewport, Ky.'
Farmers in Douglas county, Kan., are
educating their horses to eat potatoes
which they can feed at 11 cents, while
corn stands for 17 cents.
- An immense pumping engine at the
mines of Fried-ens vi lie, Pa., raises 17,500
gallons of water at each revolution of
the huge fly-wheel.
. Not all western cherries in eastern
markets come from California. Oregon
shippers sent two car loads east within
a week from Salem and Portland.
England's oak is now made in Ger
many. The great roof beams of Win
chester cathedral are being renewed,
and the wood used is Stettin oak, cut
in i2y3 foot lengths, the other dimen
sions being 14 by 18 inches.
The recent exposition of the Royal
Dublin Agricultural society demon
strated that while our farm machinery
equals that of the -British in strength,
it is of much lighter build. Our con
sul at Dublin suggests that on this ac
count our machinery is at a disadvan
tage, as the Irish farmer prefers heavier
looking implements.
SHE WAS ECONOMICAL.
Bat After Testing: the Kesnlt Ber Hus
band Was Unappreniatlve.
With one of those good intentions
with which the infernal regions are
said to be paved, an economic uptown
housewife recently dyed her hubby's
shabby hat. , The operation was per
formed, says the Philadelphia Record,
with a toothbrush and a package of
patent dye, unknown t6 the owner of
the headgear; who put his hat on be
fore it was .dry and sallied forth to his
Chestnut street office. On drying the
Derby turned a beautiful bronze, at
tracting no little attention as its igno
rant and . . L lisful wearer passed
through the principal streets. Before
he reached the office he was caught
in a shower, and when he afterward
saw himself in a mirror his counte
nance was decorated like that of an
Indian chieftain in war paint. The
dye wasn't fast black indeed, it
wasn't even black, and to the preju
diced eye of the unhappy husband it
seemed to have been . composed, of
green, pink, blue, purple and yellow.
The rScture he delivered on "false econ
omy" when he reached home would
have done credit to Mrs. Caudle.
" The Cuban "Trocha."
The "trocha." to which frequent refer
ence is made in" Cuban dispatches de
scribing the movements of Gen. Weyler
is a fortified line extending across the
island from Mariel pn the northern
coast to Majana n the southern'. The
purpose of the Spanish commander, in
constructing and fortifying this line,
was to cut off the western province of
Pinar del Rio from the rest of the island,
and thus to prevent the. retreat of the
forces of the Cuban leader Maceo, who
is operating in that province. Mariel,
the northern termius of the line, is
about 25 miles west of Havana; and at
,two points, Guana jay, which is six miles
south of Mariel, and Artemisa, which is
four miles north of Majana, there is di
rect railway connection with Havana,
West of the "tracha" there is a fairly
open country for a few miles, but beyond
is the mountainous region in which
Maceo's forces have their camps.
Youth's Companion. 1
a Locomotor Ataxia Sufforor
Was Cured.
From the Evening Sews, Detroit, Mich.
James Crocket, a sturdy old Scotchman,
1 1 T7! T (. in rkotvutit - DO Vf . 1 "
Street, was asked about his wonderful cure.
J First," he said, " I must tell you some-
uung oi my me Deiore my almost latal sick
ness. I was .born in Scotland in 1S22, aud
came to this country in 184S. I am a marine
engineer by trade. In 1872 I was in the
employ of the Detroit and Cleveland Navi
gation Co., and for fifteen years I was chief
euKiuccr vii one oi meir- uig passenger
. K X 1 A Jl . T" -K- T '
iwmucio. jut uioi uuui. was lue xu i. nice,
which was burned at the docks. Then I
was trausterrea to tne liubie, wmch was
chartered to make the run between Detroit
and Cleveland, .
"I brotogfcl out the new steamer the 'City
il f ! . ' . I , J
di iuo ovaics, ana ror years actea as ner
ihief engineer. It is a great responsibility,
the position of chief engineer on those big
passenger palaces. Thousands of lives are
held in the keeping of the engineer. The
anxiety causes a great nervous strain, and
the strictest attention is necessary. Hot for
moment must he lose his watchfulness.
; "For fifteen years' I carefully watched
the big engines and boilers without a single
accident,' and only noticed that I was getting
nervous. Suddenly without warning I was
taken sick, and in less than a week I was
prostrated, I had the best of physicians.
I grew gradually worse, and at the council
tf doctors, they said I had nervous prostra
tion, and had destroyed my whole nervous
system and wouM never be able to be- up
tgain. " They said I had worn myself out by
ins . long nervous strain caused by watching
nd worrying about the machinery. For
three long years I was unable to move from
tpy bed without assistance. The doctor said
I had locomotor ataxia, and would never be
ble to walk again.
"The pains .r.nd suffering I experienced
luring those years are almost indescribable.
My wife used to put eight or ten kot water
bags around me to stop the pain. Those
that came to see me bid me good-bye when
they left me, and I was given up. The doc
tors said nothing more could be done for me.
" We tried every known remedy, and my.
wife kept reading the articles about Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to me.
Finally she said they only cost 60 cents,
and she wanted to know if I would try them.
To please her I consented, and the first box
gave me relief. I continued to use them
for about two years before I could get strength
enough to walk. It came slow but sure, but
what I am to-day is due wholly to Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
"lam nearly seventy-five years old to-day,"
and there is not a man in the whole city that
can kick higher or walk further than I can
to-day. If any one has loeomotor ataxia
that reads this, let them come and see me
to-day. Can you tell me a man today in'
this big city that can do better than that 1 "
said Mr. Crocket, as he kicked the reporter's
hat, which was held high above his head.
" Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
?le made me what I am to-day. I only wish
could persuade others to do as I did. and
take them before it is too late."
(Signed) "JAMES Ckockxt."
try iruh
Before me, a Totarv Public person allv
appeared James Crocket, who slimed and
swore to the above statement as being true ia
every particular. - -
KOBEBT is. nmx, JE., liotary v&ite.
Wayne County, Mioh.'
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peonle
are sold m boxes (never In loose form by the'
dozen or hundred, and the public are eari-i
Honed against numerous tsnitatlons sold inj
this shape) at 60 cents a box or six boxes for
f2.50, and may be had of all dnagisfs -or
direct by mail from Dr. WUliamr mWM
Company, Schenectady, N. Y. : - ; j
f Special peaturq
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Of The Chronicle office is the
Job prifytiQg-
v We have better facilities for
doing artistic work in this line
than any office in Eastern Ore
T gon, and this branch of our busi
ness is in tlie hands of expert
J T workmen.
. t ' Ue
omparisoi?
T both as to high grade work and
J reasonable prices.
DEALERS IN
fill kinds of
aneral Supplies
CrandaMBarget
UNDERTAKERS
EMBALMERS
The Dalles, Or.
Robes,
Burial Shoes,
Etc.
PIONEER BAKERY.
I have re-opened this -well-known Bakery,
and am now prepared to supply every-,
body With Bread, Pies and Cakes. Also
all kinds of Staple and Fancy Groceries.
GEORGE RUCH, Pioneer Gfcrocer
. - ; has the best Dress Goods
has the best Shoes
has everything to be found in a
f first-class Dry Goods Store.
C. F. STEPHENS.