THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20,, 1898
' The WeeUy GMohiele.
The only Republican Daily Newspapet in
Wateo County.
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Sheriffs T. J. Driver
Clerk A. M. Kelsay
Treasurer.. c. rnuiips
v. .. . S. Blowers
'Commissioner D- 8 Klmsey
Assessor.... ..... W. H. Whipple
Purveyor J. B. ;oit
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert
Ctroner ........ W. H. Butts
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SPAIN'S ARMY IN CUBA.
At the close or lotJb there were
200,000 Spanish soldiers in Cuba.
These were, even at that.time, poor
ly paid, poorly equipped for active
"Campaigning, and without a commis
e&riaU as it would be understood in
this county, or in Germany or Great
JJiitain. In a campaign against the
insurgents the troops making a fight
were compelled to return within
twenty-four hours to a fortified town
or camp. No ' provision was made
except the last campaign . inaugur
ated by General TVcyler for extend.
d operations in the field. The sol
diers were clad as a rule in linen
suits, with shoes that did not stand
the wear and tear of .marching, and
even a short campaign put them in
' In his Inst campaign in 1897 Gen
eral Weyler put into the field 36,000
effective troops, moving these in six
different .columns against the insur
gents. At the c.'ose of 1897 the in
surgent government claimed bat
there were not more than 70,000
effective Spanish troops in Cuba.
These were concentrated . in and
trtiout Havana, Matanzas, and other
cities on the coast. Only three in
. terior towns were occupied at that
time. These wete held as a matter
cf pride rather than of strategic im
portance, and.it was said that in
their attempt to bold Bayamo and to
supply it with munitions of war and
provisions the Spaniards had lost
5n 5,000 men.
. in January or mis -year it was
.fcated that l Cuba ere blockaded
by -a hostile power the Spanish army
would be compelled to evacuate or
;surrender within two weeks. Al
imoalieverythftig that Is necessary for
' the support of tlw army is brought
.from Spain, the United States, or
JMexico. The troops are well sup
plied with ammunition, but they
Lbaye ueyer been on full rations, and
ate-w rmontbs ago fully one-third of
xbe army was in the hospital or on
the sick list". To say nothing of the
insurgent army, which is probably
40,000 strong, the Spanish army in
Ctba could not stand a long siege.
It is not made up of veteran troops,
but mainly of young men who were
iiurried away , from Spain without
much military training. - -
W do not think the Astoria con
vention acted wisely in casting out
the ' ahti - Simon delegation from
Multnomah county . in the waj that
it did; but that is neither here rror
there at this time. However, the
victorious faction should not seek to
rub the wounds. The Republican
party has a ght on its hands in the
coming campaign. Every RepublU
-can vote will be needed, and the
contesting delegation from Multno
mah county represents a large influ-
enoe and body of voters. 1 he olive
'branch of peace should be extended,
and every effort made to alleviate
the soreness which naturally remains.
The senate votes today on the
resolution giving recognition to the
Cuban government." A few weeks
go the passing ot such a measure
-would have been thought tantamount
to . bringing on war; ,but the war
loud has hovered and passed so
ujjuijt Liujca tuav iiir uuc uua bijj ou-
raise to make as to the future. The
delav mar have been a 20od tbitJii
for this country in enabling it to
inke better preparations, but' it has
exhausted the patience of the people.
When war does come, however, the
latent interest will be speedily and
thoroughly aroused. '
The nominations of lH. S. Wilson
for the circuit judgship and that of
A. A. Jayne for district attorney
will meet with the approbation of
every Republican." Mr., Wilson has
never, been " a ' candidate for office,
but ia known as a lawyer of unusual
ability and unquestioned character.
Mr. Javne has made-an excelleLt
record as prosecuting attorney, and
his re-nominaiiot. insures his election.
Both these nominations add strength
to the ticket..
NO TIME 'FOR ' HARD WORDS.
Republican . success in Oregon
must be secured next June in order
to maintain the good name of- the
state. The ccming election will be
watched with great interest in all
parts of the country, because it is the
first to occur, and will be taken by
many as a forerunner of what shall
follow next November, when general
elections are to be held. ; A weighty
duty rests upon the Republicans of
Oregon this "spring," and not one
should be found faltering in his
place. N -.
. The great drawback toassurred
success is the '. factional difficulty in
Multnomah county. This we do not
believe to have been wisely bandied
by the state convention, and instead
of being made " better, has . grown
worse. It should, be the especial
charge of .the Republican leaders to
see that some sort of a reconciliation
is effected whereby ' the feeling of
soreness may be allayed and the' Re
publicans made to forget their per
sonal and political grievances.
The campaign this year is one of
principle, and so it will be viewed
throughout the country. Oregon has
committed herself to sound money in
the past, and nothing has arisen to
justify a reconsideration of the vote
of November 1896. " The silver issue
is being forced again to the front,
and the Republican party must de
fend the standards it won a year and
a half ago." 1 '
The men who have been honored
with leadership must see their duty
plain before them, and make every
honorable effort" to alhy this unfor
tunate factional feeling. It is not a
time for abuse or unkind words.
Such treatment never did, nor never
will, win a vote. But let such a
spirit of conciliation be shown that
every voter will be made to feel that
he is still a Republican, and not an
outcast. .
THE
PRESIDENT AND
MILITIAJ V
THE
The following from the Oregonian
will be of interest to militiamen, who
are. under the impression that they
are not subject to the call of the
president: ' .
"Every man between the ages of
18 and 45. who is not Included in
the exemptions provided for, by law,
is a national . militiaman, subject to
the orders of the chief executive of
the nation. National Guardsmen
have asserted that they were enlisted
for service In their own slate vlche,
and that any service outside of the
state must be purely voluntary, but
this opinion is cleat ly an error, for
the federal constitution is supreme.
ana no state can so ameni me con
stitution and laws of the United
States so that a man can be a mem
ber of the state mililia for bis own
private ends , and the ends of the
state, but not a member for' national
purposes.
"The United Slates supreme court
says: .'
-Our.understanding is the organ
ization of the active militia (National
Guard) of the state conforms exactly
to ' the definition usually' given of
mililia." Whatever the respective
states have made their organized
militia to be. that is the militia that
the president may call into the ser
vice . of the United-States.' '.When
the militia passes into the service of
the United States, it comes under the
military law, and the president, as
commander-in-chief, can determine
finally what it shall do and where it
shall go. Once in service, militia
men are subject in nil respects to the
same control as men of. the regular
army.
4'The
constitution of the United
Statessays that congress shall have
power to provide for organizing,
arming and disciplining the militia,
and for governing such part of them
as may be employed in the service
of the United Stalesreserving to the
states, respectively, the appointment
of the officers.' During our civil
war this provi&ion was interpreted to
mean that the authority, to appoint
and commission officers of the vol
unteer militia rests with the gov
ernor, unless otherwise, provided by
state laws." . ' '
CONGRESS AND WAR.
Taken altogether, congress has
acted with a great deal of patriotism
in the Spanish trouble. Barring a
few indiscreet speeches and uncalled
for criticism of the president, the
members generally have acted in a
conservative, dispassionate manner,
The senate and house haveagieed
upon a resolution which amounts, in
its purport, to a declaration of war,
and this resolution the president is
expected to sign today.
This completes " the second stage
in the affair, the first having been
the diplomatic negotiations, carried
on between Washington and Madrid
As has been frequently said, un
less Spain completely . back down.
war is a certainly, and it is gratify
ing to note the ease ana quicKness
with which the United Slates has
prepared itself for the conflict. .We
do not believe that the. struggle will
continue long, nor that much blood
will be shed. Spam may put up a
show of ' resistance, but it is written
in the fates that she is a moribund
country, and unable to cope with the
fresh vigor of the Weet.
Whatever may come, this nation
will have the consolation that it did
nothing hastily, but only resorted, to
arms after provocation unendurable
THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM.
War or peace alike demands a
final settlement of the financial prob
lem which has vexed the people
since the agitation for free silver ob
tained a foothold in the federal leg
islature, says ihe Independent. We
-cannot count upon always being the
creditor of the outside world ; on
having famines abroad and surpluses
at home; on keeping at borne the
gold produced from our mines and
bringing here stores from the vaults
of Europe. The great gold stiength
of the national treasury, built up
since the sound money victory of
1896, must be conserved. The bank
ing facilities of the country need en
largement in some directions and
moie elasticity throughout War
should not blind, us to the imperative
need of currency, reform; peace
should be utilized for the greater
facilitating of the work.
The hope of international bimetal
lism must be deferred by its advo
cates for a long time. It is obvious
ly impracticable when the trend of
events and influences ip the British
Empire is pointing toward the prob
ably introduction of the gold stand-.
urd in India before many years
perhaps months. The rising of the
Cuban specter brought to a bait the
efforts ' of the party in power at
Washington to devise an acceptable
plan for securing the foundations of
our financial system.
Yet the. duty of the nation in this
regard ' should not ' be wholly aban
doned "under any stress. The gov
ernment and the people must spare
some time from the forging of can
non and the buying of warships to
the great domestic problems of rail
road regulation, revenue'raising and
currency correction, without the solv
ing of which peace will never bring
the fullest measure of ' prosperity,
nor even war, however successful,
leave the " strongest pawer of recu
peration. "' ' ' ' -
..As stated in the special dispatch
to The Chronicle today, congress
has adopted a joint resolution favor-
ing armed intervention in Spain, but
not recognizing the independence of
the Cuban republic. The resolution
as passed is eminently a "wise one,
and is completely in .accord, with
President McKinley's views. " What
the American people have long de
sired has come, and Spain will be
hurled from off the Western. Hemis
phere because of her utter inhuman
ity. The United States can well be
called the foremost exponent ' of
civilization. ; -;
When once the power of the pco-r
pie asserts itself, the politicians have
to give way. . This was demonstrat
ed in the nomination of. TTGeer
for governor. . 1 '
HKEOES WHO FIGHT FIBE
Their Bisks Increase in the Ratio
'of Our Progress.
Modern Bnlldlnss and Their Con
veniences Add Enormously to the
Work of the Firemen Security
Built Upon Tbelr Sacrifice..
His life is too lull of real peril for
him to expose it recklessly that is to
say, needlessly. From the time when
he leaves bis qua-rters in answer to an
alarm until he returns, he takes a risk
that may at any moment set him
face to face with death in its most cruel
form. He needs nothing' so mach as a
clear head; and nothing1 is prized so
highly, nothing puts him so surely in
the line of promotion;, for as, he ad
vances in rank and responsibility, the
Ijves of others, as well as his own, come
to. depend on his judgment. The act
of conspicuous daring which the world
applauds is oftenest to' the fireman a
matter of simple duty that had to be'
done In that way because there was 'no
other. Nor is it always, or even usual
ly, the hardest duty, as he sees it. It
came easy to him because he is an ath
lete trained to do such things, and be
cause once for all it is easier to risk
one's life in the open, in the sight of
one's fellows, than to face death alone,
caught like a rat.in a trap. That is the
leai peril which he knows too well, but
of that the public hea.rs only when he
has fougnt his last fight, and lest.
How literacy our evpryday-security
of 'which we think, if we think of it at
all, as a mere matter of course is built
upon the supreme sacrifice cf these de
voted men, we realize nt long intervals,
when a disaster occurs such as the
one in which Chief Eresnnn and Fore
man Eooney lost their lives three years
ago. They were crushed to death un
der the great water tank in a Twenty
fourth street factory that was on fire.
Its supports had been burned away. An
examination that was then made of. the
water tanks in the city discovered 8,000
That were either" wholly unsupported,
except by the roof beams, or propped
on timbers, and therefore a direct men
ace, not only to. the firemen when they
were calied there, but daily. to those
living under them. It is not pleasant
to add that the department's just de
mand for a law' that; should 'compel
landlords either to build tanks on the
wall or on iron supports has not been
heeded yet; but that is, unhappily, an
o.'d story.
Seventeen years ago the collapse of a
Broadway building during a Are con
vinced the community that stone pil
lars were unsafe as supports. The fire
was in the basement, and the firemen
had turned the hose on. When the
water struck the hot granite columns
they cracked and fell, and the building'
fell with them.- There were upon the
roof at the' time a dozn men of the
crew oi trncK company no. j., cuujj
p.ng holes for smoke vents. .The na-
ority clung to the parapet, ana nung
tuere tall rescued, iwo weni auwn
into the furnace from which the flames
shot up 20 feet when the reef broke.
One, Fireman Thomas I. Dougherty,
was a wearer of the Bennett medal, too.
His foreman answers on parade day,
when his name is called, that he "died
on the field of duty." These, at all
events, did not die in vain; Stone col
umns arc not cow used in supports for
buildings in New York. ' " .,
So one might go on quoting the perils
of-the firemen as so many steps for
ward for the better protection of the
rest of us. It was the burning of the
St. George flats, and more recently of
the Manhattan bank, in which a dozen
men - wre disabled; that stamped the
average ' fireproof construction as
faulty and largely delusive.J One might
even go farther, and say the fireman's
risk increases in the ratio of our prog
ress or convenience. .The water-tanks
came with' the very high buildings,'
which in themselves offer problems to
the fire fighters that have not yet been
solved. The very air-ehafts that were
hailed as the first advance in tenement
house building added enormously to
the fireman's work and risk, as well as
to the risk of everyone dwelling under
the roofs by acting as so many huge
chimneys that carried the fire to the
open windows opening upon them in
every story. More than half of all the
fires in New" York .occur in tenement
houses. When the tenement couse
commission of 1894 sat in ihis city,
considering means'; of making them
safer and better, it received the most
practical help and'advice from the fire
men, especially from Chief Bresnan,
whose death occurred only a few days
after he hid testified as a witness. The
recommendations upon which he ip
sisted are now part of the general teneT.
ment house law. Jacob A. Kiis, in Cen
tury.
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Mr. A. C. Thomas, of Marysville.Tex.,
has found a more valuable discovery
than" has yet been made in the Klondike.
For years he suffered untold agony from
Consumption; accompained by hemmor
rhapes; and. , was' absolutely cured bv
Dr. King's New. Discovery for Consump
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that gold isof little- value in comparison
with this marvelous cure; would have it,
even if it cost a hundred dollars a bottle.
Asthma, Bronchitis and all throat and
lung affections are positively cured by
Dr. King's New Diecovery for Consump
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The farmer, the mechanic and the bi
cycle rider are liable to unexpected iuts
and. bruises. V DeWitt's Witch .Hazel
SAtve ia the 'best thing to ieep on hand.
It heals quicily, "and is a well known
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Thi Favorlta Hostelry In Anfa-Bellum Days Oftan Patronlzid by
Abraham Lincoln From its Veranda Stephen A. Douglas Deliv
ered a Great Speech Again the Scene of an Important Evinl.
From the Tri-Cbunty Scribe, Pfymouth, 111.
Hi. and Mrs. Campbell Thompson run the I she could not stand straight. One of the doe-
historic Cuyler House at Plymouth, ILL, a hos
telry where Abraham Lincoln often slept,
where " Dick" Yates, Lyman Trumbell and
Richard Oglesby bought refreshments for the
inner man in ante-bellum days, and from the
veranda of' whioh Stephen A. Douglas de
livered one of his great speeches.
This article has not so much to do, how
ever, with this historic hotel, as it has with
the landlord's thirteen-year-old laughing,
bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked daughter Ollie.
As one sees her to-day, the picture of per
fect health, it is hard to believe that nearly
nine of the thirteen years of her life were spent
on, the bed of invalidism , that for months she
never walked, and for Tears suffered the pain,
misery and distress of inflammatory rheuma
tism in its worst form.
Able physicians were employed bnt no
permanent Denent resulted. - "'
Mrs. Thompson heard of a wonderful enre
whioh had been effected by Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People, and was. influ
enced by it to purchase some of the pills for
her daughter.
: Before she had taken half a box, there - was
marked improvement in her condition ; when
the had taken two boxes she was completely
restored to health. To-day, there is not a
healthier child than Ollie Thompson. .
Tift case came to the attention of the editor
of the Tri-Counly Scribe, and a reporter was
detailed to learn the story of this remarkable
core from Mrs. Thompson's own lips. She
aid: " .
" Ollie was a hearty, well-developed child
from the time she was born until she was
three years old. In 1887 she was taken down
with inflammatory rheumatism. For nine
years she was never entirely free from the dig-!
ease, and much of the time was in an alarm-
ing condition. At ritces, she could not walk,
and her spins was drawn out of shr t so that
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tors said if she became well she would be a
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doctor who had her case. He doctored her
through two serious times of the disease, and
finally told us he could not cure her. We
doctored her most all the time, bnt when she
was ten years old she had an unusually severe
attack, and we called in Dr. Kreider, of Prai
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tried hard to cure her but finally gave it np.
He said,' ' I can do nothing further, the case is
the worst I have witnessed.'
" We nearly gave up hope then, but called
Dr. McDaniel who doctored her after we came
to Plymouth, but no benefit was derived.
"Then I heard how Uncle Wesley Walton
had been cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
for Pale People. Knowing the condition he
bad been in, I thought if the pills cured him,
they might help Ollie. Consequently I bought
a box for her, and before she had finished it
she was much better. She continued , taking
them, and when the second box had been used
she was well, and has never had rheumatism
since.
" I cannot say too much for the Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills for I believe Ollie would
have been, dead long ago.if she had not taken,
them." Victoria Thompson.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th
day of September, 1897.
W. S. EOMIOC, Notary Pvbtic
I hereby state that I have examined Miss
Ollie Thompson, and find no outward ap
pearance of rheumatism. "
W. D. Wade, M. D.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
17th day of September, 1897. '-
W. S. Romick. Notary PulKe.
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