a-) THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. 1898. The Weekly GMmicle. The only Republican Daily Newtpapei Wateo County. corxu OFFICIALS. County Judge .. Robt. Mays Sheriff. T. J. Driver j;5rk .-. A M. Helwiy Treasurer... C. L. Phillip . , 1A.S. Blowera Commissioners u 8 Kimsey AsesMr VV. II. W hipple Cnnrr J.B.Iilllt Supennceoient of Public Schools. . .C. L. Gilbert Caroner . W. H. Butts Weeklr Clubbing Rates. Chronicle and Oregonian , $2 25 Chronicle and Examiner 2 25 Chronicle and Inter Ocean 1.85 Chronicle and Tribune -, 1 7o Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00 ftEPUBliIGflfl TICKET STATE. For Governor, T. T. GEEK, ol Marlon County. For Secretary of HUte, F. I. DUNBAR, of Clatsop County. For State Treasurer, CtfARLE3 8. MOORE, of Klamath County. For State Printer, W. H. LEEDS, of Jackson County. For A ttorney General. D. R. Nl BLACKBURN, of linn County. For Supreme Judge, F. A. MOORE, of Columbia County. For Superintendent Publlo Instruction, . j. a. aACKUAn, of Multnomah County. DISTRICT. For Congressman, Second District, MALCOLM A. MOODY, of Wasco County. For Circuit Judge, Seventh I strict, H. S. WILSON, of Wasco County. -For Prosecuting Attorney, Seventh District, A. A. JAYNE, of Wasco County. Tor Member State Board of Equalization, C. C. KUNEY, - . of Sherman County. . For Joint Representatives, Wasco and Sherman Counties, A. 8. ROBERTS and J. W. MORTON, of Wasco County. COUNTY. For Sheriff, " ROBERT KELLY. For Clerk, -A. M. KELSAY. For Treasurer, TJ. L. PHILLIPS. . or School Sapcintendcnt, O. L. GILBERT. For Assessor, -W. H. WHIPPLE. " For Surveyor, J. B. GOIT. For Coroner, W. H. BUTTS. For Commissioner, M. C. EVANS. PRECINCT. , For J ustlce of the Peace, C. E. BAYARD. For Constable, ' W. C. CLARK. A MONTH OF WAR. The war has been ander way just a month, and some results of per manent value have been achieved. On April 20th the .resolutions of Congress ordering Spain out of Cuba and directing her. to lie put out if she did not leave peacefully were signed by the president. On the same day Spain's minister in Wasb ington demanded and received his passports, and on the next day, the 21st; passports were given to Minis ter Woodford in Madrid, and" diplo mats connection between the two countries ended. The president is sued a proclamation on the 22(1, tell ing the world that certain ports in Cuba were blockaded. Sampson's fleet established the blockade on that day. The same day the gunboat Nashville marie the first capture of the war, the Spanish vessel Boena entura. On April 2dd the presi dent issued his call for 125,000 vol unteers. In one direction not quite so much Las been accomplished in the past month as was expected. It wat gen erally believed that a permanent landing would have been made in Cuba before this time, and that the grand advance on Havana would be Under way. This outcome has been prevented by several circumstances. The number of men fit for offensive warfare has been too small to justify j a landing in Cuba in force at as early a day as many persons expected and as everybody desired. The menace of the Spanish fleet on this side of the water has had something to do also with the delay. Moreover", there is a pretty general belief now among army officers that the insurgent forces are far smaller than they were represented to.be. Therefore, as practically all of the fighting will have to be done by the United States troops, it was essential that the' force to be sent to Cuba be larger than was .first deemed necessarj'. . But in another quarter the success was greater than was at first looked for. That is to say, Dewey a vic tory came earlier than was expected a month ago, and its dimensions were larger. Not even the most hopeful of Americans supposed Dewey would destroy the entire Spanish fleet, and that not a single warship of the ene my would be left in the Pacific. The brilliant triumph in the Philip pines will offset the delay in the West Indies, for when the army now being gathered to tend to Dewey reaches him he will complete his conquest.. Even the failure to ac complish anything tangible in Cuba thus far need not discourage any body. Expectation was unreason ably high, as it is apt to be among a virile and confident people at the outset in every great enterprise. Seward thought the civil war would be ended in ninety days, and the earlier volunteers were called for only three months' service. A month ago many persons evidently supposed Spain would be driven out ot Cuba and Porto Rico in four or five weeks and the war brought to an end. The expectation was un- reasonable, of course. If the United States had an . adequate navy and regular army this could have been done. Considering their diminutive size the United States navy and army are the best in the world, but they were not as large as they ought to have been, and as they always will be hereafter. We have - done much in the month, nevertheless, even in the Atlantic and Gulf. The navy has been increased and put in bor ough fighting shape, and an army of more than 100,000 men has been thoroughly trained, and is now ready to take the field. In the next month the war will be vigorously pushed, and the beginning ot the end may possibly be brought in sight. FOLLY OF VNPREPAREDNESS. No one now disputes the import ance of the navj in the . war with Spain, says the Inter Ocean. . It is clear that ft war with any foreign power must be ma'mly a war on the sea. Very few will deny that if congress ten years ago had shown as much interest in the navy as the present congress there, would have been no war with Spain. A navy ad equate to the demands made upon us would have prevented war. Hurried preparation for war" is al ways expensive. We are spending now about a million dollars a day to put our army and navy on a war fooling. This is at the rate of $300, 000,000 a year. If congress in the last decade bad added 810,000,000 a year to our naval expenditures, there would be no beavjr expenditure now, because there would be . no .war. When the Maine was destroyed the necessity for a stronger "navy was so urgent that we purchased , warships wherever they could be bought. , A i congress that would Have naggled over ordtnarj' naval expenditures m time ot peace put $50,000,000 at the order of the president without a mur mur of protest or objection. The money was well spent and the navy was considerably strengthened, but it would have been more economical bad we years ago, in anticipation of the emergency built the needed ships ourselves. ,' Tho United States has a sea coast of over 6,000 miles in length, or, rather two' lines of sea coast so sit oated that a vessel ordered from one to the other must make a voyage of 10,000 miles. The folly of a nation with such coast lines, and with such commanding position among the gieat powers of the world, in being unprepared for a crisis is now clear to every one. If bur navy was what it onght,to "be, we would be able to destroy. Spain's entire navy as Commodore Dewey destroy ed the Spanish fleet on the Pacific. We could protect our Athntic and Pacific coasts, blockade Cuba and Porto Rico, capture Havana, and at the same time crush Spain's two At lantic squadrons, even if our war- shios were compelled to seek the a. enemy at Cadiz. To make one strong fleet in Cuban waters we have had to call the Ore- son from the Pacific, and to concen trate the two Atlantic i-qoadrons, While maneuvering to capture the Spanish fleet Admiral Sampson must guard our own coast nnd keep up the blockade of Cuba. - If he can capture the Spanish warships Spain will be crippled almost to helpless ness. If the Spanish fleet escapes, and the war continues for a year, we will grow stronger, as our vessels now in course of construction are completed. The Prinselon will soon be ready, and tne cruisers Chicago, Atlanta and Philadelphia will be ready next fall. A little later the great battleships,' the Kear sarge and Kentucky, will re-enforce our fleets, and next year the ma will come into the field. Alaba- The very fact that in this emer gency the navy has done so much, and is doing so. well, emphasizes the folly of the past. The fact that the navy and the army are rising to the occasion, and will make success sure,-must not blind us to the mis takes that made war possible. THE OREGON. . Solicitude is turned to exultation. For weeks past the mind of the na tion has been largely fixed, with no anxiety, upon a warship ploughing its perilous and solitary way-thrcngh distant seas, Today it is fixed, with nride and praise, upon that same ship, safe and sound at the end of her weary run, among her sisters of the fleet. It is no common incident, this voyage of the Oregon, achieved in no common manner,and its record reflects no common credit upon the American navy, however much the need of such a work reflects discredit upon our government for lemissness in past years. ... What is the Oregon And what has she done ? She is a heavy coast line battleship. She is intended for giving and taking heavy blows in defence of home and country. She is not intended for swift cruising in distant seas. Yet the latter is exact ly what she was . called upon to do, She was ordered to hasten "from lands of sun to lands of snows" and back again to lands of sun, through two oceans and thiee zones, past more than a dozen alien coasts,in iis tanee more than half way round the world, through distress of tropic heat and through peril of antartic storms; through peifl, loo, of attack from hostile fleets; and at the end of the arduous voyage to be in full fighting trim, ready for instant action. But she fulfilled it to the letter. If there is a finer, tribute to shipbuilding and seamanship in all the world than in this simple fact, we should like to know where it is. But what a stupendous object les son is conveyed in the need for such La performance! , Thousands of miles of sailing, with the innumerable perils of sea and shore, and weeks of time, of which any, hour might be filled with the need of a nation's life and all for what? All because fpr fifty years we have failed to have the cburage of our convictions and haVe not cut a canal across the isth mus of Central America. Had such a canal been cut, the Oregon would have been in West Indian waters more than a month ago. There is no exaggeration id saying that the lack of such a canal has exposed us to danger of losses greater than the cost of constructing such a caual would be . Kansas is looking forward to a big wheat crop, and has lost its former anxiety ' to prove that a bushel of wheat and the silver in a dollar just balance each other according to some occult-natural law. ' - .The Spanish have much to say of a proposed attack on the New Eng land harbors, but the threat is not alarming! They will get a warmer reception there than they anticipate; CONCERNING THE RESERVE. a. b. Ormsby Writes m Letter Express ing His Views od the Subject. Fred W. Wilson, secretary of the Wool-Growers Association, received a letter from the special forest agent and supervisor, which la as follows : . " ' Salem, May 23, 189S. Fred W. Wilson, Secy. O. VV. G. A. : Dear Sib: I am informed that cer tain parties (sheep-owners) have con cluded that they do not care to obtain a permit to graze their eheop on the Cas cade range forest raserve the coming season, and also propose to enter the reserve when they please and go where they pleaee. It ie not to be denied that the matter of government control of the grazing lambs of the reserve will be in a large measure experimental the present season and based on the good faith and desire of harmony of the sheep owners themselves. JNeitber is it claimed that the few who Imve hibHh this threat ir; ll not be able to carrv out their present . . i . " . r, . . retentions in ixie aosence oi a surccient force to guard the reserve; bnt of one thing be assured, that there will be a final settlement of the matter in the near futnre. And if it will require a great deal to keep sheep off the reserve betore the allot eel time and control their movements sufficiently, the same cnard may be used to exclude them from the reserve -en'irely next season. Iam awaie' that these reroaiks do not apply to n'netv-nine per cent of sheen owners who have evinced a desire to be fair and honorable in this matter, bnt it must be evident to eyery member of your , association that the Iawlees acts of a few cannot fail to injure the many. As regards my own action I can only obey, instructions and enforce the re quirements of the department the best I can with the foice at my disposal. I have ordered an officer of the depart ment to the Fieh Lake region and shall do what I can to protect those who.show disposition to observe the require ments, -in tpeir rights cn the range. Regarding the assignment of territory it will be plain to every one that from the descriptions given me one may overlap another or the same' location he differ ently described and therefor assigned to different parties. For this reason no one should throw np his range of Jast season and apply for that of another, nor should one seek to dispossess another of the range he has formerly occupied with the idea that he will be permitted to hold it permanently. It may be stated I think ae a certainty that a new assignment of territory will ' be made next season. 'Kespectfoily yours, - S. B. Ormsby. Special Forest Agent and Supv'r. THE SCHOOL BOOK QUESTION. A flan Annwer on This Subject to H. 8. tyrnan by J, H. Ackerman. - Harrison Street School KL 1 ;98.) misciPAL's Office . Portland, Or., May 19, To this Editor of the Oregonian : - On May 5ih there appeared a commu nication signed, by H. 8. Lyman, popu list Candidate for superintendent of pnblic instruction. After enumerating various improvements in the adminis tration of the office which be proposes to initiate, if elected, Mr. Lyman, takes up the school-book question. He states bis position to be one of opposition, to the contract and proceeds to say that the domination which procured this contract "now asks the voters of Oregon for an endorsement at the ballot-box which will give extension for another period of six years, to continue until 1907." Since I am Mr. Lyman's only formi dable opponent, this innendo must refer to me. Any doobt about the matter will be removed by reading a ' circular signed by Mr. Lyman, in which it is openly stated that I am the American Book Company's candidate for the office of superintendent of public instruction. lueny that there exists any agree ment or understanding between myself and any man or corporation respecting the manner in which X shall, if elected, discbarge the duties of the office for which I am a candidate.' -1 denv that my vote on the adoption of text-books in 1894 was influenced bv any other con sideration than the interests of my con stituency, the school patrons and school children of Multnomah county. ' And I assert that. my vote at that time will bear comparison with the vote of H. S. Lyman, who was then superintendent of Olateop county. Ibis comparison 1 shall presently make. Mr. Lyman in bis letters and circulars compares the present prices of books in Oregon with the lower prices in other states, fixed onder different conditions or by con tracts of more recent date and seeks by innnendo to iay a portion of - the blame for this difference upon me, yet it will be seen that if Mr. Lyman could have had his way in 1894, we should now be paying more for school books than wo pay ander the "infamous" contract he 60 dearly lovesto denounce. Every - person who had to vote upon the adoption of text-books in 1894 kuows that, though a multiplicity ot books were offered; there were practically only two "tickets" in the field. To vote for books not on one ot these lists was like voting for the prohibition candidate for presi dent. That Mr. Lyman fully under stood this feature of thj situation, is shown by his vote. On one side was the list of the American Book Company on the other was a liit made op from the publications of a syndicate headed by the great publishing house, Ginn & & l;o., and comprising, beside that nrm, Mavnard, Merrill S Co., 1 he Werner Co., John E. Potter & Co., D. C. Heath & Co., and Lovell & Co. The books on the opposing lists did not diner greatly in price and quality, bnt the American Book Company had this great and, as events proved, insop- eraole advantage. Its bcoks were al ready in use in the schools, and were offered for re-adoption at greatly reduced prices: times were verv hard, and pub lic sentiment was bitterly opposed to any action which would cause tne ex- oense incident to a sweeping change ol school books. ' To ascertain the wishes of my con stituents. I addressed a circnlar letter to the school officers of Mnltnomab county, inquiring what books, if any, ought in their opinion to be - changed.. Almost without, exception the answer showed that ao change whatever was desired. In consideration of the financial burden under which our people were laboring, From the Democrat-Meuage, When Richmond had fallen and the great - l 1 .... ii ai i : : guuuuojjucn uau met uvueam bue iiisujriu apple tree at Appomattox, the 83d Penu rylvania Volunteers, prematurely aged, clad in tatters and rags, broken in body but of dauntless spirit, swung into line for the last " grand review " and then quietly marched away to begin life's fray anew. Rebel shot and shell, the dread miasma of the southern iwamp, sleepless nights and wearisome days bad depleted their ranks until only a hand ful remained. Among the number Asa Rob inson came back to the old home in Mt. Sterling, Ills.; that he had left at the call to arms four years previous. He went away in the first flush of vigorous manhood ; he came back a ghost of the self that answered to 1 President Lincoln's call for" 300.000 more." With his return to the old homestead I there came to him the knowledge that war I with him was nnlv hefnin : that he must with him was only begun; that he must fieht the battle with disease to the end of his , days; that the glare of a southern sun and tne gamng tire or a southern soldiery were as nothing compared to the onslaught of an enemy that fought under cover and disre garded all .the rules of civilized warfare. Sciatic rheumatism fastened its fangs upon him, incapacitating him for manual labor and rendering him, much of the time, physically as helpless as an infant. The years passed by, but his sufferings, with increasing age, were increased rather than diminished. He spent a small fortune for doctor's medicine, praying for even temporary relief, but it did not come. To-day he is an alert, active man of fifty five years. His rheumatic pains have de parted, and while there are traces of his years of suffering in his face he walks with the -soldierly bearing and springy step of a healthy young man To the Democrat-Jfegtage reporter he talked freely about his case. Mr. Robinson is a man of much more than average education and intelligence. Where he is known in Brown County his word is as acceptable aa the bond of the average man, and there is no question bnt that in hia case an almost miraculous cure and in deference to their expressed wisb, I voted to. continue in use most of Ihe books already in the schools, though there were several thus re-adopted that I should have been glad, but- for . the matter of expense, to see chafed. The books voted for by Mr. Lyman to be used in primary-and grammar schools were as follows: Title of Book and Publisher. 2.0 a o a 3 Wentworth's Elementary Arithmetic,! U1IIU jO Wentworth's Grammar School Arith metic, Ginn fc k Montgomery's Beginners' U. B. His tory, Glnn & Co Montgomeiy's Leading Pacts in Amer ican History, Ginn & Co ... Blaisdell's Child Book ot Health, Ginn &Co t 100 30 100 35 50 65 0 125 2 75 25 90 72 100 50 31 to Blaiedeirs How to Keep Well, Giun Company. Frye's Elementary beoeraphy, Ginn & Company Potter's Elementary Geography, Pot ters Co Potter's Advanced Geography, Potterl v 1,0 Normal Readers, Noa. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 125 250 25 werner Ei;o Reed's Word Book. Merrill & Co Beed Kellogrg's Grain murs, May- uard, Merrill 4t Co Graphic Copy Books, 9 Nos., Lovell & Company Thompson's brewing Books, 8 Nos,, 1). C. Heath & Co . ... Griffin's Civics for Young America, Lovell & Co ; 78 85 Brooks' Mental Arithmetic, Sower, i-oiu u: CO. ...r Webster's Common School Dictionary, American Book Co 31 Total 13 23 In Mr. Lyman's circulars and letters the fact is strongly emphasized that the retail contract prices of the books adopt ed are greater than their' catalogue prices. The intimation seems to be that it is a crime to vote for such prices. Yet it- will be seen that the prices of the books voted for oy Mr. Lyman were, in nearly eveiy instance, greater than the cetalogae prices of their publishers. The books voted for by myself to ' be nsed in primary and grammar schools were as follows: 1 Contract Title of Book and Publisher. Price Fish s Arithmetic, No. 1, American Book Company -.....$ Fish's Arithmetic, No. 2, American Book. Company Makers of Our Country, Potter A Co Thomas' History of the United States, D. C. Heath Co ; Smith's Primer of Physiology, American Book Co Smith's Elementary Physiology, Ameri can Book Co -. Montieth's Elementary Geography, American Book Co j Monteith'a Comprehensive Geography, American Book Co .- Barnes' Readers, Nos. 1, 2, S, 4 and 5, American BoookCo.. Watscn's Speller, American Book Co. . . . Maxwell's Grammar, two books, Ameri can Book Co Spencenan Copy Books, Nos. 1 to 7, American Book Co Thompson's Drawing Books, L. C. Heath & Company.....! Peterman's Civil Government. American as 1 00 35 55 1 25 3 00 25 90 1 00 Book Co....; 65 Brooks' Mental Arithmetic, Sower, Foita & Company Webster's Common School Dictionary, -- American Book Co 31 80 Total... '. 1301 The books voted for by me were, with the exception of histories and speller, adopted. The changes make the total price of the adopted list $13.06. It thus appears that, so far as prices are concerned, there was no great differ ence between my vote and that cast by Mr. Lyman. And it is evident that all the unfavorable comparisons of current prices in Oregon with those current in other states under contract made recent ly are as mnch of a criticism upon Mr. Lymaaas upon myself. Vttn truth is that neither of ns could vote npon any prices rxcetit such as were offered in 1834 by Hie companies competing for the bnsiiipss of Oregon. That recent legisla tion or the course ot trade has made it possible for olber states to make better bargains since then, is no reflection up on either of us. If, aa Mr. Lyman intimates, roy vot ing for so many of the publications of the American Book Company already in nse indicates that I am nnder the in fluence of that company, what inference must be drawn from the fact that at a time of great financial distress Mr. Ly man voted to displace nearly all of the text-books in use in the common schools of the state, in order to adopt a list pre sented by Ginn A Co., which cost slight ly more than the list offered for re-adoption? Mr. Lyman makes mnch of the rumor that the agent of the American Book Compnnv in this city ia supporting m'v candidacy. Since that gentleman is a Republican, it is not strange that he should be supporting the entire Repub ML Sterling, IU. was wrought by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. 4 "I was a great suflerer from sciatic rheu matism almost from the time of my discharge from the army. At times I was bent almost double, and got around with ouly the greatest difficulty. Nothing seemed to give me per manent relief until three years ago, when my -attention was called to some of the wonderful cures effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and I made up my mind to try them. Iliad not taken more than a half a box when I noticed an improvement in my condition. I took three boxes of the pills, and at the end of that time was in better con dition than at any time since the close of my army service. Since then J. Have never Deen bothered with rheumatism. Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People is the only remedy that ever did me any good, and to them I owe my restoration to health. Asa S. Rorinson." Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 12th day of July, A. D., 1897. John G. Genler, Justice of the Peace. Medical evidence is added in the follow ing physician's certificate : This is to certify that I have this day ex amined Asa Robinson and find him enjoying a healthy physical condition and free from rheumatism. Henry M. Cowen, A.M., M. D. Subscribed and sworn to before me thia 16th day of July, 1897. R. E. Vandevekter, Cmmly Judge, J3roun County, Ilk. All the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves-are contained, in a condensed form, in Dr. Williams' Pink. Pills for Pale People. They are an unfailing specific for such dis eases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma tism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sal low complexions, all forms of weaknesa either in male or female. ,Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 60 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. , Schenectady, N. I . lican ticket. But what shall we say ot the open support which John Gill, the agent of Ginn & Co., though a life-long Republican and at this mo ment a nomi- . nee for tho legislature on one of the Re publican tickets, is giving to Mr. Ly man? J. II. Ackerman." WHEN NATURE Needs assistance it may be best to ren der jt promptly, bin one should re member to nse even the most perfect remedies only when .needed. 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