C' P
AT
' Jn Commemoration of the Independence , of these United States
and the Battle of Manila Bay.
CORIE OWE, COME
Grand Parade, Basket Picnic,. Speeches, Music by the Bands; Games, and
festivities will conclude with a Grand Display ofFire Works in the evening. -
- The Weekly Ghroniele.
Vhe only Republican Daily Newtpapei in
i Watco County.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Count; Judge. Robt Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Kelsay
Treasurer C. L. Phillips
, , 1A. S. Blowers
Commissioner JD. 8. Kirasey
Assessor . W. H. Whipple
Surveyor J. .'
Superintendent of Public Schools;. .C. L. Gilbert
Coroner W. H. Butts
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COMMERCE THAT SHOULD
BE OURS.
The latest news from Manila, by
way of Hong Kong, is that the Span,
ish outposts have been driven in all
-along the line with great slaughter.
Consequently the position of Admir
al Dewey is so ttrong thatlhe most
apprehensive must now admit the
United States is master of the situa
tion in Manila and not merely in
-.Manila bay. Our grasp has tightened
-upon tbe Philippines until it seems
- certain that it will not relax, and tbe
government, with quick appreciation
of this fact, is hastening to inform
the people what sort of a prize has
Vheen brought to them by the fortune
Tof war.
The latest monthly summary of
the finance and commerce of the
United States, issued by tbe bureau
of statistics, treasury department,
gives the commerce of this country
with the islands for the fiscal years
1893-97, inslusive.; also the com--merce
ot Spain in tbe same islands
or the years 1892-96. These semi
"decades do not correspond exactly,
but they offer a fair base of calcula
tion, v
We imported from tbe Philippines
in 1693 $9,117,170 worth of prod
ucts, and exported to them only
$154,c578. Onr sales were utterly in
significant, and consisted almost en
tirely of refined oils and minerals
(105,936). Breadstuff amounted to
only $7,800. During the same year
Spam exported to tbe Philippines
products to the value of $22,686,681,
and Imported from them $17,573,879,
-a total commerce between tbe Phil
ippines and Spain ot $40,260,550,
compared with our total of $9,314,-
235 for tbe same period. '
The show'ing for 1897 is still more
to our disadvantage. Our total im
. ports from tbe Philippines that year
were only $4,383,7 40s and our ex
ports $94,597, a total of $4,478,337,
which shows a felling off of just
about one-half. Tbe latest Spanish
figures are for 1896.- In that year
this country bought of the Philip
pines merchandise valued at $4,
982,857, and sold to them merchan
dise valued at $94,597, a total of
45,145,303. In the same year Spain's
imports from the Philippines amount
ed in value to $22,519,994, and ex-s
ports to $38,357,757, a total of $60,
877,7sl. Here is. a difference of
nearly twelve to one in favor of
Spain..
These figures are not dry statis
tics. They are luminous and grandly
suzgestive. They throw a search
Jigbt upon Dewey's wonderful May
L
12a
day victory. They ought to silence
every voice raisedagainst our reten
tion of tbe fruits of bis triumph.
SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.,
Whatever may have been said by
the opposition press in criticism of
tbe administration, it is now certain
that tbe president has adopted a pol
icy so distinctively American that it
must command the support of patri
otic men of all parties, &ays the In
ter Ocean. There may have been a
time when the president hesitated to
commit tbe administration to a clear
ly defined policy on tew questions.
If so, that time has passed. The new
questions have been considered, and
problems raised by war have been
grappled with, and there has been
worked out a solution bound to
pel the support of every loyal Amer
ican citizen. -
All this was indicated in tbe Me
morial day address of Assistant Sec
retary Davis at Gettysburg, and has
been confirmed by the dispatches
coming from Washington the last
week, as well as by the movements
of the army and navy. The instrus
tions to the army clearly foreshadow
a purpose to occupy permanently
Porto Rico and the Philippines, and
to do this before Spam is pushed to
the wall in -Cuba. . The president is
to be in position to reap all the ad
vantages of a costly war.
But the president does not stop
here. The signs are that he has
marked out a program whose execu
tion will open a new era in oor for
eign affairs. His plan involves no
idea ,pf personal ambition fr party
advantage. It is clearly and dis
tinctly American, and to be carried
out in tbe fullness of fruition must
have the support of all Americans.
Down deep in their hearts the peo
ple expect that the president will
pursue such a policy as will drive
Spain from this hemisphere and
bring Cuba, Porlo Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines under American con
trol. They feel that be must be
adroit and diplomatic, but whatever
comes they expect him to be resolu
'ute. But to be successful the presi
dent must have the people with bim.
Leaders in bis own party or in the
opposition may not hesitate to em
barrass him to secure some slight tac
tical advantage, but if the people,
keeping in mfnd the policy that is to
advance-the United States to her
proper plade among tbe great powers
of tbe world, support the president,
his program will become deeds and
history.
No man since Monroe has prom
ised so much for the future wealth,
safety and glory of this republic.
With the assistance of tbe people, no
man will have accomplished more for
America and Americans in this cen
tury than William McKinley. Hold
up his bands; respond to his call;
sapport him ; aud earn for bim and
the nation of today tbe unstinted
praise and gratitude of the America
of the twentieth century.
SPAIN'S PRESENT CONDITION.
Buckle long ago called Spain "a
huge, torpid mass," and said she was
the only representative then remain
ing of "the feelings and the knowl
edge of the Middle Ages."' And
THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 15, 1898.
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the worst symptom in ber case, as he
expressed it, was that she was satis
fied with ber own condition. "Though
she is the most back ward country in
Europe," he remarked, "she believes
herself to be tbe foremost. She is
proud of everything of which she
ought to be ashamed." Spain's pres
ent condition is about tbe same as it
was when Buckle wrote these words,
nearly half a century ago. Theo
retically ber government system is
more advanced than it was then, and
her people have technically a voice
in tbe management of their political
affairs. But the privilege is of little
benefit to them, for only a small pro
portion of them used it. Its popu
lation is as ignorant as ever, its po
litical methods .are those of the sev
enteenth century, and its whole
com-Lystem of civilization is at war with
the practices and aspirations of tbe
age. In more respects than that of
cruelty the Spaniards, are, in Can
ning's phrase, the "Turks of Western
Europe."
The urgent necessity for the
Americans to capture Porto Rico at
the earliest possible moment is seen
on all bands. The Pall Mall Gazette
of London says, "the seizure cf Porto
Rico and the Philippines will place
America in a position to dictate tbe
only terms she could possibly ac
cept." Carranza, Spain's late naval
attachejn the United States, in writ
ing to the minister of marine from
Montreal, said be was afraid lest the
Americans should seize Porto Rico
before attacking Havana. We ought
to have Porto Rico in our hands be
fore we finish the conquest of Cuba.
We can demand it as an indemnity,
of course, if Spain gives up before
we seize it, but matters would be
simplified much if we should have
tbe island in our possession, or even
have its principal port, before
Spain's collapse comes. It is easier
and cheaper fcr us to seize Porto
Rico now than it will be iu some
future war. .
Austria realizes that its interna
tional influence amounts to little ex
cept in Eastern Europe. It has de
cided to spend $30,000,000 within
tbe next six years on battleships and
cruisers, with three armored monitors
for the Danube flotilla. But Austria
must put more money than that into
ships if it proposes to meddle with
the affairs of the United States. .
A Madrid paper says Spain is
willing to resume former relations
with the. United States with un
changed territorial conditions. It
strikes Uncle Sam that peace of that
kind is too much like war to be worth
talking about. .
It seeins that Columbus landed
also at the Mole St. Nicholas. If
history and tradition are correct, the
distinguished navigator landed an
average of 400 times a day. Per
haps the aborigines taught bim the
American uses of mint.
' The war with Spain will cost ns
several hundred million dollars.. But
the old kind of peace with Spain cost
$100,000,000 a year in the ruined
Cuban trade. A financial gain in
the long run is not improbable.
Though eixty-five per cent ot tbe
Spanish cannot read, they know
A cordial
cosvai OWE,
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enough to decline to pay a year's
taxes in advance or to accept irre
deemable paper money if they can
get any other kind.
If another Spanish fleet comes over
Sampson can leave the sealed harbor
of Santiago to give the newcomer at
tention by either blowing it out of
tbe water or bottling it up. The im
pounding of Spanish fleets will short
ly be reduce'd to a science.
Admiral Cervera's next feat as a
strategist should be to put bis fleet
on wheels and cut across tbe mount
ains to some other port. His shrewd
ness as a sailor seems to be reduced
to a land movement as a last resort.
Paris has ordered $l,000,p00 worth
of American electrical machinery for
it? exposition. In this line our in
ventors and workmen have distanced
competition aiid are masters of the
field. '
The cutting of cables at Cienfuegos
occupied three hours and the men in
small boats were under fire, tbe whole
time. American sailors stick to
'.heir.work as long as a spark of life
remains.
Gen. Blanco continues to waste
his attempted Negotiations on Gen.
Gomez. The latter is perfectly well
aware that he. will soon be somebody
in Cuba and Blanco nobody.
Tbe government is getting all the
gold it cares to handle. If any free
silver crank in congress voted for
war in order to destroy the gold re
serve, be missed tbe mark.
The Carolines consist of over 500
islands. If we have to name all of
them in addition to tbe Philippines
our new responsibilities in the Orient
will be arduous.
Hppy Times for the Kindergarten.
The children of the kindergarten will
not soon forget last Thursday afternoon,
on which occasion they I ad a few exer
cises of their own at their school room,
and afterward were delighted by some
songs, which Mrs. Wood worth sang es
pecially for them. She never had an
audience which showed their apprecia
tion more, and was encored repeatedly.
Mrs. J. WV French had invited them
to take possession of her lawn, and at 3
o'clock tbe children were met there by
Mr. Gifford, who photographed the lit
tle group, consisting of Naomi "Vanse,
JesBie Jones, Carmel and Konearle Bol
ton, Eleanor Taylor, Bern ice Moore,
Jessie Hostetler, Clinton Nielsen, Roger,
Edward and William Birgfeld, Lewis
Woodwortb, Thomas Hod son and Mar
maduke .Vanse. .
Friday afternoon' was also a happy
time for them, when instead of assem
bling at their room they spent the after
noon at the home of their teacher on
Mill creek. ' .
Short Hand School.
The undersigned will commence teach
ing short-hand if a suitable number of
scholars can be obtained by the 15th
of Jane, 1898. .
I will teach either the original Pitt
man or the American Standard System
of Phonography, as suits the scholar,
and mast have a class of not less than
ten. I will receive applications np to
Jane 15lh, and earnestly request all
persons desiring instructions in phonog
raphy to call and see- me on or before
that date in order that I may arrange to
get text books and fix terms of tuition..
' , , . , . D. .S. Duron, "
Official Reporter 7th Judicial
, District of Oregon. -Dated,
June 11, 1898. junell-15 dw
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invitation is extended to the residents of -the Inland
Empire to join in the celebration. , ,
ever3 thing to make you happy. The
A Minister's
Trials.
This narrative from a minister is of greatest value
to those whose nerves are unstrung, health shattered
or otherwise ailing. It is particularly appropriate in
this age of active, nervous, endless labor.
V are living too fast. 44 Fast at light
ning," expresses it, for we. talk by elcc--tricity,
cook by electricity, travel fey
electricity and so on.
Its a hurry, hurry, hurry from the cradle
ta $l grave.
Sfre crowd too much ; crowd our work,
crowd our eating, crowd our pleasure,
Crowd our sleeping.
A u breaking down of the nervous sys
tem" is the way of expressing the result.
It means a depleting of the nerves in
duced by prolonged strain ; overtaxing of
the nervous system; a product of over
hurry and bustle.
It affects all people in all walks of life.
It baffles physicians of all schools.
No one knows the horrors of such a
condition better than Rev. I. N. Nic
Cready, of Elkton, Mich. For years he
labored faithfully and well. He was pro
gressive and aggressive a leader among
men, a deep thinker and a hard worker.
In his zeal, he overworked; overtaxed
his mental and physical strength.
The outlook was dark, with health shat
tered and recovery apparently hopeless.
M;ny means for a cure were tried, with
out receiving benefit.
Finally he took Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills
for Pale People and was restored to health.
He says t
"In April, (896, the physicians said I
must stop preaching or die.
I had overtaxed myself and was suf
fering from a complete breaking down of
my nervous system and a persistent stom
ach trouble.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office, The Dalles, Ob.,(
May 31. 189$. t
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make fiDal proof iu support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver at The Dalles, Oregon, on Wednes
day, July 13, 1898, viz:
Albert H. Swasry, of Monler,
Homestead Application No. 4014 for theSEJ
Section 19, Township 2 N", Range 12 E, W. M.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon aud cultivation of
said land, viz:
L. Evans, George Evans. James Brown and
Bidnev M. Brlggs, all of Mosier, Oregon,
juu4 ii JaS. F. MOORK, Register.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that thanndersigned,
Konrad Lohrli, has presented his petition to the
Honorable County Court of the State of Oregon
for Wasco County, asking that his name be
changed from Konraa ixmrn to &onraa unru
Houser, and that said petition will be called up
for hearing and heard by said Court at the Coun
ty Court room in the County Court House
in Dalles City. Wasco County, Oregon, on
Thursday the 7th day of July, 1898, at 10 o'clock
a. m. oi said day, said day being one of the days
of the regular Julv 1898 term of said court. All
persons are hereby notified to appear at said
time and place and show cause, if any there be,
why an order of said Court should not be made
decreeing said change of name as above men
tioned. Dated this 7th day of .'une, 1898.
Jui 8-i KONHAD LOHRLI.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
. Land Office, The Dalles, Or.,) .
May 16, W98.
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named sectlet has fil-d notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will b-i made belore the Register
and Receiver at The Dalles, Oregon, on Monday,
June 27, 1898, viz: .
Joseph K. Ball, of The Dalle.
Homestead Application No. 3843, for the wU
nef4, See. 35, Tp. 1 N, R 12 K, W. M. 1
He names tbe following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz. :
A. Walters, frank Obrist, W. Wolf, James
Hall, all of The Dalles, Oregon.
myZl-il JAS. F. MOORE, Register.
Mr. P. Ketcham, of Pike City, Cal.,
says : "Daring my brother's late sick
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" Several physicians treated me, but no
permanent benefit was derived.
" Four times I was stricken with nervous
prostration I twice with gastritis. -
44 These attacks would throw me into
spasms.
44 1 could cat neither meat or vegetables.
" If my bare feet touched the floor I was
immediately seized with cramps.
44 1 was used up r helpless, hopeless.
"I commenced to take Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People. One box was
consumed and I felt no better. This dis
couraged me.
"My wife urged me to toy the pills
some more, feeling that my life depended
upon the result.
44 1 continued to take them.
"Since then, and it has been several
months, I have enjoyed life.
" Have preached all summer and held
revival meetings for fifteen weeks.
44 1 have had no muscular exercise for
years, but recently, have done considerable
hard work in my garden, my muscles
standing this test remarkably well.
M Every Sabbath I preach three times
and now think I am good for. another
twenty years, if the Lord wills."
To add weight to his words, Rev. Mc
Creadymade affidavit before J.D.Brookes,
Notary Public
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
exert a powerful influence in restoring
wasted nerve power and in purifying and
enriching the blood. Druggists consider
them the most effective remedy which
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