THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1898
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SITUATION IN AFRICA.
The rapidly shifting scenes in the
great play of international politics
now center public interest in Africa,
and for the time being Asia and
Cuba are left to work out their own
salvation. When the news came'ot
Kitchener's great victory at Om
durman English-speaking people the
world over rejoiced, for that victory
i I 4H khmm I, -v Aref ftfan tfT-
WAS ISKCU IU lucuu uic uiov on.
ward in the movement of civilization
through the heart of Africa 8nd the
beginning of British domination over
a broad strip of territory from the
Mediterranean to Cape Town. While
the Soudan quieted and the dervishes
extinguished or driven from the
desert, the dream of trade promoters
of a railroad from Cairo to the cape
seemed about to be realized.
Now comes the startling news that
a while force which has evidently
moved fram the south, 19 occupying
Fashoda on the White Nile, about
400 miles south of Khartoum. Thrre
is every reason to believe that the
force is French. Its presence there
shows clearly that France proposes to
resist British advance in Africa and
to claim a large slice of territory her
self. Occupying Fashoda she holds
a strong stratcgip position. Trade
and commerce in that portion of
Africa may not be developed with
out her permission, if she insists on
her claim to the region. The trans-
African railway will remain a dream
for many years to come if she holds
on. for Great Britain will certainly
not back down. Time and again has
France been warned that Great Brit
ain will consider interference in the
Nile valley, a cause for war. If
France does not withdraw, and there
seems no probability that such is to
be her policy, it will be difficult to
avoid prolonged hostilities.
Should such an unfortunate wir
come to pass American public senti
ment on the subject will prove an in
teresting study. Many au untbink
3ng person and many an ill-informed
r-newspaper will doubtless set up the
-old cry of British hoggishness in ter
ritorial acquisition, and, because
France is a so-called republic, will
think American sympathy should be
given to the nation that has a form
sif nmirnrn mnn I BAmABnt similar tn
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our own. On the other band, there
are many and strong reasons why
American sympathy should go out to
Great Britain. Great Britain in
colonizing such portions of Africa as
she has been enabled to gain a foot
hold in has advanced civilization, has
built up commerce, has opened ar
teries of trade and has provided the
manufacturers and producers of the
world with new maikcts. She has
pursued a liberal policy to other na
tions in allowing them to reap equal
benefits with her in these markets and
the United States and this section in
particular have benefited largely
thereby. British development in
South Africa has caused the shipment
of millions of feet of Western
lumber and thousands of bushels of
Western wheat and Western flour
to the Anglo-African provinces.
American mannfacturers have found
in those colonies a profitable demand
for their goods. But what has the
civilized world benefited by French
holdings in Africa? There is not one
instance where France can be said to
have advanced civilization or to have
promoted commerce in her African
possessions. Her whole colonial
policy is one that is not favorable to
the trade of other countries. Thus,
looking at the matter from a com
mercial as well as an ethical stand
point, it will be seen that British
domination in Africa is greatly to be
preferred to that of France. . There
are those, of course, who will de
clare Africa should be left to its na
tive rulers, but such a policy would
mean putting a padlock on one of
the treasuries provided by nature to
furnish humanity with wealth. Rich
in natural resources it is a crime
against mankind not to bring about
the development fit Africa. Since
some civilized nation must undertake
the work, Great Britain should be
the one, as her past experience in
colonial government proves her to be
the best equipped of all for such a
labor. Spokesman Review.
LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK AGAIN
This is a nation in which the peo
ple rule. One of our most stubborn
presidents said in recognition of this
fact that he had no policy to enforce
against the will of the people. Lin
coin fullv tested the sentiment of the
public before he issued his emancipa
tion proclamation. Grant abandoned
his annexation DOhCV when be was
made to believe that the people were
asrainst it. McKinlev made hurried
preparation for war long before war
was declared, because he knew the
people demanded it. He seems to be
hestitatinsr now about a definite
u
policy as to the Philippines, because
the anti-annexationists have repre
sented that the masses of the people
are strongly against the retention of
the islands conquered by Dewey and
held by Merritt.
Neither the anti-annexationists nor
those who put peace above national
honor or national duty can speak for
the people who rallied about the ad
ministration at the beginning of the
war with such unanimity, high spirit
and resoluteness. The disposition of
the Philionines is one of the most
momentous questions ever presented
to a civilized nation for decision. On
the instructions issued to the Paris
commission, or on the position taken
by the president and his immediate
advisers, may hang not only the de
termination of our own future, but
the direction to be taken by the
forces of Christian civilization. On
such a question the people must
sp;ak for themselves.
Thev have spoken in terms that
could not be misunderstood, bntit is
now represented that there has been
a reaction, and that on sober second
thought the people are against hold
ing the Philippines. They are not.
The sober second thought is better
than the first impulse. The more the
question has been studied, the strong
er has grown the sentiment in favor
of retaining the islands. The re
ligious press, which rarely enters the
field of political discussion, is almost
unanimously in favor of American
control in the Philippines. There is,
in fact, no public sentiment in favor
of their surrender. Not even the few
individuals who assume to represent
the sober second thought of the peo
ple go that far. There is absolutely
no public-sentiment in favor of re
turning the islands to Spain. There
is no European sentiment in support
of snch a proposition. The Filipinos
themselves are in a rage because they
fear that the United Stales contem
plates such a course.
Under the circumstances, it seems
impossible that the people should be
misunderstood.--. But if they have
been, if ar-" one is in doubt as to the
treni of public sentiment on this
question, the people should again
speak out. They should speak to and
through, their congressmen, to and
through the pulpit, to and through
the press. Clubs should take action,
business men's associations should go
on record, and, if need be, mass
meetings should give expression to
the sentiment of cities, counties, and
states.
The people are not in indifferent
or acquiescent mood. They arc im
patient over .indecision and restive
under the intiiraHons that the presi
dent is in doubt as to what policy
should be pursued. Little has been
said about the matter in the last two
or three weeks, ; because the presi
dent's appointments to - the peace
commission seemed to give assurance
that the administration had a definite
and satisfactory policy as to the Phil
ippines. It probably has, but there
are those who are striving to convince
the president that the views held by
Senator Davis in the west and Whke
law Reid in the eastare not the views
of the people in either section. On
this point the people cannot afford to
be misunderstood. They cannot re
main silent, v They are not in favor
of surrender, and they must say so.
The people who stood by the presi
dent before the war and through the
war have the right to be heard sow.
CHAMBERLAIN'S A V VICE TO VS
Nothing could be more timely
than the interview given j-esterday
in New York city by Joseph CLam
berlain, who, as England's secretaiy
for the colonies, holds the reins of
government aver an imperial domain
greater than the Roman empire at its
beat.
As Mr. Chamberlain says, "the
United States is now face to face
with the question of territorial ex
pansion." By its side all other
problems of the day in America
dwindle 'into insignificance. The
question confrouts this country now,
not because Porto Rico and Cuba are
at last liberated from " Spanish ty
rannj', but, as Mr. Chamberlain sig
nificantly observes, "by reason of its
occupation and conquest of an island
in the cast." Nor does Mr. Cham
berlain see in this the mere accident
of war. The issue was bound to be
made sooner or later "by virtue of
the complicity and vastness of the
commercial interests of such a pro
gressive people as the Americans."
This is a very remarkable state
ment, coming from Joseph Chamber
lain. It is the deliberate judgment
of the highest authority on territorial
expansion in public life. The prcs
ent secretary for the colonics is not a
Bismarck nor a Gladstone in general
statesmanship, though he aspires to
both, but upon matters coming with
in the scope of his portfolio ho has
no equal in any - country. In his
opinion the United States was bound
by the trend of commercial events,
independent of the exigencies of war,
to acquire possessions in the Orient.
While American participation
soon or late, in solving the eastern
problem, was inevitable, the war has
put upou us a duty from which there
is no honorable escdpe. This is the
i -
way Mr. Chamberlain puts it: "Hav
mar entered upon, the struggle, the
United States could not leave the
islands involved in the warfare in a
state of revolution, but must' supply
a peaceful and reasonably efficient
government." . The case, from the
standpoint of national obligation,
could not be more aptly stated.
What shall the government be?
This newspaper on July 29 called
editorial attention to the system of
government now carried on in Egypt
as furnishing a model " for American
jurisdiction over our newly acquired
island. Mr. Chamberlain does the
same, it is wuai ue says on mis
point which gives most weight and
pertinence to his interview:
"The United States now finds Ib-
self in much the same position as our
selves in Egypt. We are bound to
put down rebellion, and we shall stay
there until we do. What system of
colonial government your people will
accept as the most practicable and
efficient is for yon to decide, and, as
I have said, you are not in need of
advice. Great Britain went into
Egjptto conserve the rights there
of. English commerce and citizenship,
and we are bound to stay there until
better government is assured."
The point of present insistence is
that the United States shall shirk no
responsibility and sacrifice no rights
in the Philippines; that America shall
do for its new insular territory what
England "has done for the land of the
Nile civilize it, enrich it, and reap
from it the profits of . the era of en
lightenment and prosperity. The
terms Philippine, Luzon, and Manila
do not occur in the Chamberlain in
terview, but there is no concealment
of the fact that the secretary's eye is
single to the' east, by the ", side of
which the West Indian results of the
war are little more than the fine dust
in the balance. "A peaceful and
reasonably efficient government" we'
must supply to the people within the
new sphere of American influence,
and there is no better example of
how to meet this duty than is found
in the Anglo-Egyptian government
of today. Inter-Ocean. '
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER.
Ismed Weekly Giving Present Quota
tion on Western Stock.
The supply of good beef cattle has not
very heavy atOmaha markets during the
past week and as a consequence prices
have not declined as eeriously here as
they have at Eastean markets.
Chicago reports a decline from the
high time of 50c to 75c per cwt., while
Omaha is only 25c to 50c lower. The
largest decline waa on the commoner
grades of steers and cows. Good bref
grades are in request and are bringing
good prices.
We quote you Western grass beefif
steers, $4 5 J to $4 40; cows and heifers,
$2.50 to $4.10; Western stockers and
feeders: Yearlings, $4 to J4 60; two-year-olds,
$3 80 to $4.35; three and four-year-olds,
3.70 to (4.35.
Receipts of sheep daring the past week
havn been almost entirely Western sheep
and have been comparatively heavy,
really much larger than was any week
this season.
While the general sheep market was a
little lower for the week the demand was
good for all kinds of sheep, both feeders
and killers, and prices, compared with
those of other markets, have been very
satisfactory to sellers.
At the clo6e we quote western weath
ers at $3.90 to 4.25 ;ewes, $3.25 to $3.85 ;
yearlings $4 to $4.50; lambs $4.60 to
$5.25. There is now a large demand for
feeders, both sheep and lambs, and at
at prices but very little below those paid
for mutton goods.
Sheep owners will be glad to learn
that good facilities to rest and fill their
sheep before pntting tbeui on the Sooth
Omaha market can be found at Fremont
on the U. P. R. R., and at Lincoln on
the B. & M. R. II.
Fremont is forty-sis and Lincoln
forty-nine miles from South Omaha.
Both these places haye good yards and
pastures and charges are reasonable
hay 60c per hundred weight end pasture
half a cent per head for twenty-four
hours. Lincoln has good watering fa
cilities and the Fremont pastures reach
the Platte river, giving the best possible
watering facilities. Owners will find it
of great advantage, especially when
making large shipments, to unload and
feed at these points and forward to the
South Omaha market in lots of two to
five cars each dav.
P3EHSOXAI, MENTION.
Weduetday's Daily.
Hance Lage, of Hood Kiver, is in
the
city.
Ben L. Foreman, of Wapinuia, is
in
the city today.
C M. Sheldon, of Goldendale, is at
the Umatilla House.
W. A. Geary and E. Jacobsen left for
a trip to the interior today.
Si and Herman Sichel left by private
conveyance for Prineville this morning.
A. Lipman, of Portland, arrived in the
city yesterday aud ieit this morning for
Prineville.
Samuel Bessenger, the Portland Hide
and Pelt dealer, is attending to his in
terests in the city.
A. J. Douglas, one of the enterprising
tillers of the agil from the Dufur- va
cinity, is in the ciiy.
Mrs. J. C. OLeary is In the city from
Portland attending to business. She in
forms ns that it is their intention to
move to The Dalles in a few weeks.
Thursday's Daily.
Mrs. Otis Pattereon left for Portland
this morning.
A. J. Brigbam of Dafur, was in the
city yesterday.
Owen Brown left for Forest Grove to-
uay to lane up me studies in that in.
stitution.
Mrs. Captain Wand --and daughter
Hazel, left on the Dalles City this morn
ing for Portland.
Mrs. Tompkins who- has been visiting
friends in this city, left for her home at
the Cascade Locks today. .
George and Charles Campbell left on
the Inland Flyer at noon today for Eu
gene where they will attend school.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Filloon arrived
on the Dalies City last evening form a
fishing trip to Little White Salmon.
Mrs. E. V. Can field and Miss Mabel
Cowles of St. Paul, Minnesota, are
visiting the family ot Mr. Samuel Brooks
in this citv.
Miss Lytle, of Wasco, arrived on the
Spokane Flyer last night from Portland
and is visiting Miss Beulah Patterson
in this city.- -
George Wentwortb, the competent
lineman for the Sentert and Condon
Company, returned from a ten day's
onting at Wind River.
Roy Grimes, the accomodating and
competent young salesman who for over
a year worked in A. M. Williams & Co's
store, has resigned his position in that
establishment and left today lor Forest
Grove where he will enter school to
persue a course in civil engineering.
Roy is a bright, intelligent and in-
dustrouB boy and bis success in college
is assured.
Friday's Dally.
R. Sexton, of Wasco, is visiting in the
city. .
T. W. Brown, of Fife, is at the Uma
tilla House.
Miss Ina P. Cooper ia vieitinz friends
in the city. ..
Mrs. J. V. O'Leary returned to her
home in Portland yesterday.
J. P. Hillstrom and Wife, of Hood
River, are at the Umatilla House. '
Lafayette Davis, and . enterprising
farmer, of Kingsley, is in the "city.
Mr. and Mrs. j. P. Van Honten are in
the city from their home at Hay Creek.
Mrs. W. W. H. Dnfur and daughter,
Blanche, are in the city from Dufur to
day. .
'Mrs. M. C. Shelton came up on the
5:25 train last evening, and took the
-atage for Goldendale this- morning.
-, BOBS, " ..
In this city on Thursday morning",
August 15th, to Mrs. J. 8. Golithon, a
daughter. ' . - - j
- To Cora Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money if
it fails to cure. 25c,
LAST NIGHT'S M.USICALE.
A large Andlrnce Delighted at the
Yost Last Might hy ibe Recital.
The recital last evening by the Alpha
Mandolin and Gnitar Club was well
attended and there was not a eingle one
of the large audience who did not leave
perfectly delighted with the perform
ance. The program was opened by the
Alpha Two-Step March by the entire
club. The audience was informed be
forehand that the pupils had taken les
sons but six months, and several not
that long, and for this reason their skill
ful playing was a surprise to every one.
The opening selection was loudly en
cored and followed by the playing of
Gay Coney Island by the stars of the
Club, Professor Ryan, Clinton Alden,
Irwin Parkins and James Rees, assisted
by Miss Georgia Sampson on the piano.
Their playing was immense and this
selection alone was well worth going to
hear. -
Mies Myrtle Michell rendered two
charming vocal solos and the encores
she received was sufficient proof that
tie audience. know good singing when
they.heard it and appreciated the same.
The duet by Professor Ryan and Er
win Parkins, and mandolin eolo by Lei a
Kelsey were both good, the latter
amusing every one as well as surprised
them at seeing such a htlle girl handle
a mandobn so ekillfuily. The guitar
quintet was very pretty, while every
member in the Club distinguished them
selves by their splendid work in Watch
Hill and La Golondrina. Professor
Ryan's solo was well received, while the
gnitar duet by Messrs Rees and Parkins
was hard to beat. .
Throughout, the musicale was a com
plete succesB and if they snould care to
give another like performance, only the
announcement need be made and a full
house is assured.
Advertised Letters.
Following is the list of letters remain
ing in the posloffice at The Dalles un
called for August 31, 1898. Persons
calling for the same will give date on
which they were advertised : .
Brookrnao C A
Clarno, Eihel
Eastbura, Dora
Graybam, Geo
Grimes, Thos
Haskell, Cora
Hurlburt, Lillian
Harvey, Jack
Johnson, Chas A
Beuham A
Carlson, Gust
Frase, Jas G (2)
Graham. W A
Hayes, Mary
Hickman, Vera (2)
Hill, Chas E
Hall Mrs LJ-'
Jordan, R M
Johnson, Martha J Johnson, P A
Jones, M Johnson, Carl
Kelley, Olley Kile. Mrs Annie
Kelley, Mrs B Lewis, Eva N
Lieed, AC I Masters, C
Mayfield, S M Martin, May
McKellar, J A Martin, Samuel B
McCray. Maud Miller,
McReynolds, Jacob McDonald Mrs D S
McNeil, Mrs Mattie McKillop, Wm
Nelson, Alof - Nelson, S A
Neiderburger, Gus Nelson, Accurb
Nace, Serapbina Oaks, J H
Rine, F A Rano, Marvin (2J
Robertson, AW Rand, M
Spevoy, J B Hnart, S Wrn
btroud, Martha . Stevens, N N
Wiberg, Nellie Ward.DJ
Wood, Ed Wickham Malinda
Woodcock, Irene Whitney, F
Watters, EH .
J. A. Cbossen.
The Bright Bide of Life tn Llbby Prison
Yesterday Mrs. D. M. French received
the following from W. H. 'Iliff, of Port
land, which speaks well for Bishop Mc
Cabe, who will lecture in this city
Thursday September 22d. Mr. Iliffsars:
"I have bad the pleasure of hearing
Bishop McCabe's lectuse 'The Bright
side of Life in Libby Prison' on several
occasions and do not hesitate to say that
it is the finest lecture I have ever had
the pleasure of listening to. I con
gratulate yon that - you have - secured
so great a treator The Dalles."
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Manila Social.
J. W. Nesmith's Womans Relief
Corps, will give a "Manila social" at
Fraternity hall, on next Saturday even
ing. A good program will be rendered,
refreshments served and some unique
entertainment provided. The public
aie most cordially invited to attend. A
small admission fee will be charged
which will be announced later, also the
program in full. Remember the
"Manila." Committee.
Caeb tn Your Checks.
All county warrants registered prior
to Dec. 1, 1894, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after September 8
1898. C. L. Phillips,
Countv Treasnrer.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
Thut q avhr It wi. mrfe for.
for treasonable
prices.
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