THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. OCTOBER. 1898.
The Weekly Chf oniele.
Advertising Kate.
' Per inch.
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OUR TROPICAL ISLANDS.
The flag of the United Statejs is
flying over Hawaii and, Porto Rico
' in undisputed possession. No one
challenges our sovereignty there f o
all time. It is an important step in
. the development of the great repub
lic. Both Hawaii and Porto Rico
are geographically American terri
tory. In one we kept out and in the
other removed a European flag. The
righteousness of both acis will be ad
mitted in histoiy. Assertions were
made that the annexation of Hawaii
would involve us in serious interna
tional troubles and require the aid of
a large army and navy. But a few
companies of troops and a single
cruiser arc found to be amply enough
In Porto Rico we have about 12,000
soldiers, sent there while the war was
in progiess. Within a month the
Dumber may be safely reduced to
one-half. We begin on good terms
with the inhabitants, and a just, lib
ers 1 policy, a decided novelty there,
will steadily improve the feeling
Both TIawaii and " Porto Rico can be
easily governed from the seaports,
There is no expensive interior' to be
' looked after. Trade and commerce
are in working order. The inhabi
tants are well-disposed and engaged
in their accustomed labor?.
A different situation to some, ex
tent exists in the Philippines, where
it Is practically certain we shall soon
exercise full military control. Prob
ably the Philippines will be ceded to
us by the treaty adjustment. We ar-j
not pledged against assuming full
sovereignty as soon as it can be ar
'." ranged. The. insurgent problem in
- the Philippines shouldrnot be diffi-i
cult. It began, in a flj-ht for freedom
from tpaiu, and that is assured. So
are Republican institutions. ' It any
of the , Filippinos . are fighting for
.power they will be disappointed. The
-United Mates is ujider no obligations
to set up ah independent Filippino
state, nor would it be judicious U
attempt it. Many of the islands and
some of their inteiior regions are
still unsubdued and uncivilized. The
United States lias leen dealing with
such 'jjj"1 - ir';,'","vy and
v the A me ricarTliiUians were more for
midnble than any Filippino savage
tribes. We are not berinners in the
iuaiuess of opciuna: the wilderness
- and replacing b.nbaiisui . with an or
derly society.
Cuba's case ; is -more" complex
' Spain would willingly ngree,"Tor cer
tain financial considerations, to cede
the island. ' 15ut we are .-pledged
atr-iiim? the acceptance of sovereignty
. "wit o i the consent of the inhabi-
tuiiu. Yet we are cquti!!' pledged
to asjrtime full military control for a
prtlimin try pei iod, and duiicg that
time we must also accept responsi
biiity tor the safety of life and prop-
"eriy. When Cuba is pacified we ore
Vt leave the government and control
of the island to its pe6ple' The
term u our military government will
depend upon our own view of what
constitutes pacification. Not that
the ord will be used for quibbing.
Before our army is withdrawn from
-- Cuba and our officials from its cus
. torn houses a reputable, stable and
competent government must be in
sight, one that will meet proper obli
gation and be free from the dangers
of misrule and revolution, which are
the curse of the half-Spanish sover
eign states. By the end of the year
the American flag will be supreme in
Cuba and the Philippines, as well as
Pi ri Rico and Hawaii.. The year
1898 will go into the record as one of
splendid expansion for the" United
States. -
preparedness for war and hopeful of
support from Russia, the French ex
tremists would laugh at England's
claims end insist that Major March
and hold Fashoda. But with a vic
torious Anglo-Egyptian army within
striking distance of Fashoda, with
the people of England putting aside
party differences and supporting as
cne man the government's policy of
no surrender, and with the British
fleet ready for action, France will be
likely to yield and peace will proba
be preserved. -
In European capitals outside of
Paris the French claims to Fashoda
has do standing, and yet the purpose
of the French goverumei-t in organ
izing the Marchand expedition to the
Upper Nile country was definitely
hostile to England's plans in the same
resion. France nopea 10 nave a
footing on the Nile before the power
of the Mahdi could be - broken by
England, and in this way to compel
a readjustment of the claims In the
Nile valley. As it is, France has onlv
a constructive advantage, not a tac
tical one. The French government
may insist upon its interpretation of
the occupation of FasDoda, but in the
face of existing treaties an I the no
tification of England's purpose as to
the Soudan, such an interpretation is
unwarranted, and Insistence is only
an excuse for war. . With such an
excuse, flimsy as it is, there probably
would be war, were England unpre
pared.' But as her army and navy
ore ready there will be peace.
In all the discussions of this ques
tion in Europe it is noticeable that
no reference is made to the Czar s
pronounciaraenlo in favor of disarm
ament as a means of preserving peace,
The moment the vital interests of
nations conflict, the Czar's utterance
is pushed aside. Even in the for
eian office of Russia it is admitted
that it is useless to preach disarma
ment to the great powers, and that
the Czar's rescript can only be ap
plied to the weaker powers. If the
weaker powers will -disarm, says the
Russian foreign minister, the stronger
powers fully armed, will protect thein
and preserve the peaci. ' In other
words, only that nation cqh ; main-
ain sovereign rights which is - suffi
cient strong and adequately prepared
to enforce them. That is the lesson
of the present situation in Europe.
N.i VAL CONTROL OF PACIFIC.
EMPERORS PRESENT LESSON.'
If England win her . latest contro
versy with France, it will be because
her, fleet is ready for action. The rad
icals in Paris care little for the fact
that under treaties and by right of
conquest England has a just claim to
Fashoda. Certain, of England's un-
John R. Proctor, president of the
United States civil-service couimis
siofT, has made one of the strong ar
guments lor expansion. In Harper's
Weekly for October 22d, he shows
why, if we have a coaling and repair
station anywhere in the Philippines,
it will be expedient and . advantage
ous to lake all the islands. If we
retain all the Philippine group our
osty neighbors will be Japan and
Formosa. Great Britain - in - Ntii
Borneo and the Straits Settlement,
and the Netherlands in the Dutch
islands. England and the Nether
lands controline natives of Borneo
with a small military, force and both
are friendly to American control in
the Philippines. There will be no
danger of friclion"sQ Tar as neighbor
ing governments are concerned. -If
we retain only a part of the isl
ands, Mr. Proctor says,the remainder
will inevitably, fall into the hands of
tike European powers, and such dis
turbances' will result as will necessi
tate a larger military force to hold
one island than, under our sole con
trol, it would require to hold all.
If we retain only a coaling station
we shall be forced to carry coal in
time of war from San Francisco to
this station. .If we retain all the isl
ands we shall have at our service the
coal deposits of the islands of Cebu,
Negros and Masbate. '
Mr. Procter contends that it would
be supreme folly to retain Manila
and the island of Luzon and surren
der the coal islands to other powers.
This would be putting the . United
States at the mercy of other coloniz
ing powers.' Should we retain all
the islands the United States, and
Great Britain would control the coal
supply tributary to the Indian and
Pacific oceans, and could confine
hostile naval moverrents of European
powers to European waters.
t"iii only one or two 01 them. He,, when the Star of Bethlehem is seen to
therefore is convinced that the Unit
ed States should never surrender the
right to control the entire grouo. It
would be as easy to govern and de
velop the group as it was for England
to govern and develop Australia and
New Zealand. We have in abund
ance men of large administrative
ability, equal to making the Philip
pines not only serf-supporting, but
in time wealthy and progressive.
Mr. Proctor believes further that the
increased responsibility of good gov
eminent in Cuba and the Philippines
will have a most beneficial effect on
home government, and provincial
politics will give place to a ' broader
statesmanship.
Mr. Procter does not, discuss the
question of duty to the Filipinos,
but confines himself to the advan
tages that annexation! promises to
the United States. -
With the Philippines in our per
taanent possession we should be
lodged at the very center of activity
in the Pacific area, with its popula
tion of 878,000,000 population and
its sea-born commerce amounting to
$5,000,000,000 annually. With the
Nicaragua canal completed and in
our control, with Porto Rico, Cuba,
Hawaii, and the - Philippines in our
possession, we should be in position
to secure more of the " Pacifis trade
than any other nation.
And so it comes to pass that a
Republican president has honored
by name in a public address confed
erate heroes. Truly the civil war is
a splendid memory, and the bravery
of the federal and confederate is the
glory of all citizens of the republic.
President McKinley has honored him
self by paying tribute to valor,
whether it moved to battle the man
who wore the blue or him who fought
under the stars and bars of the con
federacy Memphis Commercial Ap
peal (Detn.).
A Democratic paper ', says the
Republicans have changed their
tone on the subject ot new markets
away from home. The new markets
chiefly under consideration at present
are not away from home. They are
to be a part of Uncle Sam's terri
lory.. Republican expansion is not
a theory, but sticks to the ribs.
. Missouri's, Democratic officials have
not jet desided that the Populists
have any right to a place on the- of-j
ficial ballot. This sequel of fusicn is
rongh on the trustful Populists, who
thought o reform the world by join-
ng hands with Democrats.
A Democratic paper in St. Louis
charges that the ; Populists of the
tate arc Republicans in- disguise.
This is a queer reward for nearly
fifty, thousand votes for , the Demo
cratic ticket in 180C.
A fading Spanish hope is that of
European intervention in the settle
ment between the United States and
Spain. There will be only two par
lies to -the Yanko-Spnnko negotiations.
approach and Christmas tide, 'with all
its home cheer, is to be spent among
strangers. . Then do we in imagination
see the jnle log burning brightly and the
old folks at home gather ronnd, and as
we picture the vacant -chair and wonder
if as they meet we art missed, a "feeling
of eadnees comes o'er us that our goals
cannot resist." .--.
But what of those who. have left all to
fight for their country? who have fared
shot an 1 shell and braved the pestilence
of foreign lands that the Christmastide
might not find onr land dishonored, bat
that they might offer as a present ta the
United States the lands which they have
bought with their olood? - In return
ought we not to do the little which lies
in oar power to cheer their loneliness and
remind them that in the hearts of those
at home they have an abiding place? In
fancy we eee the in anxiously awaiting
the ship which bears the- Christmas
mail, and watch them with tearful eyes
remove the wrappings and press to
their lips the loving gift of father, moth
er, sister, brother or perhaps "another,
not a sister in the happy days gone by."
Some are too weak to open trie packages,
bat are no lees anxious to behold the
contents, the sight of which seems to
coot the fevered brow and bid the acfiing
heart be still. . -
Have we made the side lights thrown
on the picture too heavy? should they
have a brighter hue? The happy look
on the faces of those : who receive the
Christmas boxes from relatives and
friends will brighten ap the darkest
picture which could be drawn, and even
lend its splendor to the Christmas star
which shines over Manila, Let us not
forget the brave hearts in far off lands
who long for a token from home when
the thought of the . greatest giit ever
given to man takes possession of as,
Have you not a son, a brother, a lover or
a friend, or do you not know of someone
who has neither kith nor kin to whom
you can send a Christmas greeting?
The day will dawn the brighter for yon
in the thought of having made others
happy. '" . -
THAT WOOLEN MILL AGAIN.
The
Racket
Store
"We'invite the most r'isid examination of the quality- and cost of our goods. We do not
give you money, but wo do claim we can save you money on each purcbustf made at the Backet
Store. This is possible by reason of our cash system. No books ; no book-keeper. The estimated
loss to Merchants that run on the credit system is 30 per cent, and it is nccessdry that this 30 per '
cent be added to the purchnse price or the mrrchant must of necessity fail in business. The
Racket Store saves to its customers this SO per cent. Is that not an object? Still we manage our
business to even do more, and so it is to those who buy our goods art saved money.
READ SOME OF OUR PRICES.
Corsets, j .....25 and up.
Corset titeels. .oc.
Eight hundred Parlor Matches 5c
One dozen Clothes Pins ic
80 feet Clothes Line .... 6c
Copper Bottom Wuth Boiler . ..fifio
Galvanized lub 60c
Clothes Ringer ' Sl.a5
Oil cloth, yards wide, per yard ISo
Bhelf oil cloth, per yard 10c
Best machine oil, 4 oz. bottle : 6c
Cott'ce pots 7 to 50n
21-quart granite dish pan 75c
Oranite preserving kettle.. . 25c to 75c
Granite ware of all kinds
Steel curry comb ....10c
One dozen good glass tumblers 40c
One large berry dish and six small ones SOc '
irlass set of tix pieces soc"
Set of knives and forks 40c
Thread, per spool Sc
Men's, w omen's, Children's Hosiery . .5c and up
Table Linen, per vurd 25c
i i en Kapkii.s, 1.4x14. . . 5c
Linen and turkish towels 5c and up
Copper bottom tea ketile.. 40c
Nice glass water pitcher 25o
Padlocks 5c and up .
Best sttel tacks, per packages.:.. ; lc
Butter moulp , 10c
Buggy whips ... 15c and up
Double faced wash board 25c
Single fared wah board 150
School supplies at low prices.
- And so the whole stock g es In all kinds of notions, such as libben, lace, silk floss, side
combs, finishing braid, be ts, dolls, purses, etc, etc.. also tinware, spring balances, Mies, spirit
levels, hand-saws, bits and bit braces, lamps, china ware, etc., e:c. Goods exchanged for fresh
ranch-eggs. ..'.
second street Near the Court House.
- . - - - - OREGON,
THE DALLES,
Market For American Wheat.
The estimates compiled by the depart-
Is It Too Late, or May -We Not Tet Stand
" a Show? ' -
if the men with 3ls ships were so die-
; posed they might bid 5c per bushel over
!.; fi- . .wl F;;t v .,r t
. . , ., i ! uuu.c, ClUU Chill LC oaic JUVOUJUUl
mem oi Hgncuuure represent, tne wneai .. ,,. .. ., ,
r.i ... ., , as they were obliged to pav on the basis
crop of the world, this year, as the lart- ,. , : c . o
' ... iofa3l3fhip for wheat to fill out 36s
est on record, though its magnitude is . . .
u i a l . . ,. ships about a month ago, thev are not
somewhat offset by tLo email. amount - i. i
. , -- , , . ,, , I disposed to make anv ercaterconceesions
carried over trorn last vear. The vield I . - . , . . ..
. than are absolutely necessary at the
in excess of the previous season, though
there is evidence that the irop s short
in Russia, an important source of sup
ply, but one from which it seems to be
impossible to prccure accurate figures.
One of the beet evidences thatTtnssia
has no wheat to spare this year is found
in the report, persistent though unoflic- j
ial, that the export of wheat from that
country will soon be prohibited, while
another significant fact is the chartering
of a steamer to load grain in thisc JULtry
for Russia. It is reported that, desjile
the favorable showing of the Eastern
crops, more than sixty steamers have
been chartered within tho past ten days
to carry grain across the Atlantic, which
j present time, end only an occasional
wild epurt of buying carries the price up
mucl'bovorid 2(a3c abrve the export
value.' Fifty cemsthas been paid freely
in the Palouse, and over 500,000 bushels
have changed hands ibis week at that
figure, and at some points south of Snake
river a few cents better.
Fruit Trees.
Mt. Tabor Nurseries.
-'. Hobson's trolley built ftem the
shore to raise lhe Colon' is a fresh il
lustration ot the electrical nge. The
Yankee devices may be eQiial to the
task of saving the whole of Cervera's
fleet, " " ' ' " '
Many of the Democratic state plat
forms are silent on expansion. The
business men of America will govern
themselves accordingly on election
day. ' .. '
CHRISTMAS IN FAR OFF LANDS.
Aa theTima Approached tet us Remem
ber th Loneliness of a Sol- '
.". tiler' Christmas. -
Only those who have spent months
or years from home and friends realize
just how- much is conveyed in a small
package or a letter bearing the poetmark
of home, nor with what eagerness is the
wrapper unfolded and the contents
therein devonred. Even thenewepaper,
which at home is thrown aside with the
expression, "There's nothing in it," is
the most . welcome of visitors, and 'its
every line receives our undivided atten
tion. The most trivial occurrences at
home increase in magnitude, until they
-become all important when viewed from
far distant lands. ' Absence truly makes
the heart grow fonder and the dear ones
Mr. Procter's conclusion i that ! home grow nearer as we tnins 01 tne
, . 1, -, I uiijii uim lit. ITCIl auu I.IIUO ItUlbU bcis-
OI lorcigu vouipiiCiiiiiCrus it tto eilOUiu
retain all the islands than if we re-
arate ua from tuoue we love. --
Particularly does this feeling of home
sickness take possession of the wanderer
The Goldendale Sentinel evidently, has
no doubt as to the validity of the dis
patch publiehed in a Seattle paper re
garding the establishing of a woolen mill
in our city,'for it eays: - :
"A woolen mill is to be established in
The Dalles. " At last the" citizebs of that
place have aroused enough interest to
induce capital to start the most needed
enterprise of any. The large woolen
mills which were - destroyed by fire at
Tacoma, will be rebuilt at The'Dallee..'
After-reading the dispatch as publish
ed in Thk Cheo.nicle Tuesday, pome of
our citizens were loath to accept it as a
mistake and began questioning to find
out whether some of our capitalists bad
not arranged the matter as a surprise to
those ot ua who seem to be doing noth
ing but waiting for them to. start tlie-l
ball rolling Some of the most enter
prising ones have gone "so far as to cor
respond with the owners of the Tacoma
mill, inquiring as to the possibility of
yet securing the mills. at The Dalles. '
Is it t"0 late to make this dispatch not
a mistake, but a glorious reality 7 .Sure
ly if definite arrangements have not t ecn
mode to remove it to .Dallas, tho man
agers would be made to see the superior
ity of The Dalles over , any place as a
eite for a woolen mill.
The largest wool-shipping point in the
United States certainly ought to. receive
some consideration when it comes to a
question of the moet - profitable place in
which to rebuild the mill. If the com
mercial Clnb were to take the matter in
hand and. place before the owners the
advantages which this placu has over
any other city iu the coast, hiyirij; before
them every detail 'as to water power.
etc , it may-be,. we fciight yet receive
recognition in the matter; and if we do,
Dallas and every other contestant will
be in the shade,- .
. - .
Those Christmas Packxgca. - i
A number of the relatives and friends
of the soldier boys at Manila were dis
appointed . last evening .when .word
reached here from Portland that Christ
mas packages would have to ba in Port
land today at noon tn order forthe
senders to .receive . the .benefit of free
transportation. - It had been previously
supposed that they would be given un
til November 0th in . which 'to prepare
their packages; but at about 4 o'clock
Dr. Rinehart received a telephone mes
sage from her sister in Portland to the
contrary. As many as could be reached
were informed, but very few were able
to ehip their boxes today. . '
The Emergency Corps does the ship
ping from Portland, the O. R. & N.
steamships carrying the boxes freight
free to San Francisco, where they are
put on the government transports. The
name of the soldier for whom the box
is intended is marked' upon it, his com
pany and regiment, and Manila. ' A red
cross must also go on every package, so
4he ladies of " the Portland corps have
been keep very busy.
It is unfortunate that our people could
not have been informed at an earlier
date, as many will no doubt be com
pelled to forege sending presents, as the
freight charges would be enormous. The
corps in this city, however, was not in
the least responsible for the occurrence,
having received no bint of the change in
the date for their shipment. '
W. S, Elkins, general salesman, wiil
deliver fruit trees, etc., at The Dalles,
November 8th. at Archer's stable, near
is another indication ,tntt: Russia will j vhe depot. Also at Dufur November 11th,
not be able to furnieh lis usual quota. next. If 'you want vigorous, healthy
More'Jhan that, it eems to show that , and true-to-name stock call al; the above
the American farmer is sure of a foreign
market, no matter, what may be the
condition of the world's grain crops.
' '- Wheat. '
-Yesterday's wheat report fays: With
bnyers providing . cargoes for ships . at
31s 3d, '36s 9d and S7s 6J, all at the
same time, it is a .difficult matter to tell
just what is an accurate quotation fcr
wheat. Taking the price of cargoes in
Liverpool yesterday" and the rates paid
for ships, and the actual track value of
a lu3hel of wheat in Portland, for export
was not over. 6lc for Walla Walla ; Lut
places as dated. Mt. Tabor grafts and
buds from their own bearing home trees..
THAT JOYFUI FEELING
With the exhilerating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal cleanli
ness, which follows the, use of Syrup of
Figs, Is unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old-time
medicines and the cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted
by the well-informed. - Buy the genuine.
Manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Co. . . ' .
Iiine of
Just
Received.
No. 7 Woodland cook stove..' $'7.50
.No."8 '" 8.50
No. 8 .Wood Garland, jr., cook stove 15.00
No. 8 Wood Garland, jr., reservoir and base 25.00
No. 8 IJridal Garland ..
No.' 8 Bridal Garland and reservoir.
No: 8 Home. Garland cook stove
No. 8 Home Garland-cook and reservoir..
No. 8 Home Garland, ran are
No. 8 Home Garland-range and reservoir.
No. 8 Empire Garland steel range
23.00
33.00
25.00
'35.00
40.00
45.00
45.00
Also a full line of Cole's. Hot. Blast Air Tight
Heaters just received.
Everybody knows that "Gailand" stoves and ranges are the
world's best. They combine elegant finish, durability, and con
venience,' with economy of fuel, and in spite of all competition hold
their station tar in advance 'ol ail others. -We take pleasure in call
ing attention to our list of stoves on hand. Sold exclusively by
IVI AfER & BEN TON ,
ti?cZiX.?.aS-rcc'y The Dalles, Or.
Money Saved is Money Earned,
" Wishes to inform the public that he is still in the ' '
UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE-FRAME BUSINESS.
' And persons needing any t hi njr in these linns can save money
by calling on him before dealing elsewhere.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Third and Was hington Sts