THE D ALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1898
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WE'RE NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL
The severe shock recently suffered
by the estimable Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland regarding the
scandalous state of affairs in the
management oi ber drawing-rooms
has created considerable discussion
in the English newspapers over the
. prevalence of corruption among the
so called upper classes.
The shock which shook the Queen
was the Immediate result of an in
vestigation which revealed the fact
that certain titled men and women,
close to the throne, were engaged in
selling the right of presentation at
sums ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
The father, mother, or husband of a
woman who was anxious to be
honored by a drawing-room presen
tation, it appears, found it necessary
to make application in certain quar
ters. Certaip quarters would make
the necessary inquiries. If certain
quarters were satisfied as to the
eligibility of the applicant for dis
tinction, one hint would lead to
another until au agreement as to the
amount of money necessary to make
everything smooth was reached,
when the presentation would take
place acccrding to the card.
What bothers the English news
papers is, pcibaps, that, following so
closely upon the revelatidns in . the
Hoolcy case, this evidence of cor
ruption among the nobility renders
useless temporarily a large amount of
copy" regarding the moral decrepti
tude of a Republican form of govern
ment as exhibfted by the exposures
made by newspapers in the United
States. The editorial writers whose
specialty it is to draw invidious com
parisons between morality under a
monarchy and immorality under a
democracy are practically thrown out
of business. Their occupation is
jjone. If they mention a case of of
ficial corruption or a case of private
defalcation, in the United States it
'Only serves to remind their readers
of the Hoo!ey and drawing-room j
scandals. The less the British com
. tnonerll reminded of these things the
better it is for the British common
wealth, and hence the subject of dis
honesty under a democracy is at
present deemed .unworthy of notice.
The worst phase of the situation
from a monarchical view point is the
fact that the more intelligent people
' of the United States have never been
associated as a class with the corrup
tion alleged to be prevalent on this
side of the Atlantic. Whatever may
be said of us as a people, our respect
able classes have the reputation of a
-remarkably honest and upright people.
WEYLERISM OR U'KINLE YISM
There is no longer any mystery
about the dilatory tactics of the
Spanish commissioners at the Paris
conference. It is not a mere case of
"manana," doing nothing today
which can be put off until tomorrow.
It is rr.tber a subtle game of diploma
cy. Spain won no victories on land or
sea and can hope to win none
Neither was she able to summon any
of the powers of Europe, great or
small, to her help, but an ally has
been found right here in the United
States. Negotiations are hindered
in the hope that the Democratic party
will win the November elections.
Nowhere will the election returns
be awaited with such feverish anxiety
as in Madrid. Sagasta and his cabi
net, the Queen Eegent, and the
Cortes know perfectly well that a de
feat of the American administration
is their one forlorn hope. Such de
feat would be interpreted ever3where
as a pdpular rebuke of our war policy
and a demand that tne fruits of vic
tory-be thrown away.
While the war fever v was coming
on the people were eager and united,
but now that hostilities .have been
snspetded and a chance given for
sober second thought - how do 'the
American people feel? Do they still
stand by the president and his ex
pansion policy? An old Spanish
proverb says that republics and
weathercocks are alike fickle, and
Spain's own Republican episode of a
few years ago has evidently em
phasized this prqverb at Paris. -
The Spanish conferees at the French
capital are waiting for what next
week Tuesday will bring forth. The
best known American state, New
York, has in the field for governor,
Theodore Roosevelt, whose name is
familiar to every Castilian hidalgo.
Ho and his rough riders were the
picturesque and sensational feature
of our army in Cuba. His defeat
would be hailed at Madrid as a
glorious victory for Spain. It would
be the next thing to a similar humili
ation for Dewey. No other land
soldier stands out with 6uch distinct
ness as the colonel of the rough
riders. But still more distinct is the
composite picture of congress. A
Democratic majority in that body
would fire the Spanish heart as noth
ing else could except the destruction
of our fleet now in Manila bay. It
would be accepted at Madrid as proof
thai the Americans want McKmley
thwarted in his expansion policy.
That is the interpretation which
would be put by every European
court upon a general Democratic
victory. Intervention then would
menace us and perhaps necessitate a
renewal of hcstilities on a larger and
bloodier scale than ever.
In view of all this nothing could
be more timely than the danger
signal Mr. Frederick W. Seward has
just UuDg out. "Most of us," he says
in a letter to the New York Tribune,
"are assuming that the war i3 over.
That is not the Spanish view. Does
any Spanish general or statesman ad
mit that the war is definitely con
cluded ? No; he says there is a sus
pension of hostilities. He has no de
sire or expectation of gaining any
thing more by fighting, but ho be
lieves that much maybe retrieved by
diplomacy that ws lost by fighting."
Mr. Seward adds that a Democratic
victory would be interpreted as an
American backdown, the repudiation
of our policy as to war and its result,
and that for this reason "Spam would
wave her 'banners of blood and gold'
over what she would construe to be a
Spanieh vistory, the more acceptable
because it would be her first one of
the war." This is a statement of the
case worthy the senior Seward in his
best days. Reduced to its final
analysis the question of next week
Tuesday for each voter in the United
Slates is this: Shall I vote for Sagasta
and Weyler or McKinley and Dewey ?
Inter Ocean.
THE FRENCH CRISIS.
Will France be able to avert the
impending peril of a military dicta
torship? That will depend upon the
quality of contemporary French
statesmanship.
In the play of "Richelieu"' Bulwer
causes the great cardinal to declare
that "Beneath the rule of men en
tirely great the pen is mightier than
the sword," an epigram often misap
plied and perverted. Richelieu was
referring to the pen as directed by
the statesman, not by the literateur.
He understood the weakness f.f mili
tary men their vanity, their igno
rance of the great currents of popular
thought and sentiment, their im ¬
practical conceptions of affairs apart
from the army, and r above . all else
their intense spirit of envy. He
knew with what consummate power
the genius of statesmanship can play
on these foibles, and thus array one
ganeral against another general, or
even one wing of an army in opposl
tion to another wing.
France's great need in the existing
cris's, ns in all other crises threaten
ing the creation of a military dicta
torship, is wise, determined and
patriotio statesmanship. If these
shall be developed by the demand of
the hour, the ship of state will out
ride the storm and elide into safe
waters. Spokesman-Review.
The Spaniards have abandoned
all hope of retaining a grip on Porto
Rico and Cuba, and are now going
to struggle to hold a coaling station,
at least, 11 the Philippines. But even
this will be denied tbem. The Span
iards must henceforth confine their
operations to Spain.'
AMERICA WINS IN PARIS.
The Americans have gained an im
portant victory in Paris by forcing
the Spaniards to bear the entire. Cu
ban debt. American views oho re
garding all matters relating to Porto
Rico and the Island of Guam have
been accepted by the Spanish com
missioners. No controversy will be
had on any of these points hereafter.
Practically, therefore, a settlement
has been reached on all the questions
which can come before the Paris con
ference except in regard to the Phil
ippines. That questions is the most
delicate of all, and calls for courage,
intelligence and vigilance on the part
of American representatives.
Upon the Philippine question the
Spaniards will undoubtedly make a
desperate stand. Here is where the
coming election in the United States
will affect the decision of the Pads
conference. The Paris newspaper,
Ihc Gaulois, remarked the other day
that "the Spaniards are "delaying a
solution of the Cuban debt question
until after the elections in the United
States, expecting then to get better
terms." What the Gaulois meant,
of course, and what all intelligent
observers know to be the case, is
that the final settlement will be de
layed until after the voting in this
country takes place. The Spaniards
have decided. to make no further op
position to the American demands
on the Cuban, Porto Rican and Caro
line Island questions at this time.
Those issues will not be discussed
any further at present, and if the Re
publicans win in the coming election
the questions will never be brought
up again. But the fate of these is
sues depends upon Rernblican suc
cess. A final settlement can not be
reached until the Philippine matter
is disposed of, and this will not be
finished until after election day. The
delay will come on this issue. What
the Paris paper referred to about the
Spaniards' purpose to stave off an
understanding on the Cuban debt
will be literally true of the Philippine
agreement. A last rally will be made
here, and all the resources of ob
struction which the Spaniards can
seize will be employed.
From this time, therefore, until
after November 8th the proceedings
of the peace commisssioners at Paris
will have an absorbing interest for
Americans. ' It is the intention to
take up the Philippine matter next
week. The American election will
take place the week following.- In
that interval the course of the Span
iards will be a curious study. It
will be a study for Europe as well as
America, for every county of the
Old World has great concern in this
Spanish-American settlement. Every
country of Europe except England
wants Spain to win in the diplomatic
contest, as they did in the contest at
arcrs. As a consequence every coun
try in Europe, with the same single
exception, wants the Democrats to
carry the election. Every boast
which the Democrats make gives
hope to the cnemtes of the United
States. It is as well known in Paris,
Madrid, Berlin and the pother Euro
pean capitals as it is in the cities and
towns ot the United States that if the
Republicans carry the coming elec
tions a prompt acquiescence in the
American demands regarding the
Philippines . will be exacted from
Spain. Spain's concessions in the
Cuban matter are probably due to
her fear that her allies, the Democrats,
are going to be beaten, despite the
Democrats' attack on the army and
on the government, and their boasts
that they are sure to win. It will be
a double victory, therefore, which
the Republicans will gain on Novem
ber 8ib. They will overthrow the
domestic and the foreign enemies of
America . together. Globe-Demo
crat.
Prominent citizens of Missouri
have become interested in behalf of
young Jesse James. The interest
which prominent citizens of Missouri
exhibited in the father of this young
man cost the slate, according to the
estimate of leading citizens of St.
Louis, an incalculable amount of
of money. In fact, Missouri hasn't
recovered from it yet.
When you ask for -De Witt's Witch
Hazel Salve don't accept a counterfit or
imitation. There are more cases of
piles being cured bylLie than all others
combined, - ,
SETTLERS ARE SCARED.
Families Removing; to Canjron
from che Izee.Kee'on.
City
A Canytn City telephone message to
the Baker City Democrat says that wo
men and children are being brought to
that town far safety from the Izee sec
tion, about twenty milee distant, where
the recent trouble occurred, resulting in
the death of two or three white men and
several Indians. -
So far, the Canyon City informant
says, six wagon-loads of settlers have
come here for refuge. The fugitive set
tlers report that the Indians are gather
ing in force in the vicinity of Izee, and
that the signal fires of the redskins can
be seen every night on the mountains
surrounding the settlements.
From the current reports it is rumored
that a sheepherder was killed by the In
dians last evening, at a point not far
from Izee.
The most trustworthy information
leads to the belief here that there will
be no general uprising of the redskins,
and that all there is remaining of the
difficulty, terminating with the desper
ate and Moody battle on 'Deer creek, is
a big and general "scare" among the
people living: in the thinly settled sec
tions. Some of the men seem to be
more badly frightened that are the wo
men. -
There are a few Indians on hunting
expeditions in the Izee country, but these
redskins are now perfectly harmless if
they are not molested or imposed upon.
- The lawlessness has not extended be
yond the email band of braves which
was practically exterminated in the Deer
creek combat.
Tlie Air Ship Reaches Pendleton.
The East Oregonian is a paper which
can always be depended upon to say just
what it thinks. It's a great wonder
Jackson has not' long since been dis
charged from newspaper circles on ac
count of his close relationship to the
"Father of Our Country" when it comes
to telling the trntb in regard to the
"pickle tree." Speaking of the "Air
Ship" company, he says:
"The management of the Air Ship'
company has been honest with the peo
ple, in that it has correctly stamped its"
playhouse wares and attempted no de
ceit as to the nature of the produc
tion. A screaming farce comedy' was
the brand put on the theatrical goods
eold Tuesday evening. And it was a
'screaming farce comedy.' It was a
good thing in that line. It was, per
haps, the best thing in that line ever
seen in Pendleton. Raymond Finlay as
Johnny Wise, Miss Barke as Mnt, an
ambitiouB office girl, Miss Svnart as
Biddia Binkham, were the Btars in the
screaming farce that shone brightest.
"Yet the public demand these things.
And the theatrical profession must
supply this demand, since it is not a
missionary society .to reform the peo
ple's tastes. So long as there is a market
for farce comedy, so long will there be a
qnick response by the profession. So
long as the seats at a 'bald headed show'
are in best demand, so long will farce
comedies ot the 'Airship' type come
around. When the public wants the
legitimate in the drama, then will the
legitimate be produced. It is all a mat
ter of supply and demand. That the
Frazer opera house Tuesday evening was
crowded from the footlighte to the foyer
and from the gallery rail to the limits of
the theater heavens, proves this, for
everyone poesessing an average degree
of intelligence knew just what they
were going there to witness."
Fall Alike on the Jmt and Cnjnst.
The patter of the rain upon the roof
last night was a welcome sound to all,
and our streets today show the effects ot
the little shower, being free from the
dust which has eo annoyed us during the
past months. The fall was .18 of an inch
on a high temperature. This morning
wheu the sun came out, everyone felt
like they too wanted to be out enjoying
the clear atmosphere.
Reports say that the shower extended
out beyond Dnfur and Mr. GateB, who
returned from Antelope Tuesday, in
forms us they were having some rain at
that place. It is to be hoped the storm
is general and that it will come more
abundantly, as the country is sadly in
need of moisture. Beside, the roads are
said to be so dusty that it is difficult to
see the team one is driving, and one
teamster in coming into the city drove
directly into the team in front of him,
being unable to see through the clouds
of dust. '. '
OUR REFORM SCHOOL.
Tho Manner In Which it i Carried On
Should be One for Girls.
The Dalles has added another boy to
its list at the state reform school, George
1. Bonner, a lad of 12 years having
been taken to Salem on Sunday by
Sheriff Kelly. This makes about a
dozen incorrigibles which have been sent
from our city in the past few years to be
"done over" by the superintendent and
teachers there, and it is certainly the
best move to make.
Those who have visited this institu
tion find it conducted in a most system
atic manner, and not in a way that
wonld repulse the boy aa be enters,
bnt rather com mends itself to him as the
months go by. The superintendent is
firm, but not barley, the matron kind,
The Racket Store.
We Invite t:e most rigid examination of the quality aud cost of our goods. We do not
give jou money, but we do claim we can save you money on each purchase 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 necessary that this 30 per
cent be added to the purchase price or the merchant must of necessity fail in business. The
Racket Store saves to its customers this 30 per cent. Is that not an objwst? Still we manage our
business to even do more, and to it is to those who buy our goods arc saved money.
READ SOME OF
Corsets, .25 and up.
Comet Steels ,...5c
Eight hundred Parlor Matches .....6c
One dozen Clothes Pins , . . 1c
30 feet Clothes Line 5c
Copper Ilottom Wash Boiler .-. f5c
Galvanized Tub 60c
Clothes Ringer $1.25
Oil cloth, 1 yards wide, per yard 18c
Shelf oil cloth, per yard 10c
Best machine oil, 4 oz. bottle 5c
Coffee pots 7 to 50c
81-quart granite dish pan 75c
(iranitc preserving kettle 2jc to 75c
Granite ware of all kinds
Steel curry comb 10c
One dozen good glass tumblers 40c
- And so the whole stock g es In all kinds of notions, such as ri&on, lace, silk floss, side
combs, finishing braid, belts, dolls, purses, etc, etc.. also tinware, spring balances, files, spirit
levels, hand saws, bits and bit braces, lamps, china ware, etc., etc. Goods exchanged for fresh
ranch rggs.
Second Street Near the Court House.
THE DALLES,
and the teachers and officers well chosen.
The building is situated in a beautiful
spot, and the surroundings the very
best that could be found. Every hour
of the boy's time is employed with his
studies and work giyen him to do about
the premises, while sufficient time is
given for recreation, when the Inmates
are allowed to go to the play grounds or
otherwise amuse themselves, under the
supervision at all times of the officer in
charge. On Sundays they are taught in
a manner in keeping with the day, while
occasionally an entertainment is given
for them in which all take part. Some
of the best of talent is found among the
boys, and this is not allowed to remain
latent, but cultivated by the teachere,
who take a great pride in those commit
ted to their care, never allowing a word
to be spoken against them when it can
be avoided.
The writer was much amused, when-
visiting the school, at a remark made by
a very bright, fine-looking lad. to whom
she was talking and oi course interrogat
ing, when he said : "Oh its good nough
here ; but there ought to" be a reform
school for girls, boys alius gets all the
blame, and the girls is jast as bad."
While realizing that the boy was hardly
old enough to understand how far wrong
he was in the latter part of his statement
when he said "boys gets all the blame,"
the contrary having been proven in the
case of our Father Adam and Mother
Eve and being verified every day since,
we coincided with his first remark,
"there ought to be a reform school, for
girls." Superintendent Gardner, of the
Boys and Girls Aid Society in Portland,
realizes this fart perhaps more deeply
than any one else. This society is doing
a noble work under the greatest of dif
liine of
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 Bridal Garland 23.00
No. 8 Bridal Garland and reservoir ......r... ... 33.00
No. 8 Home Garland cook stove 25.00
No. 8 Home Garland cook and reservoir 35.00
No. 8 Home Garland range 40.00
No. 8 Home Garland range and reservoir.. . 45.00
No. 8 Empire Garland steel range 45.00
Also a full line of Cole's Hot Blast Air Tight
Heaters just received. .
Everybody knows that "Garland" stoves and ranges are the
world's beet. They combine elegant finish, durability, and con
venience, with economy of fuel, and in spite of all competition hold
their station far in advance ol all others. We take pleasure in call
ing attention to our list of stoves on hand. Sold exclusively by
MAIER & BENTON,
Hardware and Grocery
Merchants
Money Saved is
Wishes to inform the public that he is still in the
UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE-FRAME BUSINESS.
And persons needing anything in these lines can save money
. - by calling on him before dealing elsewhere. , ..
Satisfaction Guaranteed, Third andWashington Sts
OUR PRICES.
One large berry dish and six small ones SOc
Gluss8etofsix pieces SOc
Set of knives and forks 40c
Thread, per spool 8c
Men's, H omen's, Children's Hosiery . .5c and up
Table Linen, per yard 25c
l.i en Napkins, 1-1x14 . 5c
Linen and turkisu towels r 5c and np
Copper bottom tea kettle 40c
Nice glass water pitcher ,.25c
Padlocks 5c and up
Best steel tacks, per packages lc
Hotter moulp 10c
Buggy whips 15c and np
Don hie faced wash board 25c
Single faced wah bourd loc
School supplies at low prices.
OREGON.
ficulties, and Mr. Gardner is often at a
loss to know just which way to turn
when day after day are brought to him
giris who do not come under his direct
supervision, being too old or too incor
rigible for that institution to look after.
They are also not criminals, and there
fore should not be placed where they are
compelled to meet euch characters aa are
found in the Magdalene Home, which is
one of the grandest institutions to be
found any where on the globe, but not
the' one in which to place girls not
willfully wrong, but young and foolish.
A place between tho Boys and
Girl9 Aid Society and the home shonld
be instituted in the state where, as the
boy said girls that are "just as bad"
could be sent.
Fruit Trees.
Mt. Tat or Nurseries.
W. S, Elkins, general salesman, wiil
deliver froit treee, etc., at The D.tlles,
November 8ih, at Archer's stable, near
the depot. Also at Dofnr November 11th,
next. If you want vigorous, healthy
and irue-to-name stock call at the above
places as dated. Mt. Tabor grafts and
buds from tbeir own bearing home trees.
Iteport of District Mo. 5, Hood River.
Following is the report for the month
ending October 28, of school taught in
district No. 5.
Number pupils enrolled, 42.
Average number belonging, 29.
Average daily attendance, 32.
Number days taught, 20.
Number days absence, 19.
Number times tardy. 2.
Katheeise E. Davenpokt,
Teacher.
Jast
Received.
The Dalles, Or
Money Earned,