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ALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18,
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Tbe spectacle of comrades in arrrs
of the late General Garcia refusing
to follow the body to the grave be
cause tbev were not given a certain
iwsition in iho line of march shows
llie bad temper of Cubans still und
arms in the Greater Antilles. There
was little excuse for tbeir childi
chagrin, certainly not enough to pre
vent their attending the last services
over tbeirbravest of leaders.
If the Cuban soldiers persist in act
ing like children they must be treated
.MMn.n Reason has little weight
with them and promises svre lightly
Leld. Already negotiations are in
progress to pay off the Cuban armies,
nd tor this -purpose several million
dollars will be advanced from the
United States treasury. Tbey are
not inclined to accept a fair remuner
ation, but ,ask pay amounting to
nearly twice that of the American
regular. Theira is a demand, not a
request, and it must be met with the
ame firmness that has characterized
other demands in Cuba. The truth
is, the Cuban soldier is none too fond
of work. Since Spain has withdrawn
tier troops from Cuba the insurgent
lias had a life of luxurious idleness.
He is loth to give up this mode of
existence and the mere mention of
work causes loud murmurs of discon
tent. Cuba will begin to assume her
proper place only "when the insur
gents shall have been disarmed and
compelled to tickle the soil with the
jJow and hoe.
A military government tbeie is a
necessity for some time to come.
Spokesman Review.
THE PI SCR OF POVERTY.
That trains should cease to run ;
business be in part suspended ; or
congressional and departmental work
at Washington be carried on under
difficulties these are not the distres
sing results of the unprecedented
.Murva along the Atlantic seaboard.
BrA that the mothers of poveity
.should weep while the tears freeze on
" liieir hollow cheeks; children moan
" through the dark night, and fret
vjhrough the biting day from lack of
ivacmJtb And nourishment; and home
Uars persons of both sexes and all ages
perish in the poor shelter of door
ways these are the tragic horrors
ollife in the great cities when bliz
zards blow and frost converts the
earth into ringing iron.
At such times the matter of bare,
comfortless existence becomes a
frightful problem with several bun
fred thousand people in the great
cities. The blame of it falls in part
the sufferers themselves, and in
part on the selfish, heedless middle
.smkI tipper clatses. When several
hundred thousand people in a great
city are content to go on living from
band to mouth, without so much of
providence as is shown by the birds
of the air and the beasts of the field,
there must needs be deep suffering in
times when the great machinery of
civilization comes to a temporary
.standstill.
.For the able-bodied men rnd
women who wantonly neglect their
opportunities to make some provision
against a few days of idleness and
severe winter weather, no great
amount of sympathj need be wasted.
But there are other sufferers who can
not be blamed for their destitution
-tnen and women thrown out of em
ployment through no fault of their
own; others incapacitated from long
sickness; and sadder still, hosts of ill
clad, ill-fed children, who are de
pendent by decree of nature on the
thrift and providence of those who
.have brought them into being.
But in emergencies like this, true
charity will not pause to ask whether
the suffering is due to ill fortune or
improvidence. It is enough that a
great host of God's poor creatures are
in the deepest distress and danger;
that bank vaults are filled with gold,
and coal bins with fuel, and granaries
with a surplus which can not be con
sumed by both the home and the
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view.
markets. Spokesman-Re-
Some of the Chicago papers are
.inolino nut three men Hoar, Hale
and Got man as being in a partic
j ularly direct degree responsible for
i the deaths of the American soldiers
' LmIia.1 in the flahtins at Manila. This
is all right as far as it goes, but what
is to be done with Billy Masou?
Riliv'a vntn for the treatv after he
had been fighting it until that time
i ought not to save him from the con
demnation of the country. There
was a chance all along that Billy
would be frightened into supporting
the treaty at the last moment," but
his attacks upon it were as persistent
and vindictive as those of any other
of its onrxnents. To the extent of
Billy's influence he was as much re
sponsible for the lives of the forty or
fifty Americans killed in the reccut
fighting as Hoar, Gorman or Hale.
The American people, in keepin
that list of twenty-seven copperheads
who voted against the treaty, will
not fail to make a place on the tail
end of the roll for the name of the
Illinois senator, who stood with these
renegades up to the moment when
the indignation of his own state
forced kirn to abandon them and to
attack his own tricky and discredit
able record.
The effort to send female convicts
to the state reform school, instead of
caring for them at the penitentiary,
which is argued as a feasible plan by
Superintendent Gilbert, of the prison,
is not looked upon with favor by
those connected with the reform
school, and those who have taken an
interest in it. They say the school
was instituted and conducted for the
purpose of training youth so they
may never go to the penitentiary, and
that it would be utterly repugnant to
every idea connected with the school
and the pupils thereof to have female
criminals brought in among them,
thus tainting the whole institution
wiih the name and attributes of a
prison for felons. Tbey claim that
all that is necessary to be done is to
fence off a portion of the state prison
grounds as the exercise yard for
female prisoners, and then furnish
them with work in the line of sewing
for the other inmates, just as must be
contemplated for them if sent to the
reform school. This question is
worthy of serious consideration.
There is no doubt that it would be
difficult, with present facilities at the
reform school, to enforce that com
plete isolation of such women from
the boys there as would be dictated
by propriety and tie rules of safety.
Only two Republican senators
voted against the peace treaty, and
both are being denounced all over
the country by nearly every respect
able newspaper as traitors, upon
whose head rests the blood of the
soldiers killed at Manila. Every
other vote against the treaty, besides
these two, was cast by a Democrat
or Populist. But It is a little singular
that only the two adverse Republi
cans are characterized as traitors and
held responsible for the death of our
troops in the Philippines. It seems
to be taken as a matter of course that
Democrats and Populists should be
disloyal to the country, but such con
duct is held highly reprehensible in
Republican senators. Here is a lesson
in politics that should not be lost on
the rising generation. Can it be won
dered that so large a majority of the
young men reaching voting age ally
themselves with the Republican party?
GOOD WORK AT MANILA.
It is clear now that the period cov
ered by the censorship of the cable
was devoted to a general work of
preparation to repel the attack from
Aguinaldo felt to be inevitable. Ad
miral Dewey and Gen. Otis knew
perfectly well from the pressure ex
erted on all sides by the Filipinos,
from their insolent manner and their
defiance at Iloilo that a collision was
certain to come. The Filipinos were
told by their lesders that we were
half-disposed to evacuate, and that
one severe blow would settle the
matter. Our army and navy were
made ready and the work carefully
cut out It was complicated and dif
ficult. A large city must be held in
subjection, and every weak point
strengthened against a possible
massed attack. Aguinaldo planned
aa uprising in the city, and it is said
to have miscarried. It is far more
accurate to remark that the disposi
tion of troops in the city and of our
sbipa in the bay prevented the battle
in the streets that had been arranged.
It was our readiness and display of
force In Manila that foiled the plot
in the Filipino quarter.
When the battle opened Dewey's
flagship took position in the midst of
iho foreign vessels in the harbor. He
believes in giving personal attention
to the duties of neutrality under try
ing circumstances. If Aguinaldo had
any consulting assistants on a foreign
ship in the bay they kept quiel. The
Ahtinr craft of lighter draught went
to their appointed stations to aid in
repelling the assaults. In every at
tempted advance our troops carried
the position tbey wanted, and held it.
Our long and f atient forbearance at
Manila is proved by the fact that
armed Filipinos held the water
works, though the city was surren
dered to the United States months
ago. Wc allowed them to remain up
to the day of their attack rather than
provoke a quarrel Here again they
suspected timidity. Our army and
navy at Manila deserve the warmest
praise for admirable foresight as well
as splendid valor.
The threat of a Havana paper that
Cuban hostility to the Spanish resi
dents of the island will make the
Spaniards all annexationists undoubt
edly means something. Independ
ence would be likely to instigate as
saults on the Spaniards by the natives
which would repeat the feuds of the
other Spanish-American states three
quarters of a century ago. This peril
is sure to win the support of a large
majority of the Spanish residents in
Cuba to the annexation policy. Un
questionably also the influence ot
Spain will be used in favor of an
nexation. Spain will haye no sway
of annexation. Spain will have do
sway over the native Cubans, but it
will probably have some weight with
the Spanish inhabitants of the island.
Stability and progressiveness in gov
ernment will help the Spaniards in
Cuba as well as the rest of the resi
dents, and these conditions, as Spain
presumably knows, are more likely to
be secured under; a government run
by the Americans than under one
managed by the Cubans.
We are informed that "Aguinaldo
is one of the greatest Malays whose
name appears on the page of history."
It is not known whether this charac
terization takes Hoar, Hale, Billy
Mason and the rest of the Filipino
Junta in Washington into the com
parison. These individuals deserve
some sort of recognition from those
persons who are reciting the deeds of
the great Malays.
Stock-jobbers and trust-builders
are not in very good repute at pres
ent, but the man who puts his trust
in the American army and navy may
begin to count his profits from the
time the first gun is fired.
A New York curio collector is
mourning the loss by fire of three
mummified Peruvian kings. In a
city like New York he ought not to
have much trouble in finding some
thing to beat three kings.
With a population of 35,000,000,
the republic of France maintains a
standing army of 500,000 men. Sure
ly an army of 100,000 would not be
a very serious menace lo the liberties
of the American people.
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precaution sbcuid be taken to avoid it.
Its specific cure is One Minute Cough
Cure. A. J. Suepard, publisher Agri
cultural Journal and Advertiser, Elden,
Mo., says: "oon will be disappoint
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FORESTER S CASE NOW
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Thuradaj'a Daily.
In the cat of the Stat vs. John
Sbeehe, charged with an assault with a
dangerous weapon oa the person of Mike
Schwarti in Micbelbach's saloon on the
morning cf the 4th, the graud jury
brought in not a true bill.
In the matter of the Slate vs. Win.
KoKe, charged with assaulting B. C.
Keee with a dangerous weapon, the de
fendent withdrew his plea of not guilty
and entered a tea ol guilty, lie will be
sentenced Saturday morning.
The grand jury brought in a true bill
against L. Morris charging hi in witb
larceny from a dwelling.
The case ol the State vs. VVm. Kulfe,
charged with assault with a dangerous
weapon, committed at Antelope on the
period of Murdock McKay, was con
tinued for the term, owing to the condi
tion of the prosecuting witness who is
not able to be present.
Al Mesplie withdrew his plea of not
guilty and entered a plea of guilty and
was fined $50.
The court was busy all yesterday after
noon and evening securing a jury in the
case of the State vs. Frank Forester,
charged with killing Phil Brogan, and
on adjourning had succeeded in getting
ten jurors.
Shortly after noon today the remain
ing two were selected. The entire panel
was exhausted and a special venire bad
to be issued before the requisite number
were chosen. The following gentlemen
compose the jury : O. B. Connolly, E.
E. Lyons, F. C. Benson, H. J. Hibbard,
John Wagenblaat, J. J. Luckey, Fred
Fisher, W. H. Taylor, Wo, Haynes,
Jesse Imbler, C. 8. Smith and J. L.
Thompson. The court room was crowded
this afternoon with spectators who are
apparently taking great interest in the
case. A. A. Jayne made the opening
statement for the prosecution and F. P.
Maya for the defense.
HOT TIME IN THE HOUSE.
The Daly Text Bonk Bill Discaaalon Cre
atos a Sensation Among tba ,
Legislators.
Statk House, Salem, Feb. 15. 1:25
p. m. There was intense excitement
in the house this morning when the
Daly text book measure came np for dis
cussion. Curtis, Whalley,' Hawson,
Hawley were opposed to it,whileMoody,
Stewart and Stillman were in favor of
its passage.
Whalley stated that Hofer, of the
Salem Journal, bad tried to intimidate
the members to vote for the bill. Hofer
at once said "You are a liar I" Both
statements were then repeated, and the
feeling waxed warm. The house immed
iately voted to censure Hofer for his un
seemingly conduct.
Fiagg and Hawson also waged a war
of words, making the scene a lively one,
as had been expected when the measure
was presented. Several charges were
made that money was being used in
the effort to defeat the bill. These
statements were not contradicted.
The bill fiually passed by a vote of
thirty-three to twenty-six, one member
being absent. So engrossed was the
house in the discussion before theiu
that an adjournment did not take
place till 12:45.
This morning the senate passed a grist
of local measures.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A Correspondent Give His Views Con
cerning Affair at lha Capital.
Washington, D. C. Feb. 10, 1899.
The greatest interest attended the dis
cussion of the Spanish treaty. While
the people were almost unanimously for
the treaty, the minority of the senate
were some striving to embarrass the ad
ministration while others were like Hale
of Maine and Hoar of Massachusetts.
relics of the old federalist party that op
posed the war with England and all the
expansion that has given our nation
room to broaden and won us prestige for
all time. Pitchfork Tillman on the one
hand and Senator Hoar on the other,
show the extremes that composed the
opposition to expansion.
At an opportune moment, on the Sab
bath day, as the church bells were ring
lug, word came from far Manila that
Aguinaldo was so encouraged by the be
lief that he had allies in the American
senate, that be bad organized war and
attacked the American forces at night aa
Indians always do. They suffered the
necessary defeat ; that was inevitable,
and the result of this treachery will
show the world the difference between
the Anglo Saxon race and the common
run of oriental humanity. This lesson
will make easy the pacification of the 1
Philippines. It had to come ; statesmen
at the national capital feel easier; they
only reiret that loyal and valuable
American lives were sacrificed to the
hesitancy of the senate and the perfidy
and miserable ambition of Aguinaldo.
This opening of war tnrned tbetcale and
saw loyal men in the senate vote to sus
tain the administration. The loyalty of
the southern men who were above the
mere wish to embarrass the administra
tion will be remembered and recognUed.
The incident has been worth all its cost;
now we must show the world that we
know how to govern nenificently as well
as to acquit possessions.
River and harbor bill The action ot
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bine of
No. 7 Woodland k stove $ 7.50
No. 8 " " 8.50
No. 8 Wood G aria, 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 .v 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' beet. They combine elegant finish, durability, and cbn
veniance, with economy of fuel, and in spite of all competition hold
their station lar in advance ol all others. We take pleasure iu call
ing attention to our list of stoves on hand. Sold exclusively by
MAIER & BENTON,
Mlrchin".".'?rc'rv The Dalles, Or.
the house In refusing to carry out con
tracts for improvements in Oregon and
make other appropriations, should be a
practical lesson to the people of the
state. The fifty-fourth congress made
appropriations and laid plana for future
work to thejamouot of $1,926,610. At
that time Mr. Hermann was on the river
and harbor committee; not only so, but
he was next to the chairman on that
committee and in line of promotion t" be
chairman. His age made him a mem
ber of all conference committees and
gave him wide influence, that only old
members can attain. It is no disparage
rrent to new members to say that tbey
must acquire influence by experience;
this will apply to tbeir cases when time
comes to elect another delegation. The
fact that Dolpb and Mitchell served so
long in the senate gave them great in
fluence; Mr. Hermann had the same
prestige. The important places these
gentlemen held on committees they
owed to the long time they had served.
As a state we cannot afford to be chang
ing congressmen all the time. The new
appropriations made for Oregon amount
to less than a tenth of those made by the
fifty-fourth congress to wit: Upper
Colombia, $5,000; Lower Willamette,
$100,000; Coquille, $29,000; Upper Co
quill, $6,000; Columbia to Vancouver,
$40,000. These form the total for the
present year. Those omitted are the laws
being repealed that authorized them. Ya
quina $1,000,000; Port Orford, $200,000;
boat railway at Dalles, $150,000;
Coos bay, Cascades, Siuelaw, Umpqua,
Coos river, Alsoe, Kestucca, the Wil
lamette and Yamhill, Tongue Point to
Astoria all these are ignored and it re
mains to be seen if any part will be re
stored by the action of the senate. In
the senate we count as many as any
other state, but in the house we have
little influence with bnt two members.
The position Mr. Hermann held on the
river and harbor committee was o' im
mense importance to Oregon. Our pol
itics may require a faithful servant but
the policy of older states is to put good
men in congress and keep them there as
long as they are useful. The world was
surprised to see so good a man as Her
mann left at borne. The same may
apply to changes that may occur or that
have occurred. The future should profit
by past experience and keep good men
in congress for common sense reasons.
Mr. Tongue ably showed that the state
represented on the committee were but
one-third of the nnion but received two
thirds of the appropriations.
This interests Oregon as the com
merce of our state decides its wealth
and prosperity. The Columbia entrance
that was very dangerous, by government
aid has become one of earth's safest har
bors; the river improvements make
Portland the metropolis of the Pacific
Northwest. Congress will have too
much to do the three months left of the
session to devote time to the wants of
the states. Many questions of interest
S. WILKINSON
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Just
Received.
will be left over to another session. Mr,
Simon has got acquainted and will be is
good form for business when the next
congress meets. The Oregon delegation
get along well and act harmoniously.
Our state has always been ably repre
sented. It hat commanded much more
influence, in past time, than any other
on the vast coast. This was due to tht
quality of the men we have sent; Lane,
Nesmith, Grover, Williams who stood
as high as any Dolph, Mitchell ill
these bad influence and gave Oregon
honorable standing. We are ably repre
sented at this time; no more industriooi
and capable man than Senator McBrldi
ever represented Oregon ; his tact and
political sense make him respected and
influential. Senator Simon has shown
efficiency in his connection with Oregon
legislatures, where he has always beeni
governing power. He will be sure to ac
complish results here.
Colonel James J. Kelly, who wai
prominent in early Oregon history, and
was connected with early Indian wart,
lives here, be and his son being in the
practice of law. Last Sunday, in com
pany with H. N. Gilfrey, I called on
him and had a talk of Oregon in the
olden age. Col. Kelly is now 80 years of J
age and likes to meet bis old timef
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menus, no met tnere Mrs. J. A.
Dolph, who is visiting Mrs. Kelly. Fee
men deserve to be more kindly remem
bered by old timers more than does Col.
Kelly. s. A. C.
Hlb, Schools.
The various high school bills before
the Oregon legislature have again called
the attention of the public t
the question as to whether the rich
poor furnish tho greater number of stu
dents for the public high schools. LmI
week Supt. Gavin made the followioi
response to inquiries concerning tb
present state of affairs at The Dalles.
In the high school department in tlx
city on February 8th, the total enroll
ment was 99. Of these 5 were non-reei-dents
of the county, paying tuition ; si
non-iesldents of the district, paying tu
ition, and 88 residents of the district, re
receiving tuitbn free.
The ninety-four pupils from Watce
county represent eighty three different
families.
The following figures are taken from
the last assessment roll the one on
which taxes will be collected in Marck
'99 and full allowances are made for
all assessments made to the named
either parent and also for assessment!
to corporations and firms so far as tuck
facts are known to the assessor :
Of the 04 resident students, 35 r
from families not assessed on the rolls;
27 from those assessed not to exceed $V
000 ; 2") from families assessed ov
$1000 and not less than $'000; two from
families assessed over $5000 and le
than $10,000; six from families assessed
over $10,000.
and Forwarding.
THE DALLES, OR.
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