THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1899
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r S SHAMELESS.
Each and every day there is a
roar is congress, that increase of the
army is wanted to trample down
liberty in the Philippine islands, or
to suppress liberty at home. It is
merely a partisan cry fur the eais of
the groundlings, and is discreditable
both to the intelligence and to the
patriotism of those who utter it.
Our soldiers will not trample down
liberty in the Philippine islands, but
vill establish it there; the few men
that are required to perform ordinary
duty about our coast fortifications,
or to check mob outbieaks like those
at Chicago and Sacramento in 1894,
will not suppress liberty in the
United States, but will render the
eervice necessary to prevent it; tat
peace and order are the essential
-elements, and very ground work of
liberty.
We have been carried by events
into some distant undertakings, from
which we cannot possibly retire with
credit and safety. These undertak
ings can be supported only with land
forces, to act in conjunction with
those of the navy. But wherever
our flag goes, it will be an emblem
of liberty, not of oppression. Good
patriots should not, indued will not,
misrepresent and malign their own
country.
Of a total array of 100,000 men.
perhaps 40,000 will be on duty in
the United States. In comparison
with the extent of the country, it
will be so small a force thai few of
our people will ever see a soldier,
"The pretense that this army will en
"danger our liberties is an insult to
the American people, of which only
-shameless politicians are capable.
The idea that one soldier to every
2000 inhabitants could be used to
overthrow the liberty and oppress
a nation, composed of a people so
vigorous and intelligent as Ameri
cans, with a government 80 demo
cratic and so wholly in their own
' Lands, disables patience. Every nisn
who uses such an nrgument, as well
as every man who pretends that our
ourse in the Philippines means en
slavement of the people there, knows
himself to be a cheap and pitiful
creature, lying from partisan and
demagogic instinct, 'Tis a pity so
many of such are in congress. Ore
jgonian. As a Tesult of a recent settlement
of government claims against the
Pacific railroads, the treasury is to re
ceive the magnificent sum of $123,
563,939.23. The debt 'caused by the
United States loaning its credit to the
Pacific railroad enterprises, and the
-accumulation of unpaid interest, ag
gregated such an enormous sum that
conservative financiers believed the
debt would never be paid in full. A
proposition to settle the claims at 50
cents on the dollar was declined, ns
was also a refunding plan which
would extend over a hundred years.
It is highly creditable to the present
ad in inistration that a settlement in
full has been secured, which in the
cases of tho Central Pacific and Kan
sas Pacific is nearly nineteen millions
in excess of what ihe reorcanization
committee originally agreed to bid
f or the two properties.
. Those who suppose the Filipinos
are going to wage a guerilla war of
many years mistake the character of
those people. They did not wage
any such war against Spain. They
were beaten in a few fights by the
Spaniards, and they subsided for a
time, snl started a new rebellion
whenever they thought the time fav
orablc. Spain had no such trouble
with the Filipinos as she had with the
Cubans. The Filipino rebellion was
ended several months before the war
between Spain and the United States
began. Probably if the United
States hid not attacked Spain the re
bellion which Spain suppressed In
1897 would stay suppressed for many
years. It was the rebellion in Cuba,
and the drain which that conflict
made upon Spain' resources, which
incited the Filipinos to rise in the
first place. The United States will
have no such trouble on its hand as
Spain had it hen the Malays rose.
The Filipino rebellion against the
United States is not likely to be
either long or formidable.
OCR LOSSES AT MAXILA.
James Creelman cables from Ma
nila that he has seen Filipino women
and children in the tranches, with
rifles in their hands. This is a shock
ing and pathetic state of affairs, and
will serve as a text for additional
torrents of opposition rhetoric in the
senate and the house. Senators and
representatives w bo led in fiery de
mands last summer for immediate
war with Spain, and who then de
nounced the president because his
prophetic foresight warned him that
war would bring in its train conse
quences find grave responsibilities
which no one could foresee, are now
protesting against the acceptance of
the grave responsibilities which . have
been forced upon the United States
in the Philippines. They were hot
for war; they are hot tcr peace.
In their tender solicitude for the
Filipinos, some tf tbei-e weather-vane
senators and representatives quite
overlook the tragic truth that the
misguided natives are shooting down
our own countrymen. Their voices
are full of tears for Ihe savage bow
men whom Aguinaldo hurled against
the American forces, but have no
quaver for the gallant boys who have
gone out from our own firesides and
fallen in defense of the flag.
It is indeed sad that deceived and
misguided Filipinos have fallen be
fore oui arms; but what of our own
noble dead and suffering wounded?
Eighty sons of the west are covered
by island soil, and 340 bear the pain
of wounds inflicted by a deluded
people. And of these 80 corpses, one
half spraug to the defense of the Bag
from the plains and the mountains of
Washington and her sister states,
Idaho and Montana. More than one-
third of the total dead were from
this single state of Washington 14
from our volunteers, and 14 more
from the splendid Fourteenth regi
ment from Vancouver. Nearly 10
of the wounded are from this state
56 from our volunteers, and 35 from
the Fourteenth regulars. One-half
the wounded are from Washington,
Idaho and Montana.
It is shameful that American sen
ators andicpresentatives should bub
ble and blubber over savage losses,
and have never a teardrop and never
a word of tender grief for the Amer
ican homes which have given their
sons to the defense of the starry
banner.
Out here in the golden West we
are grieved by the thought that na
tive women and children should be
found in the enemy's trenches; but
we have a deeper grief for our own
sacred dead. Spokesman Review.
Senator Jones says the Democratic
platform of 1900 will contain a free
silver plank. Bryan has several times
recently said the same thing. The
probability, suicidal as this course
would be, is that Jones and Bryan
are correct in their prognostications.
Six months or a year ago the Re
publicans would not have believed
that the Democrats would be Insane
enough to tempt fate with the silver
lunacy aain,bul the indications now
are that thev will do this very thing.
Apparently they will be forced to
this course by the necessity of keep
ing at least a small fragment of their
party intact as a nucleus for the
future. Anti-expansion, as all the
shrewder Bryanites now begin to
realize, would destroy their party,
and as they have no other issue ex
cept free silver, they will be forced
to fall back on that folly again. That
makes the outlook extremely bright
for the Republicans in 1900. The
contest will scarcely be lively enough
to be interesting. Who can bo en
thused by the chestnuts of the 1890
campaign?
The Cuban Assembly is not going
to reject that proposal for a $3,000,
000 loan by the United btatcs.whcre
by the insurgent armies may be paid.
That body is not strictly representa
tive, but it has enough to see that
the offer is prompted by benevolent
motives on the part of the United
states, and that its acceptance will
aid materially in the prompt reha
bilitation f affairs on the island.
Gomez is in favor of the proposition,
and his views on this question, are
likely to have great weight with the
thoughtful people of Cuba. The
payment and diabandnient of the in
surgent armies will help to build up
the shattered industries in Cuba by
restoring confidence and putting all
the able-bodied men nt work, and it
will raise up thousands of friends for
;he Americans among the people of
the island.
The total rail shipments of lumber
an J shingles from Washington for
1898 amounted to 30,123 cars; lum
ber 10,400 cars, and shingles 19,CG3
cars. A little speculatien as to these
figures will prove of passing interest.
Taking the combined shipments of
lumber and shingles by rail only,
coupled together as one solid train,
the cars containing this lumber and
shingle output for the year 1898
would present a train 228 miles long.
The shingles alone would make a
train 149 miles long. Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
The California legislature recently
passed an anti-cartoon law. If it
would pass an anti politician law and
give the newspapers power to enforce
it the people would bo relieved of a
heavy burden, and there would not
be so many foolish laws and so many
useless offices created and filled at
the expense of the producing, con
suming people.
Billy Mason says the Philippines
will yet have their Lafayette. Billy
himself should volunteer for the part.
He could fill it as well as Aguinaldo
does that of Washington,
Every rumor and each movement
in the Philippines accentuates the
importance of a Nicaragua canal.
This congress will be lax in its duty
if it adjourns without providing for
the commencement of this work.
CONURESS IS SLOW.
Man? Oregon Klrer Mid Harbor Im
provement! are Being Held Up.
A good many improvements are be
ing held up in Oregon cm account of the
delay of congress in passing the river
and harbor bill. The Appropriations
necessary to carry forward many river
and bay contracts have not yei been
made, but are to be included in the river
and harbor bill now pending.
Among those held np in this part of
the country are the jetties at the en
trance to Coquille river, removing ob
structions in npper Coquille river, the
completion of the jetties at the entrance
to Coos bay, the removal of obstructions
in Coos river, the jetties at the mouth
of Siusla river, the jetties of Yaquina
bay, work in Tillamook bay and the
completion of the work on the Cascade
locks. The upper walla at the locks
have neyer been completed, though the
locks can be used as they now stand.
There is another job which depends
partly on the river and harbor appro
priations. It is the proposed boat rail
way from The Dalles to Celilo. All of
the right of way has not yet been
arranged for this boat railway, although
it has been condemned, and the papers
have long since been forwarded to
Washington for approval. When they
are returned and the condemned pro
perty Is paid for by the government,
nothing will remain to be done, but the
appropriating of the funds sufficient to
do the work.
Major Hart's office, while always busy,
will be doing business on a large scale as
sunn as the necessary appropriations are
made to push forward the above con
tracts. Telegram.
How to l'rerent Pneumonia.
You are perhaps aware that pneu
monia always results from a cold or from
an attack of La Grippe. During the
epidemic of La Grippe a few years ago
when so many cafes resulted in pneu
monia, it was observed that the attack
was never followed by that disease when
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was used.
It counteracts any tendency of a cold or
LaGrippato result in that dangerous
disease. It is the best remedy in the
world for' bad colds and La Grippe.
Every bottle warranted. For sale by
Blakeley A Houghton, drnggits.
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FARMERS' INSTITUTE.
AUeadauce Meeting foalpuBcd
Vatll Tomorrow.
I Weduesduy'i paily.
j The weather of today is not jist
! such as would be chosen for a Farmers'
Institute; but at the tame time is
such as would cause the farmer to be
. following the plow, end other pursuits,
preventing him from attending the in
stitute. Besides, a misunderstanding in
regard to the place of meeting kept
many of our citizens from being present,
so that it was thought best to postpone
the meeting until tomorrow at 10 o'clock
at the court room, the evening session
having already been given upon account
of the concert.
As nearly as can be determined, the
following program will be given to
morrow, and it is hoped a large audit nee
will be present, as Mr. Judson has done
all in his power to make the meeting a
success, bringing the beet of speakers to
our city :
Thursday, 10 a. m.
AvocationRev. D. V. Poling.
Welcome address in behalf of the
city Mayor M. T. Nolan.
Welcome address in behalf of fruit
growers Dr. G. E. Sanders.
Response in behalf of visitors Dr.
Jas. Withycombe.
"What Are We Here Foi" Prof. E.
K. Lake.
Music.
"Education of the Future" Prof. G.
W.Shaw.
Discussion of the same.
Music.
"Tillage a Factor in Conservation of
Moisture" Dr. Jas. Withycombe.
Discussion of same.
"The Coming Horticultural Problem"
-Prof. E. R. Lake.
Discussion of same.
"The Education of the Future" Dr.
G. W. Sbaw.
Discussion of same.
2 p. M.
"Fruit Trees and Spraying" Prof.
Cordley.
Discussion of same.
Questions to be answered from ques
tion box.
8 p. M.
Mueic.
"Packing Fruit from a California
Standpoint" Prof. W. W. Phillips.
Discussion.
"Dairying and Care of Cattle" T. S.
Townsend. ,
Discussion.
Music.
"An Agricultural Paper a Benefit to
the Farmer and Fruit Grower" H. M.
Williamson.
Discussion.
A LIGHT ATTENDANCE.
Wherere the Farmer? A Floe Taper
Read.
The farmers' institute ia bore, bnt
where are the farmers? Such was thn
query when upon entering the conrt
room row alter row of uenhes weree
found to be empty. It must he that our
farmers do not realize what they are
missing as well as those wbo attend, if
but for a short time. It would teem as
if this opportunity affoided them by the
Oregon Agricultural College, assisted by
R. C. Judson, of the O. R. & N., wonld
be grasped immediately ; but such is not
the case, and the energies expended by
these splendid speakers benefit but the
few.
This morning, after Rev. Poling opened
the meeting with prayer, Mayor Nolan
gave our visitors such a welcome in be
half of the city as must certainly have
made them feel pertectly at home. He
seemed anxious to welcome such men to
our city; as did also Dr. G. E. Sanders,
who spoke in behalf of the Iruit growers
of our section. The latter spoke of his
regret at the apparent lack of interest
in the meeting, saying that the visit of
such scientific men should be appreci
ated and the amount of benefit to be
derived considered.
The only paper given this morning'
was that of Trot. E. R. Lake, of the
Agricultural College, but this was worth
a trip to the city to hear. Hig remarks
were on "The Coming Horticultural
Problem," showing that we must give
heed to the science of farming, etc., be
fore the best results will be obtained.
He spoke particularly on packing and
shipping fruit, saying it was not so
much in transportation, nor with the
miildle men, as In the attention given
to packing. Much of our fruit is sold
from its appearance, therefore heed must
be given to preparing it, as much com
plaint comes from Eastern markets in
regard to the manner In which Oregon
fruit is packed. He also laid that it is
not so much the quantity we raise, but
the quality which gives us our enviable
reputation as a fruit state.
In conclusion he mentioned the
amount of our product which goes to
wapte yearly, recommending that all'
this so-called leakage be manufactured j
Into vinegar, marmalades, jlies, etc.
Instead of ning all tliee Jellies shipped
from the East, let ns utilize our own 1
surplus In this line. Then, too, much I
can be convert! into candies, Mrs. I
Montieth, of Albany, now hai a secret'
process by which she makes some de- j
licious crystalized fruit, far ahead ot ,
other randies.
Before closing, Prof. Lake then in
vited all preient to an Institute and
fruit exhibition to be held at Corvallis
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No. 7 Woodland k stove $ 7.50
No. 8 " " , 8.50
No. 8 Wood Garla 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 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 ecouomy of fuel, and in spite of all competition hold
their station lar in advance ol all otheis. We take pleasure in call
ing attention to our list of stoves on hand. Sold exclusively by
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in the near future, which invitation
would be accepted did all realize the
amount of information and pleasure to
be derived from a visit to the college.
A discussion of the subject was then
given by E. Schanno, Mr. Walters,
Prof. Shaw and G. E. Sanders, after
which a motion to adjourn was carried.
AN EVENING OF HARMONY-
The A. I. P. S. Concert Delighte Every
. one 3'reeent.
An evening of perfect harmony is what
last evening may well be termed, by
those who were fortunate enough to be
present at the A. L. P. S. concert, for
during over two hours spent with these
vocalists, not a discordant note was
heard, nor was there a break in the
smoothness of the entertainment from
the instrumental duet, so well executed
by the Misses N'ickelseo, to the beautiful
closing quartet, "Until the Dawn."
Each of the gentlemen composing the
quartet have splendid voices peculiar to
themselves, yet harmonizing so com
pletely that the melody is sublimo.
That of Mr. M. L. Akers, the first tenor,
ia remarkable for its high register,
which is a rarity, aud the lasting quality
displayed so admirably last night. Prof.
Lundell is at bis best when depth ard
richness is required, and the ease with
which he sings is gratifying to an audi
ence. Messrs. Poling and Steele each
possesses those clear, pleasing voices
which never fail to delight an audience
because, net only do they catch every
note in its fullness, but every word
uttered is given the pioper expression.
The quartet were particularly happy
in their selections, which could not
have been more pleasing, varying from
the sentimental to tha lighter vein.
The only criticism which we might offer
ia in regard to the beautiful tenlimcnt
expressed in that referring to Mrs.
Winslow's soothing syrup, and that from
a selfish point of view, deeming it detri
mental to newspaper advertising, al
though soothing to the audience.
The rare musical ability aisplayed by
the A. L. P. S. band took the audience
by surprise. It would be difficult to
find their equal, and strange does it
seem that Prof. Steele's talents are
permitted to be expended in such small
cities.
An Instrumental piece by the Har
wood Quintet, composed of Messrs. H.
D. and I. Parkins and J. Rees, and
Mrs. Reesand Miss Valesca Liebe. wai
so pleasing that an encore was demand
ed and responded to.
In speaking of the singing of Mrs.
B. K. Huntington, words always seem
inadequate to expies the sweetness of
her voice, which can only be compared
to that of a bird. Dalles people never
grow weary of hearing her, and her
selection last night'was one which could
not fail to please them, being perfectly
auapteu to her style.
More than half of the success c,f a
concert is due to the accompanist, and
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therefore we cannot refrain from men
Honing the perfectness of the manner it
which Miss Schmidt assisted thesoloitti
Indeed, each performer is entitled to
a large share ot credit for the succeei of
the entertainment, and Prof. Lundeii
especially, upon whom much of the tr
rangement depended.
THE ROUGH RIDERS.'
Col. Rooaevrlt Denrrlhee the Char
acter and Kind of Men He
Commanded.
Then I went down to San Antes!
myself, where I found the men fron
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma al
ready gathered, while those from In
dian territory came in soon after n;
arrival.
, These were the men who made up thf
bulk of the regiment, and give it in
peculiar character. They came from
the four territories which jet remain
within tbe boundaries of the United
States; that is, from the lands that have
br-en most, recently won over to vhitt
civilization, and in which the condi
tions of life are nearest those thdt ob
tained on the frontier when there still
was a frontier. They were a splendid
net of men, these south westerners tall
find sinewy, with resolute, weather
beaten faces, and eyes that looked i
man st rnight in the face without llinct
ing. Tbey included in their ranks m
of every occupation; but the tbw
types were those of the cowboy,' tb
hunter and the mining prospector thf
man who wandered hither and t hit her,
killing game for a living, and spend
ing his life in the quest for metal
wealth.
In all the world there could be no
better material for soldiers than that
pfforded by these grim hunters of th
mountains, these wild rough riders of
the plains. They were accustomed to
handling wild and savage horses; they
were accustomed to following tbt
chase with the ritle, both for sport aod
as a means of livelihood. Varied
though their occupations had been, si
most all had. at one time or another,
herded cattle nod hunted big game
They were hardened to life in the open,
and to shifring for themselves under
ndver.se circumstances. - They were
med, for ail their lawless freedom, to
1he rough discipline of the round-up
and the mining company. Some of
them enme from the small frontier
towns; but most were from the wilder
ness, having left their lonely hunter'
cabins and shining cow-camps to seek
new and more stirring adventures be
yond the sea. Col. Theodore Koose
velt, in Scribner's.
Not cni child dies where ten formsrlr
died from croup. People have learned
the value of One Minute Cough Curs
and nse it for every lung and throt
trouble. Ir Irnmedia'tely stopn coiiirhinl.
It never fails. Pnlpee-Kinersly Drug Co.
Before the discovery of One Minttts
Cough Cure, ministers were greatly dis
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excuse for it now, Rnipcs-Klnerslf
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