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WHAT THE PUERTO RWAS TAR
JFF ME ASS.
"Free trade with Puerto Kico does
not aiean free trade with England
or Germany or France," says
Hillsboro paper, and a staunch Re
publican paper at that. But this i
precisely what it does mean and
nothing else. Let no protectionist
deceive himself. Free trade with
Puerto Rico means free trade with
the Philippines. Free trade with the
Philippines means free trade for
Spain with the Philippines under the
Spanish treaty, and free trade for
Spam with the Philippines, under
the most favored nation treaties
means free trade with the United
States through the Philippines for all
the world. Hence the tenacity with
which the administration Republicans.
in the teeth of public opinion based
largely on ignorance of the principles
Involved, cling to the Puerto Rican
' tariff. Hence the viruleuce of anti-
administration opposition. Hence
too, the bitterness of the Oregonian's
attacks on all who oppose free trade
with the island. The Oregonian has
one of its periodical attacks of the
free trade Jim-jams. But it knows
its own mind and motives. When
Colonel Bryan the other day told a
reporter that he was much pleased to
see the Oregonian opposing the
Puerto Rico tariff, but was surprised
that the Oregonian did not see that
the same question would arise when
we come to deal with the Philippines,
the Oregonian's reply was:
This is just what The Oregonian
does see. It is what it has foreseen
from the very first motion, in this
Puerto Rican business. Moreover,
it knows, and has said many times
that it was the shadow of the Philip
pines looming up behind this Puerto
Kican proposition that caused con
gress, under pressure of protected
interests, to take this position against
justice to Puerto Rico. But for the
Philippines there would bave been
no more objection to free trade with
Puerto Rico than with Hawaii.
Yes, the Oregouian "sees" well
-enough. It is for free trade with
Puerto Rico because it is for free
trade, as that term is used, ilb all
the world. This is the Barmecide
feast to which it invites the wool
growers and farmers of Eastern
-Oregon. And the farmers and wool
growers, having a lively recollection
of the late Cleveland-Barmecide
banquet of tariff reform, will respect
fully decline the invitation.
A Wallowa editor, meditating on
the new finance law, waxes inconsol
able because to quote bis own
words "a debtor with a carload of
silver cannot take it anywhere and
exchange it for legal tender gold
(presumably at 16 to 1) with which to
pay his debts," adding that under
Ibis law "the man" (with the carload
of silver) "will be helpless and at
the mercy of the money lender as
completely as if he were bis purchased
slave," and concluding that "among
all the infa mies that were enacted
into law by the Republican party
nothing has ever equaled the infamy
of this bill." The man is a Pop, of
course, and writes in harmony with
the monetary philosophy of silver
ism, but as an editor and moulder of
public opinion be belongs to that
numerous class whom Horace Greely
designated as the product of a
mystciious and inscrutable Provi
dence. The Heppner Gazette contrasts the
dense gloom that settled over the
Heppner bills and Eastern Oregon
under a free trade, Democratic ad
ministiation, and continued as long
as there was any dread of Cleveland's
policy being continued under Bryan
' ism, with the wonderful revival that
lias taken place under a protective
policy. In this connection it notes
the change of sentiment that pros
perity has brought about towards
Bryan, himself. When that gentle
man made bis former tour in the
Northwest, forty men left Heppner
and traveled many miles for the
purpose of bearing b!m. When be
spoke in Pendleton a couple of days
ago only two of the forty could
muster sullieient curiosity to venturo
a short trip for tbc same purpose.
THE
OREJOSIAS VIU FALSIFY
THE REPORT.
The Oregonian takes The Chuos
kle to task for charging it with
having "edited" its correspondent's
report of the 'Wasco county Repub
lican primaries by adding a clause
which was not in the original, and
which falsiQed the report to the ex
tent that it injected into the primar
ies a feature that Wasco county Re
publicans of a'.l factions sought to
avoid. The clause was: "The Mc
Bride influence failed utterly to ma
terialize." The Oregonian tries to
deny this by saying: "This, it is
hardly necessary to say, is not true.'
But The Chhosicle reaffirms that
it is true, and The Chuomcle has
seen the original and carefully com
pared it with the dispatch as it ap
peared in the Oregonian.' The Ore
gonian did falsify the report. It bad
no more right to inject a clause into
the report that made it appear that
McBride's friends failed to material
ize than it bad to add that Mitchell's
or Ellis', or Pennoyer's friends failed-
to materialize. The added clause
could create no other impression than
that Mr. McBride's friends bad been
whipped into silence and that Mr,
Moody's triumph meant Mr. Mc
Brido 'a defeat; whereas, hardly any
thing could have been farther from
the truth. The Chronicle said at
the time and repeats now that Mr.
McBride's friends frankly conceded
a solid delegation to Mr. Moody,
and that Mr. Moody's friends made
it a point to commit no act that
could be justly construed as unfriend
ly to Mr. McBride. There was no
concerted agreement of anv kind but
this was the situation exactly, and
the head and front of tho Oregonian's
offense was that the falsification of
the report was a slap in the face to
both factions and an effort, whether
intended or not, to resurrect a fac
tional strife that Republicans here
have been trying to keep buried
The Oregonian is conceded the full
right to "control the utterances of its
correspondents." It may "reverse,
add or curtail" all it wants to for
anything The Chkoxici.e cares, but
the readers of the paper are entitled
to something better than "revisious"
and "additions" that are false and
that only display the rabid and un
reasoning personal bitterness of its
editor.
The Oregonian would like The
Chronicle to point out who among
the nine delegates to the state con
vention are "under the McBride in
fluence." For the information of the
Oregonian The Chronicle will say
it does not know. And if the Ore
gonian is particularly anxious for
lurther Information The Chronicle
will say it docs not care. The
question has never been asked here,
to The Chronicle's knowledge. It
is certain The Chronicle never
asked it. The Chronicle has full
faith in every member of the Wasco
county delegation. Neither tbey nor
we are electing senators at this time
nor losing any sleep over the matter.
We shall cross that bridge when we
come to it and like good Republicans
quietly and gracefully submit it to
the expressed will of the majority.
Moreover, and Anally, The Chron
icle is not the organ of Mr. McBride
nor of anybody else. It wears no
man's collar. Its political opinions
are those of its editor and he follows
the light as be Is given to sec the
iglit, neither asking nor expecting
political favors from anybody. The
Chronicle is not tho organ of any
body or anything. It is the mouth
piece of no faction. It is in the
secrets of no faction nor docs it ever
want to be. But it Is a Republican
paper and not a political corsair like
ts critic.
In view of the well-known fact
that conspicuous members of the
Democratic party, more notably
Congressmen Lentz and Seize r, are
making frantic efforts to create party
capital over tho events that bave led
to the restoration of law and order
in tho Coeur d'Alcnes, the Spokesman-Review,
that supported Bryan
four years ago, warns that gentleman
In all candor and conviction that if
by unhappy mischance men Mke
Lentz and Sulzcr and Bojce inject
even a small tincture of their an
archistic syuiLalhy into the next
national Democratic platform that
the blunder will lose Mr. Bryan the
electoral votes of Washington, Id:.ho,
Oregon, Montana and Culiforuia.
Sound counsel this; but the trouble
is that the forces of unrest whom Mr.
Bryan seems particularly anxicus to
placate will never give biui their
suppoit unless be stands ou a plat
form that is strongly tinctured with
"anarchistic sympathy."
THE CASE OF OTIS SA VAG'E.
The decision of the supremo court
of Oregon in the jcase of Stale vs.
Otis Savage, may be strictly in ac
cordance with the established rules
of law, although we think the general
opinion among lawyers familiar with
the questions involved has been that
tho judgment of the lower court
would be reversed. But be the legal
questions what tbey may, we are
confident the result does not subserve
the true end of justice.
The crime ot which Otis Savage
was accused was committed in Oc
tober, 1894; be was tried at the
November term, 1891, of tho circuit
court; he appealed to the supreme
court and died bis brief within the
lime required by the rules; the state
neglected to take the steps necessary
to enable tbe supreme court to hear
the case until a few months ago. In
this case the "law's delay" was in no
way due to the defendant.
Whatever Savage may bave been,
or whatever may have been his con
nection with the robbery of the ex
press office, his conduct since bis trial
has been free from criticism ; a mere
boy when bis case was tried, be has
grown to manhood while waiting the
state's pleasure to prepare bis case
for trial ; and from his every ap
pearance has suffered already long
and much at the bands of the law
and will enter upon his term in tbe
penitentiary broken in health and
physicially unfitted for the penalty.
If be merited tbo judgment of tbe
court be has already learned the
lesson the law would teach.
That he as a man, in whose life
during the past six years the com
munity has found nothing to criti
cise, should bave to endure the four
years confinement in the penitentiary
for something done while a boy, does
not appeal very strongly to the
ordinary man's sense of justice.
We bave no sympathy for the man
of mature years who will violate the
law; but this caso will excite the
sympathy of all fair-minded men
who believe that the laws are made
to reform and not for purposes of
revenge.
The Oregonian says that the ap
plause was grcate.t at the Bryan
meeting in Salem Wednesday when
a good hit was made by tbe speaker
against President McKinley or Maik
Hacna, says the Independent West
Side. Well, it is quite natural for
an audience to keep in touch with
the speaker by cheering when be
attacks the man or men who defeated
him; but why should the Oregoniau
call special attention to the fact that
the president's political opponents
think more of the man for whom
they voted once and will vote again,
than of him? Why does tho Ore
gonian bold up its sore toe and ask
people to weep with it every time
the name of President McKinley is
mentioned? 'Tis true that Brvan
men who were no doubt in the ma
jority though perhaps not largely
so in that meeting did cheer when
the speaker denounced President
McKinley and the Republican man-
ager, but we will leave it to any
member of that vast throng to say
whether the loudest, longest, most
energetic and whole soulcd cheering
was not done when tbo speaker
asserted that some measure be was
denouncing was so rotten that even
the Oregodm could not support it.
That was a statement that caused
men of every political color to grow
red in the face with enthusiasm.
Tbe statistician of the department
of agriculture has completed his an
nual estimate of tho number and
value of livestock farms. Returns
from more than fifty thousand cor
respondents show that on January 1
there were on the farms of the United
States 13,;37,5:1 horses, 2,00,077
mules. 10.292,360 milk cows, 27,010,
154 other cattle, and 41,883,063
sheep. This is an increase of 127,
7t3 in the number of horses, of 48,
180 in that of mules, and of 331,151
in that of cattle other than milk cows.
On tho other band, it Is an increase
of 302,245 in the number of milk
cows, and of 2,708,612 in that c.t
sheep. There has been an increase
in value during the year averaging
17.21 per head in the case of horses,
8.60 in that of mules, 1.94 per
head in that of milk cows, 2.18 per
head in that of other cattle, and 18
cents per bead in that of sheep. This
represents a total increase in value
during the year of nearly 210,000,
000, exclusive of a manifestly con
siderable, but not definitely ascer
tained. increase in tbe value of
swine. Tbe total increase in the
value of farm animals of tbe United
States during the last three years
exceeds $570,000,000.
The Oregonian clearly understands
that the whole Republican principle
of protection is involved in this
Puerto Rican tariff bill. Speaking
with reference to the stubborn strug
gle administration Republicans are
making for the bill, it says: "It is
as hard for tho Republican party to
let go of protection as It was for the
Democratic party to let go of slavery.
Yet tbe former is as clearly an
economic evil as tbe latter was
though it lacks some of the grosser
evils on the moral side." We recom
mend these words to Republicans
who, ignorantly or otherwise, follow
tbe leadership of the big daily in its
battle for free trade with all the
wo! Id, through the defeat of tbe
Puerto Rican tariff bill.
A leading Populist paper of the
state of Washington warns Brother
Bryan to be careful what he says in
that slate about expansion and the
open door in China.
SEWER-REMONSTRANCE.
Remonatranta Consider the Sjatem In
adequate and Too ExpenalTe--My
Invoke Lltlgatlou.
The following is the remonstrance
which has been presented to the com
mon council by seventy-nine of the
leading taxpayers of the city against the
proposed sewer system. After the
usual address and preamble tbe objec
tions are presented as follows:
First We object to said proposed
sewer system on tbe ground that said
system as contemplated will not serve
the purposes for which it is intended;
that the main sewer running east and
west and emptying into the Columbia
river at a point near Union street will
not have sufficient fall to carry away the
sewerage in times of high water in the
Columbia, and that it is a well known
fact that when the Columbia is high an
eddy exists about where the sewer will
empty as contemplated, and that by
reason of such eddy the discharge cf
such sewer will be obstructed by sedi
ment forming aod prevent the proper
working of the same.
Second We do not believe the finan
cial condition of tbe city and the tax
payers therein warrants the expendi
ture of so large an amount of money at
the present time; that taxes are already
as high as the community can well
afford and that if the proposed sewer
system is carried to completion there
are many poor people in the city who
will be called upon to pay their sewer
assessment who do not or will not have
the means to pay the same and that it
will be necessary for the city to take ac
tion or make levy of the property upon
many of its citizens.
Third We are opposed to the pro
posed system upon the ground that In
all likelihood the city will be Imolved
in litigation on account thereof, which
will be both expensive and long delayed
and the result a matter of much donbt.
Fourth We are further opposed to
said proposed sewer system on the
ground that it is proposed to raise all
the money at one time, and wo think
that it would be better for all concerned
if some plan could be devised whereby
the building of the sewer could be car
ried on from time to time an J such por
tion be built now as is absolutely neces
sary and when other portion are neces
sary to be built the same can be done,
thereby lessening the burden to be put
upon the people, as will be the ease if
tbe whole amount is to be raised at
once.
In presenting this petition we do so
realizing that your honorable body is
desirous of acting for the best advantage
of this city anl that your every inten
tion Is so to do; but at the same lime
we further realize that the matter is one
of great importance to the taxpayers of
Dalles City and the subject one which
should be handled with great caution as
the amount of money to be expended is
very great for a city already as much in
debt as this one is.
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contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
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and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
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Meeting f W.ter CumHiltaloDers.
The regular monthly meeting of the
water commissioners was held Saturday
evening. All the members of the board
were present except Ed Phirman. The
monthly reports of the treasurer and
superintendent wero read and accepted.
The treasurer's report showed
March 1. Cash oa hand $5,032 81
Cash ree'd during month.... 1,164 35
Total 6,197.16
Redeeming water bonde$5,500.00
Warrants redeemed... 249.90-5,749.90
March 31 Cash bal 447.26
The following claims were read and
allowed :
J W Blakeney 1 00
Dalles Lumber Co, lumber 3 77
Mays & Crowe, nidse 22 70
J T Peters & Co, mdse 75
K S Gunning, mdse 2 50
J D llockman, repairing 30
C II Crocker A Co, litho 15 00
Ned Gates, expense, teleg 1 35
Oregonian, adv 102 00
Uiikonici.k Pub Co, adv 9 50
Moore & Gavin, legal services... 75 00
J B Crossen, sup't salary 60 00
C A Borders, helper's salary. . . . 60 00
Ned Gates, sec'y's salary 10 00
Wm Morganfield, labor 24 00
A A Urqubart, labor 7 00
The Democratic 1'rlmarlea.
The vote at the Democratic primaries
held here last Saturday was light, prob
ably relatively lighter than the vote at
the Republican primaries. The country
primaries have not yet been heard from.
The following are the delegates elected
from The Dalles precincts:
Bigelow Gos Bonn, S B Adams, F II
Van Norden, J II Wood, II Liebe, John
F Hampshire.
East Dalles R II Webber, W II Tay.
lor, R E Williams, George Ross, J M
Filloon, J as M Benson, Chaa E Mcin
tosh. West Dalles A 8 Bennett, Geo Rino,
II Heibring, M R Doyle, Dr Shackel
ford, J Doherty, Win Van Bibber.
Trevitt J P Mcloerny, J II Jackson,
II F Zeigler, John Cates, John Gavin,
with Al Bettingen and J B Croseen tied.
The announcement of the teachers'
excursion to Hood River valley next
Saturday is hailed with delight by the
teachers and others. Principal R. R.
Allard, of the Dufur schools, aeks for
room for fifteen or more teachers and
pupils. Gifford, tbe artist, will accom
psny the excursion with his large cam
era. Thoee desiring to do so may ar
range with Mies Michell and Mrs. Gil
bert .regarding what shall betaken by
each for luncheon. Carriages will be
provided only for those that inform
Supt. Gilbert or Supt. Landers on Fri
day next. Round trip $1.
"We are In the middle of the lambing
season over our way," said A. L. Bun
nell, of Centerville, to the Chronicle
man today, "and I never saw anything
to equal it. I counted the lambs that
were dropped by the first hundred ewes
and they amounted to 170. I am cer
tain the average number of lambs
dropped will be fully 130 tor each bun
dred ewes. Of course we cannot save
all of them, but I believe the increase
from my entire band will not bn less
than 125 per cent. The ewes are In
prime condition, the lambs are vigorous
and the weather Is as good as we could
ack if we had tl e making of it."
Commissioner N. C. Evans attended
court yesterday, after returning from
the sick bed of bis mother at West
Liberty, Iowa. Mrs. Evansjiajnearly 70
years old. Sho had hal three paralytic
attacks before the visit of her ton anl
Bought, and which has beea
uus "s""i"uo or
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Signature of
one while he was there. The partis;
irom her as he left tor his return hoi
was the hardest things Mr. Evaoibi
to do in his life. Yet the attenda:
physicians held out 'he hopo that iL
might experience a partial recovery it
live for years. When Mr. Evans left Ion
vegetation bad not started and ever
thing was frozen as tight as a brie;
When he got to Hood Kiver his lit:.
girls were gathering buttercups and i
nature was putting on its early sprii;
clothes.
The supreme court has affirmed lb
decision of the circuit court of this d
trict in the case of the State vs. Oi.
Savage, who was tried here about ii
years ago for larceny of $14,000 from to
office of the Pacific Express Compii
in this city and sentenced to four year
in the penitentiary. An appeal n
taken by Savage's lawyers, Mem
Huntington and Wilson, to the suprei
court, but through the neglect oftt'
attorney-general no action was tain
till a few weeks ago, when tbe mon
was made that resulted as above. 6u
age has been out on bail all the tip
and is still at large. His lawyeri In
of further appeal based on grouni
outside those just passed upon bj It'
supreme court.
The McMinnville Register claims tin'
George R. A. Ferris, who shot Jobi
Wardle on the Braithwait farm, norti
of McMinnville, about sixteen yeanif
is the same fellow who killed anotkc
man about two weeks ago in Klickiu
county and who is now in the jail it
Goldendale awaiting trial for murder
W. Wardle, of McMinnville, saw tbe af
count of the last crime in theOregoniu
and he was led to write the sheriff wt:
has the prisoner in charge to ascertain
if he was the same criminal who lb-
his father. He is satisfied from tbe d
scription that it is the same man. F
ris shot Wardle because the latter re
fused to sign a deed to some land, "
owned by E. M. Greeley, until Ferfi
would pay back fit) Wardle had 1W;
him. Ferris drew his gun and said Ik
would put Wardle where he wouldi'1
nt-ed his signature, and shot him in tk
center of the breast, the bullet pi,;
clear through Wardle's body. Wart'
was sick with the wound for ove"
year. Hu is now 86 years old, and '
times can feel pain dun to the wound
sixteen years ago. The sheriff write
that Ferris is likely to pay the peD"1
for the latest crime. He claims!
defense, hot It is known that he ro
thirty miles to kill en unarmed mr
For bis first rrfme Ferris was placed it
jail at La Fayette, but effected liii
cape before he was tried. IU has
served seven years in the Washing
penitentiary for horse-stealing.
Tri-Weekly
..Stage Line..
-FROM-
GRHSS VOLLEY 10 S
Stage leave Grass Valley MondM1
Wednesday's and Friday's at 1 p.
Leaves Shaniko Tuesday's, Tbo
day's and Saturday's at 0 a. m.
Douglas Allen, Prop
GRASS VALLEY, OHE.