THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 11.
1900
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THE
ACT OF A SIIREVD BUSI
NESS MAS.
Tbe Telegram says "Congressman
Moody will be unanimously renomi
nated and re elected, os be is a veiy
active, capable business man," but
the Telegram thinks Mr. Moody
would have been stronger amonj the
people of the second congressional
district if be bad voted against the
Puerto Rican tariff bill. The
Chkonicle doubts very much if Mr,
Moody would have strengthened him
self among; thinking Republicans,
here or elsewhere, if, at the very out
set of his congressional career, he
bid set up bis judgment against that
of bis Republican colleagues, gone off
on a taii'-cnt aud voted with the
Democrats. An older member way
do with impunity what a younger
member doe 9 at the risk of his future
usefulness and influence in the
counsels of bis party. Legislative
usefulness consists, to a large extent,
in having the confidence aud affection
of one's colleagues. Who is more
likely to command legislative favors
Moody, Tongue and McBride, who
supported their Republican colleagues
when, as they believed, a great
principal was at stake, or Simon who
deserted them and went over to the
enemy? Apart from the merits of
the question involved in tbe bill Mr.
Moody acted tbe part of the shrewd,
"capable" business man that be is.
He stood by his Republican col
leagues when they needed him; they
will stand by him when he needs
tbem. Wtun a congressman's bead
swells out so big that he pits himself
against the united wisdom of his
party the good that be might ac
complish through bis party is nt an
end. But the action of Messrs.
Moody, Tongue and McBride is not
defended on the mere ground of
expediency. The bill is now pub
lished broadcast and tbe man who
carefully notes Its provisions can
conclude how far Democratic and
Republican opposition was justified
in exhausting the vocabulary of
abuse in condemning it. It is a
practical free trade measure. Every
cent of lax collected under it will be
spent upon the islanders. It is in no
sense the offspring of the clamor of
the sugar and tobacco trusts. The
world knows no instance of a trust
asking for protected raw materials.
The tax will fall on those who are
beet able to bear it, and not to any
appreciable extent upon the "storm-
swept and starving" Puerto Ricans
Every man who voted for the bill,
rightly or wrongly, believed that a
direct tax, under existing conditions,
would have been impossible and op
pressive ; and the result is a measure
that in point of considerateness and
generosity has hardly an equal in
the annals of legislation. It is in no
sense a permanent policy. AVhen a
territorial government is established
in the island and the legislative as
sembly of Puerto Rico shall have
put in operation a system of local
taxation to meet the recessities of
the government it will then become
the duty of the president to issue a
proclamation abolishing all tariff re
strictions between the island and the
mainland. And this is the bill that
the Oregonian has been patting Sen
ator Simon on tho back for oppos
ing and over which Uryanite orators
and a Bryanlzed press have been
tearing their hair in a frenzy! Tbe
day will come when an intelligent
and candid populace will own before
the world thit it took more Repub
lican courage to stand up and be
counted for such a measure, in the
teeth of the mad and unreasoning
clamor against it, than it took to
yield to popular clamor and vote
with tbe opposition.
THREE TjUESTIOSS liESPECT
FCLLY SUBMITTED.
A few weeks ago a suit was
brought against the collector of
customs in tho city of New York to
recover som two million dollars col
lected on Imports from Puerto Rico
upon the ground that ibe constitu
tion extended to Puerto and thai
the collection of tbe duties was in
violation of Article 1, Stction 8 of
the constitution, which says: "AM
duties, imports and excises shall be
uniform throughout the United
States." It ought to be instructive
to note lhat the plaintiffs in the case
are Lawrence Turnure Jc Co., Amer
ican sugar refining company, L. W.
A' P. Armstrong, Muller Schall & Co.,
John Farr and Metchor, Armstrong
fc Dessau. One of the principal
parties. It will be seen, is tbe Ameri
can Sugar Refining Company, which
is thecorpoiate name of the Ameri
can Sugar Trust. Of the two millions
an l over involved in the suit, some
eighteen hundred thousand dollars
represent the duties paid on sugar
aud tobacco. Now Iho opponents of
tbe Puerto Rican tariff unanimously
assert lhat tbe chango of front in the
administration and among adminis
tration Republicans that resulted in
a tariff on the products of Puerto
Rico was brought about at tho de
maud of the sugar and tobacco trusts.
There are three things involved in
this assumption that demand expla
nation. First, how is it that of the
fifteen delegates from Puerto Rico
who have been in Washington en
deavoring to manufacture free trade
sympathy for the island wc find
Judge Finley, a British subject,
owner of ODe of the best sugar
plantations on tho island, a banker
and vice consul of Great Britain;
R. F. Latimer, merchant and planter
and consul of Austria and Hungary;
and Arturo Bravo, rich planter and
merchant, and lhat every ono of the
fifteen delegates is personally inter
ested in sugar and tobacco or other
products that free trade with the
United States will materially benefit?
Second : Why should the sugar and
tobacco trusts ask to have a tariff
placed on these products when all
their interest lie tke other way?
When was it ever known that a trust
was in favor of tariflied 'raw ma
terials? And, lastly, how can any
reasocmg being believe that tho
trusts are in the United States courts
denying tho constitutional power of
congress to impose a duty on raw
sugar and unmanufactured tobacco
imported by them into New York,
and at the same time have a lobby
in Washington advocating the im
position ot a duty on these products?
Till these questions arc answered in
a manner that will commend itself
to ordinary human intelligence The
Chronicle will insist that the demn-
gogue is abroad In the land and
that, as ever, ho is banking on tbe
success of falsehood, through un
reasoning prejudice and credulous
ignorance.
The only legislation suggested in
the present congress which was in the
interest of the sugar trust was pro
posed by Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
a Democrat, of course, who on tbe
15th of March introduced tbe fol
lowing amendment to an appropria
tion bill: "That all duties collected
to this date upon articles imported
into the United States from Puerto
Rico since the 1Kb day of April,
1899, ihe date of the exchange of
ratifications of the treaty of peace
between Spain and the United States,
be returned to the persons from
whom they were collected and from
and after the passage of this act no
duties shall be collected on articles
coming from Puerto Rico." If this
amendment had been adopted $2,.
090,000 would have been returned
to the trusts lhat are now sueing the
government for its recovery. Tho
"storm-swept and starving" Puerto
Ricans, over whom Democrats and
recreant Republicans are shedding
crocodile tears, would never have
gotten a cent of it.
The Albany Derrocrat notes with
astonishment, if not with alarm, lhat
a Democratic candidate for a Linn
county office was seen tho other day
in a Democratic convention with a
"white ribbon boldly pinned on his
coat," indicating his temperance
principles. What is the world com
ing to anyway?
More large cities have gone Re
publican this spring than was ever
known before in the beginning of a
presidential year.
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A DM I XI S TEA TIOS IOLICY JUSTI
FIED. Tho p'.ea. uryed by Republicans in
j justification of Ihe Puerto Kican
tariff bill is entitled to canum re
publican consideration. They insist
that until a local system of govern
ment is organized no other way of
providing for the immediate and
pressing necessities of the island is
possible. Puerto Rico is more dense
ly populated than any country in
Europe. Of its million inhabitants
800,000 derive their living directly
from the soil, and 900,000 can
neither read nor write. A wide
spread and grinding poverty, un
known in Europe or America, has
prevailed under Spauish rule. In a
majority of families the heads are
unmarried because under Spanish
rule the) bad not the money to pay
for the marriage ceremony. They
have no roads, no school houses and
no public improvements. They live
in huts consisting of one room, and
have work only during the coffee,
tobacco and sugar season at wages of
from 10 to 30 cents a day. They
subsist principally on fruits and most
of tbem have never known bread
and meat as tbey are known to the
very poorest Americans. Tbe land
is owned in 43,000 estates and the
owners are mostly Spaniards, English
and other foreigners. Their principal
exports are, in tho order of their
importance, coffee, tobacco and
sugar. Just as the introduction of
American methods bad begun to
produce beneficent results a calamity
occured lhat has no parallel as affect
ing Ihe whole people of a country.
A hurricane swept tho island and
destroyed nearly the whole of the
coffee plantations and brought wide
spread, although less serious, disaster
to the sugar and tobacco plantations.
The coffee planters being, all of tbem,
in debt bad no credit and no re
sources with which to repair the ruin
the hurricane had wrought. In
twenty-four hours 800,000 people
. ... . .
were lert without occupation or
means of support, and the planters
withont credit or means to clear
their farms or employ the labor lhat
was clamoring for work to keep them
from starving. Had not Iho island
been under the generous care of the
United States there would have been
suffering nnd starvation that would
have appulled the civilized world.
It was under these conditions that it
became necessary to provide means
for conducting the government of
the island; for providing work for
the people; for repairing as far as the
government might the waste and
ruin tbe hurricane had wrought; for
building school houses and making
other public improvements that ex
isting conditions made imperative.
How shall this necessary revenue be
raised ? That was the question. No
one proposed that a draft should be
mado on the United States treasury
because no one wanted to turn the
Puerto Ricans into an island of
mendicants. Two other methods
were at tbe choice of the administra
tion. A custom duty on imports and
exports between the island and the
mainland, or a direct tax In tbe form
of internal revenue. The former
method was adopted for these two
principal reasons. To collect a
direct tax off the islanders required
elaborate governmental machinery
lhat was not in existence. To
organize this machinery required
time, nnd immediate relief was im
perative. But an adequate direct
tax was, under existing conditions of
distress and ruin, an utter impossi
bility. General Davis, governor of
the island, testified before tbe com
mittee that, "A general system of
taxation to produce revenue enough
to carry on the government of the
island would amount to confiscation."
Other testimony confirmed that of
General Davis overwhelmingly and
the administration, lhat had con
templated immediate free trado with
the island, was compelled to yield lo
the force of circumstances and adopt
an 85 per c?nt reduction of the
Dlngley tariff till such time as a
local government has been establishe J
in the Island when absolute free
trade will rule. We. submit in all
honesty and candor that the admin
istration could not have acted other
wise than as it did ; that the bill is
most considerate and generous and
that tho opposition to it, where its
history is properly understood, is in
the highest degree factional and un
reasonable. If the sugar and tobacco trusts are
so dreadfully anxious to have their
imports of raw tugar and tobacco
from Puerto Rico taxed why don't
they ship at once the two crops of
these products tho associated press
correspondent sajs tbey hold in the
island, and pay the entire Dingley
rates as they would have to do at
the present time? If they want
taxed raw materials, as Democrats
and certain alleged Republicans say
they do, what in the name of good
ness are they waiting for? And
why are they suing tbe government
for the 12,000,000 of taxes paid by
them on Puerto Rican imports since
the annexation of tho island?
A subordinate scribbler in the Ore
gonian charges The Chronicle with
having made several "attacks" on
Senator Simon. Tub Chkonicle has
not "attacked" the senator. It has
impugned his judgment as a young
member of the senate in deserting
his party and voting with the opposi
tion. The right of the senator to
join in the unreasoning and senseless
clamor against tho policy of tLe
party that created him and thus put
the administration "in a hole" is
conceded.
,The Chronicle once heard n ex
governor of this state define tho
difference between an idiot and an
"eejot" as follows: An idiot is a
darophool who knows he is a dam
pi) ool. An "eejot" is a damphool
who doesn't know it. The man who
wrote the following, which appeared
in yesterday's Oregonian, is several
kinds of an "eejot": "Ex-Scnator
John II. Mitchell stops off at The
Dalles, en route from Pendleton to
Portland. Next day The Dalle3
Chronicle makes a thrust or two at
Senator Simon. But as Mr. Mitchell
is "out of politics," the paper's action
is merely a coincidence."
An esteemed Bryanite contempor
ary, who is long on imagination and
short on facts, has made the disco v
ery that the candidacy of Admiral
Dewey is nothing but a deep-laid
scheme of the McKinleyites to down
the great tribune of aggregated un
rest. What I Higher Criticism?
This was the subject of Rev. U. F.
Hawk's sermon at the M. K. church
last evening. His text was: "Say not,
then, 'What is the cause that former
days were better than these?' for thou
dost not enquire wisely concerning this."
EcclesiaBtes vii :10.
The preacher said: "Since the fall
of Adam there has ever been a conflict
between faith and unbelief. From the
death of Abel at the hand of his elder
brother Cain, faith has been heralded
as weak and ready to die. Faith has
ever been regarded as being in the ap
parently weak minority and nnbelief in
the powerful majority, by the whole
world. Every age has had its conflicts,
and some who know little of the terrific
battles of past ages tremble lest unbelief
in the present contest will prevail over
tbe Captain of the Lord's Host and
snatch away the treasure of believers.
Better men than ourselves have been
trembling for the safety of the ark of
God. Two hundred years ago England
had its champions against the Bible.
There were Blount, Tolan i, Shaftesbury,
Tindal, Hume and Voltaire in France.
The work of tbe modern critic is mostly
that of thrashing old straw. Professor
Christlieb once asked, 'Why do Ameri
cans and Englishmen gather so much of
the theological rubblieb we Germans
throw away?' There are many theo
logical scavengers. Many applaud reck
lessness In tho pulpit and think it Is a
type of advanced intelligence. This
may be illustrated as follows: High
Church 'Is your new minister an in
tellectual man?' Luke Warm 'Very.
He's been tried twice for heresy and
thinks the saloon a necessity.' "
Mr. Hawk took the ground that the
present form of higher criticism is sim
ply German and French rationalism
over again. The predictions of eight
eenth century rationalists lhat Chris
tianity would in a short time vanish
from the earth had been falsified by
history. The thousands of tomes of
ratienalist works produced in those
days are only known now by the anti
quarian. Christianity has marched
steadily on and increasing millions have
surrendered themselves to its power.
He compared Christianity to a majestic
train or cars sweeping past mountains
and valleys, villages and farm houses,
orchards laden with autumn Irnlt, and
fields of grain ripening in the autumn
sun. Tha passengers looked upon the
pacing scene as our fathers have looked
perhaps with awe, perhaps betimes
with a species of admiration at the
The Kind You Have Always
in use for over 30 years,
and
Srf-f- J1- sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good "are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria- is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare,
goric, Drops and Soo thing: Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
The Kind You Me Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
th ckntauh eoMMnv. rr Muaaav amccr. new vomm errv.
Renins cf such men as Hume and Vol
taire and others of their claes, but the
train sped on its majestic way and Ihe
passing objects are only remembered as
a dream of the night.
The Excursion to Hood Hirer.
Communicated.
The excursion to Hood River Satur
day proved to be a novel affair for some
sixty persons, teachers, pupils and
friends of education, who availed them
selves of the trip. The wind greeted us
as we boarded the Dalles City, but it
did not keep the merry crowd in the
cabin, as the mountains were never
grander in their first rich coloring of
spring.
As we approached Hood River land
ing, we saw several conveyances pro
vided by the accommodating livery m?n
of Hood River to take the party to Crap
per school, where we purposed to have
luncheon. The rain greeted us as we
took bur places in the carriages, but we
only laughed and said, "We'll take our
ride any way." By the time we reached
the school building at Hood River it
began to snow. This welcome was irrc
eistable, and it was decided to "bide a
wee" in the comfortable building.
After visiting with teachers of Hood
River, the party was entertained by the
following impromptu program: Recita
tion by Miss Emma Roberts; song by
Loto Kelsay ; selections from Webster's
Banker Hill mono rut nt orations by
Mabel Collins, Ola Norman, Earl Curtis,
Clarence Gilbert, Maud Michel! , Olive
Slate, Constance Whealdon and Fran
cis Sexton.
Supt. Gilbert then announced that
lunch was ready and we soon proved
that we, too, were ready. Toasts were
given by Messrs. R. R. Allard, J. T.
Neff, J. S. Landers, E. L. Smith, G. W.
Brown, Fred H. Barnes, Charles W.
Dielzal, Revs. Hershner and Benson
and Misses Bess Isenberg and Melissa
Hill.
The toaats brought . sunshine. For
how long? We promised not to tell.
We know some of the party took a short
drive up the valley, returning in time
to wait an hour for the boat. But even
waiting did not dfscourAge the pleasure
seekers. With the singing, the numer
ous class yells, the calls for lost baskets,
and the story of lost horses from the
Dnfur delegation, the time quickly
passed.
Coming home is always a pleasure;
and as the company parted at ths dock
there seemed to be written on every
face, "I am glad that we are at home,
and although we did not have what we
expected, we enjoyed much which we
did not expect."
Ileapectfullj Declined.
The Dalles, April 7, 1900.
To the Editor:
I note in your issue of last evening
that I was nominated in the Prohibition
convention that met here yesterday for
the office of county judge. Permit me
to say to the good people of this county
that my name was need withont my
knowledge or consent and that I am not
a candidate for that office nor any other
in the gift of the people.
E. J. Coi.ux.
Mra. litwcj Chang Inarch.
Wasiiixotox, April 8,TA report was
in circulation here tonight that Mrs.
Dewey bad left the Catholic chnrch and
had become an Episcopalian ; but no
verification of the rumor could be ob-tained.
Bought, and which has been
has borne the Bignatnre of
has been made under his per-
Signature of
Onaus District or Waico Connljr,
For fie purpose of taking tie csm
Wasco county has bte.i divided in'oti:
districts as follows:
East Dalles, (exclusive of The Dills
city); West Dalles (exclusive of Tb
Dalles city); Eight Mile and mountt
precincts.
The Dalles city (part of); all ofEi!
Dalles precinct within the corpori:
limits of Dalles city. '
Bigelow (coextensive) and The Di'!e
city (part of) precincts.
Trevitt precinct (coextensive) and lb
Dalles city (part ot).
The Dalles city (partol); all of W
Dalles precinct within the limits t
Dalles city.
Falls and Viento.
East Hood River precinct (exclarin
of Hood River town, part of) Bildi:
and Musier precincts.
Hood River town and West b
River precinct.
Columbia, Des Chutes, Nansene it:
Boyd precincts.
Dufur precinct (including Dufurn
lage), Kingaley and Ramsey precinct'.
Tygh Valley, Wamic and Oak Grw
precincts.
Bakeoven precinct and Antelope f
ciuct (including Antelope village).
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I wish to express mv heartfelt tb
to the Modern Woodman and thsinM'
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friends and neighbors for their kindr
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husband's death. May God hle
reward them is my prayer.
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