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117 J' "IDIOTICALLY PREPOSTEROUS?"
A writer in Ihe Times-Mountain
eer, over the jignature of 'Common
Sense," passes some very severe
strictures on tie two Washington
congressmen, Messrs. Cusbman and
Jones, because, forsooth, "they re
cently stepped over into Oregon with
a doubly nonsensical effort to ac
complish an impossible and prepos
terous absurdity by introducing a
bill or bills to appropriate ever so
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars" for a portage railway from The
Dalles to Celilo. "Common Sense
wonders if "these fellows are fools
or knaves," and asks if they do not
know that "what they are professedly
working for is not only absolutely
Impossible but idiotically preposter
ous." "Common Sense" then oracu
larly affirms that "it has been decided
over and over again twice in this
same Dalles portage case that
without an amendment to the con
stitution of the United Slates, con
gress cannot appropriate money to
build and operate a mile of railroad
for commercial purposes anywhere
upon the continent or the globe."
The Chronicle has no desire for
controversy but it would like to
know, and thousands of people in
the Inland Empire would like to
know, upon what historical or legal
basis this opinion of "Common
Sense" rests. Vo are well aware
that the government has never here
tofore attempted such a work. But
this is surely not the same ns saying
that the government is inhibited by
the constitution fotn attempting it.
It this question has been "decided
over and over again" by any compe
tent authority, "Common Sense"
would confer a favor upon a large
number of people by letting us know
when ther.decisions were made and
by whom. This is not written in
any spirit of captious criticism. Far
from it. The Chronicle is in favor
of any measure that will open the
river and open it soonest. It is' de
lighted to learn that "trains will be
running on a Dalles-Celifo portage
within less than ninety days" on the
Washington side. It would be still
more delighted to think that another
portage on the Oregon side was
among the near possibilities. And
why not? The right of way has
been procured by the government
and over two hundred thousand
dollars, already appropriated, remain
unexpended and available for the
work the moment action is taken by
congress. Instead, therefore, of "so
msny hundreds of thousands of dol
lars," as "Common Sense speaks of,
a small appropriation of about 1200,
000 would suffice to construct and
equip the road. More than this. A
railroad of some kind will have to
be built to facilitate the construction
of whatever permanent improve
ments the government may ultimate
ly determine upon. Why could not
such a road be built and devoted to
the use of the public, as 9re the
locks below, until at least the gov
ernment is ready to undertake the
permanent improvements. And till
these are completed the road might
ie used jointly as was part of the
little portage road at the locks,
Where is there anything "absolutely
impossible' or "idiotically preposter
ous" in all this? The truth is the
ieuer 01 "uommon Ssense voices
sentiments foreign to these parts.
Our wishes may be "absolutely im
possible of realization and our opin
ions may be "idiotically preposter
ous," but all of us who are not under
the control of some transportation
company are in favor of competition
around the dalles obstructions, and
he more of it the better. We feel
indebted, therefore, to Messrs. Cusb
man and Jones for their efforts to
serve us, an ! we shall not believe
that these efforts are "idiotically
preposterous" till we know better.
publican papers," says the La Grande
Chronicle, "is that it is only of a
temporary nature, the law expiring
of its own force within two years,
The Chronicle is mistaken. The bill
is never defended on that ground.
If it is wrong in principal, it is wrong
if it should be in force only two
minutes, let alone two years. The
bill is defended on the ground of its
absolute necessity. No other means
of raising needed revenue was prac
ticable. Taking the constitution
thpro and enforcing our revenue
laws would have been confiscation.
The masses of the islander? are in
the very depths of poverty and
wholly unable at this time to bear
the burdens of a direct tax. These
are some of the grounds on which
the bill is defended. The teroporay
nature of the bill is only mentioned
when Democrats acd recreant He
publicans lyingly insist that it was
ever intended as a permanent measure.
COURAGE OR COXSAXQUISITY.
"The universal defense of the
Porto Rican tariff bill made by Re-
" Who are these Puerto Ricans '
who are interested in the removal of
the duty on tobacco (for instance),
and how does the bill affect them?"
asks a writer in the Salem Statesman
and then proceeds to answer as fol
lows: "The Tobacco Leaf," a trade paper
published In New York, devoted to
the Interests of the wholesale and re
tail tobacco trade, contains the fol
lowing advertisement in its issue of
April 4th:
The Cream oi the 1900 Crop is Oiirt.
The Steadily Increasing Sale of Ocr
Porto Kico Tobacco
Has Necepeitattd the Securing of Two
Additional Packing Houses.
All Our Tobaccos Are Packed in Ha
vana Style Only. Levi, Blu
mensteil & Co.,
il8-120 Maiden Lane, New York.
Warehouses in Torto Rico at Caguas
and San Juan.
Consanouinitv may have had
sometbins to do with Senator Si
mon's vote. " BlooJ is thicker than
water," and it is only natural that
Simon should have a friendly feeling
for Levi and be easily "influenced'
to see Ihe "justice" of the demand
for free trade with those suffering
Puerto Ricans of 118 120 Maiden
Lane, New York, and so he towered
aloft in the senate and "courageous
ly voted against bis Republican col
leagues, and allied himself (not for
the first time) with the opposition
In other words, in order to accom
modate Levi be betrayed his party
just as be did in bygone days to ac
commodate Barney, whose surname
is Goldsmith, and his motive was
just as lofty.
" Tobacco Leaf," in its editorial
columns, commenting upon a section
of the bill giving importers certain
privileges, says:
" It is not conceivable, that the
house, or the committees through
whose hands the bill must eventually
pass, will interfere in any way with
this just provision, which we believe
was secured by the timely and in
telligent action of one of our leading
Porto Rico tobacco importing firms."
Is there any stronger testimony
needed as to the motive behind the
attempt to defeat the Puerto Rican
tariff bill? And it was partially
succesful. The reduction from 23
to 15 per cent, of the regular tariff
was a present of an immense amount
of money to the Puerto Ricans of
Maiden Lane, New York, who farm
the tobacco farmeis of the island of
Puerto Rico, and did the latter to
good whatever.
And Senator Simon bad the mag
nificent "courage" to vote in favor
of knocking off the other 15 per
cent.
Republican prosperity following th
long gloom of Democratic business
depression all over the country has
given emphasis to that saying.
Tho Tlraes-Mouutaineet's cor
responded "Common Sense," replies
very courteously to nt Chronicle's
request for information as to when
or by whom it has ever been decided
thit the general government has no
power to build and operate a portage
railroad. But "Common Sense"
leaves the matter precisely where it
was. No competent authority has
ever made any decision on the mat
ter. The opinion of a congressman,
or a government engineer, or even a
secretary of war, is woith Just as
much as that of a newspaper cor
respondent or editor, even, and no
more. Congress may never appropri
ate money for a portage railroad but,
to a layman, the provision in the
constitution that gives them power
to provide "for the general welfare
of the United States" seems wide
enough to take in a portage road.
If congress has no such power the
lay mind naturally wonder9 where
they get their power to appropriate
money for a canal and locks. The
Chronicle is delighted to bc.'ieve
that a portage on the north sido of
the river will soon be a reality, but
just because it is a private enterprise
and, as such, liable to pass into other
hands, or to form combinations with
other competing lines to maintain
prices it never will give the relief
that would be afforded by a govern
ment portage.
The Oregonian is striking the
enemy with Titanic force these days,
even if it is at the expense of its own
consistency. Here is a word from
review of the late speech of Senator
Hoar that we take pleasure in re
pealing because we agree with it to
a dot, and because it furnishes an
a-iumentum ad hominem to those
who insist that the constitution fol
lowed the flag into the Philippines
and in the same breath insist on the
right to pull the flag down. Says the
Oregonian: "If the 'anti' contention
that the constitution already extends
to the islands, 'ex propro vigore,' is
correct, where is the constitutional
warrant to alienate tbem? Senator
Hoar would regard it as a strange
proposal if the Republican caucus
brought in a bill to put Massachusetts
out of tho Union."
Asiatic mind and as such are "not
unworthy of tho vehicle through
which came to us the scriptures of
the Old aud New Testaments, the
poetry of David, the elcquencee of
Issiah. the wisdom of Solomon and
the profound philosophy of Paul,
This li ethnology and theology gone
mad. What racial affinity exists
between this Tagal insurgent and
Hist noble neoule to whom were
"committed the Oracles of God." The
mere circumstance of Asiatic birth
gives the senator no more right to
place Aguinaldo on a pedestal beside
David and Solomon and Isaiah and
Paul than the circumstance of Amer
ican biith gives a Digger Indian the
right to be placed on a racial equal
ity with Dauiel Webster or Abraham
Lincoln. The senator's erotic elo
quence is an insult to the Hebrew
race.
Now that the campaign is on, Dem
ocratic editors who have not the
ability to write their own editorials
are making generous use of those of
tho Oregonian. And they have all
the bitterness and disingenuousness
of the Simon pure Democratic article.
Missouri Middle-of-the-Road Pop
ulists have contributed to the gaity
of nations by denouncing Wm. J.
Bryan and John Rockefeller for their
alleged connection with trusts, ,
NEW TRAIN SERVICE.
The Dalles people will learn with
profound sorrow that the Columbia
Valley Railroad has abandoned its
project to bridge the river at The
Dalles. The information comes to
us through the Telegram, which ex
plains the situation in this manner?
"The citizens desired that tbc rail
road, in consideration of the bonus
to be given, should build a double-
deck bridge for the accommodation
of wagons as well as for tbe railroad
track. The company did not see it
that way and has decided not to
build." Tbe crushing effect of this
announcement is somewhat mitigated
by the fact that there probably is not
a man in Oregon who ever imagined
that this imaginary Columbia Valley
Railroad ever bad tbe least intention
of bridging tho 'river here or else
where.
Democratic success, says the Salt
Lake Tribune, which was intensely
Bryanile four years ago, always
means depression in business, ruin
to thousands, the closing of factories
in this country and increased activ
ity for them in England and the con
sequent filling of this country with
Idle men and tho assembling of vast
"industrial armies;" that is, masses
of men who want to bo industrious
but are debarred by Democratic
politics. So well is this understood
that some years ago to say that a
business enterpsise had "gone Demo
cratic" was recognized as the same
thing as saying that it had failed.
j Tbe experience of tb.e country with
The Democratic contention is that
the constitution runs in every inch
of territory belonging to the United
States. Be it so for the sake of ar
gumcnt. Then the constitution runs
n Puerto Rico, and if it rims there
it runs in tbe Philippines, and if it
runs In tbe Philippines, the Philip
pines are an integral part of the
United States. But if the Philin
j'
pines are tn integral part of the
Lnitcd States, by what autboiity do
Bryan and Oregon Democrats pro
pose to tear down the flag and aban
don the islands? If tbe constitution
cannot be controlled in the matter
of its extension, who has the power
lo control it in the matter of its con-
traction?
Senator Hoar has made a new de
parture in bis admiration of Aguin
aldo. Not content with classifying
the Malay chief with Kossuth and
Oom Paul and Jubert and Ommct,
with Egmoni and Horn, with Nalban
Hale and Warren and George Wonb.
ington, he exalts him still higher.
The senator says the state papers of
Aguinaldo are the products of the
Tbe doable train service to be estab
lished between Fortland and Chicago
April 22, in which the O. R. & N., the
Union Pacific and tbe Oregon Short
Line are interested, will shorten the
through time eleven hours. Train No.
2, leaving Portland at 9:15 a. in., be
ginning on the date named, will le
known as the Chicago-Portland special.
Its equipment will be new, making it
fully the equal of any train now in ser
vice fro'm the Pacific coast to the East.
It will consist of a mail car, baggage
car, two chair cars, and a tourist sleeper.
There will be but one change of cars to
all eastern points. The fall time will
be three days throogh to Chicago, or
four days through to Chicago, or four
days and two hours to New York.
The second train, known as No. 6,
will leave 1'ortUnd at o:ZU p. m., con
necting at East Portland with the South
ern Pacific's overland train from San
Francisco, and will carry through equip
ment to Chicago via the Union Pacific
and the Chicago and Northwestern, and
also the equipment for the Washington
division of the O. R. & N., in connec
tion with thq Great Northern for St.
Paul. This train will reach Spokane at
10 a.m. A dining car will be furnished
for breakfast into Spokane, and for
dinner on corresponding train leaving
Spokane at 8:45 p. m. The new sched
ule as arranged will supply the most
complete service ever furnished on the
O. R. & N., as it provides increased ser
vice in Eastern Oregon, where it is
greatly needed, and gives immediate
connection with the Washington divi
sion at Pendleton. At this point there
is a large interchange of traffic, on ac
count of the various mining districts of
Baker county, the Cue or d'Alene, the
Republic and Kootenai mining camps,
Portland is greatly benefited by this
change, in as much as increased eorvice
is given from Eastern Oregon and Idaho.
No. 2 will arrive in Chicago at 9:30
m. ; No. 6 at 7 :45 a, in., as at present.
The Westbound train out of Chicago,
corresponding with No. 2, is No. 1.
This will arrive in Portland at 4:00 p.
m. The train corresponding with the
eaatbound No. 6 is No. 3, out of Chicago.
This will reach -Portland at 7:30 a. m.
Westbound train No. 1 will leave Chicago
at 6 :30 p. m., and Omaha at ,8 :20 a. m.
tbe following day. Tbe lime will be
reduced two hours and forty-five min
utes. No. 3 westbound train will leave
Chicago at 10:30 p. m., and Omaha at
4:25 p. oi. the next day.
The service on the Union Pacific on all
these trains 'include Buffet smoking
library cars, and dining cars. No. 6
will carry a daily ordinary sleeper to
Kansas City, with change en route to
ordinary cars to Chicago.
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detailed information.
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