THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. MAY 5, 1900.
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.1 PECULIAR QCALITY OF
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Tiie Ciibomcle submits that its
Dalles contemporary is lacking in
the respect that is due to the intelli
gence of its readers when it sajs,
among a number of other equally
La?eless assertions, that the adminis
tration "has established a despotism
in Porto Rico and is attempting to
lo the same with the Philippines."
What the administration is supposed
lo be "attempting" may be left to
Democratic imagination but, as re
gards the statement of facts, what is
there to justify the wanton reckless
cess that woul.l atlirw that a despot
ism lias been established in Porto
Iiico? Oir ccutemporary cannot
point to a single Instance in the
history of the worl l where a parent
nation Las treated a territory, or
depcndiucy, or colony, or what you
will, with the consideration and gen
erosity that has characterized our
treatment of Porto Rico. If a Re
publics administration has' main
tained the right of congress to make
such laws for the government of the
island as humanity suggested and
the necessities of the people de
manded; if the administration re
fused lo recognize the doctrine in
vented by Calhoun for the pcrpetua
tion and extension of slaver that
the constitution of its own foice
follows the flag and that therefote
our whole internal revenne system
must be imposed upon a people
tinder conditions of wretchedness and
poverty that would turn the system
into practical confiscation, they have
only asserted a niinciple that has
marked our conduct to wauls every
tertitory we have acquired since the
acquisition of Louisiana in 1803
they have only asserted a principle
that is in ojeration today in every
territory under the flag. If a des
potism has been established in Porto
Rico, because a system of taxation
different from that which prevails in
the United States has been imposed
upon the island, then a despotism has
been established in Alaska for the
same reason. But apart from the
constitutional aspect of this question
what right has any man who has any
respect for tho facts of history to
speak of a despotism in Porto Rico?
Are the necessities of Bryanism so
desperate that its apologists must
ignore facts that are known to all the
world ? When a tornado swept the
island and left tens ot thousands
homeless and starving we went down
into our pockets and contributed
three quarters of a million for their
relief. Is this the manner of despots?
When Governor General Davis, who
knew better than any American
living the condition of the islanders,
assured the administration that direct
taxation would mean confiscation,
and free trade would mean a bonded
lebt or direct appropriation from
tbcLnited States treasury, the ad-
ministration refused to yield to an
unreasoning pcpular clamor and in
the teeth of villidcation aud abuse
that has hardly a parallel in
history adopted a temporary measure
that will make the burdens of tax
ation rest where they ought to rest,
upon those best able to hear them
and not upou the masses of the
"storm iept and starving islanders."
Is this also the manner of despots?
When the administration imposed a
tax of 15 per cent of the Dingley
rates on the traffic with the mainland
it was conditioned on the fact that
every cent so collected not even
deducting the cost of collection
should be devoted to the necessities
-of the Porto Ricans. Is this the way
-despots act? And lastly, when up
wards of two million dollars had
teen collected on the imports from
the island, and the trusts which had
paid the tax had entered suit against
the United States for its recovery,
And a Democratic congressman had
introduced a bill in congress to give
it back to the trusts under the Dem-
cratic contention that its collection
was unconstitutional. William Mc
Kinley, the boss despot, if you will,
asked congress to give it back, not
to the trusts, but to the islandeis,
and for their sole use and benefit;
and it was doue as tho president re
quested. If this is despotism there
are vast tracts of the habitable earth
that would not be greatly iujured by
a liberal application of it.
WHAT THE 1' A VERS SAY.
Republican Ticket.
i i
Since the Republicans cf this
county will be called upon next
June to vote for a rumber of joint
legislators who are strangers to many
of them, and whose acquaintance
or.ly a fraction of the voters will
have an opportunity of making, the
following extracts from tho home
papers of one of them will be ap
preciated. We know of no better
way of estimating a man's character
than to find out what his neighbors say
abo-thim. Of R. A. Emmitt, Republi
can candidate for joint representative,
the Klamath Republican says:
The nomination of R. A. Kmmitt,
of Keno, for representative, accords
deserved recognition to this county
and bestows honor on a man who is
eminently worthy and well fitted to
take an active part in tho delibera
tions of the next legislature. Sir.
Kmmitt is a pioneer of Klamath
county, is a staunch Republican and
a man of ability and well known in
tegrity. The Ashland Tidings, which is not
in this district, contributes the fol
lowing voluntary testimony to Mr.
Emmitt:
The Republicans have named R.
A. Emmitt of Keno, Klamath coun
ty, as their candidate for joint rep
resentative. He is a successful
farmer and stock raiser, a man of
remarkable executive ability, and is
well posted on the wants of the sec
tion be represents in the line of state
legislation. His election as joint
representative is a foregone con
clusion The Lake County Examiner has
this to say of Mr. Emmitt:
Robert A. Emmitt, of Klamath
county, the Republican nominee for
representative for Klamath, Lake,
Crook and Wasco counties, has long
and faithfully served the Republican
party of Klamath county. He has
been a member of the state board of
equalization and is a successful
farmer and stockman of Klamath
county. There is no doubt of his
election.
STATE OFFICERS-
Jatke cf tie Supreme Court C. E.
Wulvertou.
Fud nil Dairy Cciuu.iesionei J. W.
IUiler.
Presidential Electors O. F. I'axton. of
Multnomah; Tillman Ford, of Ma
rion; J. C. Fullerton. o( Doogias; VY.
J. Furnieh, of I'miti!!.
DISTRICT
OFFICERS-
A. Moodr, of
Congreoxman Malcolm
The IUUes.
Joint Senators J. N. WilliamsoD, of
Crook; T. II. Johnston, of Wasco; W.
W. Steiwer, of Wheeler.
Joint Reptesentativet--A. S. Roberta,
of Wasco ; It. A. Emmett. of Klamath ;
George Miller, cf Gilliam; George
Cattanarh, of Grant; Geortre A. Bar
rett, of Grant; T. II. McGreer, of
Wasco.
District Attorney Frank Menefee, of
The Dalle.
COUNTY TICKET.
County Judge A. S. Blower?, of Hood
Kiver.
Commissioner P. A. Kircl.hemer, of
Anteioie.
Sheriff Kotert Kelly, of The Dalles.
Clerk A. L. Lak, of Wamic.
Treasurer C. I.. Phillip?, of The Dalles.
Assessor C. L. Schmidt, of The Dalles.
Superintendent of Schools C. L. Gil
bert, of The Dalles.
Surveyor J. J.. Goit, ol The Dalles.
Coroner W. H. Butts, of The Dalles.
For Justice of the Peace of The Dal!
Timothv Brownhill.
over a colony of Spanish, French and
English, besides a number of Ameri
can settlements.
Of course it ruukes all the differ
ence in the world whether a "des
potism" has been established by a
Jefferson Democrat or a McKinley
Republican, tor the party of Jeffer
son and Jackson for Gfty years did
with impunity what is now denounced
as tyrranous and imperialistic in the
party of Lincoln and Grant and Mc
Kinley; yet one cannot help but feel
that in the presence of some of the
facts of Democratic history nothing
Is so becoming in a Democrat as the
erace of silence.
A BIT OF HISTORY.
The fact that at this early period
of the year the Meadows, which are
the main source of the water supply
for this city, are clear of snow ad
monishes taxpayers and water con
sumers that economy must be used
if we would escape the inconvenience
of a scarcity of this necessary fluid
Competent engineers have estimated
that the supply is amply sufficient
for a town half as large again as The
Dalles, but in this estimate allowance
is not made for the enormous waste
that often takes place through mere
carelessness and indifference. The
situation is such that economy during
the summer months will become ab
solutely necessary. Superintendent
Crossen estimates that not less than
from twenty to fifty thousand gallons
of water go to waste daily that
might be saved for necessary uses if
consumers would only exercise a
little care in keeping the water shut
off in closets and other places when
not in use. It needs no argument
to prove that it will be much cheaper
for taxpayers to make a conscience
of economy in the use of water than
to put up forty or fifty thousand
dollars for the extension of the water
system.
There is no office in the gift of the
people of Wasco county that requires
as high a standard of mental and
moral efficiency as that of. assessor.
It is to him more than anyone else
that we must look for such an assess
ment as will make every man pay his
ust proportion of the public burdens
and no more. The assessor should
be a man of business experience, of
good judgment and possessed of
sufficient moral back bone to put bis
udgment and experience into effect.
Such a man the Republicans have
nominated In the person of C. L.
Schmidt.
Wm. Orr, .Newark, O., says, "We
never feel fafe without One Minute
Congh Cure in the house. It saved mr
little boy's life when he Lad the pnea
monia. We think it is the Lest medicine
made." It cares coaghi and all lung
diseases. Pleasant to take harmless and
I gives immediate results.
When the Times-Mountaineer as
serts that congress has established a
despotism in Porto Rico it means by
that term a tyrrany, else all it says
on the subject is harmless thunder;
for even his favorite Webster might
have taught our contemporary that a
despotic government may be benefi
cent and that absolutism is not neces
sarily tyrranous. But this only by
way of preface, and as introductory
to a little bit of American history.
It will relate solely to the doings of
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jack
son, and will be brief and to the
point. May it be a means of grate
lo our Democratic brother! Thomas
Jefferson drafted the declaration of
independence and thought so much
of it that he directed his executors
to make tho fact his epitaph. He
probably had as much respect for
the constitution as the editor of the
Times-Mountaineer, yet the govern
ment which he established for the
territory of Louisiana had every
element which the latter gentleman
denounces as a despotism in Porto
Rico, and some to spare 1 The act
of October 31, 1803, passed by con
gress and signed by Jefferson
vested
"All military, civil and judicial
powers in such person or persons,
and to be exercised in such manner
as the president of the United States
should direct."
Now if the act signed by William
McKinley, vesting the government
of the island in a governor, an ex
ecutive council, two houses of legis
lature and about a score of other
executive and judicial officers, was a
despotism, meaning always by that
term a tyrrany, what was the act
signed by Thomas Jefferson? The
Times-Mountaineer need not answer
this question at once. It will keep.
Sixteen years after this Jefferson
"despotism" had been established in
the territory of Louisiana, Florida
was acquired and Andrew Jackson
was appointed its governor. The
act under which he received his ap
pointment again
"Vested all civil, military and
judicial powers in such person or
persons and to be exercised in such
manner as the president of the United
States shall direct."
Here again there was not even the
semblance of representative govern
ment. And right royally did Old
Hickory play the despot; passing
laws which it took an net of congress
to repeal; sitting in Judgment upon
the transgressors of these laws; citing
before him even a federal judge for
this cause, and executing punishment
upon their transgressors; thus exer
cising in bis own blessed, Democratic
person the functions of a legislature,
judiciary, and executive all In one.
And all this, maik you, not over a
horde of halt civilized mongrels, but
"Strange isn't it, that it has taken
the Democratic party thirty-live
years to recognize the superior po
litical virtues in Abraham Lincoln."
Not so strange after all, says the
Plaindea!er. It usually takes De
mocracy about that period of time
to get anything rational through its
head. In about 1935 they will be
"pointing with pride" to the political
wisdom and virtue of Wm. McKin-ley.
Here are words true as proofs
from holy writ. Says the Oregonian:
Every roan that voles the Fusion
ticket June 4tb votes to tie a mill
stone about the neck of Oregon in
dustry, to throttle trans-Pacific trade,
to conlinue the subservience of this
coast to the influences that have
hitherto held back its progress.
Every man that votes the Fusion
thket June 4th votes to kill business
in every Pacific Coast city and sad
dle hardship on the children be will
leave behind him.
The Coroner' Verdict.
Coroner Butts held an inquest near
Hood River, Wednesday, over lemains
of Charles Grodt. The evidence showed
that Grodt was accidently killed while
blasting stumps. The body was found
about 80 feet from the etump that he
had been blowing up. lie had been
dead for some time and the body was
badly decomposed, but a hole through
his hat indicated that be had been
struck in the forehead. Grodt was a
single man, a native of Germany and
aged about 47 years, He was working
on his own claim and his neighbors all
testified that he was a quiet, honest and
industrious man and a good citizen.
The following Is the verdict:
We, the jury impanneled by the coro
ner to enquire into the cause of the
death of the body now before ue, find his
name to be Charles Grodt and that he
came to his death on or abont April 23,
1900, by being blown up while blasting
stumps on his place about seven miles
from Hood River.
O. S. Ol.INOKR,
W. Eiirick.
H. SlKVKKKBEI'P,
P. KOPKK,
Acgcst Paahh.
A FaUe Itrport Nailed.
Editor Ciibonicle :
Dear Sir: Will you allow us,
through your valuable columns, to cor
rect a false report which is being circu
lated throughout Wheeler county for
political purposes.
The Oilman -French Land & Live
Stock Co. are op posed to Twickenham
for the county seat of Wheeler county,
for reasons not necessary to state here
mis corporation lias never given any
party or parties any assurance that they
would lay out, or sell to be laid out, any
piece or parcel of land tor an addition to
the town site of Twickingbam. It has
no land that it desires to sell for that
purpose.
Fossil is and should be the county
seat f Wheeler county, and we hope
and believe that nl the coming June
election there will be polled an over
whelming vote for Fossil to be and re
main the county seat of Wheeler county
Gilmak-Fbencii Land
and Liv Stock Co ,
8. Frk.vch, Secretary.
The Dalles, May 3, 1000.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the slgnatnre of
- ana lias Deen maeie untier his per.
1 sonal supervision since its infancy.
f-UcA4ti Allow no one to deceive you I u this
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-eood"are but
experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
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goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups, It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
gubstance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverisnness. 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 Bleep,
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Oyer 30 Years.
THI O.MT.UD eOMMNV, TT MUKK.V THCCT, NEW TOM OfTV.
PIONEER BAKERY.
I have re-opened this well-known Bakery,
and am now prepared to supply every
body with Bread, Pies and Cakes. Also
all kinds of Staple and Fancy Grocer es.
GEORGE RUCH, Pioneer cer.
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VVhera Jo, Meet Stood.
In accordance with his appointment
for that purpose by the Oregon Historical
Society, Governor Geer was billed to go
to Bntteville today and locate the exact
spot where Joe Meek stood when, in a
mass meeting of settlers, lie called for
division of the settlers upon the
qnestion of provisional government.
F. X. Matthiea is the only person living
who was present at that meeting, and
he will locate the exact spot where the
event occurred. George II. Hines, sec
retary of the Oregon Historical Society.
and F. H. Saylor, grand secretary of the
Aative Son of Oregon, will also be
present. The spot designated by Mr.
Matthiea will be marked temporarily
with a stone and will later be marked
with an appropriate monument.
The meeting referred to took place on
May 2, 1843, exactly 57 years ago today.
By the division called for by Meek, a
yote of 62 to 60 was secured in favor of
the formation of a civil government in
accordance with the plan favored by the
American settlers, the French Canadians
votinj against it.
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