THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. AUGUST 11. 1900.
The Weekly Chronicle.
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O er two inchua and uuder four inches 1 00
O.-er lour luchcn aud under twelve lnchea.. 75
Orer twelve lnchca 4
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tfnelnch or lew. vet Inch I 50
Over one Inch and under loin Inchee 1 00
Over lour luehea and uudor twelve luchee.. 1 60
Over twelve luchea 1 00
VXFAIR AA'D US REASONABLE.
The Astoria News says The Dalles
(Chkonicle (Joes not understand tbe
flailing situation and has a wrong
idea of what is needed for the pro
tection of the salmon industry. The
Ciikoniclk is not disposed to waste a
jsinglo word lu denial of tbe soft lav
.peachment. In good sooth Tub
iCjmomcle is more disposed to make
open', fulr confession that the subject
is wrapped in insoluble mystery.
lleie is The Cukonicle's difficulty.
Ass'.minjr, of course, that the News
knows everything worth knowing
"about the salmon industry and the
cause of its marked decline of late
years, The CiiRONiCLE-cannot under
stand how the wheels up this way,
that altogether did not have an ag
gregate catch of more than two and
a half tons a day during the month
of July and not more than a thousand
pounds a day since the first of
August, are to be saddled with the
crime of destioying the salmon in
dustry aud no reckoning whatever
he made of the 600 miles of nets
that cover every available inch of
cpace in the lower river between
Astoria and the ocean, and catch
more salmon in a week than tbe
wheels do in a year. Oh, but "the
wheels are situated near the spawn
ing grounds," says the News, "and
those Osh which run the gauntlet of
traps, seines nnd gillnets are taken
by the wheels before they spawn."
But tbe wheels are not situated near
the spawning grounds. They are
only relatively nearer the spawning
grounds than Astoria is, and if It is
a crime for the wheels to catch
salmon "before they spawn" what is
it for the gillnets to do the same
thing?
The News says "the trouble with
The Chronicle is that the wheels
are located near The Dalles and
their abolition would effect tbe
people of that community." Quite
so. And lite trouble with the News
is that the gillnets operate near
Astoria and cannot be operated here
just as the wheels cannot be operated
there, and the Astoriansare so sclQsh
that if they had their own way they
would not allow a fish to be caught
in the upper river. This is a hard
saying, but it is entirely justified by
the position taken by tbe News in
this controversy. It tells us, in
effect, that it is a question between
two communities, Tbe Dalles that
has a pack of less than 20,000 cases
a year and Astoria that packs 400,
00 cases, and asks that The Dalles
wheels may be abolished on tbe
ground that their insignificant catch
is ruining the whole business!
When Astorians get down to some
fair and reasonable propositions for
preserving the salmon industry they
will find tbe people up this way more
than willing to meet tbein half way;
but so long as they insist on the
abolition of every species of gear
they cannot, themselves, use with
advantage, tbe need expect nothing
tout war to the knife and the knife to
the hilt.
FALSE VROPUETOF me.
If the prophesies and predictions
made by Mr. Bryau had proven to
be true, the gold standard, which
has been in operation ever since he
uttered them, would have produced
the following direful results, to-wit:
It would have increased the pur
chasing power of toe gold dollar.
(Madison Square Garden speech.)
It would have been as certain to
make prices fall as a stone is to fall
when it Is thrown into the air.
(Newton, Iowa, speech.)
If would have increased the debts
of tbe people and lessened their
ability to pay them. (Baltimore
speech,) 1
It would have made times harder
and harder. (Same speech.)
It would have starved everybody
except tbe money-changers and the
tnoney-owners. (New Haven, Conn.,
speech.)
It would have transferred the
bread which one man cams to an
other man who bad not earned it.
(Hartford, Conn., speech.)
It would have made the rich
richer and the poor poorer. (New.
aik, Ohio, speech.)
It would have decreased the num
ber who are happy and increased the
number who are in distress. (Same
speech.)
It ouId !ave destroyed the hope
of tbe toiling masses. (Minneapolis,
Minn., speech.)
It would have destroyed the op
portunity to work. Samo speech.)
It would have increased Ike num
ber of idle men. (Same speech.)
It 'would have decreased the
volume of standard money. (Same
speech.)
It would have encouraged the
hoarding of money. (Hornesville,
N. Y.. speccb.)
It wou'.d have made it more and
more difficult for the farmer to live
(Madison Square Garden speech.)
It would have injured the wage
earner. Same speech.)
It would haue made employment
less certain. (Same speech.)
It would have discouraged enter
prise. (Same speech.)
It would have paralyzed industry.
(Same speech.)
It would have lessened the ability
of savings banks to collect their
assects. (Same speech.)
It would have increased tbe danger
of depositors losing their deposits in
savings banks. (Madison Square
Garden speech.)
It would have compelled depositors
in savings banks to withdraw their
deposits to pay living expenses,
(Same speech)
It would have lessened the salaries
of those engaged in business occupa
tions and would have lessened tbe
permanency cf suoh salaries (Same
speech.)
It would have injured those who
have permanent investments in rail
road stocks and other like enterprises.
(Same speech.)
It would have injured or destroyed
the manufacturers of agricultural
implements, wagons and buggies.
(Springfield, Ohio, and Hint, Mich.,
speeches.)
It would have lessened the ability
of tbe masses to buy goods and
thereby would have lessened tbe
number of commercial traveling
men. (Indianapolis speech to travel
ing men.)
It would have made it impossible
for husbands and wives to pay off
the rr or teases on their homes.
(Minneapolis, Minn., speech to
ladies.)
it would nave made it necessary
to advocate the closing up of our
public schools. (Monmouth, III.,
speech.)
It would have made it more profit
able to loan money or to hoard it
than to invest it in enterprise or
property. (Syracuse, N. Y speech.)
It would have made dearer money,
cheaper property, harder times, more
people out of work, more people
destitute, more people desperate,
more crime. (Minneapolis speech to
ladies.)
It would have lowered the stand
ard of civilization in Ibis country.
(Madison Square Garden speech.)
It would have been writing the
future in blood, crushed out by
gold. (Erie, Penn., speech.)
AM these prophecies and predic
tions aoout the evils that would be
fall us if the gold standard were
adopted have utterly failed.
Mr. Bryan said in a speech de
livered at Lincoln, Nebraska, July 7,
1900:
The fight this year will be to
carry out the sentiment of that song
we have so often repeated, My
Country 'tis of Thee.' If we lose,
our children and our children's
children will not succeed to the
spirit of that song, and celebrations
of the Fourth of July will pass away,
for the spirit of empire will be upon
us."
Pass the salt, please.
Kefeirlng to the proposed talk of
President McKinley and Governor
Roosevelt to working men in Chicago
on Labor day, an opposition paper
asko: "What will hbor say r We
do not know what labor will say, but
we know what it might say. It
would te something like this: "Do
not spend much time in speaking,
for it is not necessary. We could
hardly find the time to come out to
day, for we are all at work, at belter
wages than ever before, and tbis
year we who have been working have
not been culled upon to divide with
the unemployed." Tbe prospects
were never so fair. If all wealth
comes from labor, then never before
was wealth accumulating so rapidly
as it is right now, fur never before
was so vast an army of peace assault
ing the strongholds of want or build
ing such majestic fortunes to plenty.
Salt Lake Trihuue.
A SENSATIONAL LAW SUIT.
O. C. O'B.HI.y a Colambla outh
era Railway for IJe.OOO, All(la
That taa Praaldaat of tha Road aatf
Director, by fraadalaat Coaaplracy,
Haa Itofraaded laa Compaay on at
That Suae.
The democrats favor a stable gov
ernment for tbe Philippines. Tbe
sultan of Turkey has a stable gov
ernment, tbe czar of Russia has a
stable government, China has had
a stable government for twenty
centuries. Which kind does it favor?
Not a single Spanish colony that ever
threw off tbe Spanish yoke ever
possessed a stable government within
fifty years after declaring independ
ence, lbe l'uiiippines lociay wouin
have a peaceable and just govern
ment were it not for the encourage
ment afforded to tbe insurgents by
tbe hostility here in the states to tbe
efforts of tbe army to conquer re
bellion. Bnt tbe Bryan platform
will simply prolong the struggle till
Bryanism and the aunties are buried
under an avalanche ot American
voles.
President McKinley, as the con
stituted representative of a great
republic, has lifted tbe yoke of op
pressive imperialism from tbe shoul
ders of 850,000 Porto Ricans, from
1,500,000 Cubans, nnd 10,000,000
Filipinos. He has freed more subject
colonists from the tyranny of Spain
than Washington delivered from the
oppression of Great Britain, yet in
view of these facts of history Bryan
would have tbe country believe that
it must choose between him and an
emperor.
A well-known citizen of The
Dalles, while in Astoria last Satur
day, saw twenty tens of salmon on
the floor of a cannery, tbe catch for
that single cannery of tbe previous
nigbL He says all tbe canneries
were running on full time and some
on over time. And we are asked to
believe that it is Tbe Dalles wheels,
that did not catch a ton, all told,
during the same time, that are ruin
ing tbe salmon industry.
Mr. Bryan says Towne's withdraw
al from tbe race for vice-president
was a manly and patriotic act
History records tbe ''manly and
patriotic act" of an Irishman who
would not stay where he would not
be kept. On tbe same principle
Towne withdrew from a race in
which be could hope for neither
honor nor success.
The imports and exports of Porto
Rico for the month of May, 1900,
were each about 100 per cent greater
than for tbe corresponding month of
the year 1899. This Is the poverty
and distress to which tbe democratic
platform said tbe tcpublicans had
had doomed the island.
Bryan sees danger in our national
prosperity, and those wishing to do
him justice must admit that, should
his opinions prevail, such a source of
danger would be speedily removed
In one breath tbe democratic
orator will assure his hearers that
McKinley has no backbone, that be
is a creature controlled ty those
around him, and with the next breath
will accuse him of shaking tbe re
public to pieces In order to erect a
throne on the ruins thereof.'
William J. Bryan has exchanged
his lecture called "What I Know
About Wheat" for a new one en
titled "What I Know About the
Republic."
A sharp advance in the price of
ice in New York city is looked for
ia the near future. Tarn man v has
contributed 2,500,000 to tbe Bryan
campaign fund.
E.prcs.lna of Thank.
We desire to express our grateful
thanks to the many friends for kindness
shown ns during the illness and death
of our ion and brother.
Mb. and Mas. II. F. Bhunc
AND ClULURIX.
A suit involving- $130,000 was filed
yesterday in tbe circuit court for Sher
man county In which D. C. O'Beilley is
plaintiff and tbe Colombia Southern
Railway, a corporation, May Enright,
E. E. Lytle, W. H. Moore, A. E. H
mond and C. E. Lyt!e are tbe defend
ant". Tbe complaint is in substance at
follows: The plaintiff, on behalf of
Minaelf and all such other shareholders
of tbe Columbia Southern Railway Com
pany as are similarly situated, complains
of the defendants and alleges that E. E.
Lytle hat absolute control of tbe de
fendant company and that the board of
directors are mere dummies that were
elected to do hit bidding.
Prior to October 11, 1899, the road bad
been constructed and was in operation
from Biggs, Wasco county, to Moro,
Sherman county, a distance of twenty
seven miles, and since that time has
been extended, at the Instance and di
rection af E. E. Lytle, toShaniko, about
forty-three miles from Moro, (he con
tract! therefor being let to defendant A.
E, Hammond, who also procured the
right of way. Plaintiff Is informed and
believes that prior to tbe awarding of
these contracts to Hammond, other and
better bids bad been made, the lowest
bidder being one Archie Mason, but
Lytle refused to let tbe contract to the
lowest bidder. Afterward, in pursu
ance of a fraudulent scheme between
Lytle and the other directors, he and
bis wife conveyed by deed said right of
way for the sum of $130,000, which sum
plaintiff alleges, on information and be
lief, was paid by the defendant company
to E. E. Lytle; but whether paid di
rectly to him, or through A. E. Ham
mond, plaintiff does not know, because
he is refused access to tbe company's
books; and he alleges that if the con
struction of said road had been let to
the lowest bidder, it could have been
constructed for not to exceed $5000 to
$6000 per mile. Plaintiff charges that
said directors let the contracts to Ham
mond at tbe rate of $9000 per mile,
which was at least $3000 per mile more
than was necessary, for the' purpose of
defrauding plaintiff and other share
holders; that Hammond was only a
dummy for Lytle, who was tbe real ben
eficiary and who thus received a large
sum of money for which the defendant
company received no consideration. In
pursuance of tbis fraudulent scheme
Lytle, Moore and others in their employ,
for tbe purpose of defrauding the Co
lumbia Southern Company, deeds for
the right of way were taken in the name
ofE.E. Lytle, reciting a consideration
that was not in fact paid, and were for
lands in many instances that were do
nated to the company, but they were
made in Lytle'a name, reciting a large
aggregate consideration, which he re
quired the company to pay him, with
the knowledge and consent of tbe other
defendants, whom be controlled.
The complaint- then proceeds to te
cite instances of these alleged fraudu
lent transactions, and alleges that the
total consideration for tbe right of wav
for the forty-three miles frjm Moro to
Shaniko waa only $4300, and that orly
a small part of tbis was paid, whereas
it is charged that Lytle required tbe
company to pay him $130,000 therefor.
Plaintiff further alleges that tbe road
it now operating for a distance of eev
enty mites; that It traverses a very rich
and productive country, and will do a
very profitable business; that the cap
ital stock ia valuable, and an honest
management would pay the stockhold
ers dividends after paying all debts, lia
bilities, fixed charges and operating ex
penses ; and that the fraudulent acts of
defendants were for the purpose of pre
venting tbe payment of dividends to
plaintiff and other shareholders.
Wherefore plaintiff prays that the de
fendants be required to account to the
defendant company for tbe monevt
wrongfully taken by E. E. Lytle and W.
H. Moore and other defendants; that
plaintiff have judgment against taid de
fendants for the sum of 130,000, and
such further tumt at have been wrong
fully and fraudulently taken from the
defendant company ; that the company
recover against all or such of defendants
as shall be shown to have been cogni
zant of or participated in or privy to the
fraudulent paying out of the $130,000;
that upon the final hearing of the suit
a receiver be appointed to take charge
of and operate said line of railway so
that tbe decree of the court against the
defendant! may be enforced.
The plaintiff's attorneys are O'Day A
Tarpley, of Portland, who have been ex
amining the facts and the law for lev
eral days, which examination resulted
in the foregoing complaint.
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