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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. AUGUST 25. 1900. The Weekly Chroniele. ftrtnek O i.li.oh or 1M la 11 W O r two lnch. nd under tour tnch 1 U r four lut'bn sad under twelve tucnta. . . 0"rtwelT inrhM DAILY AD WII11T. Jaetaeh or Km, we inch , , OTruue inch sua ondef lour lnch 3 w 0Tr lour liH-br siul under tweire Inches. . 1 50 OTerlwtlT.lnihee I 00 "IMPERIALISM'' IS PORTO RICO. It is perhaps worth while at the present stage uf political misrepre sentation to turn aside from assertion and lock at some facta as revealed by tbe conduct of the United Stales in dealing with Porto Rico. Senti ment is hard to weigh and difficult to appraise at its true market value, but facts are tangible evidence of intention whether tbey be good or lad. Tbe so-called imperial administra tion of McKinley has, according to tbe published statement of Porto K leans, relieved tbe inhabitants of that fair Atlantic island of the fol lowing; Stamped paper dues on the trans fer of property. Personal certificates. Passports. Export duties. Tax on professions, trades and occupations. Import duties have been made nominal, and the Porto Ricans have been given power to abolish them altogether. Tribute to Spain. Tribute to the Veraguas family. Tribute to tbe Colonial minister. War tribute in time of peace. Navy tribute. Pens-ions to retired Spaniards. Support of mounted police. Military couiU to try political offenders. Majors appointed by the govern ment. A military governor. All these burdens have been lifted from tbe shoulders of our insular wards, and in addition to these nega tive benefits, tbey have been given the following: Habeas corpus. Courts of justice composed ot Poi to Rican magistrates. A modern fiee school system. Uniform currency. Regularity in exchange. j Autonomous municipal rule. Increased right of suffrage. Native police force. , Free justice and quick procedure Representation in tbe executive council. A bouse of representatives to leg isUte for tbe island. No people were ever treated more generously, and under the new re gimc business 1ms doubled in volume in two years. Burdens have been lifted, liberty bss been extended, education has been advanced, busi ness has lucreased, and the people are prosperous and grateful. In a short time their loyalty to the United States government will put to tbe blush many of those who try to blind truth by calling the best government on earth an imperial despotism. THE "PARAMOCST" MAKER. Bryan bus been identified with three "paramount" issues, to which be has, wiih all due solemnity, de dicated bis life, and pledged bis powers to engraft upon the national legislation of the country. When in the fifty-second congress, nine years ago, he was an ardent champion of free trade, in a speech, long and brilliant, he declared thtta "protective tariff was conceived in greed and fashioned in iniquity, false in econsmy and the most vi cious political principle that ever cursed this country." Yet & protec tive tariff bill was passed by tbe first congress and approved by Washing ton. Bryan furlLer declared that he would fight the protective system aa long as there was anything to rem edy. The struggle between protec tion and free trade went against him. Tbe people repudiated free trade and Bryan dropped it. It was not wise to "paramount" free trade when it would not make votes. Four years ago, realizing tbat be mast "paramount" something else, be took op silver an! worked it with all tbe force of bis eloquence. That in turn was repudiated by tbe people and dropped by Bryan. All his wild prophesies haveoeen proven to be false by tbe prosperous facta of recent experience. This year be concluded to let free trade alone, touch lightly on free silver and "paramount" imperialism, and he is working it in the same prophet-promising, letkless fashion. In opposing protection be denounced Washington; in advocating free silver he ran counter to all financial exj)erifnce; in opposing expansion be reflects on Jefferson. After a few more campaigns be may possibly get I into line ami siriKC aomeiuinz mat is right, but at present there is a big dent in the public confidence as to tbe accuracy of bis prophetic powers and to his leader-nice ability. Charles W. Kenwick, a soldier in the Philippines, has written home to his democratic father at llerndon. Saline county, Missouii, and declaies that tbe election of Bryan is the one hope of tbe followers of Aguinaldo. The letter says there is no telling bow much longer tbe bush whacking warfare will last if the encourage ment to the natives from tbe United Stales is to be kept op. He further expresses very contemptuously tbe wish tbat Mr. Bryan himself might have them to deal with, for if be bad he would "change his tune." This is in line with the last letter on the subject by tbe late General Lawton The troops in the Philippines know where to place the responsibility for the prolongation of their service there. The Times-Mountaineer defends tba amendment to the North Caro lina constitution tbat disfranchises "5.000 oegroes and says its only fault is tbat it docs not go far enough. Our contetrporary insists that "people of any intelligence what ever know that North Carolina has only enacted a law for self-protection to protect itself against ignor ance." Be it so, Mr. Mountaineer; but in tbat case what becomes of your doctrine of the "consent of tbe governed," and why do yo i play the hypocrite and shed crocodile tears over the rebel Filipinos, whose sup pression is the sworn duty of the chief executive of this nation? Unless there is a free ballot and a lair count and nn acquiescence in tbe results of electious, a republic cannot live. In South Carolina there is not a free ballot. In Louis iana there is not a fair count and ii Kentucky there is not acquiescence in tbe results of e'ectlons. Yet the party whose strength in congress depends on such methods is now posing as the friend of freedom and the savior of free institutions. Hi'lf of tbe last British loan was taken by people in the United Slates so tbat in place of this country hav ing to woik to pay interest to Brit ish holders of United Stales bonds, the process is reversed and the Brit ish is now compelled to send money to this country to pay interest on his obligations. This is another condi tion which Bryan promises to change when be gets into power. Under the present administration the United States is sending coal to Newcastle, cottons to Manchester, iron to Russia nnd machinery to all the world. The democrats promise to stop this business when they get into power. There are no Coxey armies march ing on Washington this year. 1'bat form of militarirm would, not un liktly, suit Bryanites to a dot. It would at least furnisb them the sort of campaign material they seem to like best. The efforts to introduce foreign issues into the campaign have come exclusively from the Democrats. Tbe republican platform appeals di rectly to tbe Amcricac voter and his welfare and doesn't evade a single issue. Mr. Bryan has compleled bis speech of acceptance of tbe populist nomination, but tbe poor fellow isn't balf through yet. He has to respond to tbe notification of several other aggregations of cranks and idealists. The Indianapolis News directs at tention to tbe fact tbat not one of tbe many democratic oratorj who spoke a few days ago in tbe city bad a word to aay about tbe disfranchise ment of tbe negro citizens of the soath by the democrats. Ii is all right," says tbe News, "to denounce imperialism thousands of miles from home, but when it comes to its exer cise right here at borne tbat is another matter." James Russell Lowell fifty years ago wrote a little dialect poem whose sentiment is entirely applica ble to the inconsistent position of tbe Bryanites today, although it was intended to expose the hypocrisy of the slave holder's love of liberty for everybody except bis negroes. One stanza covcis the case : I da believe in Freedom' ciose, Ki fur away rz Payri it; I love to se her stick her claw In them infernal phayrieeee; It's wal enough agin a king To dror resolves and triers But libnaty' a kin. I o' thing Tbat don't agree with nigjare. The Globe-Democrat says tbe word about tbe German-American vote from all parts of the country is the same. All of it which was cast for McKinley in 18DC will be given to bim iu 1900. This was just what everybody had a right to expect. It is what every sensible person did expect, Byran is Just as objection able this year as be was four years ago. There is this added incentive for hitting him hard this year, tbat a beating for him now will (end bim and tbe follies and vices for which be stands. Tbis year's defeat for tbe democracy will force tbat party to make a new departure in politics as complete as Yallandigbam com pelled it to make in tbe 70s when he stopped it from fighting accom plished facts in connectionjjwith the war amendments and legislation. The majority against Bryan in the electoral college in 1900 ought to be made twice as great as it was in 1806. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, chair, man of the democratic national com m ittee, is one of tbe directors in tbe American Cotton Company, a cor poration with S00 plants in the cotton states and controlling the round-bale process. Some interest ing legal testimony on tbis point is given in a dispatch from Waco, Tex., printed in another column. Tbe American Cotton Company is shown to have an omnivcrous appetite for smaller concerns and for monopoliz ing an important industry. Senator Jones is not disposed to let the Tammany ice trust put on airs over tbe western branch of the democratic party. His cotton bale trust is one of tbe fattest monopolies yet taken into tbe courts. Just 89 soon as it was announced tbat Governor Roosevelt , had pro posed to make Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, answer for his connection with the ice trust of that cit, tbe Bryanites raised a bowl. In com mon with our Dalles contemporary, they asserted that Roosevelt daren't do it. Now that Roosevelt uronoses to make it hot for Van Wyck, Bry anism rises on its bind legs and sats it isn't fair. That's Bryanism to a dot. Tbe Astorian pertinently suggests tbat our wives or our swestbearls can wear our hats and collars and ties, and, occasionally, our bicycle trous ers, w by may not we sterner mort als borrow a shirt waist once in a while? An examination of the democratic platforms of the past forty yeiirs dis closes tbe interesting fact that the paramount issue of one campaign invariably becomes the back number of the next. Adrartlaed baiters. Following is the list of letters remain ing in the posloffice at The Dallea un called for Aiwust 24, 1900. Persons calling for the same will give date on which tbey were advertised: LADIES. Davis, Mrs Kste McDonald, Barbara Spencer, Mies Eva Waller, Mr Mary Scoggin, Mrs Moliie Williams, Mr Jen GR.tTi.ICME. Carpenter, Claude Oadle, Rsl.tu Caster, Lawrence Cottle, II tV Dsvis, Mike (iibhs, John Halgate, Linden I'osh.CA Post), Wm bahn, Klaus We are offering onr entire stock of men's straw hats at attractive prices. Any of out 75-cent, $1 and $1.50 straws for 60 cents while they latt. No trouble to show goods at tbe New York Cash Store. ? And So Thej're Engaged Tto lun f . DtfuM LaMftKt. To a. I Ii can "aim i vr vu I l ,1.. - .11 ..! rne-olred -lee- trie bulb, bloomed like Cower, upon think lie a a wonder. the ceiling fillip the treat dining- B " e,,ID,5 m0re "". room with soft, still radiance and .bow-; con t you think so? iag the white tables surrounded with ! "Which? The dinner?" ornate high-backed chairs, now elo-j "No cur meeting and the mind qucntly empty. The a'r from the iv- i ware, and now this queer eastern fel- euue stirred the lace that screened the 'ow- open windows and made the blooming: "oh- 1 always knew we would meet marguerite, in great high tubs about . somewhere outside of a pink tea. I the room move on their fragrant stems. ! knew you were just the sort of a girl It was barbarously earlv for dinner, i rd like to ,aIk to" but ridieuloulv late for luncheon, but ! "And I felt sure that you were dif it r,.l K.iited the mnntl t the man and ! ferent from the other men. You know the maiden who bad met by accident and had been spending a delightfully unchaperoned day in town. Besides that there were trains to be taken back tn a fAKhinnnhli. resort where break fasts, luncheons and dinners made such informal meetings as this quite impos-j sible. 6o, as tne girl said, it was all the more fun. They were not even! dressed for dinner and the head waiter, who was punctilious in s uch matters, glanced somewhat disanprovinirlv at' the girl's linen shirt waist and her' bamboo hat with a nouf of blue, tilted - i well-dressed, well-tubbed specimen. j The room was almost deserted excepfi for those two and the cccasional cackle : of a waiter was all that broke the si-! 1 .v.! ... .- ieiiue rxurui meir w n i isrreei i v - iow - ered voices. A small East Indian man picturesquely turbaned and robed in j white came toward their table bearing' a chafing dish upon a silver tray from i which he served them noiselessly with j rice and chicken while a waiter poured I wine into two pale greenish glasses. The service had all the dignity and I importance of a rite. The girl's face took on a look of in tense satisfaction as she tasted the first morsel. As her sun-kised hands moved over her plate the man thought that she was one of the few women who ate gracefully. As a rule, they were too nonchalant or too enthusiastic. But this girl's appetite had all the repres sion of a Duse. "Isn't It funny?" she said. "Funny?" "Why. of course, it's too funny for anything! To think of our meeting, by accident, of all places, at church! Tell me why do you go to church?" "To kill time, I suppose. Then the music there is admirably good and the sermons " "Admirably short!" "Exactly! .Why did you go?" "I always go. It's become a habit with me. But it is the very last place I should have expected to see you. It is a remarkable coincidence that we should have drifted there. Don't you think things happen oddly at times?" "What kind of things?" "Coincidences for instance?" "Please don't call our meetings mere coincidence. I call it the result of an educated mind wave." . "Mind wave?" '"Yef! a brain current. You know in India " "That's where you go hunting lions, isn't it?" "No tigers in India." "But you hunt lions, too don't you?" "Never have. I gave one a run once, though." "Oh, how perfectly lovely! Tell me about it." "It wouldn't interest you. You see, I was running first." j "Ha! ha! ha!" I . . i Funny, wasn't it? Well, in India where they live on this sort of thing rice ami chicken " "And snuterne?" "Kr well no animal food you un derstandthey get their soul's culti vated to such an extent that they can communicate with each other across long distances." "Anybody can?" "Oh, you must be educated ltn in tt An American doesn't take to it as quickly, but the natives believe in it. J It is a part of their religion. They can i perform all sorts of magical tricks. -I ! nine no uouiii ijiat tne man who cooks this the little chap in the turban talks without words." j "I noticed he didn't sneak. And do 1 you know as he moved about so still tnd quiet I felt felt " "Jarred ?" "No chilled just as though I were under a spell. He has such mysterious eyes. Did you notice?" "Never notice men' eye. Waste of time." "Ha! ha! ha! I wish he would come in again!" "He probably will.' "Hush!" "What?" "Oh her he comes! He has another dish." "Good!" "Don't let tis pretend to notice. Yes, as you were saying, I quite agree with you, that the day has been a pleasant one but what would people think if tney came In and found us dining to getherat Ave o'clock. I, in a sailor' bat you " "In a sailor hat also " "And Chappy" "Twenty miles away !" "But if we hadn't met h-h! He' gone away! Never spoke a syllable. JVIt. Angel College Conducted by the Benedictine Fathers. L cited 40 mile. .,, p rtUnd on . . ..mi " fpota nf th Will.mette V .Iter. The l a . - in iui wil' T, For particular apply to the President. M m m! This is another of those a' soul rood J soul foods! It'i the same, but different! 1 "So, it what it is?" Suppose we ask him?" might break tbe spell. Look on the card. It niust be there some place." -Er er er Here it is! The Cur ry of Enchant merit.' ...... . ... . - . , . .,ft ! W bat d OU ,hlnk of tht? a girl gets tired of merely brilliant men and stupid men. You are such a relief." "Thanks." "And it is so interesting to learn ! about these occult subjects, Are you 8 professor?" "I besT J'"r pardon?" '"I mean an M. A. or a B. A. or any of those things?" "No just a mere man." '"But about the brain currents. When did you learn them? Did you have to live on rice Are vou able to com- Jo ycu explain our both going to church- Wd u will that I should ' 'I'll tell you something if you'll prom - ' Sf'" - . - - vnat. t "I saw you go in." f "Reallv?" "Really!" . "How odd." "How luckv." "Why?" "For me. I mean." "Oh, nonsense. Now don't spoil everything by saying anything silly." 1 wasn t going to. But you know I every fellow has an ideal gir!." "But we've only known each other part of a mimmer." "I feel as though I'd known j-ou all my life." "Do you always say that to girls?" "You're the onlv girl I ever" " "Loved?" "Talked sense to. I haven't paid you one compliment now have I?" "Oh, I shouldn't have liked you at all if you talked in that way." "But honestly, I knew that you were not a girl who wanted a man to say pretty things to her all the time. I think those girls are stupid." "Oh. I think it's great fun to be chums without any nonsense " "What do you call nonsense?" "Flirtation." "Mind waves are strictly platonic." "Then we shall not misunderstand each other. Oh, I have often longed to be understood." "I am sure that I understand you. I have always thought, do you know, Miss well, I declare, I've forgotten your first name." "Why. you've never heard it, have you? It's Marion." '"Marion?" "Yes. What's yours?"' "Fine?" "Yes." "Mine is Marcus Aurelius." "Goodness!" "It's a fact." "I suppose people call you Mark." "People that know- me well call me Mike." "Mike?" "Yes. PlcnRe call me Mike." "Yes it will be more like a pla tonic mind wave if we call each other h? our first names." Aren't you engaged to some one?" "Goodness no! Are you?" "Was once. Never will he again." "I think it's bad form to fall In love. I never have and never shall. Were you very much in love?" "I wasn't in love at all." "But yoi said you were engaged." "So I was. It just happened. She was a widow." ' "Poor Imy!" "Yes wasn't it?" "Was it very long ago?" Ever so long ago. I had quite for- gotten "How long ago?" "H-h-uh?" "How long ago was it?" "Let me see. It waa yes it w as last August." "Oh!" "Yes." "Was she pretty?" "Oh er some might think so. She wasn't nt nil like you. I have always wanted to meet a girl with real vio let eyes." "Iteally?" She dipped her fingers In a golden bowl. Then she said across the table in a hoarse whisper without looking up: "Mike?" "Yes Marion?" "Don't look around. For that hor rid East Indian is bringing a lot of people don't look round that we know directly down the room and they see us "Kiiblering, are they?" "They're staring like anything. There are the Vanderhyrks, and the Highballs and the West bury snd your sister and her husband .and and oh Chappy!" and Seminary, one ..f the most healthful and attractive " mo mon lesiiiuni ami attractive ideal .lc for your boy. Preparatory. piarw lor your tx Music a specialty jutyl8 ocll8 "Great Scott! "Quick-what shall we My they, bowing, "Why. put a bold face on if--Yea, but how? It look. liniDlr dreadful. They will thinW - ' P'r purposely. ChappyVi glaring throuJk her lorgnette. They must hae eon. into town for dinner. "Are you afraid?" "Awfully." "Well, tbere'a only one thing to d now." "Quick, what?" "Announce it!" "Announce what? The mind wares'" "No our engagement." "Mike! The idea!" "Sh Marion they're almost here Just leave it to me. It s the only way! Smile and look pleasant. Well, well! As I live! Who'd hare thought of meeting you all here! Isn't thu just too jolly for anything!" N v ... mt ! Sun. A beam For Long IJttrh As a risult of the purchase, completed Tuesdav, ol thellwaco Railroad by th O. E.AS. Co., Long Beach resorts ili j be provided with first-cUes tran.nort.. tion service. Starting tody the stesmer T. J. Potter will iuak regular daily trip, through to Ilwaco, connecting there wiih i """" vanous resorts. . : I - - .i : . i The purchase of the Beach road by the i O. R. &. N. Co., ia an indication that j tbat company Is alive to the Browing im. i portance of the beach trade. Next year :i i0T,uer imuroveinHni. ... ' - " mide. When tbe Potter is taken off of the run, in September, she will recive a thorough overhauling. It is intended to make her a floating palaca and the swiftest et earner on the river. With j these urpoees in view, new boilere will I be put in, and coal burners added, ?os j to furnish the necessary steam to run lie j engines at hijih speed with little vibra tion. In speaking abo i Mio purchase of the Ilwaco line, I "ins twenty miles along Long I - . n. l'-pident A. L. Mohler said i nu-n - i 'hat the 0. R. & N. ti-.i.j. h l... k a icr Long Beach ''-"-I--, mid ii.t-.-r th lr-porta. tion tn--- i . 1 e iro d- ' h who flock tin,- "'v . i., a newly purchased i. h ,Hi '. oe operated independently, tne min.: a before, only closer con recti on a will be made. He thinks the former owners of the road deserve credit for the enterprise ehowa by them in operating it nnder adverse circumstances, and giving the best ser vice possible within their power. Such new equipment as Is needed for handling the people, Mr. Mohler said, will be added. The Union Tai-inc will advertiee tbe beach and do everything possible to send pecple to one of the belt beaches in the United States. - II ow Thrjr Were Taken Id." Four alleged specialists have been pity ing a slick game with a number of farm ers south of here. Their agent, wbo registers as R. Hynes, of San Francisco, hunts up parties who are s filleted with rupture and other tronbles and contracts for a cure or no pay, but insists that the patient shall draw up a note for the fee payable to himself nd endorsed ever to Hynes or "Dr. Shepherd," another of the party. In this way this quartet se cured a note for 80 from Mr. P.odnnn, of Wamic; another for $100 from James Woolery, of Boyd ; another from a Mr. Snyder for $50; another from J. W. Russell, of Kingsley, for $1)0; another from '.ane Smith, of Twelve Mile, the amount of which was not learned; an other from J. B. Haveley, of B).rd, whose amount was not learned, snd en- other for $60 from Willard Taylor, ol Dufur. Tueeday Sheriff Kelly, in response lo a dispatch received from Dufur, made a demand on "Dr." Anderson for the u;ite given to Hodman and the doctar gave it up. This morning Wiiiard Taylor isms in from Dufur with blood in his eyo and tackling Hynes as he was about to cross the river on the ferryboat, called hua everything else but a pentleinan. Hynet took his medicine u eekly, and .Mr. Tay lor afterwards obtained a settlement with "Dr." Shepherd that he raid was satisfactory. Oiher of the victim', or whatever yen may call them, have beea hunting the doctors to get their null's, with what success we have rot learned. It beats "banagher" that people should monkey in this wv with abso lute strangers, who possibly km no more ol medicine or surgery than Urvsa does of finance, when they have ritfht here at tin eonnty seat, at their voi door as it were, a set f s a! 1 lMi'ti tioners as there are in any town of ih size of The Dalle between the t9 oceans. CASTOR! A For Infant and Children. The Kind You Bear the Signature of For the convenience ot parties want ing Ice in the afternoons, the fitadelmsn Ice Co. will carry a stock at their store, corner Third and Washington streets. Plinna Kn 1D7. I..n distance 13 'Ring 'em op. lHni-lf Why pay 11.75 per gallon for Inferior paint when yon can buy Jm''Jl Pstton' (tin proof paints for I. P" gallon, guaranteed for 5 year. Clara HOUII Subscribe for The Chronicle.
