THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. AUGUST 25. 1900.
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"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'" -
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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
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