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CSl'ER THE MASK.
la en interview printed by tbe
l.oslon Journal, the Hon. George
Frisbie Hoar, who has been ami i3
firmly opposed to imperialism, gives J
Lis opinion of Mr. Bryan's proposal j
to csll nn extra session of congress
as soon as he is inaugurated, i( be is
elected, for the purpose of having it
declare the intention of tbe United
States to establish a stable govern
ment m the Philippines and to make
them independent and so on. Mr.
llosr shows that tbe proposal is mere
wind and sound :
Mr. IJryan knows be could not
expect either bouse of congress to
do this thing until the people of the
Philippine Islands have abandoned
thefr opposition and have established
an orderly aoveromenl uiuier our
protection. He knows that if there
should be a democratic ruajrity in
the bouse of representatives tqual to
bis wildest hopes, and if the repub
lican majority in the senate should
be reduced to two, or wiped out
altogether, so that it should be a
tie which is, I suppose, beyond bis
most sanguine expectations there
nre still earnest and pledged im
perialist enough in the democratic
party to prevent any such action.
Docs be expect Morgan and I'ettus
of Alabama, after tbeir slate has in
dorsed their position so triumphantly
does be expect Sullivan of South
Carolina, McEnery of Louisiana,
Jones and Stewart of Nevada, or
othe.s that I could name, to swallow
everything they have said publicly
for tbe last four years?"
If imperialism were the one great
issue there would still be do help in
Mr. Bryan. But the anti-imperialism
of Mr. Bryan and bis party is, as
Mr. Hoar says, "but a mask to cover
tbeir put pose to establish the free
coinage of silver, a mask to cover
their purpose to bring in free trade,
a mask to cover their purpose to
overthrow the banking system, a
mask to cover nn attack on the
sunreme couit and a purpose to re
organize it if tbey can get tbe op
portunity. A very considerable
number of judges of the supreme
court of the United States are old
men. It is not at all impossible that
the majority of the court may be
changed during tbe term of a single
president." Mr, Hoar is not do
ceived by the mask:
"I must have something better
than these declarations against im
perialism from the candidate who
secured the passage of the treaty
uu uullled all the efforts I was able
to make against it, before I am
ready to purchase bis election at thel
cost of having a government that
will sympathize with the disfran
chisement of 10,000,000 of Ameri
cans at borne, that will stand for
dishonoring be currency, far tbe
violation of rational faiib, for the
overthrowing of the banking system
and the establishment of an income
Ux, for assailing tbe integrity of tbe
supreme court, for sympathizing
everywhere with populism and
socialism."
We don't believe that many per
sons car: be lured into forgetting tbat
Bryanism lies under the mask of ami
impel iilism.
LEMOCRA TIC EXI'AXflOXISTH.
It comes with a poor grace from
modern so-called Democrats to op
pose expansion even island expan
sion when that has been tbe trading
policy of the party from the days, of
Jefferson to the days of Buchanan.
In 1840 President Polk offered to
purchase Cuba from Spain for the
sum of 100,000,000, though be bad
no authority from congress to make
the proposal and be certair.Ij could
not have obtained the money without
such authority, had Spain accepted.
But the offer was refused.
Again in 1851, under the admin
istration of President Tierce, our
then ministers lo England, Fiance
nJ Spain, who were James Bucli-
James Y.Mason and rierre
aoan,
Soule, met at LMend and issued the ,
famous Ostcn I manifesto, nhicb in I
ffwt w that if &iain 8houM refuse I
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to sell Cuba to the L niteil Mates rori
120,000,000, "we .houhl be justified
bv every law, human and divine, in
wresting it from Spain if we possess
tbe power."
This came to nothing, but in tbe
next administration President Bu
chanan in three of bis annual mes-1
sages to congress, urged tbat Cuba
ought to le made by purchase a part
of the United States. A bill for the
purchase of Cuba was introduced
during Buchanau's term by Senator
Slide!!, but failed of adoption.
In both the democratic platforms
of 1800 tbe Breckenridge and the
Douglas there were planks favoring
the annexation of Cuba.
All this talk about imperialism is
fudge and rot and there is not a man
on the American footstool with a
thimbleful of brains or a scintilla of
intelligence who does not know it is
such. What is imperialism;
The
anirit rif pnmirp. we are told. But
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the "suint of empire is a mental
attitude nd can only be manifested
by overt acts. What has McKinley
done, what has tbe republican ad-mini-it
ration ilona ti Drove that the
one wants to be an emperor and tbe
other wants to change the govern
ment to an empire? The question
is tilly and ridiculous, but let it be
answered. We Lave acquired cer
tain possessions by a title recognized
as unquestionable by every civilized
nation on the globe. Is this impe
rialism? Then we have been an
empire for more than a hundred
years President McKinley has
performed bis sworn duty, as the
chief executive of this nation, in
using the army and navy of the
United Stites to put down a rebellion.
He would have done the same in
Aliska, in Porto Rico, in New York,
in Oregon, or given the country
valid cause for bis impeachment.
Is he therefore an emperor? Then
Jefferson was an emperor, and Jack
son, and Grant, and Lincoln, whom
Bryanism now worships (as men
garnish the sepulcbers of prophets
whom tbeir fathers have slain) was
the arch-emperor of them all.
Tbe democratic plea tbat the 10
to 1 plank was inserted in the Kan
sas City platform to fool the popu
lists is fully justified by the gingerly
way Bryan treats the money question
in bis address of acceptance of tbe
populist nomination. The question
now is, Will the populists continue
to be fooled ? And the answer, alas,
must bo: Yes; the pops are built
that way.
If "impeiialism" is the ''para
mount" issue, why was free silver
inserted in tbe democratic platform?
In 1896 the democrats sought to get
free silver in through the front door.
This year tbey are trying to sneak
it in through tbe back door under
the clock of "anti-imprrialism."
It is rather late for the democratic
party to become concerned over the
safety ot the republic. It will be
recalled with sorrow that when a
genuine effort was made to destroy
tbe republic, that party managed to
exhibit a remarkable amount of Iran
quility.
After solemnly ami carefully read
ing the editorials of our Dalles
Bryanite contemporary The Chrox
ii i f. b is come to the conclusion that
its policy is "Consent of the gov
erned in the Philippines, but
consent be in Noith Carolina."
Col. Watterson said of Bryan on
his visit to Kentucky in 1890: "He
is a dishonest dodger, lie is a
daring adventurer. He is a political
fakir." Watterson's first impressions
are often valuable.
It) spite of platforms, notifications
and letters of acceptance, the para
mount Issue is: Do the people want
to exchange McKinley for Brvan
j ami universal prosperity for free
souphouses? Indianapolis Journal.
The Fredericksburg management at
Eonnevilie ie a thins of the past, hut
the O. K. & N. Sunday excursions, 60
cents fur ihe round trip, will te con
tinued through the season. Bonneville
is the most delightful place on the
Columbia river 10 enjoy a day's outing.
! UO W TUOMAS JEFFEKSOX TOOK
LOL'ISUXA.
When Jefferson acquired Lcuui-
ana in
1802 be 1id not ask the con
sent of the inhabitants of that vast
i territory, says an esteemed exchange
! that fought bard for Urvan four
(years ago. lie deal; exclusively
with Napoleon Jionspaite, then first
consul of France, and bought the
inhabitants at so much per beaJ,
' precisely as we are sa'd to have
j bought the Filipinos from pain.
j Jefferson went further, and massed a
large part of the armed forces of the
I United States, in apprehension of a
I forcible resistance by the inhabitants
I of our new possessions. There is no
poss ole room for controversy on
this matter. The facts are set forth
with great clearness and candor by
Jefferson himself in his message to
congress. 1-or example, in a special
message of January 10, 1804, Presi
dent Jefferson said:
"Governor Caliborne of the Mis
sissippi territory and General Wilk
inson were appointed commissioners
to receive possession. They jro.
ceeded with such regular troops as
. 1
were assembled at Fort Adams from
the nearest posts, and with some
militia of the Mississippi territory to
New Orleans. To bc prepared for
i ftn lhiDo' unexpected which
might
arise out of tbe transaction, a re
spectable body of militia was order-
to be in readiness in the States if
Ohio, Kentuckpy, and Tcnessee, and
a part of tbose in Tenessee was mov
ed on to the Natchez. No occasion,
however, arose for their services."
But in event that occasion bad
arisen for their services, who can be
lieve that Jefferson would not have
met tbe crisis precisely as President
McKin'.ey met it in tbe Philippines?
Who believes that if the inhabitants
of Louisiana had not rebelled against
the deal with France, and had open
ed fire on tbe forces cf tbe United
States, Jefferson would have hauled
down the Aug and ordered bis com
missioners and the United States
i loops lo abandon the country.
Tbe difference between Louisiana
and tbe Philippines may be one of
degree, but not of principle.
It is said tbat betting in New York
on the coming presidential election
has been at heavy odds on McKinley
and has ranged all tbe way from 4 to
1 to 2 to.l. At Saratoga a bet of
30,000 is reported and Boss Croker,
who is quite confident of Bryan's
election put up the greater part of
the 10,000. At Buffalo a oet of
4000 to 1000 against Bryan was
made a month ago. At Chicago
odds of 2J to 1 are offered on
McKinley. At Cincinnati Bryan
money at 1 to 3 find no takers. At
At Louisville bets are made at 5 to
2 that McKinley will be elected.
Bryan is the favorite at Richmond,
Va., but at San Francisco McKinley
men give odds of of 5 to 1, The
New Yoik World, summing up the
reports of its correspondents, finds
tbat the average throughout the
country is 3 to 1 in favor of Mc
Kinley. Senator Corbett's editorial on ex
pansion in last Saturday's Telegram
is tbe most marvelous rhetorical and
grammatical contribution to Oregon
politics that has appeared since John
Luce ceased his lectures on the per
"capicia" circulation. We have six
little country newspapers in Wasco
County, some of whose editors have
to go without a square meal the day
they blow themselves in for a cigar
or a drink of . usequcbaugli, but if
any one of them should write an edi
torial, murdering the queen's Eng
lish as Corbett has done, the rest of
jus would lake him out and bang him
lo a j jniper tree.
Proud and pilrlotic Americans
hold the stubborn conviction tnat an
American Tory is just as contemtilile
in 1900 as he was in 1776, says the
St. Louis Republic and it might have
added that proud and patriotic
Americans hold the stubborn con
viction that nn American copperhead
is just as contemptible in 1900 as he
was in 1862.
CandiJate lirjan does not at
tempt to explain any of bis roiscar
tied predictions, lie simply goes
right ahead making new ones.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The first thirr.blca were mode- in Hol
land. Tbey were brought to Kngland
in 1693. i
A bicycle that in five minute can be"
taken apart and packed in a bag Si by
16 inches has been invented by an in-pt-iiiou
1'reuchruan.
Twelve year ax one sailor out of
every UG, on an average, lost his life
by accident. Now the proportion La
been reduced to one in 50.
The earliest authenticated sea-figrht
i iid to have been that between the
Corinthians and the Corcyrcaus. in
which the former conquered G-34 I!. C.
From the Missouri district, chiefly
in St. Louis, the government draws far
more revecde from tobacco manufac
ture than it docs from any clher quar
ter in the country. '
During- the year ended May 31 the
home circulation of the Chicago public
library was 1.71.1. TTi volumes, which,
the Chicago papers tay. exceeds the
record anywhere el.-e in the world'. I
A man in Macoupin, III., has fitted his
carriage with an arrangement of over
head pipes which have perforations to
direct jets of air xl the pu-t-cngers. A
fan easing is attached to the under por
tion of the running gtar with the fan
shaft geared to a toot lied' w heel secured
to one of the carriage wheels, ihe gears
being in proportion to revolve the fan
rapidly even when the motion of the
carriage is slow, thus forcing air into
the pipes and distributing it for use.
"If I were to give you an orange," j
said Judge Koote, of Tcpeka, to D. O.
McCray, "I would simply say: 'I give
you the orange,' but should the trans-'
action be intrusted to a lawyer to put
in writing, he would adopt this form:
'I hereby give, grant and convey to
you all my interest, right, title and' ad-j
vantage of and in saiiforangc, together ;
w ith its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pits, 1
and all right nnd advantage therein, '
with full power to bite, suck or other
wise eat the same, or give away with
or without the rind, skin, juice, pulp
or pits, anything hereinbefore or in
any other deeds or deeds, instruments
of any nature or kind whatsoever to
the contrary in nnv wise notwithstand
ing.' "
MAINE TOWN FOR SALE.
It la
Hopelessly Bankrnpt and
One Seems to Want It at
Any Price.
So
The town of Somerville, Lincoln
county. Me., is for sale to the high-1
est bidder, and it isn't expected that '
anyone will bid very high for the
place, says the New York Sun. Som-1
erville is hopelessly bankrupt, and
has been so for a long time. It was
formerly known as I'atricktown plan-;
tation, and is 30 miles north of the
ancient town of Wiseasset. Forty '
years ago there were ubout 600 iu-1
habitants in the place, and now there
are only 430, while the valuation has
fallen off from $106,000 in 1890 to ;
about $80,000 at present. j
Xo particular cause is assigned for
the plight in which Somerville finds
itself at the century's end. It seems
thave just dried up, and it is the
best example known of the decayed
rural town of .New Kngland the place
of deserted mills, tumble-dow n houses
and abandoned farms. The industries
never amounted to much, consisting'
of some little old-fashioned sawmills, j
and although the soil is ns good as!
in the prosperous towns all around j
it, farming in Somerville seems to j
have, been a failure in this generation. '
Xow the town, with its nominal val
uation of $so,noo, has a debt of $30,-'
000 which it cannot pay, and the chief
wonder is how such a debt was ever
contracted. No one in Somerville has
paid any taxes for ever so long, nnd
the assessors don't know how to get
what is due to the town, to the conn,
ty and to the state. The state as-'
sessors have no suggestions to make
for the benefit of the local officials;
Gov. Towers doesn't know any rem-;
edy for the condition of affairs and
the legislature won't do anything for
fear that there would be a rush of
other poverty-sticken towns for re
lief on the same basis. I
The only thing to do is to sell the
town outright, and that is what the
people of Somerville want to do. They
think that possibly some rich man
from the big cities might want the
place for a private park, for which
purposes it offers many advantages,
but at last accounts no one had made
an v toffer. i
A Automobile Trolley
A French inventor has avoided one
of the chief difficulties in the use of
the trolley system for the propulsion
of carriages not running on rails by
making an automobile trolley which,1
while serving to connect the carriage
with the overhead wires, is itself pro-
pelled by the elect ric current, under j
"V.0 wf,thP 'Ir.,Ver ' ' ?
ioai 11 rvrejia pieji wun ine carriage '
and no strain is exerted upon the con-
nect.ng w.re. When connected w,.h ; been made a bankrupt by a trencher
.he wire, m the ordinary way. a car- , bro,pr. 0J IoK M "
nage that free o move from side Vanse he wa, . stanch l'roteMant. and
after ,t and m consequence the con-. lic; nnd had once been shipwrecked
nertion is frequently l.roken.-Yonth's . n,l )os, alI ,,, lliU, , J,'r M
Companion. i .
The Snllaa Want I nlvrraltr.
A university for the study of the arts
and sciences is to be founded at Con
stantinople by order of the sultan.
MT. ANGEL COLLEGE,
Conducted by the Benedictine Fathers.
The Ideal Place for Your Boys.
Will Reopen on Sept. 6th, 1900.
BUTTER BY THE YARD.
Am Eaallsk Tw la Which the OH
ajlaau Pradart 1 Sold by.
Llaeal Mracara.
Probably Cambridge, England, isthe
only place in the world where one
would be likely to find butter sold by
lineul measure, but here, in accord
ance with the old custom, it is sold by
the yard. ays the Southern Agricul
turist. For generations it has been
the practice of Cambridgeshire dairy
folk to roll their butter into lengths,
each length measuring a yard and
weighing a pound. Deftly wrapped
in strips of clean white cloth, the
cylindrical rolls are packed in long
and narrow baskets made for the pur
pose, and thus conveyed to market.
The butter women that in white lin
en aprons and sleeves preside over the
stalls in the mart have no need of
weights or scales for dispensing their
wares. Constant practice and an ex
perienced eye enable them with a
stroke of the knife to divide a yard
of butter into halves or quarters with
almost mathematical exactness.
The university people are the chief
buyers of thiscurioiisly shaped article.
In addition to being famed for its
purity and sweetness, tambridge
"yard butter" is eminently adapted
for serving out to the university stu
dents in the daily commons. Cut in
conveniently sized pieces and accom
panied by a loaf of the best wheaten
bread a stated portion is sent round
every morning to the rooms of the
undergraduates for use at the daily
breakfast and tea.
SAVE MONEY ON POSTAGE.
Thrifty People In Maxara Falls Jour
ney Over to Canada and Mall Lel
tera Abroad for Tto Cents.
A unique method of saving a few
cents and thereby cheating the revenue
is in vogue in Niagara Falls, N. Y. That
city has a good many Knglhh people
for residents, while it is aniwially vis
ited by thousands of tourists from the
Itritish Isles. Consequently there is a
larg? outgoing mail to the United
Kingdom from that place, and every
mail day 130 to 20(1 letters' are sent to
various parts of Great IJritain. The
foreign postageon the American side of
the river is five cents per half ounce,
but within the last year it has been re
duced on the Canadian side to two
cents. Since that time, says the Chica
go Tribune, a custom has sprung up
among the Anglo-American residents
of having one of them collect the let
ters and then walk over to Niagara
Falls, Ont., and post them, saving three
cents on each mirsire.
In the case of a single letter there is
nn saving, as there is a toll of ten cents
for the round trip across the railway
bridge and 13 cents across the steel
arch bridge. When a large number of
letters are collected together, however,
the saving; mounts up. and it is a regu
lar custom in various households w hen
a letter has been written to inquire:
"Who is going to Canada to-day?" In
addition many residents of the Cana H
dian side w ho daily cross to the Amer
ican make it a regular custom to col
lect and mail letters for personal
friends.
ENGLISH WOMEN GARDENERS.
Brltoa'a Dream I to liar a. Cardia
Spot Th la Accounts for
Woniri'a Intereat. : '
In Kngland everybody either hn a
garden or dreams of having- one. An
American family with a modest iub
urban home hires a man to come and
mow the lawn. Then it patronizes the
florist and the green grocer, sav Har
per's Itazar. An English family has
its own flowers, its own vegetables, its
own fruit grown on the sunny side
of a brick wall and a gardener. So
it is natural enough that the girl gar
dener idea should have taken root in
England, ami that having taken root,
it should thrive. At Sw anley they say
that they cannot begin to supply the
demand for women gardeners. The
woman's branch was started in 1S91
with one lone female student. The
attendance has almost doubled
year
by year, and the
young women who
have taken
the college course are oc
cupying positions all over the I'nited
Kingdom. Two of them are in the
famous Kew gardens, near London.
Two are in the Edinburgh Uotanical
gardens, nnd two in the public gardens
at Dublin. Three nre on a large es-
tate at Arbroath. called I.rtham
i grange. One is at t he home established
by Lady Henry Somerset at Duxhurst.
One is nt Wycombe Abbey, two at the
Convalescent home at Hale, one at the
Royal Hollow ay college, and so on.
A nmsar'a Stories.
"Charities" tells of nn English char
itable society which reoentlv !..,:
gat,d ,. rpi:ort! f ,,, , ,
nff to his various "hard luck" storiei
at rinea.
had lost lhri.p if.. i
fiU hersand I wo mot h.' r-i,,t ..... '.:.?.
j Krai .a:al for Ksls
j Twenty-three lota, located from rev
, "th street to Twelfth, for fulo nt Iron.
50 up. Inquire at the. Columbia
Hole!.
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tMes Lice CoDniicrA
USE
Carbolineum : Avenarius
The mnt effli-ient W.h i.
Paint lso lUdiPAl Keined'v
C nick en ue. It
- -' '- "l pt'UllIT DiU, Wi 1
ult healthy chickens.
ail He b
evx. w rite tor circulars a' 1'. .i 1
Meulion UiU paper. -4 e-'icw.
Jos.T. Peters & Co.
Oregon STATE Fill
SALEM, OREGON.
September 17 to 22, 1900.
BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVEB
BEFORE,
Gronndi greatly improved, baildinn
repaired and renovated, all stock bniM
ings thoroughly disinfected; evrythin,
in firel-clae condition for the lanT
and beet Live Stock Show an.J Aricui
oral Exposition ever held on the Coast
J20.000 ir; premiums Purses
Good racing every afternoon.
Music and fuo at night.
Auction sale of livestock will be mdeil.rf
in- feHliire. All ,'lveBtock ami other eihS
hauled free over the Southern Faeuic railii?
Kuduecd tmsseueer rate on all railroads it
premium ami oilier 'nforiiiHtlim addivi.
W. II. WKHKUMj. Prudent. UillS.O,.
M. D. WlsbOM, Sec., Portland; ,0,.
House
Painting...
The undersi.i ! ti t.,k-rn possession
of R. A. Spiv- nn i !" i , " xt door to
the Vogt .i i rii li' nc, mni baa par.
chased '"ols and U-lders. H i has
(jood II, r
will gnsii.i.
tion.
worku p f,.- ! ,lsan(j
S. K. KELLY.
Under the direction of the
Sisters of the Holy Names of
Jesus and Mary.
THE DALLES, - OREGON.
This Institution In idennnntly situated nn;
the Columbia on the line of the 0. K, A N. Co.;
thence it is easy ol access for all those who rt
alre to aecure a comfortable hnnie and a proffren.
sive scat of learning for their daughter, or
ward. The location of the Academy I. one of
the most hiallhy on the Facitic slujte, thl. por
tion of Oregon being proverbial for its pure
water, brack g air, and ulctureniuc seenerr.
The Academy i Incorporated and aulhurird by
the Htate to confer Academic honors.
Uoird and tuition per aeholastlo year, JlfiO.
Studies will be resumed Tuesday. St ptember.lth.
For detailed information apply to the sister
Siixrior. augii-lni
L. Lane,
GENERAL
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etirei the best txer in The Kalles,
at the usual jirlce. Conn- ! "f
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Finest hranda uf Wines, I.I ('i'"
and Cigars.
Sanduiiehes
of all Kinds aiways on btr.4.
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Caaaitl
First National Bank.
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Deposits received, mibject to Ntf'1
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