THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1900.
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SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.
The authors and supporters of the
ship subsidy tall in congress Lave the
right to a respectful anil candid
hearing at the hands of the Ameri
can people, and especially at the
hands of republicans and protection
ists, when they avow that their main
object in the formation and advocacy
of the bill is to promote and establish
an industry wtiose condition for near
ly thirty years has been a disgrace to
one of the greatest mnratime and ex
porting countries in the world. Op
position to the bill is to be expected
and special and persistent opposition
from those who know least about its
provisions.
We are in no wiso surprised at
this, for we remember that nearly
every great industry in the country
today, that owes its existence to the
great principle that lies at the base of
the ship subsidy bill, met with pre
cisely similar opposition until success
made further opposition ridiculous
In the near future we shall present
our readers with a synopsis of the
bill itself. Today we present them
with some of the grounds upon which
the bill is justified by its promoters
and supporteis.
The first and foremost is the con
fessedly humiliating condition of the
Unilei. States as a great maraliroe
nation. With the largest exporta
tion of any country in the world
and imports amounting last year to
8 10,000,000, our share of the carry
ing trade last year, to and frorr
E' i rope, under the American flag,
ws only 24 per cent pf our exports
aad imports, and that to and from
the world was onlj' a fraction
over 9 per cent. We paid foreign
nations, principally Great Britain
and German-, 1500,000 a clay for
transportinj our foreign commerce.
When war broke out between this
coun'ry and Spain we were compelled
to hunt the seas over for transports
and colliers, and purchase or charter
forty ships from foreign nations.
Had the war been with some great
raaratime power, like Great Britain
or France, and neutrality enforced as
it would have been, it is appalling to
contemplate what would have been
the result. As it was, our producers,
especially, paid heavy penalties in
the form of increased freight rales.
Our coast-wise trade is amply pro
tected and is therefore abundantly
prosperous, wLile our foreign carry
ing trade, it is urged, is left to tight
the battle with the whole world un
aided. Our ships, it is said, cost 25
per cent more to build and 40 per
cent more than forcigu ships to
operate, while they are compelled to
compete, unprotected, with those of
other nations that are protected by
subsidies in the form of mail con
tracts, direct bounties, subventions
and retainers to the extent of over
26,000,000 annually. As a natural
result our tonnage, registered for the
foreign trade, lias steadily decreased
since 18f8 when American vessels
carried 33.1 per cent of all our ex
ports and imports, decreasing to 23
per cent in 1 87y ; to 1 1.3 per cent in
1889, and to 9 per cent in 1899.
We have been building in our ship
yards, the last twenty years, possibly
one merchant ship a year for the
foreign carrying trude. The com-
the national capital. What keeps
him there? Fixing things to puil
old man Corbetl's leg once more?
Laying plaus to defeat his colleague,
Senator McBride, for re-election?
Very likely. He's a sweet youth, is
Joseph, and he is not staying in
Portland simply for his health. By
the way, report lias it that Joe's ex
cuse is that his brother Sam is sick
abed. And Sam, it is said, was
never in better condition in his life,
and Jokingly says that he never knew
till now how kind a brother Joe is
and bow much Interested he is in his
health. It is predicted that Sam is
likely to keep "sick abed" till the
legislature convents. JIas not the
legislature that elected this miserable
little ward heeler a right to be proud
of themselves?
Who will be senator is a question
oftened Asked, and is often un
answered. We do not know who
will be the successful man, but this
we do know, that several gentlemen
in this state would not object to the
honor, and amongst others is II. W
Corbett, who is working like a beaver
for it. We c!o not see why he should
want it, nor do we see any good
reason why the peoplo should waut
wat him. We want a man with
some vigor ot youth about him and
not one who is to a great extent old
and physically incapacitated. If we
want an aged gcutlcraan, let us have
Hon. Geo. II. Williams, the peer of
any man in Oregon. Shaniko Leader.
The Enterprise Chieftain has made
the important discovery that John
II. Mitcheil is the man that is re
sponsible for the Multnomah county
law assessment and all the troubles
that have flowed .from it. Leastwise
the Wallowa paper insists that the
"Mitchell republicans" are the cuprits
and Mitchell is their father. And
the Oregonian stoops so low as to
publish this silly rot! We should
like to know how much the Corbett
gang are paying the Chieftain rdiot
for giving him an opportunity of
making an ass of himself.
ship subsidy "j.vm:
Of the manufacturing world there
is nothing to say except that the
manufacturing world is busy. As
this is all the manufacturing world
cares to have said about itself, there
is nothiag further to say. All under
protection and sound money, too!
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jim Hill is mildly opposed to the
ship subsidy bill, and Jim, as cvety
body knows, is a philanthropist.
Before taking Jim at his word, how
ever, we should like to know what
card he has up his sleeve.
I applanation.
Tiie paragraph in last Wednesday's
Chbomci.k regarding the two Woodmen
orders in this city was in answer to
several questions given by different
people. Some thought the two orders
were the same, while they are not. The
question was asked member of the
M. W. A. if they had the reserve fund
pian and be anewered that he thought
not. He evidently did not know much
bout his order. No offense was in
tended by the writer, nor by any mem
ber of Woodcraft of the Woodmen of
the World. They are not "jealous" of
any orJer under the shining heavens,
nor are tliey unfraternal enough to mis
represent things to an applicant in order
to increase their membership.
Woodcraft, peifected Woodcraft, Wood
men of the World, endeavors to practice
as well as teach that life is worth the
living and the motto of "love thy neigh
bor as tbyseif" isneed srd practiced by
all (rue (raters. Now this will nuaiu be
slated: There is no feeling of jealousy
between the Woodmen of the World and
the Modern Woodmen, as was hinted at
in yesterday's CiiKOSict.r... T!c Wood
men of the World will welcome any man
who makes proper appVcation, and ask
him to study their pi in r f .'la'.crnti pro
tection. Then if he c-h'.opt to to c'se
Some sort of ship subsidy bill will
undoubtedly be passed either by the
Fifty-sixth congress nt its last or
the Fifty-seventh at its first session,
ays the New Yoik Press. It may
not be that now before the houses,
vastly improved as that measure has
been out of its original speed premium
shape. Warned by the experience
of the St. Louis convention io de
claring for the alluring and logical
but impracticable revival of dis
criminating navigation laws, the
body which met at Philadelphia com
mittod itself only to "legislation
which will enable us to recover our
former place among the trade carry
ing fleets of the world."
This legislation is matter of patty
policy and not necessarily party
principle, and party faith would not
be broken by a failure to enact it
It will be passed because there is no
other Dossible way of reviving our
sbinpin-r, and it Is unbusinesslike,
wasteful and extravagant to alio
our shipping to languish further.
This truth is nowhere so plainly
demonstrated as in an examination
of the arguments against such
measure. Jvot one, so far as we
have been able to observe, fits exist
ing conditions. Kach is beside the
point, is aimed in the air. For in
stance, the New York "Times,'
stretches its limbs and rubbing its
eyes after a nap in the Catskills,
mumbles drowsily the old formula
of "Free Ships." Let the American
who wants to freight goods be per
mitted to buy his freighter abroad is
its time -honored recommendation
But if the American bought bis ship
abroad he would have to have
subsidy to man It at home, it is
not the cost of building that keeps
American vessels out of the foreign
trade. Thanks to protection and
domestic competition, the price of
an American ship is no longer so
largely in excess of that of a foreign
ship as to make the difference be
tween profit and loss in the shipping
trade. The increased investment
owing to the employment of Ameri
can yards by shipowners will not, to
meet its interest charge, call for an
appreciable portion of the subsidy.
It is not the cost of making, but the
cost of running a ship at the Ameri
can wage rate that counts. It is
that which gives a foreigner the ad
vantage of at least one Atlantic
voyago a year. The "Free Ship"
shibboleth is as anachronistic a sur
vival of good old colony times, eco
nomically, as was "God save King
George!" of good old colony times,
politically.
So the smug, self-contained, ob
servation of the Boston Evening
Record as "to the time and period of
our lead in the abundance and cheap
ness of fuel and steel" being the
"least logical" of all "occasions for
the passage of a ship subsidy bill," is
for the same reason merely inane.
We are not to subsidize shipbuilders,
but shiiiowners. It is wages and not
material which supply the prohibitive
obstacle to their pursuit of foreign
trade which the subsidy would over
came. Tle great increase in shipbuilding
is taken by other journals, notably
the Evening Post, as an argument
against the bill. But this not merely
misses the maik. It rebounds in
boomerang fashion. There is do
increase worthy of mention, as we
have before demonstrated from the
commissioners' reports, save in the
prelected shipping trade. Cuyahoga
Creek, not tkc Delaware, is the Clyde
of America. The fresh water town
of Cleveland has taken the palm from
generations of Philadelphia ship-!
experience Las indicated as the
t of a bounty. Oer-
r. -i ,
manv tuav subsidize let ugari
.Taiian nnttnn manufacturess, Canada
beef cattle, but all countries, except
the United States, subsidize ships.
In consequence international com
merce Las grown in the last century
1,233 per cent, while international
population has grown 135 per cent.
If one cannot Indict a people, bow
can one indict a world ? The Phila
delphia Ledger is, however, a con
spicuous example of the journals
which attempt it in relation to the
ship subsidy bill. It can see noth
ing in it but "a gift of the great sum
of 9,000,000 to a few shipbuilders
and shipowners cut of the pockets of
the people." The 1200,000,000 of
foreign freights which this sura will
reclaim to the "pockets of the
people" is beyond its line of vision.
This is the saddest case among the
ship subsidy "anlis."
A policy against which every shaft
aimed falls with such foolish futility
to the ground is certain of adoption
through the intrinsic cogency of its
meiits.
A l'lea for Horn luduttrjr.
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Tub Dalles, Dec. It, 1900.
Mb. Editok: As most people of our
community know, there is a movement
on foot in this city to place a lever un
der one of our two only borne industries,
with the undoubted calculation of its
complete overthrow. We have reference
to the intended opening of competitive
opposition by the long distance tele
phone company against our home com
pany of Messrs. Senfert & Condon.
Considering the failings of our citi
zens in the past and the consequences,
as alse the apparent signs of some of
our citintis to persist in ench fully in
the present rase, we deem it our duty to
sound a note of warning. It seems the
more people cry agai"t tmsts and mo
nopolies the more eagerly they will sell
their chances of the future for a few
shillings or a mere promise, witb a
wicked indifference or a devilish delight
in throttling their own fellow citizen,
who had faith and enterprise enough to
rsepond to the cry for home industries.
If tho individaal citizen cannot be satis
fied under reasonable conditions, he
must eventually be satisfied, under the
control of trusts and corporations that
will own him body and soul.
X. Y. Z.
A l'lea for Lighted Streets.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which t..
in use for over 30 years, has borne tho slaZ-!5
and has been mad linnV.
M-f-fc,, sonal supervision since its ir.r
r-ZcAtK Allow no one t AJZ !? J?
All Counterfeits,. Imitations and " Just-as-good"
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health !
Infants mid Children Experience against Expcrimei
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, p
goric, Drops and Soothing: Syrups. It i Pleasant, it
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Nareotis
substance. Its age Is its guarantee. It destroys Worn!
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhcea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething: Troubles, cures Coustipatim
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving: healthy and natural sW
Tho Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
wr eiNnuR commmv, tt Munntv mciTi niw vok errv.
fEOFLK COMING AND tiOl.NO.
W,
WhIiic'mJhv'i Dnilv. I
A. Wallis is registered at the Unia-!
To this Eoitou: Give me space to
make the following suggestion :
There is no question, and there can
be none, that thieves and burglars and
highway men thrive best in the dark
ness. The best policemen on earth
could not prevent this class of gentry
from operating in a town as large as
The Dalles as long as they have that
most effective auxiliary of crime, dark
ened streets. And lighted streets we
cannot have, it would appear, notwith
standing that the city treasury is so full
of money that the council recently In
vested $4500 of the surplus in Wheeler
county warrants, and notwithstanding,
further, that the city has a gross mouth-
Income of some seventy or eighty
dollars from monies similarly invested.
In view of these things, and others
that might be named, I move, Mr.
Editor, that the city council be petl-
I tloned to fire the entire police force and
devote the money saved thereby to fur
nishing public lights for the city. I
shall figa the petition and guarantee to
procure a score of other names.
Bl'MINKS.
in-
here well end good. They havi a most I wrights. Wur great steel tonnage is
misioner of navigation reports that i exceli',nt orlt;r inv'"e one I being laid down 500 miles from the
during the last ten years wc have
constructed in American ship yards
about 10,(00 of tonnage a year.
which would be the carrying capnc- order that is duing g od hi the world unsnbsidized increase of shipping is
tiatiniMneiurnreweiiHre ! In family ocean. It is there and in thn
at hfart to Inventive l tie order for . , ., ,
, . ,, , , . , creased coasting irado to Ilawai and
There i.nn n.e.l t !,!. r I 1'OrlO lilCO that HillO-tcnUlS of OUrl
Hualhrrn California,
Notable among the pleasures afforded
by the Shasta Riote is thn winter trip
to Southern California and Arizona.
Renewed acquaintance with this section
will ever develop fresh points of interest
added sources of enjoyment, under its
sunny skies, in the variety of its indus
tries, in its prolific vegetation and among
its numberless resorts of mountain,
ehore, vally and plain.
The two daily Shasta trains from
Portland to California have been re
cently equipped with the most approved
pattern ol standard and tourist Moping
cars, but the low rates of fare will still
continue in effect.
Illustrated guides to the winter reports
of California and Ar!.,ni in .y le nad
tn application t'j
I. H. M.MiKimi, G. P. A.,
Portland, Oregon,
No is the tiuiH when croup and lung
troubles piove rapidly fatal
harmless remedy thut
lilla House from Moro.
Deputy Sheriff E. B. Wood was in
town today from Mosier.
Marshal Driver returned today from a
business trip to Portland.
State Senator J. N. Williamson has
returned from Prineville and will re
main here till the legislature convenes.
Thursday' Dally.
Attorney N.'B. Brooks, ol Goldenda!e,
is in the city.
Sheriff W. C, Burgetj was in town last
night from Uuldendaie.
C. K. Jones, a merchant from Wasco,
is registered at the Umatilla I rouse.
C. II Swett was in town todav from
Boyd and made this office a pleasant
call.
Mies Nettie McNeal and .Miss Daisie
Allaway were passengers on the boat
this morning for Portland.
i.Kitir.i7.
This afternoon. December 13ih, at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. L. I.. Mc
Cartner, of Thomptoii's Addition, Mr.
A.M. Itoop, of Mosier, to Mrs. Helen
M. Surles, of Independence, Oregon.
Nolle of Dliaiiliittnli.
Notico is hereby given that the part
nership heretofore existing between
J. E. Adcox and Theodore H. Liebe,
under the Drm name and style of J. E.
Adcox & Company, ia this day dissolved
by mutual consent, J. E. Adcox retiring I
from said firm. Theodore II. Liebe will
conunna the business of said firm under
the name and style of J. E. Adcox &
Company, and is authorized to receive
and receipt for all moneys due said firm,
and all claims against said firm should
be presented fo him for payment.
Dated this 10.h day of December, 1!W0.
J. E. Aih'ox,
2 Tuico. II. Licub.
If vou have dandruff, your hair is
falling out. Use Cocoanut Cream. For
sale at Frazer't barber shop. i.!Mi,j
Twenty-fivc per cent off on all capes
and jackets at The Fair.
Subscribe f r Tun Ciihonk i.k.
Phf nlrPTi T.ipp Pnnnnprpil
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Chicken l.lr". Itx annllcm!,,,, t f
bide walls ol poultry houwo nllrp I
iiiniii-uiiy rxuTMiiiiHIV mi Ilea, He-
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aiiict. ncHitny clilckcnv iientr ol
eeors. tt rite, for circulars and niW If
Mention tills paper.
i Jos.T. Peters & Co, jl
TIIK I 1LLE. OKEG0X,
T. A. Van Norden
Kccp rnntoutly on hnd UrmtrKlvitW
line of all that U licxt in Watcliei, Jmln
Clockn, DpectHrtr, Field (ilnww.Silwione..
at price that tlelv competition. Miii ort-n
trtidi 1 to with prompt ih-m and d!Mch f l
graving neatly done.
WM. MICHELL.
Undertaker and Embalmer
Cor. Third atnd Washington St.
All order attended to promptly.
distance phone -Ilia. L'xial, IM.
J. F. mcokk. J""""
.JI00RE & GAVIN,
ATTORXHVS AT I-A
itooina .T( ami 40, over U. s. Inl
jK' KHKNiinr rrit
Physician au! Snr'gcoo.
BpecUl attention given lowrrT
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A BIG SALE OF STAR FEED MILLS.
Fur II
ity of about one low-power ship
in these modern times.
These are some of the reasons
urged by the J romoters of the ship
subsidy bill for its passage. They
reveal conditions siillicientlj' humili
ating to deinitiid Immediate attention
and honest and persistent efforts for
their amelioration.
and ii hetleilnrf humanity by alleviating j found. The other one-tenth is due
want and distress, and who has as the j to the expectations of the subsidy
obj"cl the protection of the home. The
W. O. V. esti nds a fraternal hand to
all such orders.
A Ni ionium.
The bi Pacific freighters were
ordered as soon us the twelve-knot
amendment wen? into the bill.
DeVitt'sI.iltleKarlvl:isersaredaintv r one, wo fancy, today gives
little pills, but they never fail to cleanse J much heed to the parrot cries of
Senator Simon is still in Portland,
when he ought to be attending to
the interests of his constituents ct
li.e liver, remove oNslrncticas and in
vigorate the system. Sold by Clarke &
Falk's I C. Pharmacy.
The
"steal" ut this appropriation of public
money. Every one interested in the
subject knows 1V this time that no
most effective little liver pills t . . , .. ,
made are DeWitf. I.ifle Earlv Ri.ers. ' , T V
They never gripe, feold by Clarke & I ltX cxccI)l such a 'VcaI- Tl,ls
Falk's P. O. Pharmacy. is the single industry which universal
nest ltiirt il.ira r am oi.inir lo offer the f,Mle'.j.
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Ti, . r ' aroiniTv ever oanr'n in nit1 nmiom wirn n.. , t
ine mv farmxr t hav a Star F I Mill i i. -ill i...lr tn t,av v"ir Lt
produces im-1 mvk von time: it ui'l ..'l..' ,.1.1 i ,1 .ill vi"'r
1. m 1 1 - mi hi im; linn (mi imipj irain "" r- it''1
late results isone Mii-ute Cough 1 "ached grain fr her -li:.-kens ; and thii is a sure way of g''"'' t(l?f
Cure, ltlsvcrv nliiitant tn ik ,,,l ' '"r WB r" P'ilively iimnif t i-uw cut the mill now oil hand at At I e - '
now is i"" " '
can be relied upon to nnicklv . nr I . .I"5''. ,rl t'""i,"'s compel 11 tod-Mhi", an
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ciugn, cold and all long dieaes
will prevent r-in'tiiiiptum. Sold hy
Claike A Falk's P. O. I'harn.ary.
for Male.
Eastern OreKon timothy hay, $15 per
ton, f. o. b. The Dalles. Eastern fire
gn wild hay, I3.C0 in car lots.
M Cl'I.I.V cV (,'AYI.OIl,
,14 2 l.atirande, Or.
binary t Loan.
Fivo hundred dollars to loan on real
estate. No commuston. Apply at thi
For further particulars Inquire or write Ij
office.
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HUDSON & BROWNMLL, . The Dalles,
Oregon.