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4 OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 180b OiegonCity Enterprise. Publltstied Kvwry Friday. L. U PORTER, rmtraiiTiii HUBCHIPTION HATK8, lne year f'- 00 tvjx months 1 00 Trial sub-criplioii, two months 23 A ditoounl ot 50 cents on til subscriptions tor tin year, 23 cnu (ur six months, if ysul In advance. I Advertising rates Riven on application. Kubsariberi w 111 find the date of expira tion lUiuped on their pars following their name. If this date la not changed within two week after a pavruent, kindly olify oa and we will look aner iU Entered at the poalofflce in Oregon City, Or., as second class mailer. 40INT FOB THE ENTIRPKI8R, Bearer Creek.... Jnh....... CUokaniaa........ Milwaukie Sninn Mills eadow Brook... New Kra Wil-onvill Fsrfcidaoa. ....... tiLstlbrd ajulinoi Otrui llolalle Marquam ButWville. ........ Aurora rviile Eagle Creek Vemasoas., Sandy, .v. (turrinsville ijierryville JHartuot..'. Ur. T. B. Thomas Geo. Knintil A. Mather .........Oscar Wissinirer O. J. TruliiiiKer Chas. Holman V. 8. Newberry Henry Miley F. L. Russell J.Q. Uaire C. T. Howard K. M. Cooper Annie btubbs E. M. Harlmao B. Jennings Henry A. Snyder , L. J. Perdue H. Wilbern i. C. Elliott F. tioilscu Ceo. J. Currin ....Mrs, M. J. Hammer .........Adolph AtcboO way t build ip Oregee Cllj fs t give Uregea City People your ffVreeag. "Ob, Dewey wu the mora ins Upon the first of May, And DiweJ was the Admiral, Down in Manila Buy. And Dewey were the regent's eyes, Them orbs of royal bine ; . And Dewey feel discouraged ? 1 Dew not think we Dew." BISMABCK. Bismarck is dead. All that Imperial Germany is as a nation she owes to the Iron Chancellor. Napoleon tore the nap of Europe asunder, but Bismarck re united the German states and constructed Imperial Germany. Known as the man of blood and iron, be was d'u liked by a large part of his countrymen because of the martial manner of conducting the government. This iron rule of the chancellor put Germany in the front rank among nations. But he was more tbaa a military man, he was easily the peer of any statesman or diplomat of Europe. In indomitable energy, Intel lect and force of character he outclassed G!adtone. , He was a born aristocrat and his ambition knew no bounds. He destroyed every statesman that rivalled Mm, and had a contempt for constitu tional or legislative procedure. He hesitated at nothing in statecraft ; the ends jnstifled the means. In private life be was kind and affec tionate, wearing all bta life a medal he tie received for saving the life of his groom from drowning. ' His whole life was devoted to the Fatherland, and be built as no man in the 'century built. He made Germany, and doing it, saved Austria, reunited Italy and defeated France. ' Aj far back as 1852 be commenced to Work for German unity, and the German empire is the result. A result not seen oftoner than once a century, and wbich may be undone any day by the rashness of the man who is vainly trying to guide as did the man of blood and iron. Tin government by selling the bonds direct to the people rather than to the highest bidder kad to sell at par By doing this it lost nearly $10,000,000 a? the bonds are at a premium enough to make that difference. If the govern- tnant had sold to the highest bidder there would have been the demagogue crying "job." ' Harper's Weekly gives the Oregon all credit for the part she took in the West ruction of Cevera's fleet. Her speed is the most remarkable thing. She is everywhere recognized as the queen of tue'navy. As a Waff the golag of Watson's fleet to the coast of Spam Is a success. Ol'T Or TIIK MILDKKMCMH. How wolcome to loyal democratic souls is the new dogma of "anti-imperi-allium"! With what unconcealed joy and thankfulness do they turn their backs upon the dreary desert ot finan cial error and gain the running streams and grateful shade of this new position, tenable at least, if not Impiegnablel There is pathos In the spectacle, almost the heroic, easily the dramatic. The new retreat of the beleaguered and des lariiig democracy may be described in the effective similie ot Isaiah "as a hiding place from the wind and a coyer (torn the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." It is not that anti-imperialism is a popular or a winning cry. Nobody soars and sings about the brake on the wheels of progress. No enthusiasm or ecstacy marks the councils of the conser vative. Resistance to national expan sion, despite Us handicap of democratic precedent, its opposition to material benefits within easy reach, its unappre ciative attitude to Yankee enterprise, the advance of the flag and the ex ten sion of American civilisttion and In fluences, Is nevertheless welcome, be cause of the escape it affords from the uninhabitable realms of impossible and immoral finance. It is not proof against attack the new house, but at all events it is not built on the sands of dishonesty or flat negation of scientific truth. "Anti-imperialism," however weak in theory and unpromising in practice, of fers a ground of doctrine on which hon est men may disagree, and intelligent men may disagree, and Intelligent men may dispute. It offers, in a word, room for difference of opinions. As to the silver question there is no such opportu nity. A man has a right to an opinion on a subject whose facts aie not known. He may believe it will train tomotrow ; or that the soul is immortal, and ask respect for his opinion. But when he undertakes to say that two kinds of un equal dollars will circulate together, he is deserving of the same disrespect and contempt a man would earn who should declare his opinion that two and two are five, or that a ttraight line is not the shortest distance between two points, or that the earth is flat or that a potato in the pocket is a sure preventive of rheu matism. A man baa no right to a wrong opinion of scientific facts, abund antly ascertained and demonstrated, and he has no right to ask either respect or patience for such "opinion," bow ever stubbornly or ingeniously be may maintain it. So of the moral aspect vf the deliver ance. It is conceivable that a man should be honest and experience delight at seeing his country's flag bauled down where American blood and bravery have placed it; or strive to confine our trade within our own borders, or insist on clos ing all doors against outward influence of American moral, social and Industrial thought and action. A man may do all this and be an honest man. But he who, with intelligence enough to read and understand economic history and phen omena, still undertakes to say that pay ment of public and private obligations in half-value or impaired-value currency is justifiable on moral grounds, need put forward no claim to intellectual honesty. It is in values, not names, that debts are to be paid. It is the worth of the thing returned not the strained construction sharp practice may supply, tbat gives. honesty to the discharge of an obligation An "opinion" tbat public policy requires defraudation of public or private credi tors has no defense, no claim upon res pect or patience. The democrats now seek the Republi can fold nnder cover of American ex- pansion," is because they welcome any excuse to leave the no longer endurable positions of free silver and paper infla tion. Oregoniaa. Ho.v. I. L. Patterson took charge as collector of customs at Portland Mon day. Mr. Patterson has received con siderable attention at the hands of tbe press of the state, but we believe that be will fill the office with credit and honor to himself. Salem boasts that her manufacturing plants use about 22000 cords of wood. Those of Oregon City use about twice that, and still we go by water power. Tub past week made ns partly realize what the boys in blue have to stand in tbe way of weather. It ia quite probable tbat we may have special session of the legislature. Uermany In the Philippines. America failed -to see what wound warranty under international usage Germany Imd for concentrating a pow erful fleet at Manila. The pretext that this gn nt weight of mutal and big force of murines nml bluejacket were uocded to protect a bnker's doxeu or so of Gor- uiuu inciTuiitllo houwes and their em ployova seemed pretty flimsy. But even tlmt excuse disappeared with the arrival f the first detachment of General Mer ritt's expedition, which gave Admiral Dewey ample resources for such proteo tion to foreign residents as they are entitled to nuder the law of nations in such clrcnmstnncce Consequently more tbau half of the German fleet anil- d away, leaving two warships behind. But little Importance wonld have at tached to the preseuce of the Gentian ships had the United State not stuped ed an undercurrent of hostile sentiment hi the government circles and people of Germany. No feeling grew out of the presence of fonr British cruisers at Ma nila, for the absence of jealous motive on the part ot Englaud is well assured, but the general drift of public opinion in Teotonlnud baa boon unmistakably against us, and the suave assurances of the German foreign office might easily moan no mora than those diploiuatio generalities which mean nothing. Facts were regarded as more eloquent than aa severatioaa Various indications con joined to show thai Germany, if not anxions for colonial grip la the Philip pines, would at least welcome each a splendid point d'appui for oouimeroial aggrandizement as possession of a ooui nionding stronghold iu the islands wonld give her. Her recent exploit iu taking China by the throat is presumptive of what she might be iucliued to do iu the Philippines uudnr favoring conditions, if it were safe to accept Spanish title against American protest. The ense with which withdrawal from an advance step tentatively made, but afterward found inoouveuient, can be effected is well known. It is only a question of an apology aud the charge of superservloeable aud unauthorized teal on the part of some commanding official. But if further couditious favor how easy it ia to stretch the inch gained to the ell I Our English cousins are not unfamiliar with the working value of such a method, which may be called a diplomatic "reconuoissance in force." It is eminently in character with what Emperor William bos hitherto done and shown to avail himself of auy open ing in the Philippines and then trust to Inck to make it good. Such a step hav ing once been effectively taken, it can be made of unquestionable, of enormous help to the extension of German com merce in the east. There ia good reason to question the inteutious of Germany, in spite of any soothing plaster of words. The claim of Theodore R. Timby to have been the true inventor of the ar mored turret for naval or land use has been revived again in a New York news paper. There is no doubt tbat Mr. Tim by first conceived and devised tho plan, which the Ericsson construction iu the Monitor made so famous. But the Swed ish Inventor mode it a practical tact Similarly it has (Seen claimed, and prob ably with justice, that all the essential principles of the msgnutio telegraph were worked out before Morse took hold of the problem by appropriating the preliminary stages of success and add ing to them the final triumph over me chanical obstacles. Unfortunately for many gifted toilers, tbey are forgotten In the sweep of the fact that "the end crowns the work. " Tbe examination of the hulls of the battle wrecks in Cuba throws some light on the late of the unlucky Maine. In tbe case of the Vizcaya, for example. which received one fatal wound from the explosion of one of its own torpe does, the effect on the thick steel shell in the curves and direction of fracture were totally different from those in the Maine exhibit It ia claimed that the evidence la almost conclusive. ' : Major De Gran per, the French mill tary attache, on returning to Washing ton from the front, spoke of the Amcr lean soldiers "as a superb body Individ tally and as an army, and I suppose not throughout tbe world is there such a splendid lot of fighting men." This mere!) echoes the genuine enthusiasm with which all capable foreign observers have summed up their opinions of the American war personnel. The Russian editors complaoently curl their mustaches with tbe remark that the American political status in the east apropos of the results of the war bungs on the verdict of St Peters burg. The Muscovite press forgets that the world's accepted sea meridian pusses through Greenwich, England, and not through the city of Peter. It seems that only a portion of tbe harbor mines in our great harbors will be" removed, though all danger from Spanish attack has ceased. Government evidently feels it imprudent to make every channel a fairway until all inter national outcome of the war has been settled "Justice is the bread of nations; they are always famishing for it, " is the sen timental apothegm of a great French man. We have been the great produoers of, breadstuff so far, and we are now adding this rw oereal to our "export lis. rrxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxi THE N OF THE'MEEK Friday, July Ihl. A Madrid dispatch to the Iondon of fice of the New York Herald announces the surrender of Manila to Admiral Pewey. Spain, with its customary cun ning, deprived Captain-General' Aligns tin of command ol all territory except tho city of Manila, in order that the sur render might be confined to that place alone. The news of the surrender Is not confirmed although the surrender Is expected daily. Work of laying the cable from this coast to Honolulu will be commenced soon. Agulnaldo, the leader of the Insur gents at MauiU, Issued a declaration of independence, and named himself aa dictator. This modest irenllemsn mav have to reckon with his uncle Samuel before lie rules the Philippines. Shatter' army will be brought back, and quartered at Montank, L. I. I in munes will be forwarded to Santiago to garrison the city. The terms outlined upon which the administration la willing to grant peace is the freedom of Cuba, cession to us of Porto Rico ami a naval station In the Philippines. The abandotneut of the Philippines, except only a naval station, by this country, is meeting with a storm of protest from our people. few comes from fresno, Cat , that at least 100.000 head of sheep will per ish In that section this season from starvation and thirst. The entire First Regiment Washing volunteers are now united at the Pre sidio, at Sail Francisco. Saturday, July 30. The port ol Ponce, island of Porto Rico, surrendered to Commander Davis, of tlie auxiliary cruiser Dixie. The people greeted the Americana with en tliuiatn, glad to be freed trout rapa cious rule of Spain. Natives of Philippine Islands and British subjects who have interests there are alarmed by the reports that the peace terms Include the return of the islands to Spain. As a result they have held a meeting and after consulta tion with the Filipinos in France and Belgium, bave cabled to President Mc Kinley and to Senator Davis, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, The message to President McKinley is as follows . "Tbe Filipinos resident In Europe pray you not to abandon the Philippine islands for the sake of peace with Spain. Our loyalty and trust in the honor of America entitle us to your considers lion and support, io hand over our country again to Spain is contrary to the humanitarian proceedings of our noble nation, and the wish of all classes, Civilization, trade and all will be lost if Spanish authority is re-established In any form." The message to Senator Davis says: A cast iron agreement, binding Spain to form a government satisfactory to the inhabitants is preposterous. To re tain her sovereignty means deception, oppression and bigotry. We placed our lights in your hands, and pray you to induce the president and senate not to abandon In the hour of peace a peo ple who, trusting In the American honor, fought for their common interests." The government will be asked to send relief to the thousands of men who are stranded at Dawson City. The food supply at Havana is almost exhausted. This probably hastened Spain's peace proposal. All tbe Chicago papers have raised their price from one cent to two cents, on account of advance in paper, and general expenses due to the war. Whitelaw Reid, of tbe New York Tri bune, and Vice presidential candidate with General Harrison, was nearly killed in a runaway accident near bis borne. Sunday July 31. A dispatch from Admiral Dewey states that Aguinaldo bss assumed a bold atti tude of defiance towards us, and that it would require a large force from this country to subdue the insnrgents. General Merritt arrived and assumed command on the 25th. It is reported that there is no sickness among the troops at Manila. Prince Otto Von Bismarck, the "Iron Chancellor" of Germany, died at Berlin Saturday night at 11 o'clock. Bismarck has long been the most imposing figure in German affairs, and the slighting manner in which be has been t tested by the present em perior has tended to em bitter his life and hasten his death. Yap Island, the place the United States will probably retain as a coaling station in the Caroline islands, is 36 miles long by 5 miles broad, and is surrounded by a coral reef. The natives number 8000, and are industrious and peaceful. Bird life Is scarce and there are lew cattle. The scenery Is beatlftil, and there are groves of bamboo, cioton, cocoanut and palm. The Spanish battleship Infanta Marts Teresa will be saved easily, so reports Admiral Sampson. She has but one small leak, and the water Is being re moved with her own pumps. General Shatter reports tbat he In vlted Genera! Garcia to attend the flag raising at Santiago, but he (ailed to at tend, Gaicla had expected to be made commander ol the captured city, and was put out beuauie he was not chosen Shaier reports today total sick, 4278 total (ever cases, 3400; 'new cases fever ('U1 ; esses lever restored to duty, 5,K). Monday, Aug. 1. Miles Is meeting with little resistance In Porto Rico, The people hall hi coming and Spanish volunteers desert their camp. Neuvltae is bombarded by the Amerl cans. The Spaniards burned the (own and evacuated. Cubans protest against the orders of Shatter. The battleship Texan arrived at the Ilrooklyn navy yard with many scar to show the effects of battle. The Ulster Yacht Club will compete for America's cup. Spain reply to eaco proposals are ex pooled during the week. All Germany Is in sorrow on account of Bismarck 'a death. The Concho arrived at New Yotk with sick and wounded from Santiago. Five died at Hampton Roads and were buried at sea. Washington volunteers are still suf ferlng at San Francisco for lack of equipment. Malarial fever Is prevalent at Santla go. Shaffer's army will be brought back north at the first opportunity. The body of an unknown woman was lound at Seattle In Lake Washington. Tuesday, Aug. 2. Agulnalde has assumed a defiant at titude and assumed to dictate matters at Manila. Complications with th Insur gents are probable. An extra session of congress will be called as soon a the terms of peace are agreed on. Miles Is marching across Porto Rico to Sin Juan and meeting with little re silience so far. The peoplo tall him aa a deliverer. The Berwin Hotel In Chicago burna with the loss of several lives. Martin Thorne is electrocuted in New York. All Germany honors Bismarck's mem ory. Gorgeous funeral obsequies by order of (lie emperor wilt be held In Berlin. The emperor acknowledged con dolence from America. Great Britian and the United Btatea are ordering 0 to 12-Inch rapid fir guns. The Union Iron Works are congratu lated by tbe secretary of the navy on the work of the Oregon. i 1 1 a . . ... ii is oeuevea mat tne war is over as far aa actual hostilities are concerned. The law against salmon fishing in the state will be strongly enforced. Wednesday, August 3rd. Spain accepts with slight modification the terms of peace offered by the United States. . The terms of peace in general comp I Spain to evacuate the West Indies iehn quishlng all title to Cuba and ceding to the United States Porto Rico and all ether Islands in the group. The United States tA hold Manila and the govern met. of the Philippine to be deter mined later on by a joint commission. The, Insurgents at Manila are bent on revenge and trouble is feared. If the In surgents were out of the wayManila would surrender. General Miles is welcomed on all hands In Porto Rico and may walk Into San Juan without Iring a shot. Six thousand soldiers and prisoners are In the hospital ot Santiago. The result of the naval battle at San tiago will be that faster battle ships will be built and the plans of the ones pro vided for by the last congressl will be changed so as to get more speed. Bismarck was buried today among impressive scenes. Reed is again nominated by acclama for congress. Gen. Marritt has sent word from Monila for more troops. Thursday, August 4. Spain delay in answering tbe note fixing the terms ot peace suhuiltlud to her by the United Stales, Thegovnrnmetilwlll probably build the N'lcarugua canal, and lint cost will be much lower Hum at first estimated. The Dixie took a shot st Moro, harbor ot San Juan, Annual l"l Olllclul report ol tho battle of Santi ago shows that the lighting was Very se vere and trying; so much so as to nearly demoralise some volunteer regiments, America may have to light Agulnaldo, as he is making much trouble.. Hundreds ol prospectors are stranded at St. Michaels. Shafter'a cayalry I ordered to Long Island. 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