The Dalles Dafly Chronicle.
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ICLK." The Dalles, Oregon. -
THE RAILROAD SITUATION.
THURSDAY, - DECEMBER 19, 1895
AN UNPLEASANT SITUATION.
The situation regarding the foreign
complications of the United States is
serious. From mere jingo, need by
bombastic politicians seeking to create
popular enthusiasm , thereby hoping to
attain some degree of favor with the
masses, war talk has passed to a stage
when each word has a direct meaning,
and a halt or miestep would be either
disgraceful or ruinous. England's reply
to the demands of President Cleveland
was not in the least satisfactory, though
couched in pleasant and diplomatic lan
guage, and our chief executive has com
municated to congress a message which
places upon that body the necessity of
taking 'some decided action either of
declaring that all our talk about the
Monroe doctrine was a large-sized bluff,
or that we meant every word that was
eaid, and intend to follow it up with
vigorous measures. There is no euch
thing as dodging the issue. The United
States is on trial before the eyes of the
world, and every nation is watching our
procedure in this juncture with a view
to regulating its future course of dealing
with us. v
The condition that confronts congress
is critical. A backing down iroin the
position taken by President Cleveland
are ins an impairment of national dig
nity ; and yet too decided action may
precipitate a war for which we are total
ly unprepared. The condition of our
army and navy is not unknown to Eng
land. The fact that we have only a few
first-class ships, and for these such diffi
culty has been found in manning them
that the naval authorities are wonder
ing from where the marines for ships
now in process of construction will come.
Our army is no better. Twenty-five
thousand men represent the full enlist
ment of our land forces, and with the
exception of a few available regiments
of militia, are the military force
which could be depended upon for im
mediate action. What such a force on
land and eea could accomplish against
the navy and army of England is prob
lematic; but the chances are that for a
long time the showing made would be a
email one. There is tho great body of
volunteers, which upon a call to war
would rush in throngs to the defense o
of the country ; but these could neither
be drilled nor armed till many months
should pass. In the meantime England,
with her far-firing guns, would be exact
ing tributes from our eastern cities.
England ia alwaya ready for war; the
United States never is. The policy of
this country is a peace-courting one. It
has held aloof from the entanglements
. of European politics, end given little
attention to the maintenance of a mili
tary force commensurate with possible
needs. Our coast defenses are practi
cally nothing. A few cannons placed in
Ecattered positions would avail nothing
against a foreign foe.
Any one who looks at the question
fairly will eee that we are in.no condi
tion for war with England, and yet
present events indicate that only shrewd
diplomacy or a back-down from Eng
land can save what may result in con
flict. If this country gets out of the
Venezuela difficulty satisfactory, no
time should be lost in making our army
and navy able to compare with those
wbich the countries of the Old World
could send against ns. If the Monroe
doctrine ia to be the policy of the United
Ststis, it must be backed up by ships
and men.
Pendleton East Oregonian : There is
no doubt but the Union Pacific is mak
ing strong efforts to secure hold of the
O. R. & N. system again, and it is the
general belief that the ciisis has come.
Major McNeil is now in New York, and
he went there to effect a reorganization
of the road. Before that reorganization
has been accomplished, there will be pnt
forth some strenuous efforts by other
corporations to so control the deal as to
secure the advantage unuer tne new
regime.
La Grande Chronicle: If it is true,
as it is surmised in some quarters, that
the war between the Southern Pacihc
and the O. li. & N. was forced by the
California company for the purpose of
pushing the Oregon road to the wall and
ultimately becoming the purchaser of
the property, it is to be earnestly hoped
that the plan will fail. California is in
the grasp of this monopoly and it is to
be hoped that Oregon will not share in
the fate of her neighbor. But the
Southern Pacific has not yet swallowed
the Oregon road, and the latter has a
good many ways of escape from the
greedy monster." And there are a good
many other roads reaching the territory
of the Northwest, which may be able to
save the Oregon line from becoming a
tentacle of the octopus which wallows in
California.
The popularity of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and the high esteem in
which it is heids leads us to believe it to
be an article of great worth and merit.
We have the pleasure of giving the ex
perience of three prominent citizens of
Redondo Beacti, Cal., in the use of the
remedy. Mr. A. V. Trudel! says: . "I
have always received prompt relief when
I used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy."
Mr. James Orchard says : "I am satis
fied that Chamberlain's Cough remedy
cured my cold.'' Mr. J. M. Hatcher
says: "For three years I have used
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my
family and its results have always been
satisfactory." For sale bv Blakelev &
Houghton, Druggist.
For the many accidents that occur
about the farm or household, such as
burns scalds, bruises cuts, ragged
wound.3, bites of animals, mosquitos or
insects, galls or chaffed snots, frost bites,
aches and pains on any part of the body,
or the ailments resulting from exposure,
as neuralgia, rheumatism etc. Dr. J. H.
McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment has
proved itself a sovereign remedy. Price
2-jc, 60 and $1.00 per bottle, c Snipes-
I ' : i t i
Four Dollars a Cord.
Four dollars will now buy a cord of
good oak wood delivered at your wood
shed. We will sell at this price for a
time to reduce our stock.
decI8 tf Jos. T. Petebs & Co.
A humorous writer in an eastern mag
azine gives this as the origin of the pres
ent Eysteni of politics : "Practical poli
tics was founded by Jacob when that
astute progenitor and precursor of the
Stecklers of New York buncoed Esau,
who seems to have been a sort of well
meaning, harmless, primitive Goo Goo
and better element 'man, out of his
father's sheep and cattle business. But
practical politics was only iu its rudi
ments in those old pastoral times. The
lapse of many centuries and the fructi
fying addition of new varieties of trick
ing and humbu2 were required before
politics could come to its perfection.
Soon after our glorious republic, found
ed upon the immovable paper basis and
supreme paradox that 'all man' are
Jborn.Jree and equal,'. began. to poke its
sublime head against the stare, idiocv
formed a morganatic union with chi
canery, and American politics was born
into that happy union."
There are many good reasons why you
should use O.ie Minute Cough Cure.
There are no reasons why you should
Albert Roberts, the well-known stock
man of the Deschutes, brought into town
yesterday a band of sheep numbering
600, which he sold to Mr. Ketchum for
the meat packing establishment at
Troutdale. Ho was fortunate in getting
them to town before the snow fell to so
great a depth. The sheep were taken to
Troutdale todav.
self help
You are weak, run-down,"
health isfrail.strengthgone,
Doctors call your case an
aemia there is a fat-fam
ine in your blood. Scott's
Emulsion of cod-liver oil,
uite a lifferenceS
Whether Ton Suffer From
Or Ire Healthy and Have
INSOMNIA -W-REFRESHING SLEEP
NERVOUS DEBILITY-W&C9-SOUND NERVES
GENERAL DEBILITY-lCa-GOOD CONSTITUTION
DYSPEPSIA -WtTFINE DIGESTION
THE BLUES -W.WBRiGHT SPIRITS
IMPURE BLOOD -WIWA GOOD CONSTITUTION
bR. HEHLEY'S CELERY, BEEF IND IRON
Will Cure these Diseases AND Bring all these Blessings
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FOR SALE BY BLAKELEY & HOUGHTON.
Seventh Annual Ball,
GIVEN BY THE
Gesang Verein Harmonie,
AT THE
Baldwin Opera House,
-Saturday, Dec. 2i, 1895.
The Event of the Season . . .
First Grand Ball
with hypophosphites, is the
best food-means of getting
your strength back your
doctor will tell you that.
He knows also that when
the digestion is weak it is
better to break up cod-liver
oil out ot the body than to
burden your tired digestion
with it. Scott's Emulsion
does that.
Scott & Bowxb, Chemists, New York, foe and $1.00
1 ,000.000 People Wear
WLDouglas Shoes
sewed $
PROCESS.
$5.00
$4.00
$3.50
$2.50
$225'
ForMeni
an
$2.50
$2.00
" rmS $i.T5
BEST
IN THE
ORLD.
3.00
For B07S
MYonfts
, Ti. IXM(lu shoes and aatve rrom
M.IHI m Dstfr. All KtTl.. .,,,1
The advance In leather has Increased the
Wear IV.
Bl.OO U
Widths,
price of other makes, bat the quality and prices of
w. I4. IKtasIa remain th aauie.
l a Ke no suostitute ; soc uiat name ana price Is stamped
an sole. W. I IXMSSlaa, Ubocktox, aLaaa. Sold u
CHAS. F. STEPHENS.
WILL BE THE
-GIVEN BY-
Colli Hose nil?
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HANS. HANSEN,
COMMITTEE OF ARBAKGEMEXTS.
WM. BIRGFELD,
K. GOTTFRIED.
RECEPTION COMMITTEE.
E. SCHANXO, I. C. NICKELSEN, JOS. N1TSCHKE, C. WIGLE,
II. J. MAIER, G. WALTHER, II. O. LIE BE.
E. JACOBSEN,
FLOOB COMMITTEE.
J. WIGLE, R. RORDEN, F. WIGLE.
TICKETS.
$1.00
Music furnished by the Orchestra Union. Grand march at 8 :4o, p. in.
-AT THE-
Baldwin Opera House,
Tuesday Evening, Dec- 31, 1895.
Music furnished by the Orchestra Union.
Tickets can be had from any member of Committee. Not transferable.
J. O. MHCK,
-DEALER IK-
pine Cllines and Lriquotfs,
. Domestic and Key West Cigars,
St. Louis and Milwaukee Bottled Beer.
Columbia Brewery Beer on Draught.
THE OLD ORO FINO STAND.
67 Second St., - - - The Dalles, Oregon.
The Germania
STUBLING & WILLIAMS, Props.
FINE WINES. LIQUORS V CIGARS.
All brands of Imported Liquors, Ale and Porter,
and Genuine Key West Cigars. A Full. Line of
CALIFORNIA - WINES - AND - BRANDIES
Twelve-y? ar-old Whiskey, strictly pure, for medicinal purposes.
Best Malt Liquor. Columbia Brewery Beer on Draught.
Agents for the Celebrated Pabst Milwaukee Beer.
No. 94 Second Street, THE DALLES, OR
Holiday Perfumes.
B113' a nice, clean, sweet Perfume or Toilet
Water, elegantly put up. It makes a hand
some and much appreciated present. -
Prices to "tickle" '
"Long' or "Short" Purses.
DOfJflEIiIi'S DRUG ST0$E
' Telephone No. 15
' THE CELEBRATED
COliTJmiBR BEmEHV,
AUGUST BUCHLER, Prop'r.
This well-known Brewery is now taming out the best Beer and Portei
e&flt of the Cascades. The. latest appliances for the manufacture of good health
ful Beer have been introduced, and on.y the first-class article will be p'aced oa
he markt.
The Tyfjfc Val
ley Creamery
Is
Delicious.
Ask "Vanbibber & Worsley for it.
V Every Square is Full Weight.
CREAMERY
Tygh Valley
A. A. B.
TELEFHO , 3STO. 80-
RUPERT & GABEL,
. Wholesale and retail. manufacturers and dealers in
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collarl
TENTS and WAGON COVERS.
REPAIBING PROMPTLY DOSE.
Adjoining E. J. Collins & Co.'s Stor
Removal Notice.
Nolan?s Book Store now located at
No. 54 Second Street, near Union.
JOS. T. PETERS & CO.,
, DEALERS IN-
BUILDNG
MATERIALS
-ATTI
Tolorlion o SiTo. 23.
R neou departure.
On and after Dec. 2, 1895, the undersigned will sell his stock of
Hay, Grain, Feed, Flour and Groceries,
FOR ABSOLUTE CASH OR PRODUCE.
No goods sold unless paid for. We are selling goods very close, and we must have
the cash down. We will make it to your interest to get the cash.
J. H. CROSS.
All goods delivered to the boat, railroad depot or any part of the city free of cost.
GEORGE RUCH
PIONEER GROCER.
Successor to Chrisman & Corson.
FULL LIN OF
STAPLE and FANCY GROCE ES.
Again in bnsinees at the old stand. I would be pleased to
see all my former patrons. Free delivery to any part of town.
CLOSING OUT SALE
of DRY GOODS
CLOTHING, FTJBNISHLKGr GOODS,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS and CAPS.
These Goods Must Be Sold Less Than Cost.
J. P. McINERNY.
. "7U"m VA.ITSE,
DEALER IN
PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS.
And the Most Complete and Latest Patterns and Designs in
WALL, PAPER. . WALL PAPER.
PRACTICAL PATNTER and PAPER HANGER. None but the best brands
of J. W. MASURY'S PAINTS used in all our work', and: none but the
most skilled workmen employed. - Agents for Masury Liquid Paints. No chem
icel combination or soap mixture. A. first-class article in all colors. ' All orders
promptly attended to. . " , ' -'
Store and Faint Shoo oorner Third and Washington BtsV, . The Dalles, Cie'oa