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About The Dalles times-mountaineer. (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1896)
TS5UF.D EVERY SATURDAY -BY- .. a. DOOTHIT, Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. . DAILY One Year, by mail S x Months. ...... Tores Moonlh , WEEKLY One Year, by mail........ . t.w JI.'.O 75 Six months... .. " -All Subscriptions Payable In Advance. i" SATURDAY..:... OCTOBER 17, 1896 IT STANDS FOR GOLD. Pre-eminently above all other re publicans in the state of Oregon stand Hp a. George H. Williams, who ad dressed the people of The Dalles last o. :.. and frnm his liCS : kJOLU L UUJ v(iuug .. - - A nrt rlnubb did receive - a true and correct interpretation of - the republican national platform. His . interpretation of its planK on tne money question was evidently a dis appointment to the many advocates of " silver in. the republican party, who were - led by Senator Mitchell to believe that it meant the free coinage ' of silver at an early date, for Mr. Wil liams' address was confined to depict ing the beauties' of the single gold standard, ana not as tno national ymi, 4mm r.t iQr Viarl it. "thn reDublican party, from tradition ana instinct, Iti-vnra himotalism." or as senator ,.Mithfill exDlained Vtho republican Dartv today favors making silver r - primary money of final redemption and -will exert Its influence in that direc tion if Major MCKinley is elected president."" Therefore if Mr. Yvil - Ham's construction of the platform is correct, and he is indeed high author ifr.TT tfio ftftA fill Vpl rnnublican has little w i - j iiniu tnr lipnfB little encourage ment to support the republican x national ticket. ' . ' ' It is indeed unfortunate that the re publican platform is so vague that a double construction can be put on it - . ty two men so high in the party as are Mr. Williams and Mr. Mitcncii. tioliovn that IlUWDVCl WO O.L J IWiv-MM w r the construction put on tue piauorm by Mr. Williams is correct that if the republican party succeeds on jnov. d, the present glod standard will oe con timiAii fisp another four vears. there- M . 1 1 V..f rx-na AViniiiA lftfr. fftr the lUlO UUDIO lO tsuv vuv Hnnnii;inrt an-irai mn.n. sind that is to rise above party prejudice and vote as his dictates teach, for the interests ol the people. We believe that Mr. Williara9 is more nearly correct in his interpret ' ation of the national platform than is ilr. 'Micnell, mat me repuonuau vai vy of today stands squarely for thecou- ' .1 t ;nnla rrrAA at. M nrlftrV! . uuuuuua vi a oiuro ft" ' and that no attempt will be made by it to secure an international agree ment for the tree or unnmiiea coiuoge of silver should It again get into power. In this belief we are encouraged, not only by Mr. Williams, but by the great . . . ti. uaiiy papers to-ib are buj-jju. uug Klnley, which are unanimous in tne " contention that the gold standard is '" perfection as a financial policy. - If they contend for this policy, then they favor a policy that is detrimental to , ttio intoi'nat.a ' nf thn COUntrV. or eX- . perience goes xur uauuw ou duwo v ' M . . . . nL . .i on m A ft the greatest mincl3 ol tne nawon nave been wrong in their views of what the lt Af n f-inxln .-.! 1 Tl H '1 T"ll W nil 1 H rOSUtU ML a OIUgLC t"'" raw..-. - sidered the gold standard dangerous to the best-interests of the country in times past, and with many other lead- - ing 'Staoesmen v raised ; their voices J' against its maintenance. .On January Z'J, xalo, in a speecu uwuro ijuugiois! Mr. Blaine said: " ' ' . "I believe tne struggle now going fn in T.niu innnT.rv unci 111 iiijIiht cuuu- trie9 for a single gold standard would, if successful, produce widespread dis aster in and throughout, the commer cial world. The destruction of silver .as money, and establishing gold us the effect on all forms of property,- except those investments which yield a fixed return in money. These would be enormously enhanced in value, and would give a disproportionate and un fair - advantage over every other species of property." , ... This expression from Mr. Blaine Ss " in direct line with the sentiment of j - ivjr. oariisie wnu saiu. ua cuu-m--- . . . - summation of this scneme lor toe de monetization of silver will cause more misery than all the wars, pestilence and famine that have occurred in the hintnrv of the world." ' And this' is the policy' which Mr. Williams holds ' the Republican party of today is and no-one will have the termeritv to denr- that . he ' speaks advisedly. Therefore we ask in all sincerity can the voter who is patriotic ana loves his country affiliate with that party? ' WHA T WILL McKINLEY DO ? Nothing is more dangerous to the - Ilt?UUlt3. UL bnUOCB UUD1U W ll- K 1 ' " reasonable profits on the articles they consume, than the existence ana mam tainance of trusts and combines that prevent hone9t competition. Through the organization of trusts, combines Ann - rto and npa m&rlA bv which-the product of manufactures can bo so limited' and prices so adjusted that (he consumer la.. lorQed to pay ior :sucn products whatever price may be de manded, since all competition in the lines controlled by such trusts is pre. vented. Congress recognized the dis advantage at which the consumer was placed by the 'organization of trusts, and in 1890 passed a stringent anti trust law with the following provisions: "Every contract, combination. in the form of trust or otherwise, or con spiracy in restraint of trade or com merce among the several states or '?ith foreign nations is hereby de clared to be illegal. or attempt t0 monopolize or conspire with any.other person or association to monopolize, any part of the com merce between tne sevarai stales,, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con viction thereof shall be punished by a finei-not exceeding $5,000, or by im prisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said pucishments, in the discretion of the court." But this law has never been en twoA and today there are more trusts -" j - in existence in tne uniwju ouauea tum at any other period in its history, not withstanding the existence of the law. Attorney-General Olney and Ms pre decessor, Warner Miller, held that it oiild not be enforced, and the present incumbent, Judson Harmon, is equally negligent in his efforts to make the law operative. Miller and Olney were . .nni-ntinn' attorneys, and Har- mon has been in the employ cf corpo rations during a good portion of hi jegalpaactice, hence is in sympathy more with the trusts than the people. However, with these ex-attoruey-cenerals and the presotit incumbent wo have little to do, since the lattera UTin expires next March, but the ex perience of the past has made the plundered people solicitous as to who wi).' fill the office of attorney-general in the future, whether he shall be a second Miller or Oiuey, or whether he shall be a man who is not under the influence of these gigantic combines. If Mr. Bryan is elected there can be no doubt us to what sort of a man he will appoint , to this oftk-e. In his rammony Hall speech he declared himself. "I am opposed to trusts." he said, ,;acd if I am elected I shall use as an"executive what power I shall have to drive every trust out of existence. If present laws are not sufficient to meet this evil. I, if elected, will recom mend such laws as will meet it." But where does Mr McKinley stand? What sort of a man will he appoint attorney-general? ' Judging from the fact that Mr. Hobart is at tho head of the coal trust and that Mr. Hanna is in sympathy with more trusts and com bines than almost any other man in the nation, there is little to expect than thaO whomever Mr. McKinley would appoint would be in harmony with the interests of his manager and his running mate, that the attorney general under his administration would be only a second edition of Miller or Olney. OHIO IS DOUBTFUL. Hardly any supporter of "Bryan, bts deemed Ohio anything but a certain state for McKinley: in fact it has been generally conceded that its 23 votes would go solid for its favorite son; but Henry George, after spending two weeks traveling over that state views the situation differently. In summing up the'situation, Mr. George says: "Both the hope and fear that Mc Kinley will carry Ohio are based upon the perfection of the Republican or ganization, tho special interests at its back and tho great amount of money at its disposal. But, to my mind, there aro forces on the other side that more than offset these. Take the matter of organization, a matter of which the democratic practical politician laments the lack, and it seams to me the Bryan people have tho advantage. Their or ganization is of a different kind, but it will prove, I think, the more effective as the short sword and mora open or dr of the Roman legion proved more effective than the long spears and serried ranks of the Grecian phalanx. In every city in which I have been, in every town, of which I have heard is proof that tne political aiscussio mac is goipg on is hand-to-hand work, and what counts the hanging up of ban ners, hiring of great halls, bringing of speakers from abroad, getting up of monstrous excursions, to the talk of neighbor with neighbor that is honey combing the entire state with free sil ver clubs and Bryan leagues. .- "Take the power of the banks and raWroads and all they control. Time and time it has been proved that their power at the polls is "as nothing when a clear issue is made against them. "And now, when only four weeks of the campaign remain, there can be no question as to which side is gaining. Free silver is everywhere making its way and every whero the republican candidates are losing ground- I find this in Cleveland as I return to it, after something over a week's, absence, and it is a thing, upon which ail those Ij have talked with elsewhere are agreed. ' "And to these elements of success is being added that most potent element which Bryan's personal touch with the people is producing and intensifying belief in the honesty of the man. From my views of th9 situation I can not think Bryan will fail to carry Ohio by a large majority: and the same influences that give him Ohio should give him all the central West ern states that have been considered doubtful." ONE THEORY EXPLODED. The theory of the gold standard ad vocate3, that wages in all lines of in dustry 'will be reduced if Bryan is olected, seems not certain of being carried out strictly in all instances, "hence the theory is. exploded. There is a sx)ve iac ory at Newark, Ohio, where wages will be advanced 10 per cent in case of Mr. Bryan's success. A Newark dispatch, dated Oct. 5, to the S. F. Examine! , says: "It has been many days since a factory notice promising increased wages has been seen iu this vicinity, but the employes of the Central city Stove Works here today were notified that in case of Bryan's election an in crease of 10. per cent in their wages would be given. The company's presi dent, C. W. Cunningham,, has been a life-long republican, While the heaviest Stockholder, W. N." Fulton, although a banker, is an enthusiastic silver advo cate. Nearly all the employees are republicans, but all are Bryan support ers. ' President Cunningham said to day the reason the promise of better wages was made was because the com pany felt confident free coinage would stimulate business, especially in the west, where the trade of the concern largely lies." The action of . tne manufacturers bears out the contention of the advo cates of free coinage, that business will be increased by an increase of circula ting medium, nd . thus better wages can be paid laborers. SETTLED AT LAST. A special Condon dispatch to the New York World, dated October 3, says: The World correspondent examined today a file of the- Financial News, in its office here, and found the following statement in. an editorial in its issue of April30, 1804: . . . f'There can be no doubt about it that if the united States were to adopt a silver basis tomorrow British trade would be ruined before the year was out, for American industry would bo protected not only at home but ' in every other market." This is the statement that has been so widely copied by the silver press of late, and denounced as spurious by the goldites. Now that the World, which is a strong and able- advocate of gold, has found it to be genuine, and to have been published more- than two years ago, when tlia silver agitation was in its infancy, it is to be expected that its authenticity will no longer be ques tioned and that the gojdites will con cede thab Eneland is afraid of the re sult of free coinage In the United States. " The New York Journal declares that the next congress will be in favor of freecoiuase. Advocates of the white metal will have thirteen more votes, it says, than the gold standard men. Oregon's congressmen and senators are put down for gold In the estimate. FAU2IEUS AND THE TARIFF. There is an effort made by the Mc Kinley management to secure the sil j ver republican vote among the farmers by pushing the tariff issue to the front. The ciaim is jpade by them that tno democratic po!5y is and has been to remove the tariff from all farm pro ducts, thus placing the American farmer in direct competition with the farmers of the "pauper" worlJ, even in competition with the "pauper" farmers of gold-standard Canada, Germany, Italy and France. It is further claimed, directly iu the face of facts, that the present tariff law, which was passed by a democratic congress, has removed tho duty from all farm produces. Before che republican, farmer who honestly believes in the free coinage of silver, allows himself to be carried away by such misrepre sentations, he should investigate for himself, and be convinced that there is but one farm product, wool, which is placed on tho free list by the Wilson tariff law. That the farmers may cou sider the. effect the present tariff law has upon their ' industry and the amount of protection that Is. extended to their products, we make the follow ing quotations from the 1S94 tariff law, showing the duty (protection) placed on a number of the leading products of the farm: All live animals, not specially pro vided for, 20 per cent and valorem. 'Buckwheat, corn or maize, cornmeal, 0:itf, rye, rye flour, and wheat flour, 20 per cont and valorem. . Wheat," 25 cents per bushel. Barley and barley pearled, patent or hulled, 30 per cent and valorem. Butter and substitutes thereof, 4 cents per pound. Cheese, 4 cents per pound. ' Milk, preserved or condensed, 2 cents per pound, sugar of milk, 5 cents per pound. Beans, twenty per cent and valorem. Hay, $2 per ton. Honey, 10 cents per gallon. Hops, 8 cents per pound. Onions, 20 cents per bushel. Peas, dried, 20 cents per bushel; split peas, 0 cents per bushel. Potatoes, 15 cents per bushel. Vegetables in their natural state not otherwise provided for, 10 per cent ad valorem. Apples, preen or ripe, dried, des icaW or prepared in any manner, 20 per cent ad valorem. Straw, 15 por cont ad -valorem. Grapes, 20 per cent ad valorem. Oranges, lemons and limes, in pack ages, at the rate of 8 cents per cubic foot of capacity; in bulk, $1.50 per thousand. . .Plums, prunes, figs, raisens, and Other dried grapes, including Zante currants, H cents per pound. Fresh beef, mutton and pork, 20 per cent au valorem. Bacon and hams, 5 cents per pound. Extracts of meats, 15 per cent ad va lorem. . Llard, 1 cent per pound. Poultry, live 3 cents per pound, dressed 2 cents per pound. Tallow, 1 cent per pound. It will bo noted that there is indeed a high protective duty on nearly every product of the farm and garden, in many of the schedules the- duty Ijelng more than the market price of the ar ticle. Take hops for instance. There is a protection of 8 cents, while for the past two years they have been sold throughout this state at from 3 to H cents. And too, the assertion is jfre questly made that Canadian competi tion is responsible for the low prevail ing prices in i'farm produce, yet Uhe facts are that there is at present a high Tariff on hay, grain, butter, and live stock, in fact all farm prodects ex cept wool.. A perusal of the above quotations from the tariff law as it ex ists today, will cause the farmer to re alize any increase in tho tariff cannot benefit him. but on the contrary, any additional duty, except it be on wool, will be to increase the profits of the manufacturing syndicates. JUST FOR EFFECT. . Senator Quay, the great Pennsyl vania boss is pretty good at claiming, and under date of Oct- 12, sent out this statement. "The election of McKinley and Hobart is an accomplished and assured fact. They will receive 270 electoral votes, Bryan will receive 110, and there are six states, having 67 electoral votes, which are doubtful, but the probabilities at present point to. the fact that these 67 will go into the re publican joiumn and be added to the 270 now assured for McKinley and Hobart. This is the status tod ay. We have the election and will hold it. The opposition has abandoned the East. It will bo noticed that in . makiDg this broad assertion, Senator Qua; carefully avoids naming any one of the states from which the grand aggrega tion tf 270 are to come.. Evidently this estimate is made without any foundation whatever, for from other, and fully as reliable sources, como evi dences that instead of McKinley's election being assured.it becomes more doubtful every day, and if his manag ers would acknowledge that their very souls are struck with the fear that their Napolean has found bis Waterloo. They are truly alarmed, and tho causes for their alarm are well founded,. They are these: ' " In 1892, when Mr. Whitney was the power behind the screens at demo cratic national headquarters, ho in duced his Wall street friends to send an independent commission to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin in the last week of September, to make ob servations and report the result. The report of that commission was so ac curate that this year the Wall street men sent the same commission to the same and neighboring states to report on the situation. ' The commissioners have returned to New York,-and re ported to their employers. The report has made Wall street's hair stand on end." The commission, of course, was not to be governed by sentiment, but by cold facts. . Well, the report trade out is that Bryan will come near sweeping -every state west of the Allegheny Mountains The Wall' street investigators say that Bryan will carry Illinois outside of Cook county by 50,000 majority, and that Chicago could not be relied upon to give more than 20.000 majority for McKinley. This would give the electoral vote of Illinois to Bryan by 30,600. The Wall street commission reported that Indiana would giye Bryan 25.000 plurality, and that "all h 1 could not change it," Minnesota and Michigan also were given to Bryan, and Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa were put down as doubtful states, with the chances favoring Mc Kinley, the Commission said that of the threo last named States, Ohio was the most likely to go for Bryan. This news which came from Wall street to a member of the cabinet by wire caused some consternation in ad ministration circles. Secretary Car lisle has no hope that Kentucky c-an be kept out of the Bryan column. He has been figuring on the state by coi firessional districts, with his frieuds, and he cannot see how Bryan's plural ity can be less than 18,000. With such faets as these staring him in the face, men like Quay cannot but feel alarmed, hence make such broad boasts as the above, simply for effect, hoping thereby to create an enthusiasm for tneir candidate, knowing that there is a certain vote that always tries to gft on th popular side. MONEY FOR McKlNLEY. As the campaign progresses evidence accumulates to prove the oft-asserted statement that the monopolists and usurers both of America and Europe a"re arrayed together to defeat the elec tion of Bryan: that it is a battle for tho supremacy of wealth over the masses, for a concentration of the power of corporations in the manage ment of the government. Even the great Oregonian places itself, unwit tingly of course, in evidence along this lino. A man styling Limelf Baron Charles H. do Courtier, representing to be a "King of capital," was in Portland, and the Oregonian quotes him as say ing: " We are hardly iu position to say much of our plans and movements, as they will depend entirely on the. No vember election. The syndicate we represent may be termed international, being pomprised of leading capitalists in Amsterdam, Germany, France and England, whoo aggregate capital will exceed 845,000,000. This vast sum is today at a standstill, as the result of the i present- financial disturbance in this country, and I am under positive in structions to stopallinvestmeuts until the result of the election is known. Further than that I am under orders to cancel all contracts and withdraw all investments in the event of Bryan being elected, and, on the other hand, to close all contracts and make fjrther investments if Major McKinley is elec ted. "I am now investigating the ques tion of state legislatures, both. in Ore gon and Washington, with a view to determining what their several com plexions will bo after the election. Any state in which the syndicate is in terested whose legislature is shown to have a majority of populists will nec essarily be stricken from the list of states with which the syndicate will deal, and all the investments in . those states will be withdrawn." What are we to learn from this statement of the "baron?" If McKin ley is elected, a policy of government will be pursued that will be solely in the interest of the foreign bond holder and money lotmer. If Bryan should succeed, the interests of another class are to be subserved. If McKinley's gold-standard policy shall prevail the "baron" will invest his foreign capital (loan it at the highest possible rate of interest) and who will it benefit, those who -mortgage their property and future posterity, or the "baron" across the water who draws the wealth of the country away in interest? : There is something more to learn from this "money king's" statement. In states whose legislatures are under control of tho party that has always been-favorable-to tbemoney syndicates, he will invest, because lie is assured of a continuation of legislation favorable to them. Today Oregon, and in .fact every state in the Union, is suffering from the "investments" of these foreign syndi cates. The masses of the people are ground down paying interest upon the foreign capital that has been placed here by such syndicates as this "baron" represents. The less of their capital "invested" here the" better. If there has to be capital loaned in this country let it be home money. It is easier for the people to pay interest on American money than foreign money because the interest remains here, hence it is more profitable. Nevertheless this does not detract from the fact that the money syndicates of Europe and America are deeply interested in McKinley's suc cess, and that Baron de Courtier & Co.' are lending their aid. WHO PAYS THE BILL? It is rather inquisitive prhttpi to ask, who pays the salaries, of the worthy state officials who are camp aigning for McKinley? and to ask why these gentlemen who are drawing salaries from the state are not at their several posts of duty earning them? but they are questioas the tax-payers of Oregon would like to know.. Railroid Commissioner J. B. Eddy, who for nearly four years has been drawing 32,500 annually of tho taxpay er's money, is neglecting his duties while campaigning in Southern Oregon, though he is stili,on the state pay toll. However, he never did give any return for his'salary, hence so far as bis services to the state are coc cerned, nothing is lost.except his S8 a day. ' . Among the other leeches who are out pleading the cause of the gold standard are Attorney-General idle- man, who draws $3,000 a year from the treasury of Oregon, W. S. Dunniway, Governor Lord's private secretary, who draws $2,500 a year of the taxpayr er'-s hard-earned gold, and R. J. . Hend ricks, superintendent of the state re form school, who has his band in tho treasury to the tune of $2,500 a year. The aggregate salaries of these state officials is $10,500, or something over $35 for each working day, so it is the taxpayers are fui nisbing $35 a day of the sinews of war for the McKinley campaign in Oregon. Minnesota is claimel by the free silver men of that state by an over whelming majority. It now looks as if McKinley would not get a single state outside of New England. . . The New York World which has been a McKinley organ in' the cam paign, in ah open letter addressed to Mr. McKinley, acknowledges that be is beaten and that Bryan will be elected. They call that man a statesman whose ear is tuned to catch the slight est pulsation of a pocketbook, and de nounce as a demagogue any one who dares to listen to "the hoart beats of humanity. William J. Bryan. If, as Matt Quay says, the election of McKinley and Hobart is assured, and that they will surely receive 270 votes Qf electoral college, why are the re publican managers wasting their val uable time and money carrying the campaign further? - Those who vote for party and not for what the party and its candidates stand for may not vote for the Bryan electors in Oregon. However, there ore those who care nothing for the name of the party and everything fcr what the candidate etands for, and these will support. Mr. Bryan and in sure the state's electoral vote for him. Senator Mitchell continues to assert that if McKinley is elected, he will aid to "depreciate" our currency by inter national agreement looking toward the free coinage of silver. Mr. McKinley says "we never had better currency than we have today, and good money wo will continue to have " Which of these great tneii is the free silver re publican to believe? The Boston Herald, a gold standard paper, advises the goldite cartoonists to stop caricaturing the American farmer till after election. "It is a queer spectacle," it says, "to find the farmer ridiculed in politics now in the days of his reported distress. A clear mistake has been madu, and it should not in ordinary pruJence, be con tinued." Since Senator Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, has appeared on the rostrum in Oregon, the republican papers of the state have been quite ioud in de nouncing him as ati anarchist and traitor. If such appelation are justified, what about Senator Mitchell aj Con gressmen Ellis aod Hernia nr ' Tho records of the senate and houe show that they advocated ex ictly the same principles Tillman is advocating today. Neither the living nor tho dead are free from tho scurrilous abuse of the Oregonian. Thomas Garfield, a broth er of the murdered president, wrote a letter a few days ago, which is pub. lisbed in another column, defluing his views - uppa , present issues.. This brought forth the following dirty slap, n -t to him alone, but to his deceased brother: "Garfield's brother is a Bryan man, and Garfield wasn't very wise himself." Since the billing of Senator Tillman and Mr. Schoonmaker to speak in The Dalles on the same date ha-3 caused some confusion, which none regret more sincerely than do the manage ment of thfe Bryan campaign, they are willing and desirous to arrange mat ters so that a joint discussion maybe held between the two orators. By such an arrangement all may have an opportunity to hear both sides of the question discussed by men of national reputation. Will the management of the McKinley campaign accept the challenge to a joint discussion ? The Chron'cle in reporting Mr. But ler's speech certainly did not mean what it said when it asserted that he "abandoned the position from which republican argument has driven him, that silver was not demonetized in 1873." Mr. Butler dwelt at length upon that proposition, and very clearly showed that silver was demonetized not only by the act of 1873 but by every coinage act since that date; that con gress had . not only - discriminated against the silver dollar but had clothed the creditor with authority to refuse it as a legal tender. The Oregonian places great stress upon an alleged discovery made by the New York World that the silver-mine owners have been solicited to con tribute to the Bryan campaign fund, and brands it as an "unblushing pro posal to buy the presidency of the United States." Ye gods! What an awful crime this is! But pray, what is I Mr Hanria with his $15,000,000 cam paign fund trying to do? Why did Vanderbilt, Huntington, Carnegio and their associates contribute these millions if it were not for the purpose of biiving the presidency? ., i - j Some remarkable figures are brought ' out by republican claims that wheat had advanced because of the belief that McKinley's election is assured, ' It Is stated that in Chicago when 'Ver mont went republican, wheat fell 2J points : When Arkansas went demo cratic wheat went up 2 points; when i M'Hne wen IT republican wheat fell 2 i points: :when. Bismarck's letter ap peared wheat went up 12 points; .when ; the republican managers in September j were- claiming everything wheat ' slumped from 70 to CO cents, and fell steadily until the election returns came in from -Georgia and Florida, when it recovered to G9 cents. "There is not a silver-standard coun try in the "world today whore the .la boring man receives fair pay for his day's work." This is the Jast of the "live facts' worthy of daily study," which the Oregonian Parades in a double-column leader. Whether this is true or not, D. P. Thompson says in Japan, which is a silver standard coun try, laboring men all find employment and have all the necessities of life. Is this true in Germany, France and Italy? all of which are gold-standard countries, ,"Do the people in those countries . receive, fair pay for their day's work? Is there cot more pover ty, more want, more hunger and lower wages in gold-standard Italy today than any silver-standard country on tho globe? -.'-' Callers at Camou. . . Cantos, O,, Oct. 1.1, A special train often coaches arrived this morn ing with miners, mechanics and other citizens of Lehigh valley, Pa. . The inclement weather still continues, so the visitors were takeii'to the Taber nacle, where Major McKinley went to receive their greetings. They gave him an enthusiastic reception, and applauded his addr? to the echo. Perhaps the 'New Woman "will - be . a stronger wo man than the old one. Certainly, fresh air and the right exercise will do much for her. Fresh air is a great restorative, exercise a great nerve tonic it a woman be in condition to take it. A healthy woman can avoid disease. She can avoid the seemingly almost inevitable weak ness " of her sex if she pursues the proper hygienic methods. The -o.. Fame roetnoas mu S&s'-not cure her if she . be already sick. Taken under medical direction, in con-, nection with the right medicine, they will help effect a cure. . No women who suffers at all from so-called " female weak ness " should attempt athletics of any sort. " She should first put herself into possession of strong and hearty health by taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. After she is thoroughly well, exercise and diversion will help to keep her well. The cure should come first. ' Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription is designed and rec ommended for only the one thing. It acts directly upon one set of organs. No matter what is the matter with them, it will cure it. It will net cure anything else. It is a wholesome tonic, an invig orating nervine, or nerve-food as well as a healing medicine, and thousands of perfectly well women have found that by taking it regularly during the period of pregnancy, the danger and pain of parr piritibn were "much lessened, and in many cases, almost entirely obviated. In cverv American household, there should be copy of Dr. Pierce' great work, "Common 6ense Medical Adviser." 100S pages, Illustrated. One copy free to any address on receipt of ai one- cent stamps to pay for mailing; only. World's Dispensary 41' Association, Btutalo, N. V. Hi II AS TO LIFE IN JAPAN D. P. Thompson Finds That Country All Right. LABOR FOR ALL There Are No Idlers, No Hunger, No Want, But All Find Some- ' thing to do. Japan Is One Nation Independent of the Domination . of Great Britain Be. cause It Has an Inaependent Money Syste m. GlFtr-MlN'O, Japan, Sept. 20. My observation in traveling in strange countries is that travelers make a mis take in visiting the principal cities and seaports only, and not going among the common people to obtain informa tion about the prosperity and m.itkiier of living of the people of the country. There are in Japan about 4000 per sons in all of foreign birth, not count ing tho Chinese, of which nationality there are perhaps 10.000. The popula tion of the empire is 41,500,000. not co'intiog the population of the newly acquired island of Formosa. The area of Japan is not larger th.in Oregon and Washington combined, and yet this dense population is all clothed and feu from this small area, and besides, there is quite a mountain district where no crops can bo raised. Tho principal crops raised in Japan are rice and veg etables. No wheat or barley is raised. I have seen some small patches of buck wheat. .The sea which surrounds Japan teems with excellent fish, and the principal food of the people is rice, tish and vegetables. The country is not adapted to the cultivation of wheat because of the great amount of rain fall that occurs at the time wheat would ripen, and which would rot it,- as was the case, to a large extent, in Eastern Oregon and Washington in 1893. I have often heard it suggested at home that the United States should bj able to furnish to a large extent the agricultural implements used in Japan and China, but when you take into consideration the small size of the furms in these countries and the crops raised, it would at once be seen that our manner of farming, where farms range from 40 to 10,000 acres in area, would not do for a farm of from an acre to two or throe acres in extent; and these farms, small as they are, are used for rice as tho principal crop and half a dozen kinds of vegetables The plot given to rice must be flooded often. The Japanese generally raise twd crops from tne same land each year, especially of vegetables, just as our Chinese gardeners do in Oregon, and all the lands areas carefully cultivated here as the gardens around Portland .are cultivated, and with equally good results. Tho lands are much too val uable for rice and. vegetables in Japan to be used fur stock-raising, corn or cotlou, all of which would do well; but the Japanese can use their lands to better advantage, and no people make a study of the adaptability of the soil to produce the most profitable crops as they do. A very large portion;of the rice produced here is sold for export to Great Britain and the United Staves, and rice is largely imported from India, China and Corea, because the Japan ese rice brings a better price abroad and the foreign rice can be bought here for a less price than the Japan rice sells for. Tho rice . here raised averages about five bushels per capita of the population, and every farmer raises a little for home use. It is used by everybody as the staple food, just as wt use bread in America. No cotton of consequence is pro duced in Japan, yet the manufacture of cotton goods is being rapidly ex tended, and factories are being built in all the principal towns. Three are now being constructed in Osaka, in the southern part of Japan. A very large proportion of the cotton used in Japan is raised in the United States, but strange as it may appear,' nearly all the raw material used here from our country Is shipped from Liverpool and other British ports. A ton of cotton from St. Louis costs here about $28, gold, no matter whether it is shipped by rail and steamer direct; but is shipped for less than $10 per ton from European ports, and cotton from the United States is shipped to Liver pool and sold there, without being un loaded from the ship, and then billed to this country, giving to Great Britain the carrying trade of our own raw material. The Standard Oil Company has a line of sailing vessels for ports here carrying oil and returning with cargoes of tea, silk and rice. American oil will, however, soon bo a thing of the past in Japan. The Russians are fast getting hold of this business, and with the completion of the Siberian railway toVladavostock, in thenearfuture, will be able to drive the Standard Oil Com- nany from this market. The oil is not nearly so good as ours, but it will be delivered here so much cheaper that it will take the place of the American oil- One thing only will help to keep American oil in the market here, and that is the intense hatred by Japanese of the Kussians, ever since the late war with China.. When Japan had China prostrate at her feet, Russia stepped in and compelled them to sur render Port Arthur and other districts back to China and accept a money in demnity of $400, 000,000 instead, which has embittered the Japanese against the Russians. " ' They have been placed in very much the same position that our country was by Great Britain during the late war in the United States.' Thai, country allowed confederat cruisers to be fitted out in British ports. We had a gigan tic war on our bands; we were unable to resent the gross outrage at the time. as we had all we could attend to and by the action cf tho British our com' merce was swept from the seas of the world by' these confederate British cruisers. We accepted the pitiful $16,- 000.000 as remuneration for the out rage, and allowed Great Britain to hold the commerce of the world, and to thus dictate to us and all other debt or nations the price of all commod ities, and the coinage we snould use, and allowed her to even carry our cot ton and other products of our country to all the marts of the world as 6he is now doing and if a voice is raised against her and her standard (gold), the cry is raised of repudiation and na tional dishonor. Wo are too ready to forget bow we, as a nation, have been placed by this mistress of the world's commerce and manufactures, and the means used by her in placing herself in her presenfpositlon as tho creditor nation of the world. I Japan is one nation independent of the domination of Great Britain, and while there are British banking houses in Japan and some liritisb merchant who deplore the fact that Japan will not adopt the gold standard and thu. reduce tho circulating medium one half, in the interest cf their country, yet no Japanese business man cau bt found who xv ill favor it. On the other hand they have gone to work building fjetoiiesto produce everything they need, which they now import, and in stead of being dependent on other countries, they build their own rail roads and factories and keep their money at home and sell their rice, tea and silk, and are now building their own ships to carry the same to market, thus making themselves independent and prosperous, as they are. No idle people here; all have plenty to do and plenty to eat, of food they prefer. No foreign debt, no payment of interest iu gold to impoverish them and compel the treasury of the cation to hold one' sixth .of tho standard currency to pre vent a raid on the treasury they could not meet, as is the condition of ourun fortunate country at the present time. it may Desaiu: "to you want pur people reduced to the manner cf livin ol tno Japanese Do you want our people to work for the wages paid Japan to workmen?" In reply I will say: "Here every person has plenty of work to do. They are paid a lo price, it is true, but they have plent to eat and wear; they are given anadu cation; newspapers are as plentiful as at home, and everybody can read them men and women." A few duvs before I left Portland a man whom I hid known for many years as a hard-work ing, honest, sober man, said to me "I will work for you for a year for 0 cents a day, for one year's steadv work." I replied: "I have no wor to do; I am employing some men and am giving them more wages, but I not want to discharge them without cause, to give place to another; be sides, you can't support your family on 50 cents a day.'' He replied: can live better on 50 cents a day than on no pay at all. For two years past have not had more than threo months' worn to do, and 1 have used every exertion to obtain work." Nosuch'coodition of affairs exists in this country of lrw wages and low price of living. There must ba a rem edy in our country by legislation for this condition of agairs. There must be less legislation for the "business men," such as Drexel, Morgan & Co. the Chicago stock exchange, the bank ers of Wall street, the sugar trust an similar corporations, and morelegisla tion in tho interest of the business men who till the farms, work in the factories, and constitute nineteen twentieths of the people who create the wealth of our country. No private contracts should be made by the secre tary of the treasury with private bank ing corporations for the sale of govern ment bonds at 104, when they could be and were sold by popular subscription to common people at 117, as was don last year by Mr. Carlisle in selling the amount of $64,000,000 to the syndicate to obtain money with which to replen ish the gold reserve. Th'-so bonds of Japan would have been sold at home, and the people wouij have the beueCt of the loan and the interest would have remained at home and it would not have to be faid in gold either, but in the currency provided by the constitution gold and silver. I am quite sure that after years of careful trial and with the ex ample cf our ccuntry during the past four years ' of business prostration there is no country not on a gold basis could be induced to place Itself in tht condition, but would, like Japan and Mexico,,., retain free and untram moled "" the money of the con stitution, with free and equal coinage for both gold and silver. . D. P. Thompson. Mews From 'Ecuador. Guayaquil, Ecuador, Oct. 13. General Alfaro, now chief executiue of the nation, has presented' a bill to the national congress providing for a go'd basis, the premium not to exceed 100 percent.' The convention has authorized the government to provide free transpor tation for such sufferers by the great fire as desire to go to other places, and also to provide food aod clothing to destitute persons. - A general order has been issued prohibiting any rise ia the price of the nece saries of life. More than 15.000 persons have already left the city for other towns and villages.; ' ' . Attempts have been made to wreck trains on tho Southern railway by pulling out spikes in the fishplates and raising the rails. Uls Leg Broken. Heppner, Or., Oct. 13.wJ. M. White, of Lexington, met with a serious ace I dent yesterday while in tho mountain after wood. He started down a steep TTiill, and, the ground being slightly frozen, the brake failed to hold the wagon, which was heavily loaded. The team became unmanageable and start ed to run. The front wheels struck a log, and Mr. White was thrown from the wagon and in front of a hind wheel, which passed over him, break ing his leg near the thigh. It i thought that perhaps be is injure! iu ternally. Bobbed by His Partner. Seattle, Oct. 13. The Seattle and Tacoma police are looking for a Yuk i miner named C. McClure, who Is chir ed by his partner, J. McClane, will robbing him of $2o00 worth of p'acei eold. " The men had been work! ig in Alaska on the Yukon river for tbret years, and they came to Seattle on t'y Lackme from St, IJiohael's a few days ago. They stopped at tne AiasKa hotel, this city, over night, and when McClane awoke next" morning his partner and his three year's earnings were gone. . Prince Utlkoff at Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 13. The - Russian minister of railroads, Prince Hilkoff, the first public man to make the trip from St. Petersburg to this country over the new Siberiaij railroad, arriyed at Chicago at 11 .o'clock today on the Santa Fe road. He is engaged in a tour of inspection of the railroads of the United States. He was entertained at Chicago at noon by the Chicago Club, and will be given a dinner this evening at the Auditorium, Ho will sail for Europe November 1. Talked to the Women. Minneapolis, Oct. 13. Perhaps the most unique feature of Bryan's yisit to Minneapolis was his address last night at the Lyceum theater to an audience exclusively of women. There wero 2000 women present, Mrs. Frank A. Valesh presided. When Bryan ar rived at about 10 o'clock the ladies arose en masse, waved handkerchiefs and flags, clapped their hands .and called his name. In fact, they did everything men might do, except give three cheers and a tiger. FiiOliUT TOT! DEATH Bloody Battle Between Citi zens and Bank Robbers. CUBA TO BE FREE Spain Soon to Cease Hostilities. Fighting to Be Stopped After Next March. Worn oat by Her Efforts to Crash the Cuban Patriots, Spain Has About Abandoned All Hope of Retain ing; Further Control of tue Island. Denveh, Oct. 13. According to the latest advices from Meeker, Colon da, which is 90 miles from tha nearest t 1 egraph office, the three men who .( re killed there after robbing a bank have not been identified. One who lived two hours after being shot, gave names which are believed to be ficti cious. It is believed that one of the robbers is Thomas McCarthy, who aided in robbing tho banks of Tellu ride and Delta. The robbery was one of the most dar ing ever perpetrated in the west, oc curring in broad daylight, when there were 20 people in plain sight. Joe Rooney, clerk of the Meeker hotel, bad stepped into the bank, which is lo cated in the general mercantile store of J. W. Hag is, to make a deposit, and stood talking to Assistant Cushier Da vid Smith. As ho turned to leave he felt a heavy hand on his shoulder, and, glancing up, was looking into the muz zle of a revolver. The man with the revolver commanded, "hands up." At the same instant two shots rangout and two bullets whizzed past the head of the assistant cashier, who threw up his bands. Meantime the other two robbers bad covered the crowd In the store, com pelling them to assemble in the center of tho room and guarding both door ways. Then Cashier Moulton was called and one of tho men, said to him: "Open the safe and be quick about it." At the point of a gun he was conducted to the safe, which he opened, and the contents of the drawers, $700, were emptied into a sack the robbers had brought with them. Not a word was spoken, the robbers going about their work with a delibera tion that was astounding.- After get ting the money iu the till, they quietly gathered in all the firearms in the place, helped themselves t cart ridges, and then the leader ordered the crowd to all go outside with them. The crowd filed through tho doorway, followed by the robbers. The robbers were not aware that the place was surrounded. The crowd they had driven from the store ran for cover Citizens of the town had been warned by the two shots fired in the store, and arming themselves to the teeth, surrounded the bank, quietly awaiting the appearance of the robbers. Deputy Game Warden W. H. Clark noticed that three horses were fastened at the rear door, and surmising that the robbers would leave by that route, took up his statiou a short distance from the b ick door aid centered more men at this nUco than any other, not neglecting, however to keep the front door just as well watched. ' ; When the- robbers saw t'uoy were cornered, Charles Jones raised a rifle he had taken from the store and fired at Clark. The bandits were com manded to hold up their hands, but an swered with a fujiir&de of shots from a dozen different directions. Jones and Smith fell to the ground literally riddled with bullets. ' Harris mortally wounded, held his revolver, and, stil staggering, continued the battle unti hefell. ' ' ' , . CUBA WILI, BE FREE. Spain Is to Cease Hostilities After Next - March:' Cadiz, Oct. 15. If Spain has not put down the insurrection in Cuba by the 1st of March, it is the intention of the government t give up the struggle and let the island go. The fcignifl cance of this statement, coming direct from an officer of rank in the Spanish army, within the week, must certainly be regarded as of no little importance. The above determination is an open secret among those who are close to the government, and it Is said that the policy is being adopted of exiggerafr ing the magnitude of the trouble in the Philippine islands with a view of preparing tho people for the ultimate design t f letting Cuba go. . By way of further corroboration of this estimate of the situation it may be remarked that .while Spain is sending more than 200,000 troops to Cuba, who are in the main very young and un disciplined, she is carefully keeping her SO.000 well-disciplined and effluent soldiers who may be available in case of an outbreak at homo. She is al keeping in Spanish waters 12 warships which are ready for sea, and which could be of great service in Cuban waters in aiding tho United titates in that polico work which she now asks that country to do for her. W. G. Foster, manager of tho East ern Telegraph Cotnpttny here, speak ing of the situation, said: There is no question that tha gov ernment is trying to use tho Philiipine islands trou.bJe to distract the people's attention from Cuba. There is no doubt that Spain intends to do hoi ut most to crush the Cuban insurrection between now and Marzh. Failing in that, I am informed that she will give up the struggle. "An important issue is the fact that Cuba has a debt of $o00,000.000, and that if Spain puts down the insurrection, Cuba will have to pay that debt; where as if Cuba wins, the payment of that debt will fall on Spain, who contracted it on behalf of Cuba. Naturally the planters who have bee a driven from the half ruined plantations, however loyal they may appeur to be to Spain, really want to see the Cubans sucooed. as in that case they would not be taxed by Spain to pay tho interest oa the debt, and could then start again under more favorable auspices." BUSINESS IMPROVING. Western Roads Hosier Than For Six Months Past. Chicago, Oct. 13. The higher pri ces for grain and the chance of an ele vation of freight rates in the near future have bad a quickening effect on freight handled by Western roads. They are now handling more traffic than at any time for the past six months. The rush of corn to the East as become so great as to prove a serioussembarrassment to some of tho roads, because of their inability to procure cars to nanaie tne stun: as rapidly as it U offered. The sl ip non-s of livett ck, to, hare takeu a big jump upward, and all of the large roads runntng west from Chicago report greatly improved con ditions in this branch of their busi ness. If the meeting of traflio officials of tho Western rouds, which is to con vene tomorrow, succeeds in restoring freight rates and keeping them at the point to which they may be elevated, the roadu will bo doing tho best busi ness they have done at any time in three years " END OK TUK FAIR. - The 30th Annual Session of the Oregon State Fsir Ended. Salem, Or., Oct. 13. The 36th an nual session of the Oregon state fair ended todny. Io many respects this was the best of the seven days of tbe session. Tbe stock parade at 11 A. M was very creditable. The sheep, bogs, cattle and horses, formed into one procession, were exhibited on the parade-grounds. Parson's band, stationed in the center, played whllo the livestock passed ia review before the vit-iU'rs. The baby show was u'so given to day, and served to interest many. There were 27 ettriep, and there aro 21 mothers, whose babies failed to get the blue ribbon, that are wondering what grudge the judge bad against them. . Prominence was given to theexhibit of the flax industry on the closing day. J. H. Albert, the member of the board who had been delegated to look after this department, secured the services of Mrs. Xitneey, of Waldo Hills, whose training in flax culture was in the state of Missouri. Mrs. Kim soy has .nken pride in answering questions of in quirers and explaining tbe procecs of working flax in all of of its details from breaking to spinning into threads. In the evening, lectures on flax culture were delivered by Mrs. W. P. Lord and Dr. A. W. Thornton. 1 Tp'vfv:;' Shorten itwith Cottolene in- ct"rnr1 nf lo tvJ an1 oaa virrtat a H crisp crust it will have ; how delicious and wholesome it will be. Pie made with Cot tolene will do a dyspeptic good. Do everybody good because it is good. There is only one secret in cooking with Cottolene use but two thirds as much as you would naturally use of lard. Follow this rule and Cottolene will do the rest.. Gnnln Is sold rvrr.mhev la tint with trade-marks ml ter's ksad im cotton-plant rraiA on ctstj ti ft. Made only by THE N. K. MIRBftNK COMPANY. St. Louis, LAJCBf, EMM rnttMM rirlkUM, UTVfMs, OREGON BAKERY AND A. KELLER, Prop'r. Am prepared to. furnish families, -hotels snd restaurants with the choicest Bread, Cakes a ml Pies. Fresh Oysters Served Every Style. in Second Street, next door to Dalles National Pa ok. The A. A. BROWN FULL ASSORTMENT AKinB0T18!0.1S, fpscial Prioss to Gish Buyers 17b 8BOOND 8TRBEJT. HARRY LI2BE, Pi'3StiC3l A..VD DCALtB IM 'locks, Wa'cW, Jewelry, 'Eti REPAIRING A SPEOIAXTY. TOOT BLOCK, THE nLLKS, - - OREGON Washington Real Estate.... . A number of choice tracts of Agricultural Lind, both improv ed and unimproved, foi sale oa . easy terms: in Yakima county. .Every Pieck is a Bargain... fjjms of Ihe tracts will be be tr.uk d for c-Ut'e or sheep. . . Address, J. Jf. lalHTERS. Zilla, Yakima County, Wash. NOTICK FOR PUBLICATION. Land Orrica at Tna Daixkr. Ob October 14. 1HM. f Notlre l horebv riven that the following. named settler has tiled notice of his Intention to commute una make final proof In support of hi claim, and that haul proof will be mude before KetfLster and Kecclver at The Dulles. ' Oregon, on November 1, W6: OEOKGE LANDIS. lid. E. No. MOB. for the Lot 1 or NWU KWV See. 81. Tp. 8 N., R. 13 E. W. M, He names the following witnewos to Drove hU continuous residence upon and cultivation oi Naiu i:inu. viz: A. J. Brown. J. W. Jobniton. C. V. Charop lin, and O. W. Stewart, all of Tbe Dalles, Oregon. JAS. T. MOORE. ; Oct. 17 Register. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Hlgbect Award. Fie