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SATURDAY... FEBRUARY 20, 1897
irar Tins unrest?
Throughout the land are said to be
organizing two societies, the "Iron
Brotherhood" and . the "Industrial
Army," the prime object of which ap
pears to be a civil revolution, an en
deavor to arrouse the masses in bitter
utrife against the classes. The prelude
of a secret circular issued by one of
these societies is as follows: .
C. "Comrades: There comes a time in
tbe affairs of men and nations when
desperation compels the human mind
to pause and bring to its aid that ele
ment of reason so long discarded.
We have reached such a crisis in the
destinies of this American republic.
One hundred years of national exis-.
tence has demonstrated that the fabric
policy of our government contains
within its warp and woof the elements
of its own destruction, with the fact
that the ballot has proven a most
lamentable failure as a safeguard of
' free institutions. In the closing of
the 19th century we see a, class of des-
' potism establishing itself upon the
ruins of the repubfto. An'oligarchy
is now in power, and already the
hideous phantom of Imperialism over-
' shadows us, as embodied in the pluto
cratic claims of the federal court and
acts of unbridled military despotism,
' characteristic of the federal govern
ment of today.
"What is to be done? We have ap-
pealed in vain to the ballott. Every
trial of strength in the political arena
has resulted in victory for the uu-
' scrupulous money power.' History
proves . that you cannot be freed
through the ballot."
That societies promulgating sue
revolutionary ideas could exist in this
free, independent and glorious nation,
where every citizen is a sovereign,
- seems incredible, but tbat that they do
: exist, and that the principles they ad
ocate meet with response, cannot be
denied. And where such societies can
exist there must be a cause for such
unrest, for such disatisfaction with ex
. lsting conditions as are evinced by
this preamble. A people who are con
tent with their lot, who are comfort-
ably fed and clothed, who have an op
- portunity to earn a livelihood do not
accept or even countenance such revo-
onarv measures as are here shown;
what is the cause of this unrest?
If those who have been guiding the
destinies of the nation the past few
decades would critically examine their
- acts they would find at least a semb-
lance of causes to bring about these
dissentions. '
The . history of tariff legislation in
. 'this country for twenty, years past
furnishes some explanation. Encour
aged by the results of extreme protec-
. tive duties levied in times when the
- nation was in great need of revenues,
the beneficiaries of protection insisted
upon and were granted . increased
. duties upon imports until their greed
was finally satisfied in the high tariffs
of the McKinley law, which gave them
almost a monopoly of the American
' markets for their wares, resulting in
increased profits to them and exces
' sive burdens to the consumers. When
tbe effects of this greed was fully real-
' ized, the people rose in their might
and revolted against this averice, and
in 1892 voted down the prote3tive
theory. - Emboldened by the -success
of the beneficiaries of protection, other
' classes sought legislation that was
favorable to them and detrimetit.il to
tho masses; they insisted upon a finun
ancial policy that would make the few
masters of many by placing them in a
position that enabled them to contract
the currency of the country at tbnir
will, force bond sales whenever thy
desired, and regulate interest rates to
suit themselves. Then when they dis
covered in the signs of the times the
possibility of their systems being
overthrown through the election of a
president and congress inimical to
their interests, all manner of promises
of good times, a return of activity and
universal prosperity if the national elec
tion should result in the overthrow of
what they chose to term the represen
tative of anarchy and repudiation.
The election resulted as they chose,
but the good times did not come; the
Dromises of an immediate return of
prosperity were not realized. Is there
any wonder that there is unrest among
the masses? Is it a wonder that they
are ready to overthrow the govern
ment thev aided in establishing? But
in this matter those who seek to or
ganize these revolutionary societies
- are too hasty. That they have grounds
for disappointment cannot be denied,
but they were unreasonable in expest-
ino- a return of prosperity so close
upon the heels of the election,
although it was promised them. The
party in whom they entrusted the
reins of government has not yet had
an opportunity to demonstrate what
will be the result of its stewardship.
Let judgement be suspended until
congress shall be convened and legis
lation enacted that is promised to give
relief. If after the party that is soon
to go into power has had a chance,
timeB ehall not improve, there is
abundant time to seek its overthrow;
but not by such means as are proposed
by these societies, not by resorting to
incendiary means, but at the polls by
fair, honest ballots.
A JOKE OX IDAEO.
Stocks are dull. There hasn't been
a bargain sale of United States bonds
for ever so long. Chauncey isn't going
into the cabinet. Mark has given up
trying to be senator. And yet all
along Wall street one hears tit ters of
suppressed mirth, bubbling gurgles of
side-splitting hilarity that will not be
still. It's almost two weeks, since it
happened, but they can't get over it;
and every staid gold journal that
drifts out from Gotham to the be
nighted west brings a fresh bunch of
Crisp gleeful jokes about Henry Heit
field, the new senator from Idaho. ,
And no matter; for with the evidence
only half in, this man Heitfield has
been convicted of being a free silver
man; living oo a farm; wearing ready
made clothes; doesn't have a college
' education; never mixed up with New
York's four hundred; hasn't eyen had
an introduction to J. Pierpont Morgan;
is poor; is honest; doesn't drink cham
pagne; and never made a spoeeh more
than two minutes' long in his life.
Of course It's funny it's ridiculous.
and
But it's just like Idaho. Why, over
there, not thirty miles from Spokane,
you can find people who really believe
George Washington used to be a
farmer; and that Patrick Henry never
had a bank account; ' that ' Andrew
Jackson didn't pose as a spell-binder;
that Horace Greely's clothes looked as
if they'd been bought at a souvenir
auction; that William Lloyd Garrison
was not on speaking terms with the
leaders of society; and that Abraham
Lincoln never wrote a Yale college de
gree after his name in all his life.
And in spite of all this, just because
these men were sincere and honest
and knew what the people-wanted,
those poor, misguided wretches over
in Idaho actually have more respect
for Washington and .-Garrison and
Lincoln and a lot of those old back
number fellows than they have for W.
Bourke Cockran or the Duke of Marl
borough. And as further evidonce of tho crude
ness of ideas out here in the rude un
cultured west just so the gentlemen
of Wall street can have a real good
laugh on Idaho while they are about it
we will add that the poor neglected
people of that painfully new state
would actually choose to be re
presented in the senate by a hard
handed farmer rather than by Hon.
Edward Murphy, Jr.; by a plain front
iersman who loves his country rather
than by the Hon. T. C. Piatt; or by an
honest man in preference to the Hon,
David Bennett Hill. Spokane Chronicle.
WE MAY ALL LEARX.
The recent developments in Pendle
ton that unearthed a large shortage in
the accounts of the-. city recorder and
resulted in the sending of tbat official
to the penitentiary, together with the
carlessness of the city council that
made such irregularities possible, fur
nishes a lesson by which all communi
ties may profit. Honesty in office is
made certain by careful watching of
the officer; and had the city council of
Pendleton been reasonably watchful,
the peculations of the recorder prob
ably would: never nave occurred, lne
following account of Lash's downfall,
as given in the East Oregonian, will
serve as a warning to all whose duty it
is to watch over the conduct of officers
under them:
The city council and tho people of
Pendleton have ascertained that $4.
072.80 is the amount of their losses
from the speculations of a trusted offi
cial who was allowed to conduct the
city's affairs and handle its money as
he saw fit for a number of years. It
appears that this amount may not be
the full sum of the losses, as the rec
ords are not in such condition, of
course, as to show how much was taken.
It transpires that even the "grave
yard" was robbed right under the
conncil's nose without arousing a sin
gle suspicion. And in spite of Coun
cilman Flickinger's keen scent, search
ing look and active interest la the
city's affairs, these robberies ani more
besides were perpetrated and would
have continued had not suspicion been
aroused by an accidental investigation.
The council has been taucht a valua
ble lesson. Loose methods will cer
tainly afford opportunity to loose men.
The theft of the tax records and the
record of water rents two "or three
years ago when an examination and
report was about to be made, should
have been a sufficient hint to tbe coun
cil that something was wrong, and if
this hint had been taken at that time,
probably, others would have been
!short in their accounts," and likely the
city would have saved that stolen by
the recorder. But strange as' it
may seem, when it became known
that these records had been destroyed
or stolen by some interested party the
council made no attompt to ascertain
the true condition of affairs, and the
pilferers continued to ply their trade
with increasing security. fr6m detec
tion. From that day Recorder Lash
began to make his public office a
private snap. Loose methods alone
are responsible for the losses the city
has sustained and the councilmen and
the mayors who have occupied office
are responsible for the loose methods.
BIBLE BEADING IN SCHOOLS.
In Eugene and a number of other
Willamette valley cities the question
of reading the Bible in the public
schools is attracting considerable at
tention, and has caused no small
amount of ill feeling. Those who ad
vocate the measure are no doubt over-
zealous Christians,-' and are possibly
too persistent in their demands, while
those opposing it are equally obstinate,
So bitter has the contest beceme in
Eugene that it threatens to impair the
efficacy of the public schools in that
city, in dragging religious discussions
into institutions that are intended to
be entirely non-sectarian.
Nothing causes more bitter feeling
to arise in communities than an at
tempt of one class to force upon an
other religious doctrines, and it is in
deed unfortunate when such an attempt
is made and the medium used for the
purpose is the public schools.on which
the masses must rely for their educa
tion. . No one should object to any par
ent teaching his children any creed of
religious faith" he may see fit, and no
reasonable person should object to his
children listening to the reading of the
Bible or any other book contaiog mor
al teachings; still there are those who
do not accept the Bible as being of di
vine origin, and such have rights that
are as sacred as those of the most zeal
ous Christian. Such object to having
the Bible presented to their children
from a Christian standpoint, hence it
is that every attempt to force it into
the public schools meets with opposi
tion.
TO EDUCATE THJU VOTERS.
The bimetalists of America, though
defeated at the last election, are still
confident that no general prosperity
can prevail througbout tbe country
under tbe existence of a financial sys
tem based upon pold monometalism,
and since the monometalijts have sig
nified their intention to keep up the
fight for another four years, until
every bimetalist and "silver crank"
is silenced, and in view of the fact
that there is no apparent possibility of
an international agreement by which
a wider use of silver as a basic money
can be secured, they have determined
to institute anew the campaign of edu
cation by the organization of bi
metallic leagues, where all phases of
the the money question - may be dis
cussed, so that the people may become
thoroughly acquainted with its every
detail ere another election shall occur.
Such a league has been organized in
The Dalles, and its first public meeting
will be held in the court house this
evening, it is not tbe purpose of
these leagues that they shall become
revolutionary elements, or that they
shall undertake to overthrow well es
tablished principles, but that (hey
shall be the medium through which
the voting public be encouraged to in
vestigate questions of vital impor
tance to themselves and to the natio
Tbe nation has been upon an abso
lute gold standard since 1893. and that
there will be no change within tfcf
next four years is beyond question
At tho expiration of that time it will
have been fully demonstrated whether
or not tbe svstem of cold nionometal-
iem is beneficial. It has been tried
under a low tariff now for three years
and at tbe expiration of President
McKiolev's administration it will
have had a trial under the high pro
tective tariff, heuce by tbat time all
will have had an opportunity to judge,
if it is the tariff or the financial system
that is responsible for the depressing
times of tho present.
The bimetalists honestly believe
that the contraction of the circulating
medium, which began in 1873, is the
prime cause of the fall in prices of the
results of labor, while on the other
hand, the gold monoinetalists attribute
tbe depression to the threat of a
debasement of the currency through
tbe free. and unlimited coinage of sil
ver. Who is right in this, the expert
ence of the next four years will tell,
but in the meantime it is well that the
question of finance be thoroughly dis
cussedthat a campaign of education
be kept up until every voter is per
fectly conversant with its every phase,
and until every elector is capable of
voting intelligently thereon. For this
purpose these leagues are organized,
and will keep up a discussion of the
money question until it is settled right,
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
The subject of postal savings banks
has been pretty thoroughly discussed
in this country, and various unsuccess
ful efforts have been made to get con
gress to utilize the postolnces as a
medium of accumulating and trans
mitting money for the people, though
as yet the idea has not been favorably
received by our law making power,
France, Eugland, Belgium, Sweden,
Pollard, Russia, Austria, Hungary,
Canada and Australia have adopted
the system, and the experience with
postal savings banks in those countries
is that the masses of tbe people derive
decided advantage from having among
them everywhere safe depositories fur
their small earnings, managed in con
nection with the postoffice department,
It is claimed for them that they reach
a class not reached by other savings
banks, and are a sort of inducement
for people to lay by small amounts
which would otherwise be squandered
and thus those who would otherwise
spend their earnings are induced to
lay by something for a rainy day.
In the annals of the American Acad
emy of Political and Social Science
there is an article by E. T. Heyne on
"Postal Savings Banks," in which are
enumerated the advantages to be de
rived, in the writers opinion, from add
ing a savings bank feature to the
operations ofbur postoffice department.
These advantages are as follows:
Postal savings banks would furnish a
safe place for the earnings of the
laboring classes and stimulate them to
habits of saving. At present such
sums as they hoard are kept out of use,
to the aggregate amount of hundreds
of millions, thus producing a scarcity
of money, whereas if their savings
were put in a bank they would be re
stored to active use. After a few years,
tbe amount deposited with the post-
office department would approach
$1,000,000,000, and if applied to the re
tirement of government bonds would
wholly extinguish the public debt to
bondholders. Not only would the
moral tone of citizens be improved by
becoming depositors, but the stability
of the p-nvernmpnt wnnlrl ha increased.
by the practical interest depositors
would have in its welfare.
In the United Kingdom deposits are
now received at 11,000 postoffices from
9 a. M. to 6 P. M. The depositor re
ceives from the postmaster a passbook,
in which are recorded the deposits and
withdrawals. Any sum from 5 cents up
to $250 may be deposited in one year,
and interest is paid on any sum that
is a multiple of $5 and is compounded
Withdrawals may be speedily effected
by telegraph or otherwise. A de
positor may, if he choose?, have his ac
cumulated deposits invested in gov
ernment bonds. Small savings may
be made by the purchase of postage
stamps, which, when they reach a cer
tain amount, are recorded as deposits,
There are 6,000 schools in which the
children are encouraged to - save
through the machinery of the post
office, a clerk coming to the school at
intervals to receive the stamps and
furnish passbooks.- The aggregate de
posits in postal savines banks at the
end of 1893 was $402,500,000, the year's
increase being $23,500,000. Besides
thif, 69,131 depositors held $31,500,000
of government bonds. One out
every seven persons in England is now
a depositor in the postal banks. In
1893 there were 9,838,198 deposits made,
aggregating $123,000,000, and with
drawals aggregated $108,500,000.
REVENUES DECREASING.
The revenues of the government
have continually decreased ever since
McKinley was elected. This is quite
at varlinoe with the claim that the
revenues would be ample and con
fidence restored as- soon as it was
known that McKinley was elected.
Evidently, there was a mistake about
these things. At the present rate of
running behind there will ba a deficit
of $46,000,000 this year, but that could
be easily wiped out by a little economy
in expenditures. It could all have
been saved out of that extravagant
$80,000,000 appropriated last year for
river and harbor improvements. Look,
for instance, at the specimen six mil
lions appropriated for building a har
bor somewhere on the California coast.
It is not needed and it is very doubtful
if a harbor can can. be built successfully
at any cost. But the Pacific railroads
wanted it for their benefit and the ap
propriation was made without regard to
deficits in the treasury or hard times
among the people who have to furnish
the taxes. No wonder there is a deficit
in the treasury.
The republican plan of increasing
the revenues is to raise the duties so as
to shut out foreign gooas. Just how
we are to raise revenue from goods
that don't come into the country is
not clear to the ordinary intellect.
BRAVELTL'TLE GREECE.
Little Greece is quite willing to do
what the great powers have shrunk
from undertaking. It is willing to and
will, if the powers do not restrain her,
make war with Turkey to protect tbe
persecuted Christians in Crete and to
wrest them and the island from further
Turkish dominion.
The movement of the Greek fleet to
Crete is openly a werlike one. It is
for the avowed purpose of preventing
Turkish reinforcement for the Moslem
army already there, and should tbe
powers restrain Greece from landing
troops to overturn Turkish rule, to
give the Christian population the op
portunity to fight it out with their
Moslem oppressors without being
crushed by Moslem reinforcements.
It will be a disgraceful commentary
unon European Christian nations if
they shall, through jealousy of each
other or opposition to the strengthen
ing of the Grecian kingdom, tie the
hands of this new David among
nations, while Turkey overuns Crete
with its cruel and ferocious legions.
England's Christian escutcheon will
be reddened yet deeper with the blood
of murdered people whom treaty and
moral duty alike called upon England
to protect.
What a cruel, miserable farce is this
diplomacy which withholds inter
ference by the great Christian nations
of Europe while the Turks, with the
ferocity of wild beasts, kill and torture
Christian citizens by scores of
thousands without a hand being raised
to protect them or to punish their de
stroyers.
All hail plucky- chivalrous little
Greece! May I prove an instrument in
the hand of Providence to overturn and
crush out forever that parody upon
government and the enemy of every
thing that is the outgrowth of iritelli-
pence and Christian civilization.
Telephone-Reister.
AX AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY.
Cornelius N. Bliss, president of the
Protective Tariff League and editor of
the Economist, the most unreliable and
villanously prevaricating publication
in the United States, became deeply
interested in Oregon affairs and tele
graphed to several members of the
legislature that if they failed to elect
a senator who could take his seat on
March 5th, protective tariff legisla
tion will be endangered, and there
can be no relief from the continued
hard times. What an awful responsi
bility this king of demagogues thrusts
upon Oregon legislators. But there
were some of them who bad the inde
pendence to inform Mr. Bliss "that if
he would attend to bis business, they
would endeavor to attend to theirs."
It is a heavy responsibility to thrust
upon the legislature of a little state
like Oregon, to insist tbat the welfare
of 65,000,000 people rests upon its selec
tion of a United States senator, but it
is surprising that if one lone senator
is so important a factor in shaping the
fate of a nation, it has not been dis
covered before that any senator should
not be allowed to leave his post of duty
at the national capital during a session
of congress. It probably never oc
curred to Mr. Bliss that if all that was
between the nation and the deinnation
bow-wows was one solitary senator
from tbe wild and wooly west, that
senator could not be spared from his
seat in the senate even for a day. If
he is such an important factor he
ought to be there continuously with
his strong hand on the safety valve
day and night and not glide around
over the country looking after his
political fences.
. EDITORIAL NOTES
Forty little men went to Salem on
Jan. 11th and put their necks into the
collars of two big bosses. Result-
State taxes will be six mills next year
and seyeu mills the year following.
An , agreement has finally been
reached between tbe woolen manufac
turers and wool growers as to- what
rates of duty shall be demanded in the
formation of the wool schedules of tbe
new tariff bill. It is agreed that the
schedules shall be the same as those in
the McKinley law. -
When Senatog-am hu,j pu.umui i
appointed a locomotive engineer as a
member of the New York state rail
way commission. Tne other day Tom
Piatt's governor appointed the super
intendent of a line of which Piatt is
president to succeed that locomotive
engineer. Tbat is the difference be
tween actual and pretended friendship
for the laboring man.
- Only a few days left of tbe present
session of congress, but there is still
enough time for all the appropriation
bills to be passed, and when they are
added up it will be learned that their
aggregate is about equal to the appro
priations of the famous billion dollar
congress. Is it any wonder tne re
ceipts of the government are less than
its expenditures?
The situation at Salem is desperate.
One man wants to be United States
senator, and wants it bad. Another
wants to be speaker of the house, and
he wants it bad. The 4(0,000 other
citizens of the state did wart a session
of the legislature to pass a few needed
laws and repeal a number of bad ones,
but because there were two ambitious
men at Salem they got "soup."
Tbe steel-rail pool .(trust) has gone
to pieces from its own weight. For
years tho pool has held the price up to
$28 a ton, but recently dropped to $25.
Even at this price railroad builders
could not afford to purchase, and the
trust finally had to succumb. Since
the breaking up of the pool steel rails
have sold in Chicago at $17. And still
we are told that trusts are not for the
purpose of keeping up prices.
The forerunner of the prosperity six
millions of electors voted for last Nor
vember has struck Harrisburg, Penn?
sylvania, The steel-rail pool . coir
lapsed, and as a result the Pennsyl
vania Steel Co. reduced the wages of
3000 employes 10 per cent. This, too,
in the face of the fact that the ways
and means committee of the house has
proposed an increate In the tariff on
steel rails.
Notwithstanding the senate journal
of this session of the legislature will
be of no practical use to anybody with
out tbe acts of tbe senate being ratified
by tbe house, a committee of three has
been appointed to examine and correct
it. The members of the committee
will be entitled to $10 a day for a period
of about 20 days, and then the journal
will be printed, we presume, at an ex
pense of about $500. This is some of
the economy we heard of before the
first day of last June.
There is, we trust,
needless alarm
about the social revolution to be
brought about through the working
of the "Iron Brotherhood," which is
said to have organized all over the
land with the intention of precipitat
ing a revolution of the unemployed
against capital. - True, the unemployed
have hard lots, but a revolution would
not alleviate their sufferings or better
their condition. ' .
A telegram from Pittsburg to tbe
New York World says: "The dissolu
tion of the Steel Trust and the break
ing of its corner on the rail market
'has let loose such a boom as has cot
been in trade circles for years.' Not
only are railroads buying rails as they
have not been doing, but the firms en-
gaged in other, branches of iron, coal
and coke production have been insured
their full amount of work for months
to tome;" This will bo the result
whenever a trust goes to prices. In
dustry in every line is retarded by the
operations of trusts and combiner,
while freedom to buy or sell at market
prices encourages those, who live by
labor.
The New York delegation in con
gress have no faith in international
bimetalism. They will try to talk the
bill for an international monetary con
ference to d&th, and in all probability
it will never see light after the 4th of
March. The demand for an inter
national agreement was only intended
for campaign purposes,, and having
served its purpose the The New York
ers propose to let it drop.
Salem clergymen certainly ace not
philantrophists. They hae refused to
pray in either house of the legislature
until both are organized, this is in
deed a hard-hearted act. If there ever
were men who needed praying for
they are the senators and representa
tives in Salem. Their sins of omis
sion are many, and more than ordinary
supplication will bo needed to get
them forgiven.
What Mrs. McKinley, who is soon
to become tbe first lady of the land,
will wear at the inauguration of her
husband is of interest both to the lady
reader and the common, eyeryday
American citizen. Tbe dispatches
state that her costume on the occasion
will be the moit elegant ever seen in
the White House, and further that she
has just ordered ten dresses in Chicago
that cost $10,000. Americans are evi
dently adopting extravagant ways.
The wives of Washington, Adams and
Jefferson never required such finery in
their day.
The courts of M if fouri have demon
strated the fact that even a millionaire
may be brought to justice and be made
to suffer for his unlawful deeds. In
St. Louis, on Feb. 13, 1894, Arthur
Duestrow murdered his wife and child
and all the talent that money could
procure was brought into service to
save his neck, but without avail
While money probably prolonged his
life for a "year by carrying the case
from the trial court to that of final re
sort, it could do nothing more, and
yesterday ne paid the penalty with his
life.
Who has his thumb on Governor
Bushnell? is a question that is worry
ing the minds of two prominent
Ohioans just now. President-elect
McKinley thought he had, so selected
Senator Sherman for his secretary of
state, expecting of course, that Bush
nell would heed his command and ap
point Mark Hanna for senator. - But
Senator Foraker claims to have his
thumb pressed down pretty hard on
the governor, and having no particular
love for Hanna, objects to him for a
companion.. If wicked Foraker shall
insist, Bushnell will probably yield,
and McKinley will be deprived of a
leader in the senate from his own
state.
The time is fast approaching
when campaign pledges will be
received with a very great depree
of suspicion. Voters of Oragon
have had a little experience that has
skaken their faith in promises made by
candidates for office. Every one of the
thirty state senators pledged himself
to practice strict economy if elected,
but, the first thing that was done after
the senate-organized was to appoint 67
clerks, when 10 would have been
thousands under any circumstances,
Twenty-seven of these were chief
clerks, drawing: $5 a day, wbilithe,
Other forty rnyprl 3. Tha-dark
jT5TThe senate was $255 a day, or
$7,425 for the thirty-three days they
were employed. - :.
The other night in St. Louis a man
took a horse away from some boys
that were sleigh-riding, took it home
and kMled it for food, and when ar
rested the man said his wife and child
had had no food for days. That was
in very rich St. Louis. If it was not
a call to the national government, to
the state governments, the municipal
governments, and even the govern
ments of the counties for a ckser
walk with the common people, for the
opening of opportunities for the com
mon people to work, why, then we do
not know what presentation could be
made that would arrest the lunacy that
is driving this country into the hands
of a few capitalists and making the
masses of the people slaves.
When once a man becomes a feeder
at the public orib it is apparently im
possible for him to let go. Office hold
ing is a pleasant occupation, to long
as there is a good salary attached, and
none know this better that our own
Dinger. On the 4th of March he will
lose his job as congressman from the
first Oregon district, but he bobbs up
serenely as a candidate for a position
in the general land office at Washing
ton. He wants to be commissioner,
and has a fair chance to get the ap
pointment. Outside of the fact that
Hermann has always been an office
holder, there could possibly be no ob
jection to his becoming commissioner
of tbe general land office, but it does
seem that he has had a soft place about
long enough.
A brilliant complexion is a beauty In It
self. It pleases theyes of thoughtlesi
?eople and the minds of thinking: people,
hey know that a really good complexica
is a sign of health, and created Dy JNaiur-;.
There are different ways of imitating; a fine
complexion : cosmetics, which deceive to
body, but ruin the skin and make the user
look silly and prematurely old ; stimulants
which only give a temporary flush ; danger
ous drugs which drive pimply disorders
from the lace back into the blood. All
these "counterfeit" complexions art un
safe and easily detected. But the per nine,
tmmistakeable, much -admired color and
clearness of health can only be obtained
by clearing: all bilious matters and humors
out of the blood.
The first sten towards creatine a (rood
complexion by Nature's own method is to
g-et the blood clear, and the circulation free
and active. There is no comolexioo so sal
low, muddy or pimply but it will be cleared
and brightened by Dr. ' Pierce Golden
Medical Discovery. It ia the best natural
complexion-maker on earth. - It sends the
fresh o-low of real health to the cheeks by
thoroughly clearing all bilious and eruptive
humors out of the blood. It strengthens
the digestion and regulates the bowels in
a mild, natural way. - It gives brighter color
to the blood, ana not only beautifies the
complexion but makes the eyes brighter
and the breath sweeter.
If the bowels be very much constipated,
it will be advisable to take small doses of
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, conjointly
with the use of the " Golden Medical Dis
toranr''' One or two each dar iust suf
ficient to get their laxative and alterative,
or blood cleansing, effect will be sufficient
IS COMPLETE
Annexation of Crete to Greece
Practically Accomplished.
BOLIVIA VERSUS PERU
The Mercurial South Amerian Re
public Preparing for a Brush
With Her Sister Country.
Dnestroir Is flanged at Union, Bio. Sir.
Chandler Sa roan tic Woman Suffrage
la Kannst Not Accmpllnhed- Pencil
Pushers In Convention.
Athens, Feb. 16. Copyrighted,
1SS7, by the Associated Press.) It is
generally believed here that the Cre
tan feature of the Eastern question is
now a thing of the past, and the land
ing of tho Greek troops at Crete is not
likely to turn out a casus belli bet ween
Turkey and Greece.
The absolute decision of Greece to
persist in the occupation of Crete and
protection of Christians on that island,
in spite of the attitude of the powers,
is founded on the declaration of the
Cretans that they are prepared to shed
tho last drop of their blood in order to
attain their national aspirations, to
which they add that they will not be
satisfied with anything short of an ab
solute union with Greece. These cir
cumstances were communicated by
Greece to the powers and the policy of
the Greek government has been carried
out in every point. -'
An order of the minister of war, M.
Smolenitz, has been gazetted, appoint
ing Colonel Vassos, aide-de-camp to
King George, commander of tbe Greek
army corps landed yesterday at Platon
ica, a short distance from Canea. After
explaining that the action of Greece is
duo to the fact that she is unablo to
any longer countenance the "lament
able situation of the Christians in
Crete, to whom we are united by the
sacred ties of religion," the order pro
ceeds: "The government consequently has
decided to occupy the island in the
name of King George and raise his
flag over the fortresses of which you
will take possession. All your actions
shall be accomplished in conformity
with Greek laws,' in the name of King
George and on the responsibility of
this government. So soon as you have
landed you will publish a proclamation
announcing the occupation of the
island by Greek troops:"
This has been done, . by Colonel
Vassos calling upon the Turks to sur
render. The reservists, who have
been called to colors, are rapidly reg
istering at the different military cen
ters. It is hoped, however, that the
most serious difficulty to be anticipated
is the possible severance of diplomatic
relations between Greece and Turkey.
BOLIVIA WILL, declare was.
Government is Actively Preparing to
Fight Peru.
New York, Feb. 16. A Herald dis
patch from Panama says:
A letter received by an official hero
from La Paz, Bolivia, - states that the
Bolivian congress will deciare war
upon Peru. Tho letter also states that
there is great activity in military
circles, the army is being placed on a
war footing, and recruiting has been
begun throughout the republic.
The general staff is studying the to
pography of the Peruvian provinces of
Area nlnn.. Pimn and Mpfl'V" ,
Bhas puEilsh'e
me XU
lyian press has pu
ed docu- I
ments to plainly show tbat
this terri-
tory is a part of Bolivia.
Tbe Bolivian government has with
drawn its diplomatic representatives
from Asuncsion, Paraguay, and the
latter nation refuses to send a minister
to Sucre. This further tends to delsy
a solution of the boundary dispute be
tween these counties.
ATONED FOB HIS CBIME.
Duestrow. tho Mi II loo a Ire Murderer,
Banged at Union, Mo.
: Union, Mo., Feb. 16. Dr. Arthur
Duestrow, the St. Louis millionaire,
who on February 13, 1894, shot and
killed his wife and eh I'd in a fit of
drunken rage, in that city, was hanged
in the courtyard of the county jail here,
at 12:59 p. M. today.
The condemned man marched to the
gallows without a tremor or a shade of
fear -passinfi: over his face. On tbe
scaffold he said he was General Bran
denburg, not Duestrow, ang that be
did not kill Mrs. Duestrow, and was
dying illegally. He died of strangula
tion, 20 minutes after the drop fell.
A few hours previous to the execu
tion Duestrow threw off the mask of
insanity aud, sobbing like a woman,
admitted tbat he murdered his wife
and obild. He soon recovered from
his temoorarv fit of weakness, . how
ever, and thereafter preserved a calm
and unruffled front to the end.
8TKEL TRADE IS IMPBOVINU.
The Collapse of the Trust lias Proved
BeneOchU.
St. Louis, Feb. 17. The collapse of
the steel trust and the consequent de.
cline in the prices of steel rails to $17
per ton has already begun to exert a
stimulating influence on tbe iron and
steel industry. Tbe St. Louis agents
of the Carnegie Company and the II
1 noU Steel Company are keeping the
wires hot closing deals. Top Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad Company
heads the list with an order for 10,000
tans of steel rails, placed with the Car
negie company, This means 100 miles
of new track somewhere betweej) here
and Galveston, and steady employment
for hundreds of men for months to
come.
Tbe Frisco also availed itself of the
tempting ooportunity afforded by the
prevailing low price of steel rails, and
placed an order with the Illinois Steel
Company for 8000 tons. - The Missouri
Pacific fell into line with an order for
6000 tons and news comes from Texas
that E. H. R. Green, of the Texas Mid
land, has just closed a deal for 20,000
tons.
CCLMLNATION OF A BOHAKCK.
Miss Katheryn Wright to Marry Mr Ed-
nnnd Lechmere.
Pittsburg, Pa., Fab. 17. E. Pay-
ton Wright, an attorney of Pittsburg,
will play a prominent part in the
swellest wedding Of the year in Lon
don, for which place he left tODight. He
wil' give away his sister. Miss Kath
eryn Wright, to Sir Edmund Lechmere,
Bart., and deputy lieutenant of Wor
cestershire. Miss Wright is 22 years
of age, and was the reigning belle of
London last season.
The marriage is the outcome of a
real romantic love atlair. In the fall
of 1895, while Miss Wright was visit
ing one of Sir Edmund's castles in
Warwickshire, tbe castle iook fire and
she was hemmed in .by. flames in one
window,' Sir Edmund saw her danger,
wrapped himself in a sheet soaked in
water, dashed in, picked up the insen
sible beauty, wrapped her in cloth and
ran through the flumes to safety. Sir
Edmund's hair and eyelashes were
burned so that ho was quito bald, and
bis sight was threatened. Since tbo
rescue he has been a constant attend
ant of Miss Wright, and the match is
the talk of London.
THK POKTK . OIVES VP.
The
Pacification of Crete Is Left to the
Powers.
Constantinople, Feb. 17 The
council of ministers, as a result of the
all-day session yesterday, has decided
to leave tho pacification of Crete to
the powors. Tbo council also decided
to send Karathadori Pasha to Crete as
imperial high commissioner to adept
military measures on the Greek fron
tier, as previously intimated, to ap
point Marshal Edham Pasha, who di
rected operations against the insur
gents of Zeitoun in 1890, to command
the Turkish troops at El Assoda, and
call out. the first reserves of the third
army corps, now, at Salonlca. These
measures, however, are for purely de
fensive purposes in order to enable the
Turkish government to be prepared for
all eventualities. '
The sultan has informed tbe ambas.
sadors of tho powers that in view of
the aggressive attitude of Greece he
has boon obliged to adopt measures re
quired by th6 situation. The sultan
took occasion to .express his satisfac
tion at the landing of detachments of
marines at Canea.
Chandler Sarcastic
Washington, Feb. 16 Senator
Chandler's speech in the senate today
in advocacy of bimetalism was one of
the notable efforts of the present ses
sion, not only for the care with which
the senator presented the question
from his standpoint, but for the bitter
sarcasm addressed to Senator Palmer
and the Indianapolis convention, tbe
arraignment of silver republicans who
bolted the St. Louis convention, and
for the dramatic personal exchange
betwaen Chandler and Fettigrew, the
latter being one of the bolters from
the St. Louis convention. Chandler's
speech lasted three hours, and was re
plete with incident. It was an argu
ment against a single standard of
either metal, gold or silver, and a
warning against a policy of monomet
alism.
Will Probably be Settled
New York, Feb. 17. A dispatch to
the Herald from Valparaiso says:
The boundary dispute between this
country and Argentina relating to the
line of demarcation over the Andes,
has reached an important point. For
the first time since the discussion of
the question began, it looks as if both
sides were willing to yield and leave
the decision totally to the arbiter
chosen. . The arbiter is Queen Vie
torla. It is hoped that where commis
sioners and sub-commissioners have
failed to agree as to the boundary line,
she will find a basis of amicable settle
ment. Editors In Convention.
Galveston, Tex., Feb. 16 The 12th
annual convention of the National Ed
itorial Association opened auspiciously
today with several hundred delegates
present, who were royally welcomed.
The first session was called to order by
R. H. Thomas, of Mechanicsbury, Pa.,
the retiring president. .The visitors
were welcomed by. Mayor Ely for the
city. President Courts, of the chamber
of commerce, for tbe commercial inter
ests, and F. B. Balloo. .or'CieuuracT
pp. .r,
replies to the various addresses
Woman Suffrage Dead In Kansas.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 16. The lower
house of the legislature has killed the
bill giving women the right to vote for
presidential 'electors. The measure
was drawn by the officers of the State
Suffrage Association, and there ha
been a lobby working for it since the
convening of the legislature. The
measure was reported adversely by the
committee on elections and the house
refused to give it place on the calender
for discussion.
Forfeited Bis Bond.
Baltimore, Feb. 17. General Car
los Roloff, of the Cuban junta, failed
to appear this morning and plead guilty
to an indictment In the United States
circuit court, charging him with fitting
out a filibustering expedition to Cuba.
His bond for $2500 was declared for
feited. He is now liable .to arrest
wherever found. His colleague, Dr.
Jose J. Luis, pleaded not guilty, and
was released on 12500 bail for trial.
- Hanna Ha Decided
Cleveland, O., Feb. 18. It is defi
nitely settled Hanna will not go into
McKinley 'a cablpet. Hannaannounced
this morning that he Is determined to
remain in Ohio. He will contest the
legislature next winter for a full term
in the United States senate. In fact,
Hanna 6 supporters nave already or
ganized his campaign. Hope that
Governor Bushnell may appoint Hanna
to fill the unexpired term of Shermaq
has practically been abandoned.
Kyle Was Kleeted.
Pierre, S. D., Feb. 18. On the
senatorial ballot today, the republicans
in the house voted almost solidly for
Kyle. The republicans of the senate
began at once to change to Kyle Be
fore the result was announced enough
changes had been made to give Kyle
03 votes, three more than were nec
essary, vyiia tne solid republican
vote and a few populists who stayed by
him, Kyle secured enough votes to pulj
him through J ' .
Beck Drooped Dead.
Gol d end ale, Wash., Feb. 16 F.
Castile, a stockman, stabbed John
Beck a Cleveland, this morning, in an
altercation at a masquerade ball. Beck
dropped dead. Castle surrendered to
the sheriff today, and claims the act
was committed in self-defense.
Weyler Greeted JoyoaslFs
Havana, Feb. 17. Captain-General
Weyler was received at Santl Spiritus
today with enthusiasm. The local au
thorities aod an immense crowd gath
ered to acclaim his arrival with shouts
of joy. Almost all of tbe houses in tho
town were decorated In honor of the
event."
Short lii Ills Accounts.
Sax Francisco, Feb. 17. Inspector
Munro, of the postoffice department,
received a telegram today from Inspec
tor Gordon, who ia now in Eugene,
Or., that Postmaster T. J. Craig, of
that place, is $2000 short in his ac
counts, and tbat Craig admitted bis
guilt when arrested
Wilson Accepts It
Washington, Feb. 18. Postmaster
General Wilson this afternoon an
nounced that be had accepted the pres
idency of tbe Washington & Lee uni
versity, at Lexington, Va.
A TALE OF CRUELTY
Spaniards at Their Old Tricks
in Pinar del Rio.
WILL GIVE UP CRETE
The Porte is Willing to Let it Fall
Into the Hands of the
Creeks.
Railroads Placing- Large Orders for Balls
Since the Trust Collapsed An Amei
ttan Ulrl Captures an English
Lord.
Cincinnati, Feb. i:. A special to
the Commercial-Tribune from Havana
says:
A band of Spanish gueirillas, com
manded by Major Taso, of General
Perez' army, in Pinar del J.o pro.
yince, is reported to have capiu.-.-d the
heights of Montevari, north of Taso
Real de Stiago, putting over J00 pris
oners to the sword. The heights were
partially fortllied, and a number of
Cuban families were there,1 the Insur
gents numbering about 200. Taso had
the aid of a deserter from the camp,
and, making a night attack, surprised
the place, and, after three hours' hard
fighting, captured it. bout 100 insur
gents escaped, but the others and
many women and children were cap
tured. Drawing the prisoners up in a
line, tbe Spanish troops shot them
down in cold blood, and then put to
death the children, reserving the wo
men and men for the soldiers. The
bodies were thrown down the heights,
completely choking up a small gorge.
An imperative order for reinforce
ments was received here today from
General Weyler. It is reported that
Gomez has outwitted the Spanish com
mander, and that his plana have mis
carried, much to his chagrin.
CUBANS IS FULL BKTKEAT.
Gomez Recede ttefore Weyler Continued
Advance.
Havana, via Key West, Feb. 18.
(Copyright, 1897, by Associated Press.)
If official reports are correct, the in
surgent army under General Gomez
has been divided into small corps and
Gonfez himself is in full retreat before
the continued advance of Weyler. Dis
patches from Ciego de Aviel say the
insurgent commander-in-chief with
4000 men recrossed the military lice
in tbo province of Puerto Principe, at
tending from Jucaro to Monon, and is
going eastward through Puerto Prin
cipe in the direction of the capital of
the province.
General Calixto de Garcia, Gomez'
second in command, was reported four
day, ago in the vicinity of Puerto
Principe, retreating towards tbe same
point a9 Gomez. Weyler arrived yes
terday at Sancti Spiritus, the most im
portant town in tbe eastern part of the
province of Santa Clara, near the
boundary of Puerto Principe, In the
territory where the insurgent head
quarters were recently located. -Weyler
will push forward to Moron, Ciego
de Aviel and Jucaro, thus seemingly
sweeping across the island with a large
force, and driving the enemy before
him. He expects to entrap Gomez be
tween two wings of the Spanish column
and force a decisive engagement before
the rains put an end to tbe military
operations
The Cubans believe, how-
ever, that Gomez will, atr
usual, slip
i"0-tpletely enveloped.
AFFAIRS IN VENEZUELA
President Crespo's Forthaoanlag Message,
to Congress.
New York, Feb. 18. A Herald dis
patch from Caracas says:
It Is said that the hiessage of Presi
dent Creapo will treat the Guiana ques
tion in an exhaustive manner. Tbe
president will warmly recommend to
the attention of congress the Anglo
Venezuelan treaty, which- he will say
Is the best, and in fact the only solu
tion of the long-pending boundary dis
pute with Great Britain, President
Creapo will declare that he loaves the
treaty In the bands of congress, firm in
the belief tbat hia legislative body
will receive it with due consideration
and will judge it in a way to reflect
honor upon the republic. '
The message will also state that the
attitude of the government in relation
to the elections will be strictly neutral.
The only action which tbe administra
tion will take will bo -the direction of
the preservation of peace of Venezuela.
It is probable that the message will be
read on the 23d or 24th of ibis month.
Senators and deputies are already
gathering here and discussion of tbe
important issues wbioh will come be
lore congress wnen it convene is ex
ceedingly lively. The Anglo-Venezue
lan treaty naturally overshadows every
other question, and upon this argu
ments, turn.
. CKA1U UNDER ARREST. '
Condition of
the Kntrene
Aeeoanta.
.Postmaster's I
Eugene, Or., Feb. 18. United
States Postal Inspector J: C. F. Gor
don, of San Francisco, arrived ia Eu
gene yesterday to examine into the af
fairs of tbe postofflee here. After work
lng yesterday and last nignt, it was as
certained tbat there is a shortage in
tbe accounts of Postmaster Craig, and
this morning be was removed from of
fice and W. V. Henderson installed as
postmaster.
Craig is now in custody of the United
States court, with bonds fixed at 14000,
which ho has not yet been able to
raise. The arrest was made today by
Inspector J. C. F, Gordon, who was
deputized by the court for this purpose
after a preliminary examination before
Commissioner J. J. Walton, with
United States Attorney D. B. Murphy
as prosecutor. Complaint was made
by Inspector Gordon, on three counts.
each for embezzlement. The case will
come before the United States grand
jury in Portland in May.
Tbeembezzelments with which Craig
is charged have been going on since
last October, and amount in all to
S2035. Tbe first the authorities knew
of anything being wrong was when his
quarterly report was sent in Jatuary.
Uraig stated, on demand of the in
spector, tbat he bad been encumbered
with debts dating, back . to the days
when he wa9 In business with E. R.
Luckey, who disappeared, a defaulter.
several years ago, and these creditors
were pressing him so hard he resorted
to this means of liquidating. The In
spector does not believe this.
Cadet Mast 8tT at Home.
Washington. Feb. 18. The senate
committee on military affairs today
took adverse action on the proposition
to bring the cadets from West Point
to the inauguration. Senators Bate,
Ci)-Jkrcll. Mitchell of Wiscoi.eln a-.d
Walthall voted against tbe rneasute.
Hawley, Proctor and Shoup voted for
it. Palmer did not vot. ;.
Moved to Ieeiare Heats Vacant.
Salem, Feb. 18. In the Benson bouse
today Crawford ibtniduced a resolution
declaring vacant th seats of those
members who have not qualified thus
preventing the enactment of certain
eislation. After some discussion
the resolution was laid aside Until
afternoon. The house then adjourned.
King U orjre to Take Command
Paris, Feb." 18. A dispatch from
Athena says King George is to take
command In person of the ' northern
army. He is reported to have rmld he
preferred to die in battle than to tw an
exiled king, which, would be his fate if
he did net take the lead in the present
crisia. )
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