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SATURDAY... FEBRUARY 27, 1897
MCKINLETS DIFFICULTIES
The lot of the president-elect is any
thing but enviable, and if there is a
spark of human sympathy in the breast
of any individual it will be extended
, to the man who will take his seat as
' president, of the United States on the
'4th of next month. Major McKinley
will take the presidential chair worse
; handicapped than any other president
who has been inaugurated, because
greater things have been promised of
I his administration than of any of his
j predecessors, and still he will be more
""hampered in bis action than have
j ; been any of the other presidents. First
of all, he will be expected to convene
I congress in extraordinary session for
the purpose of revising the tariff and
me money sysieoi, uiu uu win euvuuu-
ter extreme difficulty to find data on
which to base his proclamation con
vening congress to tinker with the
tariff, unless he deserts his former
ideas.
His favorite theory of political econ
omy has ever been that the source of
prosperity is the home market for home
products, coupled with an increased
foreign market stimulated by recipro'
al provisions, also the shutting out of
foreign competition. But whenj he
comes to look at recent reports of the
secretary of the treasury and thorough
ly investigate the figures, he will find
that the home market is pretty well
protected under the existing laws, and
that there is a steady decline in im-
ports, while our exports show an in
crease. Low as the import record was
Nfor last year, it is growing lower this
wear. At the port of New York alone,
""4he imports for January fell off at the
rate of aoout $4,000,000 a week as com
pared with those of last year.
On the other hand, he will find that
jchile the imports decreased last year
the exports steadily increased, and
that the foreign trade of the country
was many millions more in 1896 than
in 1895, notwithstanding the fact that
we had no reciprocal agreements.
In view of these facts it would seem
that the well-known laws of supply and
demand have taken an active part, and
have exploded a number of the major's
protection theories. More than this,
the records of imports show that a pro
hibitive tariff is not necessary to pro
tect the home market and is only use
ful to fill the pockets of the favored
classes. To make this emphatic the
( iron and steel manufacturers have
V gone and reduced the price of their
product and are selling both at home
I and abroad, showing that they are
, able to compete with the mauufactur-
ers of the world, tariff or no tariff.
!; Then if the major urges his high
tariff theory as a revenue measure, the
decreasing revenues under the 1S90
law will down his argument, for that
law was a decided failure as a revenue
measure. All these combined circum- j
stances leaves the Ohio major standing
on rather slippery ground. He i
practically reduced to the plain state-
numt that he is forced to convene con-
gress for the purpose of increasing
taxes that will produce more revenue
"In order to fulfill tha pledges of his
party, and this increase of taxation
y , must fall upon the patriotic consumers
f who accepted the collar prepared by
j Mark Hanna for them to wear.
f How much more enviable would be
the lot of the president-elect if he could
in his proclamation convening con-
gresss make the plain statement, that
the nation was in need of more revenue,
in account of the extravagance prac
tised by congress, and recommending
a tax on wealth instead of increased
L burdens on poverty. McKinley's dif
ficulties are many. They wer not
culiarly strong traits of character, un
til the time was propitious, until man
hood asserted itself, and the patriots
of America declared that all men were
a 'eated equal, and that they would no
longer submio to the tyranny of the
British crown. Then George Wash
ington arose before the world in the
grandeur of his nature as a leader of
men, as a self-sacrificing spirit, ready
to lav fortune, home, family, life at
the altar of the country that gave
him birth. Then the sterling qualities
of the ' father of his country" became
prominent.
Eight years of war ensued, in which
Washington was the central figure.
He was the leader of armies, the coun
selor of patriots. He was the one who
led men to victory, who taught them
to profit by the victories they won
When peace was declared and he was
proffered a crown, to be made king of
a new nation, he spurned the offer, for
the voke of a monarchy was
what the patriot had battled to
overthrow. Then ii was when Wash
ington rose in all the glory of his na
ture capable of winning indenend-
ence, and at the fame time capable of
sacrificing personal ambition and self-
aggrandisement that the generations
might profit by the independence and
freedom that had been won, that a na
tion should be born where all its sub
jects should be equal.
Brave patriotic, grand George Wash
ington! To him we owe the freedom
we now enjoy, and it is just that he is
remembered as the father of his coun
try, and that we with 65,000,000 other
American freemen can say, "George
Washington, first in .war, first in
peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen."
lessened oy tne ante-eiecuon promises,
nor will they be lessened by the
present circumstances.
ABSENT YET PRESENT.
Senator Brownell is not a second
Tom Reed as a presiding officer over a
v oeuoerauve Douy; dui ne can give tne
I brainy speaker of the national house
I pointers never yet learned by him con
oerning parliamentary law. Reed
Trrtcn established a rule, and it was a
ra .good one too, that a man could no.
bffl present and be recorded a absent.
BAownell has reversed the order, and
taousnea a ruie mat a man may oe
sent, still be recorded as present. At
e of the meetings of the so-called
.tint convention in Salem, Vaughn
Vid Hudson wrote to the speaker tell-
Jig him they were detained on account
V sickness, and asked to be excused
A-ownell said "if there were no objec-
vn, Vaughn and Hudson would be re
cOT'ded" as present," and they were
to recorded.
was a most unusual occurence that
;o men couia oe counted present
en they were away, sick and in bed,
ut this has been a very unusual ses
sion, and has done many unusual
things. However, if thi9 sort of pro-
edings were recognized by the
iT national l-gislature it would be most
'convenient for members, who find it
! nece8sary to return to their respective
' states during sessions to look after re
. election. For instance, our own sena-
tor," Hon. John H. Mitchell, could have
written to the president of the senate,
notifying him that he wa9 unavoidably
Vtetained at Salem, and could have re
quested some friend to have recorded
iis vote in all matters of importance.
6 would be most convenient under
such circumstances to be thus omni-
present both absent and present at
the same time.
THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY.
In an humble Virginia home 1C5
years ago a child was born of unpre
tentious parents, common people, for
then all but those who had the "blue
I blood" of kings, lords and dukes cours-
I. - . . 11 4 Ci,.m J
Mn3P tneil veics ncro wicu (.uiuujui:.
In those days the divine right of kings
.... T ,-. thitnimlini.t fliA
WAS fltlli l etup iilCli Ulii UUIIVUU VilVJ
L world, and rulers were Porn tnrougn
chance, not made by individual effort.
But a new era was to dawn uponChris-
andom, and on Feb. 22, 1.32, an infant
fyr&a born whom destiny decreed was to
create anew epocu, uum m
dained should become the leader of
men. who should establish the great-
t Principles of democracy that man is a
T.r r- 1 1 1,1.
spuvereirn witnin uimscn, .a.p..
1 governing his temporal affairs,
f And this child grew into manhood
Is other youths do, displaying no pe-
SOME EXPLANATION REEDED
Since the war against Mitchell has
become a sort of chesnut and its efforts
in this direction can have little more
effect, it might be well for the Oregon
ian to explain to its readers why it is
that prosperity has not returned as a
result of the election of Major McKin
ley to the presidency.. Just prior to
the November election, according to
the Oregonian, prosperity was right at
hand, millions of capital were ready,
even anxious, to invest in enterprises
that would give employment to hun
dreds of thousands of laborers, make a
home market for everything produced
on' the farm and in the mills, but
was prevented through a- lack of
"confidence" through fear that
Bryan would be elected and the money
debased. All that was necessary to
entice those millions into the channels
of trade and set the whnols of com
merce and manufacture moving, was
the assurance that the gold standard,
the beautiful gold standard, that sys
tem of money that would make our
dollar worth a dollar anywhere in the
world, should be maintained.
Tho very thing that was needed to
create prosperity materialized. Mc
Kinley was elected and with him a
gilt-edged congress. Confidence was
restored. But the wheels of commerce
stubbornly refuse to rovolye. The
fires in the factories have not been
kindled. The doors of the great ware
houses for gold open to receive but not
to invest in enterprise. The laborer
is without woric. Hunger, want,
misery exist in every locality where
the unemployed are numerous. These
are deplorable conditions, but they
actually exist. Still their existence
cannot be attributed to any threat of
changing our financial system or to a
threat to reduce the tariff, for we have
a president elected who is wedded by
the declarations of his party platform
to maintain the present gold standard
and increase the tariff duties on lines
of protection and revenue. He is
backed by a congress also pledged to
these principles. Then why is it the
promised prosperity has not corn's?
Why is it that capital, which was
scared into hiding by the threat of
opening the mints to the free coinage
of silver, is not investing in enterprise
instead of flowing into the already
congested money marts?
THE LIMIT OF PROTECTION.
WERE THEY HONEST?
The members of the Benson house
have posed for some time as the only
honest legislators, the only ones whose
acts were consistent with their pledges,
the only legally-organized house, the
only ones who are Ebowing a willing
ness to legislato for the state. But
have their act been consistent with
their pretensions? The legality of
their organization has been questioned
by the senate, the governor, secretary
of state and state printer, yet no effort
has been made by them to establish
their claim of regularity, and for this
there is no excuse. Abundant oppor
tunity has been offered within the
past month for them to have forced a
decision from the supreme court upon
the points for which they contend.
Had they courted a legal opinion on
the legality of " their organization.
abundant opportunity was offered.
They could have any day had one of
their members arrested and brought
into tho house, and habeas corpus pro
ceedings could have been instituted to
test if the house haa legal jurisdiction
over its members. A bill could have
been sent to the state printer, and pro
ceedings begun to force him to p-int
the same. Either of these acts would
readily have determined the constitu
tionality of the organization, and could
readily have been brought before the
supreme court. In the absence cf any
effort to get a decision from the courts
upon the regularity of their organiza
tion, wo conclude they have not been
altogether honest in their claims of
courting investigation and establish-
ug the fact that they and they alone
are those who compose the lower house
of the legislature.
As an unrelenting, foolhardy and
senseless fighter of an opponent tbe
Oregonian has few eqrals. By its
abuse of tbe opposition to Dolph two
years ago it .succeeded in defeating
him, and the course it has pursued in
opposing Mitchell has had the effect
to cement his forces and throw sympa
thy to him. Its last effort in this direc
tion is a letter published today, pur
porting to be from J. M. Hippie, of
Jefferson, O., stating that the writer is
a brother of Senator Mitchell, and
wants information as to the status of
the senatorial contest In this snide
effort the Oregonian parades a circum
stance that will never be forgotten,
that Senator Mitchell's real name was
Hippie, though it has long since been
worn threadbare, and cuts no figure in
the present controversy.
"All that is necessary to create pros
perity is to restore confidence by the
election of McKinley," said the repub
lican press with one accord prior to
the November election. Almost four
months have elapsed since this "res
torer of confidence" was elected, and
where is that prosperity? Echo
answers, "where."
The great exponent of the principles
of protection, the Oregonian, which
has hell up the protective principle as
one cf the necessary adjuncts of pros
perity, has at last had the scales re
moved from its e es, and frankly ad
mits that protection to the agricul
tuialisr, who is the bone and sinew of
the country, the primary producer of
wealth, is a myth. This admission was
made in the following editorial which
appeared in the issue of Feb. 20, and
requires no comment.
"There are signs that the United
States is approaching, if it has not
actually reached, the absolute economic
limits of the application of the policy
of protection to most American in
dustries. Many of these, like the
steel industry, have reached a stage of
development where they can dispense
with protection: where, indeed, it is
ineffective, because tho pressure of
domestic competition has reduced price
below that for which the product can
be imported.
"This result always has been foreseen
by rational protectionists. Protection
has been urged by its wiser advocates
as a temporary expedieut only. A
time would come.it h as always been
held by those having faith in the re
sources of our country and the skill
and energy of our people, when pro
tection would be unnecessary indeed,
impracticable because we should pro
duce all articles of consumption for
which our soil and climate are fitted
more cheaply than tbey could be im
ported. No one expected that time to
come so soon as now seems probable;
indeed, it could not have come so soon
through the influence alone of pressure
of domestic competition upon price of
articles produced for the home market
alono. This influence has been rein
forced powerfully within the last ten
years, with increase or Tacilities oi
transit and communication among
nations, by pressure of world-wide
competition in production of articles
not susceptible to protection, because
we already produce a surplus for ex
port and prices are made in the world's
market. This presses down the price
of aU products for the home market by
limiting the ability of consumers to
pay for them. All our great industries
are in touch, and each reacts upon the
others. If prices and wages in some
are pressed down by world competition,
prices and wages in others must follow
by sympathetic reaction, in spite of
protection of these others from direct
competition.
"The great industries of this connty
always have been, and probably for
generations to come will be, agricul
tural. The most important articles of
our commerce, home and foreign, are
wheat and cotton, corn and cattle in
the form of meat, products of the toil,
and material for the food and clothing
of nations. These and others like
them we produce for export, and their
sale abroad extends our commerce and
increases our national wealth. These
industries are not susceptible of pro
tection. Duties upon them are
neither a help nor a burden, are
absolutely ineffective, because the
price of them at home and abroad is
made in tho markets of tho world.
Consequently producers of these ar
ricles, getting no benefit from protec
tion to themselves, have no compen
sation for tho tax they pay as consum
ers of articles made for the home
market alone, wbase price is enhanced
by protective duties.
"This did not matter so long as
prices of our agricultural products
were renumerative, even with waste
ful methods of production and an ex
travagant mode of living, and our ex
port trade was highly profitable. But
conditions have changed greatly in the
last ten years. The price of all these
articles has been pressed down by com
petition in the world's markets by
cheap land and labor in various parts
of tbe world, brought in touch with
ji,urope oy extension or steam com
munication on land and sea. All our
agricultural interests suffer under a
depression which exacts extreme
economy in production and living as
the alternative of ruin. Protection
cannot help these interests. They sell
to the world, and must take the
world's price. The only escape is to
produce and live more cheaply, so as to
maintain their industries at the re
duced price. Thatistosay, since tho
income of farmers has been reduced,
their outgo for freight, impliments,
lumber, food and clothing not yielded
by the farm, house furniture and all
articles of consumption must be re
duced in proportion.
"This makes the farmers of the
United States who produce for export,
consciously or unconsciously, the
enemies of the protective system, and
creates an economic pressure for re
duction of prices held up by tariff,
which cannot be resisted for long.
The agricultural interests see the
crisis dimly, and have been striving
to adjust themselves to it. First they
attack the railroads, the source of
their nearest and greatest expense in
marketing their products. The rail
roads are accused of taking all the
profit, and reduction of rates is de
manded. This must be conceded, as it
has been conceded in large measures
but the concession only removes the
pressure one step. The railroads can
no more bear all the loss than the farm,
ers. Tbey must and do demand com'
pensation from their employes, whose
wages they reduce, and from all of
whom they buy, from steel-rail mills
and locomotive and car works down
This brings the pressure .where the
farmer has already brought it, by his
simultaneous demand for cheaper
clothing, implements, furniture, etc.,
upon the protected industries of the
country, and they must yield in turn,
though the inevitable result will be
great reduction in the wages of labor.
The break in price of steel rails artd
tbe cut of wages in South Chicago is
typical of what must take place all aver
the country."
bugged? How long will they place ! spaedy decision from the supreme
laws upon the statute books that en- J court can be had upon the question
ablo the manufacturers to charge from
eight to eleven dollars per ton more
for steal rails, for instance, to the
American buyer than the same could
be laid down from a foreign market,
and at the same time tbe manufacturer
is underselling all competitors in the
markets of Japan and Mexico.
P. T. Burnum was authority for tho
statement that the American people
liked to bo humbugged, and noth
ing could more fully justify hU
assertion than the fact that they are
willing to turn over to the raulti mil
lionaires of the country tho tax making
power of the government.
WOOL AND THE PEOPLE.
The Philadelphia Ledger is of tha
opinion that the disagreement cf the
wool growers and the woolen manufac-
turers was a good tniug after all, a
provident disagreement,"' rs it terms
it. Tho disagreement certainly showed
the people how they were victimized
by the tariff robbers where they agreed
The Ledger says the schedule pre.
pared and presented by Judge Law
rence, president of the Wool Growers'
Association, would afford a much
higher measure of protection thau the
McKinlev tariff: t!;at in fact it is vir
tually prohibitory, and one that would
likely wreck any party which imposed
it. It goes on to say that even tho at
tempt under the McKinley tariff to
harmonize the wool and woolen sched
ules was unsatisfactory. "Indeed,"
declares the Ledger, "the excessive
McKinley duties upon wool and wool
ens were the chief cause of that popular
discontent which made itself manifest
at the poles in 1SS2 and swept out of
power the party that imposed them."
When the great political revolution of
that year was accomplished and a demo
cratic congress and executive sup
planted a republican congress execu
tive, Speaker Reed is stated to have
said: "It was the women who did it;
it was the women at the head of the
homes of the whole country, who,
going to the stores, were compelled to
pay McKinley's prices' for woolen
clothing of every sort, and for woolen
carpets, that did it. There was noth
ing made of wool, either wholly or
partly, which was not enormously en
hanced in price by the McKinley tariff,
and it was the women shoppers, who
are tbe buyers for the households, who
sent their husbands to the polls to rote
for the party that pledged itself to re
vise the tariff which was taxing so
heavily the necessities of living."
AU that is indisputable, but the
Ledger made a rather strange admis
sion, one that gives the whole question
of tariff legislation for the purpose of
protection away. It says:
"It is not altogether regretable that
the woolgrowers and the woolen manu
facturers have been able to agree upon
a common schedule of duties. Had
they done so, the ways and means com
mittee would not have been as it now is
free to frame a wool and woolen sched
ule which will be entirely acceptable
to tha country, instead of having one
forced upon it by those whose interests
conflict with those oi the country.'"
The New York Tribune, comment
ing upon the same subject, makes sub-
stantially tne same admission. It
says:
'The question at issue between wool
growers and manufacturers might
have been settled wisely by them.
Since they throw it back to be settled
by the committee, that body' will have
to gettlo it without regard to the
wishes of either interest, but solely
with respect to the welfare of the
countrv as a wholes"
Will Mr. Simon pursue a legitimate
course to establish his ruling, or wiil
he follow in the footsteps of Benson,
and neglect to take steps to substan
tiate his rulings through the medium
of the courts? Responsibility in this
matter has been shifted from Benson
to Simon, and the people of Oregon
await his action.
POSTAL TELEHRAPH.
There is no possibility of Congress
man Maguire's bill for creating a pes
al telegraph system becoming a law at
this session of congress, nevertheless
it possesses merit, and the time will
come when it will be enacted into a
law. The till provides for the estab
lishment and maintenance of a postal
telegraph system. A marked reduc
tion in telegraph rates is.contemplated
by the mc sure, which provides for the
transmission of message? any distance
at the rate cf ton cents fcrthe first ten
words or less, exclusive of the address
and signature. The proposed system
is to ho operated in connection with
the pestoffiee and ucdtr the' direction
of tho postmaster-general, who shall
cause to be issued pcstal telegraph
cards of the denomination of ten
fifteen and twenty cents. These cards
may be deposited in any letter
box, the same as mail matter. The
bill further provides that the money
order system cow in operation shall
as soon as practicable, be adapted to
the postal telegraph, and that tho
charge for transmitting money orders
within the United States, wherever
money-order offices aro established
shall be the rates cow charged upon
money orders transmitted bv mail, in
addition to the regular charge for pos
tal telegrams. This measure, it is safe
to assert, will meet with the combined
opposition of the telegraph monopo1
lies, and no effort will be spared to
bring about its defeat.
THE SAFE BLOWN OPEN
Postoffiee at Mount Angel
Entered by Burglars.
RIVERS ON THE RISE
High Water Causes Heavy Damage
to Property In Kentucky.
Flood la Pennsylvania Freight Handlers
Strike -Shot by an Officers --lilj;
Failure in Virginia Hnnjr Him
self in the Sell.
EDITORIAL NOIES
At last Governor Bunnell has had to
give in to the demands of McKinley
to make Mark Hanna U. S. senator,
Now what will Foraker doV .
McKINLEY TARIFF METHODS.
The tariff-hearings that have been
conducted by the congressional ways
and means committee are on the same
basis as tho system that made McKin
ley's fame. It is a simple method and
one that demonstrates how thorough
ly the wealth of the country dominates
all legislation. Tho coal barons are
called in to fix the coal schedule; the
iron and steel men to say how much
protection thy demand, and so on
through the entire list of the articles
that are to go in the Dingley bill.
This method is beautiful in its sim
plicity and, of course, can not but be
highly beneficial to the workingmen.
For nothing can be more easily de
monstrated than that Messrs. Carnegie,
Reckefeller, Hanna, et al., after being
able to set their own price on the
goods they manufacture will call in the
laborers and raise their wages. This
is human nature and these gentlemen
have the characteristic highly devel
oped. How long will the people be hum-
SPARRIAG FOE FOISTS.
- On January 11th there was opened
at Salem one of the most gigantic
sparring matches ever witnessed in the
United States, and tbe end itt not yet.
The principals in the ring were John
H. Mitchell and Joe bimon, and time
alone will tell who scored tbe most
points, for no referee can at thi3 date
determine who is entitled to the
championship belt. Each of the
worthy pugilists has scored some de
cided points, but neither can say that
he is the absolute boss of the re
publican party in Oregon, the goal for
which each was contending.
Simon has defeated Mitchell and
prevented his re-election as United
States senator, but in return Jiitchrll
nas oeen able to prevent tbe organi
zation of the legislature or lines ac
ceptable to Simon for a period cf forty
days and has left that gentleman in
charge cf the slate house, but without a
very heavy following. Still the vital
question of who is boss has not been
determined. However, while these
worthies have been fighting over the
bone, it appears to a casual observer
that another element has stepped in
and got away with tbe meat, or at
least will get awav with it when the
next state election shall occur. Be
tween Mitchell and Simon, the rupub
lican party in Oregon has been
wrecked. While they were contending
for the honor of being boss some his
tory has been manufactured, and tbe
last chapter cf that history will be
written in June, 1S9S, when the people
of the state will sit as a jury to decide
if the stewardship of the republican
party, led by bossism, has been good.
The verdict will be "nit."
WHAT WILL SIMON DO:
The legislative problem has become
a sort of chestnut, and no doubt tho
reading public is tired of hearing the
subject mentioned, for it has been the
theme of comment in the Oregon press
for the past -10 days, still it is such a
muddle that we may be pardoned for
referring to it once more. As the
situation now stands nobody knowe for
a certainty whether we have had a
session of the legislature or whether it
still exists, though it now devolves
rupon Mr. Simon, president of the sen
ate, to get a decision of the courts, as
to whether tbe senate has adjourned,
or whether it is still in session. This
becomes an imperative duty upon
Mr. Simon, and it devolves upon him
to get an early decision in the matter.
Even if tbe house could be organized
now it would be useless if the senate
has really adjourned, for it could not
proceed with business any more than
the senate could while the house was
unorganized.
Abundant opportunity is offered Mr.
Simon for making a test of his ruling
that the resolution adopted by a major
ity of the senate to adjourn without
date was unconstitutional. There are
a number of senators who will refuse to
again enter the senate until a decision
from the courts is had or they are con
vened in extra session by a proclama
tion from the governor. Now let Mr.
Simon order one of these senators ar
rested and brought before the bar of
tbe senate to show cause why he should
absent himself therefrom. In this
manner the matter can at once be
brought before the circuit court, and a '
A defective sidewalk cost the city of
Spokane $10,500. Here is an object
lesson by which The Dalles may well
profit. It is better co pay monev for
good sidewalks than for broken limbs.
Theater goers of The Dalles are all
delighted to know that the Hext Con
cert Company has made a date here,
and tnat on March . 1, they will oe
favored with an opportunity to hear
these great artists.
It is estimated that tbe total appro
priations of the present congress will
be considerably more than $1,000,-
000,000, and will overtop the greatest
expenditures of auy previous congress
by $30,000,000 to $-10,000,000. This ex
plains the howl for more revenue prior
to the last election. The bigger the
appropriations the more excuse for
laying heavy taxes for the benefit cf
the favored bounty grabbers.
A company has, been incorporated
at Union for the purpose of establish
ing a woolen mill at that place. This
paper would be pleased to chronicle a
like occurence in The Dalles. The
first thing we know all the golden op.
portunities for making Tho Dalles a
great manufacturing city will slip by,
as one by one . the enterprises that
should come here are being located in
other places.
Mitchell took his wing of tbe legis
lature to Portland, and will throw the
blame of no session upoii Simon. In
return Simon held his forces in the
capitol, anil will endeavor to show that
Mitchell is the primary cause of ob
struction on account of calling off his
minions after the forty days of wrangl
ing. And still the drama of dog in the
manger goes on.
Thf opinion of the Globe-Democrat
is that the opponents of the arbitration
treaty are trying to delay its adoption,
so as to deprive Cleveland of its credit.
It says they ; would rather have the
credit of tbe adoption of tbe treaty go
to McKinley's administration than
they would to Cleveland's. Of course
the republicans would ordinarily have
no objection to anything which would
heighten the prestige cf an adminis
tration belonging to their own party.
A Salem press correspondent quotes
Senator Mitchell as saving that he
dose not care whether he is re-elected
or not. Either that correspondent is
an awful liar or Mr. Mitchell thinks
the people are all fools. Actions
speaks louder than words, and the
senator's acts for the last year indicate
that he is not only anxious but very
anxious to be returned to the senate.
If he had no care in this matter, he
would bo in Washington today attend
ing to his duties. .
If immigrants were taxed, labor, at
lastwould have some protection and
it would increase the revenue. Now
tho inconsistent policy is enforced of
taxing everything the laborer con
sumes, by placing heavy duties on the
product of labor, particularly those
products controlled by a trust, so that
the laborer must pay a high price for
tho necessities of life and accept a low
price for his labor, cr give away to the
even cheaper imported labor.
Woodbcrn", Or., Feb. 23. The post
office at Mount Angel was entered by
burglars last night. Entrance was ef
fected through a rear door, some time
during the latter part of the night.
Tho postoffiee safe was blown open and
about $100 in stamps and $ in money
takeu. After looting tho pcstollice,
the burglars tried to effect an entrance
to Barney Oswald's saloon, but were
frightened awav by a butcher, who
slept in hiishopin the adjoining build
ing. The burglars afterward tried to
break into the carhouse, for the pur
pose, it is supposed, of securing a hand
car on which to ride out of the county.
No clew has yet been obtained as to
their identity. Parties are scouring
the country looking for them.
rivers are on the rise.
High . Water Causes Heavy Vantage In
Ketitncky.
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 23. Streams
in Kentucky are out of their banks
and doiug unmeasurable damage. Four
men were drowned in Eastern Ken
tucky and one man in Butler. Much
stock has been lost, fencing swept
away and outhouses ruinel.
The greatest damage is feared in the
mountains. News comes from Prine
ville that two men, while crossing a
raging ttream, were drowned, and
also a revenue officer who was in the
mountains looking after moonshiners.
Names are not given. It is feared the
loss of life and property will be large.
In Perry, Knott, Letcher and Breat
hitt counties the flood is doing much
damage. Jameson, the county seat of
the latter county, is partly under
water. At Beattyville much valuable
property has been swept away. Among
the heaviest losers in tbe mountains
are the lumbermen, who have lost
thousands of dollars' worth of timber.
At Middleboro a cloudburst deluged
the locality. - James Charwell and
children while en route homo from a
neighbors in a wagon were caught in
the cloudburst and all drowned. At
Harrodsburg the water ran over the
bridge. M. E. Patterson aud wife at
tempted to cross. Mrs. Patterson was
carried away. Tbe woman caught a
tree half a mile down stream. 'Neigh
bors made a raft and reached her.
In this city the Kentucky river is
out of its banks aud higher than since
1893. The entire west end of the city
is inundated. All but two blocks cf
Prineville is covered, while a number
of little towns along the north fork of
the Kentucky river are under water.
Tbe people have been forced to seek
shelter in the mountains.
Reports from Jackson and other
places say there has been loss of life
and property. Mrs. Hutsell and little
daughter were drowned in their house,
which was washed fro a; the mountain
side in Breathitt county. Two" women
whose names could not be- learned
were drowned in one of the streams of
Bell county. ' .
WATERS ARE RECEDINO.
Done Its
- - Napoleon Bona
parte, one of the
most forceful men
in all history, a man
continually wrap
ped in schemes and
campaigns, in plots
.and counter - plots,
striving intently
and ambitiously for
success and power
a man whose utter
disregard for human
life made his battles
the bloodiest the
world has ever seen
this man found
bitterness in his tri
Juphs because he
Ad no heir to whom
to bequeath bis
greatness. Joseph
ine a s divorced
largely for this rea
son. Many women
are incapable of
bearing children.
Many more of them
are afflicted with
disorders of the organs directly feminine
so that bearing children would be danger
ous to them, and unfair to the children.
Every child deserves the heritage of
health. The children cannot receive this
from a sickly mother. There is no rea
son -why they should have such a thing
as " female weakness." It is as unneces
sary as it is distressing. Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription cures all forms of
distinctly feminine sickness. It purifies,
strengthens and invigorates. It is pre
pared for just this one purpose and no
other. It's the only medicine now before
the public for woman's peculiar ailments,
adapted to her delicate organization by
a regularly graduated physician, an ex
perienced and skilled specialist in these
maladies. It cannot do harm in any con
dition of the system. Its sales exceed
the combined sales of all other medicines
for women.
Every woman ought to send 21 one-cent stamps
to pay for mailing a free copy of Dr. Pierce's
(jiousana pan " uraicai Adviser, world s Ui
Aictucai.
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The Flood In Pennsylvania Has
tVorst.
Pittsburg, Feb, 24. The great
flood has done its worst, and tbe waters
are now receding. ' A cold wave broke
tho back of tbe flood. Reports from
all points between Pitsburg and the
headwaters indicate the danger has
passed. The river in this vicinity
reached a higher stage than at any
time since 1884. The Monongahela
registered 2 ieet b incnes. ana tne
Allegheny 30 feet 9 inches. At 10
o'clock this morning the water had
fallen a foot since midnight.
Hardly a point on the Monongahela
river from Fair mount to Pittsburg es
caped damaged. Mills built supposedly
out of harm's way' were submerged
Tbe damage is not less than $1,500,000
n tbe Monongahela valley.
From the headwaters of the Youg-
iogheny also came a torrent that
brought destruction to valuable prop
erty. The railroads were unable to
move trains. Trolley lines were badly
wrecked. Beneath several feet of de
bris there are millions of dollars worth
of valuable machinery. Poor people
who lived in small houses along the
river banks have been made utterly
homeless.
The admirals are about to issue a
proclamation in all the towns and vil
lages, explaining the reasou for the
presence of the foreign fleets in Cre
tan waters, and exhorting tranquility.
Tho population is so divided in invet
erate hatred that schemes for reform
are futile. The bast plan, it is argued,
is to permit the Greek troops to occupy
the country and escort the besieged
Mussulmans abroad, for tho Mussul
mans can not remain in Creto.
The suggestion of the consuls that a
foreign force be landed at Scliuo to
cover tho retreat of the beleagured
Mussulmans has not been adopted, the
available number of marines being in
sufficient. In view of the largo force
of insurgents, the admirals have de
cided to confine their action to the
dispatch of warships to Seliuo.
Attacks by insurgents continue i t
various points. Tho insurgents have
descended into the plains behind the
convent of Chrysophighi and set fire
to the Mussulman houses.
Desolated Ky Water.
Cincinnati, Feb. 24. The presence
of a destructive Hood is felt hero wry
preceptibly today. While estimates
heretofore limited the flood to 60 feet,
developments today niaka it appear
that figure will be exceeded. Incom
ing passengers on roads that use the
Grand Central depot were compelled
to debark at Eighth-street transfer de
pot. Up Mill Creek valley one of the sad
dest sights is the utter destruction of
vast i.reas of hotbeds, where innumer
able vegetable gardeners earn a living.
Every foot of the rise from now on
adds vastly to the discomfort and loss
that must ensue to families driven to
the upper stories or out of their bouses.
Commission Will Not Be Appointed.
Washington, Feb. 23. Members of
the house committee on Pacific rail
ways have practically decided to aban
don tho attempt to bring up in the
house' at this session the bill for tho
establishment of a commission to settle
tbe debts of the Pacific roads. When
the application was made to the com
mittee on rules for a day to consider
the bill, tbe committee wanted assur
ance that the opponents of the meas
ure in the senate would not make the
action of the house, if it passed a bill,
a waste of time, by filibustering against
the measure. No such assurances
could be given.
Leavenworth Soldiers' Homo.
Washington, Feb. 24. The report
of the house special committee ap
pointed to investigate the management
of the Leavenworth Soldiers' Home
has been completed. It recommends
the removal of the governor of the
home and a change of all the officers.
Other recommendations are that ail
branches of the home, valued at about
$5,000,000, be put directly under the
control of the secretary of war. The
post funds are recommended to be
placed under control of the ngovern-ment.
Shot by an Officer.
Fuesno, Cal., Feb. 23. Bill Den-
man, an all-around crooK, was snot
and killed here last night by Deputy
Sheriff Parker Timmins. Den man
was a member of a Kings county gang
of horse thieves, and was arrested for
horse-stealing on a warrant from that
county just before he was shot. On
the way to jail he broke away from the
sheriff, and while running was shot,
the ball from tho officer's pistol enter
ing the base of his skull. His death
was almost instantaneous.
YOGT OPERA HOUSE
Monday Evening! March 8, 1897
The Dalles Minstrel and Vaudeville (liipmy
70 Artists, "Nil."
Local Hits "Yes."
Everybody will be There !
You will be There, "Cert."
TICZIZ1T3,
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Kcervcd Seats at Snipe-Kincnily Drug Co.
RUFUS K. LOVE, Director-General.
Oood digestion wails on appetite and health on both" Shakespeare. '
But with a mouthful of decayed teeth and diseased gum, proper mas
tication and digestion are impossible. Call at once at
STURDEVANTS-
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At THE DALLES, OREGON.
And have your teeth put in proper condition. I have the finest and bent offlce tn the
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ishing rubber plates in the laboratory of some city dentist.
To those who need teeth extracted I can hay truthfully thnt I can remove them
as near painlessly as anyone. Teeth cannot be removed painlessly In ALL, cases,
and you should beware of anyone who promises to do it.
I am prepared to make artificial teeth upon Porcelain, Gold, Silver. Aluminum,
Watts Metal, Rubber or Celluloid. Plates made from in up. . Fit suarantced.
When in town set acquainted. It will pay you to consult me and get my prices.
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New Songs and Dances.
New Plays, New Scenery,
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IS flARRIAGE A FAILURE?
ADMISSION 50c CHILDREN, 25c
Reserved Seats on sale at the Snipes-Klnersly Drug Co.'s.
SANGU1LLY IS FREE
pctuary
I Association, Buffalo, N. y.
TO EE SETTLED IsY ARBITRATION
Chill-Argentina Dispute to be Peaceably
Adjusted.
New York, Feb. 24. A Herald dis
patch from Valparaiso says:
An important cabinet meeting was
held to consider the question of the
final disposition of the Peruvian prov-
inces of TacDa and Arica. Cheering
admissions have been made by tbe
government as to the progress of nego
tiations with Argentina looking to tbe
settlement of the boundary dispute
with that republic. It is stated that
the commissioners of Chile and Argcn
tina have arrived at a perfect under
standing as to the boundary line
through Atacaraa. This is highly im
portant, as tne line at this point was
the chief bone of contention, in volving
relations with Bolivia.
If this line should be determined by
arbitration, as now proposed, a signal
victory in 'the interests of peaceful re
lations with Argentina will have been
achieved.
FttiHllNG WITH FIRE.
Governor's Falace at Canea Burned bj
the Rebels.
Canea, Island of Crete, Feb. 24.
The governors palace, with all the
archives, was burned today. As fire
broke out elsewhere in the town at the
same time it is suspected incendiaries
have been at work. The situation is
most grave. Armed and excited Mus
sulmans are parading the streets full
of indignation at the news from Selino,
where the Mussulmans are besieged, j
Benghazi Arabs threatened to burn
the whole of Canea.
While the- palace was burning a
strong box containing 7000 in gold
fell into the ruins and broke open,
whereupon there was a wild rush by
Turkish soldiers and -.Mussulmans to
secure the treasure. The foreign ma
rines were obliged to fire blank cart
ridges to restrain them and for a . time
a serious conflict between the Turks
and Europeans was threatened.
Huns: Illmseif Li His Cell.
Baker City, Or., Fb. 23. Louis
Mansfield, who was confined in the
county jail awaiting the action of the f-
grand jury on a charge of robbery
committed suicide early this morning
by hanging himself with a scarf in his,
cell. His cellmato, who slept with
him, discovered his lifeless body at 7
o'clock this morning. He told his fellow-prisoner
a few days ago he would
rather die than go to the penitentiary.
Flood in Pennsy lvanto .
Pittsburg, Feb. 23. Continued
rains along the Monongahela river
promise to result in a flood here
greater than any since 1869. At noon
the marks showed 26 feet in the chan
nel and the water is rising nine inches
an hour. Old river men predict from
28 to 30 feet here by night. The low
lands of this city south of Pittsburg
and Allegheny arealreday under sev
eral feet of water and residents are
moving to higher ground.
Freight Handlers' Strike.
Ltjdington, Mich., Feb. 23. The
freight-handlers at Flint and Pero
Marquettee docks 9truck last night for
the restoration of their pay to 20 cents
an hour. Four steamers remained at
the dock until this morning, when the
force brought from Saginaw by a spe
cial train began discharging cargoes
under the protection of tho sheriff and
his deputies. The strikers number
400.
His Pardon Signed by the
Queen Regent of Spain.
ENGLAND ON REFORM
She Submits a Proposition For Set
tling' the Disturbances at
Crete.
A Receiver Appointed.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 23. Judge Mc-
Cormick in the United States court has
appointed a receiver for the Austin
Raoid Transit Railway Company, un.
der an action brought by the Interna'
tional Trust Company, of Boston,
which holds $343,000 of the company's
first mortgage bonds.
Senate Wauta Information.
Washington, Feb. 23. The senate
has agreed to a resolution by Mills of
Texas, requesting the president for in
formation relative to the arrest, im
prison men t and death of Dr. Ricardo
Ruiz, at Guanabacoa, Cuba, and all
correspondence with General Lee and
the Spanish authorities.
Work, Not Charity, la Wanted.
St Paul, Minn., Feb. 24. There
was almost a riot at a mass meeting of
tbe unemployed last night. Tbe city
council recently appropriated $10,000
to use in relief work, and the meeting
was a protest at the way the sum is be
ing expended. Resolutions were
adopted declaring the unemployed
wanted work, not charity.
Failure in Virginia.
Bi.oomsburg, Va., Feb. 23. The
Magee carpet works, the Bloomsburg
caroet works and the Leader Stove
Company, virtually one concern, have
failed. Liabilities, $100,000; assets not
given.
Voters are Apathetic.
Tacoma, Feb. 23. Great apathy ex
ists regarding tho spring city election.
With but 20 days yet to register, only
1100 voters have attended to that pre
liminary. Over 8000 names were on
the list last year.
A Dynamite Explosion.
Paisley, Feb. 24. An explosion of
nitroglycerine has taken place at
Noel's dynamite wonts, at Ayrshire.
Six persons were killed, and several
were injured. The concussion extin
guished the gas lamps at Kitwlnnicg,
three miles away.
Or. Price's Cream Baking; Powder
World's Fair Highest Award.
No Security For American Citizens In Cuba
at Present Tbelr Situation Is Most
CriticalWaters Subsided in
Ohio.
Washington, Feb. 25. Senator de
Lome the Spanish minister, tonight
received a cablegram from the Duke of
Tetuan stating that the queen has
sighed tbe pardon of Julio Sanguilly.
It is stated at tho legation that this
action-was agreed upon at a cabinet
meeting some days ago, but the an
nouncement was, according to diplo
matic usage, withheld until the queen
had formally signed it.
HER SCII3MK UK KCrOHM.
Hon England Would Administer Affairs
of Crete.
London, Feb. 25. In the house of
lords today the Marquis of Salisbury,
replying to a question from Lord Dun
raven, said that as the test means of
placing the bouse in possession of facts
of moment in regard to Crete, he would
read a telegram sentyesterday evening
to the British embassadors to the
courts of the great powers. It was as
follows:
"Inform the government at whldh
you are accredited that her majesty's
government proposes to make the fol
lowing declaration of policy which it
intends to pursue and which It believes
is in accord with views of its allies:
"First Establishment of an admin
istrative autonomy in Crete as a nec
essary condition for tho termination of
international occupation.
"Second That subject to the above
conditions Crete ought, in her judg
ment, to remain a portion of the Turk
ish empire.
"Third The Turks and
ity which were observed in the palace
have changed. Minister de Lome, al
ways accurate as a news gatherer, has
cabled the captain-general that Lee
will not be recalled and his resignation
is not accepted, and that he may bo
sustained. . ,
Hundreds of telegrams have poured
in on Consul-General Lee from all
quarters of the globe, congratulating
him on the stand he has taken, those
from the United States promising pa
triotic action in congress Even at
this critical moment, and with many
heivy cares and responsibilities which
the administration should share weigh
! ing upon him, General Lee views the
situation from a calm, dispasrlonate
standpoint, and be expresses tbe hepe
that the situation created by the mur
der of Ruix and his own determina
tion not to submit to another similar
atrocity should not be exploited by
particular advocates of any particular
policy toward the island of Cuba.
INFORMATION IS WANTED.
Resolutions Framed by ' the boas
Foreign Relations Committee.
Washington. Feb. 25. Tho house
committee on foreign affairs has
decided to report a resolution calling
on the president for all information
concerning the treatment of American '
prisoners in Cuba. Tbe committee
framed a substitute for tbe various res
olutions of inquiry before, it Chairman
Hitt expects to have it passed by the
house today. .
Tne resolution Is as follows: .
"Resolved, By the house of represen
tatives, that the president be requested
to transmit to the bouse of represen
tatives, if not incompatible with public
interest, all correspondence filed at the
state department not hitherto commu
nicated to congress in regard to the
imprisonment of American citizens by
Spanish officials in the island of Cuba.'
should be informed by tho powers of
this resolution.
Fourth If Turkey or Greece when
required persistently refuse to with
draw their military and naval forces
from the island, the powers should im
pose their decision by force upon tbe
state so refusing."
LIVES ARE 1H DANGER.
Twenty-Seven Were Present.
Salem, Or., Feb. 25. The Davis
houso met today, with 27 members
present, and Lee, Riddle and Kruse,
who were detained on account of sick,
ness, signified their willingness to go
into the organization so soon as cir
cumstance? would permit.
Iu the senate 13 answered to rollcall.
but enough others consented to attend
to make up a majority so soon as the
house can be organized. Both houses
Greeks I adjourned until tomoirow morning.
Position of Americans In Cuba at Present
is Host Critical.
New York, Feb. 25. A special to
the Herald from Havana, via Key West
sayt
Americans are flocking in from the
country. The position of our citizens
ii most critical. The rumor, whether
true or false, has gone abroad that the
American government would not in
terveno so long as the trade interests
of the country are not interfered with.
Uoless something firm and decided
and strongly American is done by our
government in Washington, Amer
icans are in danger of their lives.
The Murder of Ruiz and the demand
for the release of Scott are the sole
topics of converfation. The govern
ment and palace people here have tried
to change the subject of conversation
Prospects are brighter today for per
manent organization of the legislature
than at any time since the session be
gan, it is expected the bouse will be
ready to proceed with business next
Monday.
A Conference at Madrid.
Madrid, Feb. 25. Premier Senior
Canovos del Castillo; minister of for
eign affairs, the Duke of Tetuan, and
Minister of War, General Azcarraga,
haye had a long conference on the
case of Dr. Riocardo Ruiz, a citizen of
the United States, who diod recently
in prison near Havana. The semi
official Kpoca says the government is
prepared to make an inquiry into the
matter, and if Dr. Ruiz was ill treated
the guilty parties will be punished.
Will Gov. Lord call an extra session
of the legislature? is the question
now. Thera is little encouragement
for him to do so. It's indeed a silly
old cat that gets scratched by the
same kitten twice.
We are not very much posted on
scriptual matters, so will some one
kindly give us tbe corret quotation re-
by giving out news of an alleged skir- garding it being as hard for a poor
mish with Gomez, but the attempt was
a failure.
The amusement and the great hilar-
man to gee into a McKinley cabinet
as it is for a camel to pass through the
eye of a needle.