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8ATURDAY.
.MAY 22. 1897
- AGAINST ANNEXATION.
The Cubans, in their struggle
against the mother country, have re
ceived too recognition or assistance
from the United States government,
and now, thit their fight for Indepead-
, ence Is almost won, feel not inclined
to become a state or province of this
J country. Recently General Gomez
was interviewed by a New York
Journal correspondent with reference
to the probability of that country ask
ing to be annexed to the United States,
and gave the correspondent assurance
that nothing of the kind would be
asked. The Cubans recognize the fact
that if they are ever able to throw off
the Spanish yoke of tyranny it will be
by their own efforts. If they establish
their Independence, it will not be
" through the good offices or by the
intervention of this or any other gov
. eminent. Therefore, owing no other
couhtrv anv debt of gratitude, they
-will be free to establish an independ
"nt covernment. and become a. repub
lic free from the entanglements of any
other nation.
Had this sovernment, in the hour of
Cuba's need, shown a willingness to
extend that assistance it should extend
to any oppressed people struggling for
independence, the final outcome might
have been different. -TheCubans would
have had the friendliest feeling for
the American republic, and when once
r-nWnad from SDanish control, most
Hkfilv thev would have asked to be-
, come a part of the United States,
Thus wa would have sained a terri
tory that Is rich in , both soil and
climate, and oeoDled with a class who
would have become valuable citizens,
But all possibility of such an event is
past. When Cuba gains her independ'
ence she will set up a. government of
her own, so the people will have, bo
desire to be annexed to a nation that
has treated them so indifferently when
the kindlv intervention of a friend
was so much needed.
TWO OBJECT LESSONS.
Shortly before the November elec
tion the Waltham Watch Company
called its two thousand employes to
gether and showed an immense num
ber of orders received contingent upon
the election of McKinley. "If Mc
Kinley is elected," said the Waltham
' managers, these orders will be filled.
and that' means plenty of .work. If
Bavan is elected, the' orders will be
cancelled." This was an object lesson
which the laborers could easily under
stand, and like almost all others whose
living depended upon the Ability of
their employers to give them work,
; they voted for the man whose election
ras to make it certain that work
would be furnished them. -
Those orders may have been filled,
but evidently no new ones have came
t in, for a large, force of finishers in the
factory have been laid off indefinitely,
and the factory will be closed down in
short time awaiting- a revival of the
' demand for watched which will come
when prosperity is restored.
: This ia a second object lesson for
the employes, and one they will not
soon forget. Possibly they were short
sighted in not inquiring into bow long
orders would continue to be received
by the Wal$hams if Mr. McKinley was
elected, or how long the factory would
be closed if Mr. Bryan should succeed,
before they delivered their votes; bat
be that as it may, they have learned
that the advance agent of prosperity is
unable to bring the steady employ
ment, and when called upon to vote
again they will exercise their judg
ment as to whose success is most likely
to bring them, steady work, the candi
date who promises them scarce and
dear money, or the one who promises
them abundant and cheap money.
WHERE DEBT IS A BLESSING
The demands which the sultan will
make upon Greece as the price of
peace would everlastingly plunge that
little country into bankruptcy were
they permitted by the powers, and
were it not for the fact that Greece is
a' debtor nation, the sultan's averice
would no doubt be satisfied. But the
- great financiers of Europe hold large
securities in Greece, and they cannot
afford to allow the Turks to be awarded
such, indemnity as would make the
. payment of their securities impossible,
un tnia account tnov win inRisr. tnat
their respective powers protect their
award to Turkey.
While Greece will be ruined finan
cially after assuming her war debt,
buying peace with Turkey, and .meet
ing the demands of her European cred
itors, still she will be allowed a breath
ing spell for a time and a chance to
repay her obligations to foreign money
lenders by Installments. In her case
debt is a blessing, for without it there
would be no limit to the award Euro
pean "powers would allow Turkey to
exact. It would be such an amount
that she could never meet except by a
taxation that would depopllate the
country, for the rate of taxation would
necessarily be so high that none could
meet it, so migration would have been
the only possible relief the overbur
dened people could have Lad. For
once in the history of the world a debt
has been an advantage to a nation,
although it is generally conceded to be
a curse.
PURELY A LOCAL ISSUE.
Iron manufactures demanding that
iron ore be nut on the free list. Their
new senator, Mr. Penrose, has offered
an amendment to the Ding ley bill re
moving the duty on iron ore; and the
explanation of this extraordinary de
mand coming from a Pennsylvania
senator is that the iron and steel man
ufactures of that state require certain
ores for admixture which come from
West Indies and Europe, while their
competitors in the South and West have
all the grades of ores required for close
blending right at hand, therefore "with
iron ore on the dutiable list the Penn
sylvanians are placed at a disadvant
age, however they havo not asked that
manufactured iron and steel be placed
upon the free list, so that the consumer
can have the advantage of the markets
of the world.
A few years ago the woolen manu
facturers made a similar demand. They
wanted free wool, but protected wool
ens, because they required certain
foreign wools to mix with the domestic
product. To this, however, the wool
produces objected, and it will be the
same with the iron miners now. So it
Is. the more the . Drotective theory is
investigated the more we are convinced
that the statement of General Han
cock was true. The locality that is
benefited by protection extended to an
industry in which it is engaged, wants
that particular industry fostered at
the expense of all others. The pro
ducer of wool cares not whether the
iron miner is protected, and vice versa
Protection can never be adjusted equit
ably or satisfactorily to all. It is de
cidedly a local issue, and never can be
made more just than by adopting the old
democratic principle of a tariff for rev
enue, so adjusted as to be of the great
est benefit to the greatest number,
TWO LOST CITIES.
If some of the divines of Portland
and Chicago are to be believed (and
we should not discredit the state
ments of preachers) those cities are on
the high road to destruction, and es
pecially Portland is in an almost
hopeless condition. Rev. Dr. Locke
stigmatizes the present municipal ad
ministration as the "reign of devils,"
though he is encouraged with the be
lief that righteousness will yet pre
vail, and that the vultures who now
pi ey upon the people may some day be
driven from the city as were the money
lenders from the synagogue in Jerusa
lem. In a sermon delivered in Port
land last Sunday he drew this rather
uncomplimentary picture of affairs in
Oregon's metropolis:
In pointing out the evils which
abound in this community mine ia not
the wail of the lachrymose pessimist,
who believes that everything is going
speedily to ruin. Though it is true
that the frightful corruption of our
municipal government is scarcely
duplicated in another city of this
country; and thoutrh it is commonly
conceded that some of our officers are
either too cowardlv to do their duty, or
are in criminal complicity with gambl
ing and the social evil, and the liquor
traffic, and 'many of our citizens - for
selfish motives are silent when they
ought to speak in terrific tones of pro
test and rebuke. I have never for one
moment believed that we would not
some day, as a city rise in our might
and drive-out this army of vacillating
officials. This board of law breakers,
and highway-robbers, and all those
voracious vultures who feed upon the
virtue and purity of our youth! - But
how long will we have to endure this
mien rf daills. ifila Mrnivfl.1 of vIca!"
And Elev. Qeorge R. Wallace, who
devoted several years of his life to
trying to reform Portlani, but becom
ing discouraged, turned his attention
to Chicago, where he is now engaged
in pointing put to the people the er
ror of their ways and warning them of
the sins that beset them on every side,
a short time ago in a sermon on the
subject, "Is Chicago a lost City?"
among other things said: ' .
"Chicago is a center of intense and
rapidly developing life. The 'era of
infamy' that exists is only temporary,
Bank failures, fraud, retrogression in
municipal administration, the attack
upon the civil service system, the out
rageous prostitution of political power
to political partisanship, evidenced in
the threatened removal of Mark Craw
ford from the superintendency of the
bridewell these are dark and swift
steps backward, but- they are only
temporary retrogressions in the city's
upward march."
wnile ha speaks a little more en
couragingly of the future in store for
Chicago than does Dr. Locke regard
ing Portland's possibilities, still it is
not a hopeful outlook for either of the
cities, and portrays a fate for "both
little more severe than that which
befell Sodom and Gomorrah.
A PERNICIOUS SYSTEM.
Notwithstanding the great states
man James G. Blaine was the father of
reciprocity in the United States, and
for this reason alone it was accepted
by many, who never investigated its
workings, as a correct theory, calcu
lated to directly benefit producers all
over the land in creating additional
markets for their products, still when
it is fully inyestigated it is found to bo
the most abomniable system that was
ever attached to our principle of pro
tection. Under its workings, trusts
are fostered and flourish, and it is only
in rare instances that the producer has
widened his markets. The workings
of reciprocity are well shown in the
following from the Oregonian, wherein
its effect upon the sugar business is so
plainly illustrated that anyone can
understand:
"The Hawaiian treaty does not bene
fit consumers, because the refining of
sugar is controlled by a trust. The
Havemeyer refineries East and the
Sprockets refineries West have divided
territory. The Havemeyers do not
come west of the Missouri river, and
the Spreckels do not go east of it. The
Havemeyers make a price in the East
based upon the cost of raw sugar,
which pavs duty. The Spreckels make
Vila MIUH WW w 1. w ' www, ' - - -
cent per pound added for transoo'jtj.
nental freights. So consumer here
pay the same price for sur ar they
would pay if it paid duty. Planters in
the islands and refiners in San Fran
cisco divide the amount of the duty be
tween them, it is a pure bonus to
these two combinations, more or less
common, of a few rich men. Now the
bonus amounts to about $5,000,000 per
year. Under the Dingley bill this will
be nearly doubled.
"Since consumers do not benefit by
this treaty, even revenue-reformers
think the treasury may as well get the
duty, especially at a time when it is
necessary to put a tax on consumption
to prevent a revenue deficiency. It is
absurd to give rich planters and re
finers a bonus of $3,000,000 to $10,000,
000 per year when it is necessary to put
a tariff on tea and to increase the tax
on beer to pay the expenses of running
the government.
"This is not the only reason for op
posing the treaty. Protectionists as
well as revenue-reformers desire its
abrogation, except those to whom it is
a source of private profit. The Ding
ley bill will protect the beet-eugar and
beet-root industry everywhere in this
country except on this coast. Here
the competition of coolie-grown cane
sugar, Imported from the Hawaiian
islands free of duty, will blast the
beet-sugar industry in the bud, and
give the market from the Pacific ocean
to the Missouri river to the Hawaiian
planters and San Francisco refiners,
with a bounty over the profits of Cuban
growers and Eastern refiners of If
cents per pound.
"The Hawaiian treaty is a private
snap. It is against public policy,
against the interest of the govern'
ment, contrary to the welfare qf th
people as both consumers and pro
ducers. It cost the government rev
enue. It gives a bounty to foreigners
and rich relatives at the cost of con
sumers, and closes the market to those
who would diversify farming by grow
Ing sugar beets,
.What is true of the Hawaiian recip
rocity treaty Is true of every other re-
ciproelty treaty. "" Every article ad
mitted under reciprocal arrangements
is given to the oonsumer at exactly
the same price as if it paid a duty,
The only person deriving any benefit
18 the importer or the foreiern oroducer.
The government is derived pf revenue,
although the consumer pays the duty
idirectly to the importer, who is the
only one enriched. -
The wail that went up for protection
to American labor before the Novem
ber election was a myth, a delusion. It
was used to delude the laborer and se
cure his vote for a policy that exempts
the wealth of the country from taxa
tion and puts the burden of govern
ment upon consumption. But now
those who were so solicitous for the
welfare of the laborer are cutting down
wages, closing factories, declaring that
we must come to a standard of Euro
pean and Asiatic wages before we can
prosper. Elkins has the honesty to
speak the truth, but Mark Hanna has
not, though he is cutting down the
wages of all the employes in his coal
mines.
of the American colonies in 1776, and
if the United States will not help the
patriots of that island, he would have
individuals do it.
THE PORIP
GIVES IN
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
At last the bimetallic commission
has sailed for Europe, and it rnav
truthfully said that the greateit
of the age has begun its first '
The tariff bill will be br
the senate next Mond' ouffbt UD in
discussion, but wher , y for e"eral
acted upon remal- " " wl11 be finallv
The case p
argued bf'
on prl
-is an unknown date,
. Hon. W. H. Corbett was
iore the senate committpn
ileges and election by Col. C. E.
ood last Tuesdar. nilfc fl. ronn-f
. ill not be made by the committee un
til next week.
TOO MUCH LAW.
WORK OF TWO MEDDLERS.
. When General Hancock was a candi
date for the presidency in 1880, he
truthfully, said that the tariff was a
local issue. This idea was hooted at
by his opponents, and none were loud
er in their protestations, that protec
tion to all American industries was a
cardinal principle of true patriotism,
than the iron manufactures of the great
state-of Pennsylvania. They were en
gaged then in an industry that profited
by the levying of high duties upon
Iron, both manufactured and in ore,
and it was to their interest to con
vince the entire voting public that
"protection to all. American indus
tries" was the thing to be most desired.
It was necessary to wealth and pros
perity; was necessary to the general
welfare of the nation, and especially
necessard as a means- for producing
revenue.
But circumstances have somewhat
changed, and we now find those same
The Oregon delegation in Wash
ington have encountered . many ob
stacles in their endeavor to secure an
order permitting stock to range on the
Cascade timber reserve, there being an
influence to overcome that was not ap
parent to the casual observer, since it
was not an open opposition, but they
are about to secceed, and they have at
last located the opposition. It came
from a man in Portland and another
at Hod River, who haye been writing
letters to the department, showing
that the ranging of stock on th6 re
serve was doing very great damage to
the forests. Neither of these men re
present as much taxable property as a
good sized band of sheep; one of them
has no interests whatever in the re
serve except that it affords him a
pleasant place to spend the summer
fishing, climbing mountains, hunting
and possibly setting out forest fires for
the pleasure of seeinz them burn.
while the other has a semblance of in
terest because he entertains a few
people in the mountains during the
summer months. Still these men have
had the ear pf the department, and by
their misrepresentations have caused
the flockmasters of Eastern Oregon
untold annoyance and expense. ; But
they are known now and their meddle
someness will have little effect in the
future.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections have taken up the case
of Mr. Corbett, appointed U. S. sen
ator by Governor Lord, and will dis
pose of it in a few days. Indications
now are that he will not be seated,
in which event the governor will
likely call an extra session. Should
this occur Yr. Mitchell will have the
best of the contest for the reason that
he will have the support of the ad
ministration. And this will be a pow
erful influence since President Mc
Kinley has determined to not fill any
of the federal offices in Oregon cntil
after a senator is elected, consequently
legislators who are opposed to Mit
chell will vote for' him in order to
get their friends into office.
Carter Harrison, the lately elected
mayor of Chicago, attributes his sue
cess to the general desire of the peo
ple for a greater degree of personal
liberty.
This feeling among the people for
greater freedom is not confined to
Chicago, but is as wide spread as the
republic. Citizens everywhere in
every community are growing restive
under the restraints of law. Nor are
those who complain of the law's inter
ference classed among the criminals.
Legislation in restraint of personal
liberty has been carried to excess both
in state and municipal government,
Good government is not as certainly
secured by tying the people up under
annoying enactments, as by impress
ing upon citizens a knowledge and feel
ing of individual responsibility.:
There are upon the statute) books of
every state law not ia harmony with
the spirits of the constitutions of either
the state or general government, but
have their sources in the bigotry,
narrowness and prejudice of legisla
tors.
Such laws are in contravention of
the public good. They interrupt har
mony between citizens, interdict the
pursuit of happiness and are in con
flict with the prevalent and -growing
idea of responsibility .to society and
the government.
subjects are legislated upon either
in obedienca to the commands of sel
fishness or biggotry, narrowing the
limits of personal freedom, to such an
--i me Doay oi citizens are
feeling themselves pursued by law
making bodies as criminals and out
laws.
If good results are expected, the
best attainable by man, intellectually,
morrally and physically, he must be
given the broadest freedom consistent
with the good of society. If the
country is to progress, deyelgp to the
utmost of man's oapaoity, he" must be
untrammeled by law interfering with
individual liberty and personal force.
Union Scout.
ELKINS TELLS THE TRUTH.
Senator Elkins was interviewed the
other day in Cincinnati by the En
quirer. Said he:
Wages must go down."
''Wage earners do not see it or be-
lieye it, but it is so."
Wages in America stand against
any revival of business."
And there you-haye it.
inewnoie oi the republican cam-
naip-n is emhranAdV.ln KAnntip Ellrina'
words.
The great fight was made for no other
purpose, for no other result, although
the truth was not told then as it is
now.
Republican orators who promised
prosperity now talk . like Senator
Elklcs.
Republican magazines are attempt
ing to impress the people with the fact
that these are normal times.
Coiis P. Huntington says prosperity
will come when America makes use of
tbe.cheap labor of Asia. '
And there are American Mtizens
who swallow every utterance of these
men and parrot like argue for them.
President McKinley made a miatkA
in recommending the removal of
American citizens from Cuba. Wm.
ler is the fellow who ought iO be re
moved. He is causing a whole lot
more trouble on the island than all the
American citizens.
It is stated that 700 Spanish armv
officers have died duriner the last vear
from wounds or diseases, a majority of
them in Cuba. Their deaths.
are not nearly so much regretted as
he suffering they caused others dur
ing their services in the Spanish army.
In the senate yesterday the entire
time was taken up in the discussion of
Morgan's resolution to recoa-nize the
belligerency of Cuba, but the opposi
tion to the resolution succeeded in pre
venting a vote being taken by adjourn
ing to next Monday.
The mayoralty of Greater New York
will be no sinecure. That official who
ia - 1 1 . 1 . , I- .
- iu uc eieu.eu me nrsi oi next year
will have the pleasure of dispensing
patronage amounting to $70,000,000 a
year. Jew kings have greater power
in distributing out office than will this
mayor.
A company has been formed in
Maine to make silk from spruce trees.
Now if our woods are to furnish -the
people with fine clothes as well as
houses, it is about time we are adopt
ing an export duty on lumber to pre
vent its going abroad, instead of en
couraging the destruction of the forest
by laying a duty on timber imports.
The papers that are now asserting
that prosperty cannot be restored until
the Dingley bill becomes a law, should
explain why, prior to the November
election, they promised that universal
prosperity would begin the day after,
the election, if Mr. McKinley should
be elected, and that prosperity would
be supreme so soon as. he, took Itis seat
as president.
At last President McKinley has de
fined his position toward Cuba. It is
to assist all - American citizens off the
Island, and then let the Cubans work
out their own salvation, gain their in
dependence if they can. This probably
is diplomacy, but it does not meet the
demands of the people at large nor is
it a fulfillment of the declarations of
the platform on which he was elected.
The Philadelphia Ledger confidently
remarks that "we will not purchase
Cuba." No indeed. We are not in a
purchasing mood right now. The ad
vance agent of prosperity having
failed to keep all his promises, we are
not yet supplied with the necessary
lucre with which to buy, and are in a
poor condition to enter into speculation..
The two great needs of the nation
today are more reven lie or more econ
omy in public expenditures. Since we
aro not likely to get the latter, the
former must be forthcoming, and wb-'
not a part of it come from a duty
sugar throrgh revoking the on
reciprovliy treaty? So lou?1 vaiian
is adutv on sucar the nr' . as there
sumer will remaiq tb' to the con
we have recipro' 8ame whether
Hawaii or cot- a' relations with
which thoc wh7 not the duty
swelling' -usumer li.ns to pay go to
of HO "h0 nation's revonues instead
-uginto the importer's pockets?
Ex-Postmastor-General Wanamaker
is dissatisfied with the republican
party and claims that the low state of
political management was brought
about by unscrupulous bosses. He
wants, therefore, to find anew party.
Well if Mr. Wanamaker is really ear
nest in his aesire to organize a new
party he can find company with Gen
eral Coxey, who has alienated him
self from the populists " and Grover
Cleveland, who is in dipfavor with the
democrats and has no party at present
with which ho can affiliate. Wana
maker, Coxey and Cleveland would
form a combination that ought to lead
any party to defeat, though they wo aid
make daisy leaders.
The report of the commissioner of
pensions for the year ending June 30,
189G, shows that there were paid out
for pensions during the year, $139,2S0,
075, and there were 970.524 pensioners
on the list. Now the N. Y. World
figures that according to mortuary
tables the last of these pensioners will
die in 1945, eighty years after the close
of the civil war. Since 18S1 the gov
ernment has paid out $1,997,515,154 for
pensions, and if the World's estimates
are correct will have paid out nearly a
billion more before the last survivor
of the war shall die. This array of
figures should cause people who talk
about future wars to count the cost for
pensions before plunging the country
into another turmoil.
Easter1
a Situation Undergoes
a Sudden Change.
GOOD FOR SHEEPMEN
District Attorney Murphy Instructed
to Suspend Proceedings Against
Alleged Trespassers
Timber Reserve.
on
Spanish Authorities In Baram Tamper
With Foreign Mail -Consul Genera!
Lee Mends a Slurp Piotest to
General Weyler.
Teacher's associations in Minnesota
are asking for the passage of a state
law providing for the payment of pen
sions to teachers who have taught in
the " public schools twenty- five years
continuously the fund for the pay
ment to be raised by a tax of 1 per cent
on their salaries.''. There is nothing
wrong in this izles, since we have be
come so liberal in the matter of pen
sions. The teacher who has wielded
the rod for a quarter of a century in
the public schools has rendered as
great a service as the soldier who
served four years putting down the re
bellion. Besides the burden of pen
sioning the teachers will not fall upon
the people at large, but will be born
by the teachers themselves. By all
means let Minnesota pass the law.
BK8TIKG ON ARMS.
Seventeen
for Troops In
Dys Respite
. Thessaly.
Athens, May 20. An armistice be
tween the Turkish a'od Greek troops
in Thessalv,' to Vxtend 17 days, : was
formally concluded today.
Constantejople, May 20. An
armistice was formrlly concluded to
day for seven days between the Turk
ish and Greek troops on the frontier
of Epirus. ' '
Constantinople,- May 20. Al
though it is not definitely decided, it is
thought peace negotiations will be
conducted between Turkey and Greece
direct, ana afterward, following the
precedent or the treaty of San Stefano,
the treaty will be admitted to
European conference, probably to be
held at Paris.'
Constantinople, May 18. There
was a sudden and unexpected change
in the political situation shortly before
noon today. Russia quietly showed
her hand, thereby forcing Germany
and Turkey out of the game, to all in
tents and purposes.
Li&ei night and early this morning
Turkey, supported by Gcmany, was
practically defying Russia, France.
Austria, Great Britain aud Italy, in
sisting upon the annexation of Tbes
saly, in addition to a huge war in
demnity, and seemingly was deter
mined to march upon Athens.
The ministers received official ad
vices from Sofia today, announcing
that orders had been issued for
partial mobilization of the Bulgarian
army, possibly at the instigation of
Russia. There was a hurried consulta
tion oi the ministers. The war party
was for further defiance, but in the end
pacinc counsels seemed to have pre
vailed, for at 11:30 orders were tele
graphed to Edhem Pasha to cease hos
tilities. Peace negotiations will now
be undertaken in real earnest, and the
Greeks will most likely be spared fur
ther humiliation.
PARTIAL VICTOR'S. FOB SHEEPMEN.
The Cascade Reserve Casts Will Not 1)
froseeuted.
Washington, May 18. Following
the recommendation of Commissioner
Hermann, of the general land office,
the attorney-general has instructed
the United States district attorney for
Oregon to suspend for the present the
legal proceedings pendiug in that dis
trict growing out of the sheep pastur
ing within the' limits of the Cascade
range forest reserve.
The commissioner of the land office
has submitted to tbo secretary of the
interior an elaborate statement show
ing the facts regarding the Cascade
forest reserve in Oregon, reciting its
history from its inception to the pres
ent, and the legislation in congress as
to all forest reserves. In this state
ment the commissioner recommends
that the former order of the depart
ment forbidding pasturing on the re
serve be revoked entirely, or so modi
fied as to permit pasturing under
regulations to be prescribed by the department.
ARMY 18 IN RETREAT.
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NOVEL IMSrRUCTrON TO A jcttr.
Interest rates are dropping in the
East, which shows that confidence is
restored, and at the same time shows
that prosperity is not yet tapped. For
when times are good interest is high,
because morjey is in demand far trans
acting business. At present all that
it is needed for is to Ltow away in
vaults, and if these times keep on
much longer even bankers will get
too poor to.loan their money.
The porte has replied officially to the
powers, and declines, to agree to armis
tice with Greece except on the follow
ing conditions; The annexation of
Thessaly; anindemnity of 10,000, and
the abolition of capitulations. These
terms are distasteful to the powers,
but as none of them feel disposed to
enter Into a war with Turkey, they
likely will be granted.
At a conference of the .state com
mittees of the silver republicans,
populists and democrats, held at Den
Moines, Iowa, last week, it was decided
to hold three conventions in that city
on June 23d, to nominate a joint state
ticket. That is eminently proper,
and such actiou should be taken every
where. Unless this is done in Oregon
in 1898, the republicans will again
sweep the state.
Richard Olney, Cleveland's attorney-
general and secretary of state, would
pose as the national democrat's candi
date for president in 1900. Let him
haye the pleasure if there be pleasure
in it, for the candidate of that party
will be nothing more than a candidate.
He can never expect to be president
or even get more than a quarter of ft
million votes for that office.
The robbery of the grave of W S.
Ladd of the remains of the dead mil
lionaire was no doubt actuated by a
hope of receiving a reward for tiie re
turn of the body, but it is to be hoped
that the' heirs of Mr. Ladd's estate
will not offer any reward, that they
will refuse to thus be blackmailed,
though that they will offer a liberal
reward for the arrest and conviction
of the ghouls. By so doing they will
aid the authorities in ridding the state
of a most detestible class of individuals.
The most interesting campaign In the
country this year will be waged in Ohio,
where the fight will be between Mark
and John R. McLean for Uhited
States senator. Hanna will directly
represent the national administration,
and his success or defeat will be an in
dex of how Mr. Mc Kin ley's administra
tion is received among the people of
bis own state. The legislative election
will be conducted exclusively on
national issues, and will be a battle
royal between the administration and
the opposition..
Senator Mason, of Illinois, is truly a
patriot. He declares that some Amer
ican should rise up and do - for Cuba
what Lafayette did - for the American
colouies in their struggle for inde
pendence. He considers the cause of
Cuba just as deserving as was the cause I
Rt. Lol Jadee Wants, .to Be Tried Kor
Drunkenness
St. Louis, May 20. A Republic
special from Chattanooga says:
Judge Estill, of the circuit court,
created a sensation when court con'
vened in regular" session by summon
ing Foreman Morgan, of the grand
jury, and instructing him in open
court to find an indictment against
him (Estill), for. drunkenness. Judge
Estill said: . .
. "Mr. Foreman. T undnrntftnd that
you have in your possession informal
tion that the judge of this court was
intoxicated at the last term of court
If such is the fact it is your duty to in
dict the judge of this court for drunken
ness." ,
"I have heard it said," falteringly
replied the foreman, "that you were
drunk at that time. I did not know
we had a right to indict the court."
"I charge you," said the judge, in
commanding voice, "to bring an in
dictment against the court the same as
any individual for a like offense, and
order you to retire and investigate the
matter."
Judge Estill is one of the most promi-
nent jurists in Tennessee. This is an
outcome of the war waged by Estill on
certain members of the county cou-t,
resulting in their indictment for
drunkenness.' The jury has not re
ported yet. ' V" ' "
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A 1 my ran and Domokos Were Kotn
doned by the Greeks.
Athens, May 18. A private tele
gram received this morning announces
that the Greeks haye abandoned Almy
ros, which has been occupied by luOO
Turks. . General Smolensk! is retreat
ing on Kephalosi.
it is reported tne tireek retreat on
Otbrey mountains was marked by great
confusion and disorder.
llolonels vassos and Llbricia will
start for the front today with the whole
garrison of Athens.
LAMiA.May 18. 7 A. m. The Greeks
have abandoned Domokos.
Athens, May 18. The Turks have
hoisted a white flag at Artafroin which
itis judged the Turkish commander
has received instructions that an arm
istice has been agreed upon.
POdTItFFICsS CENSOESHIP.
the affair of the United States, and not
that of Spain.
"This government expressly states
that only Americans are to be relieved,
therefore no authority is asked to feed
the subjects of Spain. If Americans
have suffered through exigencies of
war, it is their misfortune to be in
Cuba at this particular time. ' Spain
does not care if the United States
maitains her citizens in luxury, so long
as she distributes ber bounty tnrougn
the consular agents and only in the
towns."
Warships for Cuba Libre. .
Chicago, May 19. A special to the
Times-Herald from New York eays:
Behind the movement for the pas
sage of the Cuban resolution is a solemn
pledge made by the Cuban junta to its
supporters in congress that four effec
tive men-of-war flying the Cuban flag
are only awaiting this recognition to
take'to the seas. These vessels, it is
declared, will be obtained in England,
and it is asserted that arrangements
have already been perfected by which
they will be manned, thoroughly
equipped and be ready to sail the very
day the belligerency of the Cubans is
recognized. '
Atrocities In Ipiras.
Manchester, England, May 18.
The Guardian today publishes a dis
patch from its special correspondent
with the Greeks which says :
"The destitution of the Greeks in
Epirus ia appalling. Everything: they
had it the world has been burned or
pillaged. ' Scenes in their flight were
dreadful. Young girls flung them
selves from the roofs to escape outrage.
A boy who was captured by the Turks
had his lips, nose and ears cut off and j
his eyes torn out before he was killed."
WHITC CT A P TIATCTrT. I maiJe the 8tartling;discovery that flva
ifllllL) 1 LjAll IIUIJILI; ofthITan9caPture!i In battle from the
Greek and Turkish Armies
Resting" on Their Arms.
MAY HELP AMERICANS
Spain Does Not Object to America
Feeding Her Citizens Who Ar
ia Cuba.
Cuba Has Secured Three Warships That
Will Be Commissioned Whenever
Belligerency is Becogolxed br
the United HUtes.
Athens, May 19. A dispatch from
Lamia,dated at 10 o'clock this morning,
states that the white flag has' been
hoisted between the armies of Turkey
and Greece and Prince Constantino
has been ordered to suspend hostilities
with a view to concluding an armistice,
A panic prevails at Lamia, owing to
the report that criminals vlll be re
leased from jail. The arrival of troops
during the night increased the general
feeling of terror.
rbe army of the crown prince has
reformed on Otbry mountain, and will
be reinforced by General Smolenskl's
brigade and the troops dispatched to
the front from Athens yesterday. '
Starred Herself to Death.
Mall of Americans la Cuba Uriened by
Spanish.
New York, May 18. A special to
the lournal from Havana says:
The opening of private letters by
Weyler's postofflce employees has been
made the subject of energetic protests
by more than one local consul. The
representative of a leading South
American republic went personally to
the palace to complain that his mail,
both official and private, had been
tampered with, while Dr. Brunner, of
the United States marine hospital
service, detailed here as assistant sani
tary inspector, attached to the
American conBula'.e, received several
letters from this wife, the envelopes of
which had been clipped off at the
postofflce before delivery. They were
delivered open, no attempt whatever
having been made to conceal the fact
of violation.
Upon the doctor's complaint General
Lee sent a sharp note of protest to the
captain-general's office.
FJ8MT DAY AT DOMOKOS.
Account of the Battle From the Turkish
Standpoint
Domokos, May 19. Headquarters of
the Turkish Army. (Delayed in trans
mission) the great battle fought well
into the night is ended. The combat
can only be described as indecisive.
The battle raged from early morning
until long after dark. When the last
dropping shots were passing over the
field, the advantage did 'not appear to
rest with either side. .
The Greeks maintained their posi
tions, having acquitted themselves so
well as to have earned the hearty
praises of the Turks. They resisted
with stubborn endurance the attacks
of the Ottomans through the livelong
day, and still held their entrenchments
at nightfall. The Turks made a su
preme effort late this evening, but it
was met with the utmost bravery upon
the part of the Greeks, and failed.
SPAIN DOBS NOT OBJECT.
Oscar WUde Kelcaseds
London, May 19. Oscar Wilde, sen
tenced May 19, 1695, to two years' im
prisonment at hard labor, after having
been convicted of immoral psactices,
was released from, prison this morn
ing. Wilde, who seemed to be enjoy
ing robust health, goes to Paris im
mediately. He intends to return to
this city to engage in literary work.
He says he will write over his own
signature. . j
Losses by Flood.
St. Louis, May 19. A special to the
Republic from New Orleans says:
It is thought there will be no further
damage done by the overflow. The
losses in Louisiana are estimated at
91,750,000; in Mississippi, 88,500,000;
and in Arkansas, at $4,2a0,00O, or a
total of $14,500,000; not as serious a loss
as in many previous years of overflow,
when the river was not nearly as high
as it is now.
Killed by Cannibals.
San Francisco, May 19. The brig-
antine Gallilee, which arrived yester
day from Tahiti, brought confirmation
of the news that young Lichtenstein,
the wealthy Englishman, had been
killed by cannibals on the Santa Cruz
islands, which was brought by the of
ficers who received tne story from . a
vessel that touched at Papeete.
Internal Revenue Statement.
Washington, May 18. The month
ly statement of collections of internal
revenue shows the total receipts for
April to have been $11,364,539, a de
crease of $96,705 as compared with
April, 1S96. In the last 10 months the
receipts aggregated $122,350,404, an in
crease compared with the same period
for last year of $600,083.
Coattmakera Join the Strike.
Philadelphia, May 19. The coat-
makers' branch of the garment-work
ers' union to' the number of 260 joined
the garment-workers' strike for all in
crease of wages this morning.' It is
believed that unless the contractors
accede"to the demands there will be
from 7000 to 8000 garment-workers on
a stride by the end of the week.
Boston, May 20. Miss Fannie Rich
ardson, the. famous wealthy old maid
raiser hermit, starved herself to death
in her impenetrable castle here yeSter
day, while from $50,000 to $100,000 lay
there hoarded. She was 76 years of
age. For half a century no human
foot save her own had crossed her
threshhold, and she had not stepped
outdoqrs in all that time. She lived
in a miserable tenement-house in the
verv busiest section of the city. She
owned the house, and kept it looking
as if vacant all the time, all the blinds
being closed and the doors locked.
A Sooth Dakota Twister.
Omaha, Neb., May 20. A special to
theBee from Howard, S. D., says a
cyclone passed over the northern Dart
of Miner county last night. The
greatest damage was done at Carthage,
Pat ton and Jackson's elevator. The
Northwestern depot and several
smaller buildings were destroyed. No
lives were lost so far as known. ' The
damage is extensive to farm property.
Historic Cannon Stolen.
West Point, N. Y., May 20. The
quartermaster at West Point has just'
r 1 1 . 1 , .
moiicnus oy general scott's army
have been stolen. The cannon have
Iain for nearly half a century on the
bluff over-looking the Hudson, where
the trophies of our wars with England,
Mexico and the South" are ranged. The
history of each pleco is engraved on
its surface. How they were stolen is
not known.
Mot Day at Pan Francisco.
San Francisco, May 20. The
weather was excessively hot here yes
terday and early in the day the ther
mometer gave indications of breaking
the record for the first 19 days of May.
It rose all the morning at an alarming
rate until noontime, when it reached
88 degrees. - Then it stopped, and all
chances of a new record were gone.
But it came very close to making a
nets-mark, for only twice in 26 years
have there been hotter days in May
prior to the 19th.
A .Bank' Teller's Suicide.
St. Louis, May 29. George A. Tay
lor, teller of the Third- National bank, ,
was found dead in the Normandle hotel
this afternoon.' He had committed
suicide by shooting himself with a' re- .
yolver. When found, . Taylor had in
his hand a letter from a woman, not
his wife, and her photopraph.
An Aa-reement Beached.
Washington, May 20. Senators
Morgan and Hale, representing the
two-sides of the Cuban question, have
reached an agreement for a vote on
the resolution Saturday, if the consent
of those who wish to speak on the
subject can be secured.
General Uoratlo Kins; Dead.
Washington, May 20. General
Horation King, postmaster-general,
during a portion of Buchanan's admin
istration, died at 8:40 this morning, In
his 86th year, from the effects of an at
tack of grippe.
Letters Adrertlsed.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postofflce un
called for May 21," 1897. Persons
calling for these letters will please
;ive date on which they were ad
vertised: Anderson, Lewis B.-own, C D
Brown, Mrs T A Bull, Irine Miss
Bowen. Henrv Blair, Geo
Campbell, John A Countryman, Clara
Urano, Hessie uavis, & u
Davis, E Fuller, August
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Miller, Mary Miss Montgomery, Prud
Nelson, SIgred Nelson, In grid
Newsome, D E Neison, Ernest
Obrest, Chas L . Odell. J
Roberts. Allen Koblslo, Bertha
Stevens.MissLoron Sege, Mrs Allie M
Walker, S C Walter, O L
Wiseman, Minnie Wilson, Battle
waiicer, iucy .
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We Are Welcome to Aid Onr Countrymen
In Cuba.
Washington, May 19. In an au
thorized interview, the Spanish minis
ter, Dupuy de I ome, broke his diplo
matic silence, aqd said:
"I am going at onoe to call on the
president and express my gratitude for
his splendid action and the kindly con
sideration shown in the wording of
his message. Notwithstanding the
activity of the papers that are hostile
and unjust, our cause has again
triumphed. We are stronger, today
with President McKinley and Secre
tary Sherman than we ever were with
the Cleveland administration.
"Spain has no objection whatever to
the United States helping her own
citizens now residents in Cuba and al
leged to be in distress. The way that
the charity Is distributed ia entirely
Mr. Astor's Uenerosity.
New York, May 18. A . special to
the Journal from London says:
It is reported that the anonymous
philanthropist who contributed 25,-1
000 to the fund proposed by the Prin
cess o2 Wales to feed the starving on
the occasion of the queen's jubilee, is
William Waldorf Astor.
For the Farla position.
Washington, May 19. The senate
committe on international expositions
decided to report favorably a resolu
tion providing for an appropriation of
$350,000 for proper representation of
this government at the Paris exposi
tion of 1900.
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