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FEBRUARY 2, 1899.
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[ ing power—a dollar whose exchangeable i
ftillitmoolt
A lmost every one can find sonething
teers were called into service was the been apparent from the day the Spanish
the news from the Philippines which
fjciibUnht Wilkinson and Burr—and that Gen. pacification of Cuba, which has not been j squadron was destroyed in Manila bay. I value has some stability and notone that in
Wilkinson was a liar and a scoundrel.”
I will continually cheat him. The ingen- will accord with his preconceived opin.
The English newspapers were the first
ions, It is quiet there; the situation is
to proclaim that Dewey 's victory brought I ious theory of Mr. Altgeld does not ap- improving; aninsurgei t attack on Man­
j
peal
to
the
interests
of
labor.
the United States into new and broader
ila is momentarily expected; the people
relations with the rest of the world and
desire annexation; the Filipinos will ac­
it was their utterances that had as much | T he character of the special commis­ cept nothing but absolute independence,
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION
as anything else to do with creating and sion appointed by President McKinley etc. Unlike the news which formerly]
T he mail service has caught the pre­
(STM1CTLY IN ADVANCE.)
building up the imperialistic sentiment ' to investigate and report on conditions came from Cuba it does not come on al-l
vailing contagion and it is announced
|i
so
One year .......................................................
in this country. The idea that theoppor- ; in the Philippines has received general ternate days, like the shakes of the old-l
that the transfer wagons are to be
Six months....................................................
...... 75
tunity had come to the United States to commendation. Prof. Schurman, presi­ fashioned ague, but each day brings thel
Three months ............................ ..............
.... 50 painted red, white and blue. If the fad
take its place among the nations as a dent of Cornell university, is a distin­
continues to grow the army mule will
Office at corner of Main and 2nd streets.
W ith the prospect before them of se­ world power was earnestly encouraged guished scholar who has given a great same grist. At a distance of 8,000 mileal
soon have to submit to treatment from
curing pay for their services in the army by English statesmen. A keen sense of deal of study to affairs in the Orient. He it is pretty hard to arrive at any conclu-l
the paint brush.
there is no immediate danger of the British interests prompted this. With is not ill favor of the acquisition of the sion as to the actual state of affairs.
headlight pirate
G overnor R oosevelt , in refusing to Cuban soldiers taking to the hills. They the United States occupying a strong Philippines. Prof. Worcester of the uni­
...... I V ermonters must be queer people,
restore the political franchise on one of can be counted on to stay pretty close
in the far east it was seen that versity of Michigan resided for several
Doles Out Gems of Current John Y. McKane’s henchmen, who has to thccommissary and paymaster’s tents position
e
— Senator Edmunds some years ago resignJ
British interests in that quarter of the years in the islandsand knows more of
just finished his term at Sing Sing, did as long as there is an opportunity to se­ world would probably be more secure.
Topics and Events.
their people than perhaps any other ed hie position in the United states senJ
a very commendable thing. A man who cure anything.
American. He says of them that they ate, where he was one of the most conJ
T he currency bill reported to the is sent to the penitentiary for violating
spicuous figures, and where he could liavd
T
he legislature of British Columbia j Croker is right in saying that the “16 are amenable to kindness and friendly
house of representatives from the bank­ the election laws should never again be
remained during thereat of his life. Nmd
reasoning,
but
that
thev
are
fearless
to
1
question
is
a
dead
issue.
”
He
is
has j ast enacted a law which provides,
ing and currency committee at the first permitted to vote.
right in saying that McKinley’s election fighters and have naturally been ren­ comes another Vermonter and declined
for
excluding
Americans
from
acquiring
regular session of congress was on Tues­
brought good times. Blit Croker is not dered distrustful by their experience un­ to accept the appointment to the vacancd
day recommitted, at the instant of the ' O n the 1st of January this year there mining claims in that province. Pro-, running the Democratic party. He con­ der Spanish control. Colonel Denby, caused by the death of Senator Morrill, I
republican members of the committee. ' were 262 vessels building or under con­ tests against this legislation have been I demns Bryan, Jones, Bailey and other former United States ministerto China,
This undoubtedly means that the meas­ tract in American shipyard. Their value made by the legislature of the state of Western and Southern chieftains of that is most thoroughly equipped for such
F rom one of the recent consular rei>orti
ure will not again be heard of at this is no less than $62,110,092. Of these Washington and the Chamber of Com-' organization. I lit as these men are going ' a service as the commission is to per.
it'appears that nearly 6000,000 personi
session and that no further efforts for nine are battle ships, three cruisers and merce of Seattle, while President Mc­ to be permitted tolea I the party to a de­ form. Dewey and Otis, the other mem­
are employed in Germany in the tannin|
currency revision is to be made in the I forty-four other warships, some of them Kinley and the joint high commission feat in 1900 more sweeping and ruinous bers of the commission, it is needless to
and leather manufacture, with an out
present congress. If such is the deci­ building for Russia-, some for Japan and have been appealed to use their influence than was that of 1896, his wise counsel is say, are admirable selections. It appears
sion it is wisely taken, since it is not the rest for our own country. There are to secure a modification of the law. ' vain. Croker, of course, represents East­ that the object of the commission is not, put of leather articles for home consump
possible to accomplish anything and 203 merchant vessels in the list, aggre­ The reasen for this distinctly unfriendly ; ern Democratic sentiment, but the West­ as at first reported, merely to investi­ tion and ex[>ort aggregating in valu
currency discussion in the house could gating 254,216 tons and to cost $19,- legislation is given in the statement of ern and Southern wreckers are in con- gate economic conditions, but to report $150,000,000 aunually. The output wouW
have no good result. The McCleary bill 716,900. When we reflect upon the the Victoria Tinies that “Canada I trol of the Democracy's machinery, and in a general way what the Philippine be considerably greater if the Germa»
could be induced to give up their cruli
—as the recommitted measure is called , number of men to whom, directly or in­ is now quite able to do her own develop-1 will force it into one more disaster.
people desire and what they consider methods and adopt the most modern prol
—is perhaps satisfactory to the currency , directly, this great ship-building enter­ ing with the assistance of British
practicable jn the wav of political insti­ cesses and machinery. But why should
reformers generally, but it has not re­ prise gives employment—the men who capital” and that the measure is to pro­ The late Congressman Dingley was al­
tutions. The commission, it is stated, is nor American energy and American genl
ceived (hat measure of popular approval d ig ore, the men who smelt it, the men tect British workmen and British capi­ so one of the eminent men whose public
which its authors expected and besides who make it into steel, the men who talists. The fact appears to be that earee r leads out of the newspaper office, appointed essentially for the purpose of ius supplant the German leather maker!
holding out the olive branch to the peo­ at least in the American and other foil
existing conditions are not favorable to fashion it into plates, trusses and beams, the rush of Americans to the Atlin gold although he combined with his journa­
such legislation. There is nothing in the the men who dig coal and the men who fields had become so great as to listic experience a legal education that ple of theislands and will have author­ eign markets? With the materials ant
financial situation that calls for or make it into coke—there is reason for threaten the acquisition of all claims of entitled him to a place in the profession ity to bind the administration to a rea­ demand at our very door the American
would justify such radical changes in the ! national rejoicing in the figures that any value there by citjzens of the of law. It is plain that the lawyers have sonable extent in respect to general leathe. industry can and should soon cool
propositions. Its efforts, in short, will trol the whole situation,
United States. This alarmed the Ca­
I
currency system as this bill provides for. seems so cold in mere print.
nadians, who as a matter of self-defense not yet monopolized the fiont places in be chiefly directed to inducing the Fili­
We are steadily accumulating gold, the l
our public life, although they have lieen pinos to accept the control of the United
legal tender notes are causing the treas- j W hen Uncle Sam went into partner­ enacted the alien exclusion law shutting
trying to do so ever since the republic States. Perhaps some good may be | O ne of Speaker lieed's best epigram«
ury no trouble and are not likely to in ship with Emperor William and Queen Americans out from acquiring mining was established.
accomplished in this way, but there is I now enjoying national circulation show
the near future, and public sentiment is Victoria to set up a kingdom in one of claims in British Columbia.
reason to believe that the commission that lie is among those far-seeing state«
perhaps stronger than ever before in op- I the South Sea islands, he lowered the
O ne of the fallacies incident to the pol­
T
he extraordinary opinion rendered
will
find it a pretty difficult task to per- ; men who think it worth while to stop anl
I osition to a policy which would give standard of the great American repub­
itics of the present is superstition that
count the cost of imperialism. He is free!
by
the
attorney
general
of
Kansas
and
the national banks the monopoly of the lic, which prides itself in being a gov­
every rich num is a robber. Certain news suade all of the people to give up the quoted assaying: "We are buying 19,00a
paper currency of the country. The bus- ' ernment by the people, for the people. accepted as legal gos|>el by the governor papers and seekers after office and cheap idea of independence and accept a new 990 Malays at $2 a head, unpicked, aol
incss interests of the nation are as a whole Moral: When von go to bed with dogs of that state pronouncing all the acts of notoriety have created the sentiment sovereignty. In order to accomplish I nobody knows what it will cost to pid
very well satisfied with the currency you must expect to he wakened bv flea the recent special session of the legis. wherever it exists. Perhaps it could lie this it will lie necessary to offer some
them.” When lie made that whitty rl
system as it is, it having been most con­ bites. And that is what is plaguing us lature null and void emphasizes the de­ said that there are instances of penury very liberal commission.
mark he showed his appreciation of tl|
mand
lor
the
fool
killer
down
in
the
Sun
­
clusively shown that the assumption now in Samoa.
among rich men just the same as there
fact that to subdue the Filipinos and fori
flower
state.
In
Kansas,
as
in
Nebraska,
T
he
Washington
correspondent
of
the
that the system is an obstacle to pros, i
are among poor men. The man with a
pcrity is entirely fallacious. The country ! G eneral L udlow has began the the republican party has for years suf. big, generous heart does not have Ins na­ New York Journal of Commerce, who j upon them a government not of thia
moral
sanitation
at
Havana.
The
out
­
feted
from
stupid
and
shortsighted
gives close attention to the trend of own choosing must entail upon the AinJ
has had during the past year the great­
ture changed by the accumulation of
est foreign and domestic commerce in its casts who sleep in the parks are being leadership which refuses to profit by the wealth. The entire purpose of the shout- financial opinion in congress, observes ( ican people ail enormous increase of thia
history; there has been an enormous picked up each night and where they are lessons of experience and turns a deaf era is to array labor against capital for that the remarkable economical ten- ; burden of taxation, estimated by cons«
augmentation of capital and a large in­ able to work they are put to sweeping car to popular demands for political re­ political purposes. During the year 1898 dencies of the last two years, which vative experts at not less than $290,(MM
crease in the circulation. This demon­ the streets at 90 cents per day. Children form or redress of grievances. When the twenty three persons gave $11,176,000 to have made the United States one of the 999 a year. The Speaker's friends repi«
strates that our currency system is not ami those physically disabled are cared attorney general of Kansas with one public institutions. This vast sum of great storehouses of gold of the world that he fully realize the gravity of til
as bad as the reformers urge and that for at an improvised hospital. This sweep of the pen seeks to wipe from the money will bless the world for genera­ and promise to continue the process by step which the country is asked to taM
no such radical charges in it as they task is likely toprove more difficult than statute books all the laws enacted by tion after generation, but your average means of the great trade balance in its by the ratification to the treaty as it stanl
propose are necessary to business proa. the work of physical sanitation, but it the late populistic legislature on the pessimist will rise up and say: “Oh, they favor, are inspiring the belief among They quote him as declaring that it isH
peritv, as they have jicrsistently C>!tl- is equally, if not more, important, and ground that railroad regulation legisla­ squeezed just that much additional out some members that the retirement of step which not only the Ame.ican pei>|l
General Ludlow deserves credit for the tion does not constitute such an emer­
the greenbacks is no longer an absolute now living will presently regret bl
tended.
promptness with which he has grappled gency as is contemplated bv the consti­ of their workmen.” Such a statement necessity. “ The great influx of gold winch their children and their chiklreil
T he bill now pending before the North with the problem.
tution lor the convening of the legisla­ is not borne out by the facts. Thiscoun into the country," he says, "has modi­ children will lament. Holding these vieil
ture in special session, he assumes au­ try has fewer rich men and pays the ' fied tile views of some of the currency and perceiving that the nation is in ill
Cnrolinia legislature to disfranchise the
T he discovery of valuable deposits of thority which no supreme court, state or highest wages of any country on the face reformers also in regard to the details miiient danger of being carried over tfl
negroes of that state is championed by
of the earth Let us lie fair. If a cap of providing a banking currency. They
Prof. Crosby and Rev. R. II. W. Leake, wolframite, at Lend, S. 1)., adds a new national has ever dared to exercise.
Niagara of imjierialisiu under the guil
talist does wrong censure him for it, and are now convinced that the country will
bo!h of whom are colored. Prof. Crosby source of great wealth to that state.
ance of what he has happilv termed ‘I
This
metal,
which
is
a
tungstate
of
if
he
does
right
give
him
credit.
The prevalent idea thatQu.*en Vieti-
declares that there arc not one-sixth of
never lie subjected to such a severe pres, syndicated Administration,” has not thl
the 126,(MM) negro voters of the state iron and manganese, and is indispen. rias name, were her present royal de­
sure for the yellow metal as in 1893 and tune now come for the Speaker to speail
capable of an intelligent exercise of the sable in the manufacture of certain signation abrogateti, would be plain
T here is no more ingenious exponent that a broader basis of metallic reserves
franchise, and that as they arc a men­ grades of steel, is now almost wholly ‘■Mrs. Guelph,” is an entire mistake. of the free sdver question than ex-Gover. might be properly required as the basis 1 T here ought to lie a way to reach tM
ace to a good government they need tol>e supplied to this country by Germany. The queen's legal name were she by some 1 nor Altgeld. as there is probably no one of the bank note circulation." Such personal property of rich men of cities ffl
saved from themselves Considering the It is readily worth $200 per ton in even mysterious prat ese to become a simple nore sincere than he in advocating the views, it may confidently be anticipated, the purpose of just and equitable taxatiol
tact that the census re|K»rts show more medium grade ore. and if the vein at commoner would be "Mrs. Wettin," by free coinage of silver. In an interview will grow and lieconie more general, un­ If the laws of the Stare are inadequate d
than half of the population of the state Lend proves what is claimed for it there virtue of her marriage with Prince Al­ while in Omaha Mr. Altgeldsaid: "Free til those who see evils and dangers in unjust they should be amended, and I
to be illiterate, the same argument would is probably nogold mincin the statethat bert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, whose name, coinage of silver means that the ex pan our currency system will constitute an should be the imperative duty of thela^l
strip|H-d of territoral and other garnish­ sion of money volume shall begin at tile insignificant minority and the demand
seem to apply with cqvnl force to is nearly so valuable.
makers to amend them in the proper mad
ing«, was plain "Albert Wettin.”
a large percentage of the whites.
bottom with the labor which digs the for the elimination of the legal tender ner. Real estate now bears rhe chief uud
T iik rejoicing of the volunteer soldiers
metal out of the ground.” Others whom notes from the currency will become so den of taxation Personal property shoi'N
If the Democrats considered the treaty he characterized as financial quacks,
l-nw »so A tkinson estimates that the at Havana on being informed that thev
administration of the Philippines will would soon I m ? mustered out is an indica­ from the point of party expediency they “would have the expansion of the money feeble as not to command anv attention. be made to bear its proper share of thd
cost the United States $17«.900,090 per tion of the feeling that prevails generally would not go out of their way to oppose volume begin at the top, so that the add­ I With the United States possessing burden, ami the Legislature should sei
’
annum. Representative Swanson of among the volunteers. To most of them the Administration policy. They would ed quantity would have to go through all a larger stock ot gold than anv other that it does in the future.
Virginia, a mcnilier of the house wavs camp life and garrison duty are exceed­ simply file a protest, aqd chuckle as the the capitalistic channels before a dollar nation and steadily adding to it, the
and means committee, puts it at $200,- ingly irksome and they tec! that hostili­ treaty went through. For though at this of it would reach labor.” According to gold standard is secure. There can lie
When the military chieftains of 1
<810,000, while no one who has studied ties with Spain having ended they should time there are some aspects of the iniper this the workers in the silver mines who no danger from the government notes army stop hanging their soiled linen
the question has attempted to place it I m ? allowed to return home. There has ml policy that dazzle the eyes of the un­ number only a few thousand, would be while we have this vast supply of gold. the telegraph wires the people of 1
at .i lower figure than $163,000,000. been no serious complaint from any of thinking. yet when the ultimate effect the first beneficiaries of the free coinage Thus the chief reason advanced by the United States will have greater resp
Probably Mr. Atkinson's estimate is them, but there is no doubt that many is seen—when the enormous expenditure of silver and gradually as more silver was currrency
nolicv i reformers in support of their for the army.
nearly the correct one, as he has given think the government is not acting in begins to la-felt by the taxpayers—when added tothe currency other labor would . " '.v is swept away and there is little
the subject the closest and most pains, strict observance of the terms of the act the awful waste of life among our sol profit by the expansion. It is possible j else for it to rest upon.
T ho faikers are not all dead yet. Th
taking investigation, which, in a man under which they enlisted. It is provided diets in the deadly tropics shall come that free coinage would somewhat en
latest yellow roorback is to the effect th'
T here was a time when the heathen Carnegie proposes to buy the Phil'l
of his know ledge of the fitness for the in this act that officers and men enlisting hometoour people—the party responsi ha nee the price of labor employed in
work, should secure a great degree or under it shall I m ? discharged when the ble must lie buried under popular oppro­ silver mining, but if it should have the Chinese was considered most subtle and pines for $20.000,000 to make the Filip
accuracy. To defray thia expense what pnr| mists for w hich they were called into brium such as has seldom been seen in effect upon the price of products which peculiar, but the white man generally nos a present of their own country
amount can we derive from the revenues service shall have been accomplished, or ’ our history. It would be an Issue that the silverites claim it would, the mine and the white men who live in the Sand­ Open the cage and let the birds fly.
i f the islands?
wich islands are becoming too manv for
on the conclusion of hostilities. Tech­ would sweep all others out of sight. To
' »k«* /•«.:_
__ ...
worker, would get no benefit from «he ¡the
Chinese.
According to
nically the war is not ended, the ratifi. resist the endeavor of an O| [losing partv advance in the value of their labor. They *
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-
wing
to a report
City Warrants Payable.
GliX. M u ks is not the only Command- cation of the treaty of peace being ne­ to ruin itself because that ruin must pro
would receive more dollars for their from Honolulu the supreme court of the
er-in-Chief of the army who have been cessary to an absolute conclusion of duce also a national calamity is a policv
mixed race republic has turned a aim-
The following warrants are now P3
called a liar by a subordinate. Ninety hostilities, so that on this ground the of the highest patriotism — N. Y. World. work, but in purchasing power their in­ inersanlt upon itself and abrogated the able at my office : Nos. 139. 140. i*
creased
earnings
would
enable
them
to
years ago General—then Captain— Win­ government may plausibly claim that
treaty rights by which the Chinee, were 1+4. 146, 14«. 149, 150, 152. 153. 1®
obtain no more of the necessaries of life
field Scott was tried by court-martial the volunteer army law is not being dis­
Briti.h opinion is of c.mrsein favor of than their present wag« if « much. I'ermittwi to land in Hawaii prior to an- 157. Interest ceases from date of th
for having said "at a public table” that regarded. It may also l»e urged that the I ultra State, holding permanent
nexation. But nothing that happens in notice.
N. THOMPSON.
.
Tire wage e«ner wants sound monev.
lie never saw but two traitors, Gen. one of the purposes for which the volun p wwewon of the Phtlq.pmre. That ha. , He wain, a dollar ,4 the highest pur. ba» our new pwissions will surprise nobody
City Trea«-
J Tillamook, Ore., Jan. 12,1899.
J on this side of the Pacific coast line
Fred C. Ilitker, Publisher.
He was found guilty and was suspended
for a year. The sentence was rather
Official Paper, Tillamook City and County severe in view of the fact that Wilkinson
was all Scott said he was.
I
accomplished. But it is obvious that
when the treaty shall have lieen ratified
it will not be easy to justify holding any
of the volunteers in the service. Mean,
while it is probable that congress will
pass a bill for increasing the regular
army, which will allow the discharge of
volunteers at least as rapidly as their
places can be taken by regulars.