Lewiston teller. [volume], February 26, 1891, Image 4

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2«, 1891.
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The reciprocity treaty with Brazil is
the greatest achievement of tlds ad
ministration thus far, and will, un
doutedly, prove of great benefit to the
country. _
Senator Ingalls has resigned his po
sition as presiding officer pro tern of the
Senate. The resignation to take effect
upon the seating of his successor. He
is preparing to step down and out
gracefully._
Mr. McConnell's senate bill providing
for the time and place of holding terms
of the United States Court in Idaho
was agreed to in that body last week.
By the provisions of this bill, terms of
the United States Court will be held at
Boise City, Blackfoot and Moscow.
The bill for dividing Bingham county
has been successfully shelved in the
house, much to the relief of the Bing
ham contingent, who have been light
ing hard against the measure. The
other division bills will hardly fnre as
well as they have a stronger following.
Senator McConnell is up with
another bill to prevent the adulteration
of linseed oil. Idaho's wide awake
senator is alive to every interest con
ducine to western development.
Western flax growers and oil manufac
turers will be greatly benefitted by the
passage of the bill.
The State if New York not only has
more population than all Canada, but
vastly more wealth. Our immigration
in a decade gives us two and a half
times the population of Canada. Con
sequently its annexation would be of
little consequence to us, but it would
be everything for Canada which it has
not and never will have until it is in
dependent of Great Britain.
The decision of the Northern Pacific
directors recently made public by the
dispatches, to the effect that all branch
lines would be pushed at once to com
pleteness, is cheering in the extreme
and will remove all tremor of doubt
and quiet all rumors concerning any
stopping of the Lewiston branch at
Kendrick or any intermediate point.
Lewiston will get a road early In the
coming summer and our citizens should
awaken to the fact that new life and
action should now begin to stir the
public pulse.
The Cotton#ood correspondent to the
Free Press pertly enquires what Lewis
ton would do with the Agricultural
College if by chance she got it, and
where she would find land enough that
will produce auything but scrub sage
brush and inferior wild mustard. In
South Idaho they claim that Lewiston
Is not fitted because it has no sage
brush land. Our friend at Cottonwood
has furnished a needed testimonial
which we take pleasure in forwarding
to Boise. Lewiston has now every es
sential even unto sage brush and wild
mustard.
Idaho exchanges are filled with ac
counts of storms and heavy snow falls.
Sleighing is splendid everywhere, and
the snow lies from the depth of two to
three and even four feet over a large
portion of the state. Lewiston pre
sents a sharp coutrast to such a state cf
facts. Here the ground is bare and
dry, the days warm and bright, and
the citizens enjoying the sports and re
creations of spring. It is not difficult
to pick out the most desirable locality
In which to live and enjoy life when
these facts are known. Lewiston's
climatic advantages are without paral
lel in the northwest.
Representative Sweet has been heard
on the question of free coinage, but un
like his contemporaries from Idaho he
came out strongly against that meas
ure. He is reported as having made
one of the strongest arguments against
free coinage that has come out of the
west. He introduced u resolution, the
preamble of which sets forth that cer
tain national banks are refusing to loan
except on contracts payable in gold,
which tends to discredit the issue of
currency. The resolution provides that
any national bank attempting to de
grade the currency of the country by
demanding other thun lawful money
shall forfeit its charter. Mr. Sweet has
presented a new phase of the coinage
question and is riding into popularity
upon the sudden revulsion now being
felt toward that measure.
Of all the unhappy creatures on the
face of the earth, the most to be pitied
is the vain, sensitive, egotistical bun
dle of humanity, who always imugines
everything is for him. The preacher
preaches at him, the gossip gossips
about him, and, taking it "by and
large," the whole world, while seem
ingly engaged in other matters, is really
occupied in observing his mightiness,
smiling when he smiles, and trembling
when he frowns. Such persons ought
to stick a linger in a pail of water and
drawing it out learn from the hole left
how much real importance they are to
the world.—Colfax Commoner.
That was a brave and eloquent
speech which Idaho's short-term sen
ator, the fearless and unconventional
McConnell, delivered the other day in
support of ids bill for the forfeiture of
the subsidized Pacific railroads. It
told in language worthy of Webster
the story of the building of those roads
and of the immense fortunes piled up
by the owners. It was a speech that
should make the bold and outspoken
merchant of Moscow able to go before
the people of Idaho in future campaigns
and ask any office in their gift without
the slighest fear that they will be un
grateful or unappreciative.-Spokesman.
The New Brazilian Reciprocity ar
rangement will op n the way for a
large export of our products to that
country, of itself a most Important
point gained. But this is only an en
tering wedge, only a part of the story.
Other South American countries and
Cuba will be obliged to follow suit in
self defense. Cuba is very greatly de
pendent upon the United .States as a
market for its chief product—sugar.
The last Tariff Bill provided for the
free introduction of sugar, retaining
protection for our own sugar producers
in the form of a direct bounty equiv
alent to the duty removed. But this
act put it in the power of the President
to continue the old duties upon sugar
and other materials by local taxes im
posed by the interior provinces. Now
that country has been unified into one
general system, which abolishes all
local imports on foreign goods.—Orange
Judd Farmer.
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All northern Idaho will celebrate
over the news from Washington that
the Coeur d'Alene reservation will be
opened before the adjournment of
congress. It has been a weary wait
that the people of northern Idaho have
had to undergo. The rich mineral
prospects and the line ngrii ultural
lands have been in sight, but Moses
was not more effectually barred out of
the promised land than have been the
weary watchers on the edge of the re
servation. Congress is now entitled to
no particular thanks for its action. It
is doing only what it ought to have
done a year ago, and for not doing
which there is no excuse and no reason
beyond indifference. Northern Idaho,
with its vast areas of unsurveyed land,
has yet more to ask of congress. The
people who are building up a great
state out of a region that was once con
sidered little more than a desert, ought
to receive some aid from the general
government and some security besides
the right of force and custom to the
lands they occupy. Provisions should
be made at this session for the survey
of these lands in the well-settled por
tions of the panhandle at least. This
is a duty towards the new state. Will
it be performed?—Spokesman.
The Canadian Election.
The present outlook is that the Can
adian conservatives will be beaten in
the parliamentary election, which
takes place on the 5th of March next.
Sir John MacDonald offers restricted
reciprocity on the lines of the Elgin
treaty of 1854. Every intelligent Can
adian knows that no treaty on the
lines of that of 1854 will ever be accep
ted by the United States, and Canada
will hurdly he fool enough to return
the MacDonald government to power
upon an utterly impracticable issue.
Sir John MacDonald otters restricted
reciprocity which would secure to Can
ada at all points the advantages of our
superior markets as a seller, while it
refuses to enter our markets as a buyer.
Canada knows that the United States
will never consent to this pro|>osition,
whiclt Sir John McDonald has the
impudence to offer. The Dominion
liberals propose unlimited reciprocity
and they are morally certain to win,
for every man in Canada who wants
reciprocity knows that the United
States will never have anything to do
with anything short of unrestricted
reciprocity.
Reciprocity, when it comes, must
bring with it the abolishment of every
custom house on the Northern frontier,
and the raising of the Canudian tariff
to the level of our own. Canada has
before her a great opportunity to lift
herself out of her present lamentable
situation. She is burdened with an
enormous debt, the consequence of her
vast expenditures, made for the express
purpose of induciug immigration, and
yet today her older provinces are al
most stationery in population, and
even Manitoba is far liehind our West
ern states in the ratio of its growth.
The great majority of her foraigi
im
migration soon make their way across
the line to this country: and so many
native-born Canadians have joined us
that our population of Canadian birth
is equal to a large fraction of the total
population of Cunadu. With a debt
disproportionate to its increase in trade
and wealth; with land less valuable
und less salable than that in this coun
try; with her best blood constantly
pouring into our industrial veins, Can
ada is in a situation of comparative par
alysis and stagnation which nothing
short of annexation to this country can
cure. Canada, to speak plainly, is a
poor, feeble, disunited colonial depend
ency, racked by a racial and religious
conflict. It has much less population
and far less wealth than the single state
of New York. Its annexation would
at best be worth little to us; indeed, it
is less likely to prove a political bless
ing than a curse. The annexation of
the province of Quebec would lie like
the annexation of Paraguay or some
other of the Jesuit-ridden countries of
South America. On the side of Cana
da, however, self-interest and self-pres
ervation urge the people to annexation.
The relative attitude of the two coun
tries toward annexation lias greatly
changed in the last fifty years. The
treaty of 1854 was negotiated at a time
when there was an annexation party
in the United States, and this liberal
treaty, giving Canada the advantage,
was made in the hope that it might
increase the sentiment in Canada
favor of union. Twelve years of this
treaty proved that it was a very bud
burguin for the United States, and the
annexation party, so fur from increas
ing in Canada, decreased so rapidly
that during our civil war we had no
meaner, more spiteful, bitter enemy
than the government of Canada
When the treaty of 1854 was refused re
newal in 180(5, there was no longer an
annexation party in the United States,
and there is none today. Our people
are indifferent about it, because it is a
matter of small consequence, beset
with as much political doubt and dan
ger as political advantage.. Canada
may just as well make up her mind
that to vote for Sir John Macdonald's
limited reciprocity on the lines of the
treaty of 1854 is to vote in the air, for
limited reciprocity lias not a friend in
either party in the United States.—
Oregonian.
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Open the River.
The bill for the construction of a port
age railroad at the Cascades, and ap
propriating $C0,000 therefor, passed the
house last evening. The hill will be
come a law, and, if the farmers of Wasco
county are under the domination of
railroad corporations, it will be the fault
of themselves and the citizens of The
Dalles. We are also firmly of the opin
ion that the hill for another portage
road bet ween this city and Celilo will
pass the house. This appropriates Ç400,
000, and it has already passed the sen
ate. These two measures will practi
cally open the river to the sea, and in
this desired consummation the Tiraes
Mountaineer is exceedingly well
pleased. This is the beginning of a
grand eara of development for Eastern
Oregon, and, with a reduction of
freights, the pluins and valleys of the
inland empire will ship their abund
ance to tide-water. It is the beginning
of the development ot the richest nat
ural resources which are possessed by
any country on the Western continent,
and ten acres will be farmed where one
is now. It is the beginning of the
emancipation of the producers of the
country east of the mountains from the
cruel despotism of a railroad monopoly,
which bus impoverished the tillers of
the soil, and driven hundreds of set
tlers toother p-.'rtioiisof the Northwest.
It is tiie beginning of the 1 ing-looked
for year of jubilee, when the bonds
ehull be stricken from the limbs of the
serfs who have plowed and planted
broad and fruitful acres for the benefit
of railroad corporations for the past
quarter of a century. It is the begin
ning of the end of a rule of ruin and
despoliation, when the great volume of
water of the Columbia shall be obedi
ent to the wish of the husbandman,
and its willing waves shall carry to the
bosom of mother ocean the wealth of an
empisc, unvexed and unimpeded by
any obstructions, natural or artificial.
— Tue Dalles Tiiues-Mountaineer.
W. P. BELL,
C. E., City and County
SURl/EYOrç,
Lewiston, Idaho.
Orders left at my office or at the
Saddler's Shop will receive prompt
attention.
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never they live. Any
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I Liiiig# wonderful #u< teas to every worker,
g from »2# to per werk and upward«,
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For a fine turn-out in the way of
spirited, yet perfectly gentle, teams
and new buggies go to Lydon Bros,
j Their rig» are in first-class shape. |
J. B. Morris, M. D.
Office in Hale & Cooper's building.
DR. WM. CASTON,
Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat
Exclusively.
Hyde Block, Spokane Falls, Wash.
DR. A. BARKAN,
Specialist for Diseases of the
Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat
Has returned from E rope and re
sumed the practice of his profession.
Office, 14 Grant Avenue, San Francisco.
I. N. Maxwell,
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—AT LAW—
Office on Main Street, Lewiston, Idaho.
James W. Reid,
Attorney at Law,
Lewiston, Idaho.
Will practice in the Stute und Federal
courts of Idaho and Washington. Of
fice, room No. (5, Vollmer Block, up
stalls.
E. O'Neill,
Attorney - at - Law,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
All Business carefully attended to.
Will practice in all courts of Washing
ton and Idaho. Office on Main street,
Lewiston, opposite Bunnell's Store.
JASPER BAND. J. M. HOWE.
Notary Public
Rand (<: Howe,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in all the courts of Idaho
Idaho Territory and the State of Wash
ington. Will give prompt attention to
all business entrusted to our care. Of
fice on E street, Lewiston, Idaho. Real
Estate and Loan Agents.
NEW
J. 12 OSS, 'Proprietor,
Oue door east of Bunnell's Hardware
Store. All kinds of Fresh and Cured
Meats. A share of your patronage is
solicited.
S. S. ROGERS,
LEWISTON, IDAHO
Farm and town property bought and
sold on commission. Office on Main St
Why Send Your Work East?
—WHEN—
Ed. Smith, Artist,
Lewiston, Idaho,
Is prepared to execute all kinds of
Artistic Work in the best possible style,
Yourphotosen larged life size and paint
ed in olid, wuter colors or pastel. The
finest work in the northwest guarau
teed and lowest prices. Give me atrial
LESSONS GIVEN.
M. H. Sprague,
OXJISrS^ÆITH
My shop now open and ready for all
work in tiffs line.
Lewiston, Idaho.
Give me a eall
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The S. B. Headache and Liver
Cure taken according to directions
will keep your Blood, Liver and Kid
neys in good order.
The 8. B. Cough Cure for Colds
Coughs and Croup, in connection with
the Headache Cure, is as near perfec
tion us anything known.
The 8. B. Alpha Pain Cure for in
ternal and external use, in Neuralgia,
Toothache, Cramp Colic and Cholera
Morbus is unsurpassed. They are well
liked wlie ever known. Manufactured
at Dufur, Oregon. For sale by all
| druggists.
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D. S. DENT.
C. E. BUTLER.
DEflS 0 BUSIER
■ PEA LEUS IX.
Pure Drugs and
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day & Night
Druggist's Sundries, Toilet Articles, Stationery
and Fancy Goods. Ileadquarters for
Books, Gold Pens , Novelties and
Notions Also Proprietors of
Lewiston Soda Water Works,
Orders from the Country Promptly Attended to
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JEWELER,
Dealer In
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CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
EYE CLASSES.
Spectacles, Etc , Etc.
En graving and Repairing at Reasonable Prices■
P. MHD6E,
Lewiston, - - - Idaho.
The Only Complete Set of Abstracts in Nez Perce
County Abstracts to Title Furnished on Short Notice
Titles Examined, and Perfected Real Estate Bought
and Sold■ Money to Loan on First Mortgage Security,
at a\ Low rate of interest Office in Hale <$• Cooper Block
South Side of Main Street
BYRON HARRIS,
Dealer In
A full line of Household Goods on hand.
Store on Main Street, Lewiston, Idaho.
Exchanges made on easy terms.
H. H. Q. SALOON,
SAM HOLT, Proprietor .
LEWISTON. IDAHO.
Keeps Constantly on Hand a Full Stock of Pure Wines, Liquors and Cigar*.
CALIFORNIA -:- BREWERY,
Near Head of First Street, Lewiston, Idaho.
CHRIS: WEISCERBCR, .... PROPRIETOR.
CALL AND s-FK MR
FAMILY 6R0G6RY.
Louis Grostoin,.....Proprietor.
A New and fresh Stock of Groceries constantly kept
on hand. Fruits, Canned Fruits, Coffees, Teas
and Spiers. A eomnlete stock of tobaccos
and Cigars. Cheap for Cash
R member the place on Main St., Ill the Greenbu rg building.
<X HOTEL • DE • FRANCE, *>
Corner of Second and "C" Streets, Lewiston, Idaho,
Mme. Le Francois,
Proprietress
First Class in Everv Particular. Extra Accommodation for Commercial Men»
LGWISTON ♦ BAKERY,
S. WILDENTH ALLER, Proprietor.
Montgomery Street . Lewiston, Idaho•
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Bread, Pies and Cakes, also Groceries, Confectioneries, Liquors and Clffn***
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