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The ,loh department of the PKESS Is complete »r;d ..IT.rd. fncilit.ies for duiuf the be.-i class nf W. rlt. P.(lITIll'I.AB All KNI tu.S IMIItTO LAW Vkintiki- No paper will b" discontinued until arrear >({. s are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance In northern Australia there is one white man per 700 square miles. The devil of suspicion, envy, greed and hypocrisy hits never had his due. A man at Richmond speaks seven languages fluently, besides base bail talk. Hard drink also numbers among its victims I he boy stealing a hunk from the ice wagon. Whether, whales and dolphins ever sleep, observation so tar has been un able to discover. If it is not satisfied with its posi tion Brazil might lift itself by its boot straps inio first place. China is beginning to wake up to the fact that it is betu r to be a nation with a future than a nation with a past. Korea, in spite of its racial affini ties, is now more inclined than any other nation to take stock in yellow peril talk. The esteemed Salt Lake Tribune thinks "a real gentleman forgets the clothes he wears." So also does the real sloven. Xow that it. is possible for an Eng lishman to marry his deceased wife's sister perhaps he will not want to as much as he did. 1 he fashion writer who says that a woman can dress easily on soo a year is dead right.. She will have only one dress to put on. A \\ isconsin farmer became para lyzed while hoeing corn, and the funny part of it is that he did not wake up a head the next morning. Going out in an automobile is get ting to be such a common form of suicide that one might think automo biles were sold in drug stores on doc tors' prescriptions. People who think China is going to the dogs because one old woman is djing have evidently not personally met the 400,000,000 other inhabitants of the Flowery Kingdom. It takes all kinds of people to make pun ejt>[ out on auteo uiuu y 'P[.t(i.\\ n because his wife was sleeping soundly he got mad and threw her out of the window. Yes. what fools men are! Ground corncobs are said to be the chief constituent of one of the new breakfast foods. The pure food laws must be demanding something more nutritious than excelsior and sawdust. England is not a good field for schoolteachers looking for situations. Early this summer the authorities in a town advertised for two teachers and received more than 11,000 appli cations. Chili avoids trading with the United States as lar as possible, but when she wanted the best locomotives for heavv grades, she had to place her order for two dozen and one of them in this country. In Copenhagen the authorities are trying to exterminate rats by offering a bounty for every rat tail brought to them. This leaves room for fraud. While it is true that a rat that has been deprived of its tail is riot likely to grow a second tail, the bringing it of a rat s head would be a more unde niable proof that. 1 lie anitnal is dead. Capt. Joshua Slocum, who sailed around the world alone in his littl i:*{*.- foot boat, the Spray, a few years ago, still lives and sails his craft. He re cently arrived at. Nantucket with the Spray from the West Indies. Capt. Slocum Is anxious to see the comple tion of the Panama canal, when he und his little boat will go through to the Pacific ocean. Dr. William I<\ Ma; s of the City of Mexico lias been laboring for seven months upon a testimonial to be pre sented to President itiaz on his next birthday anniversary— the autographs of prominent people throughout the republic. The doctor has been in the important places of a dozen states there are 27 in all—traveling a dis tance of 11,000 miles in his <|tiest. Everywhere the man and tlie idea were well received, and the result will be many albums and a giant collec tion cf li'i'r; .-uphs. POLICIES CONFLICT YOU CANNOT EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT TOO. If Through Wfeciprocity, Tariff Conces sions, Competitive Imports are In creased There Must Be an Equiva lent Decrease of Domestic Produc tion and Wage Paying. For the ability displayed in the edi torial columns of the Washington Post we have always had a great deal of respect. Hut the line must be drawn somewhere. For example: "By reciprocity and truly protective duties we will protect our trade abroad as well as at home, and greatly en large our foreign markets." Truly protective duties are duties that protect, are they not? Assuming an affirmative reply, we would like to learn from the Post how it is possible to maintain duties that truly protect and at the same time carry on a sys tem of reciprocity in competing pro ducts. Duties that protect hold the do mestic market for domestic labor au;l industry, do they not? If they do not do that, then they do not protect, if they do protect, then they do not and cannot invite and promote a larger in flow of commodities that compete with and displace their equivalent of do mestic production and labor. There can be no competitive reci procity with duties that are trul> pro t etlve. The duties that protect and the duties that increase our foreign trade in competing articles on the in coining side must of necessity be two entirely different sets of duties. They cannot be the same. It is perfectly apparent that the truth of this maxim in economics is wholly ignored and disregarded by the free traders and tariff wreckers who dominate the National Association of Manufacturers. They may and prob ably do know that adequate protec tion for all domestic industry and free trade reciprocity in competing pro ducts cannot exist side by side. To them that fact is not material. Their purpose is to market abroad increased quantities of their manufactures — manufactures which, by reason of pat ents or patented processes, do not re quire tariff protection. They are nol troubled by the consideration that their scheme of sacrificing protection for reciprocity would work disaster to many industries that do require pro tection. They put it this way: "We know that reciprocity in competing products will hurt some industries while bene fiting others; but the gain to those which are benefited will be greater than the loss to those which are in jured." These words are quoted liter ally from a speech made in 1901 by an advocate of reciprocity at a national convention of manufacturers in Wash- iiiiitori nearly six years a so. It was very much as though the thief should say to the man whose pocket lie had just picked: "I know you will feel somewhat the loss of this money, but its possession will do me far more good than Its loss can do you harm." At least this seemed to be the convention's view of the ethical sound ness of the proposition, for the reci procity scheme was voted down at the rate of a hundred to one. Confident that Washington Post entertains no approving opinion of the policy of fattening some industries at the expense of other Industries, we would in all sincerity be glad if the Post would tell us just how reciproc ity in competing products and "truly protective duties" can possibly go hand in hand. No: it will not do. What the foreign er wants and must have if he is to get more of his goods into the American market is a system of duties that do not truly protect. Any other duties — duties that do protect—will not do him a particle of good. To him that would mean bogus reciprocity, a confi dence game, a gold brick. The foreign manufacturer is not a fool. He wants to get into this market, the best in th;.- world, and he is going to do it if he can get enough American co-opera tion. Perhaps he will succeed. We do not know. Hut if he does succeed it will lie because the American people want to do less of their own work and want more of it done by foreign ers. In that event, don't let us talk any more about "truly protective du ti's." They will have gone out of fashion. The "Real" Prosperity. At the present time one cannot but pause and marvel at the unparalleled prosperity which now hovers over this progressive nation. Kvery industry throughout the country is flourishing as never before, and a "full dinner !>ail" confronts every tradesman and aborer who is willing to toil. From ast to west anil from north to south comes the demand for men: harvest time is at hand and some industries may suffer for lack of help. There is no excuse for a single idler in the I'nited Stales under present condi tions, neither has there been l'or some years past—but just now the field of opportunity is broader and better than ever. And the end is not yet; ad vancement, is certain where confidence is so pronounced and general. The country is without a serf or a slave, and with plenty of work at good wages should inspire everyone with a desire, from a political standpoint, to leave well enough alone, .lust now there is a dearth of political talk, but never theless, it is well to remember that invariably times are good while the Republican party holds in. And who would care to, or can truthfully deny it? feet's have no thought of going back to the dark period of a few years ago.—Wyoming Press. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSSAY, OCTOBER 3, 1907. ALU DUE TO PROTECTION. Prosperity in the Past Has Had But One Source. In an address at Marshfleld, Mass., August 22, Congressman McCall said: "We are pretty near the edge of a financial setback. Economically an in dustrial crisis at this time would be senseless and wanton, but we should already have had one if our prosperity liad not been well nigh invulnerable." What was it that in the past ten years has made our prosperity well nigh invulnerable? Production at the maximum and consumption keeping pace with pro duction. Abundance of employment at the highest wages ever known. Liberal buying by wage earners at prices remunerative to both manufac turer and merchant. A money market kept steady by fa vorable trade balances averaging close to half a billion dollars a year. These were the prime factors of our roc k - rooted p rospe ri ty. What has shaken the foundations of that prosperity? An Insane rage for the disturbance of sound economic laws and ideal eco nomic conditions, coupled with ill judged fulniinations against •"preda tory wealth," and no word of reproach for predatory political wreckers of business stability. Foolish and probably unlawful "trade agreements" designed to take work and wages away from American labor and han«l them over to foreign ers. Concerning which Congressman Mc- Call might truthfully say: "All of which i saw and part of which 1 wau." How Cuban Reciprocity Works. The round-up of trade with Cuba for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, does not show well for the wis dom which opened the door to a mar ket of 85,000,000 consumers, the most liberal on earth, in return for some few extra privileges in a market of less than 2,000,000 of relatively stuall consumers. Kven as a proposition in philan thropy our reciprocity experiment with Cuba has not been a shining suc cess. I trie fly stated, our generosity in allowing the Cubans a rebate of tar iff payments on their exports of sugar, tobacco and a few other things repre sents a money loss to this country of rather more than $(>6,000,000 a year. In 1907 we bought of Cuba products worth $97,441,690, and we sold to Cuba our products to the value of SIS,- 3:50,913. The difference between our sales to and our purchases from Cuba was $49,111,777. Close upon $50,000,000 went out of our money supply and was used by Cuba in purchasing from for eign countries commodities which for the most part Cuba could, had she felt so inclined, have bought in the United States. Then, too, on that nearly $98,000,000 of imports we granted a tariff rebate of 20 per cent. In this way some thing like $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 was kept from going into the United States treasury. Add to the adverse trade balance of nearly $50,000,000 the amount lost in treasury revenue and you have a pretty big total representing the cost of our philanthropical "reciprocity" with Cuba. Somebody is making bis; money out of the deal, but it is not the United States. • THE OLD COURSE IS THE SAFEST. • v:. *Jf t*r cat j*-™- t»- Our ship of state will find itself in troubled waters if her navigators are permitted to throw overboard the chart and compass that for ten years have guid»d the noble vessel through seas of unparalleled prosperity. Tariff Sense and Nonsense. Mr. I'ry;>n does not have much faith in the prediction that the tariff is tc be the paramount idea in the next campaign. He says that, in his opin ion, it will occupy no such place ol importance. It will be merely inci dental. Here is a matter upon whicb the Nebraskan is eminently right There is nothing in the tariff to quar rel over. This country continues tc believe in a protective tariff, which is the true basis oi! our industrial and commercial supremacy. This country is not going to abandon that policj next year. To abandon it or to mod ifj it greatly even would bring upon this country industrial horrors compared with which those of a dozen years ag< would be mild, indeed. As we arc industrially greater now than we werf then so our depression would be greater. Cedar Rapids Republican. "Sumptuary laws," says a Xash ville Democratic paper, "are becom ing cardinal doctrines? of the party that, formerly insisted that tlie best government. wa:> the one that kov erned least." The Democratic part} appears to be in a condition to flop promiscuously without seriously injur ins its prospects. GHALLEKSE IS NOT ACCEPTED NEW YORK YACHT CLUB RE FUSES LIPTON'S RACE Of^FER. The Refusal Is Because Sir Thomas Proposed to Limit the Size of the Boate —Decision of Club's Members Unanimous. New York City. Sir Thomas Upton's challenge for a contest for the America's cup in 1908 was declin ed last night by the New York Yacht club. Sir Thomas asked for a race of sloops under the 68-foot rating and the members of the club based their refusal to race on the general propo sition that the America's cup repre sents a trophy for the speediest type of yacht that can be produced on a water line length of 90 feet or under and that, therefore, any proposition to limit the size of the boats must be refused. The members of the New York Yacht elub at the meeting called to consider Sir Thomas' fourth challenge for a cup race, voted unanimously to reject the challenge, after Lewis Cass Ledyard, former commodore of tho club, made a speech in which he de scribed the deed of gift governing cup contests as drawn up by George L. Schuyler in ISB7. Mr. Ledyard pre sented a resolution declaring that the club could not take the position of limiting the water line length of the boats under the deed of gift. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, chairman of the r eetlng, appointed a cup committee to convene immediate ly after the meeting and prepare n reply to tiie challenge. The cup com mittee, made up of Commodore Van lerbilt, J. P. .Morgan, Lewis Cass I ed vard, K. 1). Morgan, F. G. Bourne, Henry Walters, Rogers Maxwell and Oliver Iselin, had a session which con tinued long after midnight. The sentiment of the club members at the meeting was that the Reliance, the winner of the last America's cup races, was still an unbeaten boat and that the race for the blue ribbon of the seas with smaller and therefore slower boats, was out of the ques tion. Mr. Ledyard made the only speech at the meeting, which was at tended by nearly 200 members of the club. THE TRIAL OF SENATOR DORAH. The Second Witness for the Prosecu tion Admits that He Is a Perjurer. noise, Maho. The first excite nienr in the trial ni I'niteU States Senator William F. Borah for allied conspiracy in land frauds came Wed nesday when Albert Nugent, the sec ond witness produced by the govern ment, admitted on cross-examination that he committed perjury in taking out a timber land claim; admitted that he had been promised absolute immunity by an officer ol' the federal government for testifying; admitted that at the request of the federal of ficer he had sworn to a complaint against a man whom he did not know, and proclaimed that he believed it to be part of his bargain for his immun ity that he should swear to any com plaint against any person, regardless of any knowledge that he might have as to the person's guilt. When the name of the federal officer who in duced him to sign the complaint was asked by Senator Borah's counsel the witness swore that he could not give it. The day was given over to the in troduction of a mass of paper on file at the land office at Boise and to the evidence of two men who said they received money from John I. Wells with which to prove their timber land claims. Wells Is one of the men in dicted with Borah. Counsel for tbe senator did not object to this testi mony. The defense scored its first point of the trial in the examination of the first witness, A. A. Anderson. He was asked by Special Prosecutor Rush what his intent was when lie took out a timber claim. Judge Whitson sus tained an objection, based 011 the ground that a mnn confessing perjury could not properly testify as to any secret intent he may have had. Anderson and Nugent both testified that they received l'rom John I. Wells $412 with which to prove their claims and each received $250 additional for transferring the claims to tlie Barber Lumber Co.'s interests. Two bills given to the men by Wells and a let ter from Wells to Nugent were admit ted in evidence. Anderson, an elderly Swede, was not cross-examined. Prosecutor Rush asked Nugent when any officer of the government had ever asked him to swear falsely. Nugent replied that he had always been fold to te.ll nothing but the truth. Conspiracy to Start a Revolution. Havana, Cuba. —A conspiracy to start a revolutionary movement in Cuba hs;s been discovered. Under In structions issued by Gov. Magoon a number of persons believed to be con nected with the conspiracy have been shadowed for several days past. It is believed that the movement is backed by New York capital. If by any chance tbe revolutionary movement had started the rural guards, backed by the American forces In the island, would have crushed it in lis inception. Will Sua Roads Who Ignore Law. Washington, 1). C. —United States district attorneys in various parts of the country were instructed Wednes day by Attorney General Bonaparte to institute suits againct a large num ber of railroad companies to recover penalties incurred by them for alleged violations of tbe safety appliance law. Thoy Want $1.25 Wheat. St. Paul, Minn. —The Minnesota union of the Amoricau Society of Equity, which claims the allegiance of U.',000 farmers in the northwest, on Wednesday passed a resolution at its convention calling on its members to hold wheat this fall until the price is $1.25. It was decided to hold flax for -f 1.30 at .Minneapolis, oats for 70 cents, rye for 41 cents. Toronto Won the First Game. Toronto, Ont.—Toronto's ball club aptured the first game with Colum >us for Class A honors here Wednes day by 12 to 4. TRYING TO BREAK IT GENTLY. "Gloriana," said the young college professor, pale with emotion, "in my judgment the time has come for me to speak." The young woman said nothing. She waited. "I shall try to be brief," he pro ceeded, "but I cannot shake off the conviction that it is necessary for me to express what is in my mind, in order to clear the atmosphere. Glo riana, have you any fault to find with the manner in which I have conduct ed myself for the last two months?" "Fault to find? No; not the least in the world." "I am glad to hear that. It makes my task easier. On my part, I may say, with equal frankness, that there has been nothing in your conduct dur ing that time to which I can take any exception whatever. And yet, Glo riana—please give me your close at tention now—we do not seem to have been wholly in accord. Has it so occurred to you?" "Perhaps." "Precisely. We seem to have been drifting apart. I am unable to al lege any reason. I find nothing tan gible on which to base a complaint. Yet the possibility has presented it self to my mind that we have made a mistake. The idea may not have suggested itself to you. For that reason I have hesitated. In the nat ural order of things the —er —first in timation should come from you. May I hope thai if I arjLumo the preroga tive myself it \\ill give you no pain when I request that we formally can cel our engage—" "O, that's all right, Prof. McGoozle," interrupted MLs Goovius, with a yawn. "I'm perfecttly willing to call it off. You are not the only plum in the pudding."—Chicago Tribune. Authoritative. Miss Prim—Mrs. DeFashion, I want to ask you a question. Some au thorities say cheese should be eat en with a fork and some say with the fingers, the same as bread. Now, which is right? Mrs. DeFashion —Both are right, my dear. New cheese should be handled with the fork, but very old cheese should be taken in the fingers. It might wriggle off the fork.—N. Y. Weekly. Too Much Stuck Up. Miss TTpperten (daughter of a rich manufacturer) —Pardon me, miss, but I have not the honor of your acquaintance. Miss Lowerten (who does not in tend to be put down in that style)—l thought you had, at one time; but never mind. Perhaps if my father owned a big mucilage factory like your father's, I'd be stuck up, too. — N. Y. Weekly. Wanted a Good Feed. Mr. Kraftee—Henry, while you're at the telephone, just tell my wife I'll bring Mr. Topnotch home to dinner with me jo-night. 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