FODL THE PEOPLE MOTTO OF "GET-RICH-QUICK" MEN AND FAKIRS. HOW SCHEMES ARE WORKED Desire to Get "Something for Noth ing" Is Played Upon—Exercise of Common Sense Would End Graft. "You can fool some of the people part of the time, but you can fool oth ers all the time," seems to be a motto of the get-rich-quick men and "gold brick" operators. Pages of the daily and weekly press may be filled with warnings tc readers to lie on the look out for swindlers, yet many who are credited with intelligence will keep right on biting at baits thrown out to them by various concerns who sell "cats in bags." Psychologists say that every person has a weak spot somewhere in the brain. It seems that this softness is commonly manifested in false reason ing that frequently one can get some thing for nothing. Understanding this desire on part of the majority, the fakirs bait their hooks accordingly. There are large concerns which have built up great enterprises by repre senting to the people that with each bill of goods purchased the buyer gets "something fcr nothing." Just think of a "graft" like this that will draw SI,BOO worth of soap or ders in a single month from a town of 10,000 people! But this is just what has been done within the past few months. Just think of wives of grocers and dry goods merchants in large cities joining "soap clubs" and paying a dollar each month to a for eign concern just to secure a pre mium, while their husbands could supply them at half the cost all the soap and the premium too! Yet such is the drawing power of"the something for nthing" argument, if the Creator pa\ e these women com mon sense, tfcey little know how to utilize it. Sor.ie means should be devised to tax directly or indirectly the con cerns in foreign cities that seek to do business directly with consumers through the n;uils. At present they ■are protected by the interstate com merce law. These concerns make their money by dealing with the peo ple of some community, where they pay no taxes direct or license fees. The merchants of the town are taxed upon the business they do. Is this proposition a fair one? The for eign insurance companies doing busi ness in a state must pay a license fee for so doing. Why not compel the foreign mercantile concern to do the same? Our national laws should lie so constructed as to provide that there be a tax on tho amount of busi ness transacted in a state by any mercantile concern in another state, unless the business be transacted by concerns which pay taxes within the state for the doing of such business. D. M. CARR. FCR GREATER ECONOMY. Manufacturing Drifting Closer to Fields Where Raw Material Is Produced. "Economy in every industry is he coming more pronounced year after year. Manufacturing centers are drift ing toward locations where the raw materials can be secured at lower cost. During the past ten years cot ton manufacturing in the south has increased more than a hundred per cent., and there has been a decrease in the production of textile manufac turing centers in the New England states in proportion to the increase in •consumption. A score of years ago the great flour manufacturing centers •were in New York and other eastern states. To-day the west controls man ufactures of flour and cereal foods. When mills are located in centers of wheat and corn producing sections in number sufficient to utilize the crops of local territory, it will work a bene ' fit to the farmers of the- land in tho saving of what is now paid in freight rates or raw products to manufactur ing centers, and the distribution cost to consumers of the land. Every farm er can help better conditions and help himself by giving his support to local manufacturing enterprises. An Advertising Trick. Every reader of newspapers who 'has the power of observant knows the deception practiced in advertis ing. Often a fine picture of a stove or some other article has in large figures a price given which is a third of what the real worth of the article Is, and the rest of the advertisement so skillfully worded as to give the im pression that it is the article illus trated that is sent for the low price. This is for the purpose of securing an order for an article which, when received is found to be far different from what the person who sent the order expects to receive. How would the home merchant fare should he advertise in the same manner? Would he not tie placed on the list of trick sters? Building Up Trusts. During the past ten years billions of dollars have been sent to the large cities by the residents of rural com munities, and these billions have been used in building up trusts that work .against the best interests of the masses who reside in agricultural sec tions. Is it not time to awaken to the dangers of sending money away from the home towns? MAKING CHEAP GOODS. Low Prices Too Often Mean Inferior Articles. Efforts to cheapen cost of produc tion of numerous classes of Roods and to place them on the market in com petition with well advertised lines, and at much lower price, has influ enced not too honest tnanufacturers to turn out very inferior articles. So long as they can be made attractive in exterior appearance so as to please those whose tastea are for the "showy" seems to be the only consid eration. In the manufacture of stoves and ranges particularly is there great opportunity for fraud. In different cities of the middle west are largo concerns that make a specialty of manufacturing stoves to supply deal ers who depend on cheapness to se cure sales. These manufacturers buy from junk dealers all classes of old iron, and this remelted and worked over enters largely into their manu factured articles. The result is that a stove is produced that while it ap pears to be all right, a few months' use will prove it to be almost worth less. The tensile strength is not there, the metal is rotten and brittle, and the expansion caused by the heat makes it warp and crack. The linings are of the poorest material. One of the tricks employed is the use of old sheet iron for lining. Throughout the south and in many of the large northern cities tho manu facture of artificial ice is extensively carried on. Galvanized iron cans of tlie capacity of a 300-pound ice-cako are used, and in every largo plant thousands of cans are in use. The ammonia that is used in the process of freezing soon causes the cans to corrode, and then they are rendered useless for the purpose required. The stove manufacturing concerns buy up these discarded cans, and use them for lining stoves. It can be judged that the life of the stove in this way is shortened, hut as the stoves are never intended to last long, the lining is as good as the other material which enters into their composition. In appearance these stoves are all tha', can be desired, but their wearing and durable qualities are not half that of a properly made stove should be. They are often sold at as high prices as the best article, but more frequent ly are disposed of as "big bargains," and are dealt in extensively by con cerns that advertise themselves as "manufacturers," and do business "di lect with the consumers" through the mails. Makers of stoves who put out brands of goods known to be standard never rysort to such methods, as one inferior stove might result in the loss of a dozen sales, and no reputable stove dealer or hardware merchant would handle the goods. I). M. CARR. HOME NEWSPAPERS. Are Factors in the Enlightenment of the People. This is an era when the business man who would succeed must place the right value upon publicity. This is the most enlightened era tho world lias ever known. Only a small per centage of the people, particularly among the English speaking, cannot read and write, and in fact it is a rare tiling to find an illiterate person in any American community. in every farmer's house can be found from one to a dozen newspa pers and periodicals. The old-style farmer Is fast passing, and there is a general admission that intelligence, in fact scientilic training is needed on the farm as well as in tho business house and factory. With telephones, daily rural delivery serv ice and every innovation of civiliza tion, the American farmer is fast be coming noted among the educated and advanced classes. They are readers, thinkers and logicians. Growing gen erations in agricultural communities have all the advantages that the youth of cities have, and few of the disad vantages. They surely breathe a healthier moral atmosphere. The farmers arc tho main support of the country press. They feel interested in all local affairs, and the home pa per is the means of keeping them in formed of things going on immediate ly about them. If the average mer chant would give as substantial sup port to the home paper as does the farmer, the editor would not only be enabled to give the farmer a better paper, repp sent his interests better, but the merchant would receive a ben efit in seeing his town improve and its business increased, and ail his environments improved. Millions Are Lost Annually. Fifty millions of dollars annually Is a conservative estimate of the amount that the people of the United States are swindled out of through the opera tion of fraudulent investment and in surance concerns. How easily people are influenced to make investments in questionable con cerns, lias been recently strongly il lustrated through the operations of the different alleged cooperative mer cantile, home-building and investment schemes which have been declared fraudulent by the postal authorities. It is during tjie times of prosperity that the schemers find the richest field. People who never had the hand ling of much money, and who find in their possesion a few hundreds of dollars, just have enough for tho "taste" of wealth so that they are easy victims for the sharpers who op erate "f;kke" enterprises which bold out alluring promises of great re turns on small investments. State laws /or the control of such concerns should be stringent, and severe pun ishment meted to those who operate them. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1907. LEADERS OF PLOT ARE ARRESTED THEY PLANNED TO START AN UPRISING IN CUBA. ORIGINATED IN NEW YORK. Americans Were Behind the Scheme and the Three Men Arrested Were Professional Agitators Hired for tha Job. Havana.—The secret police on Thursday arrested Gen. Jlasso Parra, and a little later took into cus tody Gen. Juan Ducassi and Gen. Lara Miret, charged with conspiring against public order. Parra is the alleged leader of the conspiracy to start, a revolution against the Americans in Cuba, with the use of funds supplied from or through some firm on Broadway. New York It is known that simultaneous ly with the arrival of Parra at Havana three Santo Domingans well known on account of their previous revolu tionary records, also reached this port, and it is stated that other indi viduals of a similar character are working in eastern Cuba. It is known that the conspiracy originally was hatched in New York by certain Americans whose names, ii is said, already are in possession of the I iiited States secret, service olli iers, and it is stated that the leaders her ■ w: re simply professional revolu tionists hired for the job. In consequence of the arrests made here it is believed the movement will result in a miserable fiasco. Gov. Magoon, however, is not taking any chances . He Is amply prepared, with r.,000 American soldiers and f>,ooo rural guards, to crush any move ment an instant after it is started. The governor issue ,1 a statement Thursda;. in whi h lie said, regarding the arrest of Mn n Parra. Juan Du cassi and Lara Miret, that he had been advised of their actions for some time p;i;i and had waited for them to carry out their work to some definite end. lie was well aware of their con spiracy, and deemed it advisable to put an end to the disturbance they were creating. To this the governor would add that Cuba had many important questions to occupy its attention for the next six or eight months, and it is desired that »lie minds of the people be not distracted from these important mat tors by agitators and disturbers of the peace of the island. The men arrested appear to be the leaders of this move ment. It was rumored hero last night that Gen. listunoz and Gen. Acosta had taken to the field, but the report could not bo confirmed. It is known that the loaders of the movement planned to start the revo lution Thursday at seven different poi nts si mu 1 taneousl y. When Gen. .Miret was taken into custody he was in an automobile and it is alleged be was preparing to leave for the locality assigned him. Members of the conservative party are greatly worked up over the arrest of Gen. Ducassi, who has been declar ing himself in sympathy with that party. A number of prominent con servatives called upon Gov. Magoon and insisted that Ducassi be released, urging his innocence. The governor replied that if he was innocent he would have ample time to prove it. The conservatives retired and after a consultation returned to plead again, but their second effort was as futile as the first. THE CREDIT CURRENCY BILL. Convention of Bankers Goes on Rec ord as Approving It. Atlantic City, N. J. —The report of the currency commission ap pointed by the American Bankers' as sociation at St. Louis last year was made Thursday to the convention of the American Bankers' association now in session in this city. The re port recommends a measure introduc ed in tlie last session of congress known as the credit currency bill. The provisions of the proposed act were made known to the convention by A. B. Hepburn, of New York, chairman of the commission. The report was adopted and the commission was con tinued and its powers enlarged. An attack upon the plan of the commission was made by a number of western delegates, especially by A. J. Frame, of Michigan, who contended that the primary cause of money shortage in the United States was due to over-speculation and that the credit currency plan pointed backward to eighteenth century fiatism. As an alternative he advocated a central re serve fund. He was supported in his views by a number of other members, to all of whom Congressman Charles N. Fowler, of New Jersey, chairman of the house committee on banking and currency, replied in a stirring speech. He declared that this country is the only one without some form of credit currency. Railroaders in Cuba Strike. Havana. A general strike of employes of the United Railroads and the Havana Central railroad was declared Thursday. Trains are run ning with tiie help of the engineers only, without firemen or conductors. A tieup of all the roads in the island is feared. Lipton Will Issue Another Challenge. London, lCng.—Sir Thomas Lip ton, although disappointed at the fail ure of the New York Yacht club to ac cept his recent challenge, announced Thursday that he was prepared to challenge with a 00-foot boat, under the New York Yacht club rules. Killed by an Automobile. Newark, N. J. —Marcus J. Jacobs manager of the Columbia theatre here, was run down and killed by an automobile as he was crossing Broad street last night. The machine was going at high speed and did not step aftor the accident. THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS MAKE FINE RECORDS fN SHOOT ING AT TARGETS. i Men on Battleship Alabama Score 80 Per Cent, of Hits at a Distance of 6.000 Yards. Washington, D. O. Although the quarterly target practice of the Atlan tic fleet is still in progress in Massa chusetts Hay anil the results are not formally reported to the navy depart- I mcnt, returns have reached Washing | ton showing that a remarkable degree j of proficiency in target shooting has ; been reached by the gunners of the 1 fleet. It is particularly gratifying to j the officials of the department to note j that this shooting has been accom : pitched at ranges that a few yei'.rs ago i would have been considered absolute ; ly impossible. For instance, in the Spanish war ! Admiral Schley was criticized for I bombarding the Santiago Moro cas | tlo at a distance of 7,000 yards; yet the vessels of the Atlantic I fleet during tho past fortnight have been making splendid gun practice at ranges from 7,000 to '.<,000 yards. The battleship Alabama lias finished her practice and appears to be an easy winner. She made the remarkable score of 80 per cent, of liitj; with her 13-inch guns at a distance of about 'I.OOO yards, or nearly miles. Iter firing Mas directed by Lieut. Landen berger, who was a member of the navy rifle team that won the national trophy at Camp Perry, 0., lasi. month. The target used by all the ships was a canvas screen 30 feet high and t;o feet wide, yet it looked remarkably small at a distance of from three to four miles. The battleships steamed past at ten knots, beginning to shoot at the target when it was 5,000 yards away, the nearest distance, and con tinued shooting until the range be came 9,000 yards, or five miles. INTEND TO BRANCH OUT. Independence Leaguers Propose to Extend Their Organization. New York City. The organiza- I tion of a National Independence league was decided upon at a meeting Friday of representatives of state In dependence leagues and others who are in sympathy with the objects of these leagues as outlined instate or local platforms. The national body will be a solidification of minor leagues existing or yet to be formed. Its aims are political and in opposition to the republican and democratic par . ties, which the league promoters de clare are dominated by corporation i»- terosts and no longer are represent ative of the people. Friday's conference was held at Carnegie hall, where some 200 men, said to represent 30 states, met at the invitation of the Independence league of this city and were addressed by William K. Hearst, the gubernatorial Candidate last fall of the Independence league and democratic parties in tlds state. Before his endorsement by tho democratic state convention and sub sequent defeat by (rov. Hughes, Mr. Hearst was the Municipal league's candidate for mayor and was beaten by Mayor McClellan, tho democratic nominee. Afternoon and evening sessions were held, the feature of the afternoon being the address by Mr. Hearst, who said that the conference had been called to discuss the advisability of forming a National Independence league. He told of the success of the league in New York, Massachusetts | and California, and urged the forma | tion of a minor league in every state | and the union of all in a general body. | Tho republican and democratic par ! ties, he said, were hopelessly in the i control of corporation interests*. They : failed, he said, to truly represent the I people and a third party was sorely I needed. j There were other speeches, ' after 1 which two committees, one on organi -1 nation and another to prepare a plat form outlining the aims of the na j tional body, were appointed. DUN'S TRADE REVIEW. Reports of Retail Business are Favor able, but Manufacturing Returns are Not So Bright. New York City.—R. Cr. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Lower temperature accelerated the distribution of seasonable nierchan i dise and mercantile collections be came more prompt, but agricultural : prospects wore less bright in a few 112 sections that experienced killing frost before the crops were beyond danger. | Reports of retail trad' are favorable i with scarcely tiny exception, the fall demand equalling sanguine expecta tions, and jobbers in all leading linee I of wearing apparel report the season's i results equal to last year's. Manufacturing returns are more ii regular, but most pl-aits are w U oi j cupied and have orders coverimr pre | ductlon for some months. Pii.vhuv j for more remote delivery ar> re- -ii : | ed by the financial uncertainty. J ;>r | ity of labor retards wcrk sit munj points, while other delays are duo ti strikes, of which several are in pro gress. There is also much complaint of car shortage, but not more than Is customary at this season. Iron ami steel producers are still fully occupied filling old orders and many plants have enough business on hand to be independent during the balance of this year, but new con tracts are placed with increasing cau tion. A Gettysburg Monument Is Dedicated. Gettysburg, Pa. The state oi New York on Friday dedicated the bronze and marble monument on Culp's Hill erected by the state to commemorate the services of Gen. George Greene anil the nine New York regiments under his command engaged in the night, fight of July 2, 1863. Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, U. S. A., retired, presided. Taft Arrives at Yokohama. Yokohama, Japan. The steamer Minnesota, with Secretary Taft and hie party on board, arrived here this morning. I Balcom & Lloyd. 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