2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. r»r year ..M 09 If paid ID fcdvance I Ml ADVERTISING RATES: AdTert'sements are published at the rate of •ae dullar per square for one insertion ami fifty •eats per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for si* or three months, •re lon and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal a"d Offlctal Advertising per square, threo times or less, «2: each subsequent inser tion •0 cents per square. I ,oc a 1 notioes lu cents per line for one lnser ■ertion: 5 cents per line for each subsequent tousecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over Are lines. 10 cent* per line Simple announcements of births, mar riages ami deaths will be inserted free. Business cards. Ave lines or less. «5 per year; over tlve lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PHKSS 1s complete and afford-, facilities for doing the best clc.ss of work. PARI ICUL.AH ATTENTION PAIDTO I,A» 1» HINTING. No paper will be discontinued ntll arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Chauncey Depew has retired from the presidency of the New York Central railway, but he will not lose anything by the change, as he is now chairman of the board of directors of all the Yander bilt roads. In view of all the talk about the pur chase of Cuba, Deputy Assistant 1 reas urer Muhleman, of tlie United. States subtreasury in New York, has compiled ihe total Cuban debt and says that it amounts to $280.000,000. The proposal emanates from Cornell university that young persons in educa tional establishments in one part of the country should correspond by letter with those in another. No doubt, if the persons were properly selected as to sex, they might find things more interesting to say to each other than observations on "geography, climate and social con ditions." Some one has discovered that the color of sin is not scarlet, as the good book would have us believe, but pink. On the theory that the men who ages ago wrote the Bible knew what they were talking about, this "discovery" will doubtless be looked upon as proof positive that the world is growing bet ter. If so, the more pink the better, even to pink teas. Uussia has about 1,000,000 men on a peace looting, and 2,500,000 on a war footing. It is supposed that within its Kuropean limits and in a defensive war the Russian army would hold first rank. The Napoleonic wars make this clear, but if Russia engages in a conflict with her far eastern neighbors she will lind her troops matched by an army that might prove in many respects superior to her own. There is a maxim: "Itis sweet to die for one's country." It is still better to live for it, and bless it by good works in every field to which you are called. There are heroes in the home, as well -as on the battle field, and they should always be in harmony. Heroes can never be expected upon the battle fields when there are not heroes and heroines in the "homes of the land. The one cre ates the other. Just as woman thinks s'lie has demon strated her fitness for a position in the front rank of human progress some thing always seems to interfere with her calculations. There is.the case of the Indiana young woman who ex ploded a dynamite cartridge with n hairpin as an example. If accidents of tiiis kind can happen, what is woman to do in case of war? Does anyone ex j>eet that she will consent togo into battle without, hairpins? There is a chimney 170 feet high running up from the separating de partment of the assay oiliee on Wall street, New York. It was built in 1854. Its inner lining of (ire brick was found last fall to be in bad condition. Some months ago the work of replacing the lining was begun, and a few days ago jt was completed. From the old fire brick 52 standard ounces of gold and 800 standard ounces of silver, together worth $1,500, were extracted. A St. Louis physician, who is a con firmed old bachelor, has started out to reform the habit that obtains of dress ing babies in long clothes, lie says that it. is necessary for the proper develop ment of babies that they should have plenty of leg room in which to kick. The St. Louis doctor is no doubt right. This thing of beginning at tin* very start in life to deprive a free American citi zen. of the right to kick is in \ iolation of the principle of republican government, and should have an end put to it. Before the house of representatives at Washington assembles each day there is placed on the speaker's desk a box shaped tray of solid silver. Promptly after the house adjourns it is taken back again to the speaker's room. It contains three small bottle, one for red ink, one for black ink, and one for sand, such as was used in the early days lor drying ink. 'The ink tray is part ol the furniture of the speaker's room and has more than ordinary interest, for it vas used by Ilenry Clay when he oc cupied the speaker's chair. A very - 'easy way to account for the first natives of the new world istoadopt the theory that the aborigines came Ironi Asia to America. The American museum of natural history will in a .short time send expeditions to visitand live for a time among the tribes of the northwest corner of America. This study of their modes of life andi com parison of their implements and skele tons will be carried through at least Icn tribes, and proofs of their descent from tribes that came over Beliring sea 1o this continent may, or may not, be •established. PROTECTION AND IMPORTS. Ilotv Production Stimulated t»y It Iu -' Dullm and American \\ I ncrcuHcd. A fall in imports may result from in creased defense and expansion of home industries, or from general prostration of industries and traiie. An increase in exports may result from such depres sion of business and of prices here that products are forced upon the world's markets for what they will bring, or it may come with rising prices as a conse quence of increased foreign demand. Since all these things are obvious, sound inferences from changes in for eign trade can he formed only in the light of a due regard for the nature and circumstances of those changes. But this does not alter the fact that protective duties do tend to diminish imports of certain kinds, and would not be perpetually denounced if they had 110 such tendency. The restriction of imports, when it stimulates home production of corresponding articles, may and often does result in the pay ment of millions of American laborers for their products instead of the pay ment of millions to foreign labor. It would be hard for thei most stalwart free trader to deny that the- duty on tin plates, for example, had stopped the payment of $15,000,000 or more to foreighers for their product, and caused the payment of sundry millions to Americans instead. If that duty and others of similar influence tend to lessen dependence upon foreign indus tries, to build up here a larger demand for American labor, the decrease in im ports appears to be a good thing for the country. 1.4 anybody prepared to deny it? So heavy imports may either mean that the country is borrowing money, a- the government did borrow $202,000,- 000 during Mr. Cleveland's term, or that it is pressed to liquidate foreign indebt edness previously existing as'it was when stocks and bonds came here from Europe in large quantity after Mr. Cleveland's election, or that domestic industries have made such progress that they are now able, with profit to makers and fair wages to labor, to send steel rails and other products abroad to markets which foreigners formerly controlled. It does not. require much intelligence to determine whether the export movement of pig iron, rails, plates, machinery and other products for which the country was once wholly dependent upon foreign sun plies has materially swelled the balance due to this country from others within the last year. Nor can it be denied that this result of steady or long-continued defense and development of home industries is but. the ripened fruit, the checking of foreign importation being the bud. It is by none assumed thattall protective duties entirely succeed in their object. But the fact that many have succeeded cannot be denied, in the presence of current events, except by one who has unusual indifference to truth. Other causes are all the time in fluencing foreign trade, quite apart from the operation of protective duties. That is not disputed by any intelligent protectionist, nor does he think it nec essary, unless writing for children, al ways to repeat in connection with every statement of the effect of protective du ties the obvious truth that other causes are at the same time constantly at work to increase or decrease exports or imports. Such other causes, not de pending upon the national policy as to tariff, are necessarily assumed in ail discussion. They do not in the least alter the plain fact that a duty which checks foreign imports and fosters do mestic production of tinplates, for in stance, tends to lessen the amount which the nation has to pay to foreign ers for their work, or the other fact that completely successful establish ment of industries by protection docs send millions' worth of iron, steel, ma chinery, rails and other products into foreign markets, adding to the amount which other nations pay this for its work. —X. Y. Tribune. A True I*utriot. However people may differ from Pres ident McKiniey on economic or other political issues, a*» concede that he has maintained liimscfi with absolute dig nity and manlhif s at every stage of the threatened disruption of our friendly relations with Spain; and his last dec laration made- on the subject of war will be heartily applauded by every patriotic citizen of the union. He said: "Bather my administration should be an ig nominious failure than that it should be responsible for an unholy war." Such is President M/cKinley's attitude before the country and before the world, lie is seriously threatened with war without having directly or indi rectly given any just cause to provoke it. lie has hewed to the line in the ob servance of the neutrality laws, and re solved all doubts in their favor, even to an extent that lias been criticised by many intelligent and fair-minded citi zens, but lie did it in the interest of peace. lie did it because the is_siie of war is of such grave magnitude that he felt compelled to err, if he erred at all, to avert the horrors- of war.—Philadel phia Times (Dem.). Sam feels pretty comfort ably off, thank you, and he has good reason to. (lovernment statistics just made public show that duringthe eight months ended February 28 American exports increased by $77,537,101 over those of the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, imports decreased by $10,5)32,110 and gold exports de creased by $42,-177,529. There is good cause for satisfaction in such a state of affairs.—Troy Times. in IS9B can afford to let the flies roost on the top rail of the fetice and let the howlers for a 50-cent dollar do the shrfuting; but they should plant and sow and reap. It is going to lie a great year for busy people.—Chica go Inter Ocean. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1898. I WANE OF THE SILVER ISSUE. Former* All Over Hie Country l)r< ■ rilliiu the Cause uf l'lieui> Money. The embarrassments which Chairman .Tones and his populist-silver allies en counter in their efforts to make the free silver cause the chief issue of the com ing congressional campaign multiply as they hear from the various parts of the country. Ik-aides the results of the ob ject lesson given to farmers by the steady rise in the value of consumptive productions, the populists are receiving the fusion proposition with coldness, and in many sections with absolute re jection. In Minnesota the silver leaders who visited that state to urge the populist? "to save the country" by helping elect democrats to office found no encourage ment. On the Pacific coast the fusion propo sition was met with bitter opposition and seems unlikely to be aeceepted. In Indiana the populists, in their state convention, not only rejected th 6 proposition, but went to the extent of displacing from the national committee one of the Indiana members who fa vored fusion and electing a nonfusionist in his place. This plan of removing fusionists from the. national committee has been re ceived with so much favor by the popu lists in other sections of the country that a counter movement to prevent t he complete elimination of fusionists from the national committee has begun by the presentation of a new rule, provid ing that members of the national com mittee cannot be removed without the approval of that committee itself. Whether this plan will make it possible to whip the populists into line for fu sion in the interests of the silver cause remains to be seen. Another difficulty and a more seri ous one —with which the managers of the proposed silver campaign find them selves confronted is the loss of strength of the issue in all elements of the com munity, and especially among the farm ers. When wheat advanced some months ago in the face of the steady decline of silver the excuse was made that it wa» due simply to a shortage abroad, and that it did not affect the claim that the low prices of farm products were due to the low price of silver or the absence of the class of currency which the free coinage men had been urging upon the country. But now that all classes of farm production have advanced ma terially in price since the enactment of the Dingley law and the resumption of work in the factories, it is impossible longer to assume that the advances are a mere incident due to shortages abroad or to further utilize the claim that the price of silver in some mysterious way governs the price of farm products. Even, in the case of cotton it has been shown that the low figure which it has received is due to an enormous increase in this country and in the world, while in other articles of farm production there has been a marked increase in prices. These advances apply pract i«-:i 1- ly to all articles produced by farmers, and as it was among the farmers that the members of the free silver party made the greatest gains in 1800, they naturally view with anxiety the pros pect, of their being able to lvold, through fusion in support of silver, the vote which they controlled in that election. Xpt, only do the advices received thus far show that they are not. going to be able to hold the populist vote, but they also show that the power of the silver issue has lost greatly among the farm ers, who are not only too busy and too prosperous again to consider it seri ously, but who find in the general ad vance in prices an absolute refutation of the claim that the low prices which obtained during the existence of the low tariff were due to the low price of silver of the earlier discontinuance of its coinage.—Chicago Times-Herald. PRESS OPINIONS. (T7Spanish credit has sunk almost to the level of the sixteen to one silver dollar. —Troy Times. ICT'The administration is a success and is receiving the support of the American people.—Albany Journal. ICSome of the Kentucky silverites explain that they hadl to pass a force bill because the populists are deserting free coinage. Fiat elections naturally harmonize with fiat money.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. ETllave faith in the wisdom of Presi dent McKinley. lie faces the crisis with courage and knowledge, lie will not fail to give a good account of the trust which the American people impose him. —Chicago Ilecord (Ind.). IT7Populist leaders of the democratic party are trying to find new issues in Oregon and other places where elec tions are in near prospect. The farm ers see the fallacy of the campaign of 'OO. There is a great difference between bankruptcy and a man with money in l:is pocket and more in sight.—Chicago Inter Occ»:.n. tc>"The malice with which Senator Ilanr.a has been pursued and traduced, with the utter disregard of the facts and with the explicit intention to mis represent, is abominable. He has borne, as few men would have borne, the blackest calumnies of type and cartoon that malice could (Jevise. —Columbu:; (O.) Dispatch. IT"Jiryan intends to have at least one big newspaper on his side in 1900. Ilia party is going to start it in Chicago. In 1890 every newspaper of real ability and influence ii> the country except a few in the Kocky mountain states and one in San Francisco was against. Bry an, but lie intends to have better jour nalistic support two years hence. Ilis Chicago venture, however, will not help him. Organs created for an occasion can help nobody and nothing. Bryan's projected organ will be the mouthpiece of the silver trust, anc^ everyone who sees it will know this. It will have no influence: it will win r.o votes. St. Louis olobe-Democrat.- A WARNING FKOM LEE. It Causad the President to With hold His Message. .1 Report that Spain was About to De clare an AriiiintU'e in Cuba wan Also a Factor in Changing the Situa tion Outlook for Peace in Saithers in the insurgent army, are in a state of terror. Consul General Lee says be has re ceived no instructions to leave Havana. It is reported, however, that some of the consular records were sent north by the Maseotte yesterday. Some Spaniards talk wildly about the United States fleet being blown out of water by fire from the Havana batteries on the water front, but as careful practice two days ago showed the inability of the gunners to come within 100 yards of a target on smooth water at a range of two miles, naval men need not be apprehensive of tl" effect of the Havana guns. There Will l>e No I.iirk of Money. Washington. April 7. hast evening President McKinley had a long confer ence with John A. McCall, of New York, who assured the president that the government would be put to no embarrassment by a lack of money with which to prosecute a war. It is said that Mr. McCall told the president that within 4S hours he could raise among the financial institutions of New York alone S'iOO,ooo,ooo, which the ■ government could have upon its own j terms, and that if a popular subserip- | tion was called for $500,000,000 could | he obtained. You Have ~ 1 Always Bought AVcfi c Prep aration for As - 30 > slmflatingtiieFoodandßegula- H _ _ M ting the Stomachs andßoweJs of M jjg&pg tllO a i ■■■ml Steßture yVi' ProtnotcsTHgestion,Cheerful- 9 M _/ lj^ ness and Itest.Contafns neither §1 n f / If || Opmm.Morphine nor Mineral. U1 * f\ '1 Ij NOT NARCOTIC. 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