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The Job department of the PHMS IS complete •ad affords facilities for doing the best class ol Work PA li t ICULAB ATTENTION PAID To 1„A» PdISTITO. No paper will be discontinued ntll arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub her. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. The report of the United States geological survey for 1597. just com pleted, shows a total mineral produc tion of $0.12,312.347 in value. Mother fiarth treats Uncle Sam uncommonly well. The hero of heroes, bar none, is George Dewey. It. has been more than half a century since he «us whipped, and then the job was performed by i village schoolmaster who slipped up behind him. The annihilation of the Mahdists by Kitchener's troops has left 300,000 women lo be cared for by the. British. This feminine surplus can't be married off in a da.v and the liritish authorities rton't know what to do with them. That man Anthony who. w hen blown up on the Maine, saluted ( apt. Sigsbe* and said: "Sir, i have to report that the ship has been blown tip and issink ing," evidently is totally devoid of fear in the face of peril. He was married the other day. Prof. Vircliow says the progress be ing made in studying the act ion oft ho brain assures the discovery sooner or later of how it thinks. Too many peo ple think they are thinking when they let their thoughts wander and then as sort their conclusions in a loud, strident tone. Capt. D. C. Woodrow, of the United States navy, has in his possession the flag floated by the Virginius on its ill fated filibustering trip to Santiago in 1873. It was taken from the vessel by the captain himself. December 25. 1873, just before the ship sank while being brought back to the United States. Admiral Dewey has lately been much annoyed by people claiming to be ac quainted with him. Itecently a stran ger walked up to him, extended his hand and exclaimed: "Admiral, 1 bet you don't remember me." Admiral Dewey, recognizing in him one of these bores, answered laconically: "You've won your bet," and walked off. Hon. Thomas 15. Reed's congression al career has had enough excitement in it to satisfy the demands of the most ardent politician, lie has been elected j2 times, by majorities ranging from 117 to 10.539. His smallest majority was in the year IsSO, and since then he has always instructed the barber not to give him a very close shave. The people of Connecticut are angry because the name of that state is to be given to a monitor and not to a battle ship. Vet tiie secretary ol' the navy has aimed to please them. Connecticut should be contented with its present allotment of honors. It has \ ale, the Waterbury watch, raises all the tin** grades of pure Havana tobacco, ana ia represented'abroad by Mark Twain. A prominent Spaniard, a long resi dent in Havana and a man of unusual observation and intelligence, at tributes the strength of the United States to the strength in mind and body of the American women. He says: "Give 1,000,000 American women as wives to the young men of Spain and the nation in a quarter of a century will take its place again among the greatest nations of Europe." One of the most remarkable races in history has ended in New York in a victory for the American bark Saranac which beat the British bark St. Mtmgo in a long race of 10.000 miles from the Philippines. Notwithstanding the fact that they steered! different courses, the Saranac going by way of Barbados and St. Helena, and the St. Mungo by Ascension, they arrived at New York within a very few minutes of each other. J. W. Johnson, tiie president of the University of Oregon, who died a short time ago, was a remarkable instance of a man who had to fight his way through the world. When he was ten years old he did not even know the al phabet, but he became seized with a de sire to learn, and finally worked his way through Yale, graduating fifth in a class of 100. and attaining before his death a very prominent place in nation si educational circles. Since the United States government was formed 19,000 white men, women and childre7i have been slain in Indian wars and affrays and about 30,000 In dians, at an expense to our govern ment of $807,073,658. To this immense sum must be added the civil expendi tures of the government on behalf of the Indians, which, between 1770 and 1890, amounted to $259,944,082, making a total of $1,067,017,740 for civil and military expenses, in connection with the noble red man. MINERS ARE PROSPEROUS. An Esnmplr of the Ileneflta of a Pro tective Tariff to Work ing uien. No better illustration of the benefi cial effects of the Dingley tariff could be desired than may be had by a com parison of the financial and industrial condition of the southeast Missouri lead district now and two years ago. As is generally known, lend is the lead ing product of this section, and the price of this staple is a sort of barome ter governing the price of all other products. As the price of lead goes up or down, the price of labor, farm prod ucts, etc., advance or decline. Under the operation of the Wilson tariff law the price of lead was steadily hammered down until at the time of the presidential election of IS9O it was only worth about cents per pound. At this price it was only the largest and best equipped plants that, by rea son of great output, were able to con tinue operations without actual loss. And even this was only made possible by a system of economizing that, while cutting expenses in every other direc tion also, necessarily reduced the price of labor to the lowest living rate, while the amount of labor that could find em ployment even at these reduced rates was greatly restricted. Lead being the basis on which every other industry rested, and from which, directly or indirectly, all others ob tained the means of continuing their existence, it naturally followed that, owing to the small amount of money disbursed by the lead interest, the de mand for all other products was greatly reduced, enterprise of every kind was completely paralyzed, and a condition of business stagnation that amounted to absolute financial distress existed in the lead district of southeast Mis souri less than two years ago. To realize the change that has been wrought under a republican adminis tration in the short time it has beeti at the helm, one has only to open his eyes and look about him. An advance of about 30 per cent, in the price of lead has restored wages, inspired new min ing enterprises, giving employment to additional labor, while the old plants are all operating to their full capacities. Large accessions have been made both to the population and permanent wealth of the district, while a feeling of security and confidence in the sound ness and permanence of our present financial system pervades the whole community. During the past eight months there have been more substantial improve ments made in this place (among which I may mention a $25,000 public school house) than during any previous five years in its history. Jlepublicans do not now have to offer arguments in vindication of their policy, it being only necessary to refer to their record and point to facts already accom plished. In the meantime those who two years ago were near going into convulsions in contemplation of the dire calamities that they assured us would follow a re publican victory are now too busy gath ering' in all they can of republican pros perity to say a word in vindication of their now defunct theories.—St. bonis (ilobe-Demoerat. A TARIFF FOR THE PEOPLE. The Dinuley !.au lliin Put Money in Ihe i'ocketa of Our Kit borers. A census of leading industries in 47 «tates and territories shows that under the Dingley law there is a great in crease in wages paid to labor. The amount of wages for 1898 is 44 J er cent., or $1,004,015,272 gieater than in 1805. This comes home to all who were out of employment or were employed at low wages in 1895 and 1890. There was improvement as soon as it was known that Mr. McKinley was elected, and there was still greater improvement as soon as the Dingley bill became a law. \ billion dollars mo'f went into the pockets of workingmen in the last year than in 1895. If the amount paid to agricultural laborers, miners and miscellaneous workers is added, the la borers of the United States will be found to have received $2,000,000,000 more in 189S than in 1895. The value of the home market in the United States is 20 times the aggregate value of all our foreign markets. The Dingley law gave the Americans the advantage in the home market, yet at the same time it enabled our manufac turers to enter foreign markets 'o a li.rger extent than ever before. The exports of merchandise from the Unit ed States increased from $793,392,299 under the Wilson tariff in 1895 to sl,- 210,291,91.'i under the Dingley tariff in 1898. When President Harrison sent his last message to congress in December, 1592. the country was at the high-water mark of prosperity. The national debt had been decreased, there was a surnlus in the treusury and there was activity in every branch of industry. Under Cleveland ard the Wilson tariff the na tional debt was increased, the treasury was depleted and industries were pros trated. Under the Dingley tariff law the surplus in the treasury increased, and when war came upon the country the money for war expenses was ready. In spite of war we continued to send American goods abroad and to receive gold in return. The Dingley law has increased our producing capacity, has put more money in the pockets of our laborers and has built up great enter prises that have given employment to 'housands who, under the Wilson law, were idle. What more can the Amer ican people «»k? —Chicago Inter Otvwin. C7"Mark lUfinn is about the cleverest political g' rt-ral the republican party ever had. jl« is generally admired by epublicans. He has proved himself to >e wise, sagacious, honest anil ineor uptible. The public has confidence in his integrity.—Detroit Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1898. LIES OF SILVERITES. The- I'nnir Makcm Arc Apn I u at Their Old Trick*—Tlielr Flop on I lie \\ hr. A local democratic silverite paper prints some cartoons representing the republican party as disclaiming the war at its approach and claiming it after it was over. The falsity of such assertions will be apparent to every thinking man. When the proposition of war with Spain first began to be broached the great majority of the "peace at any price" men were sixteen to one bad money democrats, headed by Bryan and flanked by mugwumps. And now a sixteen to one organ has the un utterable effrontery to label its own party's unpatriotic bellowings as re publican. The value-destroying, panic-making free silver democrats at the head of the party never wanted to see Cuba freed, lirst, last or at any time, lintthe young men among the democrats, in spite of their unpatriotic leaders, joined the young republicans in insisting that Spain should be punished for its horri ble perfidy in destroying the Maine, and that the Cubans should be rescued from its tyrannical, robber grasp. The whole republican party, with the presi dent at its head, came marching rapid ly up to this patriotic position, not only remaining there but progressing 418 events progressed. What have the democratic leaders done in the meantime? At first they pretended to support the president in his war measures, because they were afraid of the resentment of the young democrats. But they soon saw that the war was going to table or kill their darling sixteen to one, panic-making scheme, so they ceased to support the war. Since then they have been fight ing it and its supporters and howling for nothing but the bad money plank of l.r,van's Chicago platform. That was the cause of their backward flop. That is where they stand. This prating about a "republican war" is all in the talk of the partisan sixteen to one democrats. Why are they all anti-expansionists, "Col." Bry an at their head? Why are they mak ing war on the president ? Why are the bad money schemers sheering at and deriding "republican statesmanship" and offering nothing themselves but hostility mid abuse? They hated the war from the word go, and tlicy hate it now, with all its glorious results, be cause these things only show up the vontemptible littleness of their pirati cal designs upon the credits and the prosperity of the nation. That is the real animus of all the democratic jeal ousy of the recent war.—Chicago Trib , une. GOLD ENOUGH. An ol tier Si I verile Lie I* Nulled by t tie Ollielnl Itcport from the .Mint. The refutation of the plea of the sil verites that there is not enough gold to answer the demands of the gold stand ard for money is found in the reports of the production of gold throughout the world. The director of the mint has just pub lished his report of the gold production of the United States and of the world for last year. It shows a vast increase over J Mill, just as 1890 showed an in crease over preceding years. Taking the world's prod net ion. Africa leads with something over $.">8,000,(100. The I'nited States comes next with over $57,000,000, and Australia next with over if ■.1,000,000. Kussia leads European countries with $23,000,000. Altogether the world's output of gold for lh'JT was nearly $2.'i8,000.000, which is an increase of Olio,ooo over the output of IS9O, and more than twice as much as was produced in IS9O. The indications for the present year are that these figures will be surpassed and that not less than $270,000,000 will be the production for IS9B. The statistics for the United States show that Colorado has at least sur passed California as a pold state, her output being $19,000,000, as against $14,000,000 for California. South Da kota —the Black Ilills region—comes next with $5,000,000, and Montana with $4,000,000. With such a production of gold the world over—one that is a permanent addition to the world's wealth —how futile it is to say that there is not gold enough to answer the demands of a monetary system founded upon it? Tt may seem paradoxical to say so, but the more gold we have the less we will need it as money. The world's business is done upon paper, and all that is needed is a uniform standard for the paper. That standard is gold, and we have it in abundance. —Chicago Times-Herald. COMMENT AND OPINION. IcrEvcry man advocating the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one is an attorney for the degradation of Amer ican w age-earners.—J. Sterling Morton. tCTLet the fear which the Bryanites brought to the country in July, 1896, be brought to it to-day and factories would begin to close down to-morrow. —lndianapolis Journal. ICThe American dollar is received with full honors in our new posses sions. It needs no apology, standing good everywhere for 100 cents. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. IT?" The New York Sun remarks that the lowa democracy determined to stand by Bryan and not by American ism, and concludes: "Chasteningnever teaches the lowa democrats anything." —lowa State Register. CAbundant crops and good prices have done much to win back the Nebraska farmers from the support of popocratic heresies. No wonder Col. Bryan wishes to get home and attend to his fences. With Nebraska republic an in 185)8, Bryan's prestige at the na tional convention would be feeble in deed.— Troy Times. MAJORITY OF 13. Republicans Claim It for the Lower House of Congress. GAINS IN THE SENATE. They Assure Republican Control for the Next Eight Years. CHAIRMAN RARCOCK TALKS. lie He vines His KMiinate ol' Ml* Party's Strength in tlie National l,cu< Irtlaliire l liairman Kerr « laim* a Democratic .Majority in lln' House, Washington, Nov. 11.—Chairman Kabcock, of the republican congres sional committee, believes that the republican majority in tlie next house will reaeh la. He is convinced that the manifest drift in the west when the returns are all 111 will show that enough districts, now doubtful, have been carried to swell the majority to 13. Mr. Babcoek says that the gains in the west are due to the desire of the people to indorse the administration and to express their satisfaction over the return of prosperity. The repub licans carried five districts west of the Missouri which they hardly hoped for, but they were offset by the loss of four districts in New York and one in Masssohusetts, so that Mr. Babcock's original calculations as to the result proved approximately correct. Mr. Itabcock says the public hardly realizes the full extent of the republic an victory. Even more important, he says, than the fact that the next house will be republican is the sweeping change in the senate, where the fruits of Tuesday's election will give the re publicans IS majority. "That majori ty cannot possibly be overcome for eight years," said Mr. Uabcock, "and for at least that period the business in terests of the country are safe. Repub lican policies must prevail for that length of time. Even if the next house and the next president should be for free silver, a republican senate would block their path. Besides the majority in the senate will give us a clean working majority there for the enact ment of our policies without the em barrassment that comes from narrow majorities. There need be 110 deals with the kickers. We will have a re publican majority sufficient to work freely and what we do can be done with the knowledge that our legisla tion will have ample time to vindicate itself before a hostile senate can be lected to upset it." Late in the afternoon Chairman Uabcock completed a list of the repre sentatives elected to the Fifty-sixth eongress. The latest authentic advices received by tlie republican committee indicate that two districts are in doubt yet, viz.. the Second California and the Twefth Texas, in both, however, Mr. IJabcoek concedes that the chances are favorable to the democrats. Mr. Uab cock \s figures show the election of 185 straight republicans, 103 democrats, six populists and one silver republican. These figures do not include tlie two doubtful districts mentioned. Con ceding these two districts to the demo crats, as a means of reaching delftiite results, Mr. Babcock claims a certain majority of 13 over all opposition. Little information of a definite nature was received by the democratic congressional committee last night. Secretary Kerr maintained that the opposition to the republicans would organize and control the next house. His figures indicated that the opposi tion would have at least ISO votes and perhaps ISI. QUAY IS A CANDIDATE lie Announces His Intention to Kun Again lor ISe-eleetioii to tlie Sieil alc. Philadelphia, Nov. 11.—Senator Quay last night announced his candidacy for re-election to his present office. He said: "All of my friends have been aware of my personal apathy to another term in the senate, but those prominent in the late crusade against the republican state and legislative candidate,* chose to force the issue. They have made it imperative that 1 shall be a candidate for re-election. The gauge of battle is accepted. The result is in the hands of the republican members of the in coming legislature, a very large pro portion of whom are my political and personal friends. Throughout the campaign just closed enormous sums of money were used to defeat repub lican legislative candidates. 1 have no doubt efforts will be made to tamper with some of the members-elect, but they will not be successful. The at tempt to purchase the United States Henatorship two years ago did not suc ceed then, nor will a similar attempt succeed now, bargain counter methods having been repudiated by the people of the state." Senator Quay then offers a reward of SIO,OOO for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any one endeavoring to bribe any state senator or representative elect, the money be ing on deposit with his bankers. Tin I'lale I'liuil lturiiM. .Toliet, 111., Nov. 11.—An overturned kettle of grease caught fire in the Great Western Tin Plate Co.'s mills yesterday and the plant was in ashes in half an hour. The plant employed 375 workmen. Loss 8130,000; insurance 847,000. The output was 4,500 boxes weekly. Lueelienni Dratvn a I.ire Sentence. Geneva, Switzerland. Nov. 11.—The Italian anarchist, Luigi Lucohenni, who stabbed and killed Empress Eliza beth of Austria 011 September 10 in this city, was placed on trial here Thursday ana was sentenced to rigor ous imprisonment for lifts. TOLBERT ASKS FOR AID. He Appeal* to Hie Frcwldenl for Pro tection Tell* II is Story ol" tile llai e M;ir In Souili Carolina. Washington, Nov. 12. R. R. Tolbert, whose father and brother were shot in the recent race war at Phoenix, S. C., was at the White House and depart ment of justice Friday to secure an investigation of the riot and protection by the federal authorities. He was accompanied by some of the republican politicians of tlie state. President Mc- Kinley did not make any promise in reply to Tolbert's appeal. Mr. Tolbert says that the true facts of the rioting have not been given. The facts are, he said, as follows: "I was nominated for congress by the re publicans of iny district. I-'or the pur pose of making a contest before the house my brother, T. P. Tolbert, was present at the polling places at Phoenix for the purpose of witnessing the affi davits of colored men who were re jected as voters because of their inabil ity to comply with the requirements of the constitution. My brother took no part in the management of the polling place, which was in the hands of democrats. lie sat on the piazza of Mr. Lake's house and witnessed the affidavits given him, depositing the«e affidavits in a box. "Mr. Etbridge, the white man who was killed, was an election manager at a precinct two miles away, lie left his precinct and with a party of men went to Phoenix. He walked up with his party to where my brother was sitting at a table and kicked over the table and box in which were the certificates. Then he assaulted my brother. Then democrat voters who were in the same house rushed out and commenced shooting into the crowd. The negroes fled. My brother told me that Ethridge was killed by shots from his own friends. My brother did not have a weapon." Columbia, S. ('., Nov. 13. —Tom Tol bert, who was so badly wounded in the original encounter at Phoenix, is now at Abbeyvillc and his death is exected at any time. Collector John R. Tolbert is still here at the state prison with his son. Unless some complications occur it is expected that he will soon recover. There were 30 birdshot in his head and '.27 duck shot in his body. A Calm Follow# tl>e Storm. Wilmington, N. C\, Nov. 12.—This city is quiet. The military is doing police duty at the request of the city authorities, although 110 martial law has been proclaimed. Friday there was a military parade through the principal streets. Five companies were in line and were accompanied by two rapid-fire guns, mounted 011 wagons, and a llotehkiss gun. The negroes are terrorized. Hundreds of them have left the city. Elected a I'llKlon Ist Governor. Sioux Falls, S. 1)., Nov. 1"2. —The election of governor has Vieen in doubt until last evening, when official returns were received from several counties which showed big changes in favor of Lee Chairman Kidd, of the populist committee, claims Lee's election by 500 and the chairman of the republican committee concedes Lee's election by about 200. The legislature is republic an in both branches. Are ,'l.ikiuu Progress. Washington. Nov. 12. —The Anglo- American commission held a brief ses sion Friday, and then adjourned until next Tuesday. The only announce ment made was that progress was be ing made and that the most cordial feeling characterized the discussions. lilxnis Factories to ICfMiime. Pittsburg, Nov. 12. —A conference was held here Friday between a com mittee of glass workers and the fac tory owners and at its close the manu facturers announced that the men would return to work on Sunday. THE MARKETS. Financial. Xen York. Nov. 12. —Money—On rail IV43.y„4>-3?< for 60 days. Government bonds irregular. Grain, Provision* and Live Stock. Flour—Quiet and steady. Wheat— No. 3 rtd 7 -He. Corn —No. 3 at Oats No. 3 at39c. Butter—Western creamery 15 cheese—Largo white B?ic, small white 8H . Itibs—December 4..-.0. Hok's I. if Jit .3.1."><143.52 J, heavy J3.1503.60, rouah 53.15 3.30. Cattlo Bieves . 3.90(85.40, cows and heifers 81.75ii4.. 0. Sheep-Sales at 12.855J4.25, lambs i4.505J5.00. Toledo, Nov. 12.—Wheat—No. 2 cash 70c. Com—No. 2 mired 33-40. Oats NO 3 mixed 35c. Clover Seed Prime new $5.05. Oil—Uncbangi d. East Liberty, Nov. IV.—Cattle Extra 15.20® 5.50, (food 4.:0 «4.85, fair :3.7i :4.30. lion* Best mi dine ,s£3 . 55, Yorkers 33.55 hi 8.5 >, pigs 35 J 3. 0. Sheep—i'rni e w thrrs f4.*9@4.59. good 54.20 &4.3U, ch Ave lambs 4i. 1555.30. East Buffalo, Nov. 13.- tattle-Steady. Best calves fcs.oo Ho. s Yorkers SB.S6