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The Job department of the PRESS IS complete •cl affords facilities for doing the best class ot fcork PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW r«LNTIMO. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear ages 4re P ald . except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor In advance. Pit v A Ton Ros*, of Vermont, is a man ©f punctual habits. When offered t lie appointment to succeed Senator Mor rill, he Maid he would allow himself half an hour to think it over. He shut 'himself up in his library for 30 min utes, at the close of which he had made his decision. In M6 hours he was on his way to Washington. THE Oceanic, which was recently launched at Belfast, is the largest and heaviest ship ever made. She is TOJ'S feet long against the Great Eastern's 691 feet. Her gross tonnage is 17,000; the diameter of the propeller is 21 feet. She has taken months to build, will cost nearly .£'1,000,000, and will carry 1,499 passengers and .'i'.M of a crew. SENATOR WILSON, of the Minnesota legislature, has introduced a bill which, if it becomes a law, will practically ef fect the pardoning of the Younger brothers, who robbed the bank of Nortlifleld and killed a number of peo ple in I*7o. It is to amend the parole law of Minnesota so that prisoners sen tenced for life and who may have served over "0 years in prison with a good record may be granted a parole without geographical limitations. THK countess of Castcllane, daughter of the late Jay Gould, has just moved into the palace in the avenue of the Rois de Roulogne, which has been in course of construction for several years. The stone employed is similar to that of the Arc de Triomphe and the marble came from Italy. The great feature will be the ball room, which Occupies about a third of the area. This magnificent abode promises to be one of the sights of the French capi tal. GOLD is not the only valuable discov ery made in the new northwest. What are called "natural soap and paint mines" have been discovered in British Columbia. The "natural soap" is said to be handled exactly like ice, being out out in blocks suitable for trans portation. It is declared it will re move grease and dirt quicker than soap. The "mineral paint" is of such purity that it requires only roasting and pulverizing to prepare it for the market. . THE prince of Wales will benefit to the extent of SI,"50,000 under the will of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild. A be quest to that amount is left in the will to Mr. Alfred Rothschild, Baron Ferdi nand's cousin, who already is a multi millionaire, and the suggestion is this sum is intended for the prince, to whom a legacy is not formally left, to obviate gossip about his financial affairs,which the prince detests. Under the English law a lOper cent, legacyduty iseharge able to this bequest. ONE of the most interesting and nov el effects in the new drama at the I'rincess is the demonstration of me chanically produced hypnotism by means of the revolving crystal globe that gives its name to the piece. This globe, which is the latest invention of the Frenclj mesmerists, has such power that the actors and actresses on the stage have to exercise great care to keep their eyes away from it. There is no risk to the audience, as the globe is focusjd "up stage." A TKAVEI.EK, recently returned from the Ladrones, reports the existence of some strange things in the islands. "There is a fruit," says he."the odor Swindle Their Creditors. The democratic members of the house committee on coinage, which has reported, with a recommendation that it pass, the Hill bill for the maintenance of the gold standard and the modifica tion of the present system, have sub mitted a minority report, in which they denounce that measure vehemently. They assert that the provision in the bill for the redemption of silver dollars in gold when desired will "sweep the present silver dollars from their pres ent position as standard money into the category of credit money." The whole scheme of the bill, they assert, "con templates the destruction of silver as money.*' They claim, also, that the pro posed repeal of the provision which prohibits national banks from with drawing from circulation more than $3,000,0t10 in any one month will enable the banks "to contract circulation and coerce legislation in years of panic and business depression." The democratic members of the com mittee do more than attack the Hill hill. They give notice that they are going to offer a substitute. That sub stitute will make both the gold and sil ver dollars standards of value, and au thorize the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. These demo crats, who disoover something wicked in the proposition to redeem silver dol lars in gold, so that there may be no possibility of depreciation in their value, aro unable to see anything wrong in a proposition to coin silver bullion worth less than half a dollar into a dol lar for everybody who presents himself at the mint, ar.d then force creditors to accept such dollars as if they were the equivalent of full-value dollars. The charge is made that the sup porters of the gold standard are "hos tile" to the silver dollars. That is mani festly untrue. The half million stand ard silver dollars which have been coined since 1878 have had the purchas ing power of gold dollars ail that time. They have been "as good as gold." That has been the case because the gold standard men have been able to frus trate the attempts of the free silveritcs to "degrade" the standard silver dol lars by depriving them of half their pur chasing power. If the liryanites had been successful in 1896 they would have opened the mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, thus putting in each silver dollar less I ban half the amount of metal it should contain to be worth 100 cents. Had that been done, the half million dollars al ready in existence would have become worth only 45 cents on the dollar. The free silveritcs assert constantly that thev are the only friends of silver. They do not explain, however, that that alleged friendship is due exclusively to their belief that it is only through the medium of depreciated silver money that creditors can be swindled and dis honest debtors enabled to retain the property of others without paying for it. If the commercial ratio of silver to gold were to-day sixteen to one the liryanites would cease to care for silver, for it would not lend itself to their knavish purposes, but as long as the commercial ratio is thirty-four and one haft' to one they will continue to de mand free coinage and dishonest dol lars. —Chicago Tribune. A FIRM STANDARD. The Gold Standard Is tlie "World's Standard and Republicans Will Adhere to It. The republican majority of the lious ; committee on coinage has presented a unanimous report in favor of the Hill currency bill. The intention of this bill may be best expressed in the lan guage of the report itself, which says: "The purpose of this bill Is to set at rest a'l questions as to the existing legal unit of value in this country ar.d to remove all doubt in relation thereto: to protect and strengthen the credit of the I'nited State# and the honor of its citizens; to insure the permanent eouality and value In the hands of the people of every dollar of ihe United States and of every kind of our currency of the same denomination: to hold in free ond unhampered circulation all kind ; of our present currency, and to provide an adequate amount of circulating medium of stable value to transact the business of the country." This purpose is evidently in harmony with, t lie long-continued policy atfid with Ihe declarations of the republican party. That party would favor a bi metallic standard if it were the world's standard, but as the world's* standard is persistently gold the republican par ty would have the gold standard recog nized by the law of the country, and all kinds of currency made conformable thereto, again the language of the committee on this point: "A double bimetallic standard is Im practicable—impossible. A bimetallic cur rency is practicable and desirable, and is promoted, strengthened and fortified by this bill. We adopt gold as the standard because it is the most stable in value and hence the most just and safe standard by vvhlieh to measure other values. We pro mote the convenience of the people by providing an adequate supply of both sil ver and gold in our currency, but we can only do it with justice 10 them by protect ing them from the possible depreciation of silver in thr-ir hands, and hence we throw about silver such safeguards, by limiting its coinage and providing for its exchange, as will maintain its parity with our gold and paper currency." The present senate is a bar to cur rency legislation. Rut this unanimous republican report indicates that the party is not afraid of the currency question, and that its confidence is based upon an adherence to the sound principles that have guided financiers the wcrld over.—Troy Times. ICTThe Springfield Republican fears that we are "on the threshold of a hugs syetein of militarism." and all because a standing army of 100.000 men. Why, it is hardly enough to police this country in a proper way. to say noth ing of duties we owe the people on the new islands.—Cincinnati Commercial | Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. ALREADY EXPANDED. F.irTy Indication* of (lie llenefitM It e- Miiltinu from the A«*<| ul*l 1 ion of the Philippine*. While senators are thiveringly debat ing- whether we ought to expand or not, the benefits of expansion have already begun. C'onsul-Ueneral Wildman, of Hong-Kong, says in his just published annual report that the presence of the American squadron and army on the Asiatic coast has had a great effect in stimulating our trade with that region. He predicts that this benefit will prove permanent, and adds: "Nothing t hat could have happened to this coast would be of so great a help in the introduction of Americau goods into these markets as the presence of so large a body of American consumers in our midst. "Our forces of occupation have dorce more than conquer a country; they have made an impression on Asiatic markets that can never be effaced. "When our fleet first arrived here (in February, 1898) there \ft*re a few sam ple cases of American tinned milk, fruits, meats, whisky, beer, etc., in the big English and German wholesale houses. The imports from America were made up almost wholly of Cali fornia flour and American kerosene. To-day every steamer and ship from America brings cargoes of American goods. While their ultimate destina "t ion is Manila, they are handled by Eu ropean firms here and come before the public in such imposing quantities that lirst curiosity is aroused and demand follows. The great difficulty in the past has been to get the great body of Chinese consumers to sample our man ufactures. Even if Ihis were possible, the goods came over in small consign ments, and at prices which were pro hibitive to all but those who could af ford to pay for luxuries. With the in flux of Americans into Manila, Ameri can firms have found 'it to their ad vantage to send out men to study the needs of this climate. Already one house has been established in Hong- Kong with a branch at Manila, which is meeting- with gratifying success. I am informed that there is a shipment of 45,000 bales of upland cotton from Texas on its way, which has been pur chased by a large Chinese firm, and is l laid down here as cheaply as the In dian cotton." These are merely the first fruits, at a single point, of a military invasion. What will be the result when 100,000 American miners,merchants, engineers, r;|jlroad men and planters are settled in the Philippines, setting an example of the use of American good® to 8,000,000 natives, when 10,000-ton ships ply across Ihe Pacific every week, and when lines of American coasting steamers, with their headquarters at Manila, ply up and down the whole front of Asia, from Singapore to Vladivostock? We have already expanded. Dewey and Merritt have been the advance agents of American commerce. All that remains is to finish and secure what they have begun.—N. Y. Journal (Dem.). DEMOCRATS DONE FOR Political Oblivion the Portion of the ObatructorM of .National I'rojcrefiN. The senatorial deadlocks in Dela ware and Pennsylvania, where un doubtedly republicans ultimately will be elected, make but two places to be iiiledi in the representation from tlie territory lying east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio in the new United States senate which v\ill take office on the 4th of .March. In this entire territory there will be after the 4ili of March not a single democratic United States-senator. This great territory, which contains by the census of IS9O, 35,485,726 population out of the 01,908,900 population in the United States and a far greater propor tion of the wealth of the country, was always republican, but never before in the history of the United States has one political party in the upper branch of congress monopolized its representa tion. There must be a cause for this remarkable tergiversation, and it is not hard to find. The majority of the peo ple of this portion of the country are given over to a practical rather than a sentimental pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, and in the republican party is seen the only possible chance for sta bility in the government at Washing ton. The people of this portion of the country, however, in spite of their re publicanism—much of it newly ac quired—are intensely critical and hold the republican party and the men whom that party places in office to a strict accountability for their public acts. It probably will be some years be fore another democrat sits in the sen ate to represent a portion of any state in this great stretch of country from New I.runswick to the Mississippi That party has itself alone to blame. It has set itself against progress in business and against honesty in our currency, and those democrats who hereaboutsdiscard the platform of their party are insignificant in its councils, helpless to steer their political craft away from the political oblivion in wjjich it soon will be submerged.—Al bany Journal. in?" A democratic orator in Illinois says the ratio of sixteen to one is a su perstition and ought to be eliminated from the platform of the party. Head vises opposition to trusts as the key note. That was in the democratic plat form of 1892, but came to nothing, though the democrats controlled all branches of the government for the next two years.— St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. (CProbably Col. Bryan would advo cate taking back the war and all the bad things > I about Spain if he had not drawn pay for six months as a col onel in the army of the United States —Peoria (III.) Journal. AMERICAN POLICY, Peace Commissioner Whitelaw Reid on National Expansion. 4a 11 ill to lie Arliipved In nioii of Territorial Uniita— II iik heart* of l*u rl Iniiii Critic*. The Marquette club of Chicago, at its Lincoln da_v celebration, at the Audi torium, was regaled with some splen did speeches by men of national prom inence, among them being Whitelaw Ifeid. peace commissioner and publish er of the.New York Tribune, .vho spoke upon "American Diplomacy" as fol low s: "Your tonst Is to the 'Achievements of American Diplomacy.' Not such were its achievements under your earlier state.'■men. Not such has been its work under the in structions of your state department from John (julncy Adams on down the hon ored line, and not such the work your rep resentatives brought hack to you from I'aris. "They were dealing with a nation with which it has never been easy to make peace, even when war was no longer pos sible, but they secured a peace treaty with out a word that compromises the honor or endangers tile interests of the country. "They scrupulously reserved for their own decision, through your congress or at the polls, the question of political status and civil rights for the Inhabitants of your new possessions. "They pledged the United States to ab solute freedom in the exercise of their re ligion for all these recent Spanish sub jects— pagan, Mohammedan, Confucian or Christian. "They maintained, in' the face of the most vehement opposition, not only of Spain, but of well-nigh all Kurope, a prin ciple vital to the oppressed people strug gling for freedom—a principle without which our own freedom could not have been established, and without which any successful revolt against any unjust rule could be made practically Impossible. That principle is that, contrary to the prevail ing rule and practice in large transfers of sovereignty, debts do not necessarily fol low the territory if incurred by the mother country distinctly in efforts to enslave it. "They were enabled to pledge the most protectionist country in the world to the liberal and wise policy of the open door in the east. "At the same time they neither neglect ed nor feared the duty of caring for the material interests of their own country— the duty of grasping the enormous possi bilities upon which we had stumbled, for sharing in the awakening and development of the farther east. That way lies now the best hope of American commerce. There you may command a natural rather than an artificial trade. "The Atlantic ocean carries mainly a dif ferent trade, with people as advanced as ourselves, who could produce or procure elsewhere much of what they buy of us, while we could produce, if driven to it, most of what we need to buy from them. The ocean carriage for the Atlantic is in the hands of our rivals. "The Pacific ocean, on the contrary, is in ourhandsnow. Practically we own more than half the coast on this side, dominate the rest, and have midway stations in the Sandwich and Aleutian islands. To extend now the authority of the United States over the great Philippine archipelago is to fence in the China sea and secure an almost equally commanding position on the other side of the Pacific— doubling our control of it and of the fabulous trade the twen tieth century will see it bear. Rightly used enables the United States to convert .he Pacific ocean almost into an American lake. "Are we to lose all this through a mushy sentimentality, characteristic neither of practical nor of responsible people—alike un-American and un-Christian, since it would humiliate us all by showing lack of nerve to hold what we are entitled to, and incriminate us by entailing endless bloodshed and anarchy on a people whom we have already stripped of the only gov ernment they have known for 300 years, and whom we should thus abandon to civil war and foreign spoliation? "Let us free our minds of some bugbears. One of them is this notion that with the retention of the Philippines our manufac turers will be crushed by the products of cheap eastern labor. I!ut it does not abol ish our custom houses, and we can still enforce whatever protection we desire. "Another is that our American workmen will be swamped under the immigration of cheap eastern labor. But tropical labor does not emigrate to colder climates. None have ever come. if we need a law to krep them out we can make It. "It is a bugbear that the Filipinos would be citizens of the United States, and would therefore have the same rights of free travel and free entry of their own manu factures with other citizens. The treaty ilid not make them citizens of the United States at all; and th>-y never will be, un less you neglect your congress. . "it is a bugbear that anybody living on territory or other property belonging to the United States must be £ citizen. The con stitution says that 'persons born or nat uralized In the United States are eitizi ns of the United States;' while it adds in the same sentence, 'and of the state wherein they reside,' showing plainly that the provision does not necessarily relate to territories. "It is equally a bugbear that the tariff must necessarily be the same over any of the territory or other property of tho United States as it is in the nation itself. The constitution requires that 'all duties, imposts and excises shall be the same throughout the United States,' and while there was an incidental expression from the supreme bench in IS2O to the effect that this should include the District of Colum bia and other territory, it was no part even then of the decision actually rendered, and it would be absurd to stretch this mere dic.tum of three-quarters of a century ago, relating then at any rate to this continent alone, to carry the Dingley tariff now across to the antipodes." The speaker referred to"the sincere and conscientious opposition to all these, conclusions manifest chiefly in the east and in Mie senate." deprecated any fear that the American people would prove unequal to their new du ties, and concluded: "Now, if ever, is tne time to rally the krain and conscience of the American peo ple to a real elevation and purification of their civil service, to the most exalted standards of public duty, to the most stren uous and united efforts of all men of good will, to make our government worthy of the new and great responsibilities which the providence of Hod. rather than any pur pose of man has imposed upon it." POINTED PARAGRAPHS. United we stand, but divided we are misunderstood. A fox has a reputation for shrewdness among silly old hens. The crus'ty old bachelor if consistent would make his own bread. The telephone enables some men to lie without becoming confused. The more of a nobody a man is the more important he thinks he is. 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