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County Commissioner.
Having lived in thiscounty nearly all my life and
never having asked for, or held, a county office,
I have taken this opportunity to offer myself as
candidate for County Commissioner, subject to
decision of the Republican County Convention.
DELOS BURLINGAME.
Sizerville, Pa., Feb. 20, 1899.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
Judge of Supreme Court,
J. HAY BROWN, Lancaster.
Judge of Superior Court,
JOSIAH R. ADAMS, Philadelphia.
State Treasurer.
LT.-COL. JAMES E. HARNETT,
Washington County.
While it never snows in the
Philippines, Aguinaldo is sure to
have his ''cold day" just the same.
Senator Quay seems to have
a few friends left in Pennsylvania,
even if his course fails to meet
Wanamaker's approval.
Ohio politics seems to be some
what mixed, but it is a safe bet
that General Coxey will be found
011 the side where the butter for
his bread is most plentiful.
Secretary Root is considering a
plan for modifying the Porto Rican
tariff in order to do most good to
the producers cf the island without
reducing the revenues too much.
By attacking the defenders of
the American (lag in the rear, the
democratic anties may think they
they are helping Aguinaldo, but
they will certainly not help them
selves or their party.
The democrats should hasten to
get M. Bertillion on their staff. He
would doubtless be able to make a
diagram showing that Mr. Bryan
wrote the Declaration of Independ
ence, and thus afford needed in
flation to a collapsing boom.
Under the careful and ecnomi
cal administration of the War De
partment. Cuba not only met all
lier obligations for the first six
months of 1899, but there was a
surplus of 81,4X0,021. Still better
results may be expected as the time
goes on.
The Republican party will not
shrink from the faithful discharge
of the new duties that we owe to
the civilized world and especially
with the Philippines themselves.
Those duties were not of our seek
ing, they came as the culmination
of events which human agencies
could not control or direct. The
United States would have gladly
escaped these responsibilities had
such been possible, but recognizing
that we cannot honorably retreat,
will carry the matter to a success
ful conclusion.
More Work, Hore Wages, /lore
Appetite.
The advance in the price of
meets of all kinds affords oppor
tunity to Free-Traders for some
remarks about trusts and t lie
Tariff, and they are harping 011 it
with their customary rashness.
To the average man who stops and
thinks a moment the explanation
of this increase in price is easy. It
is explained by the simple fact of
increased consumption. Earning
more money in the shape of wages
than ever before, the American
people are eating more meat per
capita than ever before. Ours is a
meat eating nation. No other
nation consumes anything like so
large a proportion of animal food.
While the wage earners of Europe
consider themselves lucky to get
meat once or twice a week, the
American workingman and his
family eat meat three times a day
the year round.
With more work, more wages
and more appetite the American
workingman in these days of Pro
tection and Prosperity has greatly
increased his meat diet, with the
result that usually follows an in
crease of demand and consumption
—namely, an increase in price. It
is a condition peculiar to the
present period. Nothing of the
kind occurred during the four years
of Free-Trade Tariff reform. 159:5-
'!)7. Then there was 110 advance
in food prices because ol' increased
consumption. On the contrary,
the prices of nearly all foodstuffs
sufferered a decline because of di
minished demand and consump
tion. People ate less meat, less of
everything in those dreary four
years. The demand for agricult
ural products fell off enormously
and prices fell off accordingly.
It is estimated that the farmers
of the United States in the four
years of Free-Trade Tariff legisla
tion suffered an aggregate loss of
fully five billions of dollars by rea
son of diminished consumption and
decreased values of farm products.
What work people of this country
lost through diminished employ
ment and decreased earnings in
that same distressful period can
scarcely be computed. In any
event they are so much the gainers
through present conditions that
they would not welcome a return
of the lower food prices and the
accompanying conditions of Wil
son Tariff times. —American Econ
omist.
MUCH 'BUSINESS.
WE ARE DOINQ IT NOW WITH
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
A Remarkable Grand Total of Exports to Cuba,
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines for
the Fiscal Year of 1899.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2.
Exports from the United States to
Cuba, Porto Kico, Hawaii and the
Philippines were, according to a
statement prepared by the Treas
ury bureau of statistics, larger iu
the fiscal year just ended than in
any preceding fiscal year in the
history of our commerce with those
islands. Even the reciprocity
years 1892. 1893 and 1894, in
which the exports from the United
States to Cuba and Porto Rico
were greatly increased, do not
show as large a grand total as does
1899, with all the disadvantages of
war conditions which prevailed in
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines during a part of the year.
To Cuba, the total exports for
the year do not reach the large
figures of the two full fiscal years
1893 and 1894, in which the re
ciprocity treaty with Spain was in
operation, and to Porto Rico the
total exports of 1899 were slightly
less than in 1892 during three
fourths of which the reciprocity
treaty was in operation, or 1894,
in all of which it was operated.
To Porto Rico the total exports of
the fiscal year 1899 are nearly 25
per cent in excess of the average
annual export during the preced
ing decade; to Cuba, they are
nearly 50 per cent, greater than
tlie average during the preceding
decade; to Hawaii they are more
than twice as much, and to the
Philippines more than three times
as much as the average annual
exports during the preceding dec
ade. These figures, it is proper to
add, do not include the exporta
tions to the islands in question by
the Government either for the use
of its troops or in aid of the tem
porarily destitute.
While the total imports into the
United States from these islands
are not as large as in earlier years
of the decade, this is due solely to
the fact that they did not have the
supplies for exportation, this being
especially true of Cuba, whose
sugar plantations and works were
so largely destroyed during the
war with Spain. That our imports
from these islands are rapidly in
creasing, however, is shown by the
fact that those from Cuba in the
year 1899 were 06 per cent, greater
than in 1898; those from Porto
Rico, nearly 50 per cent, greater
than those of the fiscal year 1898,
and those from the Philippines
nearly 20 per cent, in excess of
those of last year, while those from
Hawaii show a slight gain over
last year and an increase of 30 per
cent over the fiscal year 1897.
The following table shows the
exports from the United States to
Cuba. Porto Kico, Hawaii and the
Philippines, separately, in each
year from 1889 to 1899:
Year. Cuba. Porto Rico. Hawaii. Philip'es
1889.. $11,691,311 $2,221,931 $3,375,861 $179,647
1890.. 13,081,415 2,297,538 4,711,417 122,276
1891... 12,214,888 2.155,234 5,107,212 124,572
1892... 17,953,570 2,856,003 3,781,628 60,914
1893... 24,147,608 2,610,607 2,827,668 154,878
1894... 20,126,821 2,720,608 8,806,187 145,666
1895... 12,807,661 1,833,344 3,723,057 119,255
1896.. . 7,530,880 2,102,094 3,985,707 162,446
1897... 8,259,776 1,988,888 4,690,075 91,597
ls'.m . 9,:»61,6.-»6 5,1)07,155 127.801
1899... 18,615.707 2,685,848 9,305,470 401,171
The following table shows the
total exports from the United
States to Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawaii
and the Philippines, combined, in
each year from 18X9 to 1899:
188 $17,471,.550 I 1895 $18,183,517
1890 20,215,6-16 1896 13,781,127
189 19,611,906 I 1897 14,761,336
1892 24,652,115 1 1898 17,102,561
1893 29,650,346 1899 31,011,196
1894 26,297,182 |
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to the public
to know of one concern in the land
who are not afraid to be generous to
the needy and suffering. The proprie
tors of Dr. King'R New Discovery have
given away over ten million trial
bottles of this wonderful medicine;
and have the Hatifaction of knowing it
has absolutely cured thousands of
hopeless cases. Asthma, bronchitis,
hoarsenese and all diseases ot the
throat, chest and lungs are surely
cured by it. Call 011 L. Taggart, drug
gist and got a Iree trial bottlo. Regu
lar size 50c. and §l. Every bottle
guaranteed, or price refunded.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1899.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
I From our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4th, 1899.
President McKinley returned to
Washington, Saturday afternoon,
but left to-day for Philadelphia, to
attend the annual encampment of
the G. A. R. He kept so thor
oughly in touch with all important
public matters during his absence
that he found only routine busi
ness 011 his desk when ho returned.
He had informal talks with all the
members of the Cabinet, except.
Secretary Long, who is not in the
city, and there was a regular
Cainet meeting to-day. He also
heard a verbal report by President
Sclmrman, of the Philippine Com
mission. He anticipates a pleas
ant time at the encampment owing
to the large number of old friends
he will meet there.
Commissioner Evans of the Pen
sion Bureau completed his annual
report before leaving for the G. A.
R. encampment, and copies of the
document will probably be distri
buted among the veterans. There
is more or less talk of the proba
bility of an .attack being made upon
Commissioner Evans' method of
administering the Pension Bureau,
in the report of the G. A. R. com
mittee which made an investigation
several months ago, and which
will be submitted to the encamp
ment; but Mr. Evans is confident
that the Committee's report will
show that he administered the laws
properly, and that if there is any
censure, it will be of the laws and
not of him. The report of the
Commissioner recommends the
repeal of the law granting arrears
of pensioners; he also recommends
that the law shall be strictly en
forced which requires every pension
agent to prepare and mail to each
pensioner whose pension is payable
at his agency, .*i voucher fifteen
(lays dreceeding each quarterly
pension day. The report says that
during the present fiscal year, the
arrears of work will be greatly
diminished and that all claims will
be made practically current. The
report also expresses satisfaction
with the work accomplished during
the year, and says; "The work is
in far better condition than at any
time since I assumed charge of the
Bureau, and it is believed that
further progress will be attained
by the system that has been insti
tuted in the different divisions.
No new rules of evidence have
been introduced, but the work has
been accomplished under prescribed
rules of many years standing.''
Uncle Sam did pretty well for a
summer month, in August, which
is usually dull in official as well as
in private business. The Treasury
receipts were 88,150,000 more than
they were in August of last year,
and the surplus for the month was
84,455,8(i2. The amount of gold
in the Treasury is larger than ever
before, the exact figures being
8248,757,971. These figures tell
their own story of the prosperous
condition of the government and
the country, and in the face of such
a story, how ridiculous is the claim
now being made by some Demo
crats, that the Democrats have a
chance to carry the country next
year. To accept such a claim is to
impeach the intelligence of the
voters of this country, who have
too vivid a recollection of Cleveland
times not to appreciate a good
thing when they have it, and to
vote for its continuance.
The most talked of event in
political circles just now, is the
buying of the Democratic nomina
tion for Governor of Ohio, by Mr.
John R. McLean, whose actual
residence is in Washington, but
who has large property interests in
Ohio corporations, and who is also
the owner and nominal editor of
the Cincinnati Enquirer. Repub
licans, including President Mc-
Kinley, do not regard the nomina
tion of McLean as an important
factor in the gubernatorial cam
paign, because they believe that it
has been from the day of the nom
ination of Judge Nash by the Re
publican convention of Ohio, only
a question of how many majority
lie would be given—there has never
been and is not now the slightest
doubt of his election. But the
Bryan Democrats are in almost a
state of panic. They do not trust
McLean. They believe that he
has secured this nomination as a
a part of the plot to defeat Bryan
for the Democratic presidential
nomination next year. They are
too badly frightened to talk pub
licly, but among themselves they
are talking as hard as they can,
and the wires have been kept hot
with messages to the Bryan leaders,
and to Mr. Bryan himself, con
taining plans to head off McLean's
ambition. That Mr. McLean is a
multi-millionaire everybody knows,
but why lic should be willing to
spend any portion of his millions
to get the empty honor of a Demo
cratic nomination for Governor of
Ohio, the Vice-Presidency, or even
the Presidency, is something be
yond the comprehension of ordin
ary mortals. Hut iie has already 1
made a start in lavish expenditures
for .a very empty honor, and that
is what is worrying the Bryanites.
Secretary Root hopes and believes
that the situation in Cuba will
warrant the holding of municipal
elections not later than next May.
Bucklen'B Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satis
faction or money refunded. Price 25
cents a box. For sale by L. Taggart.
v:H-n2-ly
NOTICE.
A large black bull came to my barn at the
W. N. Y. & P. Junction on Sunday night.
Owner can have same by paying for this notice
and expense of keeping the animal.
FRED BLISS.
Emporium, l'a., Aug. 29, 1899.—27-3t
Sliippcn School Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that the School Di
rectors of Shippen township will receive
bids, at the Warner House, on Saturday, Sept.
16th, 1899, at one o'clock, p. m., for the convey
ing of school children on Clear Creek.
N. S. CUTLER, President.
Attest:
O. W. Van WERT, Sec'y pro tem.
CHARTEjyOTICE.
"VTOTICE is hereby given that an application
..\ will be made to the Governor of Pennsyl
vania on Monday, September 18th. 1899, under
the act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, entitled an Act to provide for the
incorporation and regulation of certain corpora
tions, approved April 29th, 1874, and the supple
ments thereto, for a Charter of an intended cor
poration to be called the Driftwood Water Com
pany, the character and object of which is to
supply water to the Borough of Driftwood, Cam
eron county, Pennsylvania, and to such persons,
partnerships and corporations residing therein
and adjacent thereto as may desire the same,
and for these purposes to have and possess and
enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of the
said Act of Assembly and its supplements.
H. L. LARK. Solicitor.
August 24th, 1899.—26-4t
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