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POINTED COnnENT.
The cordiality attending the Kaiser's
visit to hia grandmother, Queen Vic
toria, must make the grim visage of
Oom Paul about four times as long as
usual.
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Voting machines have been adopted
in several of the western states. In
the east, notably in New Xork, report
lias been current for some time that
"machine" voting is now in vogue.
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The war in the Transvaal has dem
onstrated that while armies may be
able to worry along with incompetent
Generals, an able press censor is in
dispensable.
There need no longer be any doubt
as to which party is the breeder of
trusts. From 1893 to 1896 when the
Democrats were in power, everybody
had to ask for credit.
After Aguinaldo once more estab
lishes his base of supplies and renews
his subscription to the papers, Mme
Aguinaldo will begin to study the bar
gains advertised by the dry goods
dealers.
Now General Wheeler declares that
he will remain in the Philippines.
There is no reason to doubt that the
gallant old cavalry leader prefers
Luzon swamps and Tagalog bullets, to
the awful routine of the Congressional
session.
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Uncle Sam stands before the world
to-day in the attitude of an honest
merchant, who says to the contentious
elements ol Europe: "Stand back, a
fair field, and no favor. lam out for
commerce, not for conquest."
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With every puff of smoke from a
factory smokestack, and every toot of
a locomotive whistle proclaiming the
country's prosperity, it would seem as
though the calamity shouters would
need a new issue next year.
Congressman-elect Roberts, of Utah,
has declared his intention of not re
signingj and of "fighting it out." Un
less appearances are deceiving, Mr.
Roberts will encounter a catastrophe as
complete as that which overtook the
bull that attempted to resist the loco
motive.
Mr. Reed sees disaster for the Re
publican party unless a gold standard
is definately established by Congress at
the coming session, all of which goes
to show that Mr. Reed still has some
interest in politics even though he is a
New York lawyar.
The accusers of Gen. Funston are
preparing themselves for a warm
shower about tho time the gallant
General reaches his native heath. It
should be remembered that the General
has been in fihting trim for sometime
and he may take advantage of his pre
paredness to trim some of his defamers.
Former President Cleveland, amid
the quietude of Princeton, is devoting
himself to domestic duties most assidu
ously, finding relaxation occasionally,
it is said, by penning an imaginary
pension veto, thus to keep his hand in
should Presidential nomination light
ning come his way a fourth time.
***
Those eminent antis, Carl Schurz
and William J. Bryan, have had a fall
ing out, Mr. Schurz declaring that if
Mr. Bryan continues his free silver
arguments he will spoil the anti-im
perialist broth. Will not someone
kindly rescue Mr. Schurz and his broth?
It will be interesting to watch the
Democratic press in its effort to dem
onstrate that Gov. Roosevelt is the
logical successor to Mr. Hobart on next
year's Republican ticket. But the
gallant Rough Rider is looking higher
than the Vice Presidency, and his am
bition will probably be gratified.
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The Frenchman goes out to light
for his monarchy, his empire or his
republic, the Englishman for his
king and queen, the German for
his fatherland, and the American
for his country.—Ex.
The croakers have stopped croak
ing about the terrible and wanton
loss of life among United States
troops in our recent wars, now that
they have an opportunity to con
trast it with the losses by the
British army in South Africa.
Admiral Farragut's old flagship,
the Hartford, which has been re
constructed at the Mare Island
navy yard, San Francisco, is again
in commission and will soon sail
around the Horn for New York,
where she will be used as a train
ing ship.
Democratic managers who are
looking for a "running" mate for
Col. Bryan, would perhaps do well
to select Gen. Aguinaldo. That
gentleman has shown remarkable
sprinting qualities of late and he is
puite in harmony on other matters
with the proposed head of the
Popocratic ticket in 1900.
Farmers who observe that ''ter
ritorial fine medium scoured"
wools are now worth sixty cents a
pound in the New York market
against 30 cents in 1895, under the
Democratic free-trade tariff law,
and that "XX Ohio" wools now
bring .'{2 cents in the same market
against 16 cents in 1895, will not
advise their Democratic friends to
make tariff a leading issue in 1900.
How will the croakers of 189(5 be
able to make any headway in the
campaign of 1900 in the face of the
announcements of the commercial
papers quoted by them so largely
in 1896, which now show that the
total number of failures in the
quarter ending with September,
1899, was but 2,000, against 3,737
in the corresponding quarter of
1896. and the liabilities but SI7,
640,000 against $73,285,000 in the
corresponding quarter of 1896?
An indication as to whether the
industries really thrive best under
a protective or non protective tariff
may be found in the Treasury
figures for the month of October,
1899, compared with those of
October, 1896. Under the Dingley
protective tariff law in 1899, the
importation of articles in their
crude condition for use in manu
facturing amounted to 823,343,683,
against $11,300,258, in Oct. 1896,
under the low tariff law framed
especially to give free importation
to goods for the use of manufac
turers. Manufacturers have no
use for raw material, whether
duty-free orotherwise, unless they
can find a marke tfor their manu
factures.
Those Democratic campaign ora
tors who are dusting up their tariff
speeches of 1896, for use in 1900,
will find it necessary to change the
lines in which they asserted that a
a protective tariff hinders foreign
trade. The latest statistics of our
export trade show that the exporta
tion of manufactures in the ten
months ending with October
amounted to 8311,369,000 against
$253,177,000 in the corresponding
months of last year, indicating that
the export of manufactures for the
full year will be nearly 870,000,000
in excess of those of last year. For
the ten months of the year they
have averaged considerably more
than 81,000,000 a day and in
October they were nearly $34,000,-
000.
The new year is likely to see the
money in circulation in the United
States close to the 82,000,000,000
mark. The figures on November
1 were $1,963,716,148. Add to
this the 825,000,000 put into cir
culation through the redeeming of
outstanding bonds by the Treasury
Department, and the constant in
crease in the country's circulation
as registered from month to month,
and it seems likely that Mr, Bryan
will soon be confronted with a cir
culation of 82,000,000,000, not
withstanding his "continuous per
formance statement since 1896,
that no increase was possible with
out the free coinage of silver, and
at which time the country's circu
lation was but 81,627,055,614.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1899.
Leading silver Republicans of
Idaho are refusing to co-operate
longer with the Democrats and
Populists and are preparing to re
turn to Republican ranks. Secre
tary of State Patrie, who was
elected as a silver Republican in
fusion with Democrats, has written
a letter to leading silver Republi
cans of the State, saying: "I (lo
not see that up to date anything
has been accomplished by the coali
tion of the silver Republicans with
the Democracy except the upbuild
ing of the Democratic party and
the destruction of the Republican
party in the States in which silver
Republicans wore strong," and
adds that "it would be impossible
for me to identy myself with the
Democracy and become a Demo
crat. ''
No better evidence of prosperity
can be found than the rapidly in
creasing demand for freight carriers
011 the railroads and lakes. Grain,
coal, lumber and iron men are
complaining bitterly that they can
not get cars and steamships to
move their freights, despite the
fact that every nerve is being
strained by manufacturers to in
crease the supply of vehicles for
transportation. Car shortages are
reported by the large companies at
from 1,500 to 5,000 cars and already
the iron producers of the North
west have chartered vessels for next
season's service, thus insuring a
a greater amount of iron ore than
ever before known. The Ameri
can Car and Factory Company,
which is manufacturing steel freight
cars, has recently taken orders for
over 814,000,000 worth of new
cars.
A Pleasant Picture.
The inevitable has happened.
There is such a conditiou of pros
perity and material growth as the
mind of man never imagined and a
sense of stability and confidence
the like of which was never before
known. The defeats and disasters
of peace under Cleveland have been
exchanged for the victories of war
and the triumphs of common sense
under McKinley, whose adminis
trasiou has had two foreign wars to
carry to a successful and honorable
end, and yet at this stage of its
course reduces the national debt
by twenty-five millions of dollars!
The Secretary of the Treasury's
announcement yesterday that he
desired to buy in Governrnnet
bonds to that amount is pregnant
with instruction for all.
When Mr. Cleveland went to
Washington' to enter upon his
second term as President the
industries of country had also
been wrought to a pitch of
unusual prosperity. The ac
counts in the great commercial
and manufacturing centres had
been made up at the end of the
year and they were most satisfac
tory. In New England especially,
the volume of business was un
precedented, the scale of wages the
highest that had been known and
the returns upon capital well dis
tributed and remunerative.—
Throughout the West a like condi
tion had been enjoyed and every
material foundation of business
was sound. Still there was a chill
upon the air. The wheels con
tinued to revolve but it was of
their own momentum. Doubt, and
then apprehension, the worst ene
mies of enterprise, had taken the
place of confidence and tranquility.
Had the hordes of the Huns been
let forth upon the internal com
merce of the country they could
hardly have made a worse wreck
than Mr. Cleveland's administra
tion made. He turned every busi
ness upside down. His tariff lucu
brations paralyzed every mill from
ocean to ocean, and after shock
had succeeded shock and enterprise
was numb and seemingly forever
dead, he went out of the
office leaving the Government
some two hundred millions of
dollars more in debt than it was
when he went in. He had sold
bonds for money to pay the federal
expenses.
Mr. McKinley's administration
adjusted the tariff to the end that
mistrust might be allayed. It has
not meddled needlessly with the
money question. It has avoided
every subject that could disturb
the repose of business. What has
been the result? Confidence has
been restored. Enterprise has been
re-awakened. Capital has not had
to look to Washington to make
sure that the application of a theory
would not wreck it as soon as it
was invested, and every man has
felt himself secure in the expendi
ture of energy and money.—N. Y.
Sun.
WASHINOINCITON GETTING READY
FOR CONGRESS.
Senators and Representatives Arriv
for the Coming Session—Com
ment on Timely Topics.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27th, 1899.
Prosident McKinley is higly pleased
with the reports of (Jen. Otis on the
success of the campaign in the Philip
pines, showing Aguinaldo to be a fugi
tive and members of his family and
of his so-called government, prisoners.
It looks now as though Oen. Gros
venor's prediction, made a few weeks
ago, that the Filipino insurrection
would be over by the time Congress
assembled, would prove correct.
In fact, Secretary Root regards
the insurrection as already over, so far
as organized fighting is concerned.
The ending of the insurrection will
spike the guns of many of the antis in
Congress, and they will have to hunt a
new subject for fault-finding.
The Senate Finance Committee, or
rather the Republican members of that
committee, held a meeting to-day to
consider the financial bill prepared by
the Republican House Caucus Commit
tee. So far the Senators have not
agreed to accept the bill as drawn by
the House Committee, of which Col.
Henderson is Chairman, as a whole,
although agreeing to the principal
points therein, and the House Com
mittee has declined to drop their bill
and adopt the one prepared by the
Senators Present plans for handling
this bill in the House do not contem
plate its being referred to a committee.
In fact it may be passed by the House
betore the Committees are announced,
although Col. Henderson has said that
he would announce the Committees
before the Holiday recess. The caucus
committee will report the bill to the
Republican Caucus that will be held at
the end of this week, to nominate offi
cers of the House, and it is expected
that the caucus will endorse the bill,
and adopt a resolution in favor of its
being reported directly to the House,
as a caucus measure, and passed.
The Republican leaders of the House,
after carefully considering the subject,
have practically decided that it will
not be advisable to make any radical
changes in the House rules, which have
been very nearly the same during the
last two Congresses. There are some
proposed changes which are favored
by a considerable number of Republi
can members and which might have
been made had the Republican majority
in the House been a little larger. As
it will be with the Republican majority
only in the teens, and the Reed rules
are considered necessary to insure Re
publican control of House legislation.
The ex pulsion of Representative-elect
Roberts, of Utah, from the House,
which is probable anyway, will become
an absolute certainty if the Mormons
continue such tactics as making boasts
that they have secured pledges from a
sufficient number of members to pre
vent the adoption by the necessary
two-thirds vote of a resolution for his
expulsion. The only possible show
that Roberts has to retain his seat lies
in his ability to convince the members
that the Mormons are not responsible
for his nomination and election, and
not interested in having him keep his
seat, and it may be imagined what that
show will be when this Mormon boast
becomes generally known among
members. A number of them expressed
the opinion that such talk, of itself,
was valid ground for the expulsion of
Roberts. A plan of keeping Roberts
out of the House has been suggested,
and if the Clerk of the House, who pre
sides until the Speaker is elected, agrees
to it, only a majority vote would be
required. This plan is to raise an ob
jection when he presents himself to be
sworn in. If the Clerk entertains this
objection, the House could either sus
tain the objection, or refer tho matter
to a committee for investigation and
report. In either case a majority vote
would keep Roberts out. There are,
however, serious objections to this plan
and it may not be adopted.
Secretary Root's annual report just
completed, takes strong ground in
favor of the immediate appointment of
civil governors for Porto Rico and
Cuba, and it is regarded as probable
that the appointments will be made
before the first of the year, although in
the case of Cuba, there is much opposi
tion. President McKinley has the
matter under consideration, and it was
to get the benefit of the advice of Gen.
Leonard Wood, in whose judgment he
has much confidence, that he ordered
Gen. Wood to Washington, where he
has just arrived.
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You can't keep a good thing down.
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selling." Abraham Hare, a leading
druggist of Belleville, <)., writes: Elec
tric Bitters are the best selling bitters I
have ever handled in ray twenty years
experience." You know why? Most
diseases begin in disorders of stomach,
liver, kidneys, bowels, blood and nerves.
Electric Bitters tones up the stomach,
regulates liver, kidneys and bowels, puri
fies the blood, strengthens the nerves,
hence cures multitudes of maladies. It
builds up the entire system. Puts new
life and vigor into any weak, sickly, run
down man or woman. Only 50 cents.
Sold by L. Taggart, Druggist. Guaran
teed.
Always pay your milkman spot cash
never request him to "chalk it up."
It requires a constable to take a man
up and a stenographer to take him down.
EXECUTOR'S mm.
Estate of Lucretia T. Kdgecomb, Deceased.
T ETTERS testamentary on the Estate of
1 J Lucretia T.Edgecomb, latetof Emporium bor
ough, Cameron county, Pennsylvania, have been
KTunted to Henry Edgecomb, residing in said
Horough, to whom all persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make payment, and those
having claims or demands, will make known the
same without delay.
HENRY EDGECOMB, Executor.
B. W. GREEN,
C. W. Shafpkk,
Solicitors for Executor.
Emporium, Pa., Now. 4tli, 1899.—37-6t
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EMPORIUM, PA.
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