2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TEKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year PJ| If paid in advance 1 oO ADVKRTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion anil fifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by ibe year, or for six or three months, »,-e low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Letfal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, *2; each subsequent inser t'on 60 cents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one tnser ■ •rtion: ft cents per line for each subsequent oonsecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, live lines or less. sft per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 7a cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The .Tob department of the PRRRS is complete and afford-, facilities Tor doing the best class of work. PARI ICI'UB ATTENTION PAID TO PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub. fisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paf lor in advance. In every country town the great question in spring is that of weeds. The country- news- The Cutting J .„ papers soon will j of A\ eed». begin to publish the admonition: "Cut your weeds," and later will follow it by attacks on those who fail to take their advice and appeals to the public spirit of the neg ligent or parsimonious. The lowa leg islature undertook to regulate the matter of weed cutting by statute, and the last general assembly passed a law requiring land-owners to cut the weeds on highways and adjacent to their land, and providing that if tliej - failed to comply with the law the weeds were to be cut and the expense charged up against the land. The result, says the Chicago Tribune, has been trouble in every part of lowa. When the law is enforced there is complaint and when jt is not there is complaint, and so the local authorities have had their hands full. At the present session a bill was introduced by Representative Wilson, of Keokuk, to authorize the supervisors to cut the weeds and pay for the work ns for any other improvement. The importance of weed cutting being recognized by the villagers and the new law being ineffective, the bill passed the house without difficulty. When it came before the senate, how ever, it met with the determined op position of Senators Harriman and Wallace, who declared that the present law should be enforced and the coun ties' money might better be spent for other improvements. Like the coun try editors, they believe it is the duty of every man to cut his own weeds. And so the bill failed in the senate. It is just as well that, it did. The present law should be enforced, and if any man lacks the public spirit to cut his weeds the country editors will prob ably see to it that he is mulcted. "Every once in awhile we have per fect hemorrhages of righteous indig „. . nation upon the Edward link subject ol divorce, on, Divorce. writes Edward Bok( of"The Ease With Which We Marry," in the Ladies' Home Journal. "We say divorce must stop, or that there must be no divorce. But wouldn't it be a bit better if we let this subject alone for awhile and concerned ourselves with the evil which leads to ddvorce? The fact of the. matter is that there is a notion, which is altogether wrong, that divorce is easy in this country. Divorce is not easy. I am far from saying that our divorce laws are what they should be. But it is a senseless thing to make those divorce laws more stringent while we allow our mar riage laws to be ns loose as they are. Let those who cannot see any farther than the revision of present divorce laws ask themselves this question: Is it fair to allow foolish, inexperienced girls to be led into what they believe to be a fairy-palace, and then, when they find it to be a prison—yes and worse, a positive suburb to the infernal regions—to refuse to let them out, if they can get out? Is that merciful? Is that just? Would we not come closer to the common sense of this whole question if, before we go any further in this campaign against di vorce, we turn back and tighten the door which leads to it? Divorce is not to easy but that we can afford to leave it precisely where it is for the time be ing. It isn't a particle easier than it should be, so long as we allow mar riage to be as loose as it is." It is stated by a responsible medical journal that a surgeon in the French army has just discovered that stamp collectors maj' be the means of dis seminating tuberculosis by means of the stamps. A man in his employ was a great stamp collector and occupied his spare time in fixing the stamps in albums or on sheets of gummed paper for sale, moistening the stamps for the purpose with his tongue. Three hundred of the stamps were placed in sterilized water and with some of the water eight guinea pigs were inoculat ed. Each died with characteristic tuberculous lesions. Children, says the journal, should be warned against placing any stamps near their mouths in order to moisten them and foreign stamps should be disinfected in a tive per cent, solution of carbolic acid be fore adding them to collections. BRYAN BOUND TO SILVER. Without That INHUC the Cheap Money Champion Mould Stand for \<>(lilnK. It is n&eless to attempt to discredit the logic and the consistency of Mr. Bryan's reply to Oswald Ottendorfer, the eminent editor of the New York Staats Zeitnng, concerning the sug gestion that the silver issue be dropped from the platform to be adopted at. Kansas City. Editor Ottendorfer recently gave ex pression to his personal preferences for Mr. Bryan as a presidential candi date, but, also expressed the belief that lie could not command the sup port of the sound money democrats in the coming campaign upon the new issues unless he discarded the old. In pursuance of this belief he addressed Mr. Bryan a letter in which he sug gested that he might command almost the entire German-American vote in this country in the next election if he would drop the silver issue and confine himself to anti-expansion and the trusts. It is quite evident from Mr. Bry an's reply that he does not believe the entire German-American vote could be marshalled against "trusts"' or "expansion," or else he. is of the opinion that he could gain nothing by sacrificing principles for party expe diency. In either case Mr. Bryan's re joinder is creditable to his judgment and his candor. llow could Mr. Bryan drop or re nounce free coinage at. sixteen to one without proclaiming himself before the world as the most arrant dema gogue that ever walked in shoe leath er? A majority of the American peo ple believe Mr. Bryan to be radically wrong in his financial and economic views, but they have never believed him to be dishonest. Mr. Bryan be lieves in the free and unlimited coin age of gold and silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. The theories upon which that belief is based are not al tered by the law recently enacted by congress committing the nation per manently to the gold standard, al though it removes all possibility of tampering with the currency system for at least six years. If Mr. Bryan is an honest man why ask him to drop the issue for which he most conspicuously stands? Why should Mr. Bryan drop Bryan? llow could he drop the issue with which his name is inseparably linked, in which he honestly believes, without forfeiting tne respect of all classes of people and without advertising him self as a shameless hypocrite? Can the leopard change his spots? Bryan without free silver would stand for nothing. He declares he would rather suffer defeat than repudiate his obligations to his faithful follow ers. This is spoken like a man. Bry an and free silver will go down in tie feat together; the silver issue will then be permanently retired from American polities, and the democratic party can get together once more on the new and living national issues.— Chicago Times-Herald. PROSPERITY INCREASING. Under Republican Hulc the Financial Condition of the Country Uoe« on Improving. Those are very interesting figures and full of suggestion contained in the "circulation statement" just issued by the treasury department. They point to the signboard of these republican times of industrial progression where on is emblazoned in bold characters "Prosperity," and that, too, with an exceedingly large "I*." It is interest ing to make casual comparison of the present condition of the country and that of the democratic years that pre ceded the inauguration of this repub lican administration, and coincidental ly of business revival and industrial awakening. It is also a most gratify ing retrospect. On all sides evidence of prosperous times is abundantly mani fest and constantly multiplies. For three years the country has been steadily and upon an ever increasing scale enlarging its commerce and ex panding its industries. With the in coming of the republican administra tion came confidence. With confidence capital came out of hiding, mills start ed up. manufacturers awakened, idle labor found employment and prosper ity ceased to be a promise and became an accomplished fact. Preceding this period there had been four years of democratic mismanagement, legisla tive bickering and incompetent inter ference with industrial principles, in consequence of which confidence had been destroyed, capital driven into hiding, business stagnated and labor forced into idleness and want. Ihe comparative, pictures are familiar to all. Xo man's memory is so short that it cannot easily comprehend eight years. The lesson of these eight years is the lesson of history. Republicanism stands for prosperity, democracy lor disaster. And while democracy of the old kind was bad enough, that of the new school is far worse. Bryanism is a banc that, no party can bear and live; that no country will fasten upon the administration of national affairs.— Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. CTIn a speech in the state of Wash ington Mr. Bryan said: "Distinguish between expansion ant' imperialism. Expansion means extension of the lim its of the republic; imperialism is the policy of empire. We have expanded before. We never had imperialism be fore." We have none now, cither. Ex pansion is the republican policy and Ilryan is trj ing to hedge in opposing it. —St. Louis Glohe-Deinocr.it. (C'l'lie New York World wants to know if Mr. McKinley is inevitable. i!e may not be inevitable exactly, but I he is mighty imminent.—Chicago Jour- I nal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900. IMPORTS AND IMMIGRATION. Democratic Itepreaiilon Una tiiven Way to Re i>ul>l lean Prosperity and Progress. The immigration figures tell the story of American prosperity and "good McKinley times." During the years of depression under a democrat ic tariff and Cleveland administration there was a tremendous falling off in the arrivals of foreigners, especially in the number of those most desirable as additions to our population—the honest., industrious workers who came here to dwell permanently find im prove their own condition and that of the. country at large through thrift and good citizenship. Now the tide is again at full flow. While a large pro portion of these immigrants are of the desirable class, there is no doubt that many are objectionable and should be subjected to the closest scrutiny. Our laws relating to immi gration have been amended from time ti time, but they still permit a dan gerous laxity. As to importations of foreign goods, it is to be noted that they show a very healthful condition in-our trade. Near ly one-half of them, in value, are for use in our factories. That is, the Cnitcd States is importing many mil lions of dollars' worth of crude mate rial which it can obtain abroad more, readily and cheaply than at home, and is working it up into the finished products of American skill. Again, an other quarter of the importations com ing into the United States are articles of food, most of which cannot bo pro duced here in sufficient quantities for the use of its population, the February importations of "articles of food and live animals" having amounted to $10,254,153, or 21!.03 per cent, of the imports for that month. Taking the eight months ended with February, articles of food formed 25.15 percent, of the total imports; manufacturers' materials, including articles in a crude condition and articles wholly or par tially manufactured for use in the me chanic arts, amounted to 45.02 percent. It appears, therefore, that while our imports have considerably increased that about one-half represents mate rials for tisc in our industries, one fourth food articles which we do not produce and the other fourth manufac tures and articles of luxury bought abroad to meet the requirements or gratify the taste of the American peo ple. This is a very wholesome and sat isfactory condition of affairs.—Troy Times. FREE TRADE FOR TRUSTS. Allies and < V H t spnivh of the Monopo lists Opposed the Porto Klean Hill. Tn his recent speech on the Porto Jlican bill, Congressman MeCleary, of Minnesota, completely refuted the charge that the decision to impose a tariff on goods imported from Porto Uico is a concession to the trusts. As coffee is on the free list and will remain there if the pending bill be comes a law, it need not be considered in a discussion as to the proposed tar iff. The products of the island which are next in importance are sugar and tobacco. Mr. MeCleary pointed out as the visible supply of those two products in Porto Rico is no longer owned by the planters, but is held for shipment at the order of the purchasers, in Por to Rican warehouses, the reduction of the tariff is a benefit to the purchasers; free trade would be a ; reater benefit. Surely the purchasers of the sugar and tobacco now in sight in the island would not ask for the. imposition of any tariff. Mr. MeClerary further directed at tention to the statement made in the report of Gen. Davis, military gover nor of Porto Rico, that the American Tobacco company (the tobacco trust) has lately bought the largest cigarette manufactory in the island. It may be taken for granted, in view of this, that it is t«e tobacco trust which pur chased the tobacco crop of the island and is holding it.and if that is so tliei it would be to the interest of that trust to have the tariff wiped out. "So far. then, as I can discover," said Mr. MeCleary, "both the sugar trust and the tobacco trust, if they have any interest at all in this matter, would naturally favor immediate free trade with Porto Rico. If so, what more natural thing could they do, knowing the great feeling against trusts in the United States, than to cause to be scat tered broadcast the idea that they are against immediate free trade?" That is, knowing that anything which they would seem to favor would be opposed, they sought to accomplish their real purpose by pretending to desire something else. It appears, then, that the men who were opposing the Porto Hican bill are either the allies or the catspaws of trusts.—Albany Journal. COMMENT AND OPINION. (CTlie Kansas City Journal wants to know what has become of John P.Alt geld. lie blew out the political gas and retired. — Chicago Tribune. C? When Col. Bryan finally an nounces his retirement from the dem ocratic party there will be a great many dry eyes. — Ohio State Journal. lE?"Senator Ilanna :;ays that the peo ple will choose the republican candi date for the vice presidency this year. This will, no doubt, surprise some of the democrats who have supposed that Mr. Ilanna would settle all that him self.—Cleveland Leader. statement attributed to Sec retary Gage that the present revenue laws yield a large surplus which can be safely reduced will now lie used with the utmost avidity by the same people who were not long ago con stantly asserting that the republican i revenue laws would yield only a deficit. —N. Y. Tribune. IN THE Oil) PATHS. Qrover Cleveland AHks Domocrate to Walk. Ei'tioirrnor < itmpbell In a Speech at a llHii«|iiet Declares tliat tlic !<> to 1 IKNIIC IN Head and toil, us Any Alliance \% Itli Populist*. New York, April 19. —At the ban quet. given in Brooklyn last night by deiYiOeVats, the following letter from ex-President Cleveland was read: "Princeton, N. J., April 17. "To Louis F. Burcbard —Dear Sir: I regret that I am unable to aec#pt your invitation to attend the dinner to be given by the Brooklyn Demo cratic club on the 18th inst., to com memorate the birth of Thomas Jef ferson. "Though the faults of the party in power are many and though its of fenses against the political health of the country are flagrant, these things should not encourage us to base an expectation of success upon the shortcomings of our adversaries. "Whatever successes may have at tended a party of opportunity, with sails spread for every transient breeze of popular sentiment, or excitement, experience has demonstrated that democracy is only strong when cour ageous in the right, and only victori ous when its forces are marshaled under its old standards. "Our principles are so simple that, they are easily understood by the democratic masses. As a result of this, there has never been a time when false leadership of our party and a departure from simple demo cratic faith have not been quickly dis covered and rebuked by defeat. These consequences have thus far been so inevitable that the lessons they teach cannot be disregarded without invit ing calamity." Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, made a speech, in which he said: "The political party founded by Thomas Jefferson cannot survive half democratic and half populistie. There must be either dissolution or restora tion of pure democracy. It is true that many thousands of us will again support the nominees of our party, no matter into what mistakes it may fall, but it is equally true that many other thousands will forever abandon the party if it again supplants truth with error. Democracy means the opportunity, elevation and reign of the individual, but populism is that perverted form of socialism which can lead onjv to the tliralldom of the individual and the enthronement <»f the plutocrat. "The Chicago platform enunciated many great and enduring truths, but. it coupled them to at least one fatal error-—tin- un-.leffersonian and (un der existing commercial conditions) the impossible proposition of 'lO to I.' "A majority of the electors of the 201111 try were bimetal lists. Forced to choose between the two forms of monometallism they chose gold. By this choice they were not only sad dled with the gold standard, but also with a financial bill which creates that most powerful and dangerous of nil trusts—money trust. It is suffi cient to know that 'lO to 1' is dead, and that just so long as we proclaim our intention to resurrect, it, just that long will our resurrection be post poncd." Mr. Campbell declared the army of voters had plenty of work, at good wages. < ontinuing. lie said: "It will lie hard to enlist their co operation to destroy oppression in Porto Rico, or stay imperialism in the Philippines, unless we first aban don the menace to their own prosper ity. "Not only did the fusion with pop alism result in disaster, but defeat did not seem to teaeli us anything. The party of Jefferson has ever sine • continued to masquerade in the livery of populism, swearing eternal fealty to doctrines voted down again and again by the people, until for four successive years the election returns show that it has steadily fallen low er and lower in public estimation. "Labor is jailed or shot at Coeur D'Alene, treaties arc made which bar ter away the Monroe doctrine and bind us captive to the chariots of Kuropean potentates; the constitu tion of tin- I'nited States is debauch ed and reconstructed until we are un certain of our own rights—certain only that our unhappy captive lands have no rights that a white man is bound to respect; scandals in army contracts, purchases of ships, sales of custom houses, favored bank deposits and in all other forms of money grabbing are rife on every hand: great corporations, already glutted with profit, are to be suosidized under the specious pretext of restoring our wasted merchant marine. "This may be our last stand. Let the party of plutocracy once more succeed, and the census niuHhe elec tion statistics will become the pow erful weapons whereby the democrat ic south shall be deprived o/ ner rights under the tattered remnants of the constitution. If the men of the south love populism more than they love truth, let them adhere to it, let them again fling to the breeze the banner of the lost cause of 1(5 to i, and once more, and for all. drive the knife into the vitals of Jefferson ian democracy. '1 heir day of re pentance will come, but it will then be too late. Mr. t antpbell praises the platform adopted by the Pennsylvania demo cratic convention and advises its adoption by the national convention. Pettlt to be Court-martialed. New York, April 19. —A dispatch from Manila announces tnat Col. James S. Pettit, of the Thirty-first volunteers, in command at Zamboan ga. will be court-martialed for bantl ing a prisoner of war over to Presi dent Medell, of Zamboanga, who kill ed the prisoner at once, without trial. Pettit is the officer with whom Lieut. Col. Webb C. Hayes, who recently re signed. is said to have quarreled, ow inf.r to I'ettit's dickering with a Morro ditto for ilie right to laVid troops and compelling his men to submit to in dignities from the :;ati^es. SENATORIAL COURTESY. The Gentleman from the South Gnrc Way and tlie Senate Wan Adjourned. Senator Pettus, of Alabama, is the most owl-like member of the senate. He is so ponderously solemn that he is unconscious ly humorous. Mr. Pettus will be SO years old next July. He belongs to the old school of southern statesmen now fast diseappearing. It is easy to Bee, in the dogmatic manner in which lie lays down the law to his senatorial col leagues, that he has been a judge. He speaks with great deliberation, at the rate of about six words a minute, and each word is em phasized by the waving of his chin whiskers. His gestures are confined to a wide sweep of his arm from his body and an inverse mo tion. Everything he does or says is serious. Even when he wants the senate to adjourn, he goes about it in a way that is the very quintessence of solemn dignity. For in stance, the other afternoon, when Air. Spooner was talking on the Quay case, Mr. Pettus arose. "I should like to ask the senator to give way for a motion, if he pleases," remarked Mr. Pettus, uttering each word as if the fate of the nation depended upon the an swer. "I will agree to anything the senator wants me to," replied Air. Spooner, smiling ly, "except to vote against my convictions on a constitutional question." "I am not asking you to do that," said Mr. Pettus, still mysterious, "but I want you to give way to a motion." "Well, what is it?" asked Mr. Spooner. "It is to adjourn," answered Mr. Pettus, in his melancholy voice and without a smile. Ever}' member of the senate laughed, and the motion to adjourn was carried.—Wash ington Post. W UK nt'r in Dispute. "Do you admire Wagner?" she inquired at the musieale, looking up at him soulfully, for, although they had met but ten minutes before, there already seemed to be a bond betsveeu them. "Not much, after the bum article of base ball he's been imiking us stand for here in Washington all these years," was the em phatic reply, and then she was forced to the conclusion that he, too, was lacking in ap preciation of the higher and nobler. —Wash- ington Post. No Danger Whatever. "Don't on any account sleep on an empty stomach!" was the advice of a physician to a patient. "No danger of that," was the reply; "I always sleep on my back!"— Ti t " 112 A 7Eit troll'* .TllMake. Mr. Brown (explaining - to a visitor) —This is my wile's maiden effort at lan (I sea pe pa i niti ng. Mrs. B.—Now, John, you know bet tor. I'd I><><'ll married more than a year when I pa.inlted it. One of Them. "Look here," said the approached; "Igave you ten cents not live minutes ago. Now you are at me again." 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