THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866.
VOL. 35.
Molasses, Oh! Molasses.
Probably in no political campaign
during a century has there been a more
profound and logical argument put
forth than the democratic howl of
" Molassess, oh ! molasfes." " Whad'je
goto Franklin for?" "Mola?se.?, mo
lasses, oh! molasses." Theman-that
don't-want-liis-name-in-the-papcr says
he bought part of a newspaper to aid
Mr. Emery's canvass. Where did he
get his dough ? Of course a newspaper
is negotiable property and there is no
law against any man buying a news
paper plant—presses, fixtures, towel,
good will, and entire outfit—if he has
the necessary sugar; but one would
think, to /»ear the democrats and box
ers yell, that Sibley's mola§Se§ was the
only sweet stuff in evidence in this
campaign.
This man Emery is entitled to no
Republican votes. The action of him
self and his so-called Republican (?)
friends is subversive of the very first
principles of Republican government.
Submission to the will of the majority
is the very foundation rock on which
our proud republic is reared. When a
few soreheads and political boxers can
disrupt the Republican party then shall
our very republican form of govern
ment be indeed in serious danger.
The act of a brave man, one of the
noblest, most patriotic acts of any pub
lic man of recent times, was the action
by the Hon. Joseph C. Sibley in the
Fifty-sixth Congress, when he boldly
announced his position in support ofthe
flag, the constitution and the President
of the United States.
Money will hire men to work, but it
cannot buy personal honor, respect,
esteem or friendship, and the Hon. J.
C. Sibley has twenty personal friends
who esteem and love him (regardless
of the size of his bank account) where
this man Emery has one. VINDEX.
The underwear department of the
populars clothing store of N. Seger is
complete. Any grade in quality and
price desired may be fouiU
AX IMMENSE ()U r IT()UR7NG OF THE PEOPLE.
The voters of Cameron county turned out en masse at Driftwood last Thursday evening to hear Hon. Joseph C. Sibley and Hon. C. W. Mackey discuss the issues of the campaign. A special train con
sist, ug of seven coaches packed ful of enthusiastic Republicans arrived at Driftwood at 7:30. The people came from every section of the county-Emporium, Portage, Ship,® n, Lumber Gibson ami
Grove Over twelve hundred people, headed by Emporium Baud and the Driftwood McKinley and Roosevelt Club, marched to Mitchell's opera house, but not one-half were able to get into the buildtag
Never before 111 the history of Cameron county has such an enthusiastic meeting been held in the caster,, part of this county. Addresses were made by Congressman Sibley and ex-Co,u TO sn,a,, Mackev
both able and convincing arguments. The meeting was admirably handled by hustling Republicans of Driftwood and Gibson and resulted in much good. Mr. Sibley's speech was input as Mowv
You charge me with being a flopper. Yes, I guess that is so.
If a flopper may properly be defined as one who did not know it
all yesterday, is wiser to-day and aims for progress to-morrow,
then lam a flopper. If a flopper is one who finds a position of
yesterday untenable to-day, positively wrong to-morrow, then if
seeking to leave the entenable position, the occupation of which
would stultity my intelligence, dwarf my conscience, and work an
injury to my fellows, then you may define me as a flopper. If
looking at the present and trusting for a grander future rather than
facing backward to fan the smouldering embers of the past, con
stitutes one as flopper, please enumerate me as such.
Whenever I see men who have been working for $i a day, able
to earn $2; when the man who earned $2 can have the opportunity
to earn $3; I will flop as often as it may be necessary to help that
condition, for that man to continue.
When from 1893 to 1896 47 per cent, of the wage-earners of
this country were unemployed or working 011 short hours, and to
day only three-eighths of one per cent, of the wage-earners unem
ployed, I will flop to help keep these men employed whenever and
wherever it is demanded.
When under a free trade tariff bill we saw our nation largely
importing its manufactured necessities, and when under this ad
ministration we arc manufacturing not only for ourselves, but arc
supplying the other nations of the world with the products fabri
cated by American hands in American workshops, you can make
a fair guess that I will flop to help that cause along.
Last year we sent from our American workshops to foreign
nations $339,000,000 of manufactured products; this 432,000,000
of dollars, and with the assured certainty that, with the President's
policy maintained, those exports will within six years reach more
than one thousand millions of dollars annually, thereby requiring
double the workshops of the present, and affording double the
present opportunity for honest labor and honest capital to meet
with substantial recompense, I will flop, and flop until I can be
right side up in line with that policy.
When a pound of wool brings the farmer 30 cents to-day in
stead of 17 cents, and when his sheep that were only salable at a
dollai a head in 1896, are worth to-day three or iour dollars head,
I will flop whenever it is required for me to do so to help maintain
that condition for the wool-grower.
When cotton, that sold for four cents per pound under the last
administration, brings from nine to ten cents under the McKinley
administration, I will flop to help the cotton-grower.
When we see an advance in the price of all farm products rang
ing 1 10111 25 to 125 per cent, and my flopping from one attitude to
another will help that farmer I will try to be the first man to flop.
When we see furnaces blazing, forges glowing, looms weaving;
when we hear shu ff les clicking and spindles humming; when
prawn and brain er 1 fair recompense, whether in factory or
in field, I will, as vho aims to be loyal to his fellow, his
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EMERY'S PIPE DREAM.
"Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WKßSTKß.
EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1900.
country, and his Creator, try my level best to maintain that condi
tion, call me what you will.
Last fall, asking after a man who was once my warm political
friend, whom I also trusted was my personal friend, I was informed
that he made more money 111 1899 than he ever made iu any
previous year ol his life. Was it hard for me to flop to help him
and others to many such years ol golden harvest?
A Democratic friend of mine, a large manufacturer of lumber,
told me, much less than one year ago, that he was bothered to get
enough good lumbermen togo into the woods at $2.50 per day,
where a few years ago they could be had for $1.25 to $1.50 per
day. And he further told me that for many years there had not
been much of a margin of profit for lumbermen, but if present
prices could continue for two years he would never need to strug
gle for another dollar iu his life. Is it strange that I should flop
for the benefit of those men ?
When wages have increased from 10 to 30 per cent. In nearly
all industries; when in 1899 we paid $765,000,000 more to wage
earners of this land than we did iu 1896, with the assured certainty
that they will still further increase, if we only let our partisanship
shrivel and our patriotism expand; are you justified in doubting
if my attitude of yesterday hinders that increase I will flop until
my position of to-day shall be upon that higher ground, standing
upou which humanity, from the heights of the delectable moun
tains, can see grand visions of a more glorious future?
When for two years the New York Central railroad had 35
miles of freight cars standing continuously idle upon its side
tracks, and when the same effect was proportionately true 011 every
great railway of America, when train crews were laid off and runs
had to be divided so as to give to each man an occasional chance
to earn a pittance, and to-day with hundreds of thousands of new
cars and thousands of additional locomotives, we find every wheel
turning, every crew employed, can you doubt whether or not I
will flop, if in so doing I can help to keep those wheels turning
and those men employed ?
When you see this nation's products carried to market under
a foreign flag, in foreign ships, manned by foreign seamen, and to
whom we pay $200,000,000 each year, when the proposition is
made by this administration to build up an American merchant
marine, which shall carry our products to market in American
ships, sailed by American sailors, and when the committee of
which my honored friend from Ohio, Gen. Grosvenor, is chair
man, presents such a bill in the House of Representatives, and I
have to either oppose that bill or flop, which do you think it will
l>e ?
When we see the flag fired upon, when we see the brave boys
in blue, your brothers, your sons and your sweetheats, shot down
by men iu ambush, my sympathies go out to you and to them
rather than to a Tagal savage, and I got to flop. As I love my
country, my iellow man, and my God, no man will flop ahead of
me.
When to act to the dictates of an honest conscience, guided by
the best oi my intelligence, my duty to my fellow man, my coun
try, and my Creator, prompts me that when 1 am wrong my duty
is to get right, I shall follow the promptings and the dictation of
that conscience, let them lead where they may.
You may hurl your contumelious epithets; they have been,
hurled in the past. Washington was called a traitor; the rabble
and the mob through all the ages have cried "crucify! crucify!"
at every man who has dared to stand by his free conscience in an
effort to make this a grander and better world, wherein true man
hood and true womanhood may cherish higher ideals aud attain
to higher degrees of political, social and moral well-being.
When we see each month a surplus in our budget instead of a
deficit; when we see, instead of borrowing money in England, as
we did under the last administration, we have loaned within the
last two years to Sweden, Russia, Germany and England more
than $200,000,000; when we see our exports doubling and our im
ports dividing; when we see happy faces of a well-fed and well
clad citizenship, and contrast it with the days of the Coxey army
of unemployed, when the pinched faces of hungry men and women
and little children, clad in tatters, in the biting blast of the win
ter's storm sought for cold sympathy and cold soup in the soup
houses. God in His grace grant that you and I shall never wit
ness these scenes again ! But if we do, my earnest prayer is that
fie may so guide us all in His infinite love and wisdom that no
vote or act of ours, whether in public or private life, shall be re
sponsible for the return of such conditions.
God make us men, not partisans,
Tall men, sun-crowned, and truly great,
Use us as willing artisans
To mould and form the nobler state.
I appeal to 110 man's partisanship, but rather to his reason and
his conscience. Whether, as our candidate, I shall win or fail,
recks little; but the success of those principles which, embodied
in our national life, which opens wide the doors of opportunity
through which your loved ones must go out to win an honorable
place in the world, means everything to you and them. Let us
tear down those altars which in our pride we have bttilded in our
high places, and whereon we have made sacrifices to selfishness,
to partisan practice and prejudice, and on those ruins erect fair
temples upon whose unprofaned altars we shall lay our thank of
ferings of patriotism and duty.
1 shall have 110 new pledges to make to vou if again your rep
resentative in public life. Simply, humbly, and, I trust rever
ently, seeking to know my duty, I shall discharge itas in thesight
of Him who searcheth and knoweth all men's hearts. Seeking
not to know what may foster the ambition of some politician, but
what policies, embraced and embodied in our national life, will
dignify labor, afford truer and juster recompense, and make for a
nobler, truer citizenship.
TERMS: $2.00—51.50 IN ADVANCE.
WEATHER REPORT.
(Forecast by T. B. Lloyd.)
FRIDAY. Fair; warmer; sonthwest winds.
SATURDAY. Fair and continued warm.
SUNDAY, Part'y cloudy and probably showers
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« EVENING. VUL. ZT, S *
commencing at 7:30 p.m. |
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> SPECIAL TRAIN from Sinnamahon-
t ing and intermediate points, for the ac- <
> commodation of all who maydesire to at- >
» tend: returning after the meeting. A c
J cordial invitation is extended to all. >
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