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The Job department of the PitKss is complete ■in -tr< rd~ facilities for doinu the best class of w rW. PAK'I Il lILAH ATTKNI ION HAIDTU LAW I'KINTINO. No paper will b? discontinued until urrear s lire paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent cut of the county must be paid fir iu auvauce. The question as to the recognition to which cigarettes are entitled under ... .the lr.w was con t l«areit<-« and sidered by the I'nit the Lair, , ~ . ed States supreme court recently in an opinion rendered in the case of William B. Austin vs. the state of Pennsylvania. The case originated in the state of Tennessee, and it called into question the valid ity of the state law regulating the sale of this article of commerce on the ground that it was an infringement of the right of congress to regulate interstate commerce, says the Wash ington Star. The Tennessee supreme court upheld the law, and the decision sustained that verdict, though not without disapproval of some of the po sitions taken, and then upon a very narrow margin, four out of nine mem bers joining in a dissent ing opinion and another member of the court (Justice White) placing his assent upon grounds different from those announced by Jus tice Drown, who handed down the opin ion. The Tennessee court had held that cigarettes are not an article of commerce. With this view Justice Brown took issue, and he delivered quite a dissertation upon the subject. Whatever is an object of barter and sale is, lie said, an article of commerce, and must be so recognized. Tobacco had been such an article for 400 years. It had been made the subject of taxation, and. indeed, had become more widely scattered than any other vegetable. Probably, he added, no other vegetable has contributed so much to the com fort and solace of the human race. This being the case, it was entirely beyond the bounds to say that tobacco was not an article of commerce. He then took notice of the claim that cigar ettes are an especially harmful form of tobacco, and while he conceded that this might be the case, he remarked that this claim was of comparatively recent origin. Still, he held that cig arettes are as much a subject of state regulation as is liquor, and he further held that while no state law could pro hibit importation in original packages it was entirely competent for a legis lature to regulate the sale because of the original belief in the deleterious effect of the article. There was a dis senting opinion of Justice Sliiras, in which the chief justice and Justice Brewer and Peckham joined. They based their dissent upon the theory that congress has exclusive control of interstate commerce. As the national census and a general election came together in the year 1900, it is easy to obtain the true ratio be tween the population and the number of voters. The total registration in St. Louis for the recent election was 136,- fi49, and the official census population is 575.238. The ratio is one registered voter to 4.20 inhabitants. But the actual vote of St. Louis was 124,937, the number registered but not voting reaching 11.712. The ratio of the actual votes to population in St. Louis was 4.60. Missouri's total vote was 683.635, and its population by the census of IS9O is 3.100,005. The ratio of voters to population in this state is 4.54, In general the ratio varies considerably. Indianapolis reports a ratio of 3.71, St. Paul, 6,10, and Boston G.yo. That of New York city as consolidated is 5.84, Chicago is 4.75, Philadelphia's, 5.50, and Baltimore's 4.50. The average for 21 large cities is 5.25. Lorney L. Salley, a 70-year-old vet eran of the civil war living at Free port, Ind., received a pension of $25 per month and applied for ati in crease to S4O. There was some irreg ularity in his affairs and this were discovered when his application was considered. The result was that his entire pension was taken away. The cUI man brooded over the matter and began to fail rapidly. He absolutely refused all food for weeks, and died on Thanksgiving day. Judge Clifford Smith, of Cedar Falls, la., holds that good citizens are needed more in this country than mere voters. Therefore he refused to grant natu ralization papers to several foreigners whocame before him because they were unable to understand some simple ques tions which he put to them. None of them could either read or write Kng lish, and the judge told them that he did not t liink they were as yet ready for citizenship BRYAN'S BRYANISM. Poit-Klrrllnn F.xpln nn I litna of (lie Hlngrunlli'il Apostle of Ills content. A few days after election it was announced that in tine time Mr. Bry an would publish his thoughts about the result. Jt was believed that he would use the newspapers as his me dium of publication, but it now ap pears that he is acting in accordance with his recently announced declara tion that he would no longer write without pay. The "spirit of commer cialism," which he so greatly depre cates in others, seems to have taken possession of Mr. Bryan. His prom ised statement appears in the Decem ber number of the North American Review, the publisher of which doubt less paid a good, round sum for the article. Mr. Bryan says nothing new. On the contrary, he makes it very plain that his second experience of defeat has benefited him no moir than his first, that he is everlastingly th- same William Jennings Bryan who emerged into the light of publicity a little more than four years ago. His article is made up largely of catch phrases which the public has learned by heart from frequent repe tition of them by him. Here are n few specimens: "The old sayini? that It Is not safe to rwap horses white crossing a stream was used l for all It was worth, notwithstanding the fact that. In this instance, it was an ocean instead of a stream that was being crossed : for imperialism Is an idea of Euro pean origin. "The republican victory was due to money, war and better times. "The work of education must continue, until the great majority of the people rec ognize that a private monopoly is indefen sible and intolerable. "The destiny of the American people must bedeterminedby the American people them selves. "The same powerful financial Interests whirh protect industrial trusts at home will attempt to force the nation to join the international land grabbing trust. "To consider this election as decisive of the money question would be as absurd as to have regarded' the election of ISSMi as de cisive of the tariff question. "As a matter of fact, an election is not necessarily conclusive upon any question. "When prosperity falls the gold standard will lose Its charm." Mr. Bryan remains a firm believer in the doctrine of his own infallibility. Defeat has not impaired the vigor of his conceit. He talks about his buga boos with all his ante-election confi dence in their terrifying qualities. The majority of the people must be educated by the minority, he says in effect. The money question is not settled. Nothing is ever settled defi nitely by an election. Wealth is still an evil and its possession a crime. The octopus still weaves its tentacles over a doomed country and the money devil is rushing about seeking whom he may devour. Woe! woe! Alas and alack! Everything is awry and must remain so until the people permit Mr. Bryan to lead thein out of danger and darkness into the light which emanates from his great self and into the millennium which he only has power to create. There is in the English language no word which exactly describes Mr. Bryan's mental condition. If he were a native of Germany his fellow citi zens would say that he was afflicted with "(iroeszenwahnsinn." There is just one sentence among those quoted from Mr. Bryan's ar ticle which is thoroughly sensible, and it upsets most of Mr. Bryan's other assertions. It is this: "The destiny of the American peo ple must be determined by the Amer ican people themselves." Since that is indisputable fact, and since you recognize it as fact, why in the name of that remnant of com mon sense which you still possess, Mr. Bryan, don't you leave the Amer ican people to work out their destiny without attempted interference from yourself? "The republican victory was due to money, war and better times," says Mr. Bryan. That is true. It was due to the money which the masses have been able to earn and save under a republican administration, to the war against rebels which Mr. Bryan pro posed to end by ignominious surren der of our forces, to the better times which came with the adoption of the policies which Mr. Bryan condemned four years ago.—Albany Journal. is Mr. Bryan's opinion that back of all the questions which were at issue in the late election "lies the deep and lasting struggle between human rights and inhuman greed," and that if the latter triumphs "our government will be converted into a plutocracy and our civilization into barbarism." This is a text which Mr. Bryan probably will stick to during the next four years. It is one from which he can preach end less sermons to the improvident, the shiftless and the reckless. Nothing pleases such persons more than to be assured that they are the victims of "inhuman greed." They are always ready to follow the man who preaches that comforting doctrine to them. Mr. Bryan will continue to be the apostle of the discontented.—Chicago Tribune. era of good feeling which pre vails all over the country since Presi dent McKinley's reelection does not in clude William J. Bryan, but it compre hends a large proportion of the men who voted for him. In the south in particular many of the persons who voted for Bryan hoped and expected that he would be defeated, and they, of course, rejoice over the republican vic tory. The Amerirttn people did a grand day's work on November 0, 1900. —St Louis Globe-Democrat. CThe three counties of Pennsylva nia which were the arena of the an thracite coal strike gave large major ities for McKinley at the late election. One county which gave 1,000 democrat ic majority two years ago gave Mc- Kinley nearly as large a majority this year. —Indianapolis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ao, 1900. M'KINLEY ON TRUSTS. Cliief Executive llecoitnlecs \«■«■«-«» 11> of II ex trn In liik Injurious I 0111 lit mi 11 on N. It was doubtless too much to ex pect in the president's message any definite recommendations concerning federal control of trusts. Considering the prominence given to the question of federal regulation of trusts by Mr. Bryan in the closing days of the cam paign the president is perhaps justi fied in assuming that the people take no stock in the proposed schemes for federal interference in the industrial consolidations that have been formed and are being formed in the various states of the union. The president does not fail, how ever, to call the attention of congress to the necessity for applying re straints upon such combinations as are injurious and which are within the federal jurisdiction. Hi- urges uniformity of state legislation upon the subject, and expresses ths hope that means may be found for con gress to supplement such legislation for the remedy of evils growing out of trusts, "within the limits of the constitution." We commend to the careful consid eration of state legislatures the very sound, vigorous and practical sugges tions of Gov. Roosevelt upon the trust question, as embodied in his speeches and messages, and as recently reiter ated and amplified in his published review of the suit against the New York ice trust. A careful study of the economic and legal aspects of the trust ques tion will force any fair-minded man who has no prejudice against capital or corporations, and who understands "the limitations of the constitution," to the conclusion that state regula tion and publicity as suggested by Gov. Boosevelt represent the largest possible scope for practicable legisla tion upon this question. It is very clear from decisions al ready rendered under the Sherman law that congress cannot interfere with the transport of commodities from one state to another, no matter whether they are manufactured by a combine or not, unless it can be prov en that the combine was formed for the express purpose of restraining a free exchange of commodities. It is also very clear that neither congress nor a state legislature can prevent firms or corporations from forming consolidations in any line of produc t ion. The obvious purpose of all proposed anti-trust legislation is the protection of the public. In the case of the trusts this protection must be for the consumer of the commodities pro duced by the trust and for the pur chaser of trust stocks. It is assumed that the people are entitled to pro tection from monopoly and from "watered" stocks. There are many economists who controvert this latter proposition, holding that the state is under no obligation to protect the purchaser of stocks, that he should buy at his own risk. If this conten tion were admitted, however, there would be no field for restrictive leg islation outside of the restraint or punishment of monopoly. The plan proposed by Gov. Boose velt for securing both forms of pro tection is simple and adequate: State regulation to restrain monopoly and to prevent combines which are formed to raise prices from doing business in the state, and "publicity" of all stock, capitalization, business and other transactions of trusts for the protection of purchasers of trust stocks. Further than this practical legislation cannot go without re straining trade or confiscating prop erty . —Ch ica go Times-Her a Id. PRESS OPINIONS. lE7°Bryan says that he will keep up the fight. That is to say, he is a stand ing candidate for the presidency.—ln dianapolis News (Ind.). lc?'Mr. Bryan names so many reasons for his defeat that it looks as if he re garded himself beaten by a syndicate of causes.—Washington Star. tc 7\l r. Bryan hasn't yet selected the party he will lead to victory four years hence, but the democrtaie party will immediately be armed for defense against him.—Judge. ItrThe vote of Texas for Bryan is lOJI.OOO 1 smaller than in 1896. Retreat from the Philippines under fire is not a popular issue in the trans-Mississippi region.-—St. Louis GlobevDemocrat. United States treasury now holds $474,108,330 in gold, the largest ever accumulated, and over $76,000,000 more than was held in the treasury at the close of last year. It is not neces sary to issue bonds to bolster up the gold reserve during republican times.— lowa Slate Register. CThere is no fear for the republic now that Bryanism has been put down. The future is bright and holds out hope and encouragement to all save croakers and calamity howlers. For them there is no room in the United States. The people have no use for them.—Al ba.ny Journal. ICHt is a wonder that the enemies of President McKinley do not attack him for advocating a humane policy in deal ing with the Chinese. Those who were so sure that the United States would join with the powers in an attack upon tbe territorial integrity of the Chinese empire have little to say these days.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. fAt his first public speech since his reelection President McKinley said at the Union league banquet given at Phil adelphia in his honor that the election was an unquestioned indorsement of the gold standard, industrial independ ence, commercial expansion, the open door in China and peace and beneficent government under American sovereign ty in the Philippines. He said them was no danger of an empire.—Little Chronicle. IS NOT ENOUGH. Drmotrallr .Ylcmbera of tbe Ways and mean* < onimlttee loniii a Statement Concerning Ibc Hill to Itedure Wai Taxes. Washington, Deo. 11.—-The minor .ty members of the ways and means committee have completed their re port of the revenue reduction bill. It urges a reduction of the revenues of about $70,000,000, or $30,000,000 more than that proposed by the majority of the committee. It also proposes an income tax, with a view of again bringing the subject in modified form before the United States supreme court for final adjudication. The report says that the proposed reduction of the revenues is too small and that the bill does not go far enough in relieving the people from the burdens imposed upon them for war purposes. The remain ing taxes, says the report, are un necessary and should be removed. The report continues: "We favor an alteration of the present tariff laws, certainly to the extent that they have promoted monopoly. It has been proved beyond question, by evidence before the industrial com mission appointed by congress that many of the powerful trusts that have an absolute monopoly of their business in this country and that ex ercise their power injuriously to the people, largely owe their growth to the customs duties imposed in the Dingley tariff law, which prohibits foreign competition. The minority take issue with Sec retary Gage's estimate of $25,000,000 surplus in 1902, and say that if con gress observes proper economy in expenditures the surplus ought to be $109,000,000. "We are therefore of the opinior. that there can safely be a much fur ther reduction than is contemplated in the bill presented by the committee tind that now is the time to give such relief. Instead of taking off $40,000.- 000, as is proposed, we would go fur ther and reduce taxation not less than $70,000,000. "We would make these reductions or those articles which are most nearly the necessaries of life, and would take off the taxes that are most annoyin.2 to the people. This would in no way cripple the public service. We believe that by a return to proper economy in appropriations a reduction greater than we advocated could be made and we should at once enforce this econ omy. "We shall not. however, oppose the passage of the bill, but will endeavor to properly amend it. If we were oy our efforts to defeat its passage, we would leave the heavy burden of un just. taxation on the country ." "We insist that the present tariff laws should be modined so as to pre vent- this imposition upon our own citizens." Stratton Oilers a Home to Klkt, Omaha, Dec. 12.—Jerome B. Fisher, of Jamestown, X. Y„ grand exalted ruler of the Klks; J. T. Fanning, of Cincinnati, and J. I). O'Shea, of Pitts burg. grand trustees, and George P. Cronk, past exalted ruler of Omaha lodge, will leave for Colorado Springs to-day. They constitute a commit tee appointed by the grand lodge to select a site for the contemplated home foraged members of the order. William S. Straf#on, the multi-mil lionaire miner of Cripple Creek, has offered the order a plot of land and a magnificent new building at Colo rado Springs free and the committee goes to look over the site. Alislntlie Drinking Caiiaen Insanity. Paris, Dec. 11. —In the chamber of deputies yesterday Eduard Vaillanr moved a resolution calling upon the government to prohibit the manufac ture and sale of all alcoholic liquors pronounced "dangerous" by the academy of medicine. The resolu tion was aimed at absinthe, the eon sumption of which has nearly doubled in France since 1894. "The increase of consumption of absin the," said the mover of the resolu tion, "marches arm in arm with the increase of cases of insanity, which will end by becoming a national malady." The chamber adopted the resolution. A Fatal Collision. Topeka, Kan.. Dec. 12.—A rear-en.l collision occurred Tuesday between two Santa Fe freight trains near Olathe, Kan., wherein one life was lost and several persons injured. A northbound frieght crashed into ths rear end of a .■•tock train and both were wrecked. Noble Thomas, of Emporia, was burned to death in the caboose of the stock train and his father was mangled. They were on their way to K%nsas City with stock. The air brakes of the stock train stuck two miles from Olathe and tin; freight ran into it. All the stockmen succeeded in getting out of the way but one. Ciravel and Express Trains Collide. Chicago, Dec. 12.—Four persons were injured and many severely shaken up last night in a head-on collision between a gravel train and the St. Louis express train on the Chicago & Alton railroad near Sag Bridge, 30 miles out of Chicago. Failure of the flagman to carry out instructions caused the accident. and 50e. Alnnyn In One. 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