Cameron County press. (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, July 03, 1902, Page 2, Image 2
2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year J" If paM in advance ' " u ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square forone insertion and fifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished ou application. Letjnl and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, I": each subsequent Inser tion M) cents per square. notices 10 cents per line for one inser vertion . i> cents per line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riares and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards. Ave lines or less, tS per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRKSS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAUTKJUI.AU ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Is absent-mindedness indicative of mental failure? This question is sug- Ab.c.i- K CSted b >' s,,ch facts as vlie large minded tie**. number of unad dressed letters posted each year. An English contemporary cites in evidence the official list of articles left in one year in the London cabs and omni buses. ]t includes 850 canes. 19,000 um brellas, 207 rugs, 742 opera-glasses, 920 articles of jewelry, ISO watches, 3,239 purses, besides dogs, birds, cats, etc. The list seems like a pretty severe in dictment of the mental qualities of the modern city dweller, and if the hard pressed newspaper reporter happens to see it, he will undoubtedly send off a harrowing syndicate letter to all the Sunday editors on this alarming dem onstration of mental degeneracy of the twentieth century man. Even our medical contemporary, says American | Medicine, suggests the advisability of those who ride in omnibuses and who forget tilings consulting a physician. The more marvelous thing, however, is that they do not forget far more often ihaii they do. Civilization has suddenly increased a thousandfold the necessary and synchronous preoccupa tions of the. mind. Singleness of at tention was the predominant charac teristic of mental action, before our time of bewildering interests and du ties. Not to have learned the trick of poising in the attention at one instant such a multitude of objects is certain ly not a demonstration of mental fail ure, but rather of nonacqtiirement of « difficult art. But the more convinc ing' proof of the actual triviality of the amount of forget fulness is shown by the comparison 3f the number of mem- Dry slips of the Londoner with the num ber who ride in omnibuses and other public carriages. Let us double the number of lost articles, and put the total at 50.000; if now we roughly es timate the number of rides each day in London as at least on the average one for each twentieth citizen, we calculate that in a year there are surely as many as 100,000,000 trips made. Consequent ly, on the average, a person forgets some article once in about every 2,200 j trips taken. The alarmist adviser of consultation of an alienist for such failures of memory would probably smile at this evidence of his own men tal failure. _ - - "I am afraid we are indirectly re-| sponsible for the fact that so many toon Habit* of s| ""' ,s drcS3 well and allow the } Many YOUIIK Men.. .. . , . ~ tailors to whistle for their money," said a pawnbroker. I ■•'Still, it's all in our business, and 1 j don't see how we can prevent it. These pikers work the game twice a j year—every spring and every fall. Just now they are bringing in their I winter suits and the money we art- I vance them is often sufficient, to en- j able them to pay a tailor a deposit [ on u new spring suit. They get the | emit, and seldom pay any more than | the first deposit. Next fall that suit! will l>e pawned, and with the money the fellow will goto another tailor j and pay a deposit on a new winter suit. I know one fellow who has marfttged to dress himself this way I for several years." It is a sad com mentary on the loose habits of many young men. It is easier to burro-v ! than to be frugal and saving. Ap- j prarnnees count, but sometimes the means whereby a good appearance is m.-oli■ seems to little matter. An important contribution to sei entitle data bearing on the necessity of Sunday re:, t Vnlia«. of front labor hu.i Hands, lint, bt . en , )y # j Pennsylvania railroad official. He se- 1 lecled two groups of laborers from llie working force of a certain freight house controlled by his road, ]le measured the woivking capacity of each group in terms of tons han dled daily for a week. On Sunday one group rested; the other worked as usual. On the following Monday thi* men who hud been continuously al service showed a decrease of ten ! per cent, in efficiency as compared with the previous Monday, and each day after their comparative delin quency became greater. Ihe nun who had their Sunday respite, on tint j other hand, were IIH valuable to the 1 company the second week as the first. DEAD DEMOCRATIC ISSUE. Resurrection of th<* Antiuunted "Coercion" Argument for I »e in tile Philippine Auitatloo. A recent correspondence between President Koosevelt and ISev. Charles 15. St. John, secretary of the American Unitarian association, has revived it phrase that was once pro lific of an immense amount of dis cussion. It is the word "coercion" as relating to the power of the national government to prevent a dissolution of the union or to sup press a rebellion, says the Indianapo lis Journal. The American Unitarian association adopted a memorial pro testing against the policy of coercion that was being used in the Philip pines. In his reply the president said: "There Is now almost no 'policy of co ercion' in the islands* because the insurrec tion has been so entirely overcome that, gave in a very few places, peace—and with peace, the 'policy of' conciliation ar.d good will'—obtains throughout the Philippines. There, has never been any coercion save such as was absolutely inevitable in put ting a stop to an armed attack upon the sovereignty of the United States which in its last phas-es became mere brigandage." It is somewhat surprising that the democratic party, with its instinctive love for dead issues, has not before this revived the able arguments made before the beginning of tin civil war, against the power of the national government to "coerce" a state. The democratic constitu tional lawyers of that day used bar rels of ink and mountains of paper *al • "^ ; '^ I efotf POLITICAL GRAVITY. in proving that inasmuch as the right of a state to secede from the union was inherent there could be no such thing as a constitutional right of co ercion in the federal government to prevent such secession, si nil that a union held together by force would be no union at all. James Huchanan, the last democratic president of the old regime, thought it state had a right to secede, but it should not be exercised lightly. "The election of any one of our fellow-citizens to the office of president," he said, in bis annual message of 1800, "does not of itself afford just cause of dissolv ing the union.* * * In order to justify a resort to revolutionary re sistance the federal government must be guilty of a deliberate, pal pable and dangerous exercise of pow ers not granted by the Constitution." It did not take Abraham Lincoln long to discover that there was no such thing in the list of state rights as a right of secession, and that while the word coercion did not oc cur in the Constitution it existed as an inherent power of the govern ment in a very vital form. In his first message to congress at the spe cial session in July, 1801, he said the question was "whether a constitu tional republic or democracy—a gov ernment of the people by ihe same people—can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." Holding that the right of self-preservation ami of sov ereignity was above the Constitution, he had no trouble in finding consti tutional power to coerce a state. The democratic anti-corecion doc trine of 1860 was the natural fore runner of the opposition to govern ment without the consent of the governed in 1900. The same construc tion of the Constitution that would have prevented the war for the pres ervation of the union would have prevented that for the suppression of tin- insurrection in the I'hilinp pines. Coercion proved very effect ive in one case, and it is about to be crowned with complete success in the other. COMMENT AND OPINION. ICTThe Richard Olne.v presidential boom is >ti 11 alive, but it is not believed Mr. Olney takes much interest in it.— Philadelphia Ledger. republican plurality in the congressional election in Oregon was 14.20(1, or a thousand more than Ihe plurality for MeKlnley in 1900. And the democrats made their light with "imperialism" as the issue! ( leve land Leader. ll "The president asks t-i ngress ♦« make certain economic concession *n Cuba in return for the special inter: a tiooiil obligations at- anted I»\ her tit our request. The request I* a m- »t ren oliahle one. and he enforces It \\ 'th a powerful appetil for |u»tlce tovvar'l a young mid feeble nation Indianap olis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1902. HAVE THEIR ISSUES PICKED. The Tariff HIM! Hie Triiota Fixed I |iu by llie IJemocrata for (he t'uui iiiK < itmpn IK n. The democratic congressional cam paign committee has decided to make the tariff and the trusts the leading issues in the campaign this year. That wiir be regarded as good news by all republicans, .says the Cleveland Leader. The tariff has always been a •winning issue for the republicans, save in the campaign of ,1802, when the voters listened to the seductive sophistry of the free traders and decided at the polls to destroy prosperity. Hut they learned a lesson, as the result of that election, which they are not likely to forget. The dark and gloomy days from 1893 t*> 1 HUT, while the blight of the Wilson law was upon the country, business was paralyzed and labor was without remunerative employment, demonstrated that protection cannot be abandoned in the United States without bringing distress upon the people. The instant and tremendous revival of business as a result of the election of McKinley and the enact ment of the Dingley law, which re stored the protective policy, supplied ample proof of the value of protection as a stimulus to industry and com merce. The democrats cannot this | year delude the people into voting for an abandonment of the protective policy. Xor will they be enabled to make an effective campaign on the trust issue, The democratic record will not com- ! pare favorably with the republican i record in respect to trusts. The Slier | man anti-trust law. which appears to j be the only effective weapon that con ! gresscan use against the big combina i lions of capital, was framed by a re- I publican, passed by a republican con gress, and signed by a republican ! president in 1890. For four years that law stood in the statute books while Grover Cleveland was president, yet it was not once used to restrain a trust. I was i:sed by a republican attorney general against the Joint. Traffic asso ciation and the Tran.«-Missouri Freight association, which were formed to con trol trade among" the states. It is now being used by another republican at torney general against other combina tions which are oppressive of the peo j Pl<\ The Sherman law goes as far as any statute can. under the present limita tions of the constitution in the re 'straint of the operations of trusts. It will be necessary to amend the con stitution so as to give congress great er power if more drastic legislation is to be enacted. Yet. when a constitu tional amendment was proposed in the last republican congress, the demo crats opposed it solidly because they were afraid that the rights of the states might be invaded. Let the democrats begin their enm paipn on these two issues. The repub licans are willing to meet them, and they will make the fight interesting from beginning to end. Something; An'fnll It is dreadful flic way this great« nation, this land of the free, is de scending into flic depths of militar ism. Another fateful step in that di : rection was taken when Secretary Uoot gave instructions to reduce the ; army another 10,000 men. Just think ; of the awful burden this country is | carrying. With" 77,000,000 of people jin the Cnited States proper and about 10.000,0(M) elsewhere it is now supporting an army of 07,000 men. I»n this nation, though it is the wealthiest in the world, stand the expense? How much longer can it struggle along? Oh, for those good old days when with a population of 1(1,000,000 we hud an army of only 10,000! They have gone, gone with the pristine virtue and the halcyon | days of the republic, when all men were honest, all women virtuous and I evpn army contractors were patriots. I Then there was one soldier to everv ' 1,0(10 people. .Now there is one soj ' dier to every 1,100 people. Minne [ apolis Journal. S'"The democrats who insist that there i- something rotten in Cuba which should lie exposed lo tl.- light of the sun seem to have made a mis take in not speaking before Viuerlciin ■ occupation ended. Probably tliey did ; not care to o>k for tin invest l|riit lon I while \merlean officials were in a po*|. Hon to defend themnlvci. They pre fer in i . :i! in vogue in>intuition* now | —( leveluud Lt-iider. NEWS FROM THE MINERS. I'rogreaa ol' the (>rriil Anthracite Coal Slrlkis Scranton, I'a., June 25.—Litigation to tin- extent of possibly 30(1 prosecu tions for criminal libel and as many more suits for damages, will result from the posting of tlie first of the "unfair" lists, which the miners' strike headquarters in Wilkesbarre directed the local unions to procure and publish. While the leaders at strike head quarters say the slight defection of engineers and pumpmen at Xanticoke does not amount to anything, when it is remembered that more than 147,500 men are on strike, the actions of the union officials did not show it. Dis trict Board Member John Fallon spent yesterday there and last night District President Xicholls ar rived here and held a conference with President Mitchell. Charleston, W. Va.. June 20.—0n the request of the Winifrede Coal Co., Judge Guthrie has issued an injunc tion restraining certain miners from interfering with men at work in or about the mines. More than 100 men returned to work yesterday and re ports come from isolated mines of others returning to work. The min ers have been convinced that many of their number have gone to Ohio to work in mines which are now running, and this has liad a good deal to do with their returning to work. Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 2(5. —'The or der of the sub-districts of the Cen tral Pennsylvania bituminous district curtailing the output of soft coal in that region one-third went into ef fect yesterday. The miners in that territory have decided not to work on Wednesdays or Saturdays until fur ther notice. How many laid off is not yet known, but leaders at strike head quarters here say they expect every union man to obey the order. Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 27.—Officials of the large coal companies in this region are authority for the state ment that men are applying to them daily for employment of any kind. Among the applicants are nearly all classes of workers, including miners, and if is stated that nearly all the companies have more men to draw on than they can possibly need dur ing the progress of the strike. The majority of flic companies that are compelled to pump water from their mines arc working their engines and other machinery full handed, accord ing' to statements made by the super intendents, but some of the men are not as capable as those on strike. The most capable of those that are now applying for work are taken on. Charleston. W. Va., June 27. —An in junction was issued by the federal court here Thursday on the order of Judge Keller, who heard the petition while in Philadelphia. The Philadel phia selling agents of the companies operating on the Flat Top field brought the action .against, the min ers, alleging that the companies were unable to fill contracts because of in terference by strikers. ('. \Y. Dillon, an attorney, lias gone to Philadelphia to obtain an injunction covering the Xew river fields. Charleston, \Y. \a., June 28.—1t is understood here that a petition is be ing circulated by the miners, ad dressed to Gov. White, urging l him to call a special session of the legisla ture to deny to the state courts the right to issue injunctions in such cases as are now presented in the coal fields. Saginaw, Mich.. June 28.—A joint .conference of the miners and opera tors has been called for July 2, in this city, to consider the wage scale and other questions over which there are disagreements. The call was issued by President Mitchell, of the Xation al Mine Workers' association, and it is understood with the consent of rep resentatives of operators who have been in conference with him at Wilkesbarre this week. If is said that President Mitchell is anxious to avoid declaring a general strike at the na tional convention July 17 and wishes to have the local troubles patched up. W ill Kulld Hig Ships. Chicago, June 28.- —President Brown, of the American Shipbuilding Co., closed contracts last night with the (ireat Lakes and St. Lawrence Trans portation Co. for the construction of ten steel steamships to navigate be tween the upper lakes and Quebec in connection with the company's docks at the latter port. The ten ships are to be built, and ready for operation at the opening of navigation in 1901$ and will cost $2,000,000. They are to be of uniform size and the largest that can be locked through the Wetland and other Canadian canals. Their dimen sions will be 2.*>7 feet length, 43 feet beam and 20 feet depth. A Combine ol lMeklera, Camden, X. J., June 28.—Articles of incorporation were filed Friday by the Association of Manufacturers and Distributors of Food Products, with no capital. The capital of the firms in the corporation is $30,000,000, The incorporation is said to be prelimi nary to the organization of a coin bine to embrace a number of the larg est pickling and preserving companies throughout the United States. The Meteor I'lnlalird I'lrat. Kiel, June 2.5.- Emperor William's American-built schooner yacht Me teor. with the emperor himself on board and steering most of the time, finished seven minutes and 22 seconds ahead of the Cicely in the large schooner race held here Friday. 4 au't Nave the Oak. Xew York, June 20. In Central park, this city, are two trees, one uu American elm, the other an Knglisii oak which were planted by King Kd ward, then Prince of Wales, in Istio. The elm has grown to be a big 1 stri.ng tree about mo feel high, hut the oak has remained stufted and gnarled. Two years ago Lau Iscapc \rtist Par sons, of Ihe park department, was told that Ihe oak showed signs of dy ing and since then he has used every effort to discover th<- uause of the decay and In save the life nf ihe tree, but without avail. Mr. I'ursaiu' *»ya It cannot be Jkvrd. KING EDWARD ILL. Operation Was Performed and an Abscess Opened. Coronation Indefinitely l"o«Iponrd King's Fhvalelana Mate that Ilia Strength la .Tluiii tallied, the Wound Itolns Well and 11c la Able (o Sleep. London, June 25.—The coronation lias been indefinitely postponed be cause of the illness of King Edward. It is officially announced that the king is suffering from perityphlitis and underwent an operation at 2 p. in. Tuesday. The operation was performed by Kir Frederick Treves, and the treat ment was borne well, his majesty re covering consciousness without any ill effect. Xo complications attend ed the operation. A large abscess was found and evacuated. The following bulletin was issued at 11:10 p. m.: "The king's condition is as good as could be expected after so serious an operation. His strength is main tained, there is less pain and his ma jesty has taken a litttle nourishment. "It will be some days before it will be possible to say that King Kdward is out of danger." King- Kdward is in a room facing the beautiful gardens of Huckingham palace and far from the street and the crowd. llis condition became so alarming on Monday night that at one time it was feared death might ensue before the surgeon's knife could afford him relief. Intense swelling of the ex tremities, accompanied by alarming symptoms of mortification, constitut ed the emergency which demanded an immediate operation. To the last the king tried to avoid this, and he was willing' to be carried to the abbey for the coronation ceremony in order that it should occur as arranged. At an early hour, however, the royal pa tient was prepared for the operation. Shortly before 2 o'clock his majesty was moved from his couch to the operating table and the anesthetic was administered. Sir Frederick Treves made the incision near the patient's groin and carried it up wards, with an outward slant, for nearly four inches. The obstruct ion was removed and a tubing was placed in the affected intestine. London, June 26. —The following bulletin was issued after 11 o'clock last night by the king's physicians: "The king continues to make satis factory progress. He slept some hours during the day. He complains very little of discomfort and is more cheerful. The wound is doing well."' King Edward's condition last night was even more satisfactory than in dicated by the last bulletin. He had made a decided improvement and the feeling at Huckingham palace was very hopeful. His majesty was able to take nourishment. The absence of complications cre ates hopefulness in all quarters, al though several days must pass before the possibility of danger can be elimi nated. Xotwithstanding the fact that it was the eve of the intended corona tion day and that London is now even more crowded with people than ever, the scenes witnessed on the streets last night were in pleasant contrast with those of Tuesday evening. London, June 27. —The following bulletin was posted at Huckingham palace at 11 o'clock last night: "The king 1 has passed a fairly com fortable day and has maintained his strength. There is a returning desire for food, which has been very care fully given. There has been some re turn of pain in the wound." Those around King Edward con tinue to be astonished at his rapid recovery. The slightly annoying symptoms mentioned in the bulletin .ire quite inconsequential compared „o the fact that his majesty again took food last night and afterwards was allowed to smoke a cigar. The return of pain in his wound Is not accompanied by any appreci able increase of temperature. In fact King Edward's doctors are inclined to regard the patient's pain and his appetite as healthy symptoms. London, June 28.—The following bulletin was issued from Huckingham palace last night at 11 o'clock: "llis majesty's condition is in all respects satisfactory. The king' has had a comfortable day and has made sub stantial improvement." AN ULTIMATUM. < hlraco 'l'enmatera Formulate a I'ar ■teaching Demand on Kallroad Ofll clala* Chicago, June 25. —A labor demand of far-reaching importance was agreed on Tuesday, when the Nation al Teamsters' union and the local Freight Handlers' union came to an understanding between themselves and prepared to submit an ultimatum to all the railroads entering Chicago. They will demand that after Thurs day no union teajnste» deliver freight to a non-union freight handler; also that no union freight handler deliver freight to a non-union driver or ac cept the same from him. The demand will involve every rail road with a freight house in Chicago. It will concern more than 110,000 men and practically every manufacturing llterwl in the city. ttalhltoiie In Washington. Washii vton. June S5. Maj. Kstes G. Kathbone, ex-director general of posts of Cuba, arrived in Washington yesterday for the purpose of con sulting his friends as to what course to pursue in his effort to have a thor ough investigation of the charges which resulted in his conviction of wrong doing in connection with ihe administration of postal affairs in th,. island, lie reiterates that he did not have a fair trial by the < übiiii court* und thai he is determined to have all his act- thoroughly inquired into, lit, will make an effort to have this dout u congressional QoiuiniUcc. of Imimlne. IWdlct—Do you know, my friend, that I have become a firm believer in the mysteri ous transference of impulse ? You recall that! •pring idyl of mine, which you said was an inspiration? Well, as I told you before,, when I wrote that I was fired by an irre- : •istible impulse. Friend—Yes. I rem»mber. "Well, sir, I submitted that inspiration t-o the editor of the Bombardier, and—would' you believe it, sir?—l was fired again, hut-j t:iis time the editor had the impulse."—llich-'! luond Dispatch. Million* of Flub. Great attention is being paid this year by the Wisconsin Fish Commission to the stock-j ing of the streams and lakes of that state- Fifteen million pike fry and two millions muscallonge are to be distributed in the Wis consin lakes, and it is proposed by the Wis consin authorities to give the visitor to that state this summer plenty of sport with rod and line. The Chicago & North-Western Railway, which reaches all the principal fishing re sorts in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan* announces favorable excursion rates and spe cial train service from Chicago and Milwau kee this summer to take care of what they anticipate will be the largest movement to' Wisconsin resorts that has ever been known. 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