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The Job department of the PKRSS iscomplete •Dd affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAKIIULLAB ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PIUKTINU. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear- Kcs are paid, except eit the option of the pub ,her. Papers sent out of the county must be paid (or In advance. Novels as Intoxicants. Five times as much money in 1903, !t is estimated, was spent for literature ifi for "booze." Under this slang term 'or drink is doubtless included all kinds of intoxicants from cider to absinthe, and under literature every grade of type in binding from reprints of Shake speare to the latest novel of Marie Cor elli. It would be amusing, were it pos sible, to see if the drink did live times the harm, observes Collier's Weekly. How' much cognac, for instance, could fairly be set against an edition of 300,- 1)00 of a new novel by Hall Caine? How much beer would equal in sodden con sequences the season's output of Action ized hi.Uory? Good books, whether of the imagination or of information, sur pass in inspiration the finest beverage ever quaffed and celebrated by Omar or John Keats, but ordinary books cannot compare in efficiency as evils with the common abuse of whisky. Therefore, we take the drink expense to be amis fortune more than five times as great as the misfortune caused by the sum ■wasted upon what our esteemed con temporaries cheerfully describe as lit erature. Where drink makes criminals, novels make nothing worse ilian idiots. Obloquy Not Fairly Divided. What is much needed in this country is a rational equalization between the obloquy that is freely devoted to the con victed grafter and the laxity of public sentiment that makes grating in public places possible, declares the Kansas City Star. It is not often that the people have reason to be surprised at the downfall ol Lheir public servants. It is exceedingly rare that a man who is held to be strict ly honorable and competent by the com munity in which he lives turns out to be a crook or failure in public life. Such fiascoes are due, 99 times out of every 100, to the habit of people of electing men to office whom they know to be lax in morals and of mediocre ability. If the doctrine that an ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure could be made effective in politics, more than 9u per cent, of the official scandals which dis grace the country would be avoided. The possibilities open to a modern apostle are seen in an attractive light through the experiences of a Massa chusetts clergyman who. in a little more than a year, has completed "a preaching tour round the world," sup porting himself and family by holding meetings and taking collections. He Etarted with only nine dollars, and seems to have earned his expenses and more, even while visiting Japan, China and India. But the minister who un dertakes such a trip in this year of our Lord owes most of his success to those earlier evangelists who did not find many friends along the road—until they had made enemies their friends. The terrible ilestructiveness of the drought in Australia during the past ten years in the sheep industry is told ir the figures giving the census of the stock for that period. In 1894 Austra lia had 100,000,000 sheep; in 1904 the number is scarcely over 50,009,000. With the number cut in two flockmas ters have a hard struggle lo keep their heads above water, as the range has almost ruined. Recently there has been enough rain to be of great benefit, but under the most favorable circum stances it will take a good while to get the grass and the sheep back to where they were ten years ago. The movement for the preservation of the Calaveras groves of big rfees in a national park has enlisted support In .10 states outside of California, and the petitions on file in congress con lain the names of 1,4::7,2G0 persons. Of these 239,560 are citizens of California. The others are scattered in all parts of the country—significant testimony to the national character of the de mand. President Roosevelt is heartily in favor of the plan, for the success ol which at this session of congress a determined effort is now making. Leap year in lowa is not going to be passed by without giving the giris a fair chance. The mayor of Fort Dodge has decreed thai all marriageable la dies shall propose during the present year under penalty of being fined from one dollar to five. This is a rare op portunity for maidens who are getting on the shady side of the hill of life and one that is not likely to be over ■ool.pri CONFLICT WITHOUT END. Ilrj nil Cont in tin II y IvicktiiK ( |> n Fum iu l lie Uumocrutlc l*ai rt) . Is the democratic party in St. Louis in 1904 going to repeat its Charleston con vention ruction of 1SG0? It begins to look that way. Mr. Bryan's Commoner, in a recent issue, after mentioning Bry an's return from Europe, says"the Com moner will make an uncompromising fight for an honest platform and for can didates in full and sympathetic accord with the platforms of IS9C and 1900." j Bryar. has personally said the same ! thing every day since he landed, with j all the emphasis which he can command. !He says"the real democrats of the 1 United States want the platformsof 1890 ' and 1900 indorsed in 1904." His latest expression on the subject is that "the I reorganizes will not be strong enough ' in St. Louis to make even a fight against j the Kansas City platform." By the time ! the convention meets, he says,"the sen j timent will be such that the indorsement ! of that platform will be a foregone con- J elusion. | These deliverances, remarks the St. ! Louis Globe-Democrat, naturally cause | consternatiein in the ranks of the Cleve land element of the party. Bryan makes it. known in most of his interviews that he is more antagonistic to Cleveland than he is to Roosevelt. The Cleveland section of the party reciprocates by say ing that as against Roosevelt and aßry anized candidate they are for the termer. Such expressions of members of the democratic national committee and the state committees as have been obtained by the democratic papers seeking them show thai a majority are against the Bryan position, but this does not nec essarily mean that a two-thirds poll of the delegates can he had against him. Bryan will be at the convention. He has made this known. He will work with all his eloquence and energy in fa vor of the indorsement of his position in the two latest canvasses. His whole political future depends on the result of his fight in the St. Louis convention. What he expects to accomplish is either to frighten the convention into putting up a colorless man on a platform which can be construed as recognizing the Chi cago and Kansas City deliverances as being orthodox, or to compel it by menaces of a bolt to take up a Bryanized candidate on the Kansas City platform with such new issues as have arisen since. Senator Piatt, of New York, the other day said the democracy was becoming "sane and dangerous." That remark does not sound quite so impressive now as it did when it was uttered. Not much evidence of sanity can be discerned in that party's present position. It will be useless for there organizers to deny Bry an's power. He was the leader of the party in two canvasses. In each of these he polled many more votes than Cleve land obtained in the last campaign in which he was elected. He is still the party's most conspicuous representative. Under the two-thirds requirement of democratic conventions, a minority has a power unknown in republican assem blages. A bare one-third of the dele gates would enable Bryan to control the convention. It is evident that he be lieves he has much more than a third of the democratic voters on his side. It is clear even that he supposes a majority of them are with him. This gives him a courage and a confidence which makes him say things that anger his demo cratic enemies. The epithets "lunatic," "madman." "fanatic," "marplot," "re publican in disguise" and other things which they are hurling at him will not swerve him from his course as a cham pion of what he considers to be pure de mocracy. On the other hand, against Bryan and all his works the other ele ment of the party will make a stand, feeling that Bryan's triumph in dic tating candidate or platform would be democratic suicide. The participants and the spectators at the St. Louis con vention of 1904 will see and hear things that thej- will be likely to remember. ISrynn'M Ha«l lllotclt. The Courier-Journal would not im peach Mr. Bryan's integrity; though the Bennett business is a sore strain upon its confidence and respect. Mr. Blaine was charged with nothing orse; and assuredly Mr. Blaine was .n many ways much abused. Mr. Bryan may be a perfectly high-mind ed. disinterested man, but the spec tacle of a party leader struggling with a widow for the larger part of her husband's estate —the will and all its appendant documents prepared by himself in his own house more than a thousand miles away from the testator's home —he no blood relative, nor even an old friend —is an unsavory spectacle. With it be fore us—and along with it the fact that eight years ago Mr. Bryan was obscare and poor and that he is now rich and famous —we must decline to accept the characterization of tlie Lexington Gazette, hi a newspaper or gan in Kentucky, that he is "the greatest general, the loftiest states man and the purest patriot who has adorned American politics since the formation of the government." Yet, on no other hypothesis can any man justify his support of Mr. Bryan un der existing conditions. Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.). E Shaw says the democrat ic party cannot make a fight on the trust issue. That seems to remove the last gleam of hope from the democratic hori zon.—St. Lcuis Globe-Democrat. ICMr. Bryan s'.ould beware of being Br, funny as he can. His offer of a prize of SIOO lor a pU-.tfarm which the leading democratic newspapers of the country will accept is humorous but not wise. There is every prospect that such a plat form will be writtrn and adopted at St. Louis. Mr. Bryan will then need all his money for his bolt and for litigation With widows and orphans.—Chicago Chronicle. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 3. 1904. ROOSEVELT A "SAFE" MAN. if tlie rrcKident IN I nonfe Tkcre Will Have (<> !!«■ u New lull ok I'urt Icular*. The republicans are actii.g wisely in taking up the democratic challenge that the president is not a "safe" man. Upon that proposition, says tie Wash ington Star, rests the whole anti- Roosevelt, movement, whether inspired in trust circles, or in democratic cir cles on the legitimate hunt fur an ib sue. Mr. Root, speaking with a gDod deal of knowledge, tells the New Yorkers immediately upon his retun home that the president is tlie most potent influence in public office here for con servatism in affairs. That is a reply to the Wall street, howl alout the Northern Securities case. If Wall street remains incredulous, let it take the steps to sound sentiment in po litical circles in this town as to how strong the demand still is for an en forcement of the anti-trust law. The president is executing that lav to the full, and in doing so has popular senti ment behind him. But it nowhere ap pears in his actions that his object or desire is to knock legitimate business on the head anywhere. The great army of manufacturers and wage-eara ers are not menaced or alarmed. If Wall street thinks the president unsafe let it try congress openly in behalf of its real purposes. Did it fail to no'e the response, both in congressional cir cles ar>d out, to the Foraker bill? Another point upon which -he ar raignment of the president is made to rest is his interference in the matter of the anthracite coal strike. But as to that he is defended by one of the most eminent of democrats. The fol lowing is taken from an interview with Judge Gray, of Delaware: "What effort will President Roosevelt's action in compelling: arbitration of the an thracite strike have upon his candidacy?" "That cannot be predicted. 1 know what effect it should have. The president In.that Instance ac ti ! with wisdom and patriotism. ll' prevented fuel riots In the great cities and i -irnt-d th<- gratitude of all classes, the wealthy as well as the miners. His prompt and vigorous action reaUy preserved prop erty rights that were seriously endangered. The question—how far may a natural mo nopoly lie controlled by individuals or cor porations for private (rain— was before the people, and the people were approaching Its solution in an ugly mood." According to this —and Judge Gray, it -.vi 11 lie remembered, had exceptional opportunity to study the whole ques tion—the president acted not only as a peacemaker, but as the guardian of the peace. The people were becoming aroused to the danger point as to the attitude of those railroad companies which were indifferent alike to the ap peals of the miners and the necessi ties of the country. The president spoke the word of duty, and at the proper time. It is very evident that if Mr. Roosevelt on a question of this kind is an unsafe man in the white house. Judge Gray also would be. And yet a great many democrats seeking for a safe man for president are in favor of the Delaware statesman. Nor can it be doubted that he would fill the office well. If the president is an unsafe man, his opponents in Wall street and else where must present a new bill of par ticulars. COMMENT AND OPINION. CTolstoi talked freely fo Bryan: and now if he takes the American papers he has learned that Bryan marketed the in terview at fancy prices. The Russian sage thought he was talking to a states man, not a reporter.—lndianapolis Jour nal. one respect Bryan has a big ad vantage over his democratic opponents. As Mr. Cleveland says, he has the stage. And while he has it he is talking all the while. And while his talk gets very wearisome to many ears there is no de nying that he still has followers who delight to listen to his silvery oratory. There isn't another man in the party who can so tickle the earsof theground lings, and the groundlings are what Bry an is after. They twice nominated him for president.—Troy Times. CNevertheless and notwithstanding, it still remains true that reciprocity in competitive products, with Canada or any other country, is simply a species of free trade. That is what it amounts to in practice, and the democratic leaders, foreseeing this, will wage their cam paign to that end this year under the reciprocity guise. Anyone who advo cates or countenances such an attack on protection—all the more dangerous be cause covert and insidious—will give aid and comfort to the political enemy.— Hannibal Courier-Post. IB"These are difficult days for Senator Gorman, nominal leader of his party in the senate. He has been humiliated by the refusal of his party colleagues to fid low him in his opposition to the Panama treaty: his presidential candidacy is pale and languishing, finding neither honor with the oid school democrats, who remember his emasculation of the Wilson tariff bill, nor with the new school democrats, who remember his in activity when Mr. Bryan was looking for votes: and now. completing the trilogy of his woe, his Maryland, the state he was reputed to carry in his vest pocket, has selected for the senate Isidor Ra.vner. —N. Y. Globe. duty is to unite about the strongest candidate, Theodore Roosevelt, and to secure that victory for republican principles which must he the Inspiration of the continued progress ol America.—Troy Times. P'An immense oil paint ing of Grove* Cleveland hangs iu the executive itiau si.:n. but a Nebraska artist has just com pleted a portrait of William J. Bryan, painted on the smooth side of a kernel of corn. The size of these pictures typifies the relative importance ofHhe two leaders in the minds of a large num ber of democrats.—lndianapolis Jour nal. I | JAHNESE-RUSSIAN WAITJ I Latest Telegraphic News oft!*« (Jreat Struggle I : in the Far East. I St. Petersburg, Feb. 24.—The Jap ouese UIKI were hanged bv Russians in Manchuria for attempting to blow ! up the railroad bridge over the San-j pari river were disguised as coolies. ; They were arrested .just as they were about to make the attempt. Inquiry revealed that they were Japanese 1 officers of the general staff, namely Col. Assai, of the engineers, and I.icuts. Zoneloiascha and Kaeurta, of the sappers. They were at once hang- 1 ed from the girders of the bridge. ' in Kow, Feb. 24.—The consuls | have decided on concerted action looking to thp neutralization of New ! fhw.ang. They will, however, en deavor to secure an expression of i Russian official opinion before acting further. Seoul, Feb. 24. — -A telegram re- j reived here from a foreigner at Pyng Vang says that the report that Rus- | sinn scouts are at Anju is authentic. Die telegram also says that the na tives in I'yng Yang are panic-stricken, but foreigners are not threatened. London, Feb. 24.—Cabling from Che Foo on February 23, a correspon dent of the Morning Post says 40,000 more Japanese troops have landed at j Chemulpo and that he has received confirmation of the report that some Japanese have landed at Pigeon Pay, others at Talienwan and that an en j gagement occurred the night of Feb ruary 12. According to the Standard's corres pondent at Seoul, the report is con firmed that 70 miles of railroad track and some important bridges have been destroyed between Harbin and Yladivostock. Paris, Feb. 24.—Tn a dispatch from Harbin, Manchuria, a correspondent of the Matin says ambulances are be ing sent in there from all parts of Russia. A dispatch from Port Arthur pub lished in Paris this morning denies categorically the reports of a new attack by Japanese torpedo boats, and says they have been repulsed with loss every time they appeared in the roadsted. The allegation is made, according to this dispatch from Port Arthur, that the Japanese have dethroned the emperor of Korea and annexed the country. St. Petersburg, Feb. 2.". —A tele pram from Viceroy Alcxieff to the czar says: "At a quarter before three in the morning of February 24. numerous Japanese torpedo boats attempted to attack the battleship Rctvizan and sink large steamers loaded with in flammables. The Uctvizan was the first to observe the. torpedo boats, and opened a strong fire on thein. I She was supported by the land bat teries. She destroyed two steamers near the entrance of the harbor; they were coming directly towards her. One of them went on the rocks near the lighthouse on Tiger peninsula and the other sank under (ioldcn Hill. The Uctvizan observed four steamers in a sinking condition and eight tor pedo boats departing slowly to re join the waiting Japanese warships. A portion of the crews of the Japan ese burning vessels were drowned. The grounded steamer is still burn ing. The enemy is observed in the oiling of Port Arthur in two lines." It must be observed that in his dis patch \ ieeroy Alcxieff does not men tion the number of steamers which the Japanese tried to sink or drive upon the Uussian ships, and it is not yet known whether the four vessels the captain of the Uctvizan observed going down, in addition to the two destroyed, were also laden with in flammables, or whether they were warships. The greatest praise is given to the commander of the Uct vizan and the splendid action of this American-built, vessel places her name foremost on the roll of the Russian r.avy. Later it was said that Russia sus tained no losses in the negageinent. Yin Kow, Feb. 25. —Viceroy Alex ietT has caused a proclamation to be issued throughout Manchuria notify- j ing the Chinese that Russia is at war | with Japan . Oviatt, of Rochester, N. V.. who said lie rep resented the entire invested capital of Rochester and the combined em ployers of Jamestown and Klmira. \. Y„ spoke against the bill. Mr. Oviatt declared the country on the verge of a comniarical and economic revolu tion. There was not. be said, a manu facturer or a merchant that was not trembling with fear and misgiving. If the committee even reported this bill, be said, it would create a panic. j to give themselves freedom for land maneuvres to cut olf or invest til STONE-CUTTINQ. All orders In my line promptly executed. All kinds of building and cut-stone, supp ed at low prices. Agent lor marble pr granite monument!* Lettering neatly done. AMERICAN HOUSE. East Emporium, Pa.. JOHN 1.. JOHNSON, Prop*r. Having resumed proprietorship of ibis old and well established House I invito ilie patronage cl the public. House newly furnished and thor oughly renovated. 481y P D I FFT VrTOKNEY-AT-LAW and INSURANCE AO'T, EMPORIUM, l'A PJ LAND OWNERS AND OTHERS IN CAMERON ADD ADJOININO COUNTIES. 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