2 CAMiIRUfI COUNTY PRESS, H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fer yei.?... "J If paid In aUvancs I ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of trie dollar per square fur unci insertion and llfty tents per squure for eacii subsequent insertion Rates by ihr year, or for six or three months arc low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per s<ymre, three times or less. 52; each subsequent instr lio i . 0 cents per square. Local notices 1U cents per line for one Inser •eriion: fi cents per line tor each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per Vine. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, >5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for less than 75 cents per ■siue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Purss is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of wrk. Pahiicli.au attention paidtu Law i»IUNTIN(J. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except ».t the option of tho pub hbher. Papers sent out of the county must be paul lor in advance. Our Foreign-Born Citizens. For the S2 years beginw-ng with IS2I and ending with 1903, the number oi immigrants coming to this country made a total of 21,265.723 persons. Among these v.ere people of almost every nationality known. Of this grand total Europe alone furnished I*3 per cent. The western hemisphere fur nished 4.5 per cent., while China and other countries contributed 2.5 percent. To what extent European civilization has figured in the building up of this country can be understood in a measure when the fact is comprehended that dur ing the past 82 years over nine-tenths of foreign immigration has come from European shores. During the 72 years beginning with 1828 and ending with the year 1902, says the Chicago Sun, the total immigration to this country has been 20,408,677 persons. Of Ihese 18,- 481,841, or over 90 per cent., came from Europe. From various points in the western hemisphere there w ere 1,268,069 Immigrants, or over 6.2 per cent.; from China and other Asiatic countries there came 421,000, or a little over two per cent. Of European countries Germany lias supplied us with the greatest num ber of immigrants since 1828, making a total of 5,098,005 individuals, or prac tically 25 per cent, of the entire Euro pean emigration. Ireland stands second with 3,944,269, or over 19 per cent. Of the 1,268,069. ort>ver six per cent., char acterized as coming from the western hemisphere. 1,050,682, or over five per cent., came into this country from Brit ish North America. China alone has contributed 317,929, or one and one-half per cent. From all other countries not provided for in the above classifi-ations there have been 284,885 immigrants, or a little over 1.1 percent. It is an inter esting fact that of the 10,356,604 persons of foreign birth in this country in 1900, 8.921,270, or 86 per cent., were located north of the Ohio river and east of the Rocky mountains. Eight per cent, were west of the Rockies and six per cent, in south Atlantic states and in the south ern divisions. Some appreciation for the above figures can be secured from the vastness of the immigration into this country. Associated with this is the expediency of such laws that will cull this vast annual immigration until we are securing only the most desirable classes. The vastly increasing popula tion in this country is a sure indication t hat we are going to be sooner or later forced to take some radical precaution ary measures. We need the foreign-bred men and women who come herewith the determination of making their own livelihoods, but we have no usefortho.se who will increase the crush in our pub lic institutions. Education of Children. The tangle in Count Leo Tolstoi's mind is illustrated by the letter from his pin which the New York Independent prints in a recent issue. We trust that none will try to educate a child after Tolstoi's rules. He would "not force anything on children;" he would not "force a child to study subjects that do not. interest it;" lie would not "teach children religious conceptions about which they do not ask;" and, most sur prising of all, in the religious education of children he would give them equally the doctrinal literature of Christians, Hebrews, Buddhists, Brahminists ar.d Confucianists. On the contrary, children should be required to learn much they do not want to learn, just as they must be required to do work they do not like. And the parents ought to teach them in reiigion first what they believe to ba irue, and let the error, wait till they have passed the receptive age and have reached the age for independent thought. it is not more than half bad to be a dog if one is owned by a Parisian so ciety woman. It is announced by the fashion makers that this season "dog* will wear colored cambric nightshirts and rubber shoes, also dressing gowns after the bath," etc. Some of these aris tocratic canint shave toothbrushes, nail liles and powder boxes included in their toilet accessories. It will probably not be long until they will be wearing "straight fronts" and high-heel shoes. Every dog has his day, but with some dogs every day seems to be Sunday, while with others it is Monday morning .before breakfast most of the time. WHERE THE MERGER DECISION HITS HARD. Chorus cf Political Trust-Hunters—"He's Skun! And Wo Were Going to Spend tlie Whole Summer Showing How- to Do It!" AGAIN THE PHILIPPINES. Democrats So Badly in Need of an Is sue Are Harking Back to An ti-Imperialism. The anti-imperialists have girded up their loins for a fresh onslaught on the I foes of liberty, gays the Washington Star. They arc preparing to ask of each of the j great, parties an expression in its plat- t form in favor of the "ultimate national independence" of the Philippine islands. The party complying with the request will, we may suppose, receive the anti imperialist vote. But suppose both par- | ties deny the request? Well the lovers I of liberty in that case flock together and ! put up a ticket of their own on a platform j embodying their desired wish? Will they | say to the old parties: "As you refuse us ! liberty for the Filipinos, we will give j you death at the polls?" Before t hey knew our purposes and our j ability to serve them many of the Fili pinos insisted upon a government of their own. Their experience under Spain had been so bitter they were quick todis- j trust the new authority and particularly ; as it was being denounced' in certain j quarters here in the I'nited States. The ! speeches of Mr. Hoar and others in con- I press, and the double-leaded eloquence! of half a dozen American newspapers! fanned the flames of Filipino unrest and j made the American task all the more dif ficult. As (Jen. Lawton pathetically and truthfully put it just, before falling a sacrifice himself, we helped for a time to kill our own men. To-day the Filipinos are better advised. ! They know both our might and our right. They no longer distrust its. but are yielding obedience to our authoritv and appreciating the fruits of our labors ! for them. There is no demand from them for immediate settlement of- the question of the date of the cessation of our stay in the islands. The wisest of their leaders are convinced that their country under American sovereignty has ! the promise of development and pros- ! perity, and they accordingly desire con- J tinued American occupation and control. > All is going better with them and theirs ; than they had ever hoped for. Why then the renewal in the United ! States at this time of this appeal for in- j dependence for the Filipinos? Those : people are not behind it. The best in- ! formed Americans, with .ludge Taft at ; their head, are against it. Affairs in thai ! part of the world are at present, and like- ; ly for some time to remain, in a state of violent agitation. The war between Rus- I sia and Japan may overflow bounds and j shake the whole of the east. Are ths | anti-imperialists so sadly in need of a | political issue that they are willing to ! involve us in the turmoil of the orient? Makes Cleveland Smile. This is taken from an interview with j Mr. Cleveland at Princeton: "When his attention was called to the I fact that Robert B Roost velt, an uncle of President Roosevelt is reported to have ■aid that Mr. Cleveland should be nomi nated for president by the democratic party, I the i x-pr;-»;<3ent smiled and said: " 'Well, lam not surprlst<l at that; there would seem to be a reason for it, as Mr. I Roo- velt belongs to the old-time democ- ! racy.' " So we see that the sage of Princeton j is not angry because his letter to St. j Clair McKelway was not taken serious ly. Mere he is positively smiling at his nomination for the presidency by Robert B. Roosevelt. Mr. Cleveland rarely smiles these days, and a smile by him means much. We may be sure, indeed, that if Mr. Roosevelt were to travel down to Princeton for the pur pose of talking politics and seconding his own motion about what should be done at St. Louis his reception would be hearly in the extreme. The presi- j dent's uncle is not only an old-time democrat, but a good judge of human nature. As a good many other people did. he read that McKelway letter be tween the lines. —Washington Star. (etA Hearst-Bryan combination means that Bryan is pretty sure of another four years of a good time. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. H ' Orover Cleveland declares the dem- I ocrats could i\ir if they nominate the , right man. but thus far we haven't heard him mention any n",mes. —Detroit Free Press (Dem.). E yHaving accepted the administra tion's Panama policy, Mr. Hearst is now supporting the administration's naval policy. Mr. Hearst evidently hopes to organize a democratic victory by steal ing all the republican narty's issu?*— ; t IDclreU Free Press (Dem.). j I CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIIv 7, [904, CANDIDACY OF MR. HEARST, Made Possible Only by the Demoral ization Resulting from Bryanism. Democrats will not fully understand the preposterous candidacy of William ! It. Hearst unless they view it as a natur j aland inevitable descent from Bryan ism. Political as well as other forms of decadence present many curious fea tures,' says the Democratic Chicago Chronicle. If there had been no Bryanism in the democratic party Mr.Hearst would have been a candidate for the presidency, if at all, like any other freakish advertiser J bent on self-exploitation. He never | would have thought of securing the dem | oeratie nomination. He would have en jlered the class in which the "Immortal | J. N.," Belva Lock wood. Dr. Mary Wal- I ker, George Francis Train and Victoria Woodhull figured in their day, ami would have been content. There is nothing new in a person gro tesquely unfit aspiring to the chief mag- I istraey. Many cranks and many j egotists have done it. The only thing about the Hearst candidacy that shocks | people is the fact that he has theaudaci ! ty to pretend that he is seeking the nom j ination of a great party. So long as the strange and flighty crea tures who appear before the public oc | casionally in the role of presidential as pirants confine their antics to parties j of their own, mostly imaginary, or to in j consequential organizations which are rarely heard of at election time, no atten tion is paid to them. They are regard ed as fit subjects for jibe and ridicule. ; But when by the use of money they • carry the joke or the infatuation into the.convention of one of the great parties there is a feeling like that which | prevails in Washington when a crank is taken with arms in his hands at the threshold of the executive mansion. Bryanism opened the way Tor the Hearst candidacy. There need be no doubt about that. When the democratic party turned its back upon its own lead ers and principles and took up with the zealot from Nebraska, attempting in a frenzy to make itself and the world be lieve that it had a prodigy, it made a most emphatic descent from its former estate, but it was a descent wtu'-h still left some depths unsounded. Mr. Bryan was one of the lowest types i that had yet appeared in party leader j ship, but there were some things to com mend him. The Hearst candidacy, made possible j only by reason of the demoralization re | suiting from Bryanism, shows that the j bottom has been reached. Nothing eise that may be in store for the democratic I *> al 'ty can be worse than this. The | mere fact that party organization, party ] spirit and party leadership anywher" j have fallen so low as to admit of this J shameful movement under cover of the democratic name proves that political disgrace carries long-continuing pen- I alties. I He Was a Democrat. | A small boy in one of our district schools, says the Oswego Independent, when asked by a Wind old lady if he I studied very hard, said: "I don't hurt ; myself at it." "Oh." said the lady "you must study «ard or you will j never be president of the United j States." "I don't expect to ever be president," replied the boy. "I am a democrat."—Kansas City Journal. of the democratic papers sug gests that the press of the country cease saying anything about Mr. Bryan and thus kill him by ignoring him This suggestion may work with th.< democratic papers, but the republican press may be reiied upon to keep Wil liam J. before the people. It cannot bear to see a man treated so cavalierly. —lndianapolis Journal. z "Mr. Bryan finds himself still un able to forgive Grover Cleveland for be- 1 ing the only democratic president since Buchanan —Chicago Tribune. U'Mr. Bryan's Commoner has black- : listed Judge Parker and shows that it has a soft spot for the yellow kid. As the democratic national convention draws near and it becom-ts more and i more apparent that there is a possibility of the Bryan-Hearst combination die- j fating terms the situation ceases tr. be ' comic and is almost tragic. To the old- ! fashioned, conservative and conscien- ! tious democrat it is positively bewildar- j lag. —Troy Times. JAPANESE TORPiIo FLOTILLA IN ROUG^SEfI. ♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦»»♦♦♦»»»♦»♦♦»♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦»♦♦»♦»• IBSNSMICI t:5 f5? GGGOCGGCOCOOOGOOOGGCGCCGOOOOOOCGCCGGGCOGGGGCOCOGCGC? London, March '2'.).—The Seoul cor ! respondent of the Daily Mail says ! that in au engagement March 2.'!, which Japanese infantry had with j Cossaeks between An.ju and Chong .In the former were victorious, but lost it) killed. Paris, March 29.—The St. l'ctcrs ! burg correspondent of the l'etit Parisiene sa)s it is reported that the j Vladivostok squadron has returned to I port with several prizes, including a Japanese warship. A RUSSIAN DEFEAT St. Petersburg, March 31).—Gen. Knropatkin, in his lirst report to the emperor from the scene of war, an nounced that offensive land opera linns had taken place against the Japanese on March 2S, the sixth an niversary of the occupation of Port Arthur by the Russians. These op erations took the form of a cavalry attack by six companies of Cossacks, led personally by Gen. Mishtchenke against four squadrons of Japanese cavalry which the general believed to be beyond Chong-Ju, but which lie found in occupation of that town. Despite a cross tire which Gen. Mishtchenke directed against the enemy, he pays a tribute to their tenacity and bravery, the Japanese only ceasing to fire after a combat which lasted half an hour. Before the llussians could follow up their advantage three Japanese squadron; galloped toward llic town which two of them succeeded in entering, while the third was driven back in disor der. men and horses falling. The fire maintained on the town was -o destructive that the Japanese were unable to make an effective re turn. Kurt her" Japanese rein forceinent s arrived an hour later and in view of the superiority of the enemy MishN-henke determined to retire, doing so without embarrassment, al though lie carried with him three killed and 111 wounded. The skirmish Monday will have the effect of encouraging the Russians to retard as much as possible the ad vance of the Japanese army. <jen. Kuropatkin's dispatch report ing (icn. Mishtchenke's operations as published does not give the place of its origin, but it is presumed that the commander-in-chief is either at Liao Vang or en route to New Chwang. London. March 30. No Japanese re port of the land operations in Korea has yet been received here and there is much speculation as to the size of the opposing armies, regarding which there is no reliable information. STRICT CENSORSHIP London, March 31. The Daily Tele graph says the Japanese authorities have refused correspondents the use of field telegraph lines .and that alt dispatches must be sent to Tokio by mail. The paper says that there is no sign that any foreigners will be per mitted togo to the front. The Tele graph in an editorial on this censor ship, suggests that Japan has some new move to conceal, possibly the re-embarkation of a portion of her forces already in Korea for some other point in the theatre of war. and is anxious to guard against leakage through correspondents. Che Koo, March 31. The captain, nn oiler and one passenger of tlie Japanese coasting steamer Ifanyei arrived at Teng Chow yesterday and reported that the Itanyei had been •fired on and sunk by the Russian licet near the Miatoi Islands, on March 27. They also reported that the remainder of the crew and pas sengers, Chines*' and Japanese, 17 in number, had been taken prisoners by the Russians. London. March 31. —A correspon dent of the Times at New Chwang, cabling yesterday, says:"The Kus sian police have apologized and have re-hoisted the I'nited "States flag over the Correspondents' mess." SERIES OF SKIRMISHES London, April 1. —The correspon dent of the Daily Telegraph at Seoul reports that there is continuous A I luge Fleet. Pensaeola, Kbit. March 31. —With the arrival here yesterday of the gunboats Newport and Castine from Colon, the largest fleet of I'nited States warships ever assembled in time of peace is gathered here. The combined fleet engaged in target practice includes seven battleships, live cruisers, seven gunboats, three monitors, two torpedo boat destroy ers, beside a number of tenders, col liers and supply boats. The fleet in cludes more than 2.i vessels of various classes. The battleship Alabama .uis established a new world's record for rapidity in liring all her guns. skirmishing between Ping Vang and Wi.ju and that many Japanese have been killed. The correspondent adds that a Korean spy at Ping Vang lias been shot by the Japanese. Seoul. April 1. —Detailed report* received here of the engagement of March 2S between Russians and .lap- I anese at Chong-Ju, say the fighting lasted two hours, at the end of which the Japanese forced the Russians to retire toward Wiju. Two Kussian dead were left on the field, while other bodies were carried off with the, column. A Japanese lieutenant and four privates were killed, while a captain and 11 privates were wound ed. HONORED "THEIR HEROES Odessa, April 2.—Odessa yesterday enthusiastically received the sur vivors of the gunboat Korietz and the cruiser Varing, destroyed by the Japanese in the battle of Chemulpo. The steamer Malaya, with the sur vivors on board, arrived here in the afternoon. A parade was formed, headed by the clergy and the sur vivors, surrounded by a guard of honor. The streets were decorated with flags and bunting. An immense crowd thronged the pavement, and the enthusiasm reached such a pitch that the people brushed aside the guard of honor and raised some of the survivors on their shoulders, while others were seized and kissed. ,' * ! r - WALL AND GATEWAY OF MUKDEN Many Russian Soldiers at This Place j Tokio, April 2.—The first part}' of ; foreign correspondents left Tokio | for the front yesterday. It consisted of !<i newspaper men, mostly British [ and Americans. From here the party goes to Moji, leaving there! April »> on a Japanese transport for their destination, which is kept se cret. * Striken in New ICngluml. Boston, April 2.—The labor ques tion, which figures more or less in various industries each spring, came to the front Friday through a num ber of strikes or readjustments of wages. In llie building trades about 1,000 hands stopped work in New Kngland including upwards of 400 men at the Milford, Mass., and Hurri cane Isle, Me., granite quarries. At Milford an increased wage and an j eight-hour day is sought. , 'l'llroe People Drowned. lioise, Idaho, April I. Three per sons plunged 210 feet to their death over the Shoshone falls of the Snak* river. They were Miss Marie Willis Samuel Graham and a man whose name is unknown. Miss Willis some times ran the ferryboat at this point. Fa»«eiij{er Train Wrecked. Longview, Texas, March 31.—A northbound passenger train on the Texas. Sabine Pass & Northwestern railroad was wrecked yesterday ten miles south of here. Will Spend million* for WateriHfalna. New York, April 1. Nearly 500.M00 was set apart by the board of estimates yesterday to be expended in installing an auxiliary system of salt water mail's to he used in con nection with fire fighting in the bor oughs of Manhatan and lirooklyn. The money will be expended a bin"' the lines suggested in tile-report of a special commission of engineers which recomiliended that the valves and hydrants of the system be con structed for "both salt and fresh water, in order that the two systems j may be used together as well as | separately. HAPPY WOMEN. **" —Wouldn't any- woman b • " ' ear * urinary trou* Sl ' e le " Noreasonwhy any reader Should suffer in the face of evidence like this: Mrs. Almira A. .Taclcson,of EastFronfc | St., Traverse City, Mieli., ssiys: "For twenty years I never knew what it was to have yood health. Every physician consulted said I had liver trouble but their medicines did me no pood. Just before 1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills I was almost paralyzed. I could I hardly stand on my feet because of the j numbness and lack of circulation. Ilad a knife been thrust into my kidneys the 1 pain could not have been more intense. | My sleep was disturbed by visions of. j distorted figures. The kidney secre | tions were annoyingly irregular and I' ) was tortured with thirst and always bloated. I used seven boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills. The bloating subsided until I weighed one hundred pounds less, could sleep like a child and was relieved of the pain and the irregulari j ty of the kidney action. My circulation is good and I feel better in every way." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mrs. Jackson will be mailed on application to any part lof the United States. Address Poster j MSI burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale | by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. Wilfully Misunderstood. Miss Butte —He said he knew I'd tak®- a lovely picture. Miss Chellus —Of course. All you have | to do is to pick out something nice to i snap and hold the camera steady.— I delphia Ledger. The Oat U under. The Editor must tell its readers of this marvel. It originated with the largest . farm seed growers in the world, the John. ! A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. 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