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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.
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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.
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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.
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Miss Butte —He said he knew I'd tak®-
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Miss Chellus —Of course. All you have
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i snap and hold the camera steady.—
I delphia Ledger.
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I this Oat Wonder, which yielded in 1903,
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ou the future misses a good mrny things
that relieve the monotony ot the present.
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These tickets will be on sale daily during
March and April, when Pullman Tourist
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cisco. Particulars from any Agent of tho
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