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The .lob department of the Pntis Is complete and affords facilities for doing the hest class of «< rU PA HTXCT* LA TT ATTENTION PAID TO I.AW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear riges are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the cour.ty must bo paid lor in advance. Chairman George 15. Cortelyou, of the Republican National Campaign torn mil tee, is an intense devotee of physical culture and a great lover of outdoor sport. He was an experienced huntsman at the age of 12. The sultan of Johore has been creat ing a sensation in London, riding in a motor car glorified with gorgeouscuests and coats of aims. He has a wonderful set of teeth —all his own—each of the front ones having a diamond set in it, encircled with gold. A strong public sentiment is being aroused in England against what is called the motor-car peril. Every day the newspapers print letters describ ing accidents and calling attention in emphatic terms to the encroachment upon the rights of the public by motor car and motor cycle owners and drivers. Although more than 70,(132,000 cubic feet of black walnut were received at Hamburg in 1903, the supply of this •variety of American lumber does not «-qual the increasing demand. Vir ginia whitewood, pitch pine and cedar tind ready markets at good prices. The cedar that is most in demand is that ■which maye be used in the manufac ture of artistic furniture and lead >en cil. Out of 10,000,000 voters in France there are from 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 who are capitalists and owners of in terest-bearing stock, landed proprie tors, holders of Parisian bonds, credit foncier bonds, railroad bonds, national bonds —members of co-operative, bod ies, people who put by for the rainy day small sums in the banks, that serve to assure life or insure against death. A leading French commercial paper eays that, according to the leading silk association in Milan, Italy Ims 1,065 spinning mills, with 58,748 basing or tubs. Of these t übs 2,t»42 are idle. There are 3G4 twisting shops, with 705,202 spindles in operation and 49,- t)SO idle. There are 105 weaving chops, with 9,703 hand looms, of which 159 are idle, and 7,459 automatic looms, of which 5 are idle. An enterprising milkman in Essex, Eng., has hit upon a novel way of at tracting attention, lie and his as sistants, armed with a milking stool, make the round of a popular neigh borhood driving before them a herd of five or six cows. Arriving at a con venient spot, they commence milking the cows, and sell the liquid straight to tho amused and interested crowd which always gathers around them. Electricity is extensively used for agricultural purposes in the depart ment of Aisne, France. The current from a largo station is sent over a high-tension line to ]i> substations. There are nearly forty electric thresh ers and 25 root cutters, besides differ ent apparata for dairy use, pumps, flour mills, etc. Current is also used for lighting and for electric heaters. The large proprietors own the motors which they use. Tho best, timekeeper in the world is said to be the electric clock in the basement of the Merlin observatory, which was installed by Prof. Foerster in 18G5. It is inclosed in an air-tight glass cylinder and has frequently run for periods of two or three months with an average daily deviation of only fifteen one-thousandths of a second. Astronomers are making efforts to im prove even this. All that experience and all that iho cunning of the naval architect can sug gest will be combined in Commander Peary's new ship, I hat he is having built in Maine for his final effort, to reach the North Pole. Fashioned of unusual strength and girded and armored as was never Arctic, crafi be fore, it is Commander Peary's belief that he may be able to force his way through the interfering ice until ho has carried his vessel within reason ably easy striking distance of the top most point of the globe. Germany possesses a miniature but most useful railway to which no paral lel is found in this country. Us pecu liarity is that its trains have no drivers. It is used for carrying salt from the salt mines at Stasfurt. The trains consist of three trucks, ca h carrying half a ton of salt. The en gines are electric, of 24 horse-power each. As it approaches a station, of which I here are five along the line, the train automatically rings a bell. and the station attendant turns a switch to receive it. He is able to stun it at any moment SIIAW MAKES REPLY. SECRETARY OF TREASURY CHAL LENGES JUDGE PARKER Points Out Errors in Argument of Democratic Nominee and Vig orously Defends Pro tection. Speaking at Jersey City. N. J„ on the night of Tuesday, October 25, Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw replied to Judge Parker's speech on the tariff made last Saturday to a delegation of democratic clubs at Esopus. Secretary Shaw took up the Parker document in detail, and pointed out the wVong con clusions arrived at by the democratic nominee. He said in part: "On Saturday last the democratic can didate for president discussed the tariff question before a delegation represent ing certain democratic clubs of New- York city. In this discussion he re views the history of tariff legislation in the United States. He cites the fact, so frequently stated, that originally the protective tariff was imposed for the encouragement of infant industries, and he draws the conclusion that because our industries are no longer infantile, there fore the protective tariffs should be re moved. "Protection was originally advocated for the encouragement of American manufacture in the light of conditions then existing, and protection is now ad vocated for the purpose, both of encour aging and maintaining American man ufacture in the light of the conditions now existing. Those who advocated protection under conditions existng 100 years ago very likely failed to anticipate conditions existing now, and therefore Eome of the arguments used then are not LESl.il: M. SIIAW. applicable now. The principle of pro tection, however, is as sound now as then, and the application of the princi ple is as beneficial now as it was then. High Benefits Derived. "It is not likely that Alexander Ham ilton, more than others, anticipated the phenomenal growth and development of this country. In other words, Alex ander Hamilton builded wiser than he knew. He expected a protective tariff would encourage the erection of fac tories in thi- country, and he reasoned rightly. He probably did not expect the American laborer to be paid from two to four times as much for the same work as is paid in Europe, nor that he would live on a much higher plane than the laborer of Europe. Hut with every increased tariff rate in this country wages have increased and the plane of living advanced. "I do not know, nor does Judge Park er know, what Mr. Hamilton, if living, would think or say if a certain man were to tell him what he told me only last week. He owns a glove factory in the state of New York, and is a stock holder in a glove factory in Milan, Italy, and pays 80 cents for the same charac terand quantity of piecework in the New York factory that he readily secures in Milan for one lira (19.3 cents). "I anticipate that Alexander Hamil ton was statesman enough to know that the eight and one-half per cent, tariff rate of 1789, to which Judge Parker re fers as proof that the country has drift ed from the landmarks established by the fathers, would prove Insufficient to protect the 80-eent workmen in the United States against the 20-eent work men of Milan. Clay's Compromise. "Judge Parker quotes Henry Clay in his support of his compromise tariff of 3833. Andrew Jackson was then presi dent and tho democratic party was in control of both houses of congress. They were free traders. Henry Clay was a protectionist. To save the coun try from free trade, Mr. Clay sup ported the compromise measure referred to by Judge Parker, which was a gradual reduction of the tariff, the same as the democratic party and Mr. Parker now advocate. "The bill provided that one-tenth of the existing tariff should be removed bi ennially, so that in 20 years the entire tariff would be wiped out and the coun try placed on a free trade basis. In the opinion of Henry Clay that was wiser than free trade at one blow. A Tale of To-Day. Opportunity knocked at the rich man's door. But the rirh man would not answer. He thought it was Cortelyou. Opportunity passed on. Thus we learn (hat we cannot dodge our obligations with impunity.—Louis ville Courier-Journal. Hard Fight. He—Why. wife, what's the matter? Your is al! scratched up. She--Oh, yes. 'ear, I'm breaking in a new ccok!—Y ers Statesman. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1904. "With the Instinct of an advocate, Jugde Parker failed to quote Henry Clay's opinion of the tariff law which his compromise bill gradually reduced In a speech delivered in the United States senate in 18.'52 he said: 'lf the term of seven years were to lie selected of the greatest prosperity which this people has enjoyed since the establish ment of our present constitution, it would be exactly that period of seven years which immediately followed tiie passage of the tariff of 1824." Misery Follows Reduction. "While the great statesman thought a gradual reduction preferable to an im mediate repeal, results did not justify his course. A tariff so low that it fails to protect, is like a fence so low that it fails to protect. If Judge Parker will read the first volume of Mr. Colton's life of Henry Clay, he will learn that ruin and universal want followed the Clay compromise. "In six years the revenues fell off 25 per cent, and the government was borrowing money, and within fouryears horses were selling at auction for two dollars, cows at one dollar, oxen at 12V& cents each, hogs at cents each, and sheep at 13% cents each. In one in stance 24 hogs sold at auction for 25 cents. Wretchedness and want, were everywhere, and free soup houses much more in demand than during the last period of democratic supremacy. "If Henry Clay were living, 1 doubt very much if he would favor a repetition of the experiment. If the distinguished jurist candidate will study history for the sake of arriving at truth, instead of searching it to find stray sentences in the utterances of admitted statesmen which will justify the position of his party, he will never be a freetrader, and he would not have been an advocate of free silver. "The democratic candidate then re fers to and by implication condemns the protective tariff of 1542, enacted by a whig congress, and signed by Presi dent Tyler, who succeeded to the presi dency on the death of the old warrior and protectionist statesman, William Henry Harrison. Steel Rail Question. "The distinguished jurist candidate seems much exercised over the price of steel rails, but admits that railroad com panies do not. object. He accounts for this by an insinuation that, the officers of the railroad companies are producers of steel rails. Why does he not invite some railroad president known not to be interested in the production of iron and steel to visit him and submit a few searching questions? "I sought an interview with such a railroad president not long ago, and he said that he was satisfied with the pres ent price of rails, and lie did not care how cheap they were sold abroad. He said the only fear he had was that, pending a doubtful presidential election the steel plants would have to close down. This was some months ago. I have not seen him since all possible doubt as to the result of the election has been removed. "Hut 1 have a different theory than Judge Parker expresses. I assume that the railroad presidents have thought this question clear through, and are willing to pay a reasonable profit on steel rails on condition that the steel producers shall continue to take iron and coal from the mines, and shall con tinue to pay their men. thus furnishing the roads no end of transportation. Railroads Do Not Object. "I assume that the roads would prefer to pay yet an increased price for rails and allow the companies to dump their surplus abroad at yet reduced rates, rather than have a million men turned out of employment, which would mean receiverships for a large number of the roads. In other words, I assume that the railroad presidents are good busi- j ness men, and there isn't so much dif ference between business men and statesmen as there is between politi cians and statesmen. "Later in his speech the distinguished jurist candidate states what he con ceives to be a universal principle, and employs this language: A dut\ wliicn does not raise the price of the article to the consumer fails of its object, and Is 1 herofore needless for purposes of pro tection.' "liither Judge Parker knows nothing j j about the principle of protection, or I j know nothing about it. On the same day j this speech was made I had a long in terview with a man interested in a num ber of canning factories, and who. there fore. consumes quantities of tin plate in tiie manufacture of cans to hold his product. He cited the effect of protec tion 011 the tin industry, and said it had resulted in cheaper tin. Protection Reduces Price. "I was recently through the potteries at Trenton. I saw sanitary .pottery, bathtubs and the like, by the train load. The duty on this class of goods is 55 percent. 1 was shown a particular bath tub, the price of which when they came from abroad tinder the low rate of the Wilson-Gorman Dill was $l2O, and they are now sold at this pottery forJIO. "One of the manufacturers said that they could produce a much better bath tub in this country than in Europe, and could undersell Europe. Competition In the pottery business is intense and prices are believed to be reasonable. "I asked this producer, who hap pened to be a democrat (but a protec tionist as respects his own indistry). In the Wash. A lady was looking for her husband and inquired anxiously of a housi maid, | "Do you happen to know anything of I your master's whereabouts?" "I'm not sure, ma'am." replied the ■ careful domestic, "but I think they are j ; in the wash."—Chicago Journal. Flattery. Flattery never emanates from Exeat souls. U is an attribute of small minds, I who thus still further belittle themselves ! enter Into the vital being of the per | sons about, whom they crawl.—Balzac | what effect (lie removal of the tariff on pottery would have. He said that. It. would ruin every branch of the business except .sanitary pottery, and might en courage foreigners to dump their goods in such quantities as to close even that branch. Wages Always Higher. "Judge Parker, in the apparent hope of accentuating the lack <■'' '"j.ifldence between employer and employe, .says: 'lnasmuch as the law puts the tariff benefits exclusively in the hands of the capitalists and provides no means for giving the wage worker his share, the system virtually says: 'Let the govern ment take care of the rich and the rich will take care of the poor.' "Judge Parker knows, or ought to know, what every student of the eco nomic question does know, that wages in this country have always been much higher under protection than under a tariff for revenue only. He also ought to know the historic fact that the tariff had never been revised by his party that labor has not gone into the street to beg. "The distinguished jurist is as reck less in his tariff utterances as in his statements concerning expenses of the Philippine islands, for he even cites the year 18fi(J and that period generally as being a period of prosperity. 1 assume that James Buchanan, who was then president, was in a position to know whereof he then spoke. It is not cus tomary for presidents, however weak and incompetent, to libel their own ad ministrations, and in his annual mes sage in December, iB6O, James Buchan an said: " 'With unsurpassed plenty in all the productions and all the elements of nat ural wealth our manufacturers have suspended, our public works are retard ed, our private enterprises of different kinds are abandoned, and thousands of useful laborers are thrown out of em ployment and reduced to want. We have possesesd all the elements of ma terial wealth in rich abundance, and yet, notwithstanding all these advan tages, our country in its monetary in terests is in a deplorable condition.' Would Disturb Business. "A reduction of the tariff togo into effect in the future would retire every purchaser from the market until the re duced rate went into effect, and producrs would curtail their output, if they did not suspend altogether. "The distinguished candidate says: 'lt is true, as all know, that excessive tar iff rates have caused serious injury to the great body of the people. It lias in creased the cost of living arid added to the price of nearly everything that, the people must buy. This is known of all men, and they cry out against it. And their cry should be heeded.' "This sounds more like a judicial de cision than like an argument. To what extent the people cry out against it will be known on November 8. and if they cry out sufficiently loud, they will be heard. But as the facts recited by the distinguished jurist are as erroneous as either his statement concerning the industrial conditions of 1860 or his esti mate of the expense of maintaining the Philippine islands, I anticipate the peo ple, who may have studied law less, but. conditions more, than the distinguished jurist, will fail to cry very loudly. Cites Daniel Webster. "The other day a friend of mine said i to an Italian workman: 'Are you going to vote the democratic ticket this year?' 'No, 110; I don't want potatoes ten cents bushel.' Another Italian purchased a large number of pictures of Hoosevelt and Fairbanks and printed under them in Italian: 'Pana e Lavoro,' meaning bread and work. "It may sound out of place to compare my Italian friend to Daniel Webster, : but in his speech opposing - the gradual 1 reduction of 22 per cent, in the Walker j bill, which Judge Parker so strongly defends, but which was responsible for the conditions described by Horace Greeley and James Buchanan, he said: " 'And, sir. take the great truth: place ii on the title page of every hook of political economy intended for the use of the United States; put ii hi every farmer's almanac; lot it be the heading ! of the column of every mechanics' rnaga- i zinc; proclaim it everywhere, and make j it a proverb that where there is work j for the hands there will be work for I the teeth. Where there is employment ! there will be bread. It is a great bless- j ing to the poor to have cheap food, but 1 greater than that, prior to that, and of | still higher value, is the blessing of 1 being able to buy food by honest and j respectable employment. Employment ; feeds and clothes and instructs. Em- I ployment. gives health, sobriety and j morals. Constant employment and well- i paid labor produce in a country like j ours general prosperity, content and J cheerfulness.' Cheap Diving a Plague. "'1 his was Daniel Webster's prayer ! that the country might be saved from ! another period of cheap living expenses, j I uo not know how the democratic press treated him then, but I assume they denounced him as an enemy of the poor. "But knowing as I do that Idleness and pauperyand abject want and starva- ! tion have always followed democratic j tariff legislation, 1 join the Italian work- j man and Daniel Webster and repeat I what I said at Wilmington. Del.: May j the good Lord save us from another pe- 1 riod of cheap living expenses." Not a Potato. I he so-called "sweet potato" is no, potato at all, but belongs to an entire- ! Jy different family, being truly an en- | larged root of a creeping, twining vine, j which has a blossom something like a morning glory. Sweet potatoes are ricaer in starch and sugar than the common potato.—Science. Yes, Indeed. The Pessimist—lt costs a great deal j more to live nowadays than it used to. j The Optimist—Well, it's worth it- Puck. UNITED BY A DREAM. Ogdensburg, N. Y., Man Prompted by Revelation Seeks and Finds Aged Parent—Had Been Absent Forty- v ears. A long lost father has been located I in Ogdensburg, N. Y., through a dream. The incident is a rather pe i culiar one, the truth of which is vouch : ed for by the dreamer himself. Dur- ; ; ing the war of the rebellion, Frank j | Ashley, of (look's Corners, N. Y., en listed at. the call to arms and marched away. When peace was restored, he i returned to his home and resumed i work 011 the farm. But the life he | had led in the army made farming a ; | dull occupation to him, and he finally ; went to Colton, where he engaged as a i sawyer in a lumber mill. For a few : months his family heard from him regularly, but suddenly all communi cation ceased, and, as years passed, his family came to the conclusion that he had gone to join his comrades in the life beyond—that he was dead. One night recently his son, Henry Ashley, a respected farmer, who was only a youngster when his father left | home, dreamed that if he went to Og densburg he would find his father. The next morning he related his dream to his wife, who only laughed, putting lit tle reliance in the dream. Mr. Ashley could not get the dream ; I out of his mind, so at, last he determ ined to come to Ogdensburg, being fully convinced that when lie returned to his home he would find his long lost parent. Arriving in the city he made inquiry among relatives, none of | whom had heard anything of his father. Finally the young man visited Frank Johnson, customs officer at the \ Ferry dock, who is also quartermaster j of Ransom post, No. 354, G. A. It., in th.it city, and to him related his story, j There the son was informed that a j man named Frank Ashley was at that ' moment, in the city hospital, sent from | the soldiers' home at St. Louis, Mo., ! for treatment. Henry Ashley went to the hospital at once, and after con versing with the patient for a short time he was convinced that his dream j had come true —that the sick man was his father. The senior Ashley could hardly re- j alize that it was his son to whom he j was talking, the 43 years that had elapsed during his absence having 1 transformed the child as when last 1 seen into a man of middle age. The recognition was an affecting one. The j old man is recovering, and as soon as j ! able will goto the home of his son. j He draws a liberal pension and is 70 i years old. He had been an inmate of j the soldiers' home at St. Louis for a long time. Meets Death in Odd Way. Ona, the 12 year-old son of Carrie! Watson, is dead of lockjaw at Cory don, Ind., resulting from a fractured | bone of the arm. Several days ago the boy was attempting to ride a calf in a field. The animal was playful and threw him to the ground. He fell 011 his left arm, the bone of which snapped and, protruding from the flesh, stuck into the ground. He was pinned, unconscious, for several hours until discovered by accident by a laborer returning home in the even ing. Specialists were summoned, but their utmost endeavors were without avail. A VOICE FROM THE PULPIT. Rev. Jacob D. Van Doren, of 57 Sixth street, Fond Du Lae, Wis., Presby terian clergyman, says:"l had at ' J tacks of kidney disor- 1 MA dors which kept lue in the house 101- days at a time, unable todo any Bar ' l:it ' suffered J set in, pjy||jli - which I will be pleased • Jraffißt f»' ve ' n a personal j tpw interview to any one j who requires infornia- j seientiously say,Doan'.s j _ general improvement "" in my health. 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