2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MUI.LIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fer year I* 0* u pstd In advance 1 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published st the rate ot •Be dollar per square for one insertion and lltlj atßts per square for each subsequent insertion Rates l>y the year, or for six or three month*, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Adverttalnt per square three times or leis. 12; each subsequent user »lon 60 cents per square. Local notices 10 cents pel Itne for one tnser eertloni 6 cents per line tor each subsequeut MBsecutlve Insertion. Obituary notices o»»r Brt lines. 10 cents per |!ne. Simple announcement* of births, mar- Maces and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, lire lire* or less. •& per year, •rrr h»e lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 75 cents per tasua. JOB PRINTING The Job department of the Pt< ess ts comptsls end affords facilities lor doing the best class ol work. PAKIICULAU ATTENTION I'AIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except bl the option of the pub- Usher. Papers sent out it the county must be ps!o lor in advance B.i i . 1 - i m Lorenzo Alexis do Clairmont, enter of staff to President Cabrera, of Guatemala, was a ticket-taker in Den ver 12 months ago. The town of Sulphur, in Indian Ter ritory. consisting? of 270 wooden and stone buildings, is to be moved to an other location, and bids are wanted for the job. Senor Sahistia Dejollatla, of Bare lonia, Spain, knows of a farm in Mex ico where several millions of dollars are hidden, and he is in search of con tiding Americans to help him uner.rtii this treasure. A suspicious persi.n might accuse the senor of giving a new twist to the old Spanish swindle. An extraordinary charge of murder will shortly come up for hearing at the town of Babenried, in Bavaria, where an artisan named Hoelte, 50 years of age, has just been arrestei on suspicion of murdering his children. Hoe'.te, who was twice married, had 17 children by his two wives, but not one of the infants lived longer than two days, although all, accord ing to the local doctors, were born perfectly healthy. For the fiscal year ending on the 30th of .lune last the i'nited States spent $117,000,000 on the navy. Ev ery dollar we have spent intensifies the necessity of spending a great deal more. The cost of maintaining whet we have already built will be enor mous, and men must be educated for officers of the ships now in service and those in process of construction. A great navy is a cosily thing, but per haps it is cheaper than war. Secretary Wilson, of the department <;f agriculture, says that probably hun dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of buttermilk is thrown away in this country every year. He has learned recently from medical experts that buttermilk is very valuable in the treatment of diseases of the kidneys such as Bright's disease and diabetes, and he says if some one would invent a plan by which it could be condensed and preserved for medicinal purposes the inventor would render humanity an invaluable service. Maj. William It. Wetmore, a million aire resident of Allenhurst, N. J., and ihe oldest member of the New York Yacht club, has contrived a scheme whereby he can keep in direct com munication with his brokers in Wali street while he tours the New Jersey roads in his automobile. A wireless telegraph instrument of his own con struction has been placed in the ton lieau of the car and a similar instru ment is in the railroad station at Al lenhurst. There the station master Fred Gerner, receives messages by wire from New York and transmits them by wireless to Maj. Wetmore. Ja'pan won by forcing the fight. It struck the first blow, and followed it up so quickly and so savagely that Kussia was defeated on land and sea befoie it knew it. It was a short war, all things considered, beginning in February a year ago, and yet in casualties it left over six hundred thousand victims on the field of hat tie, and cost both contestants together more than one billion dollars. Beyond question, this ftlnhtf»il loss of life and property hastened the conclusion of peace; for behind President Roosevelt stoiwl the powerful Influence of all the great bankers of the world. A lfi-year-old girl is the highest-sal aried citizen of Columbus, ()., and un doubtedly the highest-salaried girl of her uw In the world. She draws as much in salary a: the president of thi I'nited States. This well-paid young woman is Miss K's.e Janis, a mi mi ■. who mate a ureal bit in New York la t summer. She recently slgued a con tract with a New York company, b.r h< r Columbus friends have bad n dea of the magnitude of her rompeu nation. The contract < ivers the next three years and calls |'<>r the payment to Ml - .in f|| money. —at nt i' ture woud< rful suostauc • ltl., leinarkuble propel ih s become hettei known. M ('urlo, the French p'w -IclMl, who v ' * one of th • firei to ail Bounce "indium" to 'h'> world, b i found that it "pin es. es fht» e»ti i ii >i niii v properly of continuously emit tin* heat, without t. .minis! lon, without i hi mica I chutiKe o| any Kind, M nd wit html i> y change in tin unilu ■ lie. i; 4 ti| colit tuuot. nils lon of THE DEKICIT DIMINISHING. financial Situation Is Satisfactory and Promising for Future Prosperity. The official figures showing the re ceil)! sand expenditures oft lie national government to September were inter esting and important as indicating the rapid lessening of the deficit which had lately existed. The last, month has witnessed a continuance of satisfac tory conditions. Receipts from cus toms are notably increasing. This is due to the swelling volume of imports, great quantities of which represent materials in a crude or partially man ufactured state that are utilized in American industries, and ultimately become the finished product, in the turning out of which American labor finds employment at American wages. The fact that, these customs receipts for the month to September 20 were greater by $3,000,000 than for the same period In 1904 and about $1!,000,000 larger than for the first 20 days of September, 1900, says the Troy (N. Y.J Times, is telling testimony to the growing prosperity of American manu facturers—and incidentally a refuta tion of the free-trade arguments direct ed against the disastrous effects of a "prohibitory" tariff. Internal revenue receipts also have been greater during September than for a like period during the last two years. This is proof of the activity in domestic trade of every variety, be cause the internal revenue comes from sources which furnish liberal contribu tions to the national treasury only when business is lively, and the re ceipts promptly fall off when there is any depression. The combined results of the increase in receipts is that Sep tember, to the 20th, was able to ex hibit a surplus of over $5,000,000. The conditions all goto indicate that for some time to come the income is like ly to surpass considerably the outgo, and the haunting fear of a big and dangerous deficit, which has frightened many good and critical souls, should be effectually allayed. There never lias been any real ground for alarm. It has been pretty evident to well-bal anced minds that when the extraordi nary expenditures recently authorized and made necessary by national devel opment were disposed of the deficit would disappear. Even the critics of republican na tional administration are coming to see and to admit that the situation is satisfactory and promising for future prosperity. The Boston Herald, noting the exceptionally gratifying reports for September, says: "With a continuance of good business conditions apparently no check need be expected in the near future, receipts should continue in full volume and if expenditures are held down to the standard of last year, and that appears to be about the scale on which they are running, the deficit for the entire fiscal year may be consid erably less than was anticipated at the opening of July." The republican administration at Washington favors a wise but not niggardly policy, and efficicn* and progressive management is being vindicated by results. TARIFF NOT SECTIONAL. Secretary Shaw's Views on Revision and tfcp Protection Principle. In his address at the opening of the Virginia republican campaign, at Rich mond. Secretary Shaw said: "The republican party, in enacting protective tariff laws, has never sacri ficed one industry for the sake of build ing up another, and never will. Neither will it prejudice one locality in the in terest of another. It will be national and not provincial. It will protect the Bouth as well as the north, the east as well as the west, and the west as well as the east. "The rate will be too high here and too low there, but protection will be found in its every feature. The opposi tion party never claim that their tar iff measures are perfect. They only claim that the principle of free trade.on which they profess to construct their tariff laws, is the correct principle. They claim to eliminate every elementof protection from all their tariff laws aa England eliminates protection from her tarilf laws. England provides a tariff for the sole purpose of revenue, and the democratic party profess to do the same. They have openly and repeatedly de nouneed protection as a robbery—tiiey strike at the principle. "While the republican party never claimed for any tariif law that it was perfect, and never promises to enact a perfect tariff law, it does claim that ail its tariff laws are buihled on the prin ciple of protection. "All that the republican party claims for the Dinglcy law is that it is built on the right principles and protects all in terests and all communities. It will bp amended indue time, but the principle ever will be amended under a repub lican administration. Here and there a rate may be hlyler (bun necessary. Here and there one n>ay be too low. but the principle is correct, and so wisely have the differentials been worked out that the I'nited States to-day Is more prosperous than ever In history " B On the . inn- ilu> that Mr Tail ar rlved in San Franc■isco from Yokohama, Mr Hryun mailed fr< in Sa:i Francisco for Japan Thus, you will note the bal ance hi trade cij.itihin h to be In our U | *or llltlmpellt NMM ihtil >. i 'President It; lose veil tuust teel great ly ■ rat I fled aud em ouruKed by his ut< - j s*Ke of uuunstd from the editor of the I.ltii ln I' mmouei Now. If lie can only '.ear favorably from iln edlturi of th« HnttlfcviUe Patriot end the Uiufctuwu • 'larlon h- will feel wari anted in MuitiK HhHftri wifh poI:; Kin hi City Juu i h L CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOEER 19, 1905. TARIFF REVISION NEEDLESS Democratic Free Trade Strategy Re spousible for All tlie Clamor. Hepublican primaries in .MaapacUu sctis, a.s lar as nuict, are adverse to ilie atlvrx.atea of laritf revision and reci procity with Canada. 'J'lio sober, com mon sense of the rank aud file 01' Mas sachusetts republicans takes the worked-uj) agitation of the revisionists only at what it is worth. Vue state says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, has more than an average of free-trade workers. In addition to the democrats, tko mugwumps are pushers for free trade, and there is also a college ele ment, inexperienced in actual indus trial affairs, that is singularly eager to substitute closet theories for prac tical business knowledge. The free trade clamor kept up In Massachusetts has much the appearance of a calcu lated movement carried 011 for the ben efit of the democratic party, and it would be hard to say what induce ments and negotiations are in the background. The mass of the republic ans of the state seem to take that view of it. They see no reason for tariff ripping nor for begging Canada for special tariff arrangements that the dominion will not accept unless chiefly advantageous to itself. In the reci procity conferences of the past Canada has shown a keen senso of the desira bility of bettering itself in fixing reci procity details, and the bone and sinew of the people of Massachusetts are not deceived on that point. Nor can they be fooled into a Avar upon the Dingley tariff by the democrats, mugwumps and college visionaries, or the secret allies of those who seek to end the perioti of republican ascendency. It must be apparent to intelligent observers that the noise about tariff revision is in substance and purpose a piece of democratic free-trade strate gy. The Dingley tariff continues to work well. Customs receipts are in creasing. The government revenue this month exceeds expenditures by several millions. Probably there will be, a small deficit again this ypar, but no occasion exists for far-reaching legis lation on that point. The treasury has kept nearly even, though meeting heavy naval expenditures and the cost of current operations at Panama, and setting apart for irrigation the money received from land sales in arid states and territories. As the treasury is al most balanced in income and outgo, the. pressure for tariff revision can only be explained as the same old free trade racket. That it. should present itself under various disguises is an acknowledgment that it knows Itself to be justly discredited, and that, its identification with hard times is too clear and positive to admit of it.s of fering nself simply and candidly o.i its merits. After all its beating of drums the free-trade clique, attempting to operate inside republican lines in Massachu setts finds itself outvoted at the pri maries. The masses of the party ar« satisfied with the last national repub lican platform and with the tariff rec ord of republican congresses. What tariff revisionists want to do is to get their entering wedge into the Dingley tariff and, with that beginning, proceed to smash it. along with what, it repre sents. All the enemies of protection are in the revisionist ranks. Repub licans training in that company will be held under observation. The Ding ley tariff, when the time comes, win l>e changed, as far as it nerds modifi cation, by its friends and by the stead fast supporters of the protection ol American wages and American indus tries. Though great pains have been taken to fuddle Massachusetts repub licans in behalf of free trade and its corollary of Canadian reciprocity, Ihe primary returns show the failure of the attempted deception. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. iv'l'he Dingley tariff continues to stand pat in the current statistics and in the hands of its friends. —St. Ixjuis Globe-Democrat. tP»"Judge Parker possibly cherishes a theory that the party which pets the largest campaign contributions is the most corrupt.—Washington Star. 6 '"Prove first that our present tariff system is wrong; then look for a rem edy. Stop crying till you are sure you are hurt.—Salem (O.) Statesman. c Mr. Ilryan urges President Itoose velt to "stand by his guns." It is hard for our colonels to keep from dropping into the vernacular of the ariti> Chi cago Record-Herald. 1 The report of the department of la bor of this stale shows that few wage earners are idle. This confirms the story of general national prosperity. Troy (N. Y.) Times. tt >"lr is gratifying to learn from the Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post that the sentiment of the republican majority of the Fifty ninth c ongress ip strongly against taritt legislation looking toward any change in the iJingley schedules. It issuidth.it the conviction obtains that the r« 1 uh lie-in party cannot afford to meddh with revision lor at lea--t two ye:ir.-> to come and that revision should wait until the country orders It American Econo mist. i Hryun reminds the country that ii" lias now arrived at the years of dis< 1 uon. Whit the countr) wants, how evi r. Is > une sign that le- hui < I'OUec ted with the ills 1 ri'tloii >' V Mall C''Jitd«;e Parker says that he now feels ih i his cour * during th" late pres idential campaign has >• 11 vindicated 4o ha-' th>- c»m;!ry'a. and everybody •night to IK I.UI>P> Top»kurai i •• foinpatiic'' uad in ■II Ittii aHlve die not st||S|S< UliJ h r« I.limitation of lb* u|ho 1 ruck u il- uiiiK mine 'm inilen of tli> hi.iullllm ill,hi linn-1 oil i Si'pli ine< 112 Jo. lif ilic i toH m,ij jm '•• 11K11 Ii" «re rep"lted mis ng. ffv n»iir> rs-*mijjßFT-g]rrafBTI«J { Balcom fi Lloyd. 1 m ~ llii tj g ■ n I fe * i fij up m WE have the best stocked J= general store in the county j| p and if you are looking for re y liable goods at reasonable j'- p prices, we are ready to serve jg you with the best to be found. j| Our reputation for trust- worthy goods and fair dealing U is too well known to sell any r but high grade goods. ijj Our stock of Queensware and j!i B Chinaware is selected with H great care and we have some fi of the most handsome dishes SB g ever shown in this section, m both in imported and domestic n:akes. 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