2 CAMERON COUNTS' PRESS. H. H. MULL.IN, Editor. Published Ev«'i*y Thursday* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'rr year 1- <*> 112 paid in advance 1 sU ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements arc published at the rate of one dollar per sqiiar<• f< rone, Insertion and llftj fents per square for ouch subsequent insertion Hates by the year, or for nx of throe months, »re low a:i«l uniform, and will be furnished on li indication. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. 7'-': each subsequent nisei ■ tio.i : wry, a baby of distinguished American ancestors, hut who was born in China, has com pleted a voyage* of 10,000 miles to visit her friends in America. Most of her stay in this country will be made in Cincinnati. Ernestine is the ten months-old daughter of Edward K. Ixiwry, an Ohio man interested in the Chinese mines near Peking. She is a'so the great-grandchild of Bishop Olark, for man.v* years the head of Methodism in southern Ohio. An American who has been travel ing about, inquiring into trade condi tions in foreign lands, declares that American producers are neglecting a market in Indii* which is nearly as im- ! port ant as tho one in China. He says that general trade conditions in India. ! stem quite as discouraging as in Egypt, and for reasons quite similar, namely, that Americans are making n<> proper effort to get their share of the trade. The total Imports of India in 1904 amounted to $300,000,000. Two thirds of ine innnrts were of articles <»f which the I'nited States is the largest producer. Argentina has an area almost as great a all the United Stales east of i the Mississippi, alihough its isipuia I tinn |s a little It than \ million, or ! small" r than Pennsylvania's. In the i production of meats, wiol and corn it stands II experts more corn than the I'ill:I S'a ti. |!'f ire ninny year.-, ■pa -on account of our own home de maud, Argentina will nurpa- -i the j I'niN-d sia'i ■ in exportation op food ■product* In the aggregate. For the fir i half of 1906 Us total ex|>or - wei • ' sl7s,:>u!a on DEMOCRACY OF HEARST. No Need of Anybody Being' Uneasy About the Situation in New York. Is Mr. Hearst a Democrat? There are men eallug themselves Democrats who doubt it. He has not openly been challenged here on that point, and may not be. He voted for Mr. Wil liams for speaker, and lias been as signed to committees as a Democrat. That, says the Washington Star, would appear to settle the question so far as congress is concerned. At a distance, however, his claims are disputed. In tiie south particularly, where he sought delegates last year in his race for his party's nomination for the presidency, his Democracy is tick eted as of a bogus variety. The Col umbia, S. C.. State rejects it. The Nor folk Landmark declares that the man "is simply a demagogue." and the Pe tersburg Index-Appeal, in the same necK of the woods, asserts that Mr. Hearst has no "claim on earth to con sideration as a true Democrat." Now. why is this? In what particu lar has Mr. Hearst changed since last year, when he supported Judge Parker on the St. Louis platform, and put all of his newspapers at his party's serv ice? He did as Mr. Bryan did, and as Mr. Bryan's southern friends did. Moreover, he and Mr. Bryan stand shoulder to shoulder, as to both the railroad rate question and the ques tion of municipal ownership. To cast one out and leave the other would be manifestly unfair. They may not be very lovely in their lives, but if death is the decree they should not be di vided. Is the explanation to be found in the repudiation by Mr. Hearst of Mr. Mc- Clellan in New York? If that is the charge then a very curious case is to be considered. Thousands upon thou sands of democrats repudiated the : Tamamny candidate —so many, indeed, that his election is in dispute, and but for the Republicans he would Wave j been swept into oblivion. So that if ; Mr. Hearst is to be read out of his 1 party for his part in that performance so many others must go along with [ him that no chance whatever will re main to carry New York for the Dem ocratic candidate for the presidency in 1908. In such circumstances the Republicans would have the state, hands down. It is a bad time for cast-Iron defini tions. So little remains of the old. brand of Democracy that nobody is justified in making himself disagreea- I ble about his share. FREE TRADE " GONE MAD. Conditions That Are Impossible Ex- j cept Under One Single Government. Some newspapers ot the United j States are following the Mexican Her- [ aid in a lot of talk about the necessity j I for making a North American tariff i common to all countries which may I jbe reached without boats. The idea ! | is too big for the handlers. The same j j talkers are fast ami furious for state \ rigii's, even in this country, which lias j been one most of the time for more j ! than a century, and they advocate the j j making of state lines emphatic in all j mait Q is of business. There is nothing \ which needs to have the boundaries of a country so plainly marked as the tariff for the revenue ol the govern ment and for the protection of the in dustries which support t lie govern ment. That principle cannot be spread out over a continent, so long as any two sections of it are controlled by dif ferent governments, with the best in terests of the industries subserved. The largest territory of this continent is still within the grasp of the Uritish nation, with its most important inter ests controlled on the other side of the Atlantic. Any man who has read of the Boston tea party and the war which followed it should know that there is no possibility of a tariff for all this continent with the interests of the United Slates getting the protec tion they are entitled to. Henry M. Whitney has said that President Roosevelt told him that he was in fa vor of continental free trade, and the president is too busy traveling to deny any such foolishness. It free trade is good l'or all North America it is also good for all the world, and the facts of history prove that it irs the greatest maker of beggars the world has ever known. Any American who has been to England within five years can fur nish all the proof that is necessary for that. It is on demonstration over there all the time, and the greatest economists of the thinking world have | been able to find no other cure for it than the putting of the industries of a nation under a protective system of tariff which will guarantee the safe in vestment of capital and the payment of living wages to the workers.—Wor cester Telegram. &•' It is all wrong to say that John Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader | in tiie house of representatives, lias | not much of a following; the majority j of the Democratic members are going | after him with a sharp stick most of ! the time, Buffalo c rhe Hon. Lobster Davis is bat k Into the Republican party again. lie seems t'l have c-iuie on hi. own mo tion l)cs Moines Capital. e The statement that Democracy's dirty linen Is belli:- washed In con- j 'r< < I th" l.i Infoi matl n ibai Democracy had a change ot linen. - j Kansas city Journal. c 'it was a Deium-rat on the Hour of the house who referred to Leader Williams u a shriveled specimen ot I the monkey tribe. .Nothing but part} ' harmony renders the expression par j liamemary. St. LuuU Ukibe-Dtmo j crtu. I CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY n, 1906. BUSINESS SESSION COMINC Republicans Will Make a Record En tirely Satisfactory to the American People. Some of the Washington goseipers—• democrat, republican and nonde script—are intimating that congress will shirk work this winter, will ad journ early in the spring, and will put off to the next session, or let die a quiet death, the principal measures which the president has recommended. This talk may excite some of the dem ocratic papers, but it is not likely to impress the country. One of the meas ures urged in the president's message, the Panama emergency appropriation, has passed both chambers already, and the differences between the two houses in matters of detail are likely to be ar ranged quickly and the bill sent to the president. The measure 1.3 not in pre cisely the shape urged by the president and recommended by the canal com mission, but it will serve the purpose adequately, and will please the presi dent and the people. There is not the slightest reason to suppose, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat, there will be any hitch in con gress on the railway rate bill. Mem bers in each branch are giving a good ileal of thought to that subject. It is too big a question to be disposed of off hand. The senate will debate it ex haustively, but it will pass a bill that will be satisfactory to the country. There can be no reasonable doubt on this point. Some opposition will be made by Mr. Foraker and a few other republicans in the upper chamber to the sort of rate regulation which the president. Speaker Cannon and the leaders of the house and senate favor, but in the end that kind of a bill will pass. The concessions which Senator Elkins is reported to have made to the popular view on this subject are signifi-, cant. The senator is the head of the committee of his chamber which has charge of this subject. Report had it a few months ago that he was hostile to the principle of the bill which went through the house in the last congress by a large majority. His recent atti tude, however, shows that he will be in line with the majority of his party on this policy. A regulation bill which will strengthen the Republican party will pass congress and ije signed by the ; president before this session closes. A congress will be elected in 1900. | The conventions for the nomination of I its candidates will begin to be held I about the time that this session closes. I Naturally, all of the present members will want a renomination and reelec tion. This will spur them to make a record in the present session which will be acceptable to the country. The He publican leaders know the necessity for carrying the elections in the coming canvass. This will furnish them with an incentive, it any were needed, to do the work which the people want to have done. The congressional election in the middle of the presidential term [ is always a risky affair for the party 1 in power in the White House. That ! party always loses seats in that mid presidential term congressional elec tion. Often —as 111 Cleveland's ease in 1894 and in Harrison's in 1890—the president's party loses the election, and lie finds himself confronted with a hostile congress during the second half of his term. This has taken place often in the past half a century. The Republicans have had rare good fortune in recent times in this respect. They have carried congress in every election since 1894, beginning with that year. They cannot retain their supremacy unless they deserve it. This truth is known to every Repub lican in public office, from the presi dent down. It is altogether safe to predict that congress, which is the Republican party, will mane a record in this session which will be entirely satisfactory to the American people. DRIFT OF PRESS OPINION. C-* John Sharp Williams should be known not as the minority leader, but as the minimum leader. —N. Y. Ameri can. C The free traders who pose as tariif revisers and free hide agitators conceal their former labels, and their records in muddling things explain why.—Marion (Ind.) Chronicle. C- -Mr. Bryan is making a fine repu tation abroad as an orator. His voice is undeniably pleasant, and always sounds as if he were saying some thing.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Tv The Democratic members of the home of representatives are inclined to "kick" at the methods of Leader Williams, who certainly does seem to have great capacity for getting him self into hot water. Rut where can they find a man who will be able to do any better? The trouble springs trom lack of material as well as lack of leadership.—Troy Times. C ' Since the Republican party caniu into control of the government in 1897 the excess of exports of merchan dise over imports has exceeded $4,300.- 000,000, The footings this year will lie about: Exports, ?1 000.ti00.000; im ports. $.200.000.(i0ti, a toial foreign trade of $2.800,000.000. he Itingley law can show the figures lor standing pat. Troy Times, t John Sharp Williams ha; had troubles of his own In getting five Democrats in the htu-i* who would agree on one committee. Hut this 1 tile case all over the country. Where ar» ill're flv'* Democrat-; that airr .'v'! ; • t There is a Democratic effort to hold s. uator l.odge re ponslble for the | Republican victory in Massachusetts, j and it appear* to ! < in the nature <>f an opening gun In the content for "irifT reform. If you can't t— ihe cor. ruction, rejnimlj-r that H la a Demo ■ ' tier and 1 >il .I' y. I'lliltt.lel j 1 i>Uta luijuircr. UPS SEALED. A Standard Oil Magnate Refuses to Testify. IN MISSOURI CASE. The Taking of Evidence in an Ouster Suit Brought Against the Oil Trust Has Begun. New York, Jan. G. —The taking of testimony In two suits "brought by the state of Missouri to oust the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Waters- Pierce Oil Co. and the Republic Oil Co. from Missouri and to prevent the car. rying out of an alleged pooling agree ment among the companies mentioned, was begun here Friday before Fred erick W. Sanborn, a special commis sioner appointed by Gov. Folk. Her bert S. Hadley, attorney general of Missouri, conducted the state's case and attempted to show from the wit nesses introduced that the Waters- Pierce and Republic companies were in reality but subsidiary concerns of the Standard Oil Co., the Indiana branch of which conducts the Stand ard's business in the west. During the hearing there were a number of lively tilts between oppos ing lawyers, one resulting in a demand by the attorneys for the defendant companies that the testimony be taken down verbatim in long hand by tho commissioner. Attorney General Had ley agreed to this, saying he could re main at the hearing as long as anyone else. This tedious method of recording the testimony permitted of the exami nation of but two witnesses. One of these was F. T. Bedford, a director of the Standard Oil Co., who refused ab solutely to answer any question in volving the Standard's affairs. He said he took this attitude upon the advice of counsel and had no other reason for doing so. The other witness was A. V. Joclcel, formerly a bookkeeper for the Stand ard Oil Co., who said he was trans ferred to the Waters-Pierce Co.'s of fice at Oklahoma City without resign ing his place with the Standard. fie said he had been instructed to say the Waters-Pierce Co. was an independ ent concern, but declared Waters- Pierce barrels were filled with oil from Standard barrels. Attorney General Hadley said ho would report recalcitrant witnesses to the supreme court and allow that tri bunal to deal with them. REVIEW 0! TRADE. Operations During the Past Week Have Been Somewhat Slow. New York, Jan. C.—R. fi. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Erratic weather and the customary difficulties encountered in resuming l normal conditions after a lengthy holi day have restricted >perations during the past week, especially in retail and jobbing departments. The situation is relieved to some extent by clearance sales of heavy weight wearing apparel, and there is a good demand for staple lines of foodstuffs, while prices ara maintained so firmly that confidence is evidently unshaken. In some parts of the country it is impossible to fill orders for lumber and building materials, open weather making structural work an unusual feature for the season. Manufacturing plants are resuming, advance orders assuring activity for some months in most, cases, and in many divisions of the iron and steel industry idleness in i 900 can cnlv be produced by exten sive cancellation. Commercial failures this week in the United States are 253, against 290 the corresponding week last year, and in Canada 32, against 25 last year. EIENDISH ATROCITIES. Russian Refugees Tell of the Torture and Slaughter of Jews. New York, Jan. 0. —Reports of how the dead are mutilated to terrify the living in Itussia were brought here Friday by Russian refugees, 700 of whom arrived on the steamer Pennsyl vania. One woman told of having seen a young married woman kill iter child sooner than let the Cossacks murder the infant. Another refugee related how in the town of Nova Moscov five drunken sol diers marched through the streets car rying arms, a dead baby with a bayo net run through its body baing display ed at tho end of each gun. I.eiver I.andominski, a dry goods merchant who had 20,000 roubles, or about. $ 10,000, which he had saved in his flight, said it was a common thing to see men strung up feet first and lying dead along the route of the rail road. He left his wife and their child in Itussia and came here to establish a home for them. Several refugees came as first cabin passengers and had an aggregate of about $100,0(10 in cash and jewels in money belts. Two Sisters Killed by a Train. 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