2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published livery Thursday, TEHMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. P. r year t? AO If paid in advance 1 >0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements lire published at the of otic dol nr per square for one insert ion unit lift j cents l cr square for cucU subsequent insertion. Kates l>.v the year, or for six or throo months, ure low and uniform, and will be furnished o'i tipolication. [.cxiil ar.d Official Advertising per Kqunr" three times <>r less. -.2. each subsequent inset ' tio j Mi i mils per square. Local notices Hi centß per line for one lnser •crtlnn: f> cents per line for each subsequent con-eeutive insertion. obituary nc tires over five linns. 10 cents [er ltne. Simple announcements of births, mar riage* and deaths will be Inserted free. Ilio ines-- cards, live lines or ie»s. 6 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 75 cents, pot issue. JOB PRINTING. The .lob department of the I'KESS incomplete »r.d aSords facilities for doing the best class of VI rk. PAKI ICI'I.AK ATTENIIGN I'AIM TO LAW PIUNTINO. No paper will b? discontinued until arrear at; 's are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent oat of the county must be paid fcr Hi advance. In eleven months of 1905 ttie United States imported sugar of the value of nearly $100,000,000 and weighing 3,- 566,059,529 pounds, apart, from what we received from Hawaii, Porto Kico and the Philippines. Hon. George E. Roberts, director of the mint, reports that the last of the silver bullion, purchased under the Bland-Allison law of 1878 and the Sherman act of 1890, has been ex hausted, and the coinage of silver dol lars has ended. No more silver dol lars will bo coined unless congress or ders it. Consular reports give the total beet sugar crop of Europe for 1905-6 at 6,885,000 tons, as compared with 4,701,- 000 the year preceding. This shows an increase of nearly 50 per cent. The total increase is estimated at 2,150,000 tons of raw sugar, which makes the present year the greatest known in the history of the industry. Tobacco chewing seems to be grad ually on the wane. Possibly the anti spitting ordinance, together with the strong public sentiment against the habit of chewing has caused this decline. Certain it is tuat there has been a decrease of over 16,000,000 pounds in the amount of plug tobacco made last year. The leading mining companies of the Butte district are estimated to have produced about 5,110,000 tons of ore in 1905. From this total tonnage of ore more than 338,000,000 pounds of copper was obtained, of which amount Amalgamated is credited with 264,000,00(1 pounds. United Copper ■with 30,000,000, Clark with 20,000,000, and North Butte with 20.000,000. Never before in all the country's history has it been so prosperous as it is at the opening of 1906. The products of its farms for 1900 amount ed to over $6,000,000,000. This is not only several times larger than the products of any other country, but it marks a gain of $250,000,000 over the highest previous record in the United States, which was for 1904. The yield of the country's farms in 1905 equaled the country's aggregate wealth of all sorts for 1845. American Special-Agent Burrill re ports that in the importation of ready made shoes into China the United States has a commanding lead, which can be increased if cordial co-opera tion between dealers and manufactur ers can be more firmly established. At present the shoes imported are bought mainly by the foreign resi dents; but it is probable that in the near future the Chinamen will adopt modern footwear, and then there will be an almost unlimited market for boots and shoes in China. The trade between the United States and Uruguay, now relatively meager, could, in the opinion of Con sul O'Hara, of Montevideo, be consid ered increased by the establishment of direct steamship communication between the two countries. There is no prejudice in Uruguay against Amer ican products; but there are no Amer icans there to sell American manufac tured goods, while Europeans have es tablished large importing houses, learned the language, customs and wants of the people, and have regu lar steamship lines, to keep them in touch with their home countries. Of the world's twelve billions in cash two billions are right here in the United States. And one-twenty fifth of all the cash in gi«l in the world is stored in New York alone. This gold, this symbol and synonym for wealth, comes, like all things else, from the ground, from mines. Here, again, we lead all nations, for we our selves produce one-third of all tho go d of the earth, as we produce one third of all the silver. Our ciiief con tributors to this product are the mines of Colorado, B;>uth Dakota, Califor nia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico and Alaska. In iK9i; the only mechanically moved vehicle \v;is th * cumbersome traction engine that broke down e itinlrv brldv's and reared horses out of tlmir ham S ncn thf'i the development to the lU'li p twerfiil tnr has bee n sure and rapid. Mere than 100,000 mo tor venl de-i, of b >»h foreign an I American make, arc now owned In lb ■tstwi ■ -it hit' an iMrgjr of 1,000,000 hot.so piwer ami a tal> t val ue cif I'Jiiil,Out). J.n y t r 30,000 earn were sold here, and it Is no v pre dicted t hit * the coining v#ir will w •Jv.u'ju mor.. pi. a jnto owner'! hitndj. ALL KINDS OF DEMOCRATS. The Party So Badly Cut Up That the Classes Are In numerable. There was a time, that halcyon and vociferous period when to Republicans everything seemed to be going the way of the other fellows, when but one label was necessary to designate the believers in a particular faith. "1 am a Democrat" was enough, and in some cases more than enough, says the Troy Times. At any rate it left no doubt as to the classification of the man who wore the tag. He was a re cruit in the army of Democracy, and all that he wanted was a chance tog. t at the common enemy and "do" h m. And if he went from one end of the country to the other that tag was as good as a countersign anywhere. It took him into every camp of his party and no questions asked. lint how different is it now! A man who goes about displaying the sign "I am a Demrocat" will have to explain what kind of a Democrat he is or pre- 1 pare to dodge things. Our Democratic brethren are badly cut up, so badly that they seem to have divided not only into clans.and classes, but to have split into almost as many component parts i as there are individual Democrats. In congress the other day Champ Clark, of Missouri, who has added to the gayety of nations in many ways, was making what he represented to be a Democratic .speech, when he was asked what kind of a Democrat he was, and he instantly replied: "I am a Champ Clark Democrat." And there is no doubt that he is, while from the utter- ! ances of colleagues in the same body it may be assumed that each i 4 just about the sort of Democrat he p:rson ally chooses to be, without the advice or consent of any other Democrat. In New York the other day Judge Parker, lately the Democratic candi date for president, met Bird S. Coler, lately the Democratic candidate for governor, and now president of the ; borough of Brooklyn, elected by Demo- j crats who supported municipal owner-1 ship nominees. A mutual friend a ked | -the judge if he knew Mr. Coler. and the judge replpied that he did and had ; been acquainted with him when Coler was a Democrat. Evidently Mr. Cjler, , who still claims to be a Democrat, is not the sort of Democrat that Judge j Parker professes to be. Continuing, it appears that Tom Taggart, who as chairman of the Democratic national committee, ran the last Democratic presidential campaign, is not the sort ! of Democrat to whom the Bryan Dem ocrats cotton. So the Bryan people are trying to retire him, and from latest j advices it appeared very probable that ! ho would soon shoot the political j chutes. The Taggart brand of D moc- j racy does not commend itself to the [ Bryan contingent, though what kind of Democracy the Bryan brand will coyer when Mr. Bryan himself returns from his swing about the sphere probably Mr. Bryan himself does not know. So it goes. The Democracy for which Hearst stands is a different i thing from that of Tammany and Boss Murphy. Judge Parker represents one idea; Bryan a different one. The western Democrats want many things I which the southern Democrats will not I stand for.and there is no cohesion be tween any section or group. Under the circumstances the Missouri states man took the safe course. In declar ing himself a Champ Clark Democrat he avowed the only creed to which he could adhere without arousing enmity, j In fact, the way Democracy is "all torn up" it is a question whether a Demo- i crat can agree with himself. The old war cry: "I am a Democrat!" has, given place to the query: "What is a Democrat?" COMMENT OF THE PRESS. £~After a little experience with moun tain lions Mr. W. R. Hearst may tackle the Tammany tiger again. £-• Col. Bryan should feel consoled. : He is now a datto of Mindanao. If he j had been elected president he would not be a datto.—Buffalo Express. JO'With Shaw asked to remain in the cabinet and revision and reciprocity j hung over the fence to ripen there- j formers have a new misery gnawing at j their vitals.—Burlington Hawk-Eye. still indicates that Mr. I Bryan is having a good time in the ' Philippines and collecting much am- I munition for use in his next foray into the enemy's country.—Chicago Tribune. t "Becoming a datto is not the same j thing as becoming president of the j United States, and Bryan understands 1 this so well that he is not very'likely to work at his datto job very long.—Phila delphia Press. t- If it should come to pass that this Philippine free trade should work to the advantage of Europe (as the Cuban rec- I iprocity treaty has done) ami to the dis i advantage of American wage earners and American industries, the political ' assets of the statesmen and the party re- I sponsible for the result would be worth j slightly loss than those of Mr. Grover Cleveland and the democracy in the | years following the introduction and on J tenement of the Wilson taritT law.— ! N. V. Press. ; 'Changing premiers and cabinets in ' England does not change poverty into pro •porif.y or idleness iato employment. The one thing needed in Groat Britain i:i a (linage of tariff policy. She has be f.itn to trench on her capital, and her doom i ; sen led unlrs she returns to pro tection. Ameilcan Kconomist. C'"Some of the statesmen who antag onize tin' railroads would not bono much a' noyed by the discontinuance of com plimentary transportation If there had not Ijscn such a strong ting.' of sarcasm | !n. Mi in re mi deference to their owu aeuil ■ L Washington CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY i, 1906. RESULTS ARE WANTED. Skillful and Conservative Republican Leadership Moving- Things Forward. The Philippine tariff bill, after a week's debate, steadily moves towards passage by the Republican majority in the house. Divisions exist, but they are local. They turn on special and I personal interests. They affect few. j The number of tnem diminishes rather j than increases, says the Philadelphia Press. J Under Speaker Cannon's wise, skill ful and conservative leadership, the Republican majority in the house steadily gains in unity, in purpose, in coherence and in momentum. It is in Washington to accomplish results, and it is going to accomplish them. Both the country and the party demand le i suits. | This is no session like the one last winter. No one is longer in doubt as to public will or party policy. Both are clear. Honest and sincere men, who desired to do their full duty as Republicans and congressmen, were in ! doubt a year ago as to the legislation needed by the country and demanded l by the party, j But on both there is no longer ques ! tion. The Philippine tariff is part of a | definite programme on which President Roosevelt and the Republicans in con gress both agree. The Philippine tar iff. the joint admission of New Mexico | anfl Arizona as one state and the pass age of a railroad rebate measure are all agreed upon by all, supported by | ;tll and must be enacted. To some detail of some one of these ; measures objection could doubtless be made by this and that representative, or this and that senator. These spe cific and personal differences on par ticular measures always have existed and always will exist. But, taken as a whole, these meas ures are approved by both the country and the party. In both parties the j overwhelming majority of the Amer ican people desire to deal fairly with | the Philippines, and fair treatment re quires free trade with them. Neither territory is ready for statehood a'lone. The admission of both as one fore stalls the future of the admission of either alone, and gives a state large : enough for representation, i The railroad rebate bill, rapidly reaching completion, stands abjve all for the settled determination of the American people to require a square deal 011 freight rates. Such a measure | must pass. Its enactment and the passage of the other bills 011 the Re publican programme are all thus ren , tiered more certain by tho common ; purpose and action displayed, with in j considerable defections, by the Repub : lican majority of the house. TERMS ARE SYNONYMOUS. i "Stand-Fatlsm" and Republicanism Mean One and tlie Same Thing. Gradually and surely the expression 1 "stand-patter" is becoming synony mous with Republican. When Demo-! cratic papers wish to criticise national ' Republican principles they speak 01 ! j them as "stand-patism." The tariff ' revision press—made up almost entire ly of Democratic and independent pa- j pers—"dub" such Republican leader as stand firmly on the national plat j form "stand-patters." When they criti- I eise them they criticise Republican;. pure and simple, and they do it delib ; erately and advisedly, says the Bur lington Hawk-Eye. They are simply! hoping to gradually build up a new party, such as Gov. Cummins predicted was coming, to oppose the present na- I tional Republican body. They deny that they are Democrats, but fight from a Democratic standpoint. But their new party plans are doomed to fail ure. Should Gov. Cummins, for in stance. announce the formation of till: proposed new party, and come out at i its leader, he could not muster a cor poral's guard of genuine Republican:- in his ranks. Nor would he have the following that he might expect of thos'. whom ha now counts as supporters for there are many who now fight un der his banner from a sense of per : sona! friendship or under a misguided notion of party zeal who would spurr: the proposition to break away from the old party. Free Trade for Them. That the Democratic party, when it frankly speaks its honest belief, is foi tree trade, is evidenced in many ways A little colloquy in the house of repre sentatives between Mr. Burgess, Demo crat, of Texas, and Leader Williams, oi the minority, illutsratcs this point. Mr. Burgess opposed the Philippine tarift bill because he wanted no duty on products sent from the United States to the islands, while Mr. Williams de clared that he favored the measure, not because it was just what he liked, but for the reason that it was as near free trade as it was possible to get under tho circumstances. Can any one doubt that, if the Democrats were iu pow.-r and could be induced to act according to their actual sentiment, protection would be swept away and free trade would take its place.—Troy Times. Mr. Bryan's visit did not attract 11s much attention to Aguinaldoas the Fili pino ex chieftain probably hoped it would. Washington Star. Great Britain's great foreign trade* and her great poverty, both breaking tin' record in I!mjs, show that a laregex ternal commerce does not bring pre J piiity. particularly when that com merce Is one-third exports and two thirds Imports, and that is Just one of the reasons why there Is tvi little work for her wage 1 aroers and so much suf ferlnr for nearly half of her people,-* American Economist. CONGRESSIONAL Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington, Jan. 23. —With a point !of order impending, the eight hour | clause of (he Panama canal item in j the urgent deficiency bill was buffeted about in debate during the greater | part of Monday's session of the house, j Speeches w,ero made for and against : tiie administration's canal policy. The I question of regulating railroad rates occupied practically all of the time of ! the senate, notwithstanding no bill I with that end in view has been re- I ported from the inter state commerce commission. Washington, Jan. 24.—For more than three hours yesterday Mr. Spoon er occupied the time of the senate in explanation and defense of the course j of the administration relative to the 1 Moroccan conference at Algeciras, Spain, and in connection with San Do mingo. The eight-hour law cannot j be abrogated for work on the Panama canal, and the canal commissioners cannot receive additional compensa l tion besides their salaries as commis sioners. These two changes in the urgent deficiency appropriation bill I now under consideration in the house was the net "result of its session. Washington, Jan. 25.—When the smoke of the liveliest legislative bat tle of the session had cleared in the house yesterday Speaker Cannon and i his organization were in complete con- I trol and the joint statehood program of | the administration had been adopted, j Forty-three republican "insurgents" j went down to defeat, having voted | vainly with the democrats to gain | control of the rule, the terms of which ! are to govern the statehood bill in its [ passage through t lie house. The vote ] ordering the previous question on the j rule was 192 ayes to 105 nays. ! Mr. Lodge presented in the sen ate his views on the policy of the administration in the matter of the Algeciras conference over Morocco j and also with reference to San Do- I mingo. Washington, Jan. 2G. —The house on Thursday passed the statehood bill by the vote of 194 to 150. The I bill as passed provides that j Oklahoma and Indian Territory shall constitute one state under the name Oklahoma and that. Arizona and New | Mexico shall constitute one state un- J der the name Arizona. Should the I terms of admission bo ratified by the ! residents of the territories in ques i tion, their respective state constitu j tions must contain clauses prohibiting | the sale of intoxicating liquors and | plural marriages. The constitution | of Arizona must prohibit the sale of liquor to Indians forever and that of Oklahoma for 21 years. The foreign affairs of the United States continued to hold the attention of the senate. Washington, Jan. 27. —The first, at tempt. at filibustering at this session occurred in the house Friday in a dem ocratic endeavor to defeat the provi sion of the urgent deficiency bill waiv j ing the eight-hour law for foreign la | borers on the Panama canal. The ! amendment was placed in the bill in I committee of the whole after the I house had divided many times on every pretext, which Minority Leader Williams could make the cause of a I vote. Claims that Emery was a Partner. Cleveland, Jan. 27—Frank I. Carney, | of Wisconsin, entered suit Friday in the United States circuit court against Christopher F. Emery for $6,033. The claim is made in the petition that Em ery was a partner in the brokerage firm of Denison, Prior & Co. C. F. Emery has not been a partner in the firm of Denison. Prior & Co. for sev oral years. Miles B. Hasbrouck, who was floor manager for the firm, said Friday: "1 cannot tell just how long ago it was that Mr. Emery retired from the firm, but I remember the no tice of dissolution which appeared in the papers at the time." France Awaits Taigny's Report. Paris, Jan. 24.—President Loubet presided at a cabinet council held yes terday in the Elysee palace, at which Premier Rouvler announced that he had received a communication from Ambassador Jusserand to the effect that, the United States does not con sider a French naval demonstration against Venezuela to be a violation of the Monroe doctrine. France, it is pointed out, thus has her hands free, but the situation is unchanged, as the council will not take decisive action until the report of M. Taigny, the former charge d'affaires at Caracas, is received. McCall Sells His Summer Home. New York, Jan. 24.—John A. McCall, ex president of the New York Life In surance Co., parted yesterday with his most prized possession—the summer palace he erected and furnished at Long Branch at an expense of $600,- 100. The place was sold to Myron H. Oppenheim, a lawyer. The purchase was made for a client. The price was in the neighborhood of $350,000, little more than half the sum expended by Mr. McCall upon the place. Of this amount Mr. McCall receives only about SIOO,OOO, Broke All Records. Orinond-Daytona, Fla., Jan. 27. —All records for the kilometre and for the mile were broken iu the automobile tournament here Friday. The now figures place the mile at 2S 1-5 sec onds and the kilometre at 18 2-5 sec '>ll ds. Upheld the Legality of the Tax. New York, Jan. 27.—The constitu tionality of the stock transfer tax law I if New York Mate was affirmed Fri ! day by a decision of the appellate di- | vision of the supreme court. About ; (5,0i)0,n0u annual taxes are added to the state revenues by the decision. I I'ho ease decided wa.s a test action ! brought axainst Albert J. Hatch, a ! •lock broker, who was charged with j having sold and delivered shares of railroad stock without paying the tax j required by tills law. Four justices | decided for the constitutionality of tho j law and one against it. Balcom & Lloyd. I i - 1 I j§ 1 I I* p fe WE have the best stocked I general store in the county p and if you are looking for re j| liable goods at reasonable j| p prices, we are ready to serve | you with the best to be found, p Our reputation for trust | worthy goods and fair dealing B is too well known to sell any but high grade goods. 1 H h Our stock of Queensware and ]| "j Chinaware is selected with fpj great care and we have some jl of the most handsome dishes 3 g ever shown in this section, % I| both in imported and domestic Ti jjf makes. We invite you to visit {] lj us and look our goods over. UJ I I I ' 1 1 I I Balcom & Lloyd. | Itfig cr. tf II £2 LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET M THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT I I LaBAR'S II 1 M —J—• — — - m H ______— I] We carry in stock j -i * « fcjj the largest line of Car- . • 112! KQ pets, Linoleums and fi/ fflfTTTTfTffllfl l) II Mattings of all kinds Hf te ; ; •§ *} PI ever brought to this ffflnfffifflll ** PJ town. Also a big line .;V ,1 12; J of samples. A very large line ot FOR THE I* £2 Lace Curtains that can- _^M >5 x^o"The h he P e L any - COMFORTABLE LODGING It II £2 Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library J* £1 Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- M kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. *£ «f4 est to the best. Furnished witli bevel French M H plate or leaded glass doors. *4 Dining Chairs, I SALE D* I IT* 14 g? c J< e ™ and GEO. J. LaBAR, tejjj Iligll CiiairS. Sole Agent for Cameron County. A large and elegant I— line of Tufted and |gj Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices, i KM - jf? £3O Bedroom Suits, (for $-10 Sideboard, quar- <fOn ?? solid oak at tered tak J3GU iff S2B Bedroom Suits, tfOl S;S2 Sideboard, quar- <fOC §§ solid oak at J><£' tered oak f* $2(5 Bed room Suits, <£ofl $22 Sideboai d, quar- (fjC H solid oak at tered oak, 3> ,D If M A large line of Dressers from I Ch fl'oniers of all kinds and M HH fr ß up. all prices. fe * £$ ——— ■! feU The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, £] the "DOMESTIC" ai:d "ELFRIEGH.' All drop f heads and warranted. A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in ** £2 sets and by the piece. As I keep a full line of everything that goes to H 9$ make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to enum- |£ Q(J erate them all. kg Please call and see for yourself that I am telling h* you the truth, and if you don't buy, there is no harm £2 done, as it is no trouble to show goods. W I! GEO. J .LaBAR. | 6S UIVDEnTAIiIRTCi. * * "h * J t tfk /A 4k 4* 4
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