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JOB PRINTING- The Job department of the PKKSS Is complete ■nd afford. facilities Tor doing the best class of Wort. PMUII LA it ATTKNI ION PAID TO I.AW PKIMTIKCi. No p.io r will bs discontinued until arrear tfes are'paid, except at the option of the pub ■her. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. The Universal Gifts. An old farmer was talking of his boyhood to a group of young people not long ago. It had been lived —that far-away boyhood—early in the last century, in a country place remote from towns. He described its meager conditions —the houses, in which such things as "conveniences" had never been dreamed of, the coarse food and poor clothing, the scanty schooling, the few holidays; no magazines, al most no books, no entertainments or. sports except an occasional sleighing party; no "junketings," no celebra tion of ChrifitmiiH or Nov Year, ro vacations from work. "Nothing that you young folks have to-day," he fin ished, "except weather and other folks; but I tell ye," a flash kindled In the faded eye, and the fine old head lifted proudly, "1 tell ye, folks cared jest as much for life in those days as they do now." "Weather and other folks" and the opportunity of living— the great universal gifts to all man kind through all the ages. They stand like mighty mountain peaks, steadfast and unchangeable among all the changing philosophies, civilizations, powers. Sorrows come often, and sickness and defeat; there are lives eaten by poverty and dwarfed by con straining circumstance, yet, says the Youth's Companion, to every life these three things are given—the joy of sun shine and blue skies, the cheer and comradeship and inspiration of other lives pressing upon his, the opportu nity W> hope and dream and do bat tle, to learn daily more of himself and his fellow man and God. All over the country are eager young people looking for "chances" to do, to learn and be. This is as it should be if only the longing means watchfulness, not discontent. "Chances" come only to open doors. But while he is wait ing let every eager soul remember that the three great gifts are his al ready to use or to neglect—Nature and "folks" and the privilege of living. Marine Drunks in Oil. A farmer recently pointed out the defects of a mural painting in the lowa capitol dealing with rural scenes, and the New Orleans Times- Democrat relates how a sailor upset the notions of a lover of marine ob jects: "I'll take a sailor along with me the next time I buy a sea paint ing," said a millionaire. "1 bought two marines last month, and yesterday my old friend, Capt. Salthorse, had a look at them. Salthorse said: in this pic ture we've got a trading schooner in charge of a tug towing away from a rock-bound coast through a fearful jumble of sea. The schooner's main topmast is gone, and all sails are lowered except her staysail, which is being hoisted, though she is towing head onto the gale. Why that hoist ed staysail? All hands, I suppose, are drunk. In the second picture,' con tinued Capt. Salthorse, 'the principal boat, an 18-footer, is racing, yet has no flag flying. That's as incorrect as it would be for you togo to a din ner party minus a shirt. The crew of this boat are getting the spinnaker, and if they lower away both spinnaker and boom will be in the water, for they have neglected to let the boom go forward. But, I know what the trouble is with them. They, too, are drunk.'" "The English sentence grows short er and shorter," said an essayist. "Spenser, Sir Thomas More, Lyly and Sydney used sentences of the average length of 55 words. Nowadays the sentences of the average journal ist are only 15 words long, says the Philadelphia Bulletin. Bacon intro duced the short sentence. At a time when everybody else was using 50 ■words he took to 22. Praise be to Bacon. Macaulay used a very short sentence. Its average length was 23 words. Dickens' average was 28. Thackeray's was 31. Matthew Ar nold's sentences are long, but beauti fully balanced. They are thirty-seven ers. Henry James' are longer, and though intricate, graceful and well worth puzzling out. for in each of them a wonderful meaning is con cealed. They are thirty-niners. Kip- Jing's sentences are twenty-oners. HAS MUCH MEANING PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TERM "STAND PAT." It Meant a Great Deal More When Hanna Injected It Into Politics and It Means More as the Years Roll By, "But what does it mean to stand pat?" This is the question propound ed in a double-leaded and rather nerv ous editorial by the New York Mail of July 28. It is easily answered. To 6tand-pat means now precisely what it meant when that non-political eu phemism was projected into politics by Mark Hanna flve or six years ago. Mr. Hanna saw a country on the top ware of a sea of unparalleled prosper ity. "Stand-pat," said he. He saw domestic production in creasing at a tremendous rate to meet domestic demand. "Stand-pat!" He saw domestic labor fully em ployed, at increasing high wages. "Stand-pat!" He saw savings bank deposits in creasing at the rate of half a billion dollars a year. "Stand-pat!" He saw railroads carrying more freight and passengers and building more miles of new road than ever be fore. 'Stand-pat!" He saw 10,000,000 farmers with paid-off mortgages of the tariff revis ion period of 1893-97 and buying pia nos and automobiles. "Stand-pat!" He saw an internal trad«f amounting to twenty billions a year and growing very fast. "Stand-pat!" He naw a foreign trade pass the two-billion mark and growing at the rate of $200,000,000 a year. (It is now over three billions.) "Stand-pat!" He saw the outside world taking more and more of our agricultural and manufactured exports. "Stand pat!" He saw a big increase in our im ports alike of non-dutiable articles for use in manufacture and of dutia ble goods of the competitive sort. I "Stand-pat!" He saw that the duties collected on Imports were yielding ample revenues for the government's increasing re quirements. "Stand-pat!" He saw the excess of exports over Imports bringing to us annual trade balances averaging more than half a billion dollars. "Stand-pat!" He saw in consequence a vast in flow of gold, which in the past ten I years has added $700,000,000 to our supply of yellow metal. "Stand-pat!" He saw American securities held abroad sent back to aid in settling our favorable balances of trade, and the ' amount of American money sent abroad to pay interest and dividends 011 foreign capital invested in tills country reduced to less than half what it was ten years ago in a tariff t revision period. "Stand-pat!" He saw the United States paying off its debts to foreigners and rapidly be ! coming the money center, as it has be come the industrial center of the I world. 'Stand-pat!" He saw, in short, the most extraor dinary prosperity, the highest rate ' of wages, tho highest standard of liv j ing that the world has ever known, ] So he said, "Stand-pat!" What Mark Hanna saw five years | ago is to be seen to-day on a much bigger scale. If he were living to-day he would again say, "Stand-pat!" He did not say, nor does anybody now say, as the Mail seems to think, that protection is "a hoop of iron," an | inflexible, inexorable thing that will I never permit of the change of a single i tariff schedule. The Mail ought to ; know better. That is not the stand-pat | attitude. That is not what stand-pat ! means. To suppose it is to suppose a I silly thing. Free traders and chronic tariff reformers ought to be given a monopoly of that kind of supposing. This is a stand-pat year. So will next year be, and the year after that, ! and many years after that, we should all hope. When a different condition comes, and when revision of tho tariff !is called for to promote the general j good—when a decrease of some of the schedules and an increase of some of the schedules shall obviously work to the advantage of the country as a whole —then tariff revision should come and will come. Should it come any sooner than that? The best statesmanship of the country says 110. The business inter ests of the country say no. The wage earners of the country say no. That is what it means to stand-pat. When the Test Came. A Democratic contemporary makes the reckles assertion that "the declar ation in the Democratic platform that tariff taxes shall be levied for revenue only strikes at the very root of the trust evil." It is well known that this has been the fundamental princi ple in Democratic doctrine ever since the party came into existence and is inserted in every platform. But we all know how it works. There are some lessons that burn through bitter ex perience into the dullest brain, and this is one of them. Those cannot forget if they would that "tariff for revenue only," when given an oppor tunity for a test during the last ad ministration of Grover Cleveland, struck at the root not of trusts, but 1 of prosperity, that it paralyzed the entire commercial and industrial fab ric of the nation, drove millions into financial distress and bankruptcy and caused unparalleled misery and suf fering. It is like the old story of burning the barn to kill the rats that ore eating the wheat. The barn is lost, but the rats escape and lay low for the coming of another barn.-—Bay City Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1906. SHALL BRYAN FIX THE TARIFF? If He Gets the Chance Every Vestige of Protection Will Be Eliminated. Mr. Bryan is a free trader. In his latest generalized manifesto he says the tariff is one of the issues he will discuss hereafter. But Ibis Is not a question on which he. 1* likely to change his record in the least, nor can he modify it essentially without violating all Democratic precedent. In all that he has said or written in the past Bryan has wholly condemned the principle of protection in a tariff. His most noted speech in congress was a long and elaborate argument against any protection in any sched ule. He contended that the constitu tional rights of the people forbid the inclusion in any tariff rate of a pur pose to build up American industries or to protect American wages against open foreign competition. He heid that a tariff should be based entirely on public revenue requirements, and that American manufacturing inter ests and the wage earner connected with them should adjust themselves as best they can to foreign production and wages. This is free trade and the Bryanites should not balk at the only term that squarely expresses their position on the tariff. They are not tariff revisionists. All parties are for tariff revision as occasion arises. Re publicans have revised protective tar iffs again and again, but always kept them protective. Bryan and his party are against any protection. In half a dozen words Bryan could have stated that he is now, as always, a free trader. He prefers to postpone a statement of his tariff position. If this delay could mean that ho would consent to any protective schedule, ho would be on Republican ground. He may juggle and befog his tariff views, but multiplying words will not change his free trade intent. Business men should realize this fact. Wage earn ers should keep it in mind. In pro tection Bryan is an absolute destruc tionist. With such a man at the head of executive affairs the policy would be to sweep away every vestige o{ protection, a purpose that appears in everything he has ever said in discus sing the tariff. A business upheaval would necessarily be the result. American industries would halt until they could get their bearings in tho markets and in margins of profit, i With this condition would come a cor- I responding loss in the scale of wages I and opportunities of employment. Mr. Bryan is trying to retreat from j his former paramount issue under cov jer of what he calls the quantitative I theory of the money supply. He maintains that he was right about free silver, but that the unexpected increase in the output of gold relieved the strain without lessening the soundness of his chief financial theo ry. Some quantitative things have happened since 1896 in American in j dustries and foreign trade also. Ex- I ports of American manufactures in | the fiscal year just closed were about j $600,000,000. The total in 1896 was | $229,000,000. The quantitative jump in selling our manufactured products abroad has been 160 per cent, since Bryan made his cross of gold speech. Our whole foreign trade is larger than ever before. Another quantita tive point is that steamships are much larger than in 1896 and cross the ocean in less time. With free trade they could pour in a mountain of foreign merchandise every week, compelling our industries to close down and our workmen to hunt a 1 new vacation. Mr. Bryan may defer I talking about the tariff, but he can not change his spots.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Southern Tariff Sentiment. H. Clay Evans, nominated for gov ernor by the Republicans of Tennes see, is not unknown to lowans. He spoke in Grimes hall, Burlington, sev ! eral years ago and made a favorable I impression as an able debater and at- I tractive ortor. He is a man of a good I deal of force of character and will un- S doubtedly make a lively campaign. | The Republicans of Tennessee and I North Carolina are organizing for ! strong campaigns and are not with j out hopes of success, due in part to J Democratic dissensions in those states, and in part to a growing pro tective tariff sentiment in the south. A half century ago Tennessee and North Carolina were whig states and the Inherited protective tariff beliefs have been reenforced by favoring in dustrial conditions under the Dingley law. It will be hard work for the lowa revisionists to convince either Tennesseeans or North Carolinaians that the time has come to scale down the customs schedules to let in for eign merchandise which those states are now producing. Burlington Hawk-Eye. Buying Diamonds. In the tariff revision period of 1896 this country's importations of all precious stones amounted to $6,712,- 415. The following year, ending June 30, when the effects of tariff revision were still upon us and the Dingley law had not yet been passed, the im portation was only $2,672,598. After nine years of Dingley tariff prosperi ty our total importation of precious stones has risen to $40,247,010, or about 15 times more than in 1897. Of this forty odd millions imported in 1906, $10,574,654 were uncut diamonds, whose value was doubled and trebled by American labor. Nine years ago almost nobody could afford to buy diamonds, thanks to tariff revision downward. In this stand-pat year 1906 practically one-half of our entire population, counting in babies and paupers, is buying diamonds at tho rate of about 75 cents per capita. CAME BACK. ! W. H. Latimer, Notorious Swindler, Returns TO PHILADELPHIA. Man Who was One of {he Organizers ot the Provident Investment Bureau Surrenders. Philadelphia, Aug. 31. —William IT. Latimer, familiarly known as "Hand some Harry," manager of the Provi dent Investment Bureau, which was forced out of business 18 months ago, and who has since oeen a fugitive from justice, surrendered Thursday. He was held in $2,000 bail by United Slates Commissioner Craig for trial in Ihe federal court. With Frank C. Marrin, alias Judge Franklin Stone, and Stanley Francis, alias Arthur S. Foster, Latimer was jointly indicted in September, 1905, charged with conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. These three j were alleged to have been the or j ganizers of rhe Provident Investment Bureau, a get-rich-quick, concern. They were also accused of being tho ; principal officials of the Storey Cotton ! Co., a swindling scheme which failed ; in March, 1905. Francis was a'vested, j convicted and sentenced to five years. i Marrin and Latimer escaped. Latimer said he fled to l.o.iJon, | "vhero he met Marrin and Miss Sophie i Beck, a friend of Marrin's. He trav j eled through England. France and ; Canada and was finally arrested in Calgary, province of Alberta, North west Territory, but was releas. d, as his offense was not extraditable. Weary of wandering he finally determ ined to come back and give himself up to justice. NIPPLE WAS AN EMBEL'LER. Startling Statement Made by the Re csiver for the Real Estate Trust Co. Philadelphia, Aug. 31. —Examina- j lion Thursday of the list of securities i held by the defunct Iteal Estate Trust I Co. developed the fact that Frank K. ! Hippie, president of the institution, who committed suicide, was an em bezzler. The authority for this state i ment is George H. Earie, receiver for the Trust Co. Mr. Karle declined to I say what securities are missing, but he declared that Hippie had hypothe i cated $65,000 worth oi the paper, se ; curing $50,000 for tho securities, which he never returned. Receiver Earie further declared that President Hippie embezzled tho $5,000,000 he loaned to Adolf Segal, the | ronioter. These loans, .Mr. Earie isserted. were personal transactions. "Although made in the name of the bank the directors had no knowledge of them, consequently the money was stolen by Hippie," said Mr. Ernie, i The suspicion entertained that Hip pie committed suicide w«is confirmed Thursday by Joseph King, coroner of Montgomery county. When he made the announcement Dr. Albert H. Head, tiie coroner's physician, was standing near and he added: "You can say that Mr. Hippie blew out his brains.' Must Give Full Weight. Chicago, Aug. 31.—City Sealer Jo seph Grein, in whose department is the supervision of weights and meas ures, has issued an ultimatum to the packers, to butter factories and whole sale and retail dealers in lard and but ter, that the public must be given full weight in all packages of lard and but ter, or the city will prosecute them In hundreds of cases in which it lias secured evidence against them. The ordinance calls for a fine of SIOO on every package of lard or butter in which the weight is short. Ohioans Won Five Prizes. Sea Girt ,N. J., Aug. 31.—1n the na tional military tournament yesterday a feature of the day was the perform ance of riflemen representing Ohio, who carried off second, third, fourth, lifth and sixth prizes in the off hand military match from a field of 227 competitors. The Second troop, Phil adelphia City cavalry, won the car bine team match, the Denver City Troop won second prize and the First team of Squadron A, New York, third prize. No Indictment. New York, Aug. 31.—The grand jury on Thursday handed a presentment to Judge Rosalsky in which they said they had gone through a great mass of evidence concerning the alleged ice trust, but did not find sufficient upon which to base an indictment. Arrest of Alleged Train Wreckers. Petersburg, Ind., Aug. 31. —William Aulrey and Shirley Erwin were ar rested Thursday, charged with caus ing a train wreck on the Southern railroad four weeks ago at Carbon in which four lives were lost. Both men deny the charge. In Vain. "Why don't you write something original?" asked the editor. "What's the use?" replied the au thor. "If I do my friends merely ask me why I don't write something in teresting."—Casseli's Journal. Poor Father. Family Friend —So they call you Jack, the same as your father. Isn't it awkward when your mother calls to know which of you she wants? Little Jack —Oh, no; when mother wants me, she always says "please." DEPARTURES. What in the Bible days of ol