2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. year M 00 tf paid In advanoo 1 *0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rata of #ri< duhar per square forone insertion and fift> cents per squ.ii.- for each subsequent insertion Kates by the year, or {or six or three months, %tc lon a.id uii form, and will be furnished application. !.• -ill and Official Advertising per square tli'-c Hint's or li ss, ■ each aubsequeni inbfii t.n i . <j tents per squr.re. ttl notices In cents per line for one inscr ■ r.i< n: n cents per line for each subsequent! t • ecutive insertion. auary not!', t-s over five lines 10 cents pot l.:i Simple t uonn -ements of births, mat • r imi I'.euths w il be inserted free. lues , i rds, lite lines or less. If> per year, c i ve lit. - ;.t the roguiur rates of a.iver i - ug. . local inserted for less than 75 cents pei Iss-jo. JOB PRINTING. 'Hip Job rt men t of the I'rf.ss is complete • '! -it 1 ■ til ie*. for doltit; the best class of : I. . I l.'t.Aß JkT'tkN I JuN PAID TO LAW PI.ISTIN-'. N.i p. r will bi discontinued until arrear < ar>- pal i, except at the option ot tho pub lisher. j't.ners sf: t u; of the county must bo Dald for ~*■ a tta. ee. A Fool and His Money. The credulity of a multitude oi more or less thrifty people, who, in their mania for money, are ready to believe that they can amass fortunes over night, makes them the easy prey of a swarm of parasites who infest the financial districts. The gospel cf the parasites, who build air castles for their victims and real castles for themselves, is terse: I. "A fool is born every minute." 11. "A fool and his money are easily parted." Posing as bankers and brokers, the financial parasites scour the country for the fools and then exercise their nimble wits in devising schemes to accom plish the partition. How many mil lions of dollars are parted from the fools every year may be conjectured from the millions of dollars spent by the pseudo financiers in advertising. The bulk of the financial advertising in the leading newspapers of the country is intended for the fools. An other index of the richness of the harvest of parting money from the fools, says Frank Fayant, in Success Magazine, is the occasional exposure of some particularly glaring and bungled imposture, when the calcula ble "swag" runs into the hundreds of thousands, if not into the millions. But these frauds are seldom exposed, for the victims are usually as anxious as the victiipizers to escape the lime light of publicity. Most men prefer to lose their money rather than hear their neighbors quote from the para sites' gospel, "A fool and his money are soon parted." Simple Life Natural in Japan. Many of us dream of the simple life. Some strive for it; few attain it. An eminent author has said only those with great wealth and enormous strength can live it. With the Jap anese this is so. The simplicity of their daily existence has been culti vated until it is an art. Each man's status in society is definitely fixed. It is the grade in which his forefa thers lived and in which his children's children will live. There is no striv ing for a higher place. Me is satis fied with his position, accents it as a matter of course, and makes the most of it. Only by some overt evil act will he drop into a lower grade, and it must be a phenomenal deed or oervice to the state that will raise him even one degree higher in social rank. This stability of position has an im portant influence upon the nation. No one wishes to appear different from what he really is, and as a conse quence there is no greed for wealth. You will say this must kill ambition. If ambition is a struggle solely for money and position, then it does kill ambition, but it does not kill ambi tion to excel in one's own craft or call ing. . . The fact that a Japanese is content in his own sphere, says the Craftsman, is the keynote of the success of their simple life. It is of no value for him to make a false im pression, so the element of show or P".sh is left out. Tho state of Washington has made an advance in the line of social reform by having arrested and indicted for manslaughter a young man who suc ceeded in drowning some of his friends by vigorously rocking the boat in which he and they were taking a short water trip. This is a form of homicide by means of which a great many people have in years past been brought to an untimely end. It is, of course, a case of idiocy on the part of the boat rocker, who always looks upon tiie act as a humorous proceed ing, but, says the Boston Herald, in view of the past experiences the au thorities of the state of Washington are no doubt justified in taking the initiative in declaring that this form of lif" taking lias ceased tea be tol erated as a joke, and that those who willfully indulge in the sport must be held to a criminal accountability if for any reason it results in loss orf life. What does the king of England think of this improved spelling? "The first diplomat of Europe" will hardly commit, himself on anything more fun damental than trousers. And these jcannot be concealed. BRYAN ON ISSUES. TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING SAFER THAN THE TARIFF. Would Be Glad to Use War on Wealth ar>rl Government Ownership of Railroads as Substitutes for the Always Dangerous Ad vocacy of Free Trade. One-twelfth of Mr. Bryan's spocon in Madison Square garden on the night, of August H> was devoted to the tar iff. The other eleven-twelfths were taken up wiiii the effort to frame is sues that may override the tariff issue in the campaign of 11)08. With the tariff as a paramount issue-, the Democrats have not fared well in presidential elections. They would greatly prefer some other issue. Mr. Bryan has been trying to find one. In his search he has uncovered some rather dizzy substitutes for the tar iff as an issue. War on "predatory wealth" and "death to plutocracy" is one of them. Railroad rate regnia tion through United States govern ment ownership of other than trunk lines is another issue which Mr. Bryan hopes may obscure the tariff issii". Doth propositions are suffi ciently radical to divert attention somewhat from the Democratic par ty's hopelessly bad tariff record, pro vided the party can be induced to stand for so radical a departure in the direction of socialism and cen tralization. But there arc unmis takable signs of revolt, especially among the predatory plutocrats and the -outhern Democrats. Already Mr. Bryan perceives hi. -3 blunder, and in hastening to give assurance that these revolutionary ideas are his own mere ly, and not intended for incorporation in the national platform. So, in time, Mr. Bryan will be com pelled to get back to the tariff. There will be little else left to talk about, for the Republican party has shown that railroad rates can be regulated without confiscation or government ownership, and that trust evils can be remedied without disturbing pro tection to American labor and indus try. The Democratic nominee for 1908 promises to consider the tariff ques tion more at length at an early day. Assuredly he will. Being compelled to abandon some of his startling radi calisms lest he frighten away the sup port that was unanimously his prior to his speech of August 30, he will have no choice but to fall back on the tariff. flere he will bo on fa miliar ground. Always a free trader, always an enemy of the policy of pro tection, and always certain of a sym pathetic hearing on the subject, he can safely launch his rhetorical thun derbolts against any tariff designed to foster domestic industrialism and do mestic wage paying. Mr. Bryan's line of procedure on the tariff ques tion was distinctly marked out when in his speech at Madison Square gar den he said: "The tariff question is vory closely allied to the trust question, and the reduction of the tariff furnishes an easy means of -limiting the extortion which the trusts can practice. While absolute free trade would not neces sarily make a trust impossible, still it is probable that very few manufac turing establishments would dare to enter into a trust if the president were empowered to put upon the free list articles competing with those con trolled by a trust. While I shall take occasion at an early day to consider the tariff question more at length, I caimot permit this opportunity to pass without expressing the opinion that the principle embodied in the protec tive tariff has been the fruitful source of a great, deal of political corruption as well as the support of many of our most iniquitous t.'rusts. "it is difficult to condemn the man ufacturers for uniting to take advan tage of a high tariff schedule when the schedule is framed on the theory that the industries need all the pro tection given, and it is not likely that the beneficiaries of these schedules wiil consent to their reduction so long as the public waits for the tariff to be reformed by its friends. "But one of the worst features of a tariff levied not for revenue, but for the avowed purpose of protection, is that it fosters the idea that men should use their votes to advance their own financial interests. "The manufacturer has been as sured that it is legitimate for him to vote for congressmen who, what ever else their opinions on other sub jects may be, will legislate larger div idends into his pockets; sheep grow ers have been encouraged to believe that they should have no higher aim in voting than to raise the price of wool; and laboring men have been urged to make their wages their only concern. For a generation the 'fat* has been fried out of the mani;fac turers by the Republican campaign committee, and then the manufac turers have been reimbursed by leg islation". "With the public conscience edu cated to believe that this open pur chase of legislation was entirely prop er, no wonder that insurance com panies have used the money of their policy holders to carry elections—no wonder that trusts have hastened to purchase immunity from punishment with liberal donations! How can we draw a moral distinction between the man who sells his vote for five dollars 011 election day and the manufacturer who sells his political influence for $50,000 or SIOO,OOO, payable in divi dends? How can we Aaw a moral line between the senator or represent ative elected by the trusts to pre vent hostile legislation and the sen CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1906. ator or representative kept in con gress by the manufacturers to se cure friendly legislation? The party which justifies the one form of brib ery cannot be relied upon to condemn the other. "There never was a time when tar iff reform could . more easily en tered upon, for the manufacturers by selling abroad cheaper than at home, as many of them do, have not ojily shown the ingratitude toward those who built the tariff wall for them, ' lit they have demonstrated their abil ity to soli in competition with the world. The high tariff has long been a burden to the consumers in the United States, and it is growing more and more a menace to our foreign commerce, because it arouses resant ment and provokes retaliation." The leopard has not changed his spots. The Bryan who helped to frame a free trade tariff bill as a member of the house committee on ways and means in 1904 is the same Free Trade Bryan in 1906. The tar ill' will be the paramount issue in 190b. A CONTRIBUTORY CAUSE. Benefits Reaped by Farmer as Result of Protective Tariff. It is well to mention occasionally, as Speaker Cannon did at Danville, that under the Republican protective policy the United States now produce:-, a third of the world's manufactures and agricultural products. Some Democrats declare that the tariff never helps the farmer. They arc r.'K'h in making any such assertion. This gives the Republicans a chance to show that the diversification of in dustries which the tariff has created l as raised up a home market for the farmer which has advanced the va'ue of everything which he has to sell, whfle the competition among the fac tories lias cheapened everything that the farmer has to buy. This is the principal reason why farming is far more profitable now than it was in the Democratic days before the civil war. Farming is far more profitable, like wise, than it was in the Democratic days of 1893-97, when the country had its latest and severest financial panic. In speaking of the country's pros perity from any viewpoint the tariff is sure to present itself as a contribu tory cause of the good times. Under Democratic sway, in Buchanan's days, the aggregate of the country's manu factures was slight. This was an ag ricultural country almost solely at that time. As a consequence the farmer got less for his products than he does now. Our manufactured arti cles in those days were furnished by England chiefly, and the American farmer and the rest of the American consumers paid more for them than they do now for the home product. The tariff has benefited producer and consumers. There are more wage' workers in proportion to the aggre gate population in 1906 than thera were in IS6O, the last year of Demo cratic power prior to the civil war, There are more wage-workers than there were in 1896, the last year of the last term of the last Democratic president. The wages in each case have made great advances. Here are some of the reasons why the Repub licans in the campaigns of 1906 and 1908 will champion the maintenance of a tariff which will give adequate protection to every American product which needs protection. Speaker Can non at Danville gave excellent reasons why the American people will, in 1906, elect a Republican congress to con tinue the magnificent work which is being done by the Republican plifty.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When Stand-Patters Will Be Needed There is meat for than Demo crats in what was said about "stand ing pat" by Cato Sells in his speech as permanent chairman of the lowa Democratic convention: "I am a stand-pat Democrat. If 1 were a Republican, 1 should be a stand-patter. The man who gets away from the doctrinal principles of his party will either have to get into the other party or become a mongrel. The Methodist who talks the Presby terian language won't last over night and the man who out-Herods Ilerod and is a friend of protection and then proceeds to make a free trade speech will not recognize his own party when their convention is held in 1908." It is not a very far cry to 1908, but it is far enough to give time and op portunlly for a very considerable num ber of people to recall the fact that 'bey are after all Republicans and pro tectionists, and thac the proper place for them is back in the ranks with the rest of the protectionists. It is a safe prediction that in the red-hot cam paign against Bryan and Bryanism that will be raging two years hence "stand-patter" will have ceasfcd to be a term of reproach. Stand-patters will then be in great demand. They will be needed. Let It Alone. Possibly some of the schedules of the Dingley tariff carry a higher rate of duty than is needed by the indus tries which they were designed to pro tect. That may to a limited extent be true at the present moment. But it may not be true next year. Indus trial depression throughout Europe would leave a huge surplus to be mar keted abroad at cut prices. In that event the present tariff would not be higher than needed. It might, indeed, prove to be too low. It is at present too low on many articles. But protec tionists do not ask for tariff revision on that account. They realize that tariffs cannot be quickly changed to meet constantly changing conditions. So they say, let the tariff alone. Need lessly high schedules can do no harm, whereas inadequately low schedules would do a world of harm. AN EASY VICTORY. New York Riflemen Defeat Britons in a Contest on the Creedmoor Range. Creedmoor, L. I.—The silver chal lenge shield donated by Col. Sir Howard Vincent, aide-de-camp to King F.ihvrd VII., will remain on this side of Hie Atlantic for two or perhaps three years. The rifle shooting teams of the Seventh regiment, N. G. N. Y., won the trophy in decisive fashion here Wednesday from the Queen's Westminster Volunteers, of London, whom they defeated by a marign of 60 points. The total scores of each team over the ">OO, t>oo, 800 and 1,000-yard ranges were: Seventh regiment 1,648, Queen's Westminster Volunteers 1,588. When the match was inaugurated last year at Bisley, England, the Brit ish team won by a margin of ten points. On the shorter ranges—soo and 600 yards—the American marks men were five points ahead, but the following day the Englishmen forged ahead 011 the two longer ranges and won out. On Tuesday the Seventh regiment team was ?A points ahead of the visit ors on the short ranges. Yesterday at 800 yards both teams tied with totals of 406, but at 1,000 yards the local shooters outclassed their opponents and heat them by 26 points. Corporal A. G. Fulton, of the Volun teers, who is only 19 years old, made the remarkable score of 277 for the four ranges and had he secured a bullseye 011 his final shot, at 1,000 yards he would have won the silver cup presented by Capt. Francis G. Landon for the highest individual score. He only made three 011 his last shot and the special individual prize went to Seregant W. H. Short, o:i the Seventh regiment, who was high man with 278. REBELS ARE DISARMING. Cuban Insurgents Are Not Slow in Surrendering Their Weapons. Havana, Cuba. —The alacrity with which the rebels are laying down their arms to the commission appointed to superintend that important phase of the termination of the revolution is the greatest surprise the provisional government has yet encountered in its program. This operation is now well under way in the vicinity of Havana, 700 of Guerra's men with their horses having already been entrained for Pinar del Rio, while one brigade marched to Guanajay Wednesday without a sign of disorder. Hundreds of persons from Havana went out to Santiago de las Vegas and Rincon to view the disarmament. They were disappointed at not seeing the rebels actually surrender their guns, but nevertheless they witnessed an interesting sight. As a concession to the men Gen. Funston and Maj. Ladd permitted them to take their arms to Pinar del Rio, where, most of the men joined the insurgent army. The rifles, however, were first counted by officers of marines and the men will be required to surrender them be fore leaving the train at Pinar del Rio. Recording to the testimony of an American named Harvey, formerly a Roosevelt Rough Rider, who has been with the insurgents, the amount of actual fighting during the revolution was really very small. Harvey says that most of the fighting he had seen was between game cocks. About 10 per cent, of Guerra's men carry fight ing cocks tied to their saddles. Gov. Taft now occupies the office in which the affairs of Cuba have been administered successively by the Spanish governors of the island. Gen. Leonard Wood and President Palma. He established himself in these quar ters yesterday. He will take up his residence in the palace in a few days. MURDEROUS THIEVES. They Killed a Banker and Stole $5,000 in Gold. San Francisco, Cal.—Two robbers entered the Kimmon Ginko. a Jap anese bank also known as the Golden Gate bank, at 1588 O'Farrell street Wednesday and after fatally beating S. Urakata, the manager of the bank, and seriously injuring A. Sasseki, a clerk, with a piece of gas pipe, escap ed with $5,000 in gold. Manager Ura kata died two hours later. Urakata was acting as teller of the bank. After striking down their victii 13, the robbers dragged them to a pooily lighted room in the rear of '.he bank. There the prostrate forms of the men were found later. The unconscious men were lying in a pool of blood that streamed from their wounds and near by was a piece of gas pipe, a foot in length. The robbers chose a time when there were but few persons transact ing business in the bank and the sen sational and bold deed was 30 quickly effected that it was all over before the crowd of people passing the doors of the institution were aware of what had taken place. While one of the holdup men engaged the paying teller of the bank, the other walked to the rear of the bank and going behind the counter, picked up a sack containing $5,000. The action of the robber who went to the rear of the bank was wit nessed by Sasseki, the clerk, who im mediately raised a cry of alarm. The cry had scarcely left his lips before he was struck down by the man who was carrying out the gold. Seventy-five Miners are Entombed. Bluefield, W. Va. —As the result of an explosion Wednesday at the West Fork mines of the Pocahontas Collieries Co., where the explosion of 1902 occurred, in which Superintend ent O'Malley and 16 others lost their lives, 75 men are supposed to be en tombed. Georgia's Election. Atlanta, Ga. —The state election held in Georgia on Wednesday resulted in the practical unanimous election of the democratic nominees, headed by Hoke Smith for governor. Breaking the Compact. Miffkins (to employer)--No, sir, i don't tliink there's anything unreaso*- able in my asking'for an increase of my salary. You may remember you promised me a rise when I had been with you a year. Employer—l know I did, but, hang it all, didn't I make it conditional upon your giving me every satisfaction? Miffkins —And in what way, sir, aaven't 1 given you satisfaction? Employer (furiously)— Satisfaction, indeed! D'you call bothering me for more wages giving me every satisfac tion, eh? Brilliant Idea. Hyker—Tapeleigh, the dry goods man, has a scheme that keeps his store filled with customers. l'yker—Advertising scheme, eh? Hyker—No, not exactly, ile keeps a parrot just inside the door that ex claims, "Oh, .what a pretty young lady!" every time a woman comes along—find, of course, the woman can't resist the temptation togo in and buv something.—Chicago Daily News. Looking Forward. The young man had just screwed up his courage to the point of asking the old rnan for the hand of his daugh ter in marriage. "Have you given any thought to the future?" asked the old man. "Oh, yes," answered the young man, "I joined the church last winter.' Chicago Daily News. •Statecraft. "Tell the press censor to exercise more than ordinary vigilance over all the publications that come into the palace," said the czar. "For any npccial reaoon, your maj esty ?" "Yea. Th® fortune teller has warned me that 1 am liable to hear some bad news.—Washington Star. Expecting a Call. "Dear," said the physician's wife, "when can you let me have ten dol lars?" "Well," replied the medical man, "I h-ope to cash a draft shortly." "Cash a draft? What draft?" 'The one 1 saw old Mr. Jenkins sit ting in this morning."—Philadelphia Pregs. Not Encouraging. "I have called," said the party with the unbarbered hair, "to see if there Is a vacancy in your joke depart ment." "There will be," replied the busy editor, "as soon as the office boy gets time to empty the waste basket."— Chicago Daily News. 6KIDOO. He—l asked her to tell me her age, and she said "twenty-three." She —Well —did you? Brooklyn Life. What? The summer girl who wears her heart Upon her sleeve in pleasure mute, \Vhat t does she with it when she bathes In her scant, sleeveless bathing suit? Explained. "Your summer vacation must have agreed with you." "What makes you think so?" "You're so much fatter." "No, I'm not. I probably look fat ter because I'm so much shorter."— Cleveland Leader. 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