2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er year MOT 112 paid in advance 1 M 3 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ol #-ie duliar per square for one insertion and tlftj i er square for each subsequent Insertion Rates tiy the year, or for six or three month*, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished <M •pplicatio.i. Legal and Official Advertising per square (Bree times or less, *2: each subsequent Insei • no i • U cents per square. J.ocal lioliees pi cents per line for one Inser irrtlon. 5 cents per line for each subsequent eon-eeutivo insertion. Obituary notices over Ave llnea. 10 cent* p«f line. Simple announcements of births, mat' riace-- : ill dentils will be inserted free. !S i iness curds, five lines or less. <5 per year, ever live lints, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents pet issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job <lep:i rtinent of the PRESS is complete and tC'r.l- fiu-ilitios for doing the best class of W rfe I' Al:'l H't'LAH ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No p-ip 'r will be discontinued until arrear f,jcs are paid, except at the option of the pub is her. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor i u aavance. Journalism of To-Day. The versatile Emperor of Germany Is the latest critic of modern journal ism. He deplores especially the lack of preparation on the part of those who engage in the business of molding public opinion. To obtain recognition in the ministry, the law, medicine, or even dentistry, years of application re sulting in tangible evidence of pro ficiency are required. This, he thinks, is as it should be, but in journalism, he assertn, a 111 of 20 nay fially forth, notebook iu htrad, make a collection of baseless rumors, and forthwith pio dtiee and publish articles which may set the world on fire. The Emperor is not the only one who cherishes this delusion respecting the method of making newspapers. Even in this en lightened country, many otherwise well-informed persons regard with a species of awe the smart young man seeking an interview. They behold in him one who possesses mysterious power and authority. As a matter of fact, remarks the North American Re view, he is only a gleaner of wisps of information, which in common with thousands of others find their way into the winnowing machine. The man behind, unseen by his majesty and fel low-critics is the editor. It is his intel ligence and judgment, hardened in the most severe school of mental develop ment known to civilization, that deter mine what shall or shall not. be given to the public. No other profession re quires so perfect a combination of un doubted integrity, alert intellectuality and dispassionate mental balance; nor, in this country at any rate, does any other calling possess these qualities ip so high a degree. Practical educators have been busy of late at teachers' institutes and oth er gatherings, and many topics of live interest have been discussed. Among other things athletics and secret so cieties have been considered. It is noteworthy, says the Troy Times, thai much opposition was shown on the part of professors and other instruc tors to secret societies, those in high schools and academies. As regards athletics, however, there was a surprising unanimity of opinion that proper indulgence was an excel lent thing ar.i tended to promote good scholarship. Even delegates to relig lous assemblages join in this senti< ment. At the Baptist state convention of Minnesota there was severe denun< ciation of secret societies of the class mentioned, but Prof. Nathaniel Butlei of the University of Chicago vigorous ly defended athletics, including foot ball, saying: "Athletics are conducive to high morals and a high degree of scholarship." Which is merely another way of saying that the world is made better by an increase in the number ol muscular, healthy and scholarly Chris tians. A London dispatch announces thai the famous ruins of the Abbey at Glas tonbury, founded In the sixth century, are offered for sale and that a bid has been received from the United States. A great deal of American money has been invested in foreign titles, bul should the sale he marie it is believed it will be the first instance of old world ruins being bought simply be cause they are ruins. Somehow it looks like buying ancestors. Queen Ena of Spain protests againsl the formalities that hedge the royal dignity. She is cut off from friends who do not measure up to the neces sary standard in titles and always has to wear court regalia at dinner. It ap pears that the powers of a Spanish monarch are somewhat limited. A girl in Massachusetts was re fused admission to an educational establishment of high standing in the state on account, of her great wealth. IHowever, there are other colleges in the country where great wealth is re igarded as something of a merit on the jpart of its possessor. China seems trying very hard tc .make some modern progress. Thougl very much behindhand, it has noticec what civilization has done for Japar and China is nothing if not imitativ Hence, its sudden desire for modei Reforms. WHY DUAL TARIFFS. IMPORTANCE OF STARTING RIGHT ON THAT QUESTION. Whenever Foreign Discrimination Compels Us to Adopt Two Differ ent Sets of Schedules a Mini mum Tariff Should First Be Established as a Basis. Efforts have been made from time to time in these columns to point out the radical difference between a minimum and maximum tariff system and a max imum and minimum system. The neces sity for emphasizing this distinction becomes apparent in view of the fact that substantially all the plans and schemes formulated for so-called "reci procity" arrangements are based upon a maximum tariff from which a min imum tariff is to be created by means of reduced rates of duty. Almost without exception the advocates of a dual tariff for the United States start out with the maximum. Complete ig norance seems to prevail on this ques tion. The United States has no maximum tariff. The only tariff it has is the minimum—that is to say, the single set of duties adopted in 1897, as ade quate for the protection of American labor and industry. All the countries which have adopt ed a dual tariff have created maxi mum rates for trading purposes. They make their tariff duties higher than normal by from 25 to 100 per cent., in order that they have something to dicker v. ith. After they have made concessions for the sake of advantages to be gained in export markets their tariff rates are only brought back to the normal. There has been no real reduction. The United States cannot play this game of marking up and marking down tariffs under our existing tariff sys tem. It has nothing but minimum tar iff to operate with; it has nothing to swap. Therefore, say the "reci procity" people, let us install a dual tariff system, a maximum and a min imum. Right here would come in the ques tion of the vital distinction between a maximum and minimum tariff and a minimum and maximum tariff. If the existing schedules are to be the maximum from which reductions may be made in favor of imports from countries which grant to our exports their lowest tariff rates, that is one thing. If, however, the existing sched ules are to be held as the minimum, to be increased as against imports from countries refusing to grant to our exports their lowest rates, that Is another and a very different thing. In the first, case supposed—maxi mum and minimum—we should have a continually changing and unstable system of tariff duties. The producer who to-day operates under a 50 per cent, ad valorem duty, which insures his market, and under that duty rate contracts a year ahead for his labor and raw materials, may to-morrow, or next week, or next month, find that "by executive authority," conferred by act of congress, the duty rate has been reduced 20 per cent., and is now 40 per cent, ad valorem instead of 50 per cent. That would amount to a net reduction of ten per cent, in the selling price of his product. Of course he could not continue to pay the same rate of wages and the same prices for raw materials. He must shut down his works, lay off his work people, and stop buying raw materials, or else reduce wages. We are not now arguing for the reten tion of the existing tariff schedules. That is not the question. What we are endeavoring to make clear is the fact that under a maximum and minimum tariff system a stable condition of rates of duty would become impos sible. Therefore, we say, if we are to have a dual tariff ataaland! —and very probably we must have two sets of schedules if we are to be prepared to punish countries discriminating unfair ly against our exports—we should have a minimum and maximum, and not a maximum and minimum tariff. Whatever may be our schedule of duty rates —whether the present Ding ley rates or lower rates or higher rates —that schedule of rates should be the minimum, the irreducible minimum. The interests alike of production and employment; of employer and em ployed; of wage payei and wage earn er: of capital and labor; of the farmer r : t!;e miner who markets raw ma t'rals. the manufacturer who buys 1 'se raw materials, and the artisan who works them up into finished prod ucts ready for consumption—all these interests absolutely require a stable tariff, and irreducible minimum of duty rates. As a rule, the advocates of a maxi mum tariff system intend through that system to bring about a material re duction of the existing tariff rates. The American Reciprocal Tariff league, for example, maKea no secret of that intention. Pretty much all the reciprocity shouters are aiming a: the same mark—all-around tariff re duction. Some protectionists are lend ing their sanction to dual tariff schemes and so-called reciprocity schemes, without comprehending that, each and every one of these schemes has been devised as an indirect, meth od of securing a general reduction of tariff rates and a larger competition of foreign products in the American market. To these protectionists we hope to make clear that there is a vital distinction between a maximum and minimum tariff and a minimum and maximum tariff. In minimum and maximum only is safety. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1906. EXPORTED MANUFACTURES. Why Wage Earners Will Vote for Pro tection. It is curious to note the pathetic persistence of the New England tariff reform organs, of which the Boston Herald is chief. It admits that the tariff reform issue is nowhere to be made a state issue this year in clean cut fashion—not even in Massachu setts. This evident popular disin clination to hear more of the subject does not deter the esteemed Herald, however. It goes onto present the staple argument of the revisionists, which is that we no longer need a tar iff because we are exporting manu factures. It cites the export figures —5161,000,000 worth of iron and steel, $09,000,000 worth of wood and manu factures therefrom, $53,000,000 worth of cotton goods, $41,000,000 of leather and goods made therefrom, $25,000,- 000 worth of agricultural implements (at "export prices"), $18,000,000 worth of cars and carriages and $16,000,000 of scientific instruments, and so on. The Herald does not believe the protectionist assertion that these ex ports represent almost entirely the surplus product of our mills, and that it is sold al 1 at the prices pre vailing abroau merely because it swells the output and not only assists to reduce the cost but enables the manufacturer to keep his mill in steady operation, which the home market sometimes is not broad enough unaided to accomplish. Not only the manufacturer, but the work er, is the gainer. If the Herald does not believe the manufacturers' rep resentations on this subject, let it interview tho workers, —jay, for ex arapl >, 5n the tin zmlla. And what would the reduction or nbolition of tho tariff do? The export trade would go the other way then. Instead of holding all our own market and selling Europe our surplus, we should then see Europe holding its own market and selling us its sur plus. Wouldn't the American wage earner rather see liis own products going out than European products coming in? We think he would. And that's why he votes the Republican congressional ticket. —Pittsburg Press. TRYING TO BREAK IN. It Does Make Votes. "If the inspired campaign book would explain how a carpenter, a far rier, a house painter, a plumber, a stone mason, a bootblack, a team ster, a ditch digger, a hotel employe, a domestic servant, a railroad opera tive, a retail grocer, a clerk, a lawyer, a newspaper man, a clergyman, a physician, or others that might be mentioned, benefit by the tariff, it might make votes." Springfield News. There is not one among the avoca tions named which is not benefited by a protective tariff, not one among the millions who pursue those avocations that is not better paid, better em ployed, better fed, better clothed, and better housed than he could possibly bf if we had no protective tariff. This is true of the mechanical trades, of the common laborers, of the profes sional men, of the bootblack, the newspaper man, the railroad opera tive, the domestic servant, the grocer, the clerk, the teamster —true of each and all of them. It is true of the Springfield News itself. We don't know whether that tariff-hating sheet was on earth in 1893-'97, but if it was it has only to compare its receipts and profits to-day with the receipts and profits of that dismal free-trade period in order to determine as to the in direct benefits of protection. As a matter of fact every man engaged in business and every man engaged in gainful occupation is benefited. For First Voters to Consider. A protective tariff is a sharply de fined question in the campaign of 190tf. First voters must necessarily divide upon it. Do they wish to protect American wages and industries from foreign competition, or open wide the ports to the products of cheap foreign labor, admitting it free from any duty of a home protective nature? Do first voters prefer'to make the next house Democratic and so cut off the present administration from legislative sup port during its last two years? These are practical business questions for 1,500,000 first voters who are them selves, for the most part, just engag ing in business. This year over 60,- 000 voters in Missouri are entitled to take part in their first state and con gressional election. Yet there are Bourbons who insist that this state is necessarily Democratic and that an old party label is of more consequence poven to its young men than a living issue. It is a false view, and fresh surprises are in store for such hide bound belittlement of political duty and opportunity.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. - .. I INJUNCTION Against the Standard Oil Co. Is Sought. FIRST SHOT FIRED In the War to be Waged by the Fed eral Government Against the Oil Trust and Its Officers. St. Louis. The United States ; government on Thursday made the initial move to dissolve the Stand ard Oil Co.'s alleged monopoly by fil ing in the United States circuit court a petition in equity against the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey and its 70 constituent corporations and partnerships and seven defendants, in cluding John D. Rockefeller and Will iam Rockefeller, asking that the com bination be declared unlawful and in the future enjoined from entering into any contract or combination in re straint of trade. The suit is brought under the Sher man anti-trust act, which the Standard Oil Co. and its constituent companies and the seven individual defendants are charged with violating. In a formal statement Attorney General Moody states that criminr. prosecution is re ei rved for further consideration. The government'*! petition in the suit is signed by William H. Moody, United States attorney general; Mil ton B. Purdy, assistant to the attorney general; Frank B. Kellogg, Charles B. Morrison and C. A. Severance, special assistants to the attorney general. The petition contains 194 printed pages, or about 100,000 words, and an additional 84 pages of exhibits, consisting of by laws and minutes of Standard Oil meetings and organizations and a map showing the retail prices of oil in every state and territory of the Union. The defendants are entitled to one month in which to enter their appear ance, and 60 days in which to file an swer to the allegations in the petition. INDICTMENTS FOR EXTORTION. They are Returned Against the Mayor of San Francisco and "Boss" Ruef. San Francisco, Cal.—The grand jury on Thursday returned five indict ments against Mayor Eugene Schmitz and Abraham Reuf on charges of ex tortion. On each charge the bail was fixed at SIO,OOO. The first alleged crime was in con nection with the Poodle Dog restaur ant and the indictment recites that Ruef and Schmitz demanded money from the proprietor, Tony Blanco. As this demand was made, it is said, on two occasions, two indictments were returned. Extortion said to have been practiced on Edouard Marchand, pro prietor of Marchand's restaurant, is the basis of two more indictments. A demand made upon Joseph Mal fanti, another restaurant man, is the alleged offense on which the fifth in dictment was found. The indictment of Ruef was expect ed by the public, but they were not prepared for immediate action against the mayor, who is now on the Atlantic ocean, returning from a visit to Eu rope. CONVICTED OF GIVING REBATES. Jury in a Federal Court Returns a Verdict Against the New York Central Railroad Co. New York. —The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. was convicted in the United States circuit court Thursday ftf granting a rebate of $26,000 to the American Sugar Refining Co., and the trial of the latter company for having accepted that sum as rebates will begin today in the same court. The jury was out about two hours and immediately up on the announcement of Its verdict of "guilty" counsel for the defendant company moved to set aside the ver dict, which Judge Holt promptly de nied. When court met Joseph H. Choato, counsel for the defendant company, moved to dismiss the indictment and upon its denial by Judge Holt, entered upon a long argument for the defense. Judge Holt fixed November 20 as the date for argument on a motion to arrest judgment. CROSSED THE ISTHMUS. President Roosevelt Inspects the Work Being Dojie on the Panama Canal. Colon. —President Roosevelt spent a busy day Thursday on the Isthmus of Panama and settled for the night at the Tivoli hotel, on the line of the canal. He crossed from Colon to Panama, seeing much of the canal and the famous Culebra cut on the ■way. He took a trip around Panama Bay and was welcomed in Panama City, which lies outside of the canal zone, by President Amador and other officials of the Panama republic. Negro Baptists Denounce Roosevelt. Salisbury, N. C.—At a meeting Thursday of the negro Bap tists' Association of North Carolina resolutions denouncing President Roosevelt for discharging three com panies of the Twenty-fifth infantry were adopted. The body represents 160,000 persons. Schooner Ashore—Three Men-Drowned Narragansett Pier, R. I. The Portland, Me., schooner Lugano, lumber laden, went, ashore Thursday on Point Judith and three of her creif were drowned. Vindicated. The trapeze performer bad refused to give up the leap for life, though he had been warned again and again that he would some day fall to catch the swinging bar. At last It happened as they had predicted, and he plunged downward hcad-firat before the panic-stricken crowd. After it had been found that he had suffered nothing more serious than a scalp wound, his wife angrily ex claimed: "I've always said you were tha most headstrong pers<fh I ever saw." --Chicago Record-Herald. A Love Scene. They were out in his 40-horse power red touring car. Suddenly he tusned toward the girl and said: "Alice, do you love me?" "Why, Mr. Greene! I'm surprised!" exclaimed the maid. "I know it's sudden, but I must know to-night; right away." "Why so much haste?" "Because my gasoline is getting very low and I'm dead broke, and if you love me lend me enough to get some gasoline."—Yonkers Statesman. Power Reduced. "He started away with 60 horse power," related the new member of the automobile club. "And what power did he return with?" asked the other member. "One horsepower." "What? Do you mean to say one horsepower would move that big ma chine?" "It had to. The farmer only had one old plug he could spare when tho machine broke dov.n 20 miles from the nearest repair «jhc p."—Chi cago Daily Newa. His Point of View. "This precipice," explained the guide who was conducting a party of tourists through Yellowstone park, "is known as 'Lover's Leap.' " "Yes, I guess that's right," rejoined the one scanty-haired bachelor in the party. "It looks like the same old bluff.—Chicago News. AT THE HORSE SHOW. "Was Mr. Jones an exhibitor at tho Horse Show?" "Yes, he made an ass of himself." Lovely Weather. It rained, and ruined, and rained, and rained, Till mud was everywhere; But the girl who had a pretty foot And ankle didn't care. —Houston Post. Can and Can't. Talke —But, sir, a genius is a geni us, whether he's rich or poor. 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