2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday* TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. f'»r ?! no 112 paid in biivunce 1 Ml ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements arc published at the rst« ol dul.ar per square foroiie Insertion and tlft>, e<.nts ier square f>r each subsequent insertion Rates by iii<; vear, or ;or six or three month*, •re low ui.d uniform, and will be furnished o.'i •ppMcat.cm. Le«:.l and Official Advertising per sqiiars Ibreo times or less. each subsequent inset do i: 0 i ei.tr, pcr square. Local notices In eentß per 11b« for one Insei terilon: 5 cents per line for subsequent «on-ecutlve Insertion. Obituary notices over fire lines in cents po« line. Simple announcements of births, mat • riHces nnd deaths will be Inserted free. Business curds, live lines or less. 15 per ye»! - , ever live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 73 cents pei IMUS JOB PRINTING. The .Tob department of the Pkrss Incomplete •nd afl Td- facilities for doing the best class of Work. P»li'llCl'Ull ATTENTION PAtDTU U\» pKINTI.V,. No pja r will bs discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except at the option of the pub* untie r. Papers sent out of the county must bo oald lor in advance. The English can't be accused of dumping when they can sell us one of the only two copies of the 62-leaved IG3I "edition of"The Passionate Pil grim" for SIO,OOO. Eighty dollars a page is more than this trifle would probably have brought in a home mar ket. Japan is accused of cultivating a jingo spirit. When the Japs calmly examine the huge national debt they have contracted during th 6 last three years, they v,tH feel inclined to talk over in h friendly spirit any differ «lc«h ilu.t may ariae with a, stonier power than Russia. Every day or so the "largest ship in the world" is launched. The latest monster to be heralded as the largest is the Cunard liner Mauretania, which is larger by a thousand tons than its sister ship Lusitania, which was launched in June. But the dimensions of these ships are the same; 790 feet long and 88 feet beam. The story of a Japanese spy sketch ing fortifications at* Manila has a sen sational sound, but its authenticity may be doubted. It is pretty evident that influences are at work trying to create distrust between Americans and Japanese. Both these peoples are too sensible and too confident in each other's good will to be easily misled. Doctor Forbes Winslow, an alienist, has been quoted as saying that before long there will be more lunatics in the world than sane people. He has been misquoted, of course. What he said was that if insanity continues to in crease at the rate shown by statistics the insane will some time outnumber the sane. It all depends on the "if." We need not despair. The girls employed in a porcelain factory in New Jersey went out on strike the other day because the man ager ordered that they must no longer sing at their work. They had been in the habit of amusing themselves by singing popular songs, hymns and Sunday school music, but they may do that no more. Rather than keep silent they stopped work. It cannot be that the manager was married, else he would have known what result to expect from such an order. Japanese scholars are urging upon the people the importance of aban doning the old Chinese system of sign ■writing, or ideogpraphs, and the adop tion of the Roman alphabet for spell ing Japanese words, says the Youth's Companion. They support a paper devoted to the propaganda, and re port that the people are beginning to approve it. Inasmuch as English is taught in the primary schools in Japan, the coming generation will know the alphabet anyway, whether they use it in their own language or not. The British women suffragists who created a riot in the lobby of the British house of commons set a bad example to the world. It is the be lief of many that the influence of women on public life would be puri fying and uplifting, but when a body of petitioners becomes so turbulent as to call for the interference of the police and the imposition of fines for disorderly conduct, then lovely woman gets down to the level of the tyrant man, and, being on the level with him, cannot be his uplifter.—Linn County Budget. In San Domingo there is a remark able salt mountain, a mass of crystal line salt almost four miles long, said to contain nearly 90,000,000 tons, and to be so clear that medium-sized print can bo read with ease through a block a foot thick. Elmer E. Steiner, a rural route car rier of Indiana, has perfected an in vention which lie believes will in fu ture preclude wrecks brought about by the present system of dispatching trains. Holding a gun for a hunter is not hunting, decides a St. Louis county justice. Moral: Always be sure to hold the gun and not the bag. There is a great difference between a wish and a resolution, be tween desiring to do a thing and de termining to do it. Statistics show that great mental workers are, HT. a rule, long-lived. Ac tivity is conducive to longevity. Our borrowed trappings account for half of our trippings. RAILS FOR PANAMA WILL BE SUPPLIED BY AMERICAN LABOR AND INDUSTRY. No Extortion Was Attempted by the Domestic Bidders, Their Prices Be ing Materially Lower Than Those Named by European Competitors. If certain supposedly protection newspapers would pay more attention to facts of trade and business that are right under their noses and attach less imi>ortance to the reckless assertions of Democratic free trade speech mak ers their zeal for trust busting and tariff revision would be modified. Pretty much all the Republican news paper rage for tariff disturbance springs from ignorance of facts and conditions. A notable proof of this is found in two Philadelphia journals of recent date. The Press broke out in indignation on the bids for supply ing steel rails for Panama canal con struction. asserting that the steel trust had undertaken to rob the gov ernment by exacting $29.15 per ton at tidewater, while exporting rails to other countries at $22 per ton. Here was a case, said the Press, for Presi dent Roosevelt's action; here a chance to strike a blow at the trusts by pur chasing the steel rails in Europe. The Telegraph echoed the proposition. Now comes the "Bulletin of the Am erican Iron and Steel Association" with some facts which make the edi tors of the Press and Telegraph look very foolish. The simple truth of the matter is that for several years the American price of steel rails has been ?.,3 per ton it the mill, leaving $1.(5 per ton as the additional clrirge for delivery at tide.'.aur. Not a ve:y ex tortionate charge, one would think. Furthermore, as appeared in an an nouncement. from Washington on the 25th of September, the contract was awarded to the American bidder at $29 per ton, and all the bids of for eign rail makers were in excess of the accepted American bid. This dis crepancy between the domestic and foreign bids is easily accounted for by the fact that the present price of steel rails at the works in England is $31.02 per ton, or $3.02 in excess of the "trust extortion" price in the United States. Allowing also for the longer haul and greater cost of trans portation from Europe to Panama, it appears that the government saved a considerable sum of money in buying the 5,000 tons of Panama rails from American mills at $29 per ton. Much is being said from day today by free trade campaigners regarding trust extortion. Some Republican campaigners, like Congressman Bur ton, of Ohio, and notably the newspa per writers, fell into the same vein. Gov. Cummins, of lowa, is absolutely certain that the duties'-on iron and steel ought to be reduced or alto gether removed. These devoted "re formers" make many reckless asser tions regarding the export of steel products at cut prices. They ailege that American steel rails can be pro duced at a profit for sl2 a ton and cite an alleged statement of Charles W. Schwab some years ago in proof, although at that time the price of Bessemer pig iron was sl9 per ton. and it takes more than a ton of pig to make a ton of rails. They accuse the steel trust of selling rails to for eigners at $22 a ton, while charging S2S at home. Something of the kind may have been done in years past when temporary over-production ne cessitated such a recourse. But that time has passed. To-day the steel making concerns, trust and non-trust alike, are behind in their orders for domestic consumption, and, as we learn from the New York Times of October 17, "premiums of two and three dollars are asked for deliveries this year, and some premiums have been obtained for 1907 deliveries." We hold no brief for the United States Steel Corporation; far from it. What we would like to make plain is the fact that rampant tariff revision talkers and writers are making inac curate statements both as to the con spiracy to extort by prices for steel rails for the Panama canal and as to the systematic sale of steel products at lower prices than those which American consumers are required to pay. Much of the furore for tariff disturbance originates in either mis conception or misstatement of actual facts and conditions. Helpful Trade Balances. The slump in foreign trade, which has been predicted and hoped for by free trade writers and speakers as a means of discrediting protection, and by some of the "progressives" as an argument for immediate tariff re vision, fails to arrive. Tile returns »for September show an increase b.'tb in imports and exports for the nino months of the fiscal year and the cal endar year of twelve months. Septem ber imports were $102,286,393, against $101,987,330 for September, 1905; Sep tember exports, $138,950,930, against $135,983,816 a year ago. For the nine months the total imports were $917,- 935,787, an increase of $75,C02,GD9; ex ports, $1,238,277,400, an increase of $135,720,025. For the twelve months ending Willi September the imports $1,254,507,209, a gain of nearly SIOO, 000,000; exports, 51,762,716,820, being a gain of nearly $200,000,000 over the preceding twelve months. For nine months the excess of exports has been $290,342,213, or $60,000,000 more than last year, while for twelve months the excess of exports is $507,909,011, as against $411,613,855 for the year end ing with September, 1905. So Wall street may feel reassured as to the $100,000,000 or $500,000,000 of bor rowed gold. The protection trade bal ance will continue its helupful work. CAMERON COUNT Y PRESS. THURSDAY DECEMBER 6, 1906. COST OF REVISING TARIFF. Means That Country's Business Would Suffer Materially. The tariff revision question is large ly academic. The ta.lff burdens so eloquently declaimed snout are noth ing in comparison to those which every revision imposes on the busi ness of the country, when it comes. The demand for immediate revision is largely factitious, and the broad fact that when the matter is tackled by Congress in earnest its difficulties will become apparent to everybody, ren ders the great body of business men conservative. Nearly every manufac turer would like to make over the tariff from his point of view. But when he recognizes that there are thousands of points of view which clash with his, and all of which must be 'considered in making new tariff schedules, he generally prefers to bear the ills he has rather than to fly to others he knows not of. Meantime the men who are howling for tariff reform and immediate revision are doing so, not because the tariff, as it is, is a burden to them, nor because the country is suffering from any gen eral tariff injustice, but because they are ever ready to shout for any thing which promises a step toward free trade. These howls the people have listened to, and twice in recent years have suffered themselves to be mis led by them. They may be fooled again; but if they are. they will de serve all the calamity which will sure ly come to them. In those days there will be more workmen than work and a strike will be hopeless to furnish either work or wages. It is this that makes it a solemn question whether the tin.a Is yet ripo for a revision, oven if ono admita that revision un3or certain circumstances would be a ben efit. —Lowell Citizen. Thanksgiving Day, November 29. November 29 was named as nation, al Thanksgiving day by presidential proclamation, in which ample cause for giving thanks was stated: "Yet another year of widespread well-being has passed. Never beforo in our history, or in the history of any other nation, has a people enjoyed more abounding material prosperity than is ours; a prosperity so general that it should arouse in us no spirit of reckless pride, and, least of all, a spirit of heedless disregard of our re sponsibilties; but rather a sober senso of our many blessings, and a resolute purpose, under Providence, not to for feit them by any action of our own." Patriotic words wisely and well spoken. Pride is not reckless that glories in splendid achievement. All may be properly proud of what has been accomplished in the past nino years of protection prosperity. Heed less disregard of responsibilities it would be if we were to forget the chief cause of that prosperity. To forfeit our many blessings by destroy ing their source would be an act of supreme folly. WHY HE STANDS PAT. \ V ML, iW W 7 - 1 [ r>3'os fr 14,802.147^0871 Tariff and the Farmer. Nearly all of the attacks upon the tariff are actuated by personal or sec tional motives. For instance, some man in an agricultural district cannot see how the tariff benefits the farmer. He might see it directly, if, as the Kansas City Journal points out, the tariff were removed from Mexican cattle and Canadian wheat. But whether the products of the farmer are protected or not, he must have a market for his products, and this he cannot have if business condi tions throughout the country are up set. One interest of the country can not shut itself up ant! enjoy prosperity while other interests are suffering. If the workingmen have no wages what matters it how attractive prices may be? With markets cut off it would make little difference how large the crops of the west were. People must be in a position to buy or there is lit tle need of production. The Journal is right In saying tha* as a producer of hard times nothing has ever been so successfully tried in this country as a substantial reduc tion in the tariff.—Albany Evening Journal. Former Gov. Douglas is going to Alaska to put his regrets Into cold storage. His hopes of a chance to push Massachusetts into the tariff re vision list again have been spoiled. The Douglas profits on the shoe busi ness will continue to expand under the protective tariff. —Worcester Tele gram. It. would not be necessary for Con gress to take action on the revision o 1 the tariff to close every silk mill in Paterson, but the very agitation of the subject would bring on a panic and stop the smoke issuing from the factory chimneys.—Paterson Call SHEA'S TRIAL For Conspiracy furnishes Some Surprises. PLEAS Of GUILTY | Are Entered by Leading Members of the Teamsters' Union, Who Wil! Turn State's Evidence. i Chicago, 111. —Secrets of the In ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters are to lie given to the public in a Chi i cago court as a result, of confessions of guilt made Friday by four co defendants of Cornelius P. Shea, pres ident of the organization, who to gether with 16 other members of the j union were placed on trial for con spiracy to perpetrate riotous acts during the teamsters' strike in Chi ' cago a year ago. Albert Young, ex-president of the Teamsters' union; William Kelly, ! business agent of the Coal Teamsters' | union, and William Murphy, said to have been a member of the "wrecking : crew" during the strike, withdrew their pleas of not guilty and entered pleas of guilty. All of the men de clared their intention of turning ■ state's evidence. | The incident ca.ised intense excite -1 r.n.iit In iho ecri't rooi i ami took the other defendants completely by sur : prise. Shea and Young had for years j been" close friends and had worked | through a number of strikes side by ! side. Since the last convention of the Teamsters' union, however, they | have been opposed to each other and have led factions which have fought j each other bitterly, both in the meet ! ings of the unions and in the city I streets. ; After Young, Kelly and Murphy had entered pleas of guilty it was an nounced that Joseph Schultz, who is | said to have been one of the "body guard" of President Shea during the | strike, will also turn state's evidence. A PUPE DREAM. Senator Warren Thus Describes Myen dorff's Story in Regard to War ren's Alleged Connection with Land Frauds. Washington, D. C.—Senator War ren, who arrived here Friday, made the following statement in contradic | tion of the affidavit of Special Agent Myendorff, of the general land office, made at Salt Lake City, in which Mr. | Warren and his colleague, Senator j Clark, were charged with conspiring with others to put a stop to investiga ; (ions into charges made in connection i with the entry of coal lands owned by I the Union Pacific Railroad Co.: "If Myendorff made such an affi | davit he must have been indulging in , pipe dreams. I am informed that | Senator Clark never saw the man and j never had any communication with j him. oral or written. "The idea of Senator Clark need j ing Myendorff's assistance in his re | election is absurd. "As for myself, I never knew that such a man as Special Agent Myen dorff existed until some time late in 1903,0r 1904, when I received a letter from him saying that he wished to see me. "In accordance with the request, I some months afterward informed him i that I expected to be in Denver a few j days later, sending him the date. He j called at my hotel, asked that I help j to get him promotion to the position j of special agent in charge, or a place j in the consular service. I "As to the subject matter of the tes i timony referred to, I have had no con | nection with coal or other land entries i of the Union Pacific or any other rail | road or company, and no interest ; whatever in coal further than an am- I bition to have the people of my coun | try get plenty of coal at reasonable i prices, and that the world might know of the vast dejiosits of coal." FINANCE AND TRADE. Volums of Transactions This Year Is the Largest Ever Known. New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s i Weekly Review of Trade says: Business was interrupted by the i Thanksgiving holiday, but conditions I warranted more than ever before a day devoted to grateful recognition, in all departments of agricultural, in dustrial and mercantile activity the current year is surpassing even the phenomenal record of 1905. Reports from leading cities indicate that trade was well maintained dur ing the past week, and further im provement is noted in mercantile con ditions. Holiday goods continue to occupy a position of prominence, but distribution of staples is on large scale. Leading manufacturing Indus-, tries are receiving orders for delivery far into next year, the volume of for ward business being exceptional for iron and steel products. Made a New Record. Peoria, 111. —The Fifth internal revenife district, with head quarters in Peoria, Friday set a new record for the nation in the amount of collections for a single day. The receipts were $250,367.86. The previous high record was $231,858. Lamp Exploded; Three Lives Lost. Hagerstown, Md. Mrs. Emma Ernde and her two daughters, Grace, aged 19 years, and Gladys, aged 6 years, are dead as a result of a lamp explosion which occurred at their hom« hero. Ruler of Turbulent People. A very busy man is the ameer of Afghanistan. Sometimes he even for- Rets to have his meals and is obliged to ask his courtiers whether he lias eaten his dinner or not. He gjes to bed at five or six in the morning and gets up at about two in (lie afternoon, and always has his horse ready sad dled at his door, fresh bread in the pockets of his clothes and revolvers and swords close at hand, in case he is compelled togo on a sudden jour ney. Man-cf-War. Man-of-war is a phrase applied to a line-of-battle ship, contrary to the usu al rule in the English language, by which all ships are feminine. It arose in the following manner: "Men oi war" were heavy armed soldiers. A ship full of them was called a "man of-war ship." In process of time the word "ship" was discarded as unnec essary and there remained the phrase ''a man-of-war." Beauty and Character. A famous portrait painter says that beautiful women do not take the best looking pictures. Mere beauty is never successfully reproduced by brush or camera, unless the model expresses character in the lines of her face and eyes. In other words physi cal beauty alone becomes common place unless it is enriched by some beauty of expression. Child was Observant. Miss Marie Shedlock lately re marked during a lecture on storytell ing to - children: "Von have to be dramatic toward children or you are lik .ly to h'.nr tho response which was o ice jjivon to a luathor. A child, after hearing a diui siory, looked up and said: 'Mother, do you know when you talk your upper jaw don't work?' " Families of Venomous Snakes. Venomous snakes of America are comprised in four families —the rattle snake proper, the copperhead and the moccasin, the coral snake and the ground rattler. There are several va rieties of the rattlesnake and two of the coral. Most deadly of all are the copperhead and the diamond rattler. Short Skirts for Street Wear. Frau Schubert, a prominent dress reform advocate of Hanover, says that trains fit for the drawing-room are not siutable for the street, and that women with long dresses that out of doors sweep up ail sorts of germs, are a "serious danger to them selves and to other people." All Is Vanity! "At. first," said the apartment house philosopher, "life in a Hat seems an interesting study of humanity, but soon you lose your urbanity, part with your Christianity, fall into profanity, and pass by swift stages from mental inanity into violent insanity." The World's Demands. A man who cannot afford to return hospitalities will find that he need not expect to avail himself of those of his acquaintances to the end of his career, unless he is an extremely en gaging person. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Advice to the Girls. If you are not pretty you cs.n be attractive and charming by cultivat ing a pleasant expression, by having a cheerful disposition, and by train ing your body to symmetry and gracefulness.— Exchange. Resourceful Youth. The enterprising lad noticed an ad vertisement calling for a red-haired office boy, but lacked the qualification mentioned. "Say, sis," he remarked, "where'd you keep your peroxide? I've got to dye to beat this game." Cheerfulness. The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheer fully, to look around cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. —William James. Check on Scorchers. 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