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JOB PRINTING.
The .Tob department of the PHR*S Incomplete
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work. PAUTIOUL.AU ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW
PKINTINI..
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ages are paid, except at the option of the pub-
Cher.
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lor in advance.
Kansas has plenty of corn, but the
price is so good that it dislikes the
prospect of being forced to till the coal
bins with it.
It is a sad tiling to hear of SSOO
worth of ostrich feathers going up in
smoke when they make a smell no
pleasanter than can be produced from
burning the plumage of an ordinary
40-cent barn-yard fowl.
One of the high officials of the
Standard Oil company admitted on the
witness stand recently that he didn't,
know what his salary was. He must
have a patient and extraordinary un
obtrusive wife to have allowed him to
goon iu tills foolish way for long a
time.
I John Howard Larcombe, 80 years
old, a veteran employe of the pension
•office and the man who taught Andrew
Carnegie telegraphy, has just died at
Bellesville, Md. When he retired from
office some months ago Mr. Carnegie
gave him a pension of SIOO a month
for life.
The natives of the Sandwich islands
estimate women by their weight. The
Chinese require them to have de
formed feet and black teeth. A girl
be tatooed sky-blue and wear a
nose ring to satisfy a South Sea
islander. Certain African princes re
quire their brides to have their teeth
filed into the semblance of a saw.
By placing a negative at the focus
of a telescope during the hours of the
night Miss Harriet S. Leavitt, one of
the members of the Harvard photo
graph examination force, has recently
discovered 36 new variable stars.
These latest additions to the known
twinkling points of light make a total
of 1,364 stars which Miss Leavitt has
discovered.
During his school career the kaiser
was a model of the studious German
youth. He took his place as an or
dinary pupil in the public school at
Cassel, and studied and played with
the other scholars. At the final ex
amination he was, indeed, only tenth
in the list; but then he was two years
younger than his companions, and was
rightly considered to have done so
well that his tutor was immediately
decorated.
In a recent report of the bureau of
navigation it is shown that 93 per
cent, of the enlisted men in the navy
are native-born Americans, and that
during the year 43 per cen*.. of the
men qualified for reenlistment did re
enlist. It is highly desirable that the
man behind the gun be a man ot ex
perience, and it is best that the man
who may be called upon to fight
should be born under the flag that
floats above his ship.
Col. Barnsdale, a prominent citizen
of Pittsburg, was traveling through In
dian territory. While strolling around
Muskogee he met an old colored wom
an who seemed to be an interesting
character, and asked: "Aunty, how
many people are there in this city?"
The negress considered gravely for a
few moments, and then said: "Well,
boss, I reckon there's about 25,000, in
cluding the white folks." Col. Barns
dale says he thereupon saw a first il
lustration of how much depends upon
the viewpoint.
. Oklahoma's star will be added to the
on July 4 next year if the formal
admission of the state to the union
takes place before that time. The
Var and navy' departments have
agreed upon the arrangement of the
46 stars, to accommodate the new one,
and to make it easy to add two more
when New Mexico and Arizona are ad
mitted. The plan provides for four
rows of eight stars each, and two rows
of seven stars each. The rows of
seven are the second and the fifth.
The rows of seven can be made into
rows of eight when the other terri
tories are admitted, and the <irrange
ment will then be absolutely regular.
The most powerful individual in
China to-day is Yuan Shi Kai, the
vieeroy of Tientsin. He is virtually
the dictator of the empire, having as
his ally the aged empress dowager. No
decree is issued from Peking without
his approval, lie is credited with hav
ing caused the Chinese government
to issue the recent anti-opium decree.
Yuan is a man of great force of char
actor, and a believer in progress. Ho
lias taken many steps to modernize his
couutry. Numerous attempts have
been made to assassinate him. it is
hoped that through his efforts China
will be transformed into a progressive
land.
SPEAKS FOR TARIFF
GAIL LAUGHLIN TAKES ISSUE
WITH IDA M. TARBELL.
Writing from Protectionist Standpoint
Miss Laughlin Discovers Many
Flaws in Miss Tarbell's Ar
gument.
There are two types of historians:
(1) Those who ferret out and present
impartially all the facts and *hen draw
their conclusions from the facts; and
(2), those who start with a theory
and who select and use facts calcu
lated to support that theory, omit
ting or slurring over such facts as
would tend to discredit their precon
ceived theory.
If Miss Ida Tarbell's history of the
tariff is to be classed as a history at
all, rather than an argument in sup
port of a theory, then Miss Tarbell
must be regarded as belonging to the
latter of the two types of historians,
at least so far as the first installment
of her history is concerned. Here is
no impartial marshalling of facts.
Such facts as are presented are used
as evidence for a theory advanced
rather than as a basis upon which to
found a theory.
At the beginning of her article Miss
Tarbell informs us that "if there was
any public question on which the
minds of the people of the United
States were made up 50 years ago, it
was that of the tariff," and then, after
referring to the lowering of duties in
1557, she says:
"Not only was the mind of the
country satisfied with lower duties
and aa increasing list of fiee goods,
but it had accepted the idea that
a Christian nation should establish
as rapidly as possible reciprocal trade
relations witli its neighbors."
"The mind of the country"—that is,
the country had but one mind on the
subject—every one was agreed: there
was no dissenting voice. This is what
Miss Tarbell plainly indicates.
Yet, on the very next page, she in
forms us that
"Mr. Merrill was one of the whigs
who had not been satisfied to see
duties lowered in 1857, and who
strenuously objected to letting in raw
products free of duty. He wanted
Vermont marble protected. Ho was
one of the few New England repre
sentatives who had spoken as well as
voted against the bill in 1857, and
his speech at that time had been
very able. Indeed, it made him the
acknowledged head of the active pro
tectionist sentiment left in the coun
try."
There was a protectionist senti
ment, then, even according to Miss
Tarbell; a sentiment voiced by able
and patriotic leaders. Obviously the
country had two minds instead of one,
and one of these minds was not "sat
isfied witli lower duties," but wms
strenuously in favor of protection.
Miss Tarbell lets drop another fact
which would indicate that the people
were hardly settled in favor of a
free trade policy as she intimates —
viz.: the fact that a large majority of
the house of representatives which
met in 1859 were in favor of protec
tion. The members taking their seats
in 1859 had been elected in 185 S. Just
one year, therefore, after the time
when, according to Miss Tarbell, the
united "mind of the country" had
been "satisfied with lower duties" and
ready to embrace free trade at the
earliest possible moment, that, same
country voted, by a large majority,
for representatives in congress who
stood for protection. Apparently
that mind was not so firmly made
tip as Miss Tarbell would have us be
lieve.
There have been two or three times
in our history when the people have
temporarily broken away from their
historic policy of protection, and have
wandered after the strange gods of
free trade, only to turn sharply back
to protection when their toying with
free trade has brought the logical in
sult. < 112 industrial panic. The period
of If 'r6-1857 was one of these times.
So was IS9O-1893. Each free trade
period was followed by a panic, and
the j anie by a return to protection
and prosperity.—Gail Laughlin.
Canada's "Intermediate" Tariff.
Canada s industrial interests have
begun to take alarm at the "intermedi
ate" tariff in the new schedules. They
are wondering how they will ever
know what their tariff protection is
going to be when by the stroke of a
ministerial pen the lower "intermedi
ate" rate of duties can be put into
effect on competitive manufacturers.
They are certain to discover the mon
strous injustice and the injury to in
dustrial production that are involved
in the set of schedules arranged for
"reciprocity" purposes. The British
preferential, based upon patriotic con
siderations, is bad enough, but when
it conies to doing business under a
dickering tariff that for trading pur
poses may be cut even lower than the
British preferential they will learn
how utterly pernicious and inexcusa
ble the scheme of tariff hocus pocus
for "reciprocity" really is.
Go Slow and Think.
It will be very unwise if congress,
responding to the clamor of a few, or
of the politicians who are thinking
more of their party than of their
country, should rush into die matter
of tinkering with the tariff. Not many
interests are suffering to any extent,
and some of the arguments used by
those who are noisily demanding a
change, are trifles light as air. Noth
ing will be lost by going slow and
thinking, a great deal may be lost by
pursuing an opposite policy.—Knox
ville (Tenn.) Tribune.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 1907.
HAS ITS ADVANTAGES.
Selling 4 broad Cheaper Than at
Home.
# The grange, at a meeting in Den
ver, adopted resolutions against a
tariff which allows a manufacturer
to sell goods at home at higher rates
than he can get abroad for his wares.
This resolution, while apparently rea
sonable, is not logical. There will,
of course, always be room for hon
est differences of opinion in regard
to a tariff question. Yet a tariff
which allows a manufacturer to sell
at home at a certain price and sell
abroad at a less price, has its advan
tages.
A manufacturer of hats, for in
stance, might turn out a product ant!
sell it in this country at a fair mar
gin of profit. The tariff protects him
and allows him to make a profit.
Hut for the tariff he would be unable
to compete with the cheaper labor
of other countries.
Now, in supplying the home mar
ket he gives work to a certain num
ber of men, and 110 more. Without
extra markets he cannot employ
extra men.
In a foreign country the price on
his product, due to lower wages paid
in .a foreign land, is lower than he
gets here. He cannot send hats to
that country and sell them at the
prices prevalent there. He cannot
make a profit, because of the high
wages he pays, by selling thein for
less.
Hut he can sell them in a foreign
land at, for example, the very bed
rock cost price. This conipetOH with
foreign manufacturers !n Inn is wliero
no tariff protects them.
By selling over there fct cost, he
gets an added market. He must pro
duce more hats. He must hire more
men. And so, though making little
or no profit out of the venture, he is
acting as a middleman between for
eign hat buyers and local hat buyers,
and is giving employment to Amer
icans that they could not have other
wise secured, bringing money into
American circulation that would not
otherwise have been brought here.
He makes his living off the prod
ucts that he sells at home at a rea
sonable profit. He makes the living
for the laboring man by selling sur
plus products abroad at foreign prices,
which help keep the wheels of his
factory going, though not bringing in
a profit, to speak of, for the institu
tion.—Norfolk (Neb.) News.
The Seller's Option.
After a reference to our foreign
trade for October, the New York
Times says:
"The significance of these figures to
our foreign friends lies in the fact
that while we have almost doubled our
excess of exports of merchandise, we
have exercised the sellers' option to
take our balance in gold, and with
something over to show that we woro
merely taking our own. This year
shows an excess of imports of gold of
$90,155,018."
Is it not time for the economist of
the New York Journal of Commerce
to sit up and take notice? He does
not, or at least until the American
Economist showed him the fallacy
of his views did not, think gold is used
to settle balances of trade.
It is not to be doubted that our abil
ity to demand nearly $100,000,000 in
gold, in payment for merchandise ex
ported, is the cause of the present
difficulty in the London money mar
ket, a difficulty which would be inten
sified by a continued demand. Nor
will any one claim that the present
demand for productive labor is not
in part due to the presence of that
gold which our favorable balance of
trade enables us to obtain.
Free trade, however, will snarl that
part of this favorable balance of trado
is due to our selling to foreigners at
a less price than American consumers
are charged. As if we could sell any
thing to foreigners without employing
American labor.
Does Not Exist.
"The people of the United States
have declared many times and with
great emphasis for the protective pol
icy. No more plebiscites are needed
on this main question of policy. But
the details of the tariff schedules, de
pending on varying conditions and
complex circumstances, might very
well be left to a non-partisan commis
sion of experts."—Minneapolis Jour
nal.
Non-partisanship on the tariff ques
tion does not exist outside of insane
hospitals or institutions for the feeble
minded. To bo a non-partisan on the
tariff is to be wholly without views
one way or the other, and a man who
in this enlightened age has 110 views
on the tariff question can hardly be
considered as intellectually equipped
for usefulness on a tariff commission.
One Year of a Tariff Let Alone.
There is no argument for tariff re
vision downward in the foreign trade
statistics. During the 12 months
ending with November we imported
articles to the value of $1,287,178,924,
or $100,000,000 more than for the cor
responding period last year. In the
same 12 months our exports to
taled $1,807.4:52,075, this being $200,-
000,000 more than we exported in the
preceding 12 months. The excess of
exports over imports amounts to $520,-
253,151, a gain of more than $123,000,-
000 over the previous year. Perhaps
some ardent tariff revisionist will ex
plain how this splendid showing could
have been improved by downward
revision.
Tariff revision business may look as
innocent as the "unloaded gun," and
yet prove a veritable Pandora's box
when opened.—Scranton Tribune.
THE RIVERS RAGE.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE MADE
HOMELESS BY FLOODS.
CINCINNATI AND NEARBY CITIES
ALONG THE OHIO RIVER
SUFFER.
Cincinnati, O.—-With the river flood
a reality in a region extending a
distance of more than 400 miles, thou
sands of persons are suffering for
necessities and thousands more are
homeless. All indications point to at
least 65 feet in this city, making this
the greatest flood since February, 18S4.
The city authorities on Thursday
began to care for persons who have
been made homeless or are otherwise
suffering.
School buildings and churches in
the East End have been opened as
temporary dwellings for the homeless.
About 2,000 residents of Turkey
Bidge, in the East End, have been iso
lated by the flood.
In Newport, Ky., the flood area
covers eight blocks and 300 families
have been compelled to vacate their
homes. Much damage is being done
in Covington to residences and busi
ness houses along the river front.
Pittsburg, Pa. Eight dynamite
blasts having failed to break the Alle
gheny river dam at Springdale, where
the swirling current has already swept
away ten houses and several buildings
of the Heidenkamp mirror works, one
more attempt will be made to-day and
if that falls a diver will be employed
to undertake the hazardous task of
placing a ton of dynamite directly un
der the concrete wall of the dam.
Dispatches received from points in
West Virginia report, th.it the Oil o
river is rising rapidly.' At New Mar
tinsville, W. Va., the West Virginia
Short Line railroad is tied up by high
water and landslides. At Clarksburg,
W. Va., the West Fork river has reach
ed the danger mark and no trains can
be operated on the West Virginia &
Pittsburg branch of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad.
IS SINKING INTO THE SEA.
A New Peril Faces the Stricken City
of Kingston.
St. Augustine, Fla. —Wireless mes
sages received at the station
on Anastasia Island say that Kingston
is sinking gradually; that many holes
and cracks 100 feet deep were formed
by the earthquake and that grave
fears are felt that the entire city will
slip into the bay.
The disaster is as great as the
calamities of San Francisco and Val
paraiso. Thousands of persons have
been killed, and the dead bodies are
being taken from the debris by hun
dreds.
New York.—According to informa
tion received on Thursday the
Kingston horror is growing. Com--
munication with the island is partially
restored, and every message that
conies brings details of an appalling
catastrophe.
The number of dead is placed vari
ously at from 500 to 1,200 and the
number of injured runs into the thou
sands.
Ten thousand persons are said to be
homeless.
The business section of the city has
been wiped out and the estimates of
the damage range from $10,000,000 to
$25,000,000. Among the dead and in
jured are a number of prominent En
glish persons and almost every dis
patch adds new names to this list.
Eight Americans are recorded as miss
ing, and it is said that many tourists
undoubtedly were crushed by falling
walls in the shopping district. The
American battleships Missouri and In
diana have reached the scene and
American officers and sailors are ren
dering every assistance in their power.
EOR CONTEMPT 0E COURT.
Mayor McClellan Will Ask that New
York's Attorney General be Im
prisoned.
Albany, N. Y. —Mayor McClellan,
of New York, in papers served
011 Attorney General Jackson Thurs
day gives notice of a motion to be
made at a special term of the supreme
court on January 26, in this city, at
which he will usk that an order be is
sued punishing the attorney general
for contempt of court.
The mayor asks that the attorney
general be imprisoned for his action
until quo warranto proceedings which
he has begun on behalf of the people
of the state to test McClellan's title to
his office as mayor, be withdrawn and
discontinued.
Mayor McClellan in his affidavit con
tends that the attorney general should
be adjudged in contempt for violating
a temporary writ of prohibition re
straining him from holding a hearing
on an application of counsel for Will
am It. Hearst, that he give his con
sent to the commencement of such ac
tion. He cites the fact that the at
torney general began the second ac
tion while the writ was in effect.
Congress.
Washington.—Senator Foraker de
livered a long address in the senate on
the 17th in regard to the Brownsville
affair and the discharge of negro
troops. The house passed an enu r
gency bill for the relief of earthquake
sufferers in Jamaica.
Wants Two More Battleships.
Washington, D. C. President
Roosevelt has written a letter to
Chairman Foss, of the naval affairs
committee, urging that an appropria
tion should be made at once for two
first class battleships of the maximum
size and speed and with batteries of
32-inch guns.
Snow Blockade Continues.
Minneapolis, Minn. —Reports from
the snowbound districts of
North Dakota continue to tell of the
trouble the railroads are having in
trying to open up traffic on their lines.
And Then It Talked.
In s'lenre the dumb waiter btirtff,
Disconsolate, gloomy, it swung,
J'ntil the fiit cook.
With 11 pitying look.
Came mill putin un order of tongue.
—Judge.
EVIDENCE OF RICHES.
Visitor—l suppose the earl is rich?
Native—Rich? Why, bless 'ee, sir,
look at these 'ere scarecrows 'e's just
'ad put 'ere, made o' real marble; 'e
must be fair rollin' in money.
He Was Satisfied.
Old Biggs—So you are engaged to
Miss Peachly, eh? Has she any
money?
Young Biggs—No, dad; but she's
the most beautiful girl I ever met.
Old Biggs—Huh! beauty is only skin
deep, you know.
Youne Bices —Well, that's deep
enough for me. I'm no vivisectlonist.
•- Chicago Daily News.
Case of Envy.
Aire. Peckem (at the reception!—'l)o
you see that tall man talking' to the
hostess?
Peckem —Yes.
Mrs. Peckem —He asked me to mar
ry liini once and I refused.
Peckem —Introduce me to him.
Mrs. Peckem —What for?
Peckem—l want to congratulate
him.—Chicago Daily News.
Choice of Heroines.
The Maid —What is your favorite
style of novel heroine?
The Man —Favorito style?
The Maid —Yes. Do you prefer one
better than any woman could be or
one that is no better than she ought
to be? —Chicago Daily News.
Self-Protection.
"Why." asked the inquisitive per
son, "do some of your writers sign
their articles, while others do not?"
"Those who do not," explained the
magazine editor, "threatened to quit
unless the other articles were signed."
—Chicago Daily News.
Nature's Critic.
Mrs. Gulliver —What a lovely rain
bow that is!
Mrs. Nurich —Do you think so?
Mrs. Gulliver —Why, don't you?
Mrs. Nurich —Oh, I dare say it's all
very well, but the colors are too loud
for my taste.
Cause for Complaint.
His Mother —But 1 thought you said
your wife could cook.
Her Son —She can.
His Mother —Then what are you
growling about?
Her Son—She won't. —Chicago Daily
News.
Dust Protectors.
Gunner—That is a very polite porter
they have on this train.
Guyer—So?
Gunner—Yes; before he begins to
brush you down he hands you a pair
of atuomobile goggles.—Chicago Daily
News.
An Innocuous Bird.
Young Lady—That parrot you sold
me last week doesn't talk at all.
Dealer —Yes'm; you said you want
ed one that, wouldn't be a nuisance to
the neighbors.—N. Y. Weekly.
Didn't Want Her to Come.
Wife —Henry, dear, to-morrow if
mother's birthday, and I'm thinking
of sending her a nico traveling b*g.
Husband —Don't, for Heaven's sake!
She may take it for an invitation!
More Frenzied Finance.
P.rcvn —I just made four dollars.
Green —How did you do it?
Brown —Short wanted to borrow
five and I finally compromised by lend
ing him one.
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