2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Cer year 12 0# paid In advance 1 'M ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rata ol #ne dollar i»er square for one insertion and tlftj vents per square tor eaeti subsequent Insertion Rates by the year, or for six or three month*, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished ooi application. Lpkal and Official Advertising per square fhrea times or less, >2: each subsequent insei uo-i to cents per square. Kocal notices lu cents per line for one lnsei •euion: 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five llnea. 10 cents pot Hue. Simple announcements of births, mat • naeCK and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards. Hve lines or less, 45 per year, ever live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 75 cents pet Usue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkks* is complete and facilities for doini; the best class of work. Pauucular attkniion piuito Law Fhintisg. No will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Less than five per cent of the ex penses of the 24 slaughtering and meat-packing establishments of Chi cago is for wages. The largest bird of prey in the world is the bearded vulture, which meas ures, from wing tip to wing tip, as much as nine or ten feet. The Dublin corporation adopted a proposal to provide the captain and mate of the mud barge Shamrock with gold lacc uniforms of Irish manufac ture. The Norse Christian name Haakon and the English family name Hawkin or Hawkins come from the same root, and are pronounced in the same fash ion. As the censor has suppressed the last volume of Kuropatkin's "Lessons of the War," it is apparent that the general had not learned his lesson ac cording to governmental standards. A fashion magazine says the girl of 1907 is tall and slim. She will have to wait awhile because the man of 1907, so soon after Christmas, is still rather short for a good appearance in her company. The Pall Mali Gazette expresses pride and wonder in having received a letter composed of a single sentence of 209 words. Henry James will pro bably say "tut, tut" in a much more elongated fashion when he sees thiSv Mrs. Ella Burr McManus, in pro viding for a memorial of her jour nalist father, stipulated for a com petent and gifted sculptor, remark ing also on the "many atrocities in the name of art inflicted upon our American cities." The officers of the better managed and most successful cotton mills of Japan pay a good deal of attention to the improvement of conditions among the help and to increasing the facilities for education, especially ed ucation along textile lines. Over in Philadelphia tlie newspapers ■are raising a great howl because deal ers in lacteal fluid are blending skim milk with the other kind. Compared with other stories of clever financing in that city, this one does not seem to deserve the prominence that is given to it. In order to let them know who is ruler the new shah of Persia is going to start business by cutting off a few heads. He might make a more last ing impression and prove that he is up with the times by giving each of the refractory ones an operation for ap pendicitis. It is hard to understand why a Mon tana girl in her teens should have eloped with a man over 80. In Mon tana girls are so scarce that they can take their pick of the men. Now, if it had been in Boston we should not have been surprised, for no unmarried girl in Boston ever gets out of her teens. Frederick J. Strater, of Boston, a metallurgist, who has spent several years experimenting over the smelting crucible, believes that he lias discov ered a hitherto undreamed source of wealth in common coke, the melting of at least. S3O worth of tin from a ton of coke costing only $4 now at re tail. His method, known only to him self, is a simple one. Four-fifths of the operatives in the Japanese mills are women, probably due to the fact that they will work for less than tbe men, who can do better outside. Men are only employed when absolutely necessary, such as for bosses, loom fixers," the heavier card room work, etc. Weaving in Japan is almost entirely a woman's job, as spinning is with us. The sultan of Morocco has written a letter to the president, in which he addresses the latter as "the beloved, the most cherished, the exalted, the most gracious friend, the most hon ored and excellent president of the United States who is America's pillar, the most celebrated preserver of the ties of true friendship, the faithful friend, Theodore Roosevelt." That ought to give the Bellamy Storers a jar. An ingenious beacon is located at Arnish Rock, Stornoway bay, in the Hebrides, Scotland. It is a cone of cast iron plates, surrounded by an ar rangement. of prisms and a mirror which reflects the light from the light house on Lewis Island, 500 feet dis tant across the chani^-'. OVER $100,000,000 SENT FROM THIS COUNTRY IN 1906 TO EUROPE. Immense Sums of Money Saved by Foreign Born Work People in the United States Remitted Every Year to Their Needy Relatives in the Old World. American labor, every man who works for wages, every labor organiza tion, every trades union, will be in terested in the following official state ment showing the number and amount of postal money orders issued in the United States for payment abroad during each of the fiscal years ending June 30, from 1892 to 1906, inclusive: Tear ending June 30. No. issued. Amount. 1892 988,476 J!.".,120,272 1893 1,055,999 16,341,838 1894 917,823 13,792,455 1895 909,278 12.906,486 1896 985,799 13,852,616 1897 944,185 13,588,379 1898 955,344 13,239,769 1859 968,501 13,744,770 1900 1,102,067 16,749,018 1901 1,247,888 20,072,614 1902 1,311,111 22,974,473 1903 1,914,149 35,237.935 1904 2.208,344 42,550,151 1905 2,506,384 47,516,028 1906 3,036,508 63,047,867 In the eight years, 1892 to 1899, in clusive —two of these years being pro tective tariff years, and six years cov ering the free trade tariff period and the recovery from the effects of that tariff —American money orders uent abroad amounted to $ 112,586,585, be ing an average of $14,072,048 per year. In the next ensuing seven years of the full benefits of Dingley tariff pro tection, 1900 to 1906, inclusive, the total of money orders sent abroad was $249,148,082, the yearly average being $35,572,783. These are purely postal figures, They do not include the amounts sent abroad by express money orders, by registered letters, or by small drafts purchased from American banks. It would be aafe to say that, all told, the 1906 remittances by American wage earners to foreigners amounted to ful ly $100,000,000. Is not this a unique, an extraordin ary showing? Does it not reflect in striking form the unparalleled position of American labor? Does it not bear directly upon the question whether the wage earners have or have not shared liberals* in the great gains of American Industry in the past ten years, of adequate pro tection to domestic iabor? Does it not i«*td to prove that the increase alike in the rate of wages paid an/ in the total sum of wages has ;far outrun the increase in the cost living? Over $63,000,000 was sent abroad through the post office during the year ending June 30, 1906, by prosperous Americans of foreign birth or extrac tion to their relatives in other lands. The figures of postal orders issued in the United States for payment abroad begin with 1892. That was what may be termed a normal protec tion year. The labor of the country was well employed under the McKin ley tariff of 1890. At the end of June, 1893, tlie Wilson-Gorman bill had not yet been enacted. Labor had not be gun to feel the pinch of tighter times. So the amount sent abroad went up to $16,341,838. Now, note the next year, 1894, after the force of the panic of 1893, a free trade panic, became visible. Then there was a drop to $13,792,455. The next year, 1895, after 1 tlie mills and factories had closed their doors to a million work people, there was a fur ther drop to $12,903,486. This was low water mark. Wage earners had less to spare to send abroad. In 1897 came the Dingley law. Meanwhile the warehouses and store shelves had been filled with foreign goo3 3 rushed to the United States at lowi*- tariff rates in anticipation of the higl'ir tariff of 1897. Wherefore the real benefits of the Dingley tariff were not visible until these supplies were exhausted, and it was not until 1900 that the first bi; jump in foreign ie mittances occurred. That year thflß postal orders amounted to $16,749,018. The sums sent to other countries by wage earners in the United States in postal orders increased by leaps and bounds from 1900 on: In 1901, over $20,000,000; in 1902, nearly $23,000,- 000; in 1903, over *35,000,000; in 1904, over $42,500,000; in 1905, over $47,- 500,000; and in 1906, over $63,000,000! Where did all this money come from? Not from the savings banks, for the savings deposits of $1,747,- 961,280 in 1894 (free trade tariff pe riod) had in 1905 been increased to $3,261,236,119, an increase of almost 100 per cent in the protection period. Not from the building and loan asso ciation form of savings, for these show an almost equivalent increase in 1906 as compared with 1894. Not in dimi nution of what is known as industrial or wage earners' life insurance, for this line of insurance has increased enormously in the past ten years. So the 63 and odd millions of dollars which went abroad last year in postal orders to foreign relatives must rep resent clear savings after meeting the increased cost of living, after swell ing the savings bank deposits to an estimated total of $4,000,000,000 for 1906, and after investing money in building and loan associations and in life insurance. There is no escape from the conclu sion that tlie wage earners of the United States are accumulating mon ey at a phenomena] rate in these yeai'3 of protection prosperity. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1907. THE ONE GREAT QUESTION. Tariff a Matter of Wages and the Scale of Living. One great central fact that should stand head and shoulders above all other elements in a discussion of the tariff seems to be entirely ignored in Miss Tarbell's treatment of the ques tion. That fact is that first, last and all the time, whatever the past history may have been in periods when the subject of protection was but partially understood, the tariff is a question of wages and the scale of living. Miss Tarbell may not be aware of this, or, knowing it, may not consider it worth mentioning as a part of the story of the tariff in our times. But it is, none the less, the one overshadow ing arc of the economic circle. Those who attempt the overthrow of the protective policy invariably em phasize the importance of low prices to consumers and neglect the impor tance and value of high wages and a high standard of living. They refuse to recognize the wage earned as the unit of ail thrift, the basis of all pros perity; that upon the wage earned must depend the ability to purchase and the volume of consumption. They also fail to observe that, a vast pre ponderance of consumers must first of all be wage earners, and that only a limited few of the idle rich are non producers. , If the people of this country are to be won over to the cause of free trade it should be upon a fair and candid consideration of the question whether they are ready to throw away the American wage scale and the Ameri can standaid of living, both higher by far than in any other part of the world. That is the question. EAag gerated statements of errors or faults in the earlier stages of tariff making are beside the mark. The thing to consider is the tariff of to-day and what it has done and will do for the American people as a whole. The story which omits a record of tariff protected wages and a protection standard of living is but a meagre and partial history of the tariff in our times. THE RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH. Impossible to Please Everybody. A great many Republicans would favor a revision of some of the tariff schedules if it did not mean a general revision. The country is in a very prosperous condition, but it could not stand tlie uncertainty of a reconstruc tion of the tariff without serious em barrassment. Those who are familiar with the history of tariff legislation know that each section wants protec tion upon the things it. produces and free entry for the things it buys. The farmer wants protection upon the raw material he produces and no tariff up on the finished product he buys. The manufacturer wants free trade on raw material and a protective tariff to pro tect his finished product. The laborer wants the high wages which protec tion gives, but he would like to pur chase with those wages things at the free trade price. And so when it comes to making tariff schedules selfish interests are always F.t work, and the result is al ways a compromise, the product of log ' roiling and a measure of doubtful ex pediency. And these are facts which maiie many statesmen doubt the wis dom of ripping up a law under which the* country has prospered and is pros pering. Merchants and manufacturers i must have stable conditions. —Lancas- ter (O.) Gazette. An industrial Crisis: When? In the current discussion as to the outlook for continued prosperity vary ing opinions are expressed by finan ciers, railroad men, manufacturers and coliege presidents. The weight of judgment seems to be on the sid' of continued prosperity. This view is sustained by the fact of a power to consume equaling the power to pro duce. The power to consume rests chiefly upon wages earned and paid. Employment and wages are at high water mark. Will these conditions -jontinue? That would seem to be the main question. Intimately related to that question is the question whether and when wages and industrial pro duction are to be unsettled hy tariff reduction and reciprocity arrange ments designed to increase foreign competition with American labor and industry. Given the date when tariff revision downward and reciprocity in competing products shall have been definitely determined upon, and it will be much easier to guess at the date when the present prosperity will bo followed by an industrial and com mercial crisis. In the tenth year of the Dingley tariff close upon five times the money went abroad from American wage earners that was sent in 1895, (he first year of the revised tariff known as the Wilson-Gorman law —as SG3,- 047,801* in 1906 was to $12,906,486 ia 189». $32,000,000 Is John D. Rockefeller's Latest Donation. EDUCATION BOARD In Session at New York Is Amazed at the Size of the Oil King's Second Gift to It. New York. Thirty-two million dollars' worth of income bearing securities was the gift which John D. Rockefeller, through his son, John D. Rockefeller, jr., announced to the gen eral educational board when it assem bled for a special meeting in this city Thursday. For general education purposes throughout the country is given as the purpose of this donation —the largest single prize ever handed out for such purposes. Mr. Rockefeller previously had given the board $11,000,000 for the same work, his contributions now amounting to $43,000,000. Most of the members of the board were surprised at the announcement and amazed at the size of the gift. Dr. Buttrick, the secretary, said he did not Know the ,;iit was to be made un til he read ilie letter. Other mem bers did not know of the donation un til the letter was read. The members of the board who will administer Mr. Rockefeller's immense gift include some of the best known educators, financiers, publicists and philanthropists in the country. While the board was in session yes terday gifts to five colleges were or dered, amounting in all to $400,000, as follows: Beloit college, Beloit, Wis!; Morn ingside college, Sioux City, la.; Lafay ette college. Easton, Pa., $50,000 each; Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind., and the University of Wooster, 0., each $125,000. In 1903 the general educational board was chartered by congress. It employs a force of experts in the sys tematic study of educational condi tions in all parts of the United States. The object of the organization is pro moting education. It is said that the board now has 250 applications before it. Many of them are from institutions well locat ed, and in some instances negotiations are far advanced looking to the con solidation and relocation of compet ing colleges. No gifts from this great fund are in tended to be given to state educa tional institutions. Certain colleges will be selected for donations or en dowments, forming a chain of educa tional institutions across the conti nent. It will become a question of a survival of the fittest, it is said. THAW'S WIPE TESTIFIES. She Tells the Story of Her Betrayal by Stanford White. New York. —Evelyn Nesbit Thaw told her story Thursday. To save the life of her husband charged with murder she bared to the world the innermost secrets of her soul. It was the same- story she told Harry Thaw in Paris in 1903, when he asked her to become his wife —the confes sion of one who felt there was an in surmountable barrier to her ever be coming the bride of the man she loved. As the young wife unfolded the nar rative of her girlhood and told the early struggles of herself and her mother to keep body and soul to gether; of how gaunt poverty stood ever at the door, and how she finally was able to earn a livelihood by pos ing for photographers and artists, she won the murmured sympathy of the throng which filled the big court room. Then came the relation of the wreck of that girlhood at 16 years of age. It was the story of her meeting with Stanford White, the story of a sumptuous studio apartment whose dingy exterior gave no hint of the luxurious furnishings within; of a velvet-covered swing in which one could swing until slippered toes crashed through the paper of a Jap anese parasol swung from the ceiling; the story of a glass of champagne, of black, whirling sensations and of mir rored bedroom walls. In short, she told all the story. "Don't scream so. It is all over. It is all right." "And this was Stanford White?" The question came from Delphin M. Delmas, conducting the defense of Harry Thaw. Mrs. Thaw was still on the stand, her direct examination uncompleted, when the day was done. Congress. Washington.—On the 7th the house passed the river and harbor appropri ation bill, carrying a little more than $83,000,000. The senate spent the day in consideration of the Indian appro priation bill. Collision Fatal to Four. Mercer, Pa. —One trainman was killed and three fatally injured in a freight wreck here Thursday on the Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad. The names: Dead, fl. J. Rodgers, brake man, Greenville, Pa. Fatally injured, Cornelius Pickles, engineer, McKees port; Arthur Lockhard, fireman, Greenville; William lironson, flagman, Butler. Isabelle Urquhart Dies. Rochester, N. Y.—lsabelle Urqu hart, the actress, died here Thursday night. TWO MEET DEATH. WRECK OF A NEW YORK CEN TRAL TRAIN AT OSSINING, N.Y. ! ENGINEER AND FIREMAN WERfc BURIED IN THE WREKAGE AND KILLED. Ossining, N. Y. The engineer and fireman of the Adirondack and Montreal express on the New York Central railroad were killed and five other persons, four of them pas sengers, injured when the train, : northbound, sideswiped a freight en gine a mile south of this village last | night. The dead: William Kirk, engineer. James Armitage, fireman. Both men were buried in the wreck age. None of the passengers was dan gerously injured, though two sus i tained injuries necessitating their re moval to a hospital here. There are three tracks at the point where the accident occurred. A freight train that preceded the ex press had been switched from the main northbound track to the middle track to allow the express to pass and was proceeding slowly as the express approached. The snow and conse quent slippery condition of the rails, is supposed to have been responsible for the accident, for the engineer of the freight was unable to stop his train before the locomotive had taken a switch and half crossed the main track directly in the path of the pas senger train. The express engine struck the freight engine and rolied over the em bankment. The coaches following were de/ailed, but did not overturn. The passengers were hurled about in side of the cars, most of their injuries being in the nature of bruises and cuts. IT TOOK WINGS. Evidence Against a New York Ice Trust Disappears from the Office of the Attorney General. Albany, N. Y.—All the evidence on which was based the com plaint of Attorney General Julius Mayer against the American Ice Co. for dissolution of an alleged monopoly of the ice business, served on Decem ber 20, has disappeared from the at torney general's office and cannet be found. This announcement was made last night by Attorney General Will iam S. Jackson. Mr. Jackson also made public sev eral affidavits of employes of the at torney general's office which show that a part at least of the papers were known to be missing late in December before the retirement of his predeces sor, Mr. Mayer, but that the disap pearance of the evidence was not known to Mr. Jackson until early in January, when, after he had assumed office, he took up the case with a view of further proceedings. Mr. Jackson said last night that he had served a demand upon the Amer ican Ice Co. for access to its books and records for the purpose of replac ing the lost evidence. NINE MEN KILLED. A Disastrous Explosion on Board a French Torpedo Boat. L'Orient, France. —As a result of an explosion on board torpedo boat No. 339 of the French navy Fri day morning nine men are dead and two men are injured. Torpedo boat No. 339 was launched but a short time ago and at the time of the accident she was undergoing, prior to being placed in commission, her full power steam trial in the roadstead. A naval committee was on board at the time. The trial was successful, but as the boat was returning to her anchorage a safety tube forming part of the evaporation apparatus burst, and as a result a mass of flames was forced into the stokehole, where the engi neer, a quartermaster and nine stok ers were at work. The engineer and eight of the stokers were instantly burned to death. Their bodies were practically reduced to cinders. The other stoker was severely injured. The quartermaster succeeded in es caping from the hole. Probing an Alleged Illegal Combine. 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