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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.
Chicago, 111. —A federal grand jury
on Friday began investigation of
the American Seating Co. on com
plaints that the concern, which dealt
in school and church furniture, is op
erating in alleged violation of the
Sherman anti-trust pel.
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