6 CAMERON CGUim PHKB& H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday. TF.r.MS OP SUBSCRIPTION. P*r year *? '^2 II paid l" advance 1 ADVERTISING KATES: Advertisements are published at til" rate ot s"te dol>ar per square forone insertion and firi> rents per square for each subsequent insertion Ra'es I>v the year, or for six or three month*, •re low and un.form, anil will be furnished oii applicat on. ai ai d Official Advertising per square Ihrce times or less. 12. each subsequent inset iion ■<-' '-His per -qnaro. Local notices It'cent# per line lor one inset seriion: & cents per line for each subsequent •ou-ecutlve insertion. Obituary notices over five llnei 10 cents pot llu'- !->i:iiplo ii'iiournements of births, mat • ruiL'e- :.u ilfiitlis will be Inserted free. IP. i,„ <rV..rJs. five li es or less. <6 per ye»« ever n\c lints, at tlio regular rates of adver- i '"x" S local Inserted for less than 75 conta pe« Usue. , JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pituss Is complete end »;!. r.t 1.i.-'liti-is for doini; the best class of w,,rl, I i.in it.A it A n h.N i ION I'AI uT>> 1-AV» ages are ~aid, except at the option of the pub- 5 Usher. . ~ papers sent out of the county must bo oaio lor in advance. ! Telephones and Competition. Every community which has a tele- ! phone service is likely to be con- j Iron ted by the question of granting a franchise to a rival company. Each case must be decided by the govern ing circumstances, but every case will show the peculiarity of the telephone problem. The telephone is a natural monopoly, for it is to the advantage I of every subscriber that all users of telephones should be on the same sy3- 1 ieni with him. More than one system ! means that a subscriber must have ! more than one instrument, or be out of communication with part of the world of telephone-users. It is diffl- ; cult, however, to adjust human nature . to ideal mechanical conditions. Estab- ; lished companies, without rivals, lack t the motive of competition to keep , rates down and service good. There- 1 fore-some communities have welcomed new companies which promised better and cheaper service. Dual systems, like labor strikes, are on their face economic losses, yet it may be worth while to endure the temporary dis • comfort and loss in order to secure better conditions ultimately. The butcher may be on one system and the baker on another, yet low rates j may bring two instruments within the previous cost of one, and may so in- j crease the number of subscribers within call as to atone for the incon venience. if finally one company ab- j sorbs the other, the community may have become so well established in low rates that the surviving company dare not raise them. On the other hand says the Youth's Companion, the effect of comi>eting companies is sometimes merely to divide the tele phone-users of a community without adding many to the total number, and if the companies then make an agree ment to keep rates up, the community is worse off than before. In the strategical game which a community plays with public service companies, it is difficult to determine in the case of the telephone service how far the actual or threatened establishment of a rival company stimulates mechani cal improvement and checks the na tural tendency of a monopoly to extor tion. No community can settle the question without careful study. The inhabitants of an industrial town seeking to abandon it in a body —a strange event for modern times —• is now to be witnessed in Spain. The town is that of Bejar, near Salaman ca, whose people are using their ut most endeavors to have themselves distributed —men, women and chil dren —among the South American re publics. Bejar was once a flourishing town, with a reputation for its cloth fabrics. Fifty years ago the popula tion numbered 22,000 people, but the place has gradually declined, and to day contains no more than 9,000 souls, who seek to flee from it as fast a" they can. The internal revenue commissioner is overwhelmed with letters from farmers asking whether the manufac ture of denatured alcohol on a small scale is profitable. It has been neces sary to print a circular explaining that the manufacture of alcohol re quires expensive machinery, that a separate bonded warehouse will be required at each factory, and there fore only these who have a consider able capital will find it profitable to go into the business. The latest novelty in bazaar' attrac tions is surely that introduced by the Springside Wesleyan chapel, Rawten stall. A wedding cake was cut up, and in one section was concealed a marriage certificate. It was an nounced that the bachelor or spinster securing the "chunk" containing the document had the opportunity offered to be married free of cost within the next 12 months by the Rev. J. Ben netts Brander Matthews consoles himself for the president's desertion of the spelling cause by the fact that at present there are 1 1,000 signatures to the agreement to use the committee's simplified forms, and they are coming in at the rate of 1,000 to 2,000 a month. WORLD'S MILCH COW AMERICA DRAINED FOR BENEFIT OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Enormous Sums Sent Each Year by Foreign Born Wage Earners in the United States to Their Relatives Abroad. The extent to which the American milch cow is drained for the benefit of foreign countries is made the subject of an interesting editorial in the New York Tribune of Jan. 18. it. would cer tainly seem that she is furnishing milk for all creation in increasing quantities. The American Economist lias already shown that in the fiscal year ending June 30, l!)0ti, the huge sum of $31!3,047,5G7 went out of the United States in the shape of postal money orders payable abroad, and that the total of such orders issued in the seven fat protection years, 1900 to 190G, inclusive, was $219,148,082, against a total of $112,586,585 for the eight leaner years from 1 S'92 to 1599, inclusive, years made leaner by free trade tariff legislation. Attention was also drawn to the fact that with the addition of money mailed hi registered letters, in express money orders and in bank drafts of small amounts the total sent back to Europe by our for eign born wage earners would prob ably not fall far short of $100,000,000 in 190(1. , Prom figures published by the Aus tro-Huiigarian Colonial society it ap pears that in 1903 the remittances of Austrians and Hungarians settled in America amounted to $33,000,000, while the gross value of Austro-Hun garian exports to America in the same year amounted to only $9,000,000. It thus falls out that the poorly paid workers of continental Europe yield a far greater profit to their former home countries after emigrating to the United States than if they had never emigrated. It is, moreover, true, as the Trib une points out, that a considerable percentage of our immigrants remain in this country only long enough to accumulate savings that will enable them togo back and spend the re mainder of their lives in the mother land. All told, the money remitted abroad and the money carried abroad by returning wage earners must amount to a rather formidable sum each year. This sum must then be added to the already great bulk of our foreign fixed charges, such as payments to foreign steamship companies for carrying American passengers and freights, es timated at $2t)0,000,000 a year, the in terest and dividends on foreign invest ments in the United States, and the sums spent abroad by American tour ists. When nil these items of outgo are footed up they reach a total so great as to seriously affect the ques tion of national debits and credits. They demonstrate the absolute neces sity of protection trade balances aver aging $500,000,000 a year, represent ing our excess of exports over imports. if we bought where We sold, as the free traders and "reformers" would have us do; if we entered upon the system of increasing our foreign trade through the acceptance of larger im ports in payment for our exports; if. for example, our $1,750,000,000 of sales abroad were canceled by $1,750,000,000 of purchases abroad, how would we then meet our foreign fixed charges of at least $400,000,000 a year? We could not meet them except by running into debt, deeper and deeper through bond issues to cover annual deficits. As the case now stands, our protec tion trade balance is ample to take care of our foreign liabilities and leave something over with which to buy back American securities held abroad. Instead of going deeper into debt, as would inevitably be the case if we did not restrict competitive imports by a protective tariff, we are gradually pay ing our debts owed abroad, while at the same time enormously increasing ou" wealth at home. The Tribune proposes •.is remedy for the heavy outflow of American money in the form of remittances abroad by wa;,c earners of foreign birth. Nor do we know of any way to prevent for eigners from coming here and earning big wages and sending them back to Europe, unless It be by restricting im migration or prohibiting it altogether. In the present condition of the labor market, when three jobs are looking for two men, that remedy does not seem feasible. Yes; there is another remedy. Re vise the tariff downward; approach a free trade basis; reduce prices of com modities; reduce wages, and the SIOO,- 000,000 of annual remittances abroad by American wage earners will rapid ly dwindle to one-quarter of that sum, or less. The tide of immigrants seek ing work will also fall away. But that, too, Is a remedy which all excepting free traders and "reformers" will shrink from applying. So it would seem that the American cow must continue to give milk to all mankind. Fortunately, through protection to American labor and Industry, the cow has enough and to spare. It Is argued that the country is so prosperous that it is a bad lime to put forward the tariff as an issue in politics. There need he no trouble about that. Let a general tariff agi tation be started and that objection will not last long.—Portland (Me.) Excess. When the tariff is revised some years hence will southern senators and representatives vote for a lower duty on cotton manufactures? CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1907. REPORT THE OUTLOOK RIGHT. Continued Prosperity Certain Without .Tariff Reform. The president of th« largest bank in the Middle West writes to the New York Times that "the prospects for another year's prosperity are as good as they were a year ago." That seems to be the general judgment of compe tent. observers. With few except ions the men whose fingers are constantly in touch with the financial pulse of the country are agreed that there is nothing in sight to indicate a slump in the present conditions which make for prosperity. Would this same confident belief prevail if the congress and administra tion elected in 1904 had been pledged to tariff revision downward, and if that congress were now, in the closing weeks of its tenure, actively engaged in revising the tariff schedules to meet the demands of "progressives" and "reformers?" Would the banks continue to lend money as freely as ever? Would busi ness enterprises keep on enlarging and expanding? There is but one answer to this ques tion. The banks would not be call ing in their loans, reducing their lines of discounts and adding to their un employed reserves, just as they were doing in the early months of 1893, when tariff revision downward was absolutely assured, in anticipation of trouble sure to come. Business enter prises would halt in consequence of a money supply kept inside of vaults. Constriction, not enlargement, would bo the rule. It l'j fortunile for the countiy that the party which earned the presiden tial and congressional elections in 1906 was not pledged to tariff revision downward and that by agreement of the heads of that party tariff revision cannot come sooner than the spring or summer months of 1909. It may not come then. It should not come then if present conditions continue during 1907 and 1908. But, in any event, the country feels safe from tariff tinkering for at least two years to come, and bank presidents can con tinue to say that "the prospects for another year's prosperity are as good as they were a year ago." It is true that a revision in tariff would cause a serious fluctuation in the money market, and that there would probably be an uncertainty of affairs such as we would not like to stand after such a glowing period of prosperity—Shoe and Leather World WHILE MEN SLEPT. ~ ifies "The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept his ene my came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way."—Matt, xiii, 24, 25. President and Tariff. If the president had desired to open the tariff question he would not have hesitated to do so in his recent mes sage. But we find one of tlie longest messages on record without a mention of the word tariff. One paper, the Des Moines Register and Leader, is of the opinion that the president sup pressed his tariff views because of fear that some one would thwart his other reforms if he opened the tariff. This is the most ignoble motive that has so far been attached to any one of the president's acts. Mr. Roosevelt is not that 4.ort of a coward. The paper in quesi.'on simply makes him appear as a covard in order to maintain its own contentions on the tariff. —Cedar Rap ids, Republican. A Useful Sign Post. With manufactured exports amount ing to $700,000,000 in 1906 —more than twice the value lex years ago under a tariff revised downward with the double intent of reducing prices at home and of enlarging our sales abroad—the trade congress which as sembles i;i Washington next week will start with a substantial basis to work on. The business captains who are to consider means for extending the foreign trade of the United States need fall into no error as to whether or not tariff revision downward is the right road to the end sought. The $700,000,000 of exports for 1906 ought to be a pretty good sign post. Not Careful as to Facts. If the opening chapter of Miss Ida M. Tarbell's serial on"The Tariff in Our Times," which appears in the De cember number of the American Mag azine, is indicative of the spirit and purposes of the whole work, its meas ure may be taken without awaiting ad ditional installments. Miss Tarbell is evidently a thoroughgoing "progress ive." She displays about as much at fection for the American system of protection as the average tariff ripper cares to confess. Her purpose is evi dently to arouse and intensify popular feeling against protection, and in do ing this she is not always careful as to her facts. —Des Moines Capital. 1907 is a stand-pat year. THEYYIELD. Schmitz & Co. Back Down on School Question. AN EXCLUSION BILL Will be Given Every Aid by the Pres ident, Even to Calling an Extra Session of Congress. Washington, D. C. —The San Fran cisco school controversy, growing out of the segregation of the Japanese school children in that city, has been settled. The basis of the agreement, reached at the White House confer ence Friday is that Mayor Schmitz and the members of the school will, immediately after the passage of the immigration bill as reported by the conferees in congress, abolish the Oriental schools and again admit Jap anese children into the white schools. The president and Secretary Root gave the San Franciscans assurance that if the bill is not passed at this session of congress an extra session will be called immediately after the adjournment on March 4. San Francisco, Cal. —The Jr. ,ian oso mj Kiv< aa Exclusion iearue, reinforced by many civic bodies, op poses what it terms temporizing on the part of Mayor Schmitz in the Jap anese school question. Officers of the league demand that the mayor hold out for an exclusion law as severe upon the Japanese as that which now applies to the Chinese. President Tveitmoe informed Mayor Schmitz by wire that Secretary Root's reported amendment to the immigration bill is unsatisfactory to the league members. A BLOW TO REBATERS. A Federal Judge Delivers a Decision of Much Importance. New York. —Judge Holt in the United States court Friday handed down a decision overruling the de murrer interposed by the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Railway Co. to the indictments returned against it last summer, charging the company with having granted rebates to the American Sugar Refining Co. on ship ments between New York and Buffalo. United, States District Attorney Stimson regards the ruling in this case as a decisive victory for the gov ernment, inasmuch as it disposes of a number of points that might be ra'sed in the future by corporations against federal indictments alleging similai violations of the Elkins act. It is believed Judge Holt's decision will enable the government to at once institute proceedings against othei corporations hitherto believed unat tackable and immune from prosecu tion. This belief is based upon the action of Judge Holt in overruling the claim of the defense that the indict ment was void because of duplicity. In this connection Judge Holt held that the Elkins act supersedes to a certain extent the so-called Hepburn act. He finds that the proceedings were properly brought under the Elk ins act. Judge Holt's decision is based on the fact that the Hepburn act does not expressly provide that the repeal of the Elkins act should release or ex tinguish liability incurred under the Elkins act. BUSINESS BAROMETER. A Liberal Demand for Goods for Spring Trade Is Noticed. New York.—R. O. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Despite holiday and weather inter ruptions the volume of business is well maintained. In most sections of the country the movement of mer chandise has resumed normal propor tions, snow blockades being removed, but tardy deliveries still cause much complaint, especially in regard to grain. Retail stocks of winter goods were satisfactorily depleted during the period of low temperature, and the new season will open under favor able auspices. Wholesale and jobbing houses re port a liberal spring demand, particu larly in dry goods, while at the in terior there is a vigorous movement of agricultural implements and other farm supplies. A gratifying feature of many reports is the greater promptness of mercantile collections. Mills and factories have so much for ward business that new contracts are not taken except at full figures, and there is dissatisfaction because ship ments are not more prompt. Congress. Washington.—On the 15th the house passed the naval appropriation bill, carrying $96,000,000. The senate de voted its session to debate on the con ference report on the immigration bill, which includes the provision In tended to settle the California-Jap anese question. Killed by a Dynamite Explosion. Lebanon, Pa. —Mrs. Zeller, wife of John Zeller, of Annville, was killed by an explosion of dyna mite at her home Friday and their two children, Lydia, aged 13 years, and Mary, aged 5 years, were so badly burned and lacerated that there is lit tle hope of their recovery. The house was wrecked. A Battle in Morocco. Tangier, Morocco. —The sultan on Friday stormed the village 'of Bedadua and had 15 men killed in the opera tions. i Balcom & Lloyd. | -§ I I 11 I 1 fe WE have the best stocked general store in the county Sand if you are looking for re liable goods at reasonable "ft prices, we are ready to serve k you with, the best to be found, p Our reputation for trust- Jj i- worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any ili but high grade goods. *,! 0j Our stock of Queensware and jf Bj Chinaware is selected with ® it 3 j| great- care and we have soma !p of the most handsome dishes jj ever shown in' this section, P both in imported and domestic gn makes. "We invite you to visit p us and look our goods over. SB I 1 11 I 1 | Balcom & Lloyd, jj rvw ww ir ■ w JJ LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET |! || THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT $£ H M I! 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Beauties and at bargain prices. |2 N|3o Bedroom Suits, COIT NO Sidebonrd, qnar- CQH fr J) solid oak at 4)/0 tered cak 3uU * » f2B Bedroom Suits, COI $32 Sideboard, qnar- coc M W% solid oak at JZI tered oak 4)ZO jHS $25 Bed room Suits, COfl $22 Sideboard, quar- CIC solid oak at 3)ZU tered oak, 4)10 N A large line of Dressers from I Ch ffoniers of all kinds and ||4| N $8 up. I a 1 prices. •£# 9 it || }| The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, fcg Jj the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRIDGE.' All drop- || 112 2 heads and warranted. S5 A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in j £2 se t s a °d by the piece. * As I keep a full line of everything that goes to |M| M make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to enum- II N erate them all. fejg Please call and see for yourself that lam telling M kg you the truth, and if you don t buy, there is no harm H done, as it is no trouble to show goods. B GEO. J .LaBAR. § U3NTDBR.TAK.IKTG. *4 k****m**m mm** A&m**mm****** turn#* m** •» m
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