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What's the Use?
Mark Twain, after a lifetime
through which he has cheered and
amused his countrymen, seems arrow
ing pessimistic in his age. Or is this
wail, from the North American Re
view, merely the record of one of
those moments of reaction to which
all humorists are subject: "A myriad
of men are born, labor and sweat
and struggle for bread; they squabble
and scold and fight; they scramble
for little mean advantages over each
other; age creeps upon them; infirmi
ties follow; shames and humiliations
bring down their prides and their
vanities; those they love are taken
from them and the joy of life is
turned to aching grief. The burden
of pain, care, misery, grows heavier
year by year; at length, ambition fs
dead, pride is defied; vanity is dead;
mnging for release is in their place.
It comes at last —the only unpoisoned
gift earth ever had for them —and
they vanish from a world where they
were of no consequence; where they
achieved nothing; where they were
a mistake and a failure and a fool
ishness; where they have left no sign
that they have existed—a world
which will lament them a day and
forget them forever. Then another
myriad takes their place, and copies
all they did, and goes along the same
profitless road, and vanishes as they
vanish—to make room for another,
and another, and a million other my
riads to foljow the same arid path
through the same desert, and accom
plish what the first myriad, and all
the myriads that came after it, ac
complished—nothing."
Save the Trees.
Gilford Pinchot, chief of the bureau
of forestry of the department of agri
culture, has asked the house commit
tee on agriculture to favor the appro
priation of $5,000,000 for the use of
his bureau. This is a large sum of
money, and congress will be likely to
look into the matter carefully before
granting the request. Yet it must be
said that forestry has come to be a
very important branch of governmen
tal supervision, and the good results
that have followed stimulation of the
science of caring for trees cannot be
denied. Some figures cited in this
connection, says the Troy Times, in
dicate that the money would not be
wasted. The standing timber in the
national forest reserves is worth $700,-
000,000, and the whole property in
charge of the department and the bu
reau aggregates in value $1,400,000,-
000. To properly protect these pos
sessions, saying nothing about the ex
tension of forestry work, is no small
task. The interests to be guarded are
large, and doubtless congress will
lake all the facts into due considera
tion.
10very year in the Rumai country,
India, a marriage lottery—a sort of
sweethearts sweep—is held. The
names of all the marriageable girls
und of the young men of the circle
who want to get married are written
on slips of paper and thrown into
separate earthern pots. From these
they are drawn against one another
by the local wise man. This simply
determines the fact that the Rumai
girl has come out and is ready to be
married, and the youth whose name is
drawn against hers thereby obtains a
particular letter of introduction, with
authority to make love immediately
with what ardor and success he is
capable of.
Graphophones were used to help the
stenographers during a recent govern
ment inquiry in Chicago when the in
vestigators had received orders to
forward to Washington a transcript of
the testimony at the earliest possible
moment. The stenographers took their
notes in the ordinary way, and read
them to a graphoplione. As fast as
a cylinder was full, the machine was
turned over to a typewriter, who sol
it to repeating what the stenographei
had spoken, and transcribed it or
paper. Within .10 minutes after th<
last witness had ceased speaking th<
record of the hearing was about com
pleted, ready to be sent to the nationa
capital.
CANNON'S PLATFORM
or THE HOUSE ON DUAL
TARIFF QUESTION.
He Would Begin with Minimum Duties
Adequately Protective to All Lines
of Production and Then Apply Max
imum Rates as Penalties for Unfair
Treatment.
As an outcome of the national con
vention for the extension of the for
eign commerce of the United States
a definite step forward has been tak
en toward determining the future
policy of this country in reference to
foreign trade. Much credit is due to
the initiative taken by the New York
board of trade and transportation.
The convention at Washington on the
14th, 15th and 16th of January proved
to be a large and important gathering
representing the views of business
men in many of the states of the
union.
Among the numerous subjects which
engaged the attention of the conven
tion, as related to the broad question
of foreign commerce the tariff was,
as a matter of course, conspicuous.
The action of the convention relative
to tariff and reciprocity is expressed
in the adoption of the following pre
amble and resolutions:
"Whereas, The adoption of maxi
mum and minimum protective tariff
systems and the execution in connec
tion therewith of numerous reciprocal
trade agreements by various foreign
countries, notably in continental Eu
rope, are rendering it increasingly
difficult for our exporters to compete
successfully for business as against
specially favored nations; and
"Whereas, Our government is pow
erless, under existing laws, to provide
adequate protection to our foreign
trade in such instances; and
"Whereas, It has become vitally nec
essary to secure wider foreign mar
kets for our increasing agricultural
and manufactured products; and
"Whereas, Canada, Mexico, Central
and South America. Asia, Australia
and Africa afford opportunities for the
sale of our surplus under more favor
able trade conditions. Therefore, be
It
"Resolved, That this convention in
vites the earnest attention of congress
to our foreign trade situation, and
urges early and favorable considera
tion of a maximum and minimum tar
iff schedule based upon a concession
up to 20 per cent, from the existing
rates of duties under the terms of
which the president may have au
thority to enter into such commercial
connections or agreements as may be
deemed essential to the safeguarding
and extension of the markets for our
surplus commodities; and be it fur
ther
"Resolved, That in addition to the
granting of discretionary powers to
the executive we urge the establish
ment of a permanent,-non-partisan ad
visory board or commission, charged
with the duty of studying at all times
our trade relations with foreign coun
tries, with a view toward recommend
ing. from time to time, such modifica
tions in customs duties or regulations
as may, in their judgment, be neces
sary or desirable."
The resolution relating to the crea
tion of a non-partisan advisory com
mission may as well be left out of
consideration. No such commission
ever can or ever will be created. Non
partisanship on the tariff question does
not exist. It never will exist. There
fore, there can be no non-partisan
commission.
The main thing accomplished by the
convention was to give form and body
to the question of a dual tariff system.
It remained for Joseph G. Cannon,
speaker of the house of representa
tives, to define once for all the dis
tinction between the two types of a
dual tariff. Speaker Cannon left no
room for doubt on tliat point. With
the < lear head and undaunted courage
which have made him famous
anif \ r x the distinguished men of the
coun.ry throughout all its history, (his
plain citizen of Illinois made it per
fectly clear what a dual tariff system
must be and must not be. Mis re
marks to the 100 delegates \vno vis
ited him are worthy to be graven in
letters of gold. No man has ever
spoken more to the purpose or more
to the point. It was the right time to
speak; time that the right thing be
said.
What Speaker Cannon said was, in
substance and effect, that in adopting
a dtial tariff system devised in the in
terest of our foreign trade, we must
start, with a minimum tariff as our
basis, a tariff that shall adequately
protect American labor and industry
against foreign competition. From
that adequately protective minimum
tariff there shall be no reduction or
concession to any foreign competi
tor. That, as Speaker Cannon points
out, is the policy of every country
which has two sets of tariff rates. It
must be the tariff policy of this coun
try. No intelligent man who believes
at all In the system of protection can
dispute the proposition that our start
ing point in arranging for a double
tariff must of necessity be a settled
minimum. Upon that, says Speaker
Cannon, we may do precisely what
other countries have done and are
doing—build a schedule of maximum
rates, perhaps ten, perhaps 20 per
cent., to apply to the products of
countries which shall refuse to grant
to the exports of the United States
their minimum tariff rates, and in all
ways give fair treatment to our ex
ports.
Speaker Cannon has written the Re
publican platform of 190S so far as
tariff and reciprocity are concerned.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1907.
MADE FOR AMERICANS.
Our Tariff, Not Devised for Europe,
Is Not Liked by Europeans.
Hon. Richard Bartholdt, in an ad
dress to the Republicans of the First
ward, pointed out the great reason
why the Republican party will cling
to the protective tariff. "While in
Europe last summer," says Mr. Har
tholdt, "I found that the people were
unanimously opposed to the Ameri
can policy of protection. It is a bad
thing for the Europeans, but a splen
did thing for Americans. The Ameri
can laborer is to-day receiving wages
three times greater than is paid to
his German brother, and twice as
much as to the laborer of England."
That, is the reason why the Repub
lican party, which created the tariff,
will defend it Europe does not like
the American tariff. Hut the Ameri
can people prosper through it, and
will retain it. The fact that the
American laborer gets twice as much
wages as the British worker in the
same field, and three times as much
as the German laborer, furnishes a
complete vindication of the Republi
can protective policy. The tariff is
largely responsible for the American
worker's preeminence among his fel
lows all over the world. Over 1,000,-
000 immigrants come to the United
States every year to share in the
prosperity which the Republican
party's tariff policy has won for the
country.
The tariff which the Republican
party has devised, and which it will
maintain, in for the United States
only. No effort was made by the
framens of the tariff to pleane Eng
land. France, Germany, or any other
old-world country. The interests of
the American worker were the sole
concern of the Republican party in
creating the tariff. By the American
worker is meant the entire body of
(he population, consumers as well as
producers. Nearly all Americans are
workers at some sort of employment.
All of them consume. Most of them
produce as well as consume. The in
terests of all Americans were kept in
view by the men who enacted the
Dingley tariff, as well as by the Re
publicans who shaped all the other
protective measures back to the Mor
rill tariff of 1861. These men legis
lated for the United States, and not
for Europe. This is one of the differ
ences between the Republican and
the Democratic parties. The Demo
cratic tariff of 1804, the Wilson-Gor
man tariff, was in the interest of Eu
rope rather than that of the United
States. The same would be true of a
Democratic tariff which would be
framed to-day, or in 1908. The Repub
lican idea of a tariff for Americans is
what the American people like best.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE AEOLIAN HARP.
The Woodpecker Party.
Once there was an old farmer who
lost his voice. As he could not call
his hogs, lie taught them to run to
the feed pen when lie tapped on the
trough with a stick. One day the old
man turned his hogs out in the for
est, and every time the hogs heard a
woodpecker tapping on a tree they
would run to it.and this they kept tip
till they finally ran themselves to
death. That's just like the Demo
crats. Once they were called to
gether by a Jeffersonian voice, but
the party lost its voice and played
the trick of the old farmer. The
woodpecker politician tapped on the
tariff reform limb, and away the boys
ran like they would break their fool
necks; then the free silver ltrnb, and
so on until the voters ar« so nearly
run to death that they couldn't trot
after a genuine issue if they had one.
Why not call them the woodpecker
party? At any rate, they come as
near imitating the old farmer's hogs
as anything we ever knew.—Mora
vian Falls (N. C.) Yellow Jacket.
Different Times.
These are great days for wage
earners and their savings. The New
York Herald of January 8 tells of 4,-
000 prosperous ones crowding the
doors and corridors of the German
Savings bank in order to get their
money in during the lengthened
hours which the book grants to de
positors one night in each year, so
that savings putin prior to January
10 shall draw interest from January
1. The crush of eager money savers
was something extraordinary. We do
not believe there was any such crush
on the nights of January 7, 1895 or
1896. in those tariff revision times
money was scarce for deposit by
wage earners in savings banks. Sav
ings were needed to keep the wolf
from the door. They were taken out,
not taken in. That is, they were
taken out when the depositors could
get. them out. The 60-day notice rule
was very generally enforced. Cer
tainly the times are very differen'
now
RETAINS MIS SEAT.
SENATE REFUSES TO EXPEL MR.
SMOOT, OF UTAH.
CONTEST THAT BEGAN FOUR
YEARS AGO ENDS IN VICTORY
FOR MORMON SENATOR.
Washington, D. C.—The four-year
contest against Reed Smoot be
ing permitted to retain his seat as a
senator of the United States from
Utah was ended Wednesday by 42 of
his colleagues voting to sustain him,
as against 28 for the resolution to un
seat him. Added to this there were
18 senators paired, making the actual 1
standing on the resolution 51 votes
against it and 37 for it. Senator
Smoot did not vote and Senator Web
more was absent and not paired.
The Smoot resolution was called
up soon after the senate convened
Every seat in the galleries was filled
and during the actual voting the floor
of the senate was crowded by mem'
bers of the house and employes of
the senate. Seldom has there been a
proceeding- affecting the standing Df a
senator that has attracted such
marked attention. In the audience
were representativs of a numbr of
prominent women's organizations
which have been active in circulating
and having presented petitions of re
monstrance against Mr. Smoot.
There have been numerous
speeches made for and against Sena
tor Smoot since the resolution to un
seat him was reported from the com
mittee on privileges and elections,
just prior to the adjournment pf con
gress last year. Yesterday Senators
Dubois, Hansborough, Newlands,
Bacon and Burrows, the latter chair
man of the committee, spoke against
Mr. Smoot, while Senators Beveridge,
Dolliver and Foraker spoke in his sup
port.
Although ft was a foregone conclu
sion that the resolution would fail and
thus end the long fight against the
Utah senator, the roll call contained
some surprises. Of the 42 votes in
favor of Mr. Smoot, «three were cast
by democrats. They were Messrs.
Blackburn, Clark, of Montana, and
Daniel. Senator Teller was paired in
favor of Mr. Smoot. Of the 28 votes
against Mr. Smoot nine were republi
cans. They were Messrs. Burrows,
Clapp, Dupont, Hale, Hansborough,
Henienway, Kittredge, La Follette
and Smith.
SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST.
A French Man-of-War Ran Into and
Sank an American Steamer.
New Orleans, La. —In hazy weath
er, the French cruiser Kleber
last night rammed and sank the
American fruit steamer Hugoma in
the Mississippi river just off New Or
leans. Capt. Lewis, of the Hugoma,
said that seven Japanese coal pass
ers and firemen were drowned. James
O'Neal, of New York, suffered a
broken leg from the impact.
The Kleber, just arriving from Ha
vana, was rounding a sharp turn and
the Hugoma, drifting with the six-mile
current, turned directly into the man
of-war's path. Capt. Lewis says that
his signal was mistaken by the war
ship. The latter struck the fruit ship
amidships on the port side, nearly cut
ting the vessel in twain and within
five minutes the Hugoma plunged to
the bottom in more than 100 feet of
water.
Some of the crew scrambled upon
the bows of the cruiser before the lat
ter backed free, while others lowered
boats and one or two jumped into the
river. The launching of boats was
extremely difficult, for when the
ships struck, the Hugoma rolled far
to starboard, remaining there until
the cruiser backed, w'len the fruit
ship immediately listed far to port
and began togo down.
JEROME IS BAEELED.
His Endeovors to Disconcert Thaw's
Wife in Her Testimony Fail.
New York. —fn continuing his
cross-examination of Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw on Wednesday at the
trial of her husband r District Attorney
Jerome brought out the fact that in
1902 Stanford White deposited $1,350
with a New York trust company with
instructions that it should be paid to
the Nesbit girl at the rate of 525 a
week. Mrs. Thaw frankly admitted
receiving a number of checks from
the trust company, but she would not
admit that there was a provision that
she should receive the money only
when out of employment. The prose
cutor spent nearly the entire after
noon in trying to make Mrs. Thaw
admit, that this was true, but as often
and in as many ways as he put the
question to her, she gave the one an
swer: "I don't remember."
Mrs. Thaw's inability to remember
a number of other things about which
Mr. Jerome questioned her was by far
the most material element in the
cross-examination.
Congress.
Washington.—On the 20th the sen
ate by a vote of 42 to 28 decided that
Reed Smoot, senator from Utah,
should retain his seat. The senate
passed the naval appropriation bill.
The river and harbor bill was passed.
The house passed the postoffice appro
priation bill.
Ohio Town Is Swept by Fire.
Cliillicothe, O. Fire Wednesday
night destroyed the business section
of lJainbridge, a village 20 miles
southwest of here. The fire originat
ed in a livery stable and destroyed
the town hall, the postoffice and a
number of stores. Loss SIOO,OOO/
Hughes Asks for Kelsey's Removal.
Albany, N. Y. Gov. Hughes
has recommended to the ten
ate the removal from office of Otto
Kelsey, state superintendent of insur
uiee, on the ground of unfitness foi
the position.
JEROME DELVES DEEP.
Hl* Cross-examination of Harry
Thaw's Wife Is Merciless.
New York. Under the stress
of a cross-examination in which
District Attorney Jerome gave no
quarter, Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
broke down upon the witness stand
Thursday. With blinding tears burn
ing their way down cheeks which
from ashen white had flushed to crim
son, she admitted that after her first
experience with Stanford White her
relations with the architect continued
for several months. Hut this was not
all. There were other confessions
damaging to her character.
Mrs. Thaw admitted that in 1903,
after the return from Europe, she
spent the night, at Thaw's apartments
I in New York and that for three weeks
i he and she occupied connecting apart
j ments at the Grand hotel in this city.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consid
[ ered perhaps her most damaging
statement to the defendant when she
said he had showed her copies of
cablegrams that were being sent to
Stanford White from Europe asking
I him to use his influence with a man
in London to prevent Mrs. Nesbit
from "raising a fuss" and interfering
with Evelyn continuing in the com
pany of Thaw.
FINANCE AND TRADE.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
Tells of Favorable Conditions.
New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Weather conditions have been
favorable for trade and transporta
tion in Most sectio is, but a few ad
verse reports aie still received and
total transactions again felt the cur
tailing influence of a holiday. At the
large cities there is a good attendance
of interior merchants, producing
much activity in jobbing circles, no
tably those dealing in dry goods, milli
nery and other distinctively spring
lines.
Industrial returns are uniformly en
couraging, mills and factories having
so much business in sight that no ma
chinery is idle except in cases where
fuel deliveries are unsatisfactory or
the labor supply inadequate. Farm
staples are fairly steady in price.
A CHICAGO TRAGEDY.
Wife of a Milliontire Politician Mur
ders an Alleged Blackmailer.
Chicago, 111. —Webster H. Guerin,
alias Louis Fisher, proprietor of
the Harrison Art Co., was on Thurs
day shot and killed in his office at La
Salle and Van Buren streets by Mrs.
Flora McDonald, wife of Michael C.
McDonald, a millionaire, who was for
many years the democratic "political
boss" of Chicago.
The motive for the killing is not ex
actly known. Mrs. McDonald became
hysterical and was unable to make a
connected statement. From what she
has said, however, it is believed that
for some time Guerin had obtained
money from her by the threat of mak
ing certain disclosures to he.- hus
band.
Congress.
Washington.—ln the senate on the
21st the entire session was devoted to
consideration of the agricultural ap
propriation bill. The house spent the
day in debate on the sundry civil bill.
Five Trainmen are Killed.
Detroit, Mich. —Five trainmen were
killed and two others injured
Thursday when an express train on
the Michigan Central railroad, west
bound, which left this city for Chicago
at 2:27 p. m., collided with an ice
train two miles west of Ypsilanti.
The express train was composed of
express and mail cars only.
Bryce Arrives in Washington.
Washington, D. C. —Hon. James
Bryce, the new British ambassador to
Washington, accompanied by Mrs.
B ,;ce, arrived here Thursday.
Even the heroine who by waving her
red petticoat saved the fast express
from destruction has had to give up
her pass. Thus do the sins of the un
just fall upon the just.
All Merzi, the new shah of Persia,
is described as a man who possesses
an iron will. Also he lias more step
mothers than any other ruler now ex
tant.
The greatest consolation in your
dying hour will be the remembrance
of the truth you have told and the
good deeds you have done.
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