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Bacon.
Do you remember what Charles
Lamb says about roast pig? How ho
tails into an ecstasy of laudation,
spelling the very name with small cap
itals, as if the lower case were too
mean for such a delicacy, and break
ing away from the cheap encomiums
of the vulgar tongue to hail it in
sonorous Latin ns principes obsonior
uzn. There is "ome truth in his com
pliments, no doubt; but they are
-wasteful, excessive, imprudent. For
If all this praise is to be lavished on
plain, fresh, immature, roast pig, what
adjectives shall we find for the riper,
richer, more subtle and sustaining
viand, broiled bacon? asks Henry Van
Dyke, in Scribner's. On roast pig a
uau cannot work; often he cannot
sleep, if he have partaken of it im
moderately. But bacon "brings to its
sweetness no satiety." It strengthens
the arm while it satisfies the palate.
Crisp, juicy, savory; delicately salt as
the breeze that blows from the sea;
faintly pungent as the blue smoke of
incense wafted from a clean wood fire;
aromatic, appetizing, nourishing, a
stimulant to the hunger which it ap
peases, 'tis the matured bloom and
consummation of the mild little pig,
spared by foresight for a nobler fate
than juvenile roasting, and brought by
art and man's device to a perfection
surpassing nature. All the problems
of woodland cookery are best solved
by the baconian method. And when
we say of one escaping great disaster
that he has "saved his bacon," we say
that the physical basis and the quin
tessinal comfort of his life are un
touched and secure.
Our Indian Population.
The figures showing the Indian pop
ulation in the United States do not
afford much ground for sentimental
persons to lament the disappearance
of "Lo." As a matter of fact, the In
dians are not disappearing, so far as
numbers are concerned. There are
now nearly 300,000 members of the
aboriginal races in this country, and
there is a steady growth. As it is
doubtful whether there were ever any
more in this portion of the continent,
it is possible that much emotion has
been wasted in deploring the passing
of these original inhabitants. Further
more, the Indians of the present day
are in far better condition than their
progenitors. Many are educated and
trained in ways that make them good
and worthy citizens, and they live in
a manner that would astonish tho red
man of 200 years ago, could he come
back and see things as they are now.
More than half the Indians in exist
ence dress like white men and to some
extent copy civilized ways. The other
half retain much of the old-time mode
of living, but the proportion of "blan
ket" or wholly uncivilized redskins is
steadily growing smaller.
Mrs. Gougar is right, remarks the
Indianapolis News, in saying that
equal suffrage sentiment is growing
year by year, in so far at least as re
lates to municipal affairs. Probably a
majority of intelligent and liberal
minded men are now ready to admit
that women who pay taxes, women in
terested in schools and in the social
order —a list that includes a majority
of the women in any community—
should have a voice in the regulation
of local affairs. Men will not vote to
grant such a change, however, until
women unmistakably manifest their
wish for it, and this they have not yet
done, since they are slower to adopt
progressive ideas than men.
An effort is being made in New
York to moderate the noises of civili
zation. Maybe the day will come
when noise will not continue to be
identified with progress, and quiet
with a state of inertia. In fact, if
noise increases at its present ratio,
and this desired reform does not ma
terialize, life is in danger of becom
ing one long, loud scream.
A clerk in York robbed his employ
yer of sfioo and then confessed the
theft, but instead of prosecuting him
the latter retained him in his employ
and raised his salary. Still, this case
should not he taken as one for gen
eral emulation. There are not many
employers who would take such a mild
liint in just that way.
RIPPERS ARE BUSY
PERSISTENT EFFORTS TO SECURE
TARIFF REVISION.
Massachusetts Congressmen Trying to
Secure Cooperation of Western
Republicans to Force Changes
at Extra Session.
The fact that the efforts of the "re
visionists" in congress are from time
to time renewed in an active way
toward the securing, if possible, of an
expression of the Republican majority
In caucus favorable to a special session
of congress in the coming spring to re
vise the tariff, lends to the whole sub
ject an importance which cannot be
overestimated by the friends of the
protective system. Massachusetts
members have reached out to the Re
publican representatives of the West
and Northwest with a request for a
uniting of forces to secure such cau
cus.
The requisite number of signers for
the party caucus, 50, has not been se
cured. Careful and conservative esti
mates by men in position to know dis
credit the idea that the movers in the
enterprise can possibly be successful.
Cut it is never a wise plan to belittle
efforts of those who are constantly at
work, even in a mistaken cause, espe
cially when they have such a short dis
tance togo to obtain that for which
they are working.
The fact must not be lost sight of
that the element in the Republican ma
jority in tho house of representatives
that is striving to secure consent of
the administration and of the Republl
an majority to a revision of the tariff
schedules are constantly busy, while
there is a spirit of indifference among
the loyal friends of the protective sys
tem —an indifference born of the idea
that the opposition cannot possibly
win in the game they are playing.
Every point gained in a contest of this
kind, as can easily be shown, counts
in a substantial way in the direction of
undermining the established policy of
the Republican party and of the coun
try. The meaning of this, briefly
stated, is this:
Every name added to the petition
for a caucus of the Republican major
ity in the house on the tariff question
tends to encourage additional names.
Fifty is a small number to ob
tain among 250 members, many of
whom count too lightly the dangers
which beset tamj»ering with so great
and important a problem.
The very calling of a caucus, no
matter if its final decision should be
edverse to the plan of the revisionists,
might and possibly would be accepted
by President Roosevelt as encourage
ment of the idea of having a special
session to revise the tariff law. Ho
has at no time evinced such sturdy
opposition to revision as to encourage
the idea that he would hesitate long
to move in that direction if he found
material encouragement in congress
or in the country. ,
Discussion of the subject of tariff
revision, encouraged as it is by the
representatives of two or three Repub
lican states, might be seized upon by
those who are desirious of the slight
est possible excuse for making a raid
upon the revenue laws, in the hope not
only of securing revision, but of es
tablishing some scheme of "recipro
city" or dual tariffs which shall trade
off protection for foreign trade to fa
vored industries in this country.
Frankness compels tho statement
that the efforts of these Republicans
in the house to secure a party caucus
have not met with material encourage
ment up to this time. Most of the rep
resentatives, even from states whero
there is a more or less numerous ele
ment of the party favorable to imme
diate revision and downward are in
clined to defer action at this time.
They argue that a majority of the
party in the house is opposed to a spe
cial session, and would vote down a
suggestion for such session if made in
a caucus. But, with the number nec
essiry to be obtained as signers to a
call for a party caucus so small, the
possibility of success is ever an en
couragement to renewed efforts on the
part of the aggressive and tireless re
visionists. It should also be an en
couragement to counter activity on the
part of the real friends of protection
—those who bt-lieve that conditions in
the country are such as to warrant
their continuance. Only by constant
vigilance can the protectionists ! i con
gress prevent the carrying out of the
policy that has support anion? a hand
ful only of the Republicans, but the
active encouragement of every free
trader in and out of congress in the
entire country.
The issue is too important to be neg
lected for a moment by the friends of
protection in every state of the Union.
Labor and Tariff.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, recent
ly expressed himself as being proud
of what had been accomplished for
the laboring men of the United States
in recent years. It is perhaps true, as
claimed by Mr. Gompers, that lrfbor
organizations have had something to
do with the siiuataion in which as an
American citizen ho expresses pride,
hut he Is of course aware of the fact
that labor is far more thoroughly or
ganized in England than in the United
States, yet present conditions in the
former country would cause no sort of
pride. If Mr. Gompers lives long
enough to see the repeal of the pres
ent tariff law of the United States and
in its place the adoption of some tariff
reform compromise, he will have an
opportunity to revise his labor review
recital and to learn anew a lesson
which he seems to have almost for
gotten.—Hancock (Mich.) Journal.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY MARCH 7, 1907.
FOREIGN EXPORTER PAYS TAX.
Why He Is So Violently Opposed to
American Tariff Duties.
We find in the free trade Philadel
phia Record the following queer and
self-contradicting presentment of a fa
miliar question:
"Much of the talk of the effects of
maximum and minimum duties goes
upon the assuredly false assumption
that the duties are paid by the ex
porters, and not by the people who
impose them. When people want for
eign articles of necessity or luxuries J
very badly they will import them j
whether the duties be higher or lower,
unless wholly prohibitory. The former
notion, propagated by the Protective
Tariff league and the Boston Home
Market club, that foreigners pay the
Dingley duties for the privilege of
trading with this country, has been
well-night abandoned by sensible peo- i
pie. As a substitute for a comprehen- I
Hive revision of : barbarous tariff sys- j
tem based on the interests of the |
masses of the people minimum duties ,
to preferred customers are little better
than trinkgeld, or tips in trade."
Has the Record never heard of dual
tariffs adopted by foreign nations for
the avowed purpose of compelling the
United States to lower its own tariff
rates? If the foreign exporter pays no
part of the duties, why is he so des
perately determined, even to the point
of threatening to exclude our own ex
ports, upon breaking down these du
ties? According to the Record's phil
osophy all these threats of tariff war
faro unless v. o reduce our duties ema
nate from exporters who foolishly ima
gine that their profits would be higher
if the American duties wore low.vr.
VVe strongly suspect that here is an
other case where academic theory
knocks its brains out against the
stone wall of solid facts.
HOT FOR "REFORM."
"Hell is paved with good intentions."
—Johnson.
Labor Shares in Prosperity.
American wage earners are enjoy
ing a large share of the general pros
perity of the country. This fact is
shown by an analysis of the recontly
published report of the United States
bureau of labor on wages, hours of
labor and prices of food. The figures
show that the average wage earner is
working shorter hours than ever be
fore, that he is receiving more pay
for the short hour week than he for
merly received for the long hour
week, and that the increase in his
average wage has been so great that
its purchasing power has risen, not
withstanding the increase in prices of
many commodities. Finally, it shows
that there has been an enormous in
crease in the number of persons em
ployed.
A Matter of Preparation.
Promotion of a double standard tar
iff agitation at this juncture is to be
interpreted as largely diplomatic.
The real point is to emphasize the
possibility of retaliation for excessive
foreign discrimination in the guise of
tariff arrangements against our trade
and industry. Aside from threatened
dangers from Germany, other condi
tions make it certain that retaliatory
powers in some form will be a con
spicuous subject for legislation when
tariff revision is seriously taken up,
and the result of the present contro
versy with Germany will likely have
much to do in determining our action.
—Omaha Bee.
General Increase of Wages.
Wage increases are coming so thick
and fast that it is almost impossible
to keep track of them. Increased
payrolls are the order of the day on
nearly all the railroads and in prac
tically all branches of Industrial pro
duction. Business justifies it. A con
dition of unexampled prosperity com
pels is.
Everybody is counting upon a con
tinuation of this state of things. But
how would it be if immediate tariff
revision had been recommended by
the president and ordered by con
gress? In that case wages would
have to be lowered, not increased.
Hill Seeks Own Benefit.
It may be that fres trade with Cana
da —for that is practically what Mr.
James J. Hill would have, under the
guise of reciprocity—would benefit the
great railway system of which he is
the head. It does not matter to him
which way the $200,000,000 trade of
the Dominion is hauled. But to the
people of this country thece is a vast
difference between selling to Canada
and buying from that country. Mag
nate Hill's free trade dream will not
be realized while the Republican
party continues at the helm.—San
Diego Union.
Isn't Mr. Hill asking the American
people to make his Canadian invest
ments profitable by making sacrifices
in his behalf? I
FIERCERGHT
Over Ship Subsidy Bill
Ends in Its Passage.
BY 11 MAJORITY.
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Clause Providing for Subsidies to
Lines Running to the Orient
Is Stricken Out.
Washington, D. C.—The house at
I the morning session Friday began
I consideration of the general defi
| ciency bill and at 1 o'clock laid it aside
| for the ship subsidy bill, whose pass
. age developed one of the prettiest
| fights in years. On the first vote the
I democrats and the insurgent republic
! aus had votes enough to defeat the
measure, but after three hours of
fierce contest the bill as perfected in
committee of the whole, striking out
provisions for steamship mail lines
from Pacific coast points to the Orient
was finally passed by 11 majority, the
vote being 155 to 144.
Only four steamship lines are to be
subsidized under the measure in the
form finally agreed upon and all of
these are to sail for So'ith American
ports. One of the lines is to !>e from
the Atlant'e to Brazil; a second
Is to be from the Atlantic coast to Ar
gentine and the third Atlantic lino is
to be between the Gulf of Mexico and
; Brazil. The fourth line is to be from
j the Pacific coast to the isthmus of
I Panama, Peru and Chile.
'AN ACCOUNTING IS DEMANDED.
Relatives of Mrs. Eddy, Christian Sci
entist Leader, Ask a Court to In
terfere in Her Affairs.
Concord, X. H.—A bill in equity
jto secure an accounting of the
financial affairs of Mrs. Mary Baker
Glover Eddy, head of the Christian
Science church, was filed in the su
perior court for Merrimac county Fri
day by Mrs. Eddy's son, George W.
Glover, of Deadwood, S. D., and his
! daughter, Miss Mary Baker Glover,
j and George W. Baker, of Bangor, Me.,
I nephew and "next friend" of Mrs.
| Eddy.
The bill is directed against Alfred
i Farlow and other trustees of the
Christian Science church in Boston and
C. A. Frye, Mrs. Eddy's secretary, Lew
is Strong, her assistant secretary, and
• Herman S. Herring, first reader of the
j church in Concord.
| Besides demanding an accounting
j of all transactions in connection with
| Mrs. Eddy's affairs, the bill asks for
I restitution in case any wrong doing
appears; for an injunction during liti
gation against interference with her
I property and business, and for a re
ceiver.
In a statement issued last night by
ex-United States Senator William E.
! Chandler, special counsel in the ac
! tion, it is declared that Mr. Glover Is
j actuated by no spirit of disrespect to
| his mother, but believes that the pro
| ceeding is in her real interest. Mr.
Glover says that the action is not di
rected against the religion of the
Christian Scientists.
AN EXPERT'S TESTIMONY.
It May Lead to the Bringing of Harry
Thaw Before a Lunacy Commission.
New York.—The insanity of ado
lescence. paranoia and the char
acteristics ol' "brain storm" occupied
both sessions of the Thaw trial Friday
j and when adjournment until Monday
was ordered Dr. Britton D. Evans, one
of the alienists for the defense, was
I still under cross-examination. District
Attorney Jerome's course in question
ing the witness was somewhat baf
fling. During the greater part of the
time he seemed desirous to have Dr.
Evans unqualifiedly admit that Thaw
suffered from paranoia, which is prac
tically incurable.
The net result of the day appeared
to be that Mr. Jerome is still laying
the foundation upon which he may ask
for a commission in lunacy to judge of
the present mental condition of the de
fendant.
DUN'S TRADE REVIEW.
Leading Industries Have Orders Cov
ering Production for Months
in Advance.
New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Jobbing trade in dry goods and mil
linery for spring distribution continues
the most active commercial feature, a
large attendance of country buyers
placing liberal orders at the leading
centers, and it is the exception when
transactions are not equal to those of
a year ago, while substantial gains are
often recorded.
Leading industries have orders cov
ering full production many months in
advance, steel mills falling further be
hind with deliveries because of new
business greater than the daily rate
of output.
Nicaraguans Capture Three Town!!.
Managua, Nicaragua. Forces of
the Nicaraguan government have
captured without resistance the
Honduran towns of Conception and
Maria. They took possession oft lie
town of Corpus Christi after hard
fighting.
Steamer Ran Ashore.
Eureka, Cal. —The steamer Corona
went ashore ou the rocks off
Humboldt Friday. There were over
100 persons aboard. All but one were
rescued by the life-saving crew. Quar
termaster Gunn was drowned.
ASSETS JUGGLED.
ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS ARE
BY A CHICAGO & ALTON OF
FICIAL.
GIVES OUT A STORY OF FRENZIED
FINANCE TO INTER-STATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
New York. Counsel for the
government renewed their attack
upon the financial methods of the Har
riman group in the Chicago & Alton
railroad before the inter-state com
merce commission late Wednesday af
ternoon when they called Charles W.
Milliard, controller of the road, as a
witness. Under examination by Frank
B. Kellogg, Hilliard testified that he
became controlled in October last,
I when, under the joint arrangement for
the management of the property, the
Rock Island took its turn.
! Hilliard said that his first task was
to find money to carry on the improve
ments that were under way. There
was money in the treasury for current
i expenses, but not enough to carry on
the improvements, which included a
cutoff of 34% miles of road from a
point near Murrayville to Springfield.
There was not enough money to com
plete the building of this line, said
the witness.
"I looked into the question of rais
ing: money by mortgage," he con
tinued, "and I discovered that it had
already been mortgaged."
"Do I understand that this road had
been mortgaged before it was built?"
asked Commissioner Lane.
"Yes," he answered, "I was told lhat
it was covered by tho mortgage of
1900, and there was nothing that could
be done except put a second mortgage
on it, which would have been poor se
curity," said Hilliard.
Mr. Kellogg then read the mortgage
to show the line had been covered by
It, and resuming the witness said:
"All the bonds were gone. I found
from the books that the $13,000,000
had never been paid for the bonds,
that the $10,000,000 had never been
paid to Stanton for the stock, that the
$3,000,000 had never been paid to
Stanton for the road, but that the
$22,000,000 in bonds had been turned
over to the syndicate who delivered
the stock and the road through the in
termediary, Mr. Stanton."
A VIRGINIA TRAGEDY.
Story of How a Woman Was Wedded
and Made a Widow in One Hour
Is Told in Court.
Culpepper, Va. —In the little Cul
pepper courthouse on Wednesday
Mrs. William Bywaters, the bride of
an hour, tie killing of whose husband
by her brothers, James and Philip
Strother, almost two and a half
months ago, was one of the most no
table tragedies in the history of this
section; her sister, Mrs. Edward
Gaines, and one of her brothers,
George Strother, told the story of the
shooting and the events that led up
to it.
Mrs. Bywaters testified that her be
trayal was accomplished by promise
of marriage; told of three trips she
and Bywaters made to Washington for
the purpose of having a criminal oper
ation performed; told the story of By
waters' attempted flight, his sudden
breaking away from her in her bed
room and the shooting as he sought to
escape through a window and over the
roof of the porch. Both the sister and
brother testified that there was no
thought of shooting until Bywaters
sought to desert his bride, and they
told of his indifference toward the
latter.
While an actual witness to the
shooting, Mrs. Gaines displayed but a
hazy recollection of the words passed
between Bywaters and her brothers
in the bedroom just before the latter
opened fire. She remembered, how
ever, that Philip had fired the first
shot as Bywaters rushed past her in
an attempt to escape down the back
stairway.
Their Own Fault.
"Poets usually have sad lives," said
the sentimentalist.
"Well," answered Mr. Cumrox, ''writ
ing the kind of things they do, I don't
see how they could expect to be very
cheerful." —Washington Star.
No Comparison.
"Kitty, which do you like the bet
ter, me or candy?"
"I like you awfully well. Uncle
George, but I just love candy!"— Ch
icago Tribune.
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