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The Jnb department of the PKKSS is complete •rid .iffnrds frt'iilltlos for doiui: the be.st class of W. rk. l'Ati'i ICULAR ATTKNiIOM PAID TO LAW Printin'. No pj.p-'r will bo discontinued until arrear uoa arc paid, except at the option ol the pub lisher. Papers sent out ol the county must be paid lor iu advance. Edison and the Airship. Judging from Mr. Edison's recent I h'thday manifesto his friends should labor with him earnestly on the sub ject of airships. To those who have faith in the unimpaired powers of the modern wizard and take no stock in the notion that lie has shot his bolt as a worker of marvels it would ap pear that all that is needed to insure the speedy advent of the long dream ed of era of aerial travel is to con vince Mr. Edison of the utility of starting it. Mr. Edison was GO years old recently. In the course of some occasional remarks on his own career and his plans for the future he inci dentally expressed his belief that in time we shall have airships sailing £»0 feet or so above ground along the lines of our roads, avoiding conflicts in the air in this way. "If," added the inventor musingly, "I could convince myself that the airship -would prove useful, I would have a try at it my self." Mr. Edison, who, we trust, has not yet struck 12 as an inventor, cer tainly should "have a try at it." There nhould be no doubt whatever of the varied utility of the arrival of the dirigible airship as a fashionable and practical means of pleasure and loco motion. For instance, suggests the Milwaukee Sentinel, the advent of a real airship craze must at once elim inate from automobiiing (to the great advantage of the sport, the trade, and the innocent bystanders) that danger ous class of scorchers and feather brains generally, who would eagerly betake themselves to the new fad as something particularly novel, exclu sive and spectacular. By transfer ring their breakneck operations from the public highways to the ambient air a great source of vexation and peril would be removed. Let Mr. Edison go ahead, and make some amends for the musical phonograph. The French government has sent a special commissioner to Hungary to study the industrial, agricultural and commercial conditions of the country, and to report upon them, with a view to deciding in what manner French capital might be profitably invested in Hungary. The report will be laid be fore all the chambers of commerce in France. Joshua Pisa, of the Isthmus of Pan ama, and one of the greatest pearl merchants of the world, is visiting Washington. He owns valuable con cessions granted by the Panamanian government whereby he has almost a monopoly of the valuable oyster beds of the Pearl islands that are situated in the Pacific ocean 75 miles from the city of Panama. He ships his pearls mostly to Paris. The British consul ;it Chicago states, in a report to his government, that he is "continually asked whether cata logues issued by British manufactur ers can be seen at the consulate, and unfortunuately has to inform inquirers that, very few are sent to him," add ing that he "receives more catalogues and circulars from Germany than from the whole British empire." Edison says that his new storage battery, which in a perfected con dition, will be sent out next summer, will solve the problem of vehicle transportation in the cities. If it brings along a vehicle which is non elastic and entirely strapless, the long suffering public will ask no more. Mrs. Bertha Hirsch Baruch of Eos Angeles is the founder of the Jewish Foreign Relief association in that town. The establishment of English classes for immigrants and exiles is one of the things to which Mrs. Baruch will pay particular attention. In former times when anything was desired to be extracted from a wit ness, the latter was racked or pinch ed with hot irons, but even the re fined cruelty of those dark ages drew the line. Their lawyers never asked hypothetical questions. President Roosevelt's declaration that men ought to be good fathers and husbands and that women ought to be good wives and mothers is one that, even his most ardent political enemies ■will not venture to contradict. A FARMER'S REASONS TWENTY BILLION OF THEM FOR STICKING TO PROTECTION. Encrmous Advances in Prices of Farm Products and in the Value of Farm Lands From the Low Tariff Time of 1895 to the Protection Prosperity of 1506. Fully 510,000,000,000 dollars has been added to the value of the farms of the United States in the past ten years of Republican protection prosperity. Practically another ten billions has in these ten years been added to the market value of farm products. These are astounding figures, but they are borne out by official statistics. The increase in the value of farm lands in the past five years, 1900-1905, has been? 0,131,000,000. In a report entitled "Local Condi tions as Affecting Farm Values, 1900- 1905," lately issued by the bureau of statistics of the department of agricul ture, we find the following statement: "Increase in value for ten classes of farms. —For rice farms the increased value of the farm real estate during the five years is $3,000,000, after which are the sugar farms, with an increase of $20,000,000. The tobacco farms in creased $57,000,000, the fruit farms $94,000,000, and the vegetable farms, $113,00,000. The dairy farm increase of $369,000,000 is exceeded by the in crease of $400,000,000 for cotton farms, and considerably more by the increase for farms devoted tn general purposes, including a small element of farms with minor specialties, which was $708,000,000. The grand aggregate of increase for all classes of farms is $6,- 131,000,000, more than two-thirds of which is contributed by the increase for hay and grain farms, $1,983,000,- 000, and $2,263,000,000 for live stock farms." This increase of more than $6,000,- 000,000 in the value of farm lands in the five years ending with 1905 is in striking contrast with what took place in the four years of Democratic tariff making, 1893-1897. In those lean years—lean for the wage earners and therefore lean for the farmers—the decline in values of farm products was estimated at between $4,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000. American labor was earning less and eating less. In that, same lean period of free trade tariff revision the depreciation of farm land values was not less than $5,000, 000,000. Total loss to the farmers of the United States In four years of downward tariff revision, $10,000,000,- 000. All of this gigantic loss was recov ered in the four years of protection prosperity following the election of President McKinley in 1896. In the next succeeding five years, ending with 1905, years of Republican protec tion prosperity, there has been a fur ther gain of more than $6,000,000,000 in farm land value and of probably $4,000,000,000 in the values of farm products. Counting the money lost, 1893-1897 (free trade period), $10,000,000,000, and the money gained back again and in creased beyond that by the huge gains in values of lands and of products since 1900, and we find that restored protection to labor, to industry and to the products of agriculture has been worth $20,000,000,000 to the farmers of the United States! Says the report of the agricultural department, lately isued: "Increase in value for five geo graphic divisions.—Nearly four-fifths of the national aggregate increase in value of farm realestate during the five years is found in two groups of states —the north central states, with more than half of the total increase, or $3,572,000,000, and the south central states, with one-fifth of that increase, or $1,201,000,000. The south Atlantic and western groups of states have nearly the same increases—ssl4,ooo,- 000 and $500,000,000, respectively. The smallest increase is left to the north Atla-ilic states, where a net gain of $344,000,000 remains after deducting some reported decreases in value." Among the causes of increase i« farm land values given in the report under consideration are the following: "New or expanding manufacturing industries in nearby markets. (Re sult of protection.) "Raising sugar beets for sugar fac tories. (Result of protection.) "Improved economic conditions; gen eral prosperity. (Almost wholly the result of protection.) Some details of these higher prices are found interesting. In 1896 (free trade tariff period) corn averaged 21.5 cents a bushel; five years later, 1901 (protection period), the average was 60.5 cents a bushel. Oats were worth 18.7 in 1896, and 39.9 in 1901. Wheat was 59.9 cents a bushel in 1895, and 92.4 cents a bushel in 1904. Eggs brought. 16.9 cents a dozen in 1896, and 31,8 cents a dozen in 1905. The average prices for 1901-1904 were far greater than for 1895-1899. Corn (not counting the extraord inary price of 60.5 cents In 1901) was 14.2 cents higher; wheat, 5.6 higher; oats, 10.2 higher; potatoes, 16.6 higher; horses, $22.74 higher; mules, $22.03 higher; milch cows, $5.09 higher; other cattle, $1.63 higher; sheep, 70 cents higher; swine, $1.99 higher. In 190 C prices are still higher than the average for 1900-1904 for a large number of farm articles, Farmers have reason to stand with the Republican party, the party of pro tection and prosperity. At the rate of a dollar a reason, they have about 20,000,000,000 reasons for refusing to stand with the free-trade party, the j party of adversity and ruin. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY MARCH 14, 1907. NELSON AND THE MILLS BILL. Minneapolis Tribune Seems to Speak Without Authority. "Senator Nelson, it will be remem bered, laid the foundation of his politi cal success by voting for the Mills bill." —Minneapolis Tribune. There is reason to believe that Knute Nelson has not, for many years past, recalled with pride and satisfac tion his vote for the .Mills bill. Serv ing his third consecutive term as a He publican congressman his support of that free trade iniquity was something of a shock to his party. In the next ensuing election of 1890 he was not returned to congress. By 1892 he had so far regained bis standing with the Republicans of .Minnesota as to be elected governor. Directly follow ing the conclusion of his single term as governor he was elected to the United States senate, where his tariff reform propensities, if any remained after his support of the Mills bill, have been continuously in check for 12 or 13 years. We doubt whether Senator Nelson would to-day agree with the Tribune's theory. He would be far mote likely to express the belief that the foundation of his political fortunes was badly shaken by his lapse toward free trade in 18S8, and, that his advancement since that time has been due in considerable measure to his uniform adherence to the policy of protection. At all events he han been careful not to repeat the blundet of 188 S. sl2 a Tr.n. Quite frequently we sec In the col umns of freo trade and tariff revision newspapers a repetition of the ailiy statement attributed to Charles H. Schwab to the effect that steel rails could be made by the Carnegie com pany at a profit for sl2 a ton. We do not know whether or not Mr. Schwab ever made this statement. What we do know is that in 1899, the year when he Is said to have made the statement, the price of Bessemer pig iron at Pittsburg was sl9 a ton. It takes considerably more than a ton of pig iron to make a ton of steel rails. Either the Carnegie company got its pig iron for nothing, or else Mr. Schwab did not know what he was talking about, or else he did not say that steel rails could be sold at a profit for sl2 a ton. In the past four years pig iron lias ranged from sl4 to $lB a ton. Granted that the United States Steel Corporation has made a handsome profit on its steel rail production at S2S per ton, and that it has occasionally sold its rails outside of the United States at less than S2B, the fact remains that the assertion that steel rails could be sold at a profit for sl2 is unmitigated nonsense. A child should know better than to believe and repeat so transparent a fable. Always to Regret. For a hundred years we have had occasional outbreaks such as are tak ing place now. In the years when protection has scored its most signal triumphs the people have often turned against it, but always to discover and regret their mistake within a very short period of time. Secretary Shaw is the most conspicuous advocate in America to-day of the economic sys tem which has prevailed in this coun try with great benefit throughout all the prosperous periods of our history from the days or Alexander Hamilton until the present time. Now and then it will be overthrown, but its overthrow will be only temporary. Protectionists may be sad over the fol lies of those who know not what they do when they denounce it, but they can always be assured that no anti protection victory will ever be per manent. Shaw is denounced now by some because he is the great protec tionist to-day, but that may only mean that he may be acclaimed to-morrow. He surely will be if the country goes the length of again taking up the freo trade folly. Cedar Rapids Repub lican. But Half True. "One of the *->.".rst features of a tar iff levied not for revenue, but for the avowed purpose of protection, is that it fosters the idea that men should use their vote? to advance their own financial interests." That was a dec laration made by Mr. Bryan in his re cent Madison square speech. It is but half true. Protection fosters the idea thai men should use their votes to ad vance the financial interests of theii whole country. There is a Massachu setts faction and an lowa faction, and here and there a leader and a follow ing, that teach this individual and lo cality view of protection. And they think they are reformers. But the Re publican protectionists of the United States know that this country has profited through that policy as no other country on earth has ever profit ed. And for that reason they urge men to use their votes in protection's behalf. —Adrian (Mich.) Times. No Tariff Change Likely. Perhaps the most strenuous oppo sition made to the Republican party by the Democrats is its policy of pro-, tection, and yet it may be safely as sumed that if a Democratic adminis tration had charge of the nation's af fairs to-morrow and attempted to en act a "tariff for revenue only" law, that a commercial rebellion would re suit, and intelligent Democrats know it. Protection has been the means of making this country what it is to day commercially, and to change to a free trade principle or anything like it would be resented by every one who has a dollar invested. MYSTERIOUS Circumstances Attend a Millionaire's Death. m NEW YORK CITY. Leonidas Preston Had Enough Hy drocyanic Poison in His Stom ach to Kill Six Men. New York.—An autopsy held on Friday by Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon disclosed, it was subsequent ly stated, that Leonidas Preston, a millionaire who died suddenly Thurs day at the Hotel Cumberland, had enough hydrocyanic poison in his stomach to kill six men. Coroner Har burger immediately reported the ca:;e to the police and detectives were set to work upon several mysterious cir cumstances connected with the case. Mr. Preston was New York manager for the Timken Railroad Bearing Axle Co. and had an office in West Forty sixth street. Mr. Preston died while telephoning to some business acquaint ances. The hotel physician, who was called in when Mr. Preston suc cumbed, gave the opinion that death bad been oaiised by a cerrbral hemor rhage. Mr. Preston's wife told the coroner that Ml'. Preston returned from a busi ness trip to New Orleans two weeks ago suffering from a severe attack of grip, complicated with bronchial trou bles. It. appears that when Mr. Preston died William R. Timken, the head of the concern of which Preston was New York manager, Leonard Gray and Ed ward R. Hewitt were in the hotel of fice. They had sent up word that they wished to see him. Preston answered in person over the telephone, telling them to "come right up." When two minutes later they reached his suite Preston was dead. Mr. Preston came to New York from Dallas, Tex., some years ago. He was said to be the sole heir to a fortune of $3,000,000 in New Orleans and to have amassed another fortune of $1,000,000 in business. He was 46 years old, tall, muscular any very strong. REVIEW or TRADE. Traffic Conditions Improve, Increasing th'j Distribution of Merchandise. New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Depression in the stock market did not extend beyond Wall street, com modity prices ruling high and general business continuing vigorous. The traffic conditions have improved some what, increasing the distribution of merchandise, and spring sales of dry goods have equalled anticipations. He tail trade is good for the season, and late buying of winter goods necessitat ed by the severe weather in many sec tions has depleted stocks in a most satisfactory manner. A few trade reports tell of conserv atism regarding operations for the fu ture, due to high prices and tight money, but there is practical unanim ity as to the activity of current trade, comparisons with last year's figures J being almost always decidedly favor- j able. Several wage scales are under ; discussion that may not be settled j without further enhancing the cost oi production or operation, but no serious strike is anticipated and higher freight rates have become necessary on some roads because of increased expenses. RUEf IS ARRESTED. Frisco's Political Boss, Who Was In Hiding, Is Pound. San Francisco, Cal. —Abraham Ruef was arrested Friday night at a sub urban resort by W. J. Biggy, who was piloted to the place by Detective Burns. Ruef submitted to arrest and was brought to the city in an automobile. He was later taken to a hotel for the night. Sheriff O'Neill and Coroner Walsh having confessed their inability to find, arrest and bring into court Abra ham Ruef, the indicted lawyer and po litician who has been declared by Judge Dunne to be a fugitive from justice, State Senator W. J. Biggy, a business man, was on Friday ordered by Judge Dunne to discover the where abouts of the defendant in hiding and take him in custody. The Defense Rests. New York.—The defense in the Thaw case rested Friday imme diately after the convening of court and an adjournment was ordered until Monday. District Attorney Jerome said that while he had been informally notified Thursday of the changed plans of the defendant's counsel, he had come to court expecting to be con fronted by additional expert testimony as to Thaw's state of mind. Ilia wit nesses were not ready, and it was upon this representation and with the consent of the defense that adjourn ment was taken. Six Negroes Killed by a Cavein. Charlotte, N. C.—By the caving In of a sewer at Statesville, N. C., Friday, six negroes were buried alive under tons of earth. The rescue party found the six men" standing up right when the earth was removed, but life was extinct. A $300,000 Fire Loss. New York. —The building occu pied by William Green, a printer from whose presses "Smart Set" and "Town Topics" are printed, was binned last night, causing a loss oi $300,000. NINE PEOPLE HURT. TWO CARS OF A PASSENGER TRAIN WERE DUMPED INTO A POND. COACHES THROWN OVER A 25 FOOT EMBANKMENT—BROKE A GAS PIPE LINE. Warren, Pa. —Train No. 33 on the Western New York & Pennsyl vania division of the Pennsylvania railroad was wrecked last night be tween Irvineton and this place. The train plunged over a 25-foot embank ment and nine persons were injured, I none fatally. | The train was running behind a j freight from Irvineton to Warren and J when three-quarters of a mile from Warren the freight ran onto a siding | to allow the passenger train to pass. After the freight was on the siding the passenger train started through the switch, which is set from a tower | about a quarter of a mile away. The I switch was not entirely closed and two ! cars were thrown from the rails and down an embankment into a pond of water. Near the railroad track runs a pipe | line of the Pennsylvania Gas Co., car j rying 200 pounds pressure. This pipe j line was broken and the coaches filled j with natural gas. There were four 1 passengers in the rear coach, which I was turned completely Over, and they ! had a narrow escape from suffocation j by gas fumes. Had the lamps in the | coaches been lighted an explosion I would h tve takon place. Nearly every passenger on the train was bruised or cut and several were taken to the hos pital here for treatment. The wreck, which was in the lo< .1 yards, attracted | the attention of workmen nearby and j they assisted the injured onto a < freight car and they were brought to this city. FIGHT INCH BY INCH. Attorneys for Standard Oil Co. are Working Like Beavers to Defeat the Government. Chicago, 111. —It became evident that the attorneys for the Stand j ard Oil Company of Indiana, now on j trial in the federal court on indict j ments for alleged violation of the Elk ; his act, are determined to make a | strong fight against the indictments | proper. Wednesday's session of court ; was marked by a continued succession of arguments in which the Standard | Oil attorneys contended that the gov i ernment must prove certain facts in ! the indictments or abandon its case, j The principal point upon which their S attacks centered was the allegation I made in the iudictments that the i Elkins law was violated by shipments | of oil made from Whiting, Ind., to St. Louis over the Chicago & Alton, i It was asserted by the defense that j the law could not have been violated in this manner, for the reason that the ! Chicago & Alton road does not extend | to St. Louis, but terminates on the op posite side of the river at East St. j Louis, 111. They assert that the tariff sheets published by the Alton road did not contain a joint through rate to St. | Louis, saying that the rate between East St. Louis and St. Louis was that of the Wiggins Ferry Co. They ob jected on this ground to the introduc tion as evidence of the Alton tariff sheets. Judge Landis ruled, however, that the ferry company tariff sheets might be admitted as evidence, as they had been filed with the inter-state com merce commission by the Alton rail road and that the ferry company had never objected to the filing of its sheets with the commission by the railroad company, nor had it objected to the rates given. Strictly Business. "Do you guarantee that there are no broken hearts in this matrimonial bureau?" "Oh, no; but then, we always allow for breakages."—Baltimore American. The Cry of the Season. 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