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"Tipping" in Europe.
According to immemorial usage. Eu
ro] < an servants are entitued to tipc
as an assured part of their income.
At the hotels the theory is that the
landlord furnishes a guest a private
room and the use of the public rooms,
heat and light, food and dishes, but
not menial service. For convenience
he keeps at hand a corpsi of servants
who will k .■-pond to the guest's sum
mons, bu at hi ', expense, 'n old
times, says Travel .Magazine, tnvelers
were attended by their own servants
to wait oil them. The modern custom
echoes the ancient. The traveler no
longer carries with him a retinue of
servants, because he can hire tempor
arily those of the landlord. The cus
tomary fees are the payment. To
avoid feeing is really to cheat the ser
vants, who need all they can get.
heaven knows. A chambermaid at the
.best hotels receives as wages only
'about two dollars a month. Tipping
.■servants in America is a regrettable
limitation of the European custom,
without its resting on the reasonable
basis of the foreign institutions.
American Chivalry.
• Toward women the American man's
attitude is fine. She is neither his
deity nor his doll. He simply treats
her with deference. His chivalry has
as little to do with saccharine utter
ances, scraping feet, and bended
iknees, as has his patriotism with hys
terical shriekings and the waving of
(ensanguined Hags. He is stronger in
liis silence and apparent submission
to the ladies of his household than the
most blatant vulgarian who prates of
rdomestic domination. Place aux
Dames is more than a phrase to the
American man. His inborn respect
(for her "rights" often causes him to
sacrifice his own God-given privileges.
Upon the face of the earth or upon
the waters thereon, says .Minna
Thomas Antrim in Lippincott's, exists
no more chivalrous being than the
.American gentleman.
The burning of the art treasures in
John Wanamaker's homo, of .manu
script Lincoln and Washington letters,
of rare books and pictures impossible
ito replace, is a public as well as a
private loss. Of such objects no man
can be more than a trustee for poster
ity, remarks the New York World.
The loss of the manuscript letters re
calls the burning of Major Lambert's
collection of similar treasures in
Philadelphia only a short time ago.
Mr. Wanamaker had reason to sup
pose that he had protected the greater
part of his collections by a fire-wall
cutting off the art galleries from the
rest of his house, but the galleries
went with the rest when the blazing
wall of the house crashed through
their roof.
The amazing thing in connection
with the endless chain system of
prayers, begging letters, etc., which
cause so much annoyance to their re
cipients and to postal authorities is
that anyone can be influenced by the
dread of ill fortune befalling him if he
fails to obey the injunction to con
tinue the chain by writing nine other
•letters. The simple and effective way
of stopping the nuisance is for the
recipient to drop all such mail into
the waste basket and then to forget
it.
A link with the past haft lately been
broken. The dowager Countess de la
Peyrouse de Boufels, who died in Aix
en-Provence the other day, was the
goddaughter of Napoleon Bftnaparte.
He was sponsor at her baptism in St.
Helena, where she was born in ISI6.
Charles Curtis, who was lately elect
ed to the United States senate from
Kansas, is more completely American
than any other member of that body.
His mother was a full-blooded Kaw
Indian. Mr. Curtis has served in the
house of representatives 14 years.
The refusal of the Rothschilds to
lend Brazil $25,000,000 indicates that,
however strong German's interest in
Berlin may be, she is more interested
jin her pocketbook.
NATION AND STATE
SENATOR BEVERIDGE DEFINES
REPUBLICAN POSITION.
Nation's Power Above That of State
to Right Evil or Secure Bene
fit for the Whole Ameri
can People.
Tn a printed debate on the subject
of state's rights between Senator
Beveridge and William Jennings
Bryan, appearing in the Header .Mag
azine, Senator Beveridge refers to the
reeent contests waged by advocates
of state's rights against certain fed
eral legislation; the Louisiana State
lottery; the sending of obscene liter
ature through the mails, the meat bill,
etc., etc., and defines the position of
the Republican party on future meas
ures as follows:
"When an evil or a benefit is so
widespread that it affects so much of
the country as to be called national,
tlie nation's power should be equal to
end that evil or secure that benefit to
the American people.
"When an evil or benefit is purely
local and affects none of the American
people except that part of them who
live in the state where the evil exists
or the benefit can be applied, and
nowhere else, the state should end
that evil or secure that benefit.
"The storm raised by the beef trust
scandal caused the pa wage of the
pure food bill; and stale's rights,
though sorely wounded, made little
outcry because it would have been
most unpopular. You will observe that
state's rights is a very politic creature
and seldom becomes excited for 'lib
erty.' except when some financial in
terest is endangered by the assertion
of nationality. State's rights is not
often heard of, unless financial inter
ests are threatened; and not even
then, if the people happen to be suf
ficiently aroused against an evil
which nationality will end.
"An example immediately at hand:
Child slavery exists in the mining re
gions and in the silk mills of Pennsyl
vania, the cotton factories of the
south, the glass works of New .Jer
sey and West Virginia, and, indeed, at
numerous points throughout the whole
republic. Scores of thousands of lit
tle children, from five to 14 years of
age, are compelled to work from ten
to 12 hours a day to their physical,
mental and moral ruin and the de
generacy of the race. * * * And now.
behind the mask of 'state's rights,'
the interests profiting by child labor
are frantic against the proposed law
prohibiting interstate commerce in
the products of child labor —this, too,
although state's righta is not tech
nically touched by the bill. The states
do not and can not stop it.
"Powerful interests which exploit
the people and the nation's resources
can more easily handle a smaller por
tion of ihe American people for their
purposes than they can handie the en
tire 80,000,000 of the people for their
purposes. And if they are defeated in
one state —one small subdivision of
the American people—they always
have 45 other chances.
"The extent to which the Ameri
| can people are divided (into states)
j precisely measures the extent to
; which their power to end abuses is
diminished. It is all summed up in
; Hi'- republic's motto, 'United we
stand, divided wo fall.'
"This does not mean destruction of
the states in their natural spheres of
! action. And their natural spheres of
! action are described by the phrase
j 'local government.'
"All this (the growth in population
' woven into a unit by railroad, tele
! graph and telephone) creates new
' problems which the old theory of
i state's rights never contemplated, and
; new necessities on the part of the peo
ple which state's rights can not sup
ply. But the people's problems must
be solved, the people's necessities sup
plied. Each day makes it clearer that
only tl.e nation can do this. That is
I why the nation is doing it. If the
states could do that work better,
nothing could prevent them from do
ing it. It is because the nation is the
i only force equal to the daily develop
j ing needs of the people that national
j ity is developing, and for no other
j reason. In all of this there is no
| harm, but only the welfare of the
people; for it is merely the people
i themselves acting in common for
their common good."
It is understood that in the senti
ments expressed, Senator Beveridge
speaks for the administration.
Where the Farmer Comes In.
In the calendar year 1906 American
manufactures of iron and steel ex
ported to foreign countries amounted
in value to $172,500,000, against $ 143,-
000,000 in 1905, $128,500,000 in 1904,
and $99,000,000 in 1903, having thus
increased 75 per cent, in three years.
This $172,500,000 for 1901 is high rec
ord of exports of iron and steel man
ufactures. Paid to the producers of
the United States by consumers in
other parts of the world, it is the
equivalent of yearly wages of SSOO
each, earned by 34,500 American work
men and by them distributed into all
the channels of supply. The Ameri
can farmer got a very liberal share
i of the $172,500,000 of foreign money
thus spread around, for the extra
force of wage earners employed in
producing the goods exported, to
gether with their families, consumed
probably ten times the quantity of
American farm products that would
I have been consumed by foreign work
j crs engaged abroad in producing the
| $172,500,000 worth of iron and steel.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY MARCH 21, 1907.
NO DIAGRAM IS fJEEDED.
William Whitman's Position on Tariff
Easily Understood.
We ought not to allow our indus
trial system to be made a political
plaything. -From a speech of Wil
liam Whitman, at Boston.
Mr. Whitman is president of the
National Association of Woolen Man
ufacturers. lie was talking about tar
iff revision. No diagram is needed to
explain his position.—N. Y. Sun.
Mr. Whitman's position is easily un
derstood. Briefly, ii is that the up
roar for tariff revision has politics us
its origin and development. He knows
that it is being utilized by political
schemers as a means to tut end. As a
large employer of labor, with big pay
rolls to meet and a heavy output of
manufactured products to market, lie
naturally objects to the surrender of
the country's industrial interests to
the tender mercies of political game
sters. He does not play politics. lie
is a producer and a wage payer. To
him and many thousands similarly
situated tariff stability is a vital
requisite to business stability; a con
dition too Important to be made a po
litical playtliing. That is his position,
and it needs no diagram. When busi
ness men of tho stamp of William
Whitman raise their voices in pro
test against the schemes and strata
gems of Self-seeking politicians like
Guild and Foss it is time for the Re
publican party to take notice.
CHANGE OF DIET NOT WANTED.
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Tariff Reform Food Crank —That
gross diet is very harmful; let mo
feed you some of this.
Uncle Sam—Oh, go 'long. That
stuff might, do for a man who is get
ting ready to die, but not for a man
who lias more work than he can do.
The Difficulty.
The New York Tribune remarks
that "it ought not to be difficult for
the United States and Germany tc
come to a satisfactory understand
ing." True, it. ought not to be diffi
cult. But it lias been made difficult
by the alliance between tariff ripping
Republicans and tariff ripping Demo
crats working in such organizations
as the American Reciprocal Tariff
league to break down the protective
rates of the Dingley tariff. Germany
lias been misled by this combination
into supposing that American senti
ment supported her demand for tariff
concessions. Shi 1 is now discovering
her error, and accordingly postpones
her maximum tariff another 18
months. Once Germany is convinced
that the United States lias 110 inten
tion of abandoning its protective tar
iff system there will be no difficulty
in coming to an understanding.
Cummins Lets Goof the Tariff.
As Gov. Cummins did not mention
tariff revision either in his message
or liis inaugural address, the matter
can be considered closed. It was a
long, hard fight, and we hope now
the governor will steady down and
pull true in the party traces. A iki
litical party is always in need of load
ers, that they should study well the
desires of their party, and aid in
bringing about its wishes. If the gov
ernor finds himself to-day simply a
leader of a faction he can lay the
blame on no one but himself. It may
be a temptation to be in advance of
public sentiment, but one is apt to
give more weight to his own opinion
than the merit, of the case warrants,
and he finds himself stranded, and
wonders why.—Vinton Eagle.
First the Minimum.
Secretary Root in a speech recently
favored that kind of tariff reform that
will place the country 011 a maximum
and minimum tariff basis. This kind
of a change has been advocated for
some years, and one of its earliest
and ablest advocates has been the
secretary of the treasury. It repre
sents a vital principle and one with
which discriminations on the part of
other countries against the United
States can be most successfully com
bated. The country that treats us
fairly will be given the minimum tar
iff and the other the maximum tariff.
It is the kind of a tariff, properly safe
guarded, that we may have in this
country sit some time in the near fu
ture.—Cedar Rapids Republican.
Long, Windy Streets.
The longest street in the United
States, and in the world as well, is
Western avenue, Chicago, which is 22
miles long. Its nearest rival is Hal
sted street, also in Chicago, which Is
two-thirds of a mile shorter. Halsted
street is so much more closely built
uji that, it is usually spoken of as tho
longest street in the world.
A KNOCKOUT BLOW
IT IS GIVEN TO STANDARD OIL
ARGUMENT IN A REBATE
CASE AT CHICAGO.
JUDGE LANDIS IN THE FEDERAL
COURT RENDERS DECISION IN
FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT.
Chicago, lll.—The contentions of
tho attorneys i'or the Stand
ard Oil Co. that the government, !
which is now prosecuting the com- ■
pany on indictments charging it with I
accepting rebates, had not. proven the !
existence o£ the route by which it :
claimed the alleged shipments in vio- j
lation of law had been made, were on j
Friday swept away by Judge Landis
iu the United States district court.
The court declared that, the govern
ment had proven the existence of a
route by the Chicago & Alton railroad
from Whiting, lnd., and Chappell, 111.,
to St. Louis, lie also declared that
the omission of the name of Chappell
from the tariff sheet did not invali
date that tariff as applied to tiie
Standard Oil case.
It was asserted by the attorneys for
the defendant company that the gov- J
eminent had not shown sufficient pub- j
Hcatioii of the tariff sheet. Judge j
Landis declared that the publication
had been shown as far as necessary
to warrant a prosecution of the pres
ent case.
The arguments had lasted for al
most three days, and a decision in
favor of the Standard Oil Co. meant
that the government would be pre
vented from producing further evi- ,
deuce. It had brought into court wit- \
nesues In testify to the existence of
the route to SL Louis-;, and if tho ;
coui t had decided that 110 route had ;
been proven, the government neces
sarily could never have shown that
freight had been shipped as alleged in
the indictments.
The prosecution had shown before
the arguments were begun that the .
tariff sheets were posted in tho rail- ;
way offices in Chicago where the prin- j
cipal business connected with the oil j
shipments was transacted, and the
court declared that the only use
which the oil company had for Whit
ing, lnd., and Chappell, 111., as far as ;
this particular case was concerned j
was for the handling of freight.
HUMMEL TESTIFIES.
He Tells of an Affidavit in Which Eve
lyn Nesbit Said Harry Thaw Had
Beaten Her.
New York. —With Attorney Delmas
fighting him every inch of the
way, District Attorney Jerome
011 Friday secured from Abraham
Hummel his complete story as to tho 1
affidavit which ii is alleged Evelyn i
Nesbit Thaw made in the lawyer's of
fice in 1!)(!:'. charging Harry K. Thaw
with beating her when she had told
him that tho statement that Stanford
White had drugged and ruined her
was not true. The Hummel testimony
came during the afternoon session of
tiie trial and Mr. Delmas, first object- i
ing broadly to all of Hummel's testi- !
mony, offered a specific objection to !
each question put by tiie prosecutor, j
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to
the stand in the effort of the defense
to keep Hummel silent. She declared
she had called upon Hummel in his
professional capacity and to seek his
advice as a lawyer. Stanford White ;
had taken her to the lawyer's office I
with that end in view.
Justice Fitzgerald declared that, ad
mitting tiie proposition of counsel and 5
client. Mrs. Thaw had herself waived ;
the professional 'privilege by taking
tho stand early in the case and giving
her version of what transpired at '
Hummel's office. The bond of secrecy j
once removed could not be re-estab- |
lished.
District Attorney Jerome completed
his medical testimony during tho
morning session, Attorney Delmas for j
the defense declining to cross-ex
amine any of the experts. Five alien- '
ists were called one after another, j
Each said lie was familiar with the j
hypothetical questions framed by the i
prosecution. Basing their opinions on j
these questions they all declared that j
Thaw 011 the night he shot and killed !
Stanford White knew the nature of ;
his act, and knew that the act was j
wrong.
FINANCE AND TRADE.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of
Business Conditions.
New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'a
Weekly Heview of Trade says:
Spring trade is making a most sat
isfactory comparison with the volume
at this time last year, except in a
few sections where the weather is
unfavorable, and mercantile collec
tions improve steadily despite the
high money market. Leading indus
tries have orders covering production
well into the future, especially cotton
factories and steel mills, while the
output of pig iron when the month
opened was close to the largest on
record. High prices In the footwear
industry have checked placing of
contracts for fall shoes at New En
gland factories, some decline in prices
of hides and leather encouraging buy
ers to delay ordering the finished pro
duct, but most mills are still busy on
spring goods.
Prices are well maintained in all
sections of iron and steel industry.
Engineer and Fireman Killed.
Little Rock, Ark.—An eastbound
Rock Island passenger train
ran into an open sw!U>~ at Cu
neo, Ark., Friday. Engineer Killcoyne
and Fireman Currier were killed. In
vestigation disclosed that the wreck
was the work of a train wrecker.
None of the passengers were injured.
Murderous Jealousy.
Butler, Pa. August Collinet, a
glass worker 40 years old, last
night shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself. Collinet is said
to have been jealous of his wife.
GRACEFUL.
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W.llie Calf s —Why is the old cow al
ways looking at herself in the pool
and boasting of her graceful lines?
Jolinny Calf —Why, haven't you
heard tlie cause of her vanity? One
of the city hunters mistook her for a
deer.--Chicago Daily News.
Responsibility.
"If there is any trouble in this coun
try," said Farmer Corntossel, "I reek
on tl.e publishers will be responsible
for sonic of it."
"111 what way?"
"They've got all the people that
really know how to run things writ
in' fer the magazines instead o' hold
ing olliee." —Washington Star.
Wnat H<} Thought,
.■'fiend—Well, old man, T/h t 1o yen
ibink of a court of law?
Victim —I think that everyone con
nected with it, except the lawyers, are
a lot of thieving sharks.
Friend—Why do you leave out the
lawyers?
Victim—Because I know they are.
Buried.
"You say there is more wealth in
the mine than they will ever be able
to take out?"
"Absolutely. There's SIO,OOO of my
money in it and I know for a fact
they will never be able to get that
much out." —Chicago Daily Newß.
A Success.
"You have been making practically
that same speech all your life."
"Yes," answered the orator.
"Yet it has produced no results."
"No. But it is something to have
gotten so many encores." —Washing-
ton Star.
Some Little Difference.
"Are you an export witness?"
"1 don't know yet," answered the
man who was giving testimony. "I
am considered an expert in my profes
sion. but as a wifiicss 1 have yet to
be tried out." —Washington Star.
Not the Same Thirty.
"Is that magazine editor crazy?"
"No, just a little excited because
his funny writers have resigned in a
body."
"Oh, I see. Not crazy, but lost his
wits." —Baltimore American.
The New Offense.
•"'So Smythe lias been sent into close
Confinement. What was he convicted
of?"
"Being intelligent and just enough
to act as a juror."—Baltimore Ameri
can.
The New Style.
"You say that, lawyer is one of the
standard authorities, but I can't find
any books of his anywhere."
"Oh, lie's an authority on the un
written law."—Baltimore American.
Improving on Adv : sc.
"What have you done about that
capitalist? You know 1 advised you to
try him with tact."
"Tact! Man, I've got him nailed."
—Baltimore American.
Genuine Egotism.
Lola —There is only one thing 1 en
joy more than singing.
Grace —What is that?
Lola —Listening to myself sing.—
Chicago Daily News.
The Modern Count.
"You've had your ccoJl an age, I un
derstand."
"Yes, indeed! It has been every day
of six weeks since she came." —Balti-
more American.
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