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The Job department of the Phess Is complete and Affords facilities for dolnu Ihe best class ol •Turk. PaII'HCUI.AB ATTKNIION J'AIUTO LAW PKI.NTINU. No pap?r will bo discontinued until arrear- Kes aro i>ald, except at the option of the pub he r. Papers sent out of the county must be oald lor In advance. Cost of Improving a Railroad. To duplicate the track of a large American road would Involve an ex penditure whose resulting yearly charges would be very far from being met by the added revenue for a long time to come. As a matter of fact, most of the railroads are, therefore, duplicating their tracks slowly, says "Wolcott Drew in Moody's Magazine. It is, however, not a question whether enough is spent each year to keep a road, already In good condition, up to the previous normal standard, but whether enough additional has been expended to keep the road in the up to-date state demanded by the contin ually higher standard of living and ex penditure in the whole country. A striking example is seen in the South ern Pacific. In 1902 a large broker age house, interested in this stock, <*stiniated with an expenditure off 10,- 000,000 this road would be in a tirst class physlcial condition and enabled easily to pay dividends. A forty-mil lion-dollar issue of preferred stock was actually made. Rut it has been found necessary in the last four years, in addition to this sum, to expend nearly $90,000,000 before the road has been brought up to a first-class con dition. It has now the rather large bond capitalization of $4 1,000 per mile. During the year 1906 property in the United States to the value of more t.lian half a billion dollars was de stroyed by fire. Of course this enor mous total, which is said never to have been equaled in any country, at any time, was due in large part to the San Francisco disaster. Nevertheless, the executive officer of the Interna tional Society of Building Inspectors has declared that nine-tenths of the national fire loss is preventable. Now we are told that a crazy man took the money. Going crazy is get ting to be a terrible habit. Doubtless the pickpocket when nabbed in the act by a policeman will soon get wise enough to remonstrate with the offi cer in this wise: "Stay your restrain ing hand, good sir; can't you see that J am eracz?" The monks of St. Bernard in the Alps are soon to appear as automobil ists. They have received permission to run automobiles between the hos pices ol' Grand St. Bernard and Sim plon and Doino d'Ossola and Aosta. The chauffeurs will be chosen from the monks themselves, who will wear cowls. A New Jersey woman on invitation of the judge stepped up on the bench and sentenced her husband to 30 days in jail for drunkenness and general meanness. How many men are there who flatter themselves that they would get off so easy if their wives had the power to punish them? Great Britain says she will not plan any more warships until The Hague conference passes upon disarmament. As just now she is building five battle ships, seven cruisers, eight destroyers arid twelve submarines she will feel responsibly safe when disarmed. Andrew Carnegie, replying to a question about steel, wrote that hav ing retired from it he did not care to open the subject; that he might have been a rich man if he hadn't resolved not to spend an old age in pursuit of steel. "Some men should send their repu tations to the laundry every few days," remarks a contemporary. But how many reputations would stand it long? Kuropatkin has explained why Rus sia was defeated by Japan. We may expect, very soon to learn whether it pays in Russia to tell the truth. A woman writer says that, tight lac ing causes more red noses than any thing else. She probably lias never heard of John Barleycorn. A Itussian is not of age until he is 20 years old. Until that time at least four-fifths of his earnings must £0 to his tarentg, OUR FOREIGN TRADE WORLD MARKETS COMPARED | WITH THE DOMESTIC MARKET. V Before We Can Greatly Increase Our Nearly $2,000,000,000 of Exports We Shall Be Obliged to Reduce Wages in Order to Lower the Cost of Production. Approvingly the Washington Post, quotes the Omaha Bee as warning the interests that are clamorous for ship subsidy that "big foreign trade and highly protected domestic trade arc inconsistent and cannot long exist to gether." The Post adds: "Foreign trade means exchange of products, and it means nothing else. Before it can prosper, the duties on eueh products In the tariff schedules must be enormously decreased. "So it is reduced to this: We must let the foreign trade slide or abandon tariff for protection only, with inci dental revenue." Neither the Bee nor the Post seems to have kept In mind the fact that a rather big foreign trade and a very big protected domestic trade are go ing so well together that in a little less than ten years of unbroken pro tection our foreign trade has prac tically doubled. Under a protective tariff we buy of foreign countries goods of the value of $1,300,000,000 a year, and of these imports more than $700,000,000 worth are competitive Under a protective tariff we sell to the outside world of our products more than $1,800,000,000 worth a jcar. This makes our total exchange of products amount to considerably more than $:?,000,000,000. If we should enor mously decrease our duties on com petitive products and abandon our tar iff for protection with incidental rev enue for a tariff for revenue with practically no protection, we should be paying a heavy price for such in crease—if any—of foreign trade as might result from such a lapse back ward to free trade. Could we afford to pay the price? Could we maintain our present purchasing power alike for foreign and domestic products after we had reduced the American standard of wage earning through the necessity of competing with the prod ucts of foreign payrolls* averaging one half the American payroll? Most cer tainly not. In such a condition we should doubtless by heavy wage re ductions continue to supply our own necessities of the cheaper grades, but our purchases of foreign luxuries would fall off enormously as a conse quence of a vastly diminished volume of wage payments. We are Inclined to agree with the Omaha Bee that a "big" foreign trade, a trade swelled to twice or thrice the current 200.000,000 dimensions by means of heavy increases in our ex ports of manufactures, will never come while protection remains to guard a domestic market worth $30,- 000,000,000. To put it another way, our country will never be able to mo nopolize the manufacturing of the world while our wage rate is kept at a figure more than double the wage rate of the rest of the world, if this is what the Bee means by a "big" foreign trade we are of the same opinion. In order to quickly or greatly in creuse our exports of manufactures we should be compelled to lower our production cost; that is, our labor cost. Even then the desired result might not be realized. A general reduction of labor cost in the United States would inevitably be followed by a corresponding reduction of labor cost in every competing country. In consequence we should have a uni versal reduction of wages and stand ards of living, a universal decrease of purchasing and consuming power, while the fight for both domestic and foreign markets would continue un abated. The only difference would lie that the contest would be conducted on a lower basis of labor cost. By so much the whole world would be the poorer. Nothing gained; much lost. We do not think the American peo ple will soou decide to purchase a "big" foreign trade at such a frightful cost. It is far more likely that wo shall —with occasional lapses into "tariff reform" folly, such as the lapse of 1892, and the threatened lapse of 1908 —continue to keep our wage Btandard and our standard of buying end consuming up to me protection level, while at the sarn« time steadily Increasing the bulk of our dealings with other nations because of a great er ability to gratify our tastes and de sires for articles of foreign produc tion. Is not that a more desirable re sult than to struggle for a "big" for eign trade that we cannot and ought not to get—for foreign labor as well as our own labor has a right to lie employed—a trade that would cost far more than it was worth? There is not much doubt as to the reply of the voters to such a question. Never Knew the Difference. If the tariff is reduced and foreign competition allowed to enter it means that the foreign product will to some extent at least replace the home product, and to just that extent the American laborer will be Injured, since the foreign workingman would get. the labor, whereas the American had the job before. The man who wants to reduce the tariff for the pur pose of "busting" the trusts is about as foolish as the Irishman on the street, car who said, "Faith, and I played a good joke on the condoocthor. I gave him a nickel and kept me transfer and he never knew the dif ference." —Topeka Herald. CAMERON. COUNTY FRESS, THURSDAY APRIL 4, W- j THE FARMER'S LARGE SHARE. Remarkable Rise in Value of Agricul tural Products in Ten Years. Believers in the policy of protection have long had to combat the absurd hut obstinate assumption that the farmers of the country are benefited in a purely inconsequential way by the imposition of tariffs on foreign manufactures and produce. It is sin gular that even to this day, in the face of such conclusive proof to the contrary, there should be found those ready to take the affirmative side of this free trade proposition, made ridic ulous as it has been by the history ol our own times. True, less Is heard of it than in former years, but so long as prejudice and ignorance en dure its abandonment may not be looked for. The department of agriculture has recently thrown some light on the level of prices obtaining under a tariff designed "for revenue only" and a genuinely protective tariff. For the purpose of making a comparison which will be valuable for illustrative purposes, The Capital takes the fig ures just issued by the department and puts them side by side with the Orange Judd Farmer live stock cen sus of a decade ago. The results are startling. For instance: January 1, 1897 (under the Wilson- Gorman Democratic tariff) the average value of horses in the United States was $3:5.65 per head. To-day, if the department of agriculture is rightly informed, that value is $83.51. Under the Dingley tariff the American horse has more than doubled In value. Isn't this worth something to the farni! i, especially v/hen tis con: id ered that there are nearly 20,000,000 horses in the country, worth almost | two billions of dollars? Secretary Wilson's boys say that the value of the American milch cow has increased during the past ten or 12 years 50 per cent. The average heifer sold for s2l and $22 a head un der our last tariff tinkering experi ment. Now the average price is s3l per head, and the milch cows of the country are worth a hundred millions of dollars more than those we had during low tariff times. Does this in crease mean anything to the farmer, or is it a purely benevolent supposi tion? Again, in January, 1896, in the very heyday of Wilson-Gorman, sheep were going begging at $ 1.00 a head. Now, under a protective tariff which "does not benefit the farmer," the average price of sheep is $3.84. At least that is what the agricultural department says. If anybody wants to quarrel with the figures as indicative of too great prosperity for the farmers who are being unmercifully robbed by the tariff, let him goto headquarters. The contrast in the price of hogs for 1897 and 1907 makes mighty inter esting reading for the tariff student, too. January 1, 1597, the average porker sold for $1.13. Secretary Wil son says that the average price on the first of last January was $7.G2, and it is higher to-day than it was a month and a half ago. In the past ton years the American hog has al most doubled in value. The increase has come under protection and as a direct result of protection. It means millions to the farmer. It means col lege educations, pianos and furnaces and two-seated surreys and gasoline engines and electric lights and hot and cold water and bath rooms— every convenience and comfort and luxury for tlie farmer and his family. All this under the Dingley law, which "operates to enrich the few and makes the farmer pay tribute to the monopolist." Hah! The farmer who keeps his milk and butter checks and his hog and steer receipts is not fooled. A ten-year memory is a good thing to have about the place, too. —Des Moines Capital. WOULD BE A HEAVY HANDICAP. Uncle Sam —And you propose to handicap me with that millstone in the struggle for commercial suprem acy. I guess you'll have to have an other think. Our Purchases from Germany. In large measure the Germans buy from us substantial and necessities and sell us gauds and toys. This con dition of trading makes it exceedingly desirable on the part of German mer chants and manufacturers to secure an amicable arrangement of tariffs. We can get along better without theii commodities than they can get along without ours. None the less, a tariff war between the two countries would be disastrous to both and a proof of governmental blundering and inca pacity.—Philadelphia Kecord. Straws Show. Speaker Cannon is on his way tc Panama. That appears to make the talk of an extra session of congress t( make a free trade bill for the benefit of Boston look like a vanished dream. There is no prospect of a session laler in the spring, and the speaker does not waste his money for tickets thai will expire if not used in time. 26 ARE DEAD. A Disaster on the South ern Pacific Railroad. NEAR COLTON, CAL. The Injured Number 100, Many of Whom Will Die—A Train Ran Into an Open Switch. Oolton, Cul. —A disastrous wreck on the Southern Pacific oc curred one and a half miles east of here late Thursday afternoon when westbound train No. 9, from New Or leans for Sail Francisco, ran into an open switch while going at the rate of 40 mjles an hour. Ten of the 14 coaches were derailed. Twenty-six persons are known to have been killed and the final list will probably total much higher. The injured number "00. many of whom may die. The wrecked coaches were hurled in every direction and four were imnshed into splinters. Most of the dead were Italians from New York and New Orleans, going to San Fran cisco. 'fliey occupier! the smoker and day coaches. The dead were terribly maimed and mangled. Eighteen corpses were brought to Colton last eveniag and eight additional bodies could be seen underneath one of the demolished cars. This car could not be raised until a derrick was brought from Los Angeles, 00 miles away. The injured were carried to this city in vehicles of all sorts and the Colton hospital was quickly filled to its capacity. Many were then taken to the Presbyterian church and priv ate residences. But two Americans are known to have been killed, although several of them among the injured will undoubt edly die with the next few hours. George L. Sharp, of Muncie, Ind., was instantly killed. The baggageman of the train, whose name has not been ascertained, was also killed. Engi neer Clarence E. Wormington and Fireman Victor Crebb jumped, but failed to get clear, were caught in the wreckage and terribly burned. Of about SO Pullman passengers only two sustained serious Injury. The three Pullman coaches and the dinor, which were on the rear of the train, did not leave the track. The Florence Roberts theatrical company occupied one coach which was hurled from the tra/:k and both ends of it. crushed in by impact against the others. Two injured. IN SECRET SESSION. The Thaw Lunacy Commission Begins Work. New York. —Harry K. Thaw for two hours on Thursday submit ted himself to a running fire of ques tions from the three men appointed as a commission in lunacy to determine ltis present stale of mind. The exami nation was conducted behind closed doors and when a few minutes before r» o'clock an adjournment was taken until Saturday morning, no one con nected with the hearing would discuss the details of the Inquiry. Thaw went confidently before his Judges, and when the secret session was concluded his attorneys appeared with smiling faces and declared they were more than satisfied with the pro ceedings. District Attorney Jerome hurried away from the criminal court 3 building, declining to say one word about the commission's work. The most important feature of the day's proceedings was the decision of the commission to limit the scope of its inquiry to the exact language of the statute —to determine solely the question as to whether or not Harry Thaw is able to-day to understand the nature of the court proceedings against him and is able to advise his counsel in a rational manner. SHE GOES TO MATTEAWAN. Jennie Burch, Poisoner of a Baby, Is Sent to an Asylum for the Crim inal Insane. Carme], N. Y. Jennie Burch goes to Matteawan. The jury which had been trying the girl for the poisoning of Baby Wilbur Winship on Thursday rendered a verdict of "not guilty, by reason of insanity,"and Justice Miller ordered her committed to the asylum for the criminal insane. The verdict came to the 15-year-old girl as she sat alone in the court room and she broke down and wept bitterly. But after she had dried her tears Mrs. Herbert Winship, the mother of the baby to whom Jennie gave the poisoned peach, went to her to say good-bye. In spite of her grief over her baby's death, Mrs. Winship could not forget the girl she had reared, and tried to cheer her. She clasped the girl in her arms and kissed her and tpld her that she freely forgave her. Window Glass Factories Will Close. Hartford City, Ind. —As a result of a cut in prices by the Ameri can Window Glass Co., which uses machines, every window glass factory in the country with the possible ex ception of one non-union plant at Lan caster, 0., will close April 25. A Multi-Millionaire Suicides. Cincinnati, O. —William A. Proc tor, president of the Proctor & Gamble Co. and son of one of the firm's founders, died Thursday from a bullet wound, self-inflicted, at hie home in Glendale, a suburb. The Modern Youth. Few young men nowadays cultivate the art of making themselves agree able. This was one of the things they managed better in bygone (lays. No doubt some of them proved abject fail urea, but they at least deserved credit for good intentions. Nowadays they rarely, if ever, make the attempt.— Ambrosia, in the World. How to Keep Young. . All the facial massages, all the creams and lotions in the world will not enable a woman to keep young unless she keeps her heart young at the same time; for, as Dorothy Quig ley says: "Thoughts pencil your face," and sweet, bright thoughts bring their reward in a sweet, bright expression. Greatness. If a man be merely great, he stands a chance of getting to be understood during his lifetime, particularly if he be great enough to knock the world rather heavily between the eyes. But if he be both great and good, he will have to wait until after he is dead for his recognition.—Puck. Good Remedy for Earache. Here is a remedy for earache never known to fail: "Take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper; gather it up and tie it; dip in sweet oil and insert In the ear. Put a flannel bandage over the head to keep it warm. It will give Imme diate relief. AcideU lo States Wealth, Every man, woman and chikl in Massachusetts produced s:io<> worth of manufactured goods and sls worth of agricultural products in 1905 —over $1,000,020,000 worth of manufactured products and only $42,000,000 worth of agricultural. Get an Air Castle. "Arter all," said Uncle Josh this morning, "air castles is dum good property t' hev. Y' don't need no servants in 'ein, an' y' don't hev t' pay no taxes on 'em. an' they're so allfired cheap ennybody kin hev one, b'jinks!" His Funeral Remark. "Ry de blessin' er Providence," said Brother Williams, "he lef' money 'nuff ter bury him, en dar'll be some lef over ter help his wldcler get a black dress, ter mourn fer him 'twel she gits married ag'in."—Atlanta Consti tution. Lucky Find in Almshouse. A small table that had been many years in an almshouse at Bristol, England, was sent recently with other discarded furniture to an auction room, where it was recognized as a Chippendale and sol.) for $367.50. The Last Hope. The German professor believes that ihe day is coming v'hen men can ex changc heads with the aid of surgery. That seems to be the last hope for some men with plenty of money and no brains. Thoughtful Hours. You greatly need certain free hours In which you could recollect yourself. Try to steal some, and be sure that these little parting!) of }our days will be your best treasures. —Fenelon. jus\ a Literary Note. Wo gathfr, from a preliminary pulT (or two), that a wall-known writer is bringing out a book entitled "Smoke." No tloubt it will be Issued in volumes. —liOndon Punch a Fr-om the German. A nail secures t"ie horseshoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.--Germa?. Hari Position to Fill. "Wanted," said the advertisement, "a young woman for starching and hanging up. Apply at laundry." Proverb Revised. "United we stand, but divided we get all sorts of mean things said about us," salth The Skirt. He Seldom Finds Out. 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