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" ies for doiug the best class of Work. 1' At; i let I.Alt 4TTKN I'ION PAIDTO I.AW Pkin TIN'J No pop; r will bo discontinued until arrear ui't arc pal !, except at the option of tho pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance. "■■■* ■ —■■ ' ■ What Londoners Lack. London is described as one of tho r-yest cities in the world. We have practically everything that makes for gayety, and yet it cannot be said with any degree of honesty that we are aB lively as we might be in the circum stances. Among a few folk high spir its prevail, says London Lady's Pic torial. It is certainly not fashionable to be serious, but, speaking generally, we stand sorely in need of more live liness. If one would take the meas urement of liveliness of the average person, it is only necessary to stay a few days in any of our winter re sorts and make a study of the con versation of inmates of the hotel and hoarding-house. Health will be found to be the chief topic of conversation at one, bridge at another, stocks at another, and the menu at yet another A joke is rare; it is rarer still that one hears any remark worth remem bering, and no one ever appears to be thoroughly determined to have a good time. High spirits are certainly at a discount; the joy of living does not appear to be understood. And yet in good hotels and boarding houses visi tors are represented by all classes of society that count. What shall we do to be gay? The Kaiser's imperial garage is now pretty, fine, having recently been add ed to in a most sumptuous manner, says <i Berlin correspondent. The new motors are all electric and fitted in the most luxurious manner possible, besides being models of practical equipment. Pale turquoise is the color of the rich upholstery in silk brocade, the walls and four seats of each car being covered with this ma terial. Small letdown tables, wall cupboards, clock and book rests in natural wood and ivory complete the fittings of the imperial carriages. liis electromobiles are painted ivory white on the inside, with touches of blue and gold, and doors and back panels of the vehicles bear the motto, a par ticularly appropriate one for motor ists, "Gott mit uns," above the impe rial crown. The chauffeur's seat is in pale blue leather. The agent of a Canadian railway ar rived in St. Petersburg not long ago, seeking laborers who were wanted to construct a new transcontinental line. He did not get them, the authorities being of the opinion that it was not desirable that Russian workmen should be brought into close contact with American workmen. Admiral Nebotgatoft should be thankful that he has been sentenced to serve ten years in a fortress for his failure to properly give battle to the Japanese. He might have been sentenced to serve as chief of police in Moscow or Warsaw. President Roosevelt, by a proclama tion just issued, has added 17,000,000 acres of forest lands to the reserves of the United States. Thirty-two for est reservations are created or in creased in area by this proclamation. A real service has been rendered by the scientific sharp who discovered that "a S2O gold piece has an odor dis tinctly its own." Few have been ac quainted with one long enough to find it out for themselves. The most beautiful woman in Cali fornia attributes her good looks to the fact, that she plows for an hour every morning. Will not the snow shovel or the lawn mower do as well as the plow? Finding that stone-breaking and oakum-picking were not profitable enough, the authorities of Horsham, England, decided to put able-bodied paupers to work at grinding corn. When we think of Mr. Rockefeller's <32,000,000 gift, we cannot help re membering that he has at least 15 other pockets in his clothes and won dering what is in them. Some members of the douma are going to pretend that tjiey believe what they do riot believe, just to see if the czar will allow them to hang 4>b tor a while. LIGHT IN DEMAND INFORMATION WANTED AS TO THE TARIFF SITUATION. If Our Government Contemplates En larging the Channels of Foreign Competition the Producers of the United States Have a Right to Know It. Now that congress has adjourned and a new hand is at the helm of the treasury department, perhaps the state department will deem it no longer incompatible with the public interest to make known the contents of the report of the commission sent to Germany to inquire concerning mat ters bearing upon the tariff situation between that country and the United States. Some two weeks ago a reso lution asking for information on this subject was under consideration by the house committee on ways and means, but the committee found itself unable to proceed further with the question because of the unwillingness of the secretary of state to supply any details of the report in question. This is an old habit of our state de partment, this withholding of facts of vital import to producing interests. The same policy of secrecy was ob served seven years ago when the Kas son treaties were negotiated. For several months our government re fused to furnish any particulars as to the tariff reductions provided for in those drafts. Foreign governments, however, were not so secretive. Infor mation as to the provisions of tho pro posed French treaty was quite free ly published in Paris and found its way to the United States by cable, so ♦ hat by the time the veil of secrecy had been removed in Washington the coun try was pretty will advised as to the extent to which Mr. Kasson had con sented to assassinate certain of our domestic industries in order to get. upon a "reciprocity" basis with France. It might be remarked, as a fact in history, that no French indus try was threatened with assassina tion. It is to be hoped that, with no con gress in session to ask inconvenient questions or make unpleasant com ment, and with a treasury department supposed to be favorable to what is called "a broader trade policy"—that is, larger competition from foreign mills and factories —our state depart ment will find it compatible with the public interest to fell American pro ducers what they have to expect in the matter of concessions that are cal culated to give to German exporters a bigger slice of the American market. If, for example, it. shall be decided to so relax or modify our customs regu lations as to make it easier for the German exporters to undervalue their goods and thereby escape the pay ment of the tariff duties provided by law, that fact would be of great inter est to a large body of industrialists who have heretofore found it extreme ly difficult to hold the domestic mar ket against undervalued consignments from Germany, and who are deeply concerned in knowing how much the gate to undervaluation is going to be widened a.*, the result of the new dicker. It is not by any means impossible that a readjustment of the matter of production cost—a reduction alike in the volume and rate of wages paid— would be necessitated. Such would unquestionably prove to be the case in many lines of domestic production if greater latitude for undervaluation should be granted in the shape of greater laj.ity on the part of our ap praising officials in the determination of values of imports. It is not, of course, to be supposed that the new secretar> of the treasury would know ingly strike such a blow at domestic production, employment and wage paying. But there are, presumably, some things which he does not know as well as they are known by those more intimately related to the busi ness of manufacturing goods and em ploying labor, and he might make a mistake in his judgment as to whatj could be done in the way of relaxation and laxity of customs collections. He may not know, for example, that even under the strictest of methods undervaluation is a giant evil most difficult to deal with effectively, and that the aim should be not to increase but to lessen the fraud. In order that he may learn these and other things closely related to the general subject it would seem that the secretary of the treasury should be among the first to solicit from the secretary of state prompt and full publicity of the re port of the German tariff commission. Certainly the American people have a right to that information at the earli est possible moment. The Texas Idea. The Texas cattle growers, as the American Economist remarks, are nine-tenths free traders on general principles, but pr*)tectionsts where cattle, hides and wool are involved. So are the Texas rice growers, so far as rice is concerned. None of them wants to meet competition with Mex ican or Argentine cattle or with Philippine rice. But they wouldn't mind having the tariff lifted from articles produced outside the state of Texas, if that would open a foreign market for their meats. That is the Texas tarilf idea. —Washington Her ald Col. Bryan's now scheme is to deny the use of the mails to trusts. But isn't the colonel a little ungrateful to the trusts that have brought so much grist to his talk mill? CAMERON COUNTY FRESS, THURSDAY APRIL n, 1907. THE ONE GREAT QUESTION. Whether Tariff Disturbance Will B« Better Than Tariff Stability. The tariff is, lot ue all cheerfully admit, imperfect. It is, in spots, worthy of immediate revision. So much is generally believed by all pro tectionists, we imagine. Then comes tho added question whether, in view of the gravity of the business, the time is ripe? Even granting that in many places there seems to ie good ground for immediate changes in sec tion". of the tari-T law that produce considerable hardship, does it neces sarily follow that the net benefit to be derived from the remedy applied at once is sufficiently commanding to overbalance the possibilities of seri ous general harm? Apparently Mr. Roosevelt thinks that this is far front established, while Gov. Guild is con vinced that it is. Probably we all re alize by this time that every revision of the tariff must of necessity beget great disquiet and unrest, not to say apprehension, all along the line. Thesa and their effects 011 the general well being are so far-reaching that they ar<f not lightly to be entered into, but only to be endured for a season because of the proved desirability of the ultimate outcome. Is that outcome so certainly beneficial in the net result at. this time as to warrant us in taking this most unruly bull immediately by the horns? It is over this that many of us hesi tate. We are far from believing that the Dingley schedules are "sacred" for all time. We are far from preaching any gospel of stand-pattimn radically interpreted. The one question is whether tho evils th:>t we have are so intolerable that we should endeavoi to shako them off, even at the risk ol the stock evils that will always be set tariff revision? If they are, then Gov. Guild is right. But the trouble is that the president seems not yet fully convinced of it, and that a great many other wise leaders of party councils are not yet convinced of it to the extent that Gov. Guild is. Dc we even know for a fact that the ma jority of Massachusetts Republicans are convinced of it, in view of the cir cumstances that the most of the tar iff revision support comes from very unorthodox protective sources, such as the mugwump newspapers anc mugwump orators? —Lowell Citizen. POWER IS WITH FARMERS. They Are in Position to Demand anc Compel a Square Deal. The Rocky Mountain News sounds a note of warning to those who tiattei themselves that they can retain the benefits of protection for their own in dustries while withholding protectior from the agricultural interests. Tin warning is especially addressed to the Sugar trust, which is accused of an in clination to grab more than its share of the profits of beet sugar production at the expense of the Colorado beet growers. The News reminds Mr Havemeyer that the tariff on refinec sugar is in force by the consent of the farmers of the United States, and that the farmers have the power to take ofl that tariff. Hence he had better deal fairly in the matter of the farmer's in terest in sugar beet prices. The admo nintion may well apply to others thai Mr. Havemeyer. There are people urging free trade in "raw materials' that are the farmers' finished prod ucts; but with no idea of relinquishing protection for their own finished prod ucts. They foolishly imagine that they can keep for themselves the protective tariff shield against foreign competi tion and at the same time expose American farmers to unrestricted com petition. It cannot be done. In the matter of votes the American farmers hold the balance of power. They are in a position to demand and compel e square deal. LIKE SHEEP THROUGH A GAP IN THE FENCE. Neither Necessary Nor Desirable. Most of the clamor for tariff remov al which from time to time rises above the din and roar of the industries of the busiest people on the globe, comes either from those who expect to profit personally or politically by the changes they urge. This clamor does not come from tho great body of the farmers or miners, or from the men of the mills or factories, who have by far the greatest interest in protec tion's results. It is assumed by a certain class of "statesmen" that peri odical changes of the tariff must be made, and that a kind of popularity awaits the leader who will anticipate the coming of the next change-period and will shout the longest and strong est for its arrival. Hut in the opin ion of a very large majority of the American people these periodica changes are not necessary, and are far from being desirable. —Hancock (Mich.) Journal. is the Verdict of ihe lu •nacy Commission. THAT THAW IS SANE District Attorney Jerome Protests Against Confirmation of the Commission's Decision. New York.—Harry K. Thaw on Thursday was declared sane by tho unanimous report of the commission in lunacy appointed to inquire into his present mental condition. The moment the decision was handed down from Justice Fitzgerald's desk. District Attorney Jerome was on his feet, vigorously protesting against its confirmation by the court. He charg ed that he had been excluded from the last session of the commission and demanded to be 'allowed to have ac cess to the minutes and stenographic notes of what transpired at. the final mental and physical examination of the defendant. When Justice Fitzgerald declined to turn the minutes over to the dis trict attorney, Mr. Jerome declared he would carry the case to the appellate division of 'he supreme court, asking that a writ. of prohibition or manda mus be granted to prevent a continu ance of the Thaw trial until the higher court had ruled upon the legal ity of the commission's course. Justice Fitzgerald reminded Mr. Jerome that he had waived the statu tory right of attending the last ses sion of the commission by suggesting himself that all the attorneys be ex cluded from the sitting in question. He then granted the district attorney an adjournment until Monday. MILLIONAIRES PLOT. Huge Fund Is Said to Have Been Raised to Defeat the Policies of President Roosevelt. Washington, D. C. —It was said on authority at the White House Thursday that there is ample evi dence at hand for the claim of the president that there is a movement afoot to defeat his policies in the next congress and in the next national con vention. It is declared that the "Hearst-ll'arriman-Rockefeller combi nation" has already a fund of $5,000,- 000 with which to carry on its cam paign in opposition to the president. It was also stated authoritatively at the White House that part of the plan to encompass the defeat of the presi dent's policy is the election of state delegations to the national convention from those states known to favor the president, these delegates to be in structed for President Roosevelt, not withstanding knowledge in advance that the president would not be a can didate for renomination. Then, ac cording to the statement made, these delegates, upon the president declin ing to be a candidate for renomina tion, as he had said he would decline, are to consider themselves free and are to be switched over to some op ponents of the president and the poli cies for which he is standing. NEW WAGE SCALE. It* Adoption by Western Railroads- Averts a Strike of Thousands of Employes. Chicago, 111.—The differences be tween western railroads and the members of the Order of Conductors, and of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen were finally adjusted Thurs day. The men abandoned their de mand for a nine-hour work day, and the railroads made an advance over their previous proposition in the pay of baggagemen, firemen and brake men of $7.50 per month. The new agreement, which goes Into effect on April 1, and is retroac tive for the first three days of the month, is in part as follows:. The pay of conductors in the pas senger service to be increased $lO per month; that of baggagemen $7.50, and that of flagmen and brakemen $6.50 per month. The railroads are not to make any reduction in crews or in creases in mileage to offset the in creased wages. The locomotive firemen were also granted an increase of 10 per cent. Alleged Letter Stealer Arrested. Now York. —Frank W. Hill, a stenographer, was arrested Thursday night, charged with having sold to a newspaper a personal letter of E. H. Harriman. The warrant was sworn to by Alexander Millar, secretary of the Union Pacific Railroad Co., of which Mr. Harriman is the president, and was served by a detective. The letter In question was ad dressed by Harriman to Sydney Web ster and was first published by the World last Tuesday morning. State ments therein contained called forth a reply from President Roosevelt. Gillespie Is Free. Indianapolis, Ind. —By a decision of the supreme court handed down Thursday James Gillespie, of Rising Sun, Ind., serving a life sentence in the state prison for the murder of his sister is set free. The decision re verses the opinion of the lower court on the ground of error. Commander Erown's Proclamation. Zanesvillo. O. —Commander-in-Chief Brown, of the Grand Army of the Republic, on Thursday issued his Memorial day proclamation asking for a general observance of the day. IN A BIG BALLOON. WALTER WELLMAN DISCUSSES HIS PROPOSED JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE. HE INTENDS TO START IN JULY FROM FLACE WHERE ANDREE BEGAN HIS JOURNEY. New York. Walter Wellinan, who arrived here Wednesday on New York, April 4. —Walter Well man, who arrived here Wednesday on the Kaisor Wiihelm 11., expressed him self as well satisfied with an of his arrangements for the proposed trip in the Well man-Record Herald airship expedition to the North Pole, lie in formed the friends who met him at the pier that he would surely start in July. "I am informed," said Mr. Wellman, "that Commander Peary thinks my plan is not practicable. He thinks it will not be possible to reach the pole in a balloon by reason of the weather conditions—showers of icicles and heavy snowfalls. In answer to his comment, I want to say that Peary has no idea at all about ballooning. "My balloon is constructed to meet all of the arctic conditions and I have full confidence in my ability to reach the pole. When I set out from Spitz bergen in July I shall think of noth ing but success for my undertaking. My balloon has a resisting power of 500 pounds to the square inch and that surely will be sufficient to turn all of the icicles to which Peary re fers. The surface is just about as penetrable a 3 tho ordinary bheet metal roof. "I am not In the le;ast superstitious, If I were I would not be launching my balloon on this expedition to the un known north from the very spot where An.lree took his departure, never to return. He was not properly equipped as to the mechanism of his ship and I am convinced that he fell into the Arctic Sea. "I shall carry with me 7,000 pounds of gasoline to supply gas for the bag and 3,000 pounds of rations. I shall take with me also 12 Esquimaux dogs for possible use. If I do succeed in finding the pole, I fully expect to see nothing more than the center of the open sea." DEATHS IN FIRE. A Bride and Groom Perish When a Hotel at Sutton, W. Va., Is Burned. Sutton, W. Va. Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Garee, of this place, were burned to death and John Gartin, of Fairmont, W. Va., narrowly escaped a similar death last night when the River view hotel was destroyed by fire, causing a monetary loss of SIB,OOO. Dr. and Mrs. Garee were married Tuesday in Mouudsville, W. Va., and were en route to the home of the groom's mother, Mrs. Mary Garee, where a wedding supper and a host of iriends were awaiting their coming. Mrs. Garee was Miss Elizabeth Win grove, of Moundsville, a well knoVn young lady of that city. Dr. Garee was 2S years of age, had just finished his medical education and had intend ed practicing here. The fire originated in the laundry of tho hotel and within a few minutes the building was enveloped in flames. Upon their arrival here Wednesday Dr. and Mrs. Garee went to the hotel to recover from the fatigue occasion ed by the journey from Moundsville and were then to drive to their new home. John Martin had an interior room and when he heard the cry of fire he ran into the hall. All the passages were blocked and Martin made his way into the room occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Garee and leaped from the window. He says the two bodies were lying on the floor. But Still Busy. "A young man in these days," re marked the advocate of the strenuous life, "has got to be well armed for the fray and to keep his arms busy. What Is your son doing with his?" "I believe," replied the fond father, with a side glance towards the con servatory, "that at present his arms are going to waist." —Baltimore Amer ican. Good Advice. "Should a fellow leave his hat and enne in the hall when calling on a girl?" asked the very young man. "If she lives in a boarding house, and he is wise, he'll hang onto them for all he is worth," answered the dis penser of society information." —Chi- cago Daily News. I y ~-C. 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