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Flattery is the current coin that
cunning fakers pay to fool philoso
phers for ready cash.
Mark Twain isn't wearing his new
white full dress suit this week. He
has sent it to be cleaned.
The average daily transactions of
the New York clearing house make a
grand total of $555,071,688.
"There's still real whisky in old Ken
tucky," cays Henry Watterson. And
still the colonel went away.
It is a great deal better to let other
people do your talking than it is to let
them do your thinking for you.
They arc killing doss now in Bos
ton to iind out if they have souls.
The irreverent public will be apt to
make the comment on their experi
ments that there are a few things
yet about the material bodies of hu
mans which the scientists have not
yet found out.
A law providing for the punishment
of people who carelessly shoot, men
who have been mistaken for deer has
been passed by the legislature of the
state of Maine. It is evident that
Maine's legislators regard it as no
more than reasonable to expect the
—man with a gun to look before he
shoots.
J. A. L. Waddell, a bridge engineer
of Kansas City, Mo., has received
from the czar of Russia notification
that lie has been chosen to member
ship in the Society of Benefices, an
organization recently founded by the
czar's sister. Grand Duchess Olga.
This distinction has been conferred
because of Mr. Waddell's connection
with preparing plans for the trans-
Siberian railway.
Daily cold baths are recommended
by physicians to those who have the
vigor to endure the shock; but few
physicians would recommend the av
erage patient to follow the example
of the members of the Polar Bear
club of Boston, who take a daily
plunge in the ocean, regardless of the
weather. They have had to chop
holes in the ice this winter before
they could get at the water. The first
man in usually repeats the time
honored call: "Come in, fellows, the
water's fine!"
A trip into the Dismal Swamp is
one of the attractions offered by the
Jamestown exhibition. A steamboat
route has been opened up through the
1,000 square miles involved, which,
moreover, are said not to be so dis
mal as their name indicates. The
Dismal Swamp was once the hiding
place of runaway slaves. The swamp
itself was not terrible to them. It
seemed almost heavenly if they could
succeed in reaching it. The dismal
part was their flight across the south
ern states.
"Commercial Club" suggests to
most minds a body of business men
organized to promote trade. To a
little town in Indiana the words mean
a club of women formed for no com
mercial, political or reformative pur
pose, but with the single practical ob
ject of raising money for a town hall.
The town has no place for general
public gatherings, the town fathers
made no move to supply a place, and
the town mothers took the matter
into their hands. There will be a
town hall.
The king of Slam is visiting Italy,
accompanied by 12 of his wives, the
remainder of his numerous domestic
establishment having been left at
home. The desire to travel, to see
the world and to improve one's mind
is laudable and to give one's family
like advantages still more so. But
Isn't His Siamese Majesty taking big
risks? Italy is not far from Paris,
and doubtless the royal ladies will in
sist upon going to the famous French
capital. And when they "catch
on"to Parish fashions what will
happen to his poeketbook.
A talented woman who seems to
know what she is talking about sayt
that boisterous, gum-chewing children
come from the homes of the vulgai
well-to-do because their walls are
adorned with crayon portraits of the
departed and monstrous masterpieces
of amateur art. What line of pictures
would she recommend to make a race
of Little Lord Fauntleroys?
The Italian villa that Mark Twain is
planning to build on his Connecticut
farm is going to have a pergola. It is
not known yet whether Mark has
learned to play on it.
DUTY OF RAILROADS
THEY HANDLE TRATFIC BUT DO
NOT CREATE IT.
Their Sole Function Is to Transport
the Products of Prosperity, and
When Prosperity Wanes the Rail
roads Suffer in Proportion.
That greatest of railroad absorb
ers, Mr. 10. H. Harriman, is quoted in
a recent interview as saying that lie
favors a tariff revision, including the
removal of duties on works of art;
that steel rails are not works of art,
but he wishes they were. From
which it is plainly to be inferred that
Mr. Harriman would like to see steel
rails placed on the free list so that he
could buy t hem cheaper.
Mr. Harriman is among the fore
most opponents of federal and state
interference with railroads. He ob
jects to governmental regulation of
rates, to laws prohibiting the pay
ment of rebates to favored shippers,
to statutory restrictions such as
would forbid the buying of a railroad
and the immediate inflation of its
securities by the issue of stock and
bonds three times the amount of the
purchase price. To hinder or forbid
transactions of this character is, in
the opinion of Mr. Harriman, a harsh,
revolutionary and destructive policy.
But he would welcome government
al intereference when it took the shape
of free trade in steel rails. If con
gress would step in and help the rail
roads to beat down the price of Amer
ican labor products, and also the
price of American labor, Mr. Harri
man would be greatly pleased.
We do not know the length of Mr.
Harriman's nose, but should suppose
it to be not a very long one. The end
of his nose seems to be the limit of
his vision regarding economic ques
tions, and the shortness of his vision
implies an excedingly short nose. It
is evident that genius for mergers is
his long suit, and that the ability to
perceive the real source of prosperity
and profit making in practical rail
roading is not among his accomplish
ments. Obviously he does not under
stand that the sole function of a rail
road is to transport the products of
prosperity, and that when these prod
ucts shrink there mu&t be an equiva
lent shrinkage in railroad earnings.
Free trade in steel rails would
carry with it. free trade in a very
large number of other articles. For
eign prices, plus cost of transporta
tion (about, one per cent, as a general
average), would determine prices in
this country. Either we should have
the great bulk of our wants supplied
by foreigners, or we should be com
pelled to reduce wages so as to hold
rite American market against the
competition of cheap foreign pay
rolls. One or the other of the two
horns of the dilemma must impale us.
There is no escape.
With foreigners supplying the bulk
of our requirements American wage
paying, wage earning and wage spend
ing must largely disappear. Would
that be good for Mr. Harriman's rail
roads? Would they then carry as
much freight and as many passengers
as they now carry? If Mr. Harriman
thinks they would, he had best look
back to the low tariff period of 1893-
1897 and count, the railroad properties
that went into the hands of receivers.
If, as the other alternative, Ameri
can wages should be reduced 30, 40
or 50 per cent, from their present,
high level in order that Americans
might continue to do the work of
'Americans, would the American
freight bill be as large and the Amer
ican passenger traffic as great*? Un
questionably not. Railroads do not
create traffic. They only carry it
when industrialism has created goods
to be carried, when wage earning
and wage spending have created a
market for those goods. Any reduc
tion in the purchasing power of
American wage earners would be in
stantly felt by American railroads.
Take away any part of the tre
mendous volume of business fur
nished through meeting the consum
ing demands of American wage earn
ers end there would be weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth among
the high finance apostles of our great
railroad systems. James J. Hill would
not then be saying that $3,000,000,000
is needed right now with which to
provide additional trackage and other
facilities for handling the enormous
traffic that overwhelms the roads.
The present pressure would quickly
abate, and present facilities would be
more than ample.
Mr. Harriman would then be merg
ing bankrupt railroads, if he merged
anything at all. This gentleman and
the general body of manipulating
magnates will do well to devote at
tention to their favorite pastime of
finding a market for inflated securi
ties so long as the law will let them.
They shine in this branch of the bus
iness. But they should let customs
tariffs alone. Least of all should they
hanker for free trade in steel rails or
any other product of American labor
and industry. That way bankruptcy
lies. If the governing brains of
American railroads could grasp to
the full the true relation of their own
interests to the vast interests of pro
duction and- employment they would
be among the most earnest, and active
supporters of protection to be found
in all the iand.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
says the prosperity of the United
States cannot be destroyed by Wall
street (lurries. The people throughout
the country are clearly of the same
opir.lon.
CAMERON COUNT V PRESS, THURSDAY APRIL 25, 1907.
WHAT THE ROW IS ABOUT.
Washington Post. Has the Right Idea
About Tariff Tangle.
Shrewdly and correctly the VVasv
ington Post estimates the true In
wardness of our tariff tangle with
Germany when it says:
"Germany wants to sell her sugar
in our market in competition with the
sugar trust. That is what the row is
about."
Undoubtedly the chief cause of irri
tation has been the foolish dicker
with Cuba. Prior to the time when
we elected to favor Cuban sugar by a
20 per cent, tariff reduction German
beet sugar came to thin country at
the rate of $10,000,000 a year. Di
rectly following the conclusion of the
reciprocity deal with Cuba our im
ports of German sugar fell to about
SIO,OOO a year. The refusal of con
gress to lower the duty on refined
sugar to correspond with the reduc
tion of the tariff on Cuban raw sugar
\\*as an especial offense to Germany.
The effect of that refusal was to put
many millions of dollars annually in
to the pocket of the sugar trust and
take many millions out of the pockets
of German sugar growers. From that
moment Germany began to study
how to compel the United States to
give fair treatment to German ex
ports of sugar. Result, the high max
imum tariff with which Germany
threatens to discriminate against
American exports unless substantial
tariff concessions shall be granted in
favor of German exports. That is
what the row i? about. The Post i 3
absolutely right In thia view. Ail the
present trouble has grown out of tun
chapter of follies perpetrated in the
name of Cuban reciprocity. Not alone
did that misguided move involve a
rank injustice to American growers
of sugar and tobacco, a trade balance
loss of $50,000,000 a year, and a loss
of $15,000,000 to $18,000,000 a year in
revenues, but it so angered Germany
by its gross favoritism toward Cuban
sugar planters and the American
sugar trust that for nearly three
years the club of German retaliation
and revenge has been shaken in the
face of our government. The Cuban
blunder lies at the root of the present
situation. That is what the row is
about.
INTERNATIONAL GAME.
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Uncle Sam —I chip one tariff.
Germany—l raise you with my
double tariff.
France —I double that raise with a
cottonseed oil tariff advanced from
$1.20 to $5 per kilo (220 pounds).
John Bull —I pass for the present.
Just now I've got nothing but no-tar
iff chips. Perhaps I'll be better fixed
one of these days.
Uncle Sam —Hadn't we better post
pone this game a few months? When
my congress meets next December
and passes the McCleary bill I'll be
ready to see both of your raises and
call both bluffs with a maximum tar
iff of my own.
"Not Make Tin Plate?"
One of the questions which Wil
liam McKiniey used to ask when he
was stumping the country as an advo
cate of the protective tariff in 1892
was, "Not make tin plate?" Free
trade., s insisted the manufacture of
tin plain could never be a success in
the United States. In answer McKin
iey produced the facts, such as they
were. The United States was still
a heavy importer of tin plates. More
than 1,000,000,000 pounds had been
brought in the year before.
Last year, the importations had
been reduced to 127,000,000. Mean
while tin plate of domestic manufac
ture is being exported in increasing
quantities, more than 1,000,000 pounds
of it last year. And besides this, prac
tically every pound of tin plate which
was brought into the country in 1906
was shipped out again in the form of
cans, boxes and other manufactured
articles. In such cases the exporter
gets back 99 per cent, of the duty he
has paid as "drawback."
Only 48 Per Cent.
The output of the German Steel syn
dicate during 1906, according to the
Iron and Steel Trades Review amount
ed to 11,079,000 tons of finished and
semi-finished products. As this quan
tity comes very near being equal to
the total output of Germany, combi
nation in that country may be said
to have reached a degree of effective
ness not attained in the United States
Despite the talk about trusts in the
United States, the greatest of the
steel concerns does not boast a great
er proportion of the country's output
than about 48 per cent. —San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
TERMS IN JAIL
Await Two Chicago Expo
nents of High finance.
PAIR OF BANKERS,
One of Them Formerly a Judge of a
Court, are Sentenced to Serve
Time in the Penitentiary.
Chicago, 111. —The Jury in the de
funct Hank of America conspiracy
case returned a verdict last, night,
finding ex-Judge Abner Smith, the
bank's president, guilty and giving
an indeterminate sentence to the peni
tentiary and SI,OOO fine. G. E. Sor
row, vice president, suffered the .same
sentence. Jerome V. Pierce, cashier,
was fined SSOO without imprisonment,
while F. E. Creelman, a director, was
found not guilty.
The Bank of America was opened
on December 4, 1905, and a receiver
was appointed six weeks later. The
promoting of the institution was
marked by what the state character
ized as "high finance." During the
trial witnesses testified that the char
ter for the bank was procured through
fraud, it being said that the promoters
oi the institution "kited" checks for
tho alleged purpose of making it ap
pear that they had sufficient funds to
obtain the charter.
The closing of the bank followed
the failure of a lumber company in
which Creelman was heavily interest
ed. An investigation of the bank's
affairs at the time disclosed a great
number of worthless notes, which, it
was alleged, had been put up in pay
ment for bank stock.
President Smith was for several
years a judge of the Cook county cir
cuit court. During the trial an effort
was made to show that he was a vic
tim of circumstances and had been im
posed upon by other officers of the
bank.
TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF.
Benedict Gimbel, Rich Philadelphia
Merchant, Attempts Suicide.
New York. Benedict Gimbel,
the wealthy Philadelphia mer
chant who was arrested in this city
Thursday on a double charge of exert
ing improper influence over Ivor
Clark, a 16-year-old boy, and attempt
ed bribery of the county detectives
who made the arrest, lies in St.
Mary's hospital, Hoboken, N. J., un
conscious from wounds believed by
the police to have been self-inflicted.
It is thought that his injuries will
prove fatal.
Bleeding from gashes on his throat
and severed arteries In both wrists,
Gimbel was found last night in a
room at tho Palace hotel in Hoboken.
He was unconscious from loss of blood
when he was removed to the hospital,
where an examination of his effects
made certain his identity.
Late Thursday night Gimbel was re
leased from the Tombs.
CENTENARIANS WILL WED.
Man Who Is 101 Years of Age Intends
to Marry a Woman on Hj." ICoth
Birthday.
St. Louis. Announcement was
made Friday that John B. Bund
ren, who on April 1 was 101 years old,
will be united in marriage to Miss
Rose McGuire, on her 100 th birthday,
August 26, 1907, on Mr. Bundren's es
tate near Tatesville, Tenn. Bundren
and Miss McGuire were sweethearts
in Tennessee in their youth, but
neither has been married. Miss Mc-
Guire's parents would not let her
marry Bundren in youth.
Bundren went to California and ac
quired considerable wealth. He re
turned to Tennessee and bought his
birth place near Tatesville. He de
cided to hold a reunion of old friends
on his estate this year and sent out
numerous invitations, including his
old sweetheart.
BUSINESS BAROMETER.
Cold Weather Continues to Retard
Trade in Many Branches.
New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Keview of Trade says:
Spring trade developed slowly be
cause of unseasonable weather, but
the lost ground will be recovered in
large measure when normal tempera
ture prevails. Cold weather has pre
vailed over an unusually large area,
retarding agricultural progress as
well as trade in light weight wearing
apparel and other spring goods, but
similar bad starts in other years have
sometimes brought most favorable re
sults.
The only actual damage of any ac
count is reported in some winter
wheat fields of the southwest, where
insects and drouth combined to injure
grain, and on most of this area some
other crop has been planted.
A Plot to Kill the President.
Newark, N. J. —An alleged plot
on the part of Pennsylvania an
archists, who are said to have head
quarters at Hazleton, to assassinate
President Roosevelt, is being investi
gated by the United Statej secret
service.
Indicted for Embezzlement.
Muskogee, I. T. Lyman K.
Lane, formerly financial clerk for
the United States Indian agent, has
been indicted by a federal grand jury
now in session, charged with embez
zling $7,800 of government fu:ids.
PEACE CONGRESS CLOSES.
Mr. Carnegie Is Honored by France—
He Issues a Reply to President
Roosevelt's "Objections."
New York. —The first convention
of the national arbitration and
peace congress came to an end last
night after a three days' session, with
two banquets, one at the Hotel Asto;
and the other at the Waldorf-Astoria
The event of greatest interest was the
decoration of Andrew Carnegie with
the cross of the Legion of Honor by
the French government.
Mr. Carnegie, who is president of
the congress, gave out a statement as
to the results of the congress. Al
though not so designated by Mr. Car
negie, the statement constitutes a re
ply to some of the suggestions con
talned in the letter which President
Roosevelt addressed to the congress
Mr. Carnegie quotes these statements
as "objections" and answers them at
follows:
"Our peace conference has brought
three objections clearly before us.
"First —Nations cannot submit all
questions to arbitration.
"Answer—Six of them have recent
ly done so by treaty—Denmark, and
The Netherlands, Chile and Argen
tlna, Norway and Sweden.
"Second —Justice is higher than
peace.
"Answer —The first principle of nat
ural justice forbids men to judge
when they are parties to the issue. All
law rests upon this.
"Nations being only aggregates of
individuals, they will not reach jus
tice in their judgments until the same
rule holds good, viz: That they, like
individuals, shall not c!t as judges in
their own cause.
"Third —It is neither peace nor jus
tice, but righteousness that shall exalt
the nation.
"Answer —Righteousness is simply
doing what is right."
A TIMELY CRUSADE.
Hundreds of New Yorkers Are Ar
rested for Carrying Concealed
Weapons.
New York. —While squads of de
tectives are scouring the foreign
quarters, working under the direct or
ders of Police Commissioner Bing
ham and picking up all the men they
find armed the judicial officers of
the greater city are showing evidence
of their intention to co-operate with
the police in breaking up the vicious
practice of carrying deadly weapons.
On Wednesday, in the court of gen
eral sessions, Judge Rosalsky gave
the heavy sentence of three years in
Sing Sing to John Keen, a negro whe
had been arrested for disorderly con
duct. A pair ot" brass knuckles were
found on him.
District Attorney Jerome has pre
pared 50 cases against men charged
with carrying concealed weapons and
will present them to the grand jury to
day. In all 215 men have been locked
up. Magistrates and judges all over
the city are aroused.
Poisoners are Sentenced to Death.
Monterey. Mexico. The supreme
court of Mexico has affirmed
thes decision of the lower court in the
cases of Hulbert, Mitchell and Marie,
Americans, convicteu of poisoning two
other Americans for insurance money
in Chihuahua, and the three men have
been sentenced to death by the Chi
huahua courts.
Fire Destroys a Town.
Toronto, Ont. —Datchford, a min
ing town in the Cobalt mining
district, was destroyed by fire Wed
nesday night.
Strength Exceeding.
"My new cook says she lived once
with you, and that she was sure you
could give her a strong recommenda
tion."
"Strong! 1 should say so! ShN
broke the peace, my husband's spirit
and the kitchen range."—Baltimore
American.
A Reason for Keeping It.
He leaned over her tenderly.
"I would give anything to possess
your hand," he sighed.
"Thank you, but 1 will keep it for
myself," she answered.
For she was winning everything in
sight at. bridge.—Baltimore American.
Not So Easy.
"Some of our popular metaphors are
extremely inaccurate as far as fact is
concerned. I took candy from a baby
once."
"What happened?"
"The baby took the place."—Balti
more American.
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