2 CAfIMN COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULUN, Editor Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Cer year MM paid in advance I H ADVERTISING RATES: advertisements,are published at the rate ot #ne dpi I a r 'a'q uare- 112 or r;D efn*er 11 on aud tiftj sentsJcper each/subsequent Insertion years or for sfx or threa months, tre low 'ai.'d uniform, anil will be furnished an application. Lec/<l«alid Official Advertlalng per square lens, f2: each subsequent inset lion. CO .per^iquaro. Local' jiptic&i 10 cents per line for one Inset sertlori w line for each subsequent consecutive! nsertUan. Obituary ,notU es>,over fire lines. 10 cents pet line. of birtlis, uiat ritufes-ufllvdeailis will be.lusarted free. Uu.'.inosi cards, five lines or less, 45 per yean overlive Hues, at the regular rales of adver tising No laical inserted for less than 75 cents pet Issue JOB PRINTING. Tae Job department of thc'Pmss Is complete and affords facilities for doing.the best class ot Vork PAII'IICDIJAB ITTINIION PAIDTO LAW IF KIN TIN'J No paper will be discontinued until arrear< Kcs Urr paid, except at the option of the pub he r. Papers sent out of the county must be oald lor In advance. Influence of the Politician's Wife. It has often been asked how much Influence the wife of a public man bears on his political career. This is hard to estimate; but litis much is certain: The man who comes to Wash ington, either as a member of Con gress or of some other branch of the government where his position is one of prominence, is very unfortunate if his wife is not one whom he can trust to making her way socially. Not nec essarily being a great social success, but capable of mingling with the aver age woman at the national capital. For, in spite of the fact that a small percentage of society looks leniently upon the married couple who are sel dom seen in public together, Ihe aver age sound American believes in the comradeship of man and wife. But when we sum up this question of the influence of women in statecraft we pass the judgment that, on the whole, the influence of woman in statecraft is for good, says a writer in Home Magazine. Being impulsive, she is apt to make mistakes now and then which cause the more logical males to laugh at her, but as a rule she is pretty sure of her footing before she attempts to make the jump across the political stream that divides womankind from mankind. Alonzo H. Evans, Boston's oldest bank president, at 87, is robust and hearty, and shows by his own'example the result of living the kind of life that he prescribes for the youth of to-day. Air. Evans has the greatest confidence in the generation of the present and thinks if they follow his advice they will succeed. He says: "Apply yourself, young man, if you would succeed. Work hard, be hon est. be truthful, be loyal to your em ployer. save something out of each week's pay, even if it is little, but, above all, apply yourself." Twenty years ago the population of Oklahoma could be enumerated in In dians and a few thousand squaw men, cowboys and cattle kings. In 1890, one year after the first opening of Okla homa territory, there were more than 80,000 people living on 2.000,000 acres of land. To-day the white population may conservatively be estimated at over 1,500,000. Tn the newly organized province of Alberta, western Canada, bordering the foothills of the Rocky mountains, is the latest stake of Zion. There ■B,OOO trekkers from Utah are farming and ranching, and incidentally build ing up a strong cause of Latter Day Saints in the dominion, as an integral part of the army of 300.000 that con stitutes the sect the world over. Fresh salmon are scarce, but the canned article we have always with us, and in a salad it can hardly be distin guished from real simon pure arrivals from Maine. Mayonnaise is a wonder ful magician in making things appear what they are not, especially when pig masquerades as chicken. There is a woman in New York who has been doing valiant service for the Humane society by addressing drivers and teamsters and telling them how to use their horses better and in a more humane manner. She is Mrs. Diana Belais, and her -husband is president of the New York Humane society. Before Mr. Stead lays much more stress on his theory that women are the only well read persons, because men have time for nothing but the newspapers, he ought to enlighten his understanding by going to the libraries and finding out just what the women read. "The navy department has given orders to rush work on battleships and intends to have 25 battleships and 33 armored cruisers in commission within one year." Still we must all continue to speak as softly as we can. Baron Rothschild has made King Edward a present of 1,000 fine cigars. It is a curious fact that none of the people of England seein to think the baron is getting ready to make a po Jitical touch or anything of that kind. AN "EASY" REVISION HOW TO LOWER THE TARIFF WITHOUT LEGISLATION. The Concessions Sought by Germany Would, if Granted, Practically Per mit Foreign Producers to Write American Tariff Rates to Suit Themselves. That tariff revision downward is distinctly contemplated in connection with the pending negotiations with Germany may be accepted as an indis putable fact. The end and aim of the German clamor for a change in our customs administration methods has been and is now to obtain the admis sion of Germany's competitive ex ports into the American market at lower tariff rates than those hereto fore exacted. No matter by what name it may be called, or in what manner the real purpose is masked by those having the matter in hand, the intention on both sides is that the exporters of Germany shall be af forded improved opportunities for the successful invasion of the American market. It is well to keep this fact in mind, for it will help to a clearer under standing of the statements contained in an article which we reprint from the New York Journal of Commerce, of April 10, embodying the details of the so-called "provisorium" for the extension for at least anotner year of the existing tariff truce between the United States and Germany. The article referred to has ail the appear ance of being based upon exact of ficial information. It reads as though Secretary Root had selected the Jour nal of Commerce as a medium for communicating to the public the truth regarding the concessions conveyed by the United States government to Germany, through Ambassador von Sternburg. The accuracy of this pre sentment is confirmed in a Berlin cablegram of April 12 and printed in the New York Herald of April 13, as follows: "Berlin, Saturday.—lt is reported in commercial and industrial circles that Baron Speck von Sternburg, German ambassador to Washington, who ar rives in Berlin in a few days, is re turning with a draft of a temporary agreement, with the United States. This temporary agreement does not require the sanction of congress, it is alleged. It increases the concessions hitherto made by the United States government to Germany. The follow ing are the main points: "It will no longer be necessary for exporters to report to American con suls, but American appraisers are di rected to accept the attestations of the German chamber of commerce. The American special treasury agents will no longer operate in secret, but will be replaced by agents properly and officially accredited to the Ger man government. Hearings by Amer ican general appraisers will in future not be confidential, but will be made public." If it be true, as both the Herald and the Journal of Commerce agree in saying, that Germany has obtained the concessions set forth above, then tariff revision downward without leg islation is near at hand. Taken alto gether, these concessions practically permit the foreign exporter to deter mine what tariff his goods shall pay on entering the American market. Our duties being ad valorem, the foreign exporter fixes the duty when he fixes the value of invoices for export. Our government waives the right to dis pute either the vaiue fixed or the tar iff paid. American consuls abroad no longer are permitted to call in ques tion the values of export invoices. American special treasury agents will no longer concern themselves in the ascertainment either of production cost or of current wholesale values in the country of origin. Instead of op erating secretly, as heretofore, the treasury agents must now work in the open, and, moreover, they must be di rectly accredited and be acceptable to the German government, precisely as our ambassador* and consuls are; and if, through the performance of their official duties, they should become per*>na non grata to the German gov ernment they will be promptly called home. German chambers of commerce, small bodies made up of the very per sons who have produced the goods, and are most interested in tariff evasion, are to fix export values! American consuls and American treas ury agents in Germany are to accept these values without question, and ap praising officers at American ports of entry, duly mindful of the fact that we are now dealing with Germany in a spirit of concession, will be very certain to avoid any unpleasant fric tion with state and treasury depart ments thoroughly committed to th« policy of tariff concession. As a matter of practical operation we might as well altogether dispense with consuls and special agents abroad and appraising officers at home. German chambers of commereo will perform all the functions of these officials. Upon whose advice, upon what in formation have Secretary Root and Secretary Cortelyou acted in deciding that the tariff shall be reduced by the undervaluation plan? Perhaps the ad vice of the meat trust, the farm im plement trust, the harvester trust, the flour mil] trust, has been taken. Cer tainly not the advice of interests whose employment of millions of work people and investments of billions of capital are gravely menaced by thi3 "easy tariff revision." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1907. TO LOWER COST OF LIVING. Proposed Dicker Would Also Lower the Wherewith to Live. It is possible that some of our na tional statesmen have a solution of the cost of living problem, though the peoplt of the United States may not be enthusiastic about the method. Mr. Elihu Root, secretary of state, has ar ranged a treaty of peace with Ger many pending tariff changes which he is to try to huve made. The treaty of peace covers the willingness of Germany to continue to use products of ours which she mut/t have. Of course, if we do not, sooner or later, lower some of our duties in favor of German exporters, Germany will re fuse to buy from us the things that she cannot get along without. For ex ample, rather than have us collect present duties on imports from Ger many she will quit using our cotton; and, there being no other cotton for her to get, she will close all her mills, throw out of employment all the wage earners employed there, and withdraw from the markets of the world where she is selling those manufactures, etc. Of course. But since Secretary Root has ar ranged to try for a reduction of Amer ican duties Germany will consent for another year or so to buy from us what she absolutely must have or go out of business in certain lines that are of great and indispensable value to her. Now, as for the program to lower the American duties for Germany. The plan is to put a reciprocity convention —such as we have with Cuba—lnto operation. When congress passes on abling legislation to permit such an arrangement. It would naturally need to do the same thing for other nations, else we should have some sorry trou ble on our hands with England, France and other large buyers of our products and sellers to us of theirs. The "favored nation" treaties now in existence would make this imperative. And, of course, this taking off the duties for all the great trading nations would let them come into this market and sell here things that the Ameri can people, prosperous beyond prece dent, have been buying for nearly ten years from American producers. This would shut down American mills and factories, it would throw American wage-earners out of employment. It would diminish the purchasing power of the American market. With a large percentage of our own wage-earners out of work and with American capi tal once more idle there would be a steadily falling demand for all prod ucts —of the mill, the factory and the farm. This would sureiy bring down the cost of living. The same sort ot thing brought down the cost of living when we had the Wilson tariff law. Prices could be got so low in this way that anybody could buy almost any thing for a song—if he had the money. We suspect that the American peo ple have not forgotten, however, that when you bring down the cost ot liv ing in this way—putting your own in dustries out of business and your own wage-earners out of employment, and taking foreign products of labor and capital instead of your own people's —the great question becomes not what a thing costs to buy In the mar ket, but where in thunder you can get the money to buy it at any price. But, at any rate, the state depart ment will goon with its program to bring down the cost of living.—New York Press. THE EDITOR AND THE TAILOR. Uncle Sam—You have doubled (lie prict of your goods, and you offer to reduce the price 50 per cent, if I will reduce my advertising rates 50 per cent. Is that the idea? Kaiser Wilheim—The fact is as you have recited. Uncle Sam— But I have not raised my advertising rates, and if I reduce them I shall be getting' just half what I am now getting, while you will be getting exactly what you got before you raised your prices. I don't do business that way. I'll get r.iy clothes of some other tailor, and you can advertise in some other newspaper, provided you can find one that is foolish enough to consent to your terms. Good-day, sir." Per Capita Foreign Trade. "The United States has the highest tariff of all and the smallest per capita foreign trade." —Springfield Republi can. Yes; and it is getting richer faster than any nation on earth. Great Bri tain, with a per capita of foreign trade nearly three times that of tho United States, would he bankrupt in side of ten years but for the interest on her foreign investments and the earnings of her shipping industry. Her pauperage per capita rate is probably ten times that of the United States. On the whole we had better not trade places with the United Kingdom, either as to economic policy or economic conditions. Guess we'll stand pat. ARE OUT EOR TAfT. GOV. HARRIS AND OTHER STATE OFFICIALS ENDORSE WAR SECRETARY'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY A BTATEMENT FROM CHAIR MAN BROWN. Toledo, O. —Chairman Walter P. Brown, of the Ohio state cen tral committee, on Friday broke through the reticence he has observed since the commencement of the Taft- Foraker imbroglio. He declared him self as unqualifiedly for Taft, said the republicans of Ohio were solidly in favor of his candidacy and declared that Senators Foraker and Dick owe it to themselves and their friends to settle the report that they are secret ly Supporting the candidacy of Vice President Fairbanks. He declared that the sentiment for Taft is so strong that if further op posed, or in any way misrepresented by Senators Foraker and IJick, it will burst all bounds and demand expres sion in a popular convention. It was suggested to Mr. Brown that a belief exists with politicians in some other states that Senators For- I aker and Dick control the state party machinery and that the power of the organization is behind them. "There never was a greater mistake than that," said Chairman Brown. "The senators do not control the 1 party machinery and they never have j swayed, and they do not now sway the j state central committee in any of its ! actions. It is the absolute truth, as | every Ohio politician knows, that tho ! committee has never been under their control at any time since its member ship was announced. The organiza tion is with Taft. "There i s one thing I would like to mention," said the chairman, "and | that is, that nobody who has assumed any responsibility for the Taft move i ment has expressed any desire to ! eliminate Senator Foraker from poli tics. If such statements have been made by anybody they are entirely unauthorized by any man who is con | nected with the campaign." Columbus, O.—The following stat?- ment was given out Friday night with the approval of Gov. Har ris, Attorney General Ellis, Auditor or State Guilbert and Secretary of State Thompson; "The governor and other state officers believe that, all Ohio re publicans ought now to stand to gether behind William H. Taft for president. As to the senatorship, that ; is a question to bs settled hereafter ; and any republican who is a candi date is entitled to a fair hearing be fore tiie party and the people. When Ihe proper time arrives the republic ans of Ohio will settle it without bit terness or ill feeling" ONE DEAD, SIX INJURED. Violence Marks a Strike of Street Railway Employes at Evans ville, Ind. Evansville, ind. —After a day of j rioting, violence and accident ! the second day of the street car strike ended with one man dead, six persons ; injured and street car traffic suspend ! ed. Mayor Boehne last night, called a special meeting of the board of safety and ordered 200 special policemen sworn in. The dead: James Cates, Central City, Ky., strike sympathizer. Injured: Bessie Kohn, 18 months old, crush ed under falling building. James Williams, Louisville, Ky., strike sympathizer, crushed by falling bricks. Grant Kinney, strike breaker, Nash ville. Felix Oden, strike breaker, Nash ville. Mrs. Orville Rhodes, leg broken. Harry Miller, cut in back and head. A street car manned by a non-union crew going at full speed jumped a curve at eighth and Walnut streets and crashed into a two-story building Friday afternoon, partly destroying the building, killing Cates and injur ing four persons, including Baby Kohn. The street car company says that a strike sympathizer boarded the car and after knocking down the mo torman and conductor, threw on the power to the limit, causing tiie derail ment of the car. BUSINESS BULLETIN. Improvement in Retail Trade Follows the Advent of Warmer Weather. New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Improvement in retail trade follow ed the advent of seasonable weather at many points, and payments were more prompt as spring merchandise was distributed, but conditions are still irregular. Sensational advances in prices of farm products, especially wheat, followed reports of extensive damage to the crops, but frequent re actions emphasized the speculative lature of the rise In quotations and tended to restore confidence. Wholesale trade in fall goods is brisk from all points except where the crops have been seriously injured, and the net result of this forward business makes the outlook for the future fairly satisfactory. Manufacturing plants are kept busy. A Move for Sabbath Observance. Columbus, O. —New impetus was given Friday to the movement lor Sabbath observance by ihe Pres byterian general assembly when reso lutions were adopted looking to tho thorough organization for advance ment of Sunday rest.. Dead Man's Belt Contained SI,BOO. Ashtabula, O. —• The coroner in examining the effects of George Wall, one of the three men killed near here Tuesday night by a Lake Shore train, on Friday found a belt contain ing |I,BOO in cash. The Hot Water Cure. The virtues of the hot water appli cation are recognized to such an ex tent, that hot-water bags are made in a great variety of shapes and sizes. The latest designs are made to fit around the joints such as the knee, ankle and elbow. They are very ef fective in the trearnent of myalgia, arthritis, rheumatism and similar af fections. Palace to House Club. The Tudor palace at Enfield, Eng land. which was a gift from Edward VI. to Princess, afterward Queen Eliz abeth, is to become a Conservative club. Until recently It was used as a post office. The Tudor rose, the royal monogram—and the ancient coat-of arms are still conspicuous in the mural decorations. A Terrible Remedy. I can only think of one method by which nurses can guard against imi tations of their professional costume. It is that they should adopt one that is ugly or at least dowdy—and that remedy would, 1 expect, be regarded by most of the nurses as worse than the evil it was designed to cure.— Truth. "Idiot." The alteration in the meaning of the word "idiot" is peculiar. Original ly this word meant only a man in private life as distinguished from one who was concerned in public affairs. In time the word degenerated, until it came to mean one who was defec tive in mental powers. Sundi y JJ.iga-i zitto. Believe in Wandering Jew. The belief in the Wandering Jew Is still held in France among the peasantry of Brittany and Picardy. When a violent windstorm comes on they make the sign of the cross as they say "The Wandering Jew is pass ing by!" ("C'est le juif errant qui passe!") Rewards of Virtue. Every virtue gives its equal degree of felicity in some kind; honesty gives a good report; justice, estimation; prudence, respect; courtesy and liber ality, affection; temperance gives health; fortitude a quiet mind, not to he moved by any adversity.—Wulsing ham. Potato Drove Bull Mad. A potato lodged in the throat of a bull at Datchworth, near Hitchin, England, recently, and drove it mad. Four men who tried to secure it were tossed. One c.f them had two ribs broken, and the head of another was badly injured. Jerusalem's Via Dolorosa. It is only 400 years since the name of Via Dolorosa was given to the nar row lane down which Christ passed from the judgment hall of Pilate to Calvary. At this time also the sacred stations first were marked out for pilgrims. Why Not, Indeed? "The idea that there is anything un dignified in dairy work is entirely a mistake. Why, if a woman can milk a cow or make butter, should she not be able to read poetry or play the piano?"— Viscountess Falmouth. Strengthening the Ankles. The ankles may be made strong and slender by lifting the body up on the toes 50 times night and morning. This will not only be good for your ankles, but will prove to be an excellent gen eral exercise. Unlucky. "Some men," said Uncle Eben, "seems to get so much satisfaction tellin' deir troubles dat dey gives you de idea dat they'd be disappointed if dey was lucky."—Washington Star. The Conqueror. He who suffers without complaining in the dark valley of disappointment breaks the back of defect and nerves his pinions for a future flight into the crags of triumph. Quite a Difference. You may have noticed: Some people smile readily; others are merely ready to smile. There's a difference. —John A. Howland. 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