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The Latest Panacea.
W'c Americans have a genius for the
invention of cure-alls, and for faith
in them after they are invented. Some
one lias now contrived —on paper— !
the Order of Nebuchadnezzarites. The
method of the order is not to be, as
one might expect, a diet of grass, but
a change from the upright position to
one on all fours. Members of the so
ciet> must, agree to eat, drink, walk
a?ul run on their hands and knees.
They are assured by the founder of
the order that they will speedily ban
ish .:!1 the ills to which human ilesh
is heir. Witness the vigorous health
enjoyed by the dog, the ox, the horse
and the necessary pig—their freedom
from dyspepsia, neuritis, rheumatism
and consumption. Whether they be
imn.une to measles, chicken-pox and
mumps has not yet been announced.
It is not disclosed whether this order
is the product of the lively imagina
tion of a newspaper reporter or a se
rious scheme of a sincere reformer
who is unable to master more than
one idea. The very doubt on this
point results from the fact that even
such a society might find adherents.
An oriental legend relates that when
woman iirst discovered man he was
living on all fodrs. She coaxed him
to his feet, and induced him to walk
upright. Can it lie that the twentieth
century will undo the work of the
primitive woman? Surely, remarks
Youth's Companion, the adherents of
the new cult must all be men; for
fashion has made no provision for
wonn n's clotln sin the new attitud* .
"Creepers" designed for the purpose
cannot yet be obtained, and the mush
room hats would not adapt them
selves to a poise on the; back of Ihe
neck. Thus fashion may be stronger
than fad, and weary man may be
forced to stand up again to get witli
in speaking distance of woman.
President Roosevelt may find sup
port for his theory that under certain
conditions war may be more honora
ble than peace and better for mankind
in the utterances of Dr. Emil Reich,
the Hungarian historian and philoso
pher, now lecturing in London. In a
letter to a New York paper Dr. Reich
say.; he does not believe in peace con
gresses, and adds: "1 believe, alter
35 years of study of the past and ob
servation of the present, that conflict
made us, conflict keeps us going, and
without conflict the great question of
nations can never be solved. Shake
sptares are made by the destruction
of armadas, and not by universities,
lecture rooms and public libraries.
The father of Sophocles was Salamis.
General disarmament means stagna
tion and degeneration." When Mr.
Carnegie hears this he will be greatly
displeased.
Waste of Scientific Thought.
Word comes from Paris that a scien
tist over there has an invention thu'
will make a detailed record of a man's
thoughts. This is interesting, but it
will never be popular, declares Cleve
land Plain Dealer. Few men think
thoughts that they would care to pre
serve, more especially if taken una
wares by a prowler with a snapshot
tWnk recorder. Of course, it might
be possible to train the mind to sit
for a mental picture, as it were, but
there are few men who could look
pleasant while doing it. No man
would feel safe as long as he thought
it was in the neighborhood. Ko, the
Frenchman would do humanity a
much greater and far more satisfying
service by perfecting a new can open
er or an original cough cure.
Sometimes Americans wonder that
Australia, a country with less than
4,000,000 inhabitants, should turn out
so many crack athletes, especially
pugilists. It's a country where the
climate and llie habit of the people
combine to favor outdoor life, and
sport is taken at least as seriously as
business.—Cleveland Leader.
It is said that eagles sometimes go
up r,0,000 feet into the air, but how
anyone can prove it is a mystery.
Anyway, one of these birds has been
known to rise from the ground and fly
al.iiost directly up and disappear
Irom sight within three minutes.
TAFT'S HIGH HOPES
PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS OF
THE OHIO WAN.
He Is Creatly Admired as Citizen's j
Jurist and Statesman, But Lead
ing Protectionists Question
Whether He Is Sufficient
ly Sound in Their
Economic Faith.
Events of an unusual character
have conspired to project into the
arena of public discussion the aspira
tions of Hon. William H. Taft for
nomination as tlie Republican candi
date for president of the United
States. Fully 14 months prior to the
assembling of the national convention
Mr. Taft comes out in the open as a
seeker after this great distinction.
With almost equal openness the
declaration is made that lie is "the
administration candidate."
In a recent issue of the Morning
Call of Paterson appears a significant
letter from one ol' the foremost citi
zens of New Jersey, Col. William Har
bour, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the American Protective
Tariff League, as follows:
"New York, April 29, 1907. —To the
Editor of the Call: In last Saturday's
Call, under the heading, 'Taft I?oom
in the State,' you nriated an article
that would lead the reader to sup
pose that Secretary Taft was the
choice of the Republican party in New
Jersey to succeed President Roose
velt.
"Having had the privilege cF rep
resenting the Sixth district at so
many national conventions, may 112 sr.y
for myself, and on behalf of the many
friends I have consulted, that when
the time comes to nominate the next
president, who will undoubtedly be
named by the Republican party, the
state of New Jersey can select a bet
ter protectionist to occupy the White
House than Mr. Taft?
"If we are to continue to enjoy the
prosperous times to which we are
entitled so long as our country is
blessed with bountiful crops, the tar
iff must be let alone, and Mr. Taft
must speak out on this great question,
as McKinley did and Vice President
Fairbanks has, before visiting con
gressmen can hope to make many
friends for Mr. Taft in the great man
ufacturing state of New Jersey. Very
truly yours,
"WILLIAM BAR HOUR."
When Col. Barbour thus early raist s
the question whether Judge Taft is a
good enough protectionist to com
mand the support cf a great industrial
state like New Jersey, it is an evi
dence that the time has arrived when
the Taft candidacy must bo taken seri
ously. Only a few days previous to
the publication of the Barbour letter
Hon. Theodore E. Burton, represen
tative in congress from Ohio, paid a
visit to New Jersey. The object of
this visit was clearly revealed in a
speech before a New Jersey audience
appealing for New Jersey's undivided
support of the Taft candidacy. As
Col. Barbour has a rather larger in
terest in New Jersey affairs than the
Ohio congressman can possibly have,
and as the moment for plain speaking
had plainly arrived, it, seems both
natural and proper that a protest
should be filed against the unripe as
sumption that New Jersey was go
ing to be solid for an Ohio aspirant.
Col. Barbour questions whether so
I doubtful a protectionist as Judge Taft
can command the solid support of the
j New Jersey delegation ill next year's
Republican national convention. Many
protectionists have similar doubts as
to the delegations from other states.
It is believed that even in Ohio, Mr.
Tnft's own state, there are many such
protectionists.
This opposition to the Taft. can
| didacy is based upon no feeling of ill
: will toward the man himself. Far
i from it. Secretary Taft is warmly
I esteemed and greatly admired for his
splendid abilities as jurist and statos
| man. He is indeed a most lovable
I sort of a man, albeit a strong lighter
and a hard liilter. He fights in the
! open, and what he says you can de
i pend on. But is he a protectionist?
Mr. Taft's strenuous advocacy of
j free trade in Philippine products com
| peting with the products of American
j agriculture stamps him as a devoted
friend of the semi-servile and half
j savage Filipino, but it does not make
| him out a protectionist.
Mr. Taft's persistence in the matter
;of purchasing in foreign markets
i materials and supplies for the con-
J struction of the Panama canal was
doubtless actuated by a desire to en
force strict economy in the canal ex
penditures, but it was a mistaken
economy—the economy of those who
urge that the right thing to do is to
buy everything in the cheapest mar
ket, and that a protective tariff that
gives the home market to home pro
duction and labor is morally wrong.
The congress took issue with Secre
tary Taft's economic views and or
dered him to spend American morey
in American mills and factories.
Early in the campaign of 1900 Mr.
1 Taft made a speech in Maine in which
| he pronounced for immediate revision
j downward of the Dingley tariff.
| Doubtless he honestly believed it to
J be true when he said that Republican
| sentiment demanded tariff revision
: without delay. But he was mistaken
I in that belief; mistaken in supposing
that the sentiment of the Boston
J V> rood of tariff rippers was the senti
ment of the whole country. He was
| speaking in Maine, and Maine was
then antl now is practically a unit
against any disturbance of the tariff.
! To gratuitously lug in his Individual
opinion that tariff revision was the
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1907.
pressing need of the hour was, under ■
Ihe circumstances, of questionable
propriety. It was not wbat a good j
protectionist would liSve done.
That Col. Barbour in his Utter to |
the Call has voiced the general view !
of protectionists we think is beyond
question. His rank in the world of
industry, finance and business, to
gether with his official relation to
ward the American Protective Tariff
league and his many years of con
spicuous identification with Repub
lican politics in New Jersey, combine
to give ills declaration more than or
dinary significance. It. is well that
Secretary Tuft's early and frank avow
al of his presidential aspirations
should be met by an equally early and
frank avowal that if he is to stand
well with protectionists he must de
clare himself a protectionist in terms
of unmistakable certainty. The next
nominee of the Republican party for
president of the United States is go
ing to be a protectionist. Current de
velopments along the line of conces
sions and relaxations all point that
way. A rebound back to sane and
consistent protectionism is certain to
occur, and it will be duo in 1908.
WHOLE IDEA IS WRONG.
State Department Errs in Effort to
Revise Tariff.
When even Democratic newspapers
deprecate invasions across the border
line which tcparat.es the respective
pov. r a ai.<l functions of the legisla
tive and rxocutiv. branches of our
government, the situation tuk 0.1 ;i
serious aspect. The new York Amer
ican 1: a a 110 love for the protective
tariff sy: i( in. but it gravely questions
whether that system can or ought to
be changed by an edict of the secre
tary r,t state without the concurrence
of congress. In a well considered and
ably written editorial in the American
of May 2 the conclusion is reached
that
"This method of dealing with a
matter of national magnitude is wrong
and dangerous. It threatens disturb
ance to our whole foreign trade."
This presupposes the truth of the
reports that in the new dicker with
Germany the spirit and intention of
the Dingley tariff law have been sub
verted to an extent, that will revolu
tionize customs methods of appraise
ment and collection. Unfortunately
the supposition turns out to be cor
rect. Our gifted state department
has for the time being taken over the
authority to revise the tariff sched
ules downward.
A THREATENING TROPICAL. CY
CLONE.
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A Serious Question.
Referring to the proposed transfer
of the tariff making prerogative from
the United States congress to the ex
port and expert—undervaltiers of
Germany, the Bulletin of the American
Iron and Steel Association remarks:
"If the reader will compare* the con
cessions made to Germany with tlie
forecast made by the correspondent of
:Tio American Economist he wiil see
that our government has shamelessly
yielded to the German demand that
not the true value of German extorts
to this country, but the value placed
upon them by the exporters is to ba
the guide to our customs officials in
assessing duties. When did congress
give to the president, the authority
to set aside and absolutely nullify the
plain provisions of our tariff sched
ules?"
The practical repeal of the customs
administrative sections of the Dingley
law is accomplished if the reported
concessions arc carried out. Congress
has explicitly laid down certain rules
for the ascertainment of the values of
imports. If the state department sets
aside these rules so that German ex
porters and not United States apprais
ing officials may determine such val
ues, are not the power and authority
of congress in effect usurped? It is
more than possible that this ques
tion will be brought up in congress.
Have Kept Things Steady.
"This is no time for stand-patters."
The foregoing is one of the recent
declarations of George P. Hummer,
the Democratic candidate for congress
in the Filth district. This sarcastic
reference to Republicans who do not
favor repeal of the Dingley bill or
any drastic tariff changes, has been
repeated from time to time for sever
al past years. These years have been
the best this country has ever known.
Had it. not been for the positions held
by the so-called "stand-patters'* the
changes and experiments proposed
six or eight years ago would have
been entered upon. There are few
Americans who are not now glad that
these demands for changes were re
sisted and prevented. Those who
now are asking for changes in policies
and conditions are those who did
their best to prevent present policies
and present conditions. —Houghton
(Mich.) Gazette.
Of a Series of Crimes (s
Made in Court by
HARRY ORCHARD.
The Prosecution's Star Witness in
the Haywood Triai TeSis a Story
that Sickens iiis hearers.
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Boise, Idaho. —Alfred Horsley, alias
Harry Orchard, the actual as
sassin of Frank Steunenberg, went on
the stand Wednesday as a witness
against William 1). Haywood and
made pubiic confession of a long chain
1! brutal, revolting crimes, committed,
he said, at the inspiration and for the
pay of the leaders of the Western
Federation of Miners.
An undertaking by the prosecutors
for the state, that they would by late/
proof and connection make his testi
mony legitimate, opened the way like
a floodgate to th« j whole diabolical
story, and throughout the entire day
Orchard went 011 from crime recital to
crime recital, each succeeding one
seemingly more revolting than the one
tiiat preceded.
Orchard confessed th'it a", a mem
ber of the mob th.it. wrecked the
Bunkor Hill an.l Sullivan mills in the
Coeur J'Alenes he lighted one of the
fuses that carried fire to the giant
powder explosion; confessed that he
set the death trap in the Vindicator
mine at Cripple Crolt that blew out
the lives oi' Superintendent McCor
mick and Foreman Heck; confessed
that because he had not been paid for
his first attempt at violence 111 tite Vin
dicator mine he had been treacherous
to his associates by warning the man
agers of the Florence & Cripple Creek
railway that there was a plot to blow
up their trains; confessed that he fired
three charges of buckshot, into the
body of Detective Lyte Gregory, of
Denver, killing him instantly; con
fessed that for days he stalked Gov.
Peabody, of Colorado, about Denver,
waiting a chance to kill him; con
fessed that he and Steve Adams set
and discharged the mine under the
station at. Independence, Col., that in
stantly killed 14 men, and confessed
that, failing in an attempt to poison
Fred Bradley, of San Francisco, he
blew him and Bis house up with a
bomb of gelatin powder.
Orchard retained control of himself
almost from the moment he took the
stand. His eyes were bloodshot and
his i'ac > mottled in color when he
came into the room to confront the
man wh-se lift- he jeopardizes, lie
was plainly nervous. lie quickly
steadied himself and was soon talking
in the soft, easy tones that, character
ize his speech. Mis manner was easy
and his gaze steady in any direction
whence a question claimed his atten
tion.
TOR CONTEMPT Of COURT.
The Secretary of an Oil Company Is
Given a Sentence of Three
Months in Jail.
Leavenworth, Kan.—Judge Hook,
of the United States circuit
court, on Wednesday sentenced I-I. FT.
Tucker, jr., indicted secretary of the
Uncle Sam Oil Co., to three months in
jail for contempt of court, the con
tempt being an aliUlavit iiled by Tuck
er alleging a conspiracy between Fed
eral Judges Pollock, McPherson and
Phillips and the Standard Oil Co. to
drive the I'ncle Sam out of business.
Judge Hook condemned the action
of An jrney Albert L. Wilson, of Kan
sas City, who prepared the afliilavit.
The judge said that the only purpose
of filing the affidavit was to create in
terest in the papers and influence pub
lic sentiment. Hook said there was
110 precedent for such an affidavit, and
the clerk of the court was repri
manded for placing it on file. The af
fidavit was stricken from the files by
order of Judge Hook.
Tucker began serving his sentence
last night. The bankruptcy proceed
ings were continued until a judge can
be found to sit in the case. Judge
Pollock will not preside.
The affidavit alleged that Judges
Pollock, Phillips and McPherson went
on a fishing trip to Tampico, Mexico,
on January 2(5, 19(16, in the private car
of Gardiner Lathrop, head of the legal
department of the Santa Fe railroad,
and strongly intimated that during the
trip a conspiracy was entered into be
tween the judges and the Standard
Oil Co. The assertion was made in
the affidavit that the Standard Oil Co.
and the Santa Fe railroad were con
trolled by the same persons. The affi
davit further alleged that Judge Pol
lock made a statement against Tucker
and the Uncle Sam out of court.
Tucker was on the stand two hours
and was subjected to a grueling ex
amination by N. H. Loomis, general at
torney of the Union Pacific railroad,
named by the court to conduct the ex
amination. Tucker attempted to cor
roborate the charges in the affidavit,
but became mixed and admitted that
the affidavit was prepared on hearsay.
Fifty-seven People Injured.
Nashville, Tenn. —Going 25 miles
an hour, a Southern railway pas
senger train on Wednesday plunged
off a la-foot embankment at Black
Branch, 33 miles east, of Nashville, in
juring 57 out of the 60 passengers
aboard.
Croker's Horse Wins the Derby.
London, Eng. Richard Croker's
Orby, ridden by "Johnny" lteiff, the
American jockey, won the Derby
stakes, of 6,500 sovereigns, at Epsom
Wednesday; distance abou: one mile
and a half.
SIMILAR, EUT DIFFERENT.
"i'\a pot a bright Idea, George!"
Kxelairned the maiden fair
To the young man by her wide
As the sunbeams kissed her ha!*.
"No doubt," said he:"and I'm sure
If you would consent to ko
Willi me and fare the minister
I'd have a bright-eyed dear also."
—Judge.
Perseverance.
The mistress of a large, fashionable
home had just secured a now maid of
Irish extraction, and who had just
come from the "ould sod." Being on
friendly terms with her neighbor, she
told the maid that the neighbor could
use anything she desired.
One day the mistress went out for
all morning. On her return she found
that the telephone which had been in
stalled in the hall was gone. Calling
the maid, she inquired for it.
"Plaise, mum," answered Bridget,
"th* lady across th' shtrate asked me
if she cud use th' tilephone, an' Oi
sint it over to her; but Oi hod an
awful toime to git it unshcrewed."-
Judge.
Changed.
But Love, it soon appeared, was by
no means the spoiled child he once
had been.
"People don't make so much of him
as formerly, particularly Americans,"
whispered Venus, with a note of re
sentment.
That was the mother of it. She wa9
downright offended, in her heart, and
thought it lr.it a poor world where peo
ple made so little of anything but
money, noise, trouble for thr'.r j.ieigli
boi j, and the like. -Lifo.
Didn : t Get Over It.
Two young men wore having a heat
ed argument over a problem which
needed a great deal of mental calcu
lation.
"I tell you," said one, "that you are
entirely wrong."
"But 1 am not," said the other.
"Didn't I goto school, stupid?" al
most roared his opponent.
"Yes," was the calm reply; "and
yo'.i came back stupid."
That ended it.
Just the Animal He Wants.
"Halloa, Hodge," said Thomson,
"what's wrong with that horse?"
"I'm going to sell him," replied
Hodge. 1
"What for?"
"Oh, well, my mother-in-law was
driving him yesterday, and he ran
away, and gave her such a fright that
she has left the house."
"Oil, I say," cried Thomson, eagerly,
"I'll buy that horse. What do you
want for him?" ,
Diplomacy.
Watkins —The Do Robinsons are
giving a big dance next month. I
wish they'd invite nie.
Roberts —Do you? Then I'll tell
you a scheme that generally works.
You drop in some night and tell Mrs.
De Robinson that you'll be out. of town
all next month. See if they don't in
vite you then.
Height of Laziness.
Mifkins —So you consider Dawdles
rather lazy, do you?
Hifkins —Lazy!- Say, he's the limit.
Why, even when he has nothing to do
'lie too iazy to do it. —Chicago Daily
News*.
Ml ".UNDERSTOOD.
Old Lady—l see misfortune's laid
her hand most cruelly on you, my pooi
man.
Poor Man —No mum, yer wrong
there, it warn't no miss as done it—it
was my missus.
A Diamond Composer.
A composer of op'ras galore
Went broke for a twelvemonth or more:
But he's now struck it rich
With the baseball team which
Employs him to write out the score.
—Judge.
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