2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. P.-ryear 13 00 If paid in advance 1 -0 ADVERTISING KATES. Advertisements arc published at the rate of odc d.llar per square for one insertion and liny ctßis ] er square fur each subsequent insertion. R»tcs by the year, or fur six or three months. «re low and uniform, and will be furnished on »pt>llcat;on. I.rgul and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, s'J: each subsequent lriser t:o i .*0 cents per squar Local notices Hi cents per line for oneinser certijn: cents per line lor each subsequent coa-ecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines, in cents per I'nr. simple announcements of births, n.ar r.nires and deaths will lie Inserted free. Business cards. five lines or less.' per year: oxer five lines, at the regular rates of adver t UK- No local inserted for less than 73 cents per I&bUC. JOB PRINTING. The .Trb department of the Prkss iseompletc nr.d affords facilities for doing the I.est class of w. rk. Pakik n.AK attknuun paihtu Law pKisriKO. No paper will t> * discontinued until arrear ages an- paid, except at the < ption of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid I r in advance The sperm whale could swallow an automobile according to one scientist, but we should think It would give hiiu indigestion. Chicago complains that women talk too much over the telephone. "Over the telephone" would seem to be a superfluous clause. The late shah of persia had a col lection of stones valued at $50,000,000. But death parted him from all except, one -his tombstone. A clothier's ad in the London (Ont.) Advertiser: "Our boys' knickers have double seats." Good for the kids, but hard on father's arm. Now if the weather should calm down and be decent for the summer the croakers would feel themselves discriminated against. A Detroit man has invented a nozzle which spreads water like rain, or in other words as effectively as it is dis tributed among the stocks. Tunis used to depend upon its wines, olives, cereals and cattle. Now there are a number of profitable mines and railways are being built to exploit them. Even if it were not dangerous to kiss the baby it would still be cruel in most cases, as the poor babies are generally too feeble t;> put up any kind of a defense. Dr. Wiley's condemnation of pie will have no effect. The brain food of New England has been tested beyond the power of any mere government chemist to discredit it. The American Press Humorists, as cuch, have undertaken to raise funds for a monument in memory of the late Bill Nye. All serious minded people can join them in this effort. Joaquin Miller has found mining more profitable than poetry, for which reason he desires to be a United States senator. This shows the de moralizing influence of wealth. The popularly accepted idea that women like to do most of the talking is successfully controverted in the petition of a St. Louis woman who asks divorce. She asserts that she "can't live with that man. Why, he's a regular sphinx." The highest tree in the world is said to be an Australian gum tree of the species eucalyptus regnans, which tsands in the Cape Otway range. It is no less than 415 feet high. Gum trees grow rapidly. There is one in Florida which is reported to have shot up 40 feet in four years, and an other in Guatemala which grew 120 feet in 12 years. "I am perfectly certain," writes an Englishman to the London World, "that half our ills are due to the fact that we do not laugh enough. A good sincere smile is somewhat rare in these times, a 'laughing face' is scarce, and it is seldom indeed that one hears a good ringing laugh." T'ae obvious thing for this gentleman tc do is to subscribe for London Punch. The public is henceforth to be barred from the grounds of John D. Rockefeller's home, Forest Hill, in the suburbs of Cleveland, because visitors presumed upon their privileges and peeped through the dining room win dows to watch Mr. Rockefeller eat. This made the old gentleman angry, and he ordered the gates closed. He might have pulled down the blinds. Red Cloud, the famous Sioux chief, is now very old, and, realizing that he must soon depart for the happy hunt ing grounds, he has issued a pathetic appeal to the white people to be good to the poor Indian. Once a fierce war rior and a foe to the whites. Red Cloud long ago became peaceable. He still retains the old style garb of his race, but he appreciates the value of civili zation. If the gifted persons who write those wonderful detective stories would win lasting renown and become benefac tors to their fellow beings, let them go out and do a little real detecting. There ar? plenty of desperate crim inals at large whom the regularly or dained sleuths are unable to capture. The world's rice crop in 1903 aggre gated 170,000,000,000 pounds. The great bulk of this enormous yield was produced and consumed by the people of Asia, the Chinese taking the lead hoth in production and consumption. IS FOOLISH MOVE GERMAN TRADE AGREEMENT DE NOUNCED AS PERNICIOUS. Belief That Flat Fre« Trade Would Be Less Detrimental Than Such Bartering Away of Our Indus trial Rights by Special Con cessions In Favor of Foreign Competitors. The San Francisco Chronicle is in dignant regarding the extraordinary diplomatic dicker by which the United States government has bound itself, without the knowledge or consent of congress, to reduce tariff rates on competitive imports from Germany. The Chronicle, one of the most ably conducted and influential among the leading Republican newspapers of this country, condemns the new Ger man agreement in unsparing terms as "an arrangement to permit underval uations on imports, subieot to an ad valoreni duty." Says the Chronicle: "It could have been asked for by Germany for no other purpose. It could have been granted by our gov ernment for no other purpose. It is contrary to the express terms of the administrative customs act, and is to be attacked as such in the United States courts." To assert that the privilege ac corded to German exporters of nam ing their own export values "could have been granted by our government for no other purpose" than that of permitting undervaluation, is a more sweeping condemnation of the crass blundering of our gifted state depart ment than any which has been ex pressed by the American Economist. Yet, when all has been considered, what else could have been the purpose of this astonishing concession? To assume that Secretaries Root and Cortelyou were ignorant of the pur pose of the Germans in asking for such a concession is to reflect upon the intelligence of those two secre taries. There is not a customs ad ministrative officer in the service of the United States, not one—scarcely a day laborer who handles and un packs goods in the apparisers' stores —who does not know that the oppor tunity to undervalue exports was sought by the Germans. So far as we have been able to discover, there is not an intelligent man in the entire customs service who does not know that the privilege of naming export values is in effect tLe privilege of un dervaluation. It is past comprehension that even our gifted secretary of state, who knows nothing of customs administra tion, and our inexperienced secretary of the treasury, who knows little more, should not have somehow or other guessed what was at the bottom of the German demand for the "export price" privilege. Still, we would rath er believe that they blundered like schoolboys than that with eyes wide open they deliberately betrayed the revenues of the government and the interests of American labor and in dustry. * Frankly the Chronicle expresses its preference for open free trade rather than the double dealing of "reci procity" tariff concessions. "Free trade," it says, "is foolish, but it is honest. Trading tariffs are devices of the devil." There are many pro tectionists who concur in this view, believing that the even keel of a tar iff for revenue only would in the long run work less mischief than the dis honest policy of assassinating some industries for the benefit of some other industries. "Double tariffs are trouble tariffs," the American Econo mist has said in this connection. That is the solid truth. Rightly the Chronicle urges that: "The only dual tariff which is de fensible is a surtax added to imports from countries which in any way dis criminate against us." The McCleary bill embodied a sound principle—that of increased tariffs against the exports of any and all countries having two sets of tariffs, and enforcing maximum rates against the products of the American people. Such a bill should be passed by the Sixty-first congress at its first ses sion, and in addition, a joint resolu tion giving six months' notice of ter mination of the German agreement. With such a bill passed and such a notice given we should hear no more about German threats and French bluffs. Neither would the country be shocked and humiliated by a repe tition of the colossal blunder of per mitting foreigners to write the Amer ican tariff to suit themselves. Facts, Proof anc! Figures. Not long ago Senator Rayner of Maryland said in an interview: "We must meet the Protective league with facts and proof and fig ures, and not with glittering general ities. The time has gone by for dis cussing the general policy of tariff reform." Pacts and proofs and figures are precisely what are wanted. Ry all means let the Democratic enemies of the Dlngley tariff bring forward a re vised list of duties so that the coun try will know what to expect of a Democratic administration. Repub lican tariff rippers should do the same. They deal wholly in generali ties. Let them now come forward v/ith the details. Thus far nobody, whether Democratic or Republican tariff ripper, has furnished a bill of particulars. They have asserted that the tariff is .all wrong and needs re 'ising, but have not said wherein. Let us have facta and proof and ■lsures. CAMERON C DUN TV PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 25, WHY TAMPER WITH IT? Changes in Tariff Law Can Be of No Benefit. The present agitation for tarifT re vision all comes from Democratic sources. Many uninformed Repub licans have been caught by the ury, and a few leaders, mistaking the howl for the Democratic coyotes for the voice of the people, have joined the opposition in demanding a change. No one, of course, will question the fact that many of the schedules have become more or less obsolete in the ten years in which they have been in operation, but the justice or injustice of duties on certain articles is not by any means the sole consideration in the question of Tariff revision. The effect on business conditions the country over and the impossibil ity of securing any schedule that will be just to everybody are matters that must never be lost sight of. As to the first of these, it is a well-known fact to all who have followed the economic history of our country that the opening up of the tariff question inevitably gives business a serious set-back, regardles of whether the re vision be good or bad. The other consideration i» one of equal importance. * There are so many interests at stake and pressure of such a nature is brought to bear on the members of both houses, that it is impossible to secure a law v/hich does not involve many injustices. The country is to-day prosperous ami happy. The protective tariff is furnishing employment to tho Amer ican workingman instead of giving the job to the foreigner. Then why tamper with a law that is bringing about good results and take chances of upsetting the business of the coun try and securing in the end a law no better, if not actually worse, than the one we now have? —Topeka Her ald. UNCLE SAM DISCOVERS THAT HE HAS BEEN BUNCOED. / I UM37EiH STATES " I ' I <gy3T©M [W©ySE. I & Wages and Tariff Revision. A Pennsylvania newspaper, the Scranton Tribune, in commenting on the statement made by the American Economist regarding the increase of wages of the silk and dye houses of Paterson, affecting about 5,000 men with weekly wages ranging from $lO to S2O, makes some pertinent remarks upon the question of the effect tariff tinkering would have on wages. The Tribune says: "Would these advances in wages occur if the tariff Were now in course of revision, or even if a definite date for taking up revision had been agreed upon? Certainly not. "Would the wage increases be grant ed if reciprocity treaties had been concluded, or were in course of nego tiation by which a tariff reduction on silk goods was conceded in favor of imports from France and Germany? No; there would be no increases but decreases of wages. Just as surely as the tariff is revised downward by di rect reduction or by reciprocity con cessions, so surely will wages be re vised downward in every branch of in dustry. It is well to keep this fact in mind." This argument is exactly in line with what the Journal has always re peatedly asserted. The people of New Jersey encouraged the tariff tinkers in 1892 and paid dearly for their folly. We do not believe that they desire to have the bitter and nauseating dose repeated, no matter how smoothly the free-traders masquerading under tho cloak of "tariff reform" may plead.— Elizabeth Journal. Easy to See. Evidently the Buffalo Express has not read the German agreement: "To all appearances the tariff con cessions made to Germany followed strictly the provisions of the Ding ley law, and the great difficulty in reaching a reciprocal agreement was that the Dingley law restricted con cessions within such narrow limits. It is hard to see how the American Protective Tariff league expects to show any violation of the law." Upon reading the agreement the Ex press will discover that its most im portant provisions are utterly outside of the Dingley law, and a comparison of paragraph A of tho diplomatic note accompanying and forming a part of the agreement with section 19 of the customs administrative act will show how completely a law of congress" has been nullified. Then it will not be so hard to see why the tariff league should dispute the legality of the pro vision giving to German exporters permission to appraise their own mer chandise FIGHTENDED And Striking Telegraph ers Return to Work. AT OLD SALARIES. Men at San Francisco and Oakland, Cal., Who Went Out Four Weeks Ago Gained Nothing. Oakland, Cal. At a meeting held hero Friday the Telegraph ers' union voted to accept the terms of settlement proposed by the West ern Union and Postal telegraph com panies. According to the terms of the compromise, the telegraphers will re turn to work and then both companies will receive a committee of arbitra tion to settle matters affecting the telegraphers. New York.—Col. Robert C. Clowry, president of the Western Union Tele graph Co., issued the following state ment Friday evening: "The differences between the West ern Union Telegraph Co. and its form er employes at San Francisco and Oakland have been settled. On June ?1 portion of the Western Union op erators a» San Francisco ;<nd Oakland quit work without notice. About one third of tho force remained on duty and 11 of those who quit were rein stated on their individual applications at their old compensations. Additions were promptly made to the force from oth-er offices and except for a short period the traffic of the company has been moved promptly. The company will re-employ ali reliable and ef ficient operators who left the service on their individual applications and at the salaries paid when they quit work." HAWLEY OPENS FOR THE STATE. First Address to the Jury in the Hay wood Trial le Made by a Lawyer for tho Prosecution. Boise, Idaho. Field for argu ment, both for the prosecution and defense in the trial of W. D. Hay wood, charged with murdering Frank Steunenberg, was limited Friday by Judge Wood, who removed from con sideration of the jury all evidence bearing on the alleged conspiracy by mine owners and others against tho Western Federation of Miners. Judge Wood decided that the defense had made no legal connection of the Mine Owners' association, the Citizens' Al liance of Colorado and the Pinkerton detective agency as laying a founda tion for the evidence Introduced by i the defense to show that the charge against Haywood and his co-defend ants is the outcome of a conspiracy to exterminate the federation. Immediately Allowing this decision argument began. Attorney Hawley, leading counsel for the state, spoke for two hours and 15 minutes of the afternoon session, the morning ses sion having .been adjourned to enable the judge to prepare his decision. "FLAREBACK" CAUSED EXPLOSION Naval Board Reports as to the Explo sion on Board the Battleship Georgia. Washington, D. C.—By a process of elimination the naval board which has been investigating the accident whereby the men in the turret of the battleship Georgia lost their lives has arrived at the conclusion that a "de layed flareback" caused this catastro phe. In one sense the verdict is re ceived with a sense of relief by naval officers because it showed that they had no new element of danger to con tend with. They had experienced "flarebacks" before and thought that they knew how to deal with them. A "delayed flareback" is caused by closing off too soon the blast of com pressed air which is supposed to ex pel from the bore of the gun the nn burnt gases and fragments of smol dering powder covering what might be left from the last discharge. REVIEW OF TRADE. Very Encouraging Reports Come from the Leading Commercial Centers. New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Encouraging reports are received from leading commercial centers, the volume of business being exception ally heavy for the season, and stocks are depleted by the usual clearance sales, providing more prompt pay ments and greater confidence in the future. Buyers are numerous In the large cities, preparing for an active fall trade, now that the agricultural outlook is less uncertain. Clothing manufacturers report much new busi ness and few cancellations. Dullness in the pig iron market is not unusual at this time of the year, but there is little reduction in output and no evidence that furnace owners are seeking business at lower prices. Railroad Company l s Fined $30,000. Raleigh. N. C. The Southern Railway Co. was on Friday fined $30,000 and Thomas J. Green, ticket agent of the company, fined $5 in the state court here for selling railroad tickets at a rate in excess of that pro vided by the recent state law for a uniform rate of 2V4 cents a mile. The Tenth Victim Dies. Boston, Mass. —Midshipman J. F. Cruse, cf the battleship Georgia, died Friday at. the naval hospital. He is r he tenth man to die as a result of the explosion Monday. NO HARM DONE. "I wonder," said the tall man in the suit of faded black, "if I could interest you in a new and cheap edition of the works of Anthony Trollope." "I don't know," answered the man at the desk. "Go ahead and let me hear what you have to say." The book agent began at once. "Every student of literature knows," he said, "that Anthony Trollope was one of England's great novelists. It is true, perhaps, that he wrote for a limited class, but it is better to have the approval of the cultivated and in tellectual few than the applause of the Illitrate and unthinking multitude. Born in the year 1815, Mr. Trollope was employed for more than 30 years In the English postal service. He ap peared next as editor of St. Paul's Magazine, in which some of his best stories first saw the light. He was a most prolific writer. His works in elude 'The Golden Lion of Granpere,' 'Orley Farm,' 'The Bertrams,' 'Bar- Chester Towers,' and other famous novels, while among his historical and descriptive works are 'The Life of Cicero,' 'North America,* and 'South Africa,' together with many others. In these sample volumes I wish particu larly to call your attention to the clearness of the print, the durability of the binding, and the excellent qual ity of paper used." And so on, for ten minutes. "No," said the man at the desk, turning again to his work, "you haven't succeeded !n interesting me a bit." "That'j u,) right," rejoined Uio tall' man in the suit of faded black, re-j placing the sample volumes in hi 9 valise with imperturbable composure; "I have just started out canvassing with these books, and I was only prac ticing on you. Good afternoon."—Chi cago Tribune. A GOOD REASON, TOO. Nursemaid—l'm going to leave, mum. Mistress—Why, what is the matter; don't you like the baby? Nursemaid—Yes'm; but he is thai afraid of a policeman that I can't get him near one. Hard Job. Sir John Franklin was searching for the northwest passage. "I find it almost as difficult a task," he observed, wearily, "as if I were en gineering that boulevard across the Chicago river." Partially satisfying the cravings of his appetite a tallow candle, he looked anxiously to the southeast to see if any relief expedition was coming.—Chicago Tribune. Loud Effects. Stranger (happening along).— BOJ-B, what are you burning these ghastly colored lights for? 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