2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MUIiLIN, Eii.tor. Published livery Thursday. TEH MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year Jl If puid In udvane 1 ADVKUTISIN'Q KATES: A-lrcrt'seni'T.!* are published at tlx* rate of nee d 1 a'.- |' r i'i..ri for one inserraui iiiiirltfiy , ruM i err >r i .u'l) su'--*'iueni Insert io i , n.v ti»« y. ii.\ i r !• ' -■ v >-' t!i inonthH. •»re !>)'.* .1.1 un form. u:;d v. ill be ! rui-dietl o.i •■n 'llcnt.on. l.rg .i sird OfHt-inl AJvortlsinif sipiar •. Ibi'tc times or lr s. '• '■ c.icu subsequent 1 •' ■ ' t:o, .rt.cal:; |«I- Mi iar.\ i <-ral hi.Ill" - in rents per line for one i:i' •>- i mi: 5 rents per lino tin each subsequent con 'cuttve Ir .ert ioa. iit>ltuoiy ii ti i" ovor Qvoltncs. iooftntipw • i., i'pV : n.'un I'tnents o; inrlhs, a.ar r ' o mi 1 tl< rtb* will Im la erted free. ' :i eiar.- . r.lI! -. lti es or le ft p*.T y-tar: «i ...• nve Hues. at t ho r-'vul.r rates of uilver l * nK- No local l if-crtei! for lejstaan ..4cents per lskue. JOB J'MNTINO. Tr.P .tob rtfu-.rt. at Of I!." Hi' : o:np!ele •iii a Kuril, far lltlos for d< In ■U) o t v rk l'.Mf i . im.vii Ai .) '.ii -N I'.uu r ■ L.AW Pi:intino. N -„ .r wU 1" oysters, or in two and a half apples, or in two bananas. Although bread and butter is nourishing, most of us like to vary the diet with something of higher flavor, whether it is nourishing or not. Damascus, probably the oldest liv ing city in the world, has become modern. In February electric lights flashed through the city and electric cars began to purr along its ancient ways. The American consul general at lieirut says that until a year ago electricity was under ban in Turkey. The ban has been raised chiefly by American influence, and concessions have been granted for light and cars In other Turkish cities. For some time the duchess of Marl borough has been engaged in philan thropic work among the poor young women of London. Recently she pre sided at an exhibition of the National Physical Recreation society, given by cliibs of working g'is, and made a rensible and graceful address, which was well received. Yuan Shi Kai, viceroy of Pe-chi-li province in China, will establish anti opium shops for the relief and cure' cf opium victims, and i.-: conducting a vigorous crusade against opium dens. A piece of ice fell from the rear of a wagon In New York and killed the iceman. We didn't suppose the trust could be so careless—about the size of the chunks. STRINGS TIGHTENING SOME SIGNS OF MORE STRINGENT MONEY CONDITIONS. That Result Would Seem to Be the Logical Consequence of Unsettling Business Confidence by Premature Tariff Agitation and an Unwise For eign Trade Policy. Not long ago the Lcs Moines Capi tal. a Republican newspaper, review ing tlie tariff ripping action of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers, remarked: "If there is to bo tariff ripping, you had better tie the string a little tight er around your pocketbook." Has the tightening process already begun? There are many men emi nent i:i circles of industry, commerce and flnanco who think they see signs of tighter conditions. Why do they think this? Reasons are not wanting. First among these reasons for think ing that a period of tightened pocket books is at band is the growing ten dency to disturb sound business con ditions. For more than three years past this tendency has taken the form of agitation for tariff revision. To agitate for tariff revision is no new thing in the country's history. The party that was out has always agitated for the revision of the tariff made by the party that was in. But it is a new thing in American politics for the party that it into who!l.. < * credit and complete!;.' undermine r. tariff of its own making. Yet this 13 what lias actually happened. Tariff revision talk has become so fashionable in the Republican party that tiiose who deprecate tariff dis turbance as bad for business, bad for labor, and bad for prosperity, are cen sured as obstructionists, enemies of progress, worshipers of a fetich, stand patters. Yet these men have only stood for stability of business condi tions and for a postponement of tariff agitation until revision should be plainly required in the general inter est. Nevertheless, the rage for tariff dis turbance has gone on and on, encour aged by ambitious politicians, and helped along by newspapers which find it easier to recklessly criticise than to judiciously commend, until at last an influential body of American producers, manipulated by free trad ers and selfish interests bent upon ex panding their own foreign trade at tiie expense of other lines of domestic in dustry, has put itself on record as fa voring tariff revision "at the earliest practical moment," and in the mean time the installment of a general sys tem of reciprocity in competing prod ucts. Is therp not In all this enough to tighten money strings? Then, to crown all, came govern mental interference in favor of tariff instability in the form of a commer cial arrangement whereby foreign pro ducers are by means of openly recog nized undervaluation privileges per mitted to escape the full payment of the tariff duties prescribed by law. Just how far this extraordinary straining of executive authority for the benefit of foreign competitors is going togo in the direction of unset tling and demoralizing domestic indus trial conditions no man can with cer tainty predict. The new arrangement went into effect July 1, 1907, and some time will be required in which to demonstrate its workings. Detri mental consequences ai*u confidently predicted by wise, experienced and conservative men, and a feeling of alarm is already manifesting itself among many lines of domestic produc tion. It is believed that in giving to com peting producers in the lower wage countries the right to undervalue their goods exported to this country the tariff has already been revised down ward by diplomatic dicker and exec utive sanction. It is believed that a dangerous prec edent has been established when tar iff schedules can be by indirection al ien d without the knowledge, consent or approval of congress, and without consulting the domestic interests cer tain to be affected. Is there not enough in this to tight en money strings? First, a persistent determination to create business instability through tar iff revision downward. Second, the actual revision of the tariff downward through the German agreement, which is to be followed by similar agreements with other coun tries. Taken together there would seem to be enough in these two conditions to account for the tightening of money strings. The Results. "Tinder the leadership of that great statesman and patriot, Richard Cob den, himself a cotton spinner, the English manufacturers earnestly sup ported the demand for free trade. In a house of commons elected to main tain protection and under the minis try of a former ardent protectionist, Sir Robert Pee], the whole system was swept away, corn laws, naviga tion laws, and all. The results need not be described."—Philadelphia Kec ord. The results are too well known to require description. British manufac turers are being undersold in the British market, the I'nited Kingdom has become a dumping ground for the cheaper wares of competitive coun tries, British workmen in vast num bers are out of employment, and the British pauper percentage is the high est of any civilized nation. These are the results o) dispincing protection And installing free trade. CAMERON COU.NTV PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST I, ICO7- KEEP UP WORKERS' WAGES. Tariff Tax on Printed Matter Shown to Ee Good Thing. The Philadelphia Record complains of the tariff on books as "a tax on the mind." It probably docs operate that way on the mind of a free trader, for he wants to buy everything where it is the cheapest, no matter what be comes of American employment and Twenty-five per cent, ad va lorem is the tariff on all books, pam phlets, etc., printed in the English language. On books printed in other than the English language there is no tariff. It is purely a matter of wages, the cost of paper being practically the same here and abroad. In Great Brit ain the pay of compositors, pressmen and bookbinders is 30 per cent, lower than In the United States. In Ger many these workmen receive not more than 50 per cent, of American wages. I.arco quantities of books and other printed matter in the English lan guage are produced in Germany and shipped over to Great Britain, where no tariff bars this low priced compe tition. But for our tariff of 2" per cent. Ger many would do a big trade in print ing for the United States. We are not sure but the Record itself would find it a saving to send over the "copy" for its Sunday supplements and have the composition and press work done in Germany. Certain it is that if the 25 per cent, tariff did not stand in the way many millions of page:: t .'looks, pamphlets, ntalogncs, etc,, would bo set up, printed and bound i:i the low wag e printing houses of Europe that are now produced in this country and give employment to great numbers of American printers, pressmen and binders. Considering the extraordinary abundance and cheapness of good lit erature in the United States, and also the economic value of maintaining the ■ superior American wage scale, the criticism of that 25 per cent, tariff seems puerile indeed. HARK! FROM THE TOMES A DOLE FUL SOUND. ■ - . !>» 'A i .396 |. J . M rp REOliffiaife I fe So *' ■ " Massachusetts' Mugwump Nightmare. The masses of both parties in Mas sachusetts know that Canadian reci procity is resented by Canada; that our trade with Canada breaks all rec ords —the past year, gaining more than English trade with Canada, and that under the Dingley tariff Massa chusetts has advanced by leaps and bounfts, while under the Wilson-Gor man tariff—the joint product of Whit neyism and of Fossism —Massachu- setts cotton factories and shoe shops were distressed. The masses want no more confusion of the trust problem with the tariff problem—they stand for federal regu lation of the trusts and for tariff changes along protective lines, not when the country's business is bigger than it can handle, but when business is so bad that- business would be pro moted by the necessary disturbance of tariff schedules. Between Democratic Douglas and Moran, bipartisan Guild and bipartisan Whitney, the student of American pol itics has data as adequate for the phi losophy of the spoils system as for the psychology of opportunism, whether expressed in the limited concerns of the importer or in the trust system, awarding economic salvation only to those who are "organized," whether with Moran and George Fred or with Guild and Whitney, uniformly for the mugwump nightmare, Hut labeled as opposite "parties."—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. The Substantial Part. The substantial part of the conces sion to which this country has been committed is to be found in the regula tions which have been issued from the treasury department for the guidance of the American officials upon whom the enforcement of the "deal" will devolve. If these regulations do not materially facilitate the sale in the American market of many more ar ticles than those expressly mentioned in the agreement a number of Ger man manufacturers are going to bo sadly disappointed. Philadelphia Inquirer. Has Been Taken Care Of. "Few Americans will object to reci ]) racily that reciprocates so very much to our advantage. Hut how about the German manufacturer? —• Brooklyn Eaglo. Uon't worry about the German man ufacturer. He lins been well taken euro of. The privilege of fixing an "export price" on goods shipped to this country will be worth to him anywhere from $15,000,000 to $50,000,- 000 a year in lower duties paid. CLOUDBURST Caused Havoc at Pitts burg and Wheeling. A TERRIFIC STORM Rcsu'hd in Landslides that Tied Up Street Railroads —Lightning Did Great Damage. 'Pittsburg, Pa. —With a gale blow ing almost 50 miles an hour a storm broke over this city and vicin ity last night that broke all records for precipitation, and terrified resi dents with the sharp flashes of light ning and almost deafening peals of thunder. Thousands of dollars' dam age was done to street railways by the washing out of tracks, and the landslides among the hilly sections of the county buried many tracks that took hours to unearth. From all sections of the county reports of great damage by the washouts and lightning are coming in. At Valley Camp, a summer resort near this city, the residence of Col. W. C. Connelly, or this '"ity, was strut ': I y lightning and 20 cottagers of the camj) assembled in the dwel ling were stunned. The upper story jf the building caught fire, but was extinguished by a bucket brigade. In the East End section of this city trol ley, telephone and telegraph ilfres were torn down and lay about the streets, necessitating an extra force of men to warn pedestrians of danger. The precipitation as registered at the local weather bureau was 89-100 inches, which fell within 30 minutes. Wheeling, W. Va. A cloud burst that broke over this city last night inflicted damago aggregat ing thousands of dollars. One life was lost, that of Lee Prettiman, a teamster, who was drowned while try ing to get his horse away from th > rush of water in the southern section of the city. All traffic on the trolley lines was suspended, bridges on all roads were washed away and the streets of the business section were flooded from house to house. A BAD PRE-EMINENCE. American Railways Kill and Injure More People than Those of Any Other Country. Berlin.—Herr Gulllery, an official of the Prussian railway admin istration, has prepared a comparative table of statistics of those killed and injured by railways in various coun tries. He finds that both absolutely and relatively the railroads in the United States are the most deadly. The United States has more mileage than all Europe, but even taking that into consideration, the United States holds pre-eminence in proportional figures. Out of every 1,000 railway em ployes the ratio of the number injured each year is as follows: l nited States 43.5, Switzerland 25.3, England 11.8, Belgium 11, Germany 2.4. Out of every 10,000 employes the relative figures of killed are: United States 26.1, England 12.3, Switzerland 8.2, Russia 7.8, British India 0.7, Bel gium 4.1. Herr Guilery finds that in a single year—the fiscal year of 1902-3, 76,500 persons were injured in the United States, of whom 60,000 were em ployes, and 9,800 were killed, of whom 3,600 were employes. In the matter of travelers injured France holds the lowest record in the world. United States shows propor tionately -10 times as many injured as Russia, 22 times as many as Italy, 20 times as many as England, eight times as many as Belgium, four times as many as Switzerland and twice as many as Germany. THE DAWN OP A NEW ERA. King Leopold's Reign Over the Congo Free State Is About to Terminate. Brussels. —The close of King Leopold's long struggle to stave off annexation of the Congo to Bel gium and to retain his personal sov ereignty over this rich and extensive African state, is foreshadowed in the agreement reached between the Bel gian and Congo governments, elabor ating the terms upon which the Congo Free State shell pass into the posses sion of Belgium. This transfer will mark an Impor tant epoch for the Congo, as hereto fore the entire conduct of affairs, civil and military, has been under the per sonal direction of King Leopold and a cabinet of Congo officers entirely separate fro'm and independent of Bel glum, whereas the new regime will make the Belgian government instead of the king individually responsible for the conduct of Congo affairs. The British and American governments have favored placing this govern mental responsibility on Belgium. Buffalo Club Won Glidden Trophy. New York. —The 1,550-mile tour of the American Automobile as sociation from Cleveland via Chicago to New York ended in Jersey City Wednesday. About 50 cars out. of the 100 starters finished. The Buffalo Automobile club, of Buffalo, N. Y., won the Glidden trophy. Special Session Adjourns. Albany, N. Y.—The special ses sion of the legislature adjourned last evening. The direct nomination bill recommended by the governor was beaten. PAPA PREPARED. "And now, darling," said the young man, when the question had been ! duly proposed and favorably an | Bwered, "I suppose I must lace the ! interview with your father. Will he j be frightfully angry?' "Oh, 1 don't think so, replied the ! fair girl. "Of course he'll be awfully I surprised, but I'm sure that after a | bit he'll give in and it will be all | right." i Then Henry went and manfully I knocked at the smoking-room door, and papa called out: "Come in, young man. What an ! awful time you've been settling that little matter! Of course my answer la 'Yes.' Hit S3 you!" Words of Wisdom. "And now," pAid "Va incrable col lege pr >i(le: .A closing his address to the graduates on commencement day,"l am moved to offer a few j words of advice to the* young ladies ! of the class." lie paused a mome*»t and looked at ' (.he faces before hint. "Hut 1 see," hi; added, "it would be I of no use." Then he sat down amid loud cheers , from the sweet, young men graduates. ' —Chicago Tribu.ie. HIS BENEFIT. 11 She —So you really imagine that smoking benefits you? lie —I know it does! My mother-in law leaves the room the minute 1 light my cigar!— Chicago Journal. Darkness Preferred. The usual semiannual bankrupt sale j was about to take place in a certain ! clothing "emporium," and a hug€ | wooden billboard, covered with adver ! tisements announcing the fact, was I erected just outside the windows. "But," objected the new clerk, i "won't those boards shut out all the j light?" "Sh!" rc' urned the proprietor. "What do you suppose I put 'em up for?"— Lippincott's Magazine. Poor but Honest Parents. "Well, my little man, what's your complaint?" asked the ps>*4»»rby. "Hungry, sir. Haven'*, had any thing to eat to-day,' replied the little fellow. "Have you no parents?" "Yes, sir; but father's a poet and mother plays bridge whist!"—Yon kers Statesman. Women Paddlers. Bacon—They say the business of the gondoliers of Venice is being in vaded by women. 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