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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
H. H. MUIiLIN, Eii.tor.
Published livery Thursday.
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Anti-Typhoid Inoculation.
Gen. Lord Kitchener is said to be
favorably impressed with tin* value of
anti-iyphold inoculation in the British
army. The evidence as to its effective
ness in checking enteric fever, as pre
sented in the Journal of the Royal
Army Medical Corps is, indeed, very
strong. The method of inoculation,
which was advocated in 1897 by Sir
A. E. Wright, was first tested on a
large scale in India and Egypt, with
encouraging r<\sults. It was also
shown that during an epidemic at
Maidstone not one of the 81 nurses
and attendants who had been inocu
lated was attacked, whereas there
were 16 cases of typhoid among 120
nurses who had not been inoculated.
The experiments are being continued
in India, to which country 15,000
doses of the inoculating material
have, up to date, been sent. It has
been found that a second inoculation
increases the degree of immunity.
Lieut. Luxmoore reports that during
the Meerut epidemic in the Seven
teenth Lancers, 61 of tiie C:5 cases oc
curred iu soldiers who had not been
inoculated, the other two being men
who refused to submit to a second
operation. The Lancet holds that in
oculation for typhoid fever must here
after lie held as necessary for the pro
tection of soldiers as vaccination Is
against smallpox. The observations
made during the Meerut epidemic also
emphasize the fact that sanitarians
have fixed their attention too much on
water as a source of infection. More
recently, the fatal activity of flies lias
received some notice; but there is a
third way in which the germs are
scattered broadcast —by means of
dust —which has heretofore been in
sufficiently studied.
Comment is often made on the su
premacy of the Jewish element in the
theatrical field. Miss Ellen Terry puts
her finger on the secret of it in her
comments on Disraeli. She expresses
a liking for his novels because of
their color, their pageantry, and then
says: "Disraeli was a heaven-born art
ist, who, like so many of his race on
the stage, in music and elsewhere,
seems to have an unerring instinct for
the things which the gentile only ac
quires by labor and training." In
other words it is not the commercial
sense alone, as so many assume, that
makes Jews succeed in this field, but
the instinct she speaks of for what
will please.
Some medical expert announces
every few months that. Americans eat
too much. Such a man said in a lec
ture before a medical school class the
other day that there is as much nour
ishment in a slice of bread aim but
ter as in three slices of lean beef, or
in an egg and a half, or in ](> 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
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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. How'd you like to
be paddled by a woman?
Egbert—Excuse me! I was paddled
by my mother when I was a boy.
That's all I want!" —Yonkers States
man.
Hurting the Eyes.
Yeast —Nearly everybody in Bos
ton wears glasses, I believe?
Crimsonbeak—That's my belief.
"Do you suppose beans hurt the
! eyes?"
"Well, if they come out of a bean
shooter, they are likely to." —Yonkers
Statesman.
The English Way.
Bacon—Railway servants in Eng
land are supposed to receive $1,500,-
000 a year in tips.
Egbert—Some of the money goes to
attendants for allowing you to look
after your own trunk. Yonkers
Statesman.
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