mm THE FIELD
J.IAKING GREATER OPPORTUNITY
FOR SONS OF FARMERS.
BUILDING UP THE HOME TOWN
Some Causes for Complaint Which
Can Be Obl'terated by the
United Efforts of the
People.
llow often do we hear it said that
the young man has not the opportun
ity that the young man of a score of
years ago had. How great is the corn
plaint of trusts antf combinations
■which control industries to the detri
ment of the smaller ones in business,
and how often is reference made to
business concentration in the large
cities at the cost of the smaller
towns.
Innovations in business methods
have been many. It may be said that
this is an era of economical methods;
that evolution is going on continually
broadening the field for individual
■effort and making possible the opera
tion of mammoth enterprises. There
can be no doubt as to the detrimental
• effects upon small towns of this busi
ness concentration in the larger cities.
Pessimists deplore the lack of oppor
tunity for the young men of to-day.
At the same time the large corpora
tions put forth the cry that there is a
scarcity of the right kind of material
for important places of trust. How
ever this may be, there is one thing
•evident, and that is, small towns being
kept from advancing narrows the
field for the young men who would
•otherwise enjoy an opportunity to en
gage in business.
Traveling to the large city for em
ployment, the youth, perhaps, seeks a
clerkship at moderate wages. There
arc thousands of others that he must
compete with in the race for success.
His field is narrowed. It is not often
that he has fair competition, and fa
voritism he finds is one or the obstruc
tions in his way. One of the cures
for this condition is to devise means
of enlarging the scope and importance
of the so-called country towns.
There is no economical reason why
the large city should have the busi
ness that rightfully belongs to the
small town. There is no saving in
buying goods at a distant point even
thougli a small percentage may be
saved directly. Whenever a resident
..>f a community sends his money to
some other community for the neces
sities that he requires, he robs his
own home town of a certain amount
of business. Employment is given to
the people of the large city instead of
the people of the local community.
*t has been estimated that more
than GO per cent, of the trtfde goes
from some communities to larger
-.cities. If this trade were given to the
homo town, it would immediately dou
ble its business importance and give a
corresponding increase in employment
for the people. This means that the
population of the town would be in
creased and the opportunity for en
gaging in business would be greater.
Not only this, but it is an established
principle that values of farm lands to
a great extent are dependent upon the
activity of the town near which the
farms may be located. Thus it is
plain that if the son 3of farmers
would have greater opportunities open
to them for engaging in business, it
can be increased by closely adhering
vo the home trade and home protec
tion principle, which widens the local
field for individual effort in a business
.way.
HELPS FOR TOWN BUILDERS.
Strangers to a town form their
opinions as to its people by the ap
pearance of the business places and
the residences. In a town where the
buildings are ding}' and dirty, and the
show windows of the stores are care
lessly arranged, it is evidence that
there is a lack of enterprise. It pays
the business men of a town to be care
ful as to the exterior appearances of
their places of business.
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Small towns usually contain but few
expensive residences. It matters little
how inexpensively built residences are
if the buildings are kept well painted
and the yards neat and clean. This
is evidence of the good taste of the
people. • • »
In many towns in country districts
there are hitching posts placed here
.and there before the stores. It is gen
erally the case that where the hitch
ing post is found, unless the street is
well paved, there is a mud hole.
Every town that is incorporated
should have regulations as to the
.placing or hitching posts indiscrimin
ately in the streets. There should be
set aside some side street that is con
venient to the business portion of the
town, wliero the farmers and others
■can hitch their teams instead of in
•front of the stores.
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Good sidewalks give the strangers
•to a town a favorable impression of
the place, and also they are an advan
<age in many ways and may prove a
matter of economy through the pre
vention of accidents that might give
cause for damage against the town
•corporation.
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Nearly every small town has its
■public park. It is often noticed that
these parks are little cared for. They
are public pastures and serve 110 good
purpose as piaces where the people
of the town can mwet evenings for
social intercourse. People of towns
should take pride in keeping the pub
4ic parks in good condition. They can
be made beauty spots with but little
•effort and expense.
OPPRESSION IN FOREIG.-l LANDS.
Laborers Reduced to Slavery Through
Systems of Land Holding.
Americans should be thankful for
the liberty that their form of govern
ment allows. It. is only necessary to
study into conditions as they obtain
in many of the European countries, to
learn how enslaved are the common
classes of the people of those coun
tries. The holding of vast estates by
the nobility has reduced the peasant
classes to a condition of serfdom.
In these countries it is also notice
able that the artisans, and the work
ers in the mills, receive wages that
are barely sufficient to buy them food
and clothing. In many of the conti
nental countries of Europe the farm
laborer receives as compensation from
$1 to $1.50 a week. In Silesa, where
there are large cotton factories, export
weavers receive from $2.28 to $3 per
week, and women employed at like
work earn less than $2 per week.
Even in Old England, where labor is
paid the best of any European coun
try, in the cotton factories the scale
for labor runs from $4.86 to $10.20 a
week. Where wages are so low it is
impossible for the people to save
money, and it is necessary that they
live upon the plainest and cheapest
food in order to make ends meet.
In comparison with these countries
how grand are the opportunities for
the laborer in Lie United States! In
America there are homes for all who
would build them. In no part of- the
earth is there such reward for indi
vidual effort. It is said by some that
there is a tendency even in this free
country toward oligarchy. That the
tendency towards the concentration of
financial power and business in the
densely populated districts is a men
ace that is too lightly estimated. The
preventive remedy for this evil lies in
the hands of the masses. There is
great need of the people in general
studying more deeply into economic
subjects. The simple principles upon
which business rests appear to be lit
tle understood by the average citizens.
The remedy for the prevention nf the
building up of one section of the
United States at the cost of another
section is readily at hand, and each
and every citizen can do his part in
administering this remedy.
For many years great insurance
companies have maintained their
headquarters in large eastern cities.
Millions upon millions of dollars annu
ally were contributed to them by the
people in all parts of the United
States. The vast funds built up for
the protection of policyholders had to
seek profitable investment. The great
captains of finance evolved means for
the employment of this capital. A
dozen small industries independently
conducted would be combined into one
company, capitalized far up in the
millions and the money contributed
to the funds maintained by the insur
ance companies utilized in carrying
out the plans of the great combina
tions. Thus it can be seen how
trusts have been built up and the
money of the people used for this pur
pose, and too often to oppress the
very classes that contributed the
funds which made it possible for
bringing into existence these combina
tions.
It can be understood how essential
it is that industries of this kind La es
tablished in the different states, and
how the money contributed by the
people of a state to a company in
some other state works directly
against the contributors. What holds
good in the insurance business applies
equally to other industries. IJy keep
ing the earnings of a people in the
community where these earnings are
produced, is to the best interests cf
the people. If it is necessary that they
be sent from the community, as far
as possible keep the earnings within
the limits of the state, for what assists
a state to greatness makes lighter the
burden of taxation upon all the people
within it and materially helps every
community within the state.
The student can plainly understand
how the concentration of business and
of money can be prevented by a sim
ple rule which involves the patronage
of local institutions and the retaining
in each community as far as possible
all the wealth produced within that
community. If this principle be close
ly adhered to it will be impossible for
any acquirement of such vast power
as will oppress the American people
as the common classes of many of the
European countries are oppressed.
Need a Good Bank.
A good bank is a valuable asset for
the small town. During these days
of prosperity people of almost every
community have a surplus amount of
money to deposit in tlie bank, or to
invest in a way that will bring a
fair margin of interest. Lately a sys
tem has grown up of doing a banking
business by mail. Alleged savings
banks and investment companies in
large cities advertise widely offering
six to seven per cent, interest on de
posits. Many who have little knowl
edge of financial affairs make depos
its in these banks. The Lincoln bank
at Oak Hark, 111., was one of these in
stitutions that made great offers to
the people of agricultural districts in
order to secure deposits. More than
$1,000,000 were deposited by farmers
and others in lhl:j concern. Within a
year it was declared unsound by the
l nited States authorities, the pro
moter of it placed under arrest and
charged with fraud. The poor de
luded depositors are not. likely to re
ceive five per cent, of their deposits.
Remember that when you send your
money from your local community it
ceases to be any factor in developing
home resources or in adding to th«*
wealth of the place. It is better al
ways to patronize home banks thau
banks far away.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1907.
HOI SESSION
Of Republican Conven
tion ai Tjlsa, I. T.
WILD EXCITEMENT
Was Created by an Orator's Effort
to Stampede the Convention,
but He was Unsuccessful.
Tulsa, I. T. —Gov. Frank Frantz
was Thursday night nominated by
acclamation for governor of the pro
posed aJate of Oklahoma by the re
publican state convention.
During the afternoon session of the
convention a clash that was followed
by a wild demonstration came when
J. S. McCowan, of Snyder, Okla.. in a
speech argued against the naming of
a ticket and for the rejection of the
constitution. He captured the con
vention with his eloquence and finally
declared that the party could not af
ford to name a ticket under the new
constitution.
The delegates were swept off their
feet for a moment, but the friends of
Gov. Frantz soon realized what they
believed was a trap laid to stampede
the convention against Frantz. Then
disorder ruled the gathering. Dele
gates hissed and yelled for McGowan
to sit down. The speaker attempted
to stick it out, but the convention was
against it.
Chairman Hamon tried to quiet the
convention, but without avail. Mc-
Gowan's voice was lost in the cheers
for Frantz that followed. Then dele
gates rushed to the platform and
threatened the speaker, but he held
his ground. Delegates and party
leaders urged Hamon to stop Mc-
Gowan.
At this point Frank Rush, of lilack
burn, carried a Pawnee county Frantz
banner to the platform and Jumped to
the top of a press table. The wildly
excited delegates sprang to their feet
shouting for Frantz and a state
ticket. Shouting men in every part of
the convention tore loose their coun
ty standards and rushed forward.
Delegates left their seats and joined
in the rush while Hamon gazed upon
the tumult In astonishment. Police
men went to the stage to prevent
trouble, but their presence was not
needed. D. L. Sleeper, of Tulsa,
standing on a table, ultimately suc
ceeded ia restoring order.
A EIENDISH CRIME.
An 8-Year-Old Girl Is Assaulted, Mur
dered and Mutilated by Some
Person Unknown.
New York. The " graveyard,"
as the foreign populated neigh
borhood on First avenue between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets is
known locally, on Thursday gave up a
fresh crime, rivaling in atrocity the
mysterious butcheries of last week.
The latest discovered victim was -an
8-year-old girl and like the two young
women murdered, she had been
shockingly mistreated before death
and the body mutilated when life was
extinct.
The three murders are strikingly
similar. Last Thursday night a wo
man was mangled in a boarding
house; the noxt morning the body of
a woman who had been choked to
death was found in an 'areaway in
East Ninetieth street. Katie Pritsch
ler, daughter of a restaurant waiter,
disappeared a week ago yesterday
and was killed that night. A ribbon
placed about the throat and drawn so
tightly that it cut the flesh showed
how she died. Her body was found
yesterday.
At the coroner's direction, Gaetano
Rlppolano, whose cobbler shop ad
joins the girl's home, was arrested
and asked to explain his absence from
his shop on last Friday. He estab
lished the fact that he had spent the
day at Bristol, Conn. The girl is said
to have frequented Rippolano's place,
and a search of the shop brought to
light a man's shirt which bore red
stains. The cobbler was arraigned
and remanded to the coroner.
WILLIAMS WON EASILY.
Mississippi Democrats Held a State
Primary and Gov. Vardaman Was
Defeated in the Race for Senator.
Memphis, Tenn. Dispatches on
the Mississippi democratic primary
election received by the News-Scime
tar indicate a victory for John Sharp
Williams for United States senator,
alt hough Gov. Vardanian made gains
in the southern counties.
Scattered returns to the Commer
cial Appeal from the delta ntid east
ern section of Mississippi show John
Sharp Williams leading Vardanian in
the senatorial race by a percentage
of about two to one. In the contest
for governor. Charles Scot I and IS. S.
Noel are leading th'lr four competi
tors, with the vote very closa. The
oount is progressing slowly.
Four Men Killed.
Ran Pedro, Cat. —Four men lost
their lives Thursday when 400
feet of the tr.v.tle leading from the
wharf of the Pacific Wharf and Stor
age Co. collapsed. The dead men
were crushed by carloads of rock or
drowned In lli • harbor.
Billik !r Sentenced to Hrtnq.
Chicago, ill.— Merman Milllk, re
cently eo:ivict»d of the murder of
Mary Vz a! by poisoning, was on
Thursday to hang on Octo
ber 11. Defo-e sentence was passed
Billik broke down and cried.
NEW INDICTMENTS
ARE RETURNED AGAINST AN AR
MENIAN PRIEST AT NEW
YORK CITY.
Evidence Accumulates Against tha
Leader of a Society Accused of
Extortion and Murder.
New York. Four indictments
now lie against Father Martoo
gessian, the Armenian who, it is al
leged, sometimes laid aside liis priest
ly robes to practice extortion and
blackmail. The priest is just now
the central figure in the conspiracy
which the district attorney seeks to
prove had for its object the robbery
of wealthy Armenians and led to the
murder of the rug merchant, Tavshan
jian, and others who refused to be
financially bled.
From the slayer of Tavshanjian,
Bedros Hampartzoomian as he is
known here, the police hope to secure
a confession establishing that the
youth unwittingly was the agent of
blackmailing Terrorists. A trunk
which Hampartzcomian had in Low
ell, Mass., lias been brought here
and its contents may throw light on
the investigation.
Of the three additional indictments
against Martoogessian brought in by
the grand jury Wednesday two charge
attempted robbery, as did the original
indictment, and one alleges extortion.
The latter charges that the priest was
responsible for at least one of the
blackmailing letters which followed
the death of the rug merchant.
The letter was mailed in New York
on July 21!, the day that Tavshanjian \
was shot. It was written in the Ar- I
menian language. In red ink, and was
signed by the symbol of the Terror
ists three hands with daggers uplift
ed, poised above a red heart. The let- :
ter was sent to Gulabi Gulbenkian &
Co., of this city, and was as follows:
"Death Warrant.—The executives i
of the Constantinople Armenian revo-!
lutionary Terrorists' organization con
demn to death Haroutlan Gulbenkian. ;
Gulabi Gulbenkian and Patrick Gul- j
benkian, the three brothers who have
deaf ears to all appeals for national i
freedom. Our executive board, hav- j
ing givsn its decision to Haroutian I
and Gulabi Gulbenkian, in America,!
gives them -4 hours to decide be- j
tween duty and death.
"Constantinople Armenian revolu-1
tionary Terrorists' organization." j
Hefore this letter came Haroutian |
Gulbenkian, who is the accusing wit-!
ness against the priest, had received ■
a blackmailing letter demanding $25,- ;
000, but had not complied with the de- [
mand.
The sense of the indictment is that j
the priest either sent the quoted let- j
ter or caused it to be sent.
Further, it is charged that Martoo
gessian represented or caused to bo j
represented to Miran G. Karagensian.!
an Armenian, that he would meet !
death unless he gave SIOO,OOO to the I
Armenian revolutionary fund.
A STRIKE Of MINERS PROBABLE.
Fourteen Thousand Employes of the
Pittsburg Coal Co. Are Liable
to be Called Out.
Pittsburg, Pa. —The possibility of
a strike, participated in by all the ;
miners in the Pittsburg district, num- j
bering over 14,000 men, became ap- '
parent last night when the following |
statement was issued .by Francis |
Keehan, president of District No. H, |
United Mine Workers of America:
"The district executive board of the I
United Mine Workers of Pittsburg |
has instructed me to stop all miners I
working who are employed by the j
Pittsburg Coal Co., in event of the j
company not Immediately fully com
plying with all the provisions of the
wage scale agreement."
President Feehan's authorization I
came after an all day meeting of the i
executive board. Feehan said the j
strike had been ordered because the j
Pittsburg Coal Co. had persistently |
violated the agreement with the min-1
ers and the union, and that officials j
of the Miners' union had become tired
of the delay In rectifying the wrongs.
The situation looks serious. Should
the order to strike be given, 50 mines
will be closed immediately.
Ore Handlers' Strike Is Ended.
Duluth, Minn. —Ore dock work- |
ers, who have been on a strike I
for more than two weeks for recogni- :
tiou of the union and an increase in ;
pay, on Wednesday voted to return
to work to-day. Neither of there- |
quests of the men was granted by the j
Duluth, Miasabe & railroad j
and the men will return to work oil i
the same conditions that, existed j
when they struck. All employes will !
be taken back without, prejudice.
Powers' Trial It; Postponed.
Georgetown, Ky. The fourth |
trial of Caleb Powers on the i
charge of complicity in the murder or i
Senator Goebel was indefinitely post- I
poin d Wednesday. Following the ac- i
tion of Judga Robbins in vacating tiie j
bench because of charges ol' bias, at- |
torneys could not agree on a suitable !
man to try the case and Robbins ad- )
journed court. The trial will not pro- ;
ceed until Gov. lieckham appoints a
new judge.
A Doubly Fati'l Accident.
Pittsburg, Pa. —G. N. Grubbs, r. j
Baltiin re & Ohio railroad clerk, and !
an unknown woman were killed and
one passenger v..• slightly injured '
Wednesday when !?. & O. train No. 2
ran into an open -vil .:h at the Sheri- I
dan stre l c.ossltv; in McKeesport.
A Multi-Millionaire Dies.
Menominee, Mich. —S. 11. Ste- J
phenson, < x ■ iigre.;snian aud nuiltl- j
millionaire lumberman, died at
hi ; homa here Wednesday, lie was
a brother of United States Senator- :
sleet Isaac Stephenson, of Wisconsin.
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and if you are looking for re- B
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prices, we are ready to serve
you with the best to be found. jl
Our reputation for trust- |
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is too well known to sell any A
but high grade goods. |
Our stock of Queensware and gS
Chinaware is selected with
great oare and we have soma ra
of the most handsome dishes H
ever shown in this section,
both in imported and domestio
makes. We invite you to visit
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A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in £2
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