2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Ed.tor. Published Every Thursday. TKKMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Per year fc no II piiui ill advance t ."; s cents per line for each subsequent con toutive insert,on. obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per iin''. SinTpic announcements of births, mar- I ■ „-es and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, live lines >»r less, is JI T year; over live lines, at the regular.rates of adver t i'ng. No local Inserted for less than 75 cents per i&suo- JOB PRINTING. The Job d('part!i:ent of the I';:KSS !S complete and afford* facilities fordoing til hesi elass of w rk. l'Ainii i i.AII ATOM ION PAIDTO LAW PltlNTlN"!. No paper will b discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. papers sent cut of the county must be paid Cor in advance. The Picture and the Stcry. F. R. Whiteside, sorrowing over the painter's lack of proper appreciation in the Bookman, asks why the painter should be expected to paint a story, saying that although the painter de pends upon the writer for his widest publicity, the writer discusses the idea, the meaning of tho picture, to the e - ,elusion of the qualities that to the painter are reason for its exist ence. "When the painter writes about a picture," says Mr. Whiteside, "ha speaks of the qualities he sees in it, qualities of selection, form, color and composition, hut has little to say about the subject. The average layman frankly admits that he knows nothing about pictures; but he generally quali fies his remark with, 'I know what I like.' And usually that is some picture that he has read about, or that appeals to him through its story-telling quali ties. If his interest goes deeper—in stead of securing his knowledge at first hand from pictures themselves, he gets a book on 'How to Study Pic tures,' written by a man untrained in the painter's art, unfamiliar with his aims, and out of sympathy with his point of view. A writer would be amply justified in vigorously object ing to a painter as a reviewer of his books; a musician would naturally protest against a sculptor as musical critic. The position of the painter is identical.'' Dangers Lurking in Cravats. Girls who gave neckties to men used to get into the joke papers. Now. no more. Since the notion of wearing knit ties came in a few yean, igo, the mightiest is not too prouu to disj.'.ay such handiwork. And in this act is there not a quaint and charming sym bolism? The tie, fashioned by innu merable delicate motions of soft fin gers, represents in its final form al most a detached part of the lady her self. Mere thread plus her —that is the tie. And this resultant the man, c willing slave, knots around his neck. Might not one almost say that that silken noose, which, minus what her hands have done, would be mere yarn, is indeed her hands? A noose—aye, there's the rut! For if once around one's neck, it is but a step from being caressed to being throttled in the re lentless grip of the Superman. Each must decide for himself. As for us, exclaims the editor of Collier's, we are willing to risk it, provided we get the tie. No, this is not fishing. A man used to have to asl: his friends to send him knit ties from the other side. Now they may be picked up in every Broadway shop and are become almost vulgar. Sudden and accidental death on the streets of a city is not an uncommon thing. It may come by way of a brick or stone dropped by a mason from a new building, from a falling sign loos ened by the wind, from the wheels of trolley car or automobile, from a run away horse, from a hundred causes. All men know this risk, yet seldom take special precautions for them selves in connection with it. In curi ous contrast with the ordinary care lessness is the action of the Wormser brothers, New York bankers, both of whom are now dead, one having passed away recently. It is related of them that when both were alive they were practically inseparable, keeping the same hours and being always to gether except when going to and from their office. Then they always took separate conveyances so that no acci dent could meet them both at the same time. Prince Tokugawa, the ex-shogun of Japan, In May gave a luncheon at his residence in Tokyo to some of the sur vivors of his supporters at and before the time ol the restoration. As most of the surviving samurai were in capacitated by age from attending, only some 20 were present, but the function was exceedingly impressive notwithstanding. The guests recalled rvith mingled feelings the old days when they were the prince's retainers, and the toasts to the dead heroes who lost their lives for the cause of the shogunate were drunk with an emo tion not often seen among Japanese. NOWHERE IN FAVOR IMPORTERS PROTEST AGAINST THE GERMAN AGREEMENT. They Point Out the Mischief That Will Result from Permitting For eigners to Name Low Export Val ues and Thereby Escape the Pay ment of Full Tariff Duties. Against that portion of the German agreement which compels consuls cer tifying to the correctness of export in voices and American customs officers who are to pass upon the question of values to accept as "competent evi dence" the values placed upon such invoices by local German chambers of commerce the strong protest of the Textile Importers' association is whol ly directed, if any doiibt as to the grievous error and wrong inflicted by this agreement alike upon the direct importing interests and the wage pay ers nnd wage earners of this country remained in the minds of the presi dent of the United States, or the sec retary ol state who engineered the pernicious dicker, or the secretary of the treasury who acquiesced in its unwholesome provisions, or the news papers which have accepted the agree ment as all right and proper, or any man who would like to see American industry and American business have fair play anil a square deal —that doubt upon a reading of the memorial of protest should instantly disappear, and in its place should come a feeling of certainty that on the part of tho American negotiators a grossly im prudent and improper thing has been done in permitting foreign manufac turers to fix "export value" and there by evade in part the payment of tariff duties specified by law. This is made perfectly evident by the clear and forcible language of the memorial of the Textile Importers' association. The facts and arguments are those of the leading merchants of the United States—men conspicuous the world over for their great busi ness ability, their scrupulous business integrity, and their wide business in fluence. They are facts and argu ments wholly outside of the domain of politics, and they cannot be suc cessfully controverted. If these men had been consulted and their testimony taken —the iden tical testimony that is embodied in the grave and dignified protest which is now In the hands of President Roosevelt—fortified by the testimony of our great domestic producing inter ests, the German agreement could not have been cosunnnated. Secretary Root, obsessed as he was with the delusion that foreign trade is the one great tiling to think of, and Secretary Cortelyou, Inexperienced and plastic as he was, with less than 50 days of service at the head of the treasury department, would not have dared to disregard such testimony. President Roosevelt, had he known what he now knows after reading the importers' memorial, would have used his "big .stick" to smash the dicker. Of this we feel sure. Why, then, was not the testimony of the direct importers and the do mestic producers heard on this im portant matter in advance of the signing of the German agreement. Why was the report of the commis sion sent to Germany withheld until after March 4, so that congress could not get hold of it? Why did the state department, in reply to a resolution of inquiry be fore the house committee on ways and means, decline to make known any of the provisions of the Ger man agreements? Why should every American inter est have b~en kept in the dark when the German manufacturing interests were fully advised of what they were going to get? We cannot answer any of these questions. We do not know for what reason it was thought proper to s"- eretly sacrifice the business of llie direct importers, to secretly lower the tariff duties that American labor and industry depended upon for pro tection, to rob the treasury revenues, and to demoralize the customs admin istration service by official sanction of dishonesty and fraud. The great, central blunder and in justice of the "export value" provision of the German agreement is made as clear as day in the memorial of the Textile Importers' association. Un der its operation the heaviest tariff payers (the direct importing houses) are put out of business, the American manufacturer is subjected to a dis honest competition alike repugnant to the provisions of the tariff law and to good morals; the American wage earner finds his labor undersold through crooked practices, and the American treasury is robbed of no one can tell how many millions of dollars annually. This is what may be gathered from the memorial of protest. And it is absolutely true. Easily Answered. The Roston Herald irs having some trouble in answering the question, "What is a Republican?" -Thus: "Or take the tariff: Is Gov. Cum mins, who demands revision in the in terest. of the consumer, or Senator Allison, who sneers at such an idea as a 'fad,' a true Republican? Coming to our own state with this paramount issue 'What is a Republican?'—a man who stands for Gov. Guild and Air. Foss, or one who sides with Gen. Draper and Col. Clarke?" The process of elimination would aid in solving the riddle. If the Her ald strikes out Cummins, Foss and Guild the answer is easy. CAMERON COUNTV PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, if»7- HAS TAKEN UP HARD TASK. Secretary Cortelyou Apparently Aims to Accomplish the Impossible. "Fortunately Secretary Cortelyou has proved in three government de partments that he has the habit of ac complishing what his predecessors pronounced impossible."—N. Y. Mail. His immediate predecessor at the head of the treasury department sup plies an illustration. Secretary Shaw pronounced it. impossible to collect the revenues to which the government is entitled, to provide the protection to which domestic labor and capital are entitled and to maintain the hon esty and efficiency in the customs service to which the people as a whole are entitled, and at the same time open wide the door to frauds on the revenue, to facilitate the undersell ing of American producers by foreign exporters under the consignment sys tem, and to the encouragement of wholesale graft and rascality among customs officers. Accordingly, Mr. Shaw refused to sanction the Ger man agreement and resigned from the cabinet. Now, as it appears, Secre tary Cortelyou is about to accomplish the Impossible. He is going to give away and keep the same market; he is going to smash protection and maintain protection; he is going to promote dishonesty and insure recti tude. He will turn out to be indeed a great man if he shall succeed in these indeavors. MAKING COMMON CAUSE AGAINST A COMMON ENEMY. From the Protest of the Textile Im porters' association against the Ger man agreement: "Germany has secured an undue ad vantage. It is the one for which she has been struggling a long time; it is the 0110 which she has been seeking by every means in her power; it is tile one that every American importer who has sought to buy poods In the German market knows that Germany has been working to secure for a number of years; it is the one which Germany lias striven for, be cause she Is a consigning and not a sell ing nation. She prefers to consign her goods to this country, enter them at her "export price," and then compete in this market with direct or purchasing im porters and American manufacturers. American merchants know that the ad vantages lie entirely with Germany under the "export price" feature. As a demon stration, the imports from Germany dur ing 190fi were $136,000,000, largely consign ed; a reduction of ten per cent, under the "export price" system would be $13,000,090; if a larger percentage, a corresponding increase. Assuming only a ten per cent, reduction, all our advantage as indicated in the statement Issued by the state de partment is wiped out." Bad Leaders. Cutting loose from a safe anchorage with minds distorted by a monstrous ambition, discarding and repudiating the declarations of their party and forgetting its wonderful achievements under this wise national policy, there are to-day Republican leaders who would destroy the great work of Mc kinley and Dingley, and listening to the clamor of the men who plunged this nation into an era of calamity and depression in 1593, would undo the work of Republican statesmen and try again a policy of free trade, which has at every trial hitherto driven prosperity from the United States. We care not who these men may be nor what great things they may have done, whether the Republican party follows their advice and elects them to power on such a platform, it writes its own epitaph; repudiates lis great est living principles; destroys the foundation upon Avhich it lias built the grandest, political organization the world has ever known; undoes the work of half a century of efficient political labor and starts the nation down the declivity of depression, stagnation and disaster, to plunge into the mire of free trade and Dem ocracy, which will speedily obliterate every vestige of the prosperity we now enjoy, bringing the country back again to the dark days, similar to those through which it passed at the close of the Buchanan and Cleveland administrations. —Boone (Mo.) Repub lican. Tariff Revision by Treaty. German exporters under this new arrangement are permitted to fix their own values upon goods shipped to the United States. The goods will be ap praised at such figures as the Ger mans may name and American con suls are expected to accept German appraisals. The Germans can well af ford to pay the duty when they aro permitted to fix their own value on the goods. By well known tricks of undervaluation they will be able to get their goods into this country on a lesser ad valorem duty and will thus save many millions every year. If France, England and other countries exporting lo Hie United States shall be able to make a similar arrange ment the tariff question will lose much of Its importance and a tariff for revenue only will have been ac complished by treaty.—Nyack Star. HUNOREOS OF MEN ARE QUI STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS EX TENDS TO WESTERN CITIES. Employes of Western Union and Pos tal Companies Fight for the Closed Shop and Shorter Hours. Chicago, 111. —Following the lead of telegraph operators employed by the Western lluion Telegraph Co. in Chicago, who struck Thursday night, because they were asked to work with non-union men In Los An geles, telegraphers in nearly a dozen other cities quit work Friday. The 5(10 men employed by the Postal Tele graph Co. in Chicago who belong to the same local of the Commercial Telegraphers' union as the Western Union men and who declare that their working conditions with the company have become unsatisfactory, took ad vantage of the situation and quit work in a body last night. With the strike of the Postal em ployes. Chicago is left with about 35 commercial telegraphers who are en deavoring to transmit the business of both companies, whereas under nor mal conditions fully 1,500 men are necessary to do the work in Chicago. Other Western Union offices which became involved in the trouble Fri day, together with the number of men whr> quit work, are: H..H Lake City 3 1 ). Helena Hi, Kan sas Ci t330, Dallas I(K>, B'oi t Wot f.h, To:., 40, Colorado Spriiil<», Denver S3, El l':iso 15. In New Orleans the luon empiojed by the Postal Tele graph Co. left their k«_y.s last night. Under or lei a from National Presi dent Small, of the telegraphers' or ganization, National Secretary Rus sell last night wired to the secretaries of the various locals throughout the country to keep the men at work un til further orders. Mr. Russell, in ex planation of this action said: "We don't want to use up all our ammuni tion in one charge.'• New York. —The Western Union Telegraph Co. will fight the strike of iheir operators in the west ern cities, in the east or wherever the men may go out. They expect to win as they claim to have won in 1883. A strike among the 3,000 operators of Greater New York is imminent. INDICTMENTS FOR RE3ATING. They Are Returned Against Two Oil Companies and an Equal Num ber of Railroads. Jamestown, N. Y. Convictions on all the counts of the indict ments returned Friday by the federal grand jury for western New York would render four corporations liable to tines aggregating $18,240,000. Judge Hazel received the report from the jury's investigations of the go.-ernnient's charges against the Standard Oil Co., the Vacuum Oil Co., the New York Central and the Penn sylvania railroads of giving and re ceiving special and illegal concessions on shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y., to points in Vermont. The report includes the presenta tion of two indictments against the Standard Oil Co., two against the Vacuum Oil Co., two against the New York Central and Pennsylvania joint ly, and two against each of these rail roads separately. One of the indict ments against each corporation con tains 188 counts and the other 40 counts. The report given is only a partial one, the jury adjourning until Septem ber 6, when it will continue its work. The law provides a penalty of $20,- 000 for each count in case of convic tion. A conviction on each count would render the Standard, Vacuum, New York Central and Pennsylvania nable to fines of $4,560,000 each, or a total of $18,240,000. REVIEW OF TRADE. The Usual Midsummer Quiet Is Noted at Many Points—The Leading In dustries Are Well Employed. New York. —It. G. Dun & Co.'.s Weekly Re view of Trade says: Jobbing trade in fall and winter goods is active at the leading cities, country merchants being in large at tendance and operating freely as a rule. Retail sales of seasonable mer chandise are liberal, although at. some points customary midsummer quiet is noted. While payments are some what irregular, mercantile collections show distinct improvement on the whole. A few labor disputes are pending, but there is little interruption in the leading industries, most manufactur ing plants working full time and hold ing orders that promise continued ac tivity. Commodity prices are lower, especially in cases where speculative inflation existed, favorable weather having greatly improved crop pros pects. New business In the iron and steel industry is light and some quotations of pig iron are lower, but wire and wire products have become firmer, and many steel mills are sold well into next year. Steel rails are in bet ter demand, a liberal tonnage of new contracts appearing this week, and material is sought by car shops and shipyards. Strikers Refuse to Arbitrate. Los Angeles Cai. —The striking boilermakers of the Pacific division of the Southern Pacific on Friday declin ed the offer of arbitration submitted by the company. The strike may be extended further east on the Harri man lines. A Famous GamMer Dies. Chicago, 111. Michael C. Mc- Donald, fcr years a leading politician and gambler in this city, dieo Friday. It is said that Mr. McDon ald's estate will amount to betweer 11,500,000 and $2,000,0u0. SUMMARY. Summer roses; Summer girls; Summer poses; Summer curls; Revelations On the beach; Wild flirtations With a pe<"-h; Bathers daily Wade or tloat; Idiots gayly Rock the boat. Sunburn, freckles— •lust a few Piquant speckles— I'eek-a-boo Waists mysterious; Moon and stars; Swift delirious Motor cars; 'Tin the season ■lust for rhyme Without reason— Summer time. —Washington Times. Terrible Revenge. Manville (much excited) —He rut. Ed me in business. He smirched my good name. He filched from me the girl I loved; but at last, ha! ha! I am revenged! Neate —Good gracious! What did you do? Manville (hissing through his set teeth) —I recommended him to spend his holidays at the seaside lodgings I had last year, and he's going to do it.- TOO SHORT-WAISTED. Lady—Good morning. I left my bathing dress here yesterday by mis take; may I have it, please? Bathing Man —This the one, miss? — The Tatler. The Latest. Rounder —Wedderly wasn't at tb« stag party last night, was he? Pounder —No. He was storm bound. 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