CURAMERICANKINGS
FARMERS THE BACKBONE OF
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
FEEDING THE OTHER NATIONS
Greater Need of Study of Economic
Princ'ples by the Tillers of the
Soil —Building Up the
Towns.
American farmers are the wraith
-producers of the nation. In the United
Stales annually the products of the
farms exceed in value all the gold the
country has produced in a score of
years. If the term can be used in a
free republic, the farmers are the
American kings. The results of their
labors feeds not alone a single nation,
but assists in supplying sustenance
for a large part of the people of nearly
all lands of the earth. 'Tis the prod
ucts of (he farms that gi\e the means
of support to the great railroad sys
tems, that keep the thousands of great
steamers plying the oceans, that make
possible the thousands of great enter
prises. While the farmer is among
the most independent classes of the
iand. too often he fails to reap full |
reward for the work lie has accom- i
piished. He must fight combine after
combine, and pay taxes to support in
stitutions from which he receives no
benefit. This is because of the con
centration of capital in the hands of
a comparatively few in large financial
centers. But is not the farmer to
blame for this condition to a great
extent? Does he not make it possible
for the concentration of wealth in
large cities? lie certainly does lend
his support to the building up of
trusts, and to capital concentration,
■when he fails to patronize enterprises
in his home town, and refuses to help
build up its industries.
There is a "penny wise and pound
foolish" attitude on the part of farm
ers in many communities that is de- j
structive to their own interests. It is
seeing a profit, f.dite often purely
imaginary, and in striving to gain it
lose sight of the truth that, they are
wielding the sword that will eventual
ly inflict a serious wound to them
selves. This is the practice of pur
chasing goods at trade centers distant
from home. Towns and communities
are made wealthy by retaining as
great a part of the earnings of its
people as possible. The larger the
town can be made, the more valuable
becomes the farm located near it, be
cause the home market is made bet
ter and higher prices are secured for
products.
Money earned by the farmers and
the business men, if retained at home,
generally finds investment in new en
terprises that give employment, to la
bor, and add to the wealth of the
community and assists in lowering tax
ation. On the other hand, when the
earnings of a community are sent
away from it, the towns are deadened,
and farm values lowered, taxation is
made greater and the small imagined
gains to those sending away the
profits of their labor react against the
sender, who assists in concentrating
money in large financial centers in the
hands of those who pay no local
taxes. Generally the monied powers
of those distant cities dictate to the
farmers what prices shall be received
for the products of their farms, and
to the laborer the compensation he
•shall receive for his labor. Is not this
proposition plain?
D. M. CARR.
TRADE'S MAGNET.
Virtue in Right Kind of Advertising
in the Home Papers.
There is no apparent reason why
the merchant in the average town
should not be able to sell goods, class
and quality considered, as low as the
large city stores. He is under less
expense, and if he is enterprising and
up-to-date, he can buy h:s goods at
«is low a figure as the retailers in the
large cities. There is laxity observed
in the management of business by
some merchants in rural towns. They
depend too much on trade drifting
■their way without making the right
kind of effort to gain it. A merchaut
in a western state who took it in his
heart to use large advertising space
in his town paper, found that within
three months, by persistently follow
ing up a plan of using a half page in
the local paper for the publishing of
prices and describing goods, increased
"bis trade more than a third. From the
position of doing about, the fourth
.amount of business of any store in
the town, he rapidly raised to first
place. He is on the road to prosper
ity, and has been a benefit to the town
fn general, drawing trade to it that
v.as never enjoyed before. This was
done within 30 miles of one of the
large western cities, and with the de
partment, stores of the city advertis
ing in the same paper.
A Town Convenience.
Only for the farmers, the laborers
and others that comprise the great
part of the population, the merchants
of the towns would have little excuse
for being in business, and the mer
chant is a wonderful convenience to
people of his neighborhood. One can
not well get along without the other.
The merchant depends more upon the
success of the farmer and the laborer
than do either of the latter on the suc
cess of the former. Between them
there should bu greater harmony. In
towns that are noted for activity and
progress, particularly in agricultural
sections, it will be found that it is
the united efforts ol all classes of
workers that win.
CITIES AND TOWNS.
How They Are Built Up and What
Gives Them Permanency.
Towns and cities are built where
exist the greatest natural advantages.
Growth and importance depends on en
vironments and Require
ments are that there be some manner
of employment for their population.
Thus the business of the place fixes Its
standing. It is then evident that the
greater are the resources of a country
and the more enterprising its people,
the more important will be its cities
and towns. Some locations have fa
vorable conditions for certain lines of
manufacture, and single industries
support thousands, like the textile In
dustry at Fall River, and the manu
facture of jewelry at Providence, R. I.
Others have shipping facilities that
cause them to become great commer
cial centers. No city can exist within
itself, free and independent of tribu
tary territory, but must depend upou
a large scope of country to supply it
with the products necessary for the
sustenance of its people, and for the
marketing of its articles of commerce,
and its manufactures.
Towns and cities decay when their
business interests are destroyed. In
the west, particularly in the mining
sections, can be found hundreds of ex
amples illustrative of this fact. The
discovery of a mine is sufficient to
gather people to compose a city. With
tho exhaustion of its mineral re
sojrees business is destroyed and the
town becomes deserted. In agricul
tural sections exist commercial towns,
made necessary by the development
of the surrounding country. Such
towns are supported by tho trade that
can be attracted from a certain scope
of territory, and industries that can
be established to employ labor. With
development of tributary country, and
expansion of industries, and the exer
cise of enterprise many of these towns
attain the magnitude of cities and be
come important commercial and finan
cial centers. With their growth farms
adjacent increase in value. The truth
of this is in evidence in nearly every
state of the union. While within the
boundaries of the United States proper
there are more than 86,000,000 of peo
pie there is room for millions and mil
lions more. There will be hundreds
and thousands more cities pulsating
with business come into existence.
Reader, is not your home town one
that may become a great city if you
only do your part to assist it toward
greatness?
HOME ENTERPRISES.
Trusts Cannot Well Compete with
the Products of Local Mills.
Never in the past has there been
such opportunity for the establish
ment of small enterprises in the cities
and towns of the United States as is
now presented. There is barely a lo
cality which does not possess some
advantages for certain lines of manu
facture or commerce. There is little
prospects for over-production as the
population of the country is increas
ing at an enormous rate, and new mar
kets are being opened continually in
foreign countries for American prod
ucts. Imports are decreasing ex
cepting of raw materials, and each
year shows aji increase of imports.
Many lines are supposed to be in the
hands of combines, but these so-called
trusts can never prevent the success
of local enterprises in similar lines
if the masses of the people will close
ly follow the home trade principle,
and as far as possible give preference
to local products. The great agri
cultural sections produce the wheat,
corn, barley, and other cereals which
find their way to large mills in far
off cities, are converted into flour,
starch and Innumerable kinds of foods,
and in their manufactured state are
returned to the sections where the
grains were grown and sold at prices
that leave a large margin of profit.
How much more economical would it
be to convert cereals into flour and
other foodstuffs in mills located in
the districts whore the grains are
grown. Would not the receive
a benefit ji increased prices, the sav
ing of freight rates, two or more
profits that result from marketing, and
would there not be a great benefit
derived from the keeping at home
wages paid to laborers and the reten
tion in general of profits that go else
where? ' -
Beware of Peddlers.
It will always be found best to avoid
dealing with wanderers through the
country who have something to dis
pose of particularly those who are
not known to you as thoroughly hon
est. For years stoves, furniture,
books, and hundreds of articles have
been hawked about the country by
itinerent agents. Some have more or
less merit, but. ail are sold at enor
mous profits, far greater than would
bo required by some home dealer.
When money is paid to the come-an
go traveler, just so much money is
taken away from circulation in a com
munity, and it is gone to remain.
The Telephone.
Rural telephones are a boon to the
farmers. They can keep in close touch
with the markets, and all the doings
of the outside vrorl:!. One the uses
that the 'phone can be well put to, is
iho getting of lute market news from
| the home town. There are very few
j fnrjuvrs who ca:i;. :t 't Ie tho telephone
with profit durl::;; the marketing sea
son.
The Home Market.
Good agricultural towns afford &
steady market for eggs and other pro
duce, thus keeping prices oven. There
is a poor market in a poor town, anil
prices are uneven.-
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1907.
COBS OUTPLAYED
[HE DETROITS
IN SECOND GAME OF WORLD'S
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES.
WON BY A SCORE OF 3 TO I.
Mullin and Pfeister Were the Pitchers
—The Base Running of the Chi
cagos and Rossman's Batting
Were the Features.
Chicago, ill. The Chicago Na
tional league team defeated the De
troit pennant winners of the Ameri
can league in the second game of the
series for the world's championship
Wednesday. Score was 3 to 1. Slow
pitching and several slight accidents
caused the contest to drag out over
two hour.*.
The local team discarded the new
gray uniforms in which they appeared
Tuesday, appearing in their soiled and
worn white home uniforms. The
change seemed to put them more at
ease and also apparently benefited
the Detroit players, for both teams
played more steadily than on the
opening day. After the first four and
a half innings had dragged through
an hour and 35 minutes some spark
ling fielding and sharp hitting and
base running hastened the game to an
end.
Mullin and Pfeister were the pitch
ers and Payne went behind the bat in
place of Schmidt. Otherwise the
teams lined up as on the preceding
day. Schmidt's retirement was due to
his inaccurate throwing, but in this re
spect the change brought small im
provement, as the five stolen bases
credited to the local team testify.
Playing conditions were improved
for the second game-, the crowd num
bering 21,901 as against over 24,000
Tuesday, while warm sunshine and
the absence of the chill breeze of
the first day kept spectators and play
ers in more comfort.
Rossman, whose hitting was the
real feature of the contest, scored the
first run of the game in the second
Inning.
Chicago tied the score in its half of
the inning. K'ing, Evers and Schulte
singled in succession, filling the bases
with none out. Then Tinker drew a
base on bails, forcing Kling home.
Right th'ere Mullin suddenly regained
control of his curves, striking out
Pfeister and Slagie. while the best
Sheckard could do was a puny
grounder to Sehaefer.
In each of the next three innings
Detroit batsmen readied first base with
none out, but poor base running and.
the inaOTllty of the following bats
men to find openings in the Chicago
defense stopped the embryonic tallies.
Tlie winning runs came in the
fourth. Tinker's hit bounded off
Mullin's glove. He went to second on
a sacrifice and stole third. O'Leary
fumbled Slagle's grounder, Tinker
scoring. Slagle stole second and came
the rest of the way on Shfckard's two
base hit past first base. After Chance
had popped out Sheckard was caught
trying to steal third.
After that fast fielding prevented
further scoring. O'Leary cut off two
hits by marvelous stops and throws in
the fifth and repeated the l'eat in the
sixth. Sheckard caught a low fly off
his shoe tops in the seventh and the
three Detroit runners who reached
first base were cut down by Kling's
fine throwing.
MORE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO.
Moneyed Men are Arrested and Their
Property Seized by Mulai Hafid.
Mazagan, Morocco. Mulai Hafid,
who was proclaimed sultan at Mo
rocco City some time ago. has
caused the arrest here of six*notable
men belonging to the Azamour tribe,
one of whom is a protege of the Ger
man consular officials. All the prison
ers have been sent in chains to Mo
rocco City.
Three more Azamour notables were
arrested here Wednesday. One was
said to have had SCO,OOO in his posses
sion.
News of these arrests has thrown
the Mazagan notables Into a panic.
They have the protection of
the French consul, who has reported
the situation to Tangier. Some of the
men arrested have connections with
Prance*
Advices received here from Morocco
City declare that reinforcements to
the number of 2,000 men are preparing
to set out to join Mulai Hafid's troops
at Settat. Mulai Hafid has imposed a
tax of SOO,OOO on the Jews of Morocco
City, who are consequently in a state
of consternation. He has caused the
arrest of three wealthy merchants of
Fez on charges of conspiracy and
seized their goods, valued at $70,000.
Oran, Algeria, Oct. 10.—A French
reconnoitering column consisting of
two companies of sharpshooters and
a squadron of spahis and Algerian cav
alry combined was ambushed Tuesday
at Guerbol Hill, about nine miles from
Oudja, Morocco, by warriors of the
Beni Snassen tribe. The attack of the
Moors was repulsed, but the French
troops lost two spahis killed and had
two sharpshooters wounded. In addi
tion a score of horses belonging to the
French cavalrymen were killed.
Before returning to Oudja the
French force bombarded the village
whence it had been ambushed. The
enemy fled in all directions.
Receivers for a Blink are Named.
9 Baltimore, Md. Receivers were
appointed Wednesday for the Farm
er:'.' Trust, Nanking and Deposit Co.
of this city. Tightness of the monc>
market is given as the cause of th
en l.arrassiiient of the company, whicl
conducted banking institutions in live
towns in Maryland.
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Ceii. Breckenridge's Widow Dies.
New York City. Mrs John C
Breckinridge, widow of Gen. John t
Breckinridge, one time vice presides
of the United States and candidate f>
Ibe presidency against Abraham U.
join, died here Wednesday.
CASSIE CHAOWICK IS NO MORE
QUEEN OF FRENZIED FINANCE
PASSES AWAY IN PEN.
No Friend or Relative at Bedside
When Death Came—Her Second
Term in State Prison.
Columbus, O. — Mrs. Cassie Chad
wlck, whose amazing financial trans
actions culminated In the wreck
ing of an Oberlin, 0., bank, died in the
woman's ward at the Ohio penitentiary
Thursday night at 10:15. Mrs. Chad
ivick had been in a comatose condition
for some hours previous to her death
and the end came peacefully. No
friends or relatives waited at her bed
side, only the prison physician and
hospital attendants. Her son, Emil
Hoover, had been summoned from
Cleveland, but arrived 15 minutes after
she had expired.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, whose
maiden name was Elizabeth Bigley,
was a native of Woodstock, Canada.
She first came into public notice in
Toledo, 0., about 20 years ago, where
she told fortunes under the name of
Madame Devere. While in that city
she forged the name of Richard
Brown, of Voungstown, 0., and for this
'•rime was sent to the penitentiary at
Columbus for nine years.
MRS. CASSIE L. CHADWICK.
She served but a portion of this sen
tence and then located in Cleveland,
where she married a man named
Hoover. Her second husband was Dr.
Leroy S. Chadwick, of Cleveland, a
man of good famly and excellent
standing In his profession.
In (ho latter part of 1902, or early
in 1003, .Mrs. Chadwick, in the pres
ence of her husband, gave to Ira Rey
nolds, the cashier*of the Wade Park
bank, of Cleveland, a box containing
notes signed with the name of Andrew
Carnegie. These forged notes are al
leged to have amounted to $7,500,000.
ReynoJ .a gave a receipt for the pa
pers, which described the notes, and
the signatures upon them. Mrs. Chad
wick left with Reynolds as an explana
tion of the notes, the statement that
she was a natural daughter of Mr. Car
negie.
With the receipt of Reynolds in her
possession, Mrs. Chadwick went to
different banks and many capitalists,
making loans and paying, not only
high interest to the banks, but heavy
bonuses to bank officials who loaned
her the money. The extent of these
transactions will never be fully known,
but they ran up into the millions. They
involved men of high standing in the
financial world and caused heavy
losses to many bankers.
In November, 190-1, she was sued by
a man named Newton, of Brookline,
Mass., from whom she had borrowed
a large amount. Other creditors came
down upon her and soon she was ar
rested by the federal authorities on
the charge of conspiring with Charles
Beckwith, president, and A. B. Spear,
cashier, of a national bank at Oberlin,
0., which had been substantially loot
ed. Mrs. Chadwick had obtained from
this institution such large sums that it
was compelled to close its doors, caus
ing heavy losses to the depositors and
ruining many of them. Mrs. Chadwick,
Beckwith and Spear were indicted for
a variety of offenses against the na
tional banking laws. Beckwith died
before coming to trial. Spear plead
guilty, was sentenced to seven years
in the penitentiary, and is now serving
time at Columbus, O.
Mrs. ('hadwick was brought to trial
March 6, 1905, and after a hearing
which . lasted two weeks was found
guilty of conspiracy to defraud a na
tional bank and was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
Her health, which was not good at
the time of the trial, failed steadily af
ter its conclusion.
Mrs. Chadwick left one "son, Emil
Hoover, born of her first marriage. He
is now about 20 years old.
The decline in Mrs. Chadwick's
health began almost from the time she
entered the penitentiary, January 12,
1908. She fretted incessantly over her
confinement until it became almost
impossible for her to sleep. At times
she was so peevish the patience of
the prison officials was sorely tried.
Chicagos Again Defeated Detroits.
Chicago. 111. The Detroit Amer
ican league team suffered Its sec
ond successive defeat at the hands ol'
the Chicago Nationals Thursday, scor
ing only one run. Chicago tallied live
times, four of the runs being the re
sult of solid hitting. Siever started
to pitch for Detroit, but the locals
took kindly to his curves and batted
him out of the box In lour innings.
Endorsed Cannon.
Owosso, Mich. —An endorsement
of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon for
the republican nomination for presi
dent was adopted here Thursday at
the republican convention of the
Eighth congressional district, after an
animated debate.
Celebrate New York Day.
Norfolk, Va. Empire, State day
was celebrated on Thursday at the
Jamestown exposition, addressed by
Gov. Hughes, of New York, and Pres
ident Schurman, of Cornell univers
ity, being the features of the observ
ance.
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