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. a 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. 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