2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year no If paid in advance 1 ■» ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisement* are published at the rate of one dollar |>er square forono Insertion and ttfiy «i*nt» ver square for each subsequent insertiou- Rates by the year, or for six or three months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Eegnl and Official Advertising per square, three times or leiis, i 2: each subsequent lnser tio i .'0 ceats per square. I.oral notices lu cents per line for one lnser •eril jn; f> cents per line for each subsequent con- ecutlve insertion. Obi-nary notices over five linea. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar r...*es and deaths will be inserted free. Hiu-laoss cards, five llaes or less. if> pvr year; over Ave lines, at the regular rales of adver t iing. N» local inserted for less than T.» cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of v> rk PARI ICULAH ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will I>3 discontinued until arrear age*! are paid, except at the option of the pub fisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance Clothes. In response to a petition from the sailors, the secretary of the navy has appointed a committee to recommend changes in the uniform of the men. The sailors say that the pancake cap which they are compelled to wear can not be kept on the head in a high wind, and affords no protection to the eyes in a glaring sun. The blouse, with a wide collar tied by a long neck erchief, is also charged with trouble breeding possibilities in the wind. The collar blows up about the head and face, and the neckerchief gets tangled in the hands, and is a general nuis ance. No protest has been made against the flaring trousers, as the flare ftakes it easy to roll up the legs when the sailors sofub the decks. The men ask for a vizored cap and 6 coat. Whether their demands are granted now or not, some change in the sail or's uniform is inevitable, declares the Youth's Companion. A garment that interferes with a mr.n's work has out lived its usefulness. There was a time when men wore silken hose, lace-ruf fled shirts and flowing lace cuffs with silk or satin coats. One has only to imagine a man clad in that way walk ing the streets of a modern city or running a high-powered automobile to understand why silks and satins have gone out of fashion for men's gar ments. That laces and silks and sat ins are still woven and worn by wo men is the world's tribute of apprecia tion for woman's ornamental capabili ties. Her usefulness is never doubted. Clothes also show the progress of democracy. It was the gentleman who wore laces and silks. The peasant dressed in woolens of sober colors. Class distinctions were forcert upon the attention of the most careless ob server of the passing throng. Nowa days it is impossible to distinguish be tween the rich and the poor as they walk the streets. It sometimes hap pens that the poor man dresses bet ter than his employer, "that he may make a good impression"—a utilitari an reason for good clothes as truly as Ihe demand for a vizored cap by the sailors is based on business reasons. One of the great electric manufac turing companies reports gross earn ings for the year covered by the (statistics at over $33,000,000, with profits of $-1,179,000. This is the elec tric age for sure, and the experience of this one concern is probably matched by that of others. The demand for electrical appliances in every form was never greater, nor is there any indication of subsidence. An interest ing accompaniment of this report of earnings is the government statement of copper production, from which it appears that the output of the metal for lflOfi was 906,591,000 pounds, or 18,000,000 pounds in excess of tfie amount in 1905. Production and con sumption of copper are intimately re lated to electrical development, and this country is foremost in both re spects. Last year German yachts which caine here to race for the Roosevelt cup were defeated. This year our boats contesting for the Emperor Wil liam cup at Kied, Germany, were bad ly beaten. Yacht-desfgners usually succeed best in building for home wa ters and for weather conditions to which they are habituated. These in ternational races, however, are not without their usefulness. Yachting, a clean, beautiful sport, is of great value in its influence on the important sci ence of ship-building. That was u lovely story about the train wrecked near the circus grounds in a Pennsylvania town where one big elephant became a derrick and lifted idebris off the injured while five others 'ran to the river and filled their trunks ■with water and extinguished (he jflames. If administration secret serv ice agents can get the names of (hat jiress agent he will certainly get his. And now we are told that men after they are 40 should not eat red meat. Still, it will be no rarity to see many who have passed Dr. Osier's age limit ordering raro roast beef with dish gravy, Instead of calf meat or the steamed rooster that is masquerading spring chicken. TEN BILLIONS MORE THE FARMER IS WORTH IN 1907 THAN HE WAS IN 1895. Then He Was Getting Low Prices and Producing Less; Now Getting Top Prices —He Is Producing Mors and Making Money Faster Than Ever Before. By the courtesy of the. Philadelphia RecorcL we are able to reproduce a strong cartoon, the original of which appeared in a recent issue of that newspaper. The picture has for its central thought the steadily increasing prosperity of the American farmer. In the foreground are two stalwart tillers of the soil standing back to back, while Uncle Sam is taking the meas ure of their respective statures. He finds that the farmer of 1907 is half a head taller than he of 1906, and the legend explains that 1907 has given the farmer in earnings "one billion dollars more" than in 1906. Leaning over the fence with wistful, envious expression is the Wall street specu lator, his empty pockets turned inside out, and fervently exolaimlng: "I wish I was a farmer!" For this striking depletion of the splendid earnings of the American farmer, the Free-Trade Record is to be commended. We do not suppose that ino intention was to suggest that the farmer has grown more and more stalwart, and that hia earnings ahow ONE BILLION DOLLARS MORE FOR THE FARMERS. " C»OW»tG SOME There are more factories in opera tion now than ever before. There are more mills running, more locomotives puffing and pulling the products of fac tories and mills. Everywhere there is a demand for labor. Farmers, don't you know that this Is what has up lifted your market? The prosperity of the wage earners has brought about this unprecedented prosperity of the farmers. Republican legislation in congress has done this. —Southern American. a billion dollars of Increase in one year because of Protection. Yet the suggestion is there; you cannot es cape it. Doubtless the Record will scout the Idea that protection has had any thing to do with the farmer's prosper ity, and will sneeringly ask, "What has Protection to do with big crops" Let us see about that. It requires no strained argument to show that Protection may have a great deal to do with big crops. Go back to 1893-1897. The farmer was getting 50 cents a bushel for his wheat and $3 apiece for his lambs. Today, after ten years of restored protection, the price of wheat has nearly doubled and the price of a spring lamb has more than doubled. Protection has not increased the yield of wheat per acre, or the per centage of lambs available for the butcher's block, but it has induced the farmer to sow additional acres of wheat to buy more ewes from which to breed lambs. It is estimated that farm land val ues and the gross values of farm products have Increased at the rate of a billion dollars a year—fully $10,000,- 000,000 —in the last ten years of ade quate protection to American labor and Industry. Can't Be Taken Out of Politics. It is all very well to say that the revision of the tariff, being strictly a problem of commercial science, ought to be taken out of politics. Undoubt edly; but how is it to be taken out of politics when for years the tariff has been, and next year is likely once more to be made a presidential issue? The ideal procedure would be through the creation of such a non-partisan body as the National Association of Manufacturers proposes, assuming, of course, its fidelity to the protective principle; but as things stand it is at least questionable whether the forma tion of a non-partisan tariff commis sion comes within the range of possi bility, and it is not questionable at all •that a Republican congress would re fuse to participate in the formation of such a body. The day may come when the tariff will cease to be a po litical issue, just as the gold standard has ceased to be such an issue al ready, but that day has not como yet, nor Is it yet In sight. Fortunately, there is no immediate hurry about the tariff. Tho country is doing very nicely. It is enjoying all the prosperity it could expect or de sire. Indeed, Its only complaint is that there is more business to be done than there are facilities in the way of currency and transportation for doing It, so that the community Is suffering from what the doctors call a plethora. This is nn inconvenience, but, on the whole, the situation ia one to which the remark applies that it is gener ally prudent to let well enough alone. —Philadelphia Inquirer. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSEkAY, OCTOBER 24, W- MODERN TARIFF PLATFORM. The Manufacturer* Club of Philadel phia Want to "Be Shown." Possibly the tariff plank In the Re publican platform of 1908 was written when tlie following wai adopted by the Manufacturers' club of Philadel phia on Monday evening, September 9, 1907: That we are opposed to any disturb ance of the present tariff law at the coining session of congress and until conditions have eo changed that the public Interest demands a change in rates of duty, and until it can be shown that less injury will result than good be accomplished by such acUon. Is there a safer, sounder, more sen sible tariff declaration than this upon which the party of protection could go before the people in next year's presi dential and congress elections? Could the national convention do better than to adopt it without the change of a word or a com^ia? This is practically the platform of 1904, except that it more specifically states the common-sense proposition that action looking toward a disturb ance of the tariff and of business con ditions shall not be permitted "until it can be shown that less injury will result than good be accomplished by such action." Who will say no to this? What rea sonable, prudent, patriotic citizen will dispute that before the tariff is dis turbed evils calling for remedy must be plainly shown to be of greater con sequence than the evils* certain to re sult from such disturbance? Upon such a platform the Republi can party can without question suc cessfully appeal to the country for a renewed expression of confidence. It would be a practical guaranty that the best judgment, the best brain, the best wisdom of a great party are to rule in a matter which so vitally concerns the business, the industry, the wage earning and the wage-paying- of the nation as a whole. It would be a no tice that protection remains "a cardi nal principle" of the party of protec tion, and that neither the avowed ene mies nor the false friends of protec tion will be allowed to subvert pro tection and destroy prosperity. For the sake of the greatest good of the greatest number it is earnestly to be hoped that the tariff resolution of the Manufacturers' club of Philadel phia will be the tariff plank of the Na tional Republican convention of 1908. HARD ON FREE-TRADERS. Trust Development in a Country With No Tariff. One of the foulest blows ever de livered into the pit of the stomach of American free-traders is the forma tion of a British steel trust. This enor mous combination now makes no se cret of the fact that it i 3 formed to con trol the iron and steel market of Great Britain, not to speak of the kindred industries dependent upon the mate rial supplied by the trust. Over here in the United States our Free-Traders have preached the gos pel, until they almost believed it them selves, that the only thing that made or could make American trusts was the wicked protective tariff. There are trusts in Germany, under protec tion, and there are trusts in Great Britain, under free-trade, for trusts are made by entering into combina tion to regulate production, distribu tion, prices and everything that is in the control of those who produce the articles and get together in such a conspiracy. In fact, the only thing that enables an independent producer here to stay in existence is the tariff, which saves him from fighting more than one enemy the, home trust. But our free-traders have always had it that the American tariff was solely re sponsible for the American trusts, and that but for the tariff they would have togo out of business. And to prove the argument they pointed to Great Britain, where there were "gentle men's agreements," but no open trust, Perhaps now the free-traders may be willing to admit that the way to end a trust is not to end the whole home industry by giving it to some foreign nation. Perhaps they will ad mit it, perhaps not, for the thing they most believe in is the thing they don't see; and the thing they deny with their loudest voices is the thing that is plain before their eyes.—Kewanee (111.) Star-Courier. The Duty on Hides. In replying to the assertion of the Waterville Sentinel that the tariff on hides adds ten cents to the price of every pair of shoes and costs the peo ple of Maine $140,000 a year more than under the Wilson law, the Ken nebec Journal makes the excellent point that shoes are as cheap today as they were in the dismal period of 1893-1897. The Journal might have gone farther and shown that the tariff affects only the heavier hides used in making sole leather, and that the duty of 15 per cent, cannot possibly in crease the cost more than two cents H pair. This cost comes out of the manufacturer's profit and not out of the consumer's pocket. Yet a large number of shoe manufacturers have become enormously rich, and are get ting richer very fast in spite of that 15 per cent, duty on hides. Rightly the Journal contends that this duty should be retained because the farmers want it. Abolish the duty on what the farm ers have to sell and the farmers would very quickly demand the removal of duties on what they have to buy. That would mean the end of all pro tective duties. Though they apparent ly have not sense enough to see it, tho>3e who urge the removal of the duty on farm products practically ad vocate free-trade. That is the sine of it. CHURCH TREASURES STOLEN WORKS OF ART WORTH $1,600,000 WERE TAKEN BY ONE MAN. Robberies of French Churches in the Last Few Years Were Numerous and Total an Enormous Sum Paris. Marx Brothers, antiquar ies, who sold the statue of St. Catherine to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, last May, while they are unable to account for the ex act origin of the statue, are quite cer tain that it is not a product of the re cent church robberies in France. M. Marx said Wednesday that the firm had acquired the statue in August, 1906, from one of the best known deal ers in Paris, who had purchased it from another dealer equally reputable. For the present he was not at liberty to give the names of these dealers, but he considered the character of the houses a sufficient guarantee that the statue had not been stolen. Mr. Marx said the dispatches from New York had contained the first inti mation that the statue came from the church of St. Etienne. He scouted the idea that honorable antiquaries were in any way involved with Antoine Thomas, the chief operator in the re ceii; robberies, although he said it was always possible that they might be the victims of misrepresentation. M. Marx pointed out that all religi ous works of art, crosses, statues, ivories, reliquaries, etc., now in the museums anil galleries throughout the world came originally from churches an surely as apples crme from apple trees, but the history of most of them is unknown. The French revolution accounted for the disappearance of many such objects from the churches, but previous to and sin< o the revolu tion, in Italy and other countries as well as in France, church treasures had been freely sold by priests, who often attached little value to them. "Moreover," M. Marx went on, "fifty years ago treasures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were drifting about Europe and could be purchased for a song. It is only in the last 15 or 20 years that their value as art treas ures has been appreciated anil their systematic collection begun. Since then the values have increased a hun dredfold." The product of Thomas' known thefts, according to the public prose cutor of Limoges, already is estimated at $1,000,000. At Clermont-Ferrand Tuesday night the police discovered in a cellar leased by Thomas a bust of St. Baud'ne, stolen from the church of St. Nectaire and valued at $200,000. TWO RECORDS WERE LOWERED. Trotters at Allentown, Pa., Half-Mile Track Make New Marks for Speed. Allentown, Pa. Two world's records were broken Wednesday after noon on the Allentown fair ground track before 10,000 persons. In the match race for $5,000 between Sweet Marie and Major Delmar, best two in three heats, the mare won in straight heats and incidentally broke the half-mile track world's record for a regular one-mile race. Her best time was 2:08, made in the second heat, beating the former record of 2:09% held by Dandy Jim. Sweet Marie's time in the first heat was 2:10. The other record was made by George G., this season's unbeaten trot ter, which, paced by a runner, broke the world's half-mile track record for an exhibition mile. His time was 2: 0G -">4. The former record was 2:07, made by Sweet Marie on the Allen town track, September 20, this year. In the match race Sweet Marie was very steady, while Major Delmar had trouble in making the turns. The lat ter was swept off his feet in making the first turn in the first heat, losing three lengths, which he nearly made up to the wire, being a neck behind the winner. In the second heat Alta McDonald had pushed the gelding ahead in the first eighth and gained two lengths to the quarter. At the half they were neck and neck. Near ing the three-quarters pole Major Del mar broke and Sweet Marie won with ease in 2:08. STOCK MARKET IN A PANIC. Failure of a Firm of New York Brok ers Caused a Break in Prices. New York City.—Trading in both the New York stock exchange and the curb stock market was in a turmoil Wednesday as a result of excited movements and violent declines in the price of United Copper stock in the latter market. The suspension of the firm of Gross & Kleeberg, members of the New York stock exchange, con tributed materially, if it was not the chief cause, of the declines in both markets. This firm has been trading actively in United Copper stock and it was reported that they were members of a pool formed to support the price of the stock. Apparently there was a break in this pool Tuesday, as the re sult of which the common stock broke from $59 to S3B per share. Yesterday it went down to sls. The preferred stock which had been quoted last at s7i, reached the low point of $24 for the the day. Trading in these stocks was confined to the curb market. Evidences of active liquidation in New York stock exchange apeared in the closing hour of the market and was attributed to heavy selling by in terests which had suffered in the cop per movement in the curb market. Active stocks declined at the rate of a point per sale until net lorses ranged from 2'/- to 7% points. Five Men Drowned. Chicago, 111. Five men were drowned Wednesday by the overturn ing of a scow in the Illinois and Mich igan canal near Jollet, 111. The men were employed by a power company building an electric power plant at the junction of the Desplaines and Kan kakee rivers. Steamers Collided—One Sank. Detroit, Mich. —Ti.e wooden steam er Case, of the Gilchrist fleet, was sunk Wednesday in a collision with the Pittsburg Steamship Oo.'s steel steamer Mariska, opposite Amherst burg. The crew were saved uninjured. IHSomTTTyri 8 WE have the best stocked | general store In the county j and if you are looking for re liable goods at reasonable prices, we are ready to serve you with the best to be found. Our reputation for trust i worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any but high grad- ;oods. j Our stock of Queensware and j Ohinaware is selected with 112 great oare and we have some It of the most handsome dishes ever shown in this seotion, both in imported and domestio makes. We invite you to visit us and look our goods over. I | Balcom & Lloyd. II LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET || THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT | j LaBAR'S !! I U We carry in stock p St* the largest line of Car- ' * £* pets, Linoleums and fi/- '[ t£SJ |[mTTlT^^ E3 Mattings of all kinds 112? ever brought to this £ M town. Also a big line 'f y v P " A very large line of FDR THE Sgi g PI Lace Curtains that can- ... i 11 whe^fo™hep"ce aUy - CdfOftTAßlf LOD6HK » Art Squares and of fine books In a choice library C 2 Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of 6lobe- Wl kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastfc" Bookcase. M, M est to the best. Furnished with bevel French |1 plate or leaded glass doors. N Dining Chairs, I ro " •«" ■* I || Rockers and , GEO. I. L^BAR, |j High Chairs. sole Agent for Cameron County. I ||jd £1 A large and elegant " ?3 SI line of Tufted and Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at baigain prices. j^3 II it |3O Bedroom Suite, OE |4O Sedeboard, qnar- C9fi fc2 solid oak at 4>ZO tered cak SOU "I fj |2B Bedroom Suita, Co| |32 Sideboard, qnar- k! Pf solid oak at 4)/1 tered oak )Z3 9% |25 Bed room Suite, COfl |22 Sideboard, quar- tf|C solid oak at )ZU tered oak, 4)10 A large line of Dressers from Chiffoniers of all kinds and I s up. all prices. kg The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, || J| the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRIEGE.' All drop- || fl heads and warranted. £3 A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in £3 M sets and by the piece. M As I keep a full line of everything that goes toff* Ii make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to enum- M erate them all. H kg Please call and see for yourself that lam telling km 11 you the truth, and if you don't buy, there is no harm g* E2 done, as it is no trouble to show goods. i GEO. J .LaBAR. | TJ]Nri>£!B.^^.BLIZSrO.
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