2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULIJN, Editor. Published 12vfry Thursday* TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. P»T YEAR 90 00 If paid iu advance 1 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements arc published at tlx? rate of puc dollar per square for one insertion and fifty v'tnis i>er square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three month*. %re low and uniform, and will be iurnishcd on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, 5'J: each subsequent inser tion fU rents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one inser serilon: 5 ceuts per line lor each subsequent con-eeutive insertion. Obituary notices over live lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar -1 .acres and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, live lii.es «»r less. 15 per year; mer tive Hues, at the regular rates of adver t sing. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job d« partmentof the PRESS is complete end affords facilities for doing tin- best class of V.-rk. PAK'llcri.Ali ATTENTION FAll> 'l'O LAW Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent wt oT the county must be paid fur in advance. The dearest friends to-day may be the most desperate enemies to-mor row. There is more in this pompadour matter than appears on the surface — "rats," for instance. Says the Baltimore American, "No torietj and fame are the twin sisters of eccentricity." Must mean triplets. American theatrical companies are to tour British provinces. Newcastle will be kept abundantly supplied with . coals. The fortune of $3,000,000 left by the late Robert Pinkerton shows that it sometimes is profitable to mind other people's business. There is every reason in the world why the farmer should feel compla cent. who has a few hundred bushels Df wheat stored away. Europe is getting ahead of us in the balloon industry only because the war office over there doesn't care what it does with the taxpayers' money. Although the steamships are getting awfully fast, even the best of them will carry dining rooms and sleeping apartments for a few decades yet. The substitution of radium as a. money metal would be a great con- j venience J'or tin.- men who are en- ' deavoring to collect all the coin in the world. Dr. Emil Koenig of Berlin says that the decay of the entire human race is imminent. He should not take so se riously these reports from Pittsburg and New York. ' "Men who think rise." says a Phila delphia paper. Still quite a number of men glued to street car seats are in a brown study when a tired woman en ters and clutches a strap. If the sprightly young collegians were as swift in their studies as they are in their class rushes, remarks the Cleveland Leader, what a wealth of wisdom Ohio would have in a few years! The navy says the army can't shoot, and the army says the navy has to give vaudeville shows in order to get recruits. It may yet turn out that the militia is the most efficient branch of the service. The claim of Dr. Seweli that most alleged mad doss are really only suf fering from thirst, will not, however, encouragi many philanthropic souls to rush out with a pan of water and offer them a drink. Ernest Thompson Seton, writing in a current magazine on the "Marriage of Animals," remarks casually that domesticity is "notoriously bad for the morals of animals," and cites the dog as i conspicuous example. The immorality of animals! Heavens and earth! A New Yorker, who is courting trouble says that bold, high foreheads are not evidences of intellect, because children and women have bolder and higher foreheads than men. When he gets through being scalped by the women he will realize that a bold tongue is no evidence of intellect. Twenty-four millions of dollars is the official estimate of the amount of money expf nded in Europe this year by Americans touring in automobiles. The basis of the calculation is that there are 8,000 touring parties, aver aging five persons each, spending $lO a day for two months. Great guess ing! The will of Henry.l. Bryor provid ing that no grandchild who uses to bacco or intoxicants or frequents sa loons before reaching the age of thir ty, shall inherit any of the property is surely a safe and sane document. If a man reaches that age without having formed bad habits it is almost a certainty that he never will. Believers in woman suffrage and the most scornful disbelievers will unite, unless they were born without humor, in enjoying a social comedy presented by a recent election in a small town, says Youth's Companion. Two wom en were nominated to succeed their husbands as members of the school committee. Some citizens, who do not favor women on the board, nomi nated the husbands for reelection. The excitement waked up many men who had not voted on school questions for -•ears, and with pathetic loyalty to their sex, they swelled the vote for the husbands to overwhelming defeat c{ the wives. SAME OLD FALLACY ELLIS H. ROBERTS TALKS "HORI ZONTAL REDUCTION." Would Juggle Tariff to Suit Condition of Treasury—Constant Disturb ance of Business Conditions the Inevitable Result. One of the iatest plans for insuring disturbance of business conditions is that advanced by Ellis H. Roberts, a former treasurer of the United States. The present treasury surplus worries this gentleman. lie foresees the possi bility of a continued increase that shall bring the surplus to $100,000,000, and to avert this lie woud reduce the tariff. First determine what the proper sur plus should he, and then cut down col lections to fit. Horizontal reduction will do it. That was the "Bill" Mor rison plan of some 25 years ago. Mor rison, however, was not so much wor ried about the surplus as about pro tection. He wanted to secure in time the removal of all protective duties. Roberts professes undiminished re gard for protection, though he would not hesitate to lower duties that are needed for protection in order that the treasury surplus may be decreased. His plan seems simple—very simple, considered broadly, but extremely complicated when it comes to working out details. If the tariff is going to be so regu lated as to fit the turplus, then, of course, the tariff must he changed as often as the surplus changes. When the surplus rises beyond an agreed sum the tariff must be again lowered; and when the surplus drops below the "ideal" figure, then the tariff must be raised. To illustrate: Having reduced the tariff, and our surplus being, say, $20,000,000, congress sees fit to appro priate an additional $300,000,000 for Panama canal construction, for deep waterways, for rivers and harbors, for irrigation, etc., etc. Accordingly the surplus disappears and a deficit takes its place. Up goes the tariff again, and so on, down, up, and down again, as tiie surplus diminishes, increases or disappears altogether. The tariff would be about as stable as a thermometer constantly changed j from a refrigerator to a boiler room j and back again. Production, labor, | wage paying and wage distribution through trade channels would never know what the tariff was going to be for any considerable length of time. Under such shifting conditions no one need be told what would happen to business. The Roberts plan of horizontal re duction is based upon the erroneous assumption that ihe present tariff schedules are uniformlj protective. Such is not the case. Some schedules are already too low. Proof of this is found in the fact that we are now im porting competitive commodities at the rate of nearly $000,000,000 a year. Would Mr. Roberts like to see that amount increased? it certainly would be increased if we should cut down the tariff in order to cut down the sur plus. Suppose this heavy increase of du tiable merchandise should increase the aggregate of tariff collections and so increase the surplus. What would Mr. Roberts do in that event? Would he reduce the tariff still further, and thereby still further swell the imports, or wotikl lie raise the tariff once more with a view to shutting out imports? Would he, by tariff reduction, swell the volume of competitive imports that, once admit ted to our market, must displace an equivalent quantity of domestic pro duct ion, domestic employment, domes tic wage paying, domestic waue spend ing? Would he do this for the sake of reducing the surplus? Does Mr. Ellis 11. Roberts, in fact, ' know precisely what he would do or would like to have done with the tar iff? Has he any conception of the eon sequences of what he would do after it had been done? The answer would seem to be that the ex-treasurer is floundering around in a mess of cmd 1 ideas and does not really know enough about the tariff and its workings to entitle him or his views to serious con sideration. Let Well Enough Alone. The success of the Republican party beginning with the election of William McKinley was the result of the decided stand taken by the leaders in the in terest of protection. The prosperity of the country to-day is due to the development of Ameri can industries guarded by a protective tariff. The rank arid file of the Republican party are content to "let well enough alone," and the vote at the coming presidential election will undoubtedly demonstrate that a good many Demo crats about the United States are of the same opinion.—Scranton Tribune. Are Already on the Free List. The Washington Democrat is much worried about the tariff on print paper. If the duty was removed it is not like ly that the price would be affected in the least, for there is no place from Where print could be imported where the freight rates would not he pro hibitive. Not long ago the Democrat wanted the tariff removed from logs, out of which wood pulp is manufac tured, and now a number of more pre tentious papers are talking the same tiling. The joke of it is pulp logs now are .admitted free. —lowa City Repub lican. J CAMERUN COUNTY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1907. STRAUS TO COTTON GROWERS. Free Trade Speech Said to Have Caused Apprehension. "Cotton Growers Startled," is the headline over a newspaper report of the peculiar anti-protective speech de livered before the National Associa tion of Cotton Growers In Washington on the fourth of October. Why should the cotton growers have been startled at the speech? With few exceptions, the cotton growers are Democrats who persistently vote for free trade congressmen from their southern dis tricts. We would expect applause, not apprehension, when a champion of their pet idea makes a deliverance in such harmony with their past predi lections. Mr. Straus did not tell them of their dreadfully wrecked condition under the operation of the Cleveland-Wilson- Gorman free trade act, nor of the wondrous good fortune which had be fallen them in spite of themselves through the Dingley rescue, nor of the splendid achievements of American trade and commerce through our pro tective system, through which our for eign commerce has grown phenom enally and furnished consumption for their productions; but deliberately ad vised these intelligent gentlemen that the time had come to call a halt to their onward and upward progress, and encouraged them in follies the hardships of which had pinched them time and time again under free trade conditions in the past. If these cotton grower.: were really startled we welcome thi: an evidence of a dawning sanity, not heretofore visible, and trust we may soon see them putting into effect their disap proval by their votes against the pol icy which they have so much good rea son to fear. Call for More Men. Congress is to be asked to furnish 3,000 more enlisted men for the United States navy. Most of our readers, probably, do not understand exactly what this means. The number of men authorized in 1906 was 37,000. The proposed increase will bring the navy within handshaking distance of the United States army. Do the peo ple of the country understand the im portance of sea power? These facts would indicate it. Never before was the navy so near to the army in size. At the outbreak of the civil war the United States navy had only 7,600 i men. At the end of the war 51,500 | inen were enrolled. After the civil war a blight fell upon the navy, but that blight is past. The country feels the need of a powerful, efficient navy, and it now possesses one that, on pa per, in number of enlisted men, is nearly three quarters the size of the one which helped to bring the civil war to a close. And no one disputes the fact that the 3.000 men now to be asked for are needed. We have been building ships ! so fast that all of our vessels cannot be putin commission at one time without the extra men. Since it was deemed wise to build the ships, it must be wise toman them. The war scare in the Pacific was baseless, but it will have this effect at least —it will incline congress to lend a readier ear to the requests of the navy for more men. Inasmuch as it is now argued that we must have a strong fleet in the Pacific as well as in the Atlantic, congress may listen at tentively even to the plea of the navy for two or three new ships, lint this part of the program of the navy will certainly come in for more discussion than the other. An Expert Diagnosis. Wall street may wail and specula tors may take the most pessimistic I view imaginable regarding our future ! financial and industrial status, but the | great producers cannot be stampeded. I There could be no better authority j than Willis L. King, vice president of ' 'he Jones & Laugh lin Steel company, ! one of the largest of the independent ; concerns. Mr. King says very tersely: "There are only three things that j should, in my opinion, affect adversely I the progress of this country—famine, , ;>oslHence and free trade. Wt can j safely trust the first two to Provi dence, and 1 hope the Republican party will continue to look after the I third." He adds that the west does not share in the pessimism of a portion of thi! eastern press; that conditions do not warrant alarm, hut simply ''ad monish thoughtful men that the tre mendous expansion of the past few years must rest until the financial equilibrium of the country is reestab lished." Mr. King concludes a very optimistic declaration with the following: "The country is certainly richer than it was a year or even three months ago. The farmers have har vested a seven billion dollar crop, and the mines have added many millions to our wealth. It is the part of wis dom, therefore, to await the future with confidence, and not be carried away by a fear of something that is .not at all likely to happen." The positive opinion of men like Mr King is worth far more tfian the va porizing of certain editors who have no practical knowledge of real condi tions. Another View of the Case. In his Kentucky speeches Mr. Bryan claims for himself the credit of tin policies of the Roosevelt administra tion. President Roosevelt has done nothing not approved by Republican platforms; consequently, Mr. Bryan must have been a convert to Repub licanism all the time. This view o! the ease is more plausible than thai any Republican can be a Bryan Dem I ocrat. HADE A WILL JUST BEFORE HE DIED EX-BANKER BARNEY LEFT BIG ESTATE TO HIS WIFE. HE WAS WORTH $2,500,000. His Will Directs that His Estate be Incorporated and Administered by Trustees—He Carried $185,- 000 Life Insurance. New York City.—Mortally wound ed by his own hand Charles Tracy Barney summoned his family and lawyers to his bedside and after reviewing his business affairs and giving expressions of his wishes in certain matters, dictated and signed a will in which his wife was nuide the principal beneficiary. This matter disposed of, he submitted to the op eration through which his physicians had hoped to save his life, A half hour after the lawyers withdrew the former head of the Knickerbocker Trust Co. was dead. This became known Friday through a statement made by Albert S. Mil bank, of the law firm of Masten & Nichols, Mr. Barney's attorneys, and explains the presence at the house when the coroner arrived Thursday of Arthur 11. M-'\sten and George L. Nlchol; Barney made a will two years ago, but this lie subsequently destroyed. The original document provided for the same distribution of his property as 'did the final paper except for changes necessitated by shrinkage in values. When the original will was drawn Barney was estimated to be worth between $7,000,000 and $9,000,- 000. It is believed that the estate at present will net about $2,500,000. In Thursday's will the hanker di rected that his estate should be in corporated and administered by a board of trustees chosen from his former associates in the directorate of the now suspended Knickerbocker Trust Co. Barney directed that his wife should be the chief beneficiary after iiis debts were paid, lie further willed that the agreement made some time ago with his creditors should be lived up to and such of the estate as proved necessary be used to discharge his obligations. The only reservation made was in the matter of his life in surance, which amounts to $185,000. These policies are incontestable and are to be paid to the widow. The trustees of the incorporated estate are the executors named. New York City.—Charles Tracy Barney, the deposed president of the Knickerbocker Trust Co., and until re cently a power in the financial world, shot anil killed himself Thursday in his home. His loans with the bank, it is said, are amply secured. TRADE LANGUISHES. Collections are Poor and Dullness in the Iron and Steel Industry Increases. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Liberal receipts of gold from abroad and a large increase in bank note cir culation tend to relieve the financial stress at New York, but the interior is now feeling the scarcity of cur rency and commercial activity is re tarded to some extent. Dispatches from leading cities indicate conserv atism in preparation for future busi ness and irregularity in collections, with most favorable news from agri cultural sections in which the crops are being marketed as freely as the supply of money will permit. Return to normal conditions will be hastened by large exports of farm staples supplying credits abroad upon which the much needed gold may be Imported. Official returns indicate that exports of this nature were val ued at about $100,000,000 in October and the outgo of grain and cotton is on a still larger scale this month. Financial pressure has affected the iron industry, curtailing new con tracts for all forms of finished steel. Few new orders have been received by mills and some deliveries on old contracts are deferred because funds are not available. . A DARING CRIME. Four Italians Held Up a Paymaster and Robbed Him of $5,000. Passaic, N. .T.—Four armed Ital ians perpetrated a daring robbery on the outskirts of this city Friday, holding up a paymaster and carrying away a satchel which the police say contained between $5,000 and $7,000. Three of the highwaymen were ar rested after an exchange of shots with the police, but the fourth escap ed with the booty. Paymaster William Knapp, of the Werthan & Aldrich Co., dyers, of Delawanna, N. J., two miles from here, started Friday afternoon to drive to this city, where he intended to deposit the money In a bank, lie was alone and unarmed and was Hear ing the city when four men armed with shotguns stepped out from be hind trees and ordered him to stop. One of the men seized the horse's head, two Covered the paymaster with their guns, while the fourth climbed into the wagon and seized the satchel. Keeping Knapp covered and warning him not to make an out cry the men disappeared. The Judge Set Aside the Verdict. Grand Haven, Mich. A jur> on Friday found William siiini mel guilty of the murder IS month? ago of Martin Golden, a storekeeper at Denlson, but Judge Padgham set. aside the verdict and severely scored the jury, declaring the evidence, which was entirely circumstantial, did not warrant the verdict. The judge released Shimmel on SSOO bond. Bank Cashier Suicided. Kansa:; City, Mo. J. B. Thomas, aged 63, cashier of the Bank of Al bany. Mo., committed suicide Fridaj by shooting, in a hotel here. A BULLET ENDED HIS LIFE C. T. BARNEY, A NEW YORK FINANCIER, SUICIDED. He was Recently Deposed as President of a Trust Company Which Failed for $60,000,000. New York City.—Charles Tracy New York, Nov. 15. —Charles Tracy Barney, the deposed president of the Knickerbocker Trust Co., and until re cently a power in the financial world, shot and killed himself Thursday in his home. His loans with the bank, it is said, are amply secured, and when he was forced from Its presidency he was, to all intents and purposes, elimi nated as a factor in banking circles. What, ill effects his unexpected taking off might have had on the financial situation generally had long since been discounted. in distress of mind over the dissipa tion of his private fortune and the loss of his high standing among business associates, intimate acquaintances find the hidden drift that broke his health and reason. And even much of his wealth might have been saved. At the time that Barney was dying at his home a handful of friends at a down town office were concluding an ar rangement by which the loose ends of the banker's many enterprises were to be gathered up and financed by a stock company which, if not wholly successful, would at least rescue from the wreckage sufficient to insure his future financially. The conference broke up at the announcement that Mr. Barney was dead. Mr. Barney, who wan in hi", fifty seventh year, shot himself early Thursday while alone in his chamber on the second floor of his home. The bullet entered below the heart and lodged under the left shoulder blade. He died about 2:30 p. m.after suffer ing intensely. Mr. Barney was president of the Knickerbocker Trust Co., which clos ed its doors at the beginning of the re cent financial crisis. The institution was one of the largest trust companies in the city and had liabilities estimat ed at from $00,000,000 to $70,000,000. Mr. Barney had long been prominent in the financial- life of New York and was interested in many enterprises. lie was born in Cleveland, 0., Janu ary 27, 1851. lie was the son of A. 11. Barney, president of the United Ex press Co. Alter graduating from Williams college in 1870, he married Miss Lilly Whitney, sister of William C. Whitney. PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS. Representatives of Five Central Amer ican Republics Meet at Washington. Washington, D. C. —ln the red room of the Bureau of American lie publics, amid the smoke, not of bat tle, but of the flashlights of photo graphers, the peace conference of the Central American republics convened Thursday. The ceremonies incident to the opening of the conference were informal. As if by prearrangement the plenipotentiaries of the live Cen tral American republics parties to the conference and the officials represent ative of the American and other gov ernments interested in the conference arrived at the bureau at about the same time. Elihu Root, secretary of state, and Senor Enrique Creel, the ambassador from Mexico, representatives of the two governments which had called the conference into session, were es corted to the conference room by com mittees of the plenipotentiaries. In addition to the conferees and the officials directly interested in the con ference there were in attendance offi cials of the American state depart ment and of the Bureau of American Republics. Secretary Root and Ambassador Creel were presented to the plenipo tentiaries and a few minutes were de voted to conversation. At 2:45 p. m. Secretary Root, was introduced to the conference as temporary chairman. In accepting the chair the secretary de livered a brief address. As the representative of Mexico, which joined with the United States in calling the conference into being, Ambassador Creel made an address. Senor Luis Anderson, of Costa Rica, for the conference, responded to the addresses of Secretary Root and Am bassador Creel. Permanent organization of the con ference was effected by tl:e election of Senor Luis Anderson as perma nent president. Fond of the Sea. King Alfonso of Spain is very fond of the sea. lie and Queen Victoria Eugenie find one of their greatest pleasures at San Sebastian in the long daily swim. Both are perfectly.. at home in the water, the young queen having early acquired the art of swimming in Solent waters. 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