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The Job department of < he PH ESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of W I rk. pAI«IITI.AU ATI t.N lION l'Alt»T|> I.AW PKINTINd. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance. The Mustache. Thorp Is more than humor in the rise and fall of the mustache, although the country was amused several years ago by a humorous lecturer, who dis coursed on the subject. It, is contrary to the British army regulations for an officer to shave his upper lip. From time to lime tin war department has issued general orders expressing its disappioval of the growing disregard of the regulations, and now it is re ported in London that King Edward is contemplating some action which will compel the officers to return to the old custom. The mustache has long been regarded as a military badge. Only one regiment in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry may go smooth-faced, and this is because during the Seven Years' war recruits were so ocarce that this regiment once had togo into battle when there were nothing but beard less boys in its ranks. It behaved with such gallantry that its members re main beardless to this day. The de cline of the mustache in military Eng land is said to be due to the prefer ence of American girls for smooth faces and the liking of English army officers for American girls, a combina tion which produces new fashions and outlaws old customs. If China is awakening, are the west ern nations awakening to China? Dr. Arthur 11. Smith, the well-known American missionary, shows in an in teresting book that this country has not followed its missionaries and its ministers of famine relief with any deep intellectual or even commercial understanding of China. It is strange that this nation, at once mercantile and generous, should have made so little effort to understand the Chinese on their own soil, and should have failed to heed the plain statement of Li Hung-Chang that "if Americans want the trade of China they must come after it." Our attitude toward China has been like our attitude toward South America. American con suls have been preaching to us for years to learn the countries to which we ship our goods. Yet no traders are so little at home as are Americans in countries across the seas. The Rev. George Clark Houghton, the rector of the Little Church Around the Corner, in \ew York, has given new lame to that place of worship by announcing that no marriages will be performed there hereafter unless thot names of the contracting parties are announced beforehand Therefore couples who want to be matrimonially united on the sly will have togo else where. This is a good way to prevent young people from making fools of themselves, says Boston Budget, and is in accordance with a time-honored custom in the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches. In January next a statue of Emile Zola will be placed in Paris near the Palace of Justice. The occasion will be the tenth anniversary of the publi cation of the famous letter of accusa tion with which Zola bombarded the war department in behalf, not so much of Alfred Dreyfus, as of the honor of France. When an intelligent man cannot an swer an honest question in a court of law without "incriminating" himself, his confession to that effect may keep him out of jail for contempt, but it ought not to keep him out longer than is necessary to properly convict him of the criminal conduct he pleads in his own behalf. A church fair is to be held by soci ety women on Long Island which is trj be strictly honest, change to be given in all cases and 100 cents' worth of goods is to cost the purchaser no more than a dollar. This is almost enough in its financial radicalism to bring on another panic. The industry of making rubber from the guayule weed having made a bouncing start, at Marathon, some hitherto unproductive regions of southwest Texas may be said to have started on the road to wealth with a springy stride. PANIC SHORT LIVED VAST DIFFERENCE IN TWO FI NANCIAL SHOCKS. Country Suffered for Years fror.i Ef f<*cts of Wilson Law—Under Pro tection Confidence Is Re stored in Few Days. Many have been the explanations of the stock market crash and the runs on banks. President Koosevelt and a majority of the American people are agreed that the financial shock was due to a culmination of abuses by men who have played fast and loose with honest and honorable business prin ciples. There have been those, how ever, who have blamed not the evils which were threatening our most sacred institutions, but the president for turning the light on the evils. Some have accused newspaper head lines for announcing that the clearing house committee was throwing high financiers out of the presidency of banks and trust companies, and for telling that there were runs on de positories when there were runs. Oth ers have charged the disturbances to, tli> defects of our currency system. SUU others have offered different ret «ons —some weird, yet not insane; sor/,,0 picturesque, yet partly true. But it has remained for the sapient tariff editor of the Evening Post to discover that the tiling to blame for the whole business; ii: the Dingley law, or, sdnee the panic befell u» under the Dtnirtey 'act that, no one eve* 1 again shall be able to say that the Wilson law was responsible for the bank ruptcy, poverty and misery which overwhelmed us at the beginning of President Cleveland's second adminis tration and continued to rage like a plague until the voters of the United States went to the polls in 1596 and cast their ballots for the restoration of the American tariff system now in op eration. There frs some facts of sensational difference, of course, in the two events. The Wilson law panic did not expire in 48 hours; it endured for several years. Then, season after season, I farmers burned their crops in their I stoves for fuel and in the fields to clear them, because it did not pay to : send them to market. Now there are j hundreds of millions of profits in the j crops, and at this moment the farmers, ! with mortgages paid off and hank ac j counts fat, are sending to market some | six or seven billions of products bid for by our people and by the world at j prosperity prices. As they receive j their checks for their new wealth now j pouring upon tliem the farmers, going \ to their banks to deposit the proceeds, ride in automobiles. Then the fac tories and mills and forges closed; they remained closed through the gloomy weeks and months and years. Now there is an unbroken hum of in- ; dustry over the land. Then wage earners had their pay cut, lost it alto gether, ate up their savings in the banks and joined the bread lines. For i a full presidential term the most con spicuous thing in the world was the | empty dinner pail of America, the ; most active industry in this country the charity souphouse. Now this is a nation of workers on full time, with a surplus of wages and profits, the week after the panic as the week before, to swell the savings banks accounts by millions, to buy homes and to give the best living anywhere on earth. Then the United States government, along with the public, "went broke." It had j not enough income to equal its ex penditures; it could scarcely borrow I enough money to pay its bills from day ; today. Now the treasury piles up such a daily surplus that it can toss a I few hundred millions into the banks j to supply currency and stop a prosper ity panic. In the Wilson law period there was a panic of long duration, not because there was insufficient currency with which to do the business of the people, but because there was no business to i provide American bread and butter. Farms were wastes, mills and factories i were abandoned. Industry was pros t trate. And this misery—the misery of a poverty panic—was long continued. Yet the jocose free trade oracle tells ; ( us, though the facts of the two panics —the prosperity panic and the poverty panic—are different, the principles in ' volved are the same. Wherefore is protection now banished from us as a superstition; wherefore shall this be the end of the American tariff system. Perhaps—when the people of the United States are able to subsist on green cheese imported from the moon. —New York Press. Two Great Questions. President Roosevelt acted with his • accustomed decision and promptitude 1 in attacking the financial stringency, t He directed the secretary of the treas , ury to issue $50,000,000 worth of Pan , ama canal bonds, bearing two per ! cent, interest, and $100,000,000 of three per cent, government notes, | with the expectation that, persons who are now hoarding their money will invest in these unimpeachable securi ties and the money that comes from j their disposal may b;- sent to the > south and west to facilitate the move- : ment of crops. At the same' time the president Is- j sued a call for a conference of govern or!' of all the states and territories to I meet liim at Washington early in May of next year to discuss means to con- I serve the natural resources of the ! country, which, he says, "are beconv ■ lng depleted, and, in not a few cases, 1 entirely exhausted." These resources, j ! In the president's language, are "mln , era) resources, the resources of the land and the resources of the waters In every part of our territory." CAMERON COJNTY P«ESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1907. BRYAN AND THE TARIFF. Democratic Leader Playing Politics in His Speeches. Mr. Bryan would have the tariff re vised right away. At least he talks that way. Maybe he would talk differently if his party were In power. Ho would then be obliged to look at the matter in what in politics is called a practical light. As the matter stands, he is look ing at it purely in the light of party advantage. Not relief for the people from heavy schedules, but embarrass ment for the Republicans in the na tional campaign is his object. We should see some all-around poli tics played with the tariff if the Re publicans could be badgered into tak ing it up next month. The Demo cratic programme would be as plain as a pikestaff, and be followed strictly. Mr. Bryan might be tempted to appear and direct operations from the cloak rooms of the house. Delay would be the word from the outset. A long ses sion—reaching into September if pos sible—would be the aim of the mi nority. No bill until fall, so as to leave as little time as possible for the majority to explain the performance in full from the stump. Such tactics were employed in 1890 against the Mc- Kinley bill, and had much to do with the Republican defeat that year. The voters repudiated the bill in a few weeks after its enactment into law, and yet six years later elected its author president, with Instructions to assist in the writing of a new law upon the same line::. This vas dene, and that lav/ h; now ten years old. Mr. Hryan's demand is all the poli tics that now remains in the tariff is sue for his party. Tariff revision is assured at last. The most stubborn of the stand-patters must now con cede that new schedules are on tho cards. In their national platform the Republicans next year will declare themselves, and the work then prom ised will probably be performed at an extra session of the Sixty-first con gress, called for that express purpose. During the campaign we shall hear something about protection and free trade. Mr. Hryan and his friends will argue from the assertion that protec tion is the mother of trusts, and that the surest means of dealing with trusts is to destroy protection. The j Republicans should welcome that de | bate—should welcome even (he most veiled attack on a system which I stands so thoroughly justified by ex j perience. If protection cannot be de | fended, nothing can be. It was never | more deserving of the title "the Amer l ican .policy" than it is to-day, with | America, under its application, in the j front rank of producing and flourishing J nations. —Washington Star. Increased Export of Manufactures. An interesting and important phase of the statistics of our foreign trade is the largely increasing share which | manufactured articles bear to our ex i ports. For the first nine months of | this year manufactures were just j short of 44 per cent, of our total ex j ports, having never before been 40 i per cent., and having been from 15 to | 20 per cent, a quarter of a century | ago. The figures show the growth in j amount front $10,000,000 per month in J I.SBO to $03,000,000 per month in tlie first three quarters of this year. Iron ! and steel manufactures form the i largest item, being $146,000,000 for the ; nine months, while prior to 1897 the | year's total was not $50,000,000. The increasing ratio of manufac | tures in our exports is a good sign, j since the higher the process is car ! ried and the more finished the article I the more employment is given to labor | and the larger proportion of the value 1 represents wages. Coincident with this i feature is the increase of tropical and I sub-tropical products imported into the j United States. These products rep resent not only food, as we are apt to think, though coffee, cocoa, sugar, fruits and nuts form a large part of j them. There are also crude materials for manufacturing, such as india rub i ber, fibers, gums, barks, raw silk and tobacco. The importation in increas ing amounts of these materials de notes industrial growth, but is not so clear an outcome of it as the more impressive enlargement of the manu i factured exports. Very Much Alive. "Whatever, other effects the panic may have, it has at least dealt, a death i blow to the tariff superstition." Thus the New York Evening Post, mean ing the belief of protectionists that when production and consumption are at high-water mark; when labor is fully employed at high wages; when the tilings that labor makes find a j ready market; when the wages that j labor earns find their way quickly into trade channels—that in these condi tions prolonged and disastrous panics I are impossible. Yes; protectionists | believe all this. They believe it more than ever since they have seen the worst money panic the country iias , known for 14 years disappear inside of i five days. The tariff had nothing what ; ever to do with bringing on this finan cial flurry, but it had a tremendous ! lot to do with quieting it. Exports of Gold. A million and a half dollars of gold | went in one shipment to Germany last week. This is described by the ship per as "a special transaction, having i no bearing on the foreign exchange situation." Nevertheless it directs at- I tention to the coincidence of increased imports from Germany, decreased ex- I ports to Germany, and a heavy ship j ment of gold to Germany. Shipments • ,000,000. ) Those have been confined to national j banks throughout the country which j were in position to at once take out additional circulation, this being a measure designed to afford immediate relief, inasmuch as a considerable time would necessarily elapse before the Panama canal bonds could be put on the market. SOLDIERS GO TO GOLDFIELD. Troops are Sent from Frisco to a Nevada Mining Camp. San Francisco, Cal. Soldiers of the Twenty-second infantry from Angel Island and the Presidio, about 250 in number, left Friday for Gold field. Gen. Funston was at army head quarters attending to the details of the transportation of the men under command of Col. Reynolds. The gen eral will remain here unless the situ ation at Gold field becomes so serious that more troops have to 'be sent. In that event he will take command of the men. Goldfield, Nev. —Despite the sup pressed excitement among the miners over the ordering of troops here, they are keeping the peace in every way. NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington.—Both houses of con gress devoted their sessions on the 3d to hearing the reading of the pres ident's message. No business of im portance was transacted. Washington.—ln the senate on the lth nearly 1,000 bills were introduced in a few hours. No other business ot importance was transacted. The house was not in session. Washington.—The senate on the sth j elected Senator Frye, of .Maine, presi [ dent pro tern. .Many bills were intro- I duced and adjournment until the 9th | was taken. The house was in session ! ten minutes and adjourned until the 9th. REVIEW OF TRADE. Volume of Retail Business Is Fairly | Large, but Many Factories are Idle. New York City—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Further improvement in the finan cial situation is facilitating the return of normal conditions, but there is still a great deal of idle machinery at mills and factories. In the leading indus tries a disposition is shown to defer production until there is no probabil ity of cancellations anil consumers show an inclination to place orders for forward deliveries. Retail trade is fairly well maintained, demand for holiday goods assuming seasonable proportions and collections are more prompt. Steele's Victim Dies. Boston, Mass. —Edward Cohen, of Lynn, president of the Massachusetts state branch of the American Feder ation of Labor, who was one of three labor leaders assailed by an insane man in the state house Thursday, died Friday. John A. Steele, of Everett, who did the shooting, is in jail in de fault of SIOO,OOO bail. Fort Pitt National Bank Fails. Pittsburg, Pa.—Tho Fort Pitt na tional bank, one of the oldest financial institutions ol the city, failed to open for business Friday. The bank vcas closed by the comptroller of currency. Ever Hear It? Julius Tannen, the cleverest mon ologist on the vaudeville stage (we get space rates for this), sprung this one on us the other day; "Two uncles of mine from Chicago came to New York the other day, and I showed them the town. I had a date on the top floor of the Flatiron build ing, and they stayed below while I went up. When I finished my busi ness I looked out of the window to see if they were waiting for me. Final ly I spied them—but you know how small people look from such a height? Why, my uncles looked like ants—" Groans interrupted the speaker at this point, so we never learned what the story was about. Cleveland Leader. A Terrible Shock. Great Editor's Wife —I regret to say, sir, that my husband is sick, and cannot see anyone. Caller (sympathetically) What seems to be the matter? "I don't know; he has not uttered a word since he came in; he has re ceived some terrible shock." "Ah, I see. He probably ran across some man who never heard of his pa per."—N. Y. Weekly. What Stung Him. Mrs. Wayback—l notice these here submarine torpedor boats are named after stingin' things mostly. Mr. Wayback—Ye don't say? Won der If any uv them arc yet named "Soap Agent," "Portrait Solicitor," "Rheumatiz Specialist," or "Patent Churn Peddler." —Puck. THF. FOOTBALL SCRIMMA^S. Gladys—l thought you said Horace was very popular. Evelyn—So he is—one of the most popular men in college. Gladys—That's funny. Everybody seems to be down on him now. Great Turn. He turned up liis trousers, he turned up his hat, Kre he started away to propose: But the sensible maiden snubbed him flat- When she icily turned up her nose. —Chicago Daily News. Good Catch. Eva —If a young man should come down the road? Katharine (with camera) —I should snap him. 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