2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. riiblishod Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION'. Pep year fC 00 U pa-d ia advance 1 oO ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of »>ne dollar per square for one insertion and iifty |r'nts 1 cr square for each subsequent Insertion. R»ies by the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, a:,d will be furnished on ptprlkaiion. Legal and Official Advertising per square Ibree times or less. j2: each subsequent inser tion . 0 cents per squan Local notices lu cents per line for one inser •erilon: 5 cent l - per line lor each subsequent «on*ecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines, 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business curds, five lines or less, 45 per year; over live lines, at the regular rales of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Prkrs is complete And affords facilities for doißg the best class of Work PAttTlCUbAlt ATTENTION PAIDTO I.AW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear •ges are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advanoe. One of the local clergymen minus the leap-year joke is cruel and vicious. Well, it is cruel and heartless, to say the least, because there is nothing in it. The man who is banking on it will be just as single at the end of the year as he was at the beginning, if not more so, pays the Chicago Daily News. It is a mistake to thinh that the girls want to gel married, though some limes they can bo persuaded to marry, which is quite a different thing. Left to themselves, the subject never en> ters their minds, so how could they concoct a leap-year episode and carry it to a successful conclusion? It is only after a man mentions the subject, that they suspect his designs and then, it being so sudden, they always want at least a minute to think it over. A bill has been introduced in the house of representatives providing for a 25 per cent, rake-off for Uncle Sam upon every foreign title purchased by an American heiress. As the United States is interested in protecting its home industries it should have the same care for its women, and a too •extravagant importation of impecuni ous titled foreigners might be pro vided against with a clause in the tariff bill placing a tax upon foreign junk of all sorts. Ballooning seems to involve greater risks than automobiling. The great. French war balloon La Patrie tore itself loose from 200 soldiers who were holding it, the other day, and sailed away into the heavens with no pilot at the steering-wheel. It is doubtless wrecked by this time, unless it has gone on a voyage to Mars. A runaway automobile would in time collide with a fence and stop, but no such luck at tends a runaway balloon. As a St. Louis sociologist states that among friends and brethren, as we all ought to be, no thanks are needed for past favors, we may owe no thanks to John Smith of New York now that he is no longer needed. But still, as the dictionary explains that thanks are "thinks" for the past with a prom ise of future thought implied, there is nothing in the dictionary to prevent unlimited thanks to John Smith. Though Japan lias cut down the ap propriation for its army and navy it will still spend enough on those weapons of offense and defense to make it a serviceable bogy man when hysterical white persons need a yeilow peril in their business. New York lias a hotel porter who is a member of a Hungarian noble fam ily. The first thing he knows he will find himself kidnaped and made the blushing husband of some affluent but undemocratic American girl. Promoters of the automobile race front New York to Paris by way of Alaska and Siberia have completed plans as far as Chicago. They do not. believe in crossing any straits till they come to them. The poet who has a picturesque winter poem all ready and can't bring it out because the season is so back ward is suffering almost as much as if he had the grip. Owners of the world's diamond mines will not lie quite so haughty if the chemists learn to turn out dia monds by the thousand, like a kiln of bricks. What is said to be a perfectly safe theater lias been invented by a Ger man engineer, it will find a place waiting for it when it arrives. If a national department of health were to be conducted intelligently it should cut down the unhealthful gas explosions in coal mines. After wasting their patrimony, it isn't surprising that foreign counts should turn to matrimony. Hawaii is baseball mad. Why should it not be? Jl belongs to the United States. MONEY IN POLITICS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS HARD MATTER TO HANDLE. Frequent Democratic Claims That Trusts Support the Republicans Proved Ridiculous in Light of Last Election Revelations. The country is none the wiser for the address made by Mr. Bryan before a house committee in favor of publicity for campaign contributions and ex penses. He merely encouraged the committee with a general approval of the proposition. That it did not need. But when asked as to particulars for perfecting a bill he modestly—Mr. Bryan can be modest —left all that to others. Here is one thing, then, that Mr. Bryan is not prepared off-hand to settle. The subject is one about which much has been written and spoken. It. lends itself easily to virtuous proc lamation. Among the noisiest advo cates to-day are men whose names are associated with money in' politics. Some are soldiers of fortune, and some popularly believed to have been lib eral investors in times past in political securities. They may be tired of the game, and anxious to be protected in future against importunement to sell or buy. Or they may be trying to drown out by vociferation occasional gossip about past transactions. On the other hand there are advo cates of the proposition who command the highest respect. They stand for the best things in our politics, and in this thing are very much in earnest. Mr. McCall, whose bill was referred to by Mr. Bryan, is one of these. But everybody recognizes the dif ficulty of reaching an evil which every body professes a desire to have cor rected. Money in large sums is neces sary nowadays to meet the legitimate expenses of national campaigns, and campaigns are always in charge of practical politicians. Such men hold to the doctrine that politics is war, and that the supreme duty of a comman der-in-chief is to win. They are never nice as to means after the battle opens. The question therefore is, can they be made so by statute? If so, as all are agreed, it ought to be done. But all are likewise agreed lhat such a statute, to be worth the page on which it is printed, will have to be drawn with al most superhuman wisdom. One of Mr. Bryan's points was well taken, and that was that publicity should precede the election. For an in stance, the New York World is just giving to the public the list of those who contributed money in large sums to Mr. Bryan's campaign in 1896. Had that list been printed before election day of that year it would have made the talk of many Democratic spell binders sound ridiculous. And who shall say that Judge Parker would not have appeared absurd in his com plaints against his opponent in 1904 if the particulars had been obtained and printed of the interest that well known Well street men were taking in his campaign? Wage Reduction, of Course. "There can be no permanent im provement in our industrial situation until the cost of production has been reduced through a lowering of material and wages. . . . The lower level of prices would facilitate both con sumption and production, and would not reduce the wages of labor, meas ured in what wages would buy, and that is the only true way of measuring any income."—New York Journal of Commerce. This is where the free trader invari ably lands—must land. His argument otherwise would not have a leg to stand on. Always a reduction of wages. It is a reductio ad absurdum to say that wages would buy as much then as now. They do not do it any where in the world. Lower wages al ways have meant, always must mean, that the wage earner buys less; that his standard of living is lowered along with his wages; that his purchasing power is diminished so much that the reduced demand is felt in every line of productive enterprise. The best that can happen to ail busi ness is that the wage earner shall have plenty wherewith to buy. The worst that can happen—the thing that under free-trade conditions always happens—is that wages shall be low ered to a point where nothing is left alter the bare necessities of a reduced scheme of living have been provided for. Protection takes care that the wage shall be liberal. Free trade would make sure that the competition of low priced labor abroad is met by low priced labor at home. For Governmental Action. There is a growing opinion that railroads should be permitted to pool under strict regulation. But so long as it is the policy of 40 states and the federal government, and, therefore, the policy of the public, to compel compe tition between parallel roads, Mr. Har riman's unregulated and piratical con trol and management of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific and his influ ence in the Santa Fe must be termi nated by governmental action.—Chi cago Tribune. Will Be His Own Judge. Tt is pretty well established that if Mr. Bryan finds a better man than William Jennings liryan to be Demo cratic candidate for the presidency lie will yield his support. But it is also a tacit part of the agreement that the judge as to qualification of the "better man" is named William Jennings Bryan. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1908. FOR EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY LAW. President's Suggestion Ooe the Coun try Will Do Well to Heed. President Iloosevelt's industrial-in surance program, as set forth in his forceful special message, deserves the attention of every American. "Em ployers' liability" has a large place in it. The president makes it clear, how ever, that an employers' liability law is desirable because it brings about industrial insurance. "It merely throws upon the employer the burden of accident insurance against injuries which are sure to occur," he says."lt requires him either to bear or to dis tribute through insurance the loss which can readily be borne when dis tributed, but which if undistributed bears with frightful hardship upon the unfortunate victim of accident." The Roosevelt industrial-insurance program, as outlined in the message, embraces the following legislation; 1. An employers' liability law, made strictly applicable to railroad employes while engaged in Interstate commerce —a measure to replace that recently declared unconstitutional by the su preme court —to be passed by congress without delay. 2. Employers' liability laws applying to railroad employes engaged in com merce within the boundaries of a sin gle state, to be enacted by the several states of the union, as soon as th#y realize their duty. 3. A federal employers' industrial accident insurance system, to be es tablished by congress, with adequate appropriations, and applicable to all laborers, mechanics and other civilian employes of the government In (1) the United States proper, (2) the insular possessions and (3) the Panama canal zone. 4. A similar industrial Insurance system for the employes in all private industries, ultimately to be required by proper federal and state legislation. This schedule of needed legislative action is inspired by economic sense and common sense. It is grounded in justice. The president indulges in no exaggeration when he says that to let the entire burden of an accident to a wage worker fall on the sufferer, his wife and children, is an outrage. That no other civilized nation now permits this particular injustice should be a source of shame to Americans. TIME TO CURB EXPENDITURES. Conditions Call for Economy in Con gressional Appropriations. American imports during November and December of 1906 ' aggregated $254,105,000. For the corresponding months of last year they amounted to $203,226,000. The falling off in crude materials for use in manufacturing and manufactures for further use in manufacturing was large and signifi cant. It indicated the effect of Ihe financial panic on industrial condi tions. The activity of many American producers was suddenly halted. The decline in imports was more marked in December than in Novem ber, and it has not abated in Janu ary. Manifestly there is to be no sud den return to the industrial produc tiveness which prevailed during the greater part of last year. Business has improved in many directions as the supply of money has increased, but it will be some time before the effects of the violent strain of the closing months of last year shall have altogether disappeared. The decline in imports necessarily has had an unfavorable influence on the revenues of the government. Re ceipts are sinking and expenditures ris ing, so that there is a deficit instead of a surplus. The total receipts for this fiscal year up to January 11 fell $13,800,000 short of those for the cor responding period of the preceding fiscal year, while expenditures in creased $27,000,000. The excess of ex penditures over receipts this year is $12,400,000, while the excess of re ceipts last year was $29,200,000. There is nothing alarming in this temporary shrinkage in revenue. It would not embarrass the government if it were to last longer than is likely to be the case. But there is a strong hint to this congress to cultivate econ omy more assiduously than it was cul tivated by the last congress. Such a hint has already been given by the chairman of the committee on appro priations and it cannot safely be ig nored. There are appropriations which have to be made, no matter how scanty the revenues may be, but this is not the year for new grandiose proj ects or for measures whose postpone ment will affect unfavorably no na tional interest. Japan's Good Faith. That the promise given by Japan to consult the prejudices of Americans vras not merely empty words is shown ny her new regulations as to emigra tion. Stringent instructions have been given to officials to prevent emigration of laborers to this side of the Pacific except under conditions satisfactory to the governments of the United States and Canada. No laborers will be permitted togo to Mexico. And all emigration to the Hawaiian islands is prohibited absolutely except, in the case of velatives of Japanese already living tilers. These regulations prac tically cut. off the half-way stations frore which Japanese were said to slip into this country. The orders hava created consternation among the emi gration companies, a sure sign that the regulations mean a cutting off of eini gration from Japan in this direction. Fortunately we are at peace with all the nations. But how many of the powers have shown in practical ways such a willingness to consult Ameri can desires as Japan has shown? DEATH SENTENCE FOB GEN. STOESSEE VERDICT RENDERED BY COURT MARTIAL IN FAMOUS TRIAL. IS RECOMMENDEDTOMERCY Court Asks that Death Sentence bo Commuted to Ten Years' Imprison ment in a Fortress and Exclu sion from Military Service. St. Petersburg, Russia. —Lieut. Gen. Stoessel was condemned to death last evening by a military court for the surrender of Port Arthur to the Jap anese. Gen. Foek, who commanded the Fourth East Siberian division at Port Arthur, was ordered reprimand ed for a disciplinary offense which was not connected with the surrender, and Gen. Smirnoff, acting command ant of the fortress, and Maj. Gen. Iteiss, chief of staff to Stoessel, were acquitted of the charges against them for lack of proof. The court recom mended that the death sentence upon Stoessel be commuted to ten years* imprisonment in a fortress and that he be excluded from the service. The passing of sentence of death upon Lieut. Gen. Stoessel is a harsh ending to the career of this Hussian commander who, three years ago, was acclaimed around fhe woi Id as tho "hero of Port Arthur." Even Stoe£.sel's former enemies, tho Japanese, have come forward to say that he does not deserve this treat ment at the hands of his country and Stoessel argued before the court martial that he had justification for his act. In his last words before the court Stoessel, broken in health and fortune, accepted full responsibility for the surrender of Port Arthur anil pleaded for the death sentence if the court should decide that a crime had been committed. A RIOT IN PHILADELPHIA. A Mob of Foreigners Attacked the Po lice—Twenty People Injured and Many Arrests Made. Philadelphia', Pa. The march ing of nearly 1.000 foreigners upon city hall, where they said they intend ed to make demands upon Mayor Rey burn for work, precipitated a riot in Broad street late Thursday afternoon in which 20 persons were injured be fore the police dispersed the march ers and arrested 14 of them. The men, most of whom were Italians anil Poles, marched from the foreign settlement in the lower sec tion of the city. The leaders and a score of others carried red flags hav ing a black border. When they reached Broad street, a few blocks below the city hall, several wagons attempted to pass through the line. The drivers were dragged from their seats by the marchers and- beaten. Some of the marches* drew revolv ers and began firing at the police, and the mounted officers riding into the center of the fight used their batons right and left upon the heads of the leaders. Three policemen were shot and slightly wounded and Charles Munn who was watching the tight, was struck in the leg by a stray bullet. Reserve Officer Pyott was beaten unmercifully and is in a hos pital, as is Policeman Smith, who first went to the rescue of the drivers. HARRIMAN WINS IN COURT. Judge Ball, of Chicago, Renders Deci sion Against Stuyvesant Fish in Illinois Central Case. Chicago, 111. Judge Ball, of the superior court, on Thursday dis solved the injunction secured last Oc tober by Stuyvesant Fish by virtue of which the Harriman interests were restrained from voting 281,231 shares of the capital stock of the Illinois Central railroad at the annual meet ing of the company. The theory on which counsel for Mr. Fish based their arguments in support of the in junction—that it was contrary to the laws and public policy of the state of Illinois to allow foreign corporations to own and vote the stock of domes tic corporations—was denied by the court. Under the ruling of the court the previously enjoined stock, which is held by the Union Pacific Railroad Co., and by the Railroads Security Company of New Jersey, can Be voted at the annual meeting of the Illinois Central which is to be held in this city on March 2. ANCHORED IN A PERUVIAN PORT. Admiral Evans' Fleet of Battleships Arrives at Callao. Callao, Peru. —The American bat tleships, under Rear Admiral Evans, looking clean, trim and powerful in the tropical sun, came to anchor in this port Thursday. The booming of salutes announced the arrival of the fleet, but there was no need to send out signals, for every resident of Callao and great crowds from Lima, that stands back on the hills, had awaited with expectancy the first glimpse of the advancing column. The battleships will remain here ten days and will be joined by the torpedo boat fiKilla near the close of their stay at Callao. A Muri!sr or Shipboard. San Juan, Porto Rico.—George Dixon, employed as a carpenter on the American collier Abarenda, killed Walter Weichart, chief officer of the collier, Thursday. The crime was committed on board the vessel. Dixon swung at Weichert with an ax and completely severed his head. Explosion Kills 28 People. Berkeley, Cal. The big pack ing house of the Hercules powder works at Pinole, 14 miles north of here, blew up Thursday acd in the explosion ff.ir white men and U4 Chinamen we e killed. World's Largest Book. There lies in t'uo British museum the largest book yet printed, a colossal atlas of engraved ancient Dutch maps. It takes three men to move it from the giant bookcase in which it is stored in the library of the museum. It is bound in leather, magnificently deco rated and is fastened with clasps of solid silver, richly gilt. It is nearly seven feet high and weighs 800 pounds and was presented to King Charles 11. before lie left Holland in the year 16C0. An Ideal of Duty. To lose faith in men, not in humani ty; to see justice go down and not believe in the triumph of injustice; for every wrong that you weakly deal another or another deals you, to love more and more the fairness and beauty of what is right; and so to turn with ever-increasing love from the imper fection that is in us all to the perfec tion that is above us all—the perfec tion that is God. —James Lane Allen, "The Choir Invisible." Nation of Pie Eaters. We are a nation of pie eaters. The pie is a national institution, almost a part of the national constitution. The great American pie belt grows wider every year. In Havre and Marseilles, France, one can see the neat printed phrase: "Pie Americaine," and on the carte du jour of the Mena hotel, just under the shadow of the Sphinx, the homely entry: "Pie do Pompiou a la New York." On Lending Books. "Why is it, I wonder," musc.l the woman philosopher, "that peop'e al ways resent it when you ask them to return a borrowed hook within any period shorter than a year? I would rather lend money than a book, for there is some chance of getting that back, but you might as well give a book to the average person as togo through the form of lending it." Boiling Water. Water that has once been heated, or that has stood any length of time in the kettle, cannot be made to boil as quickly as freshly drawn cold wa ter. If this fact ♦ere fully appreciated, it would have more weight with house keepers as an argument against using water that has stood over night than numerous homilies on the unhealthful ness of stale water. Sealskin. Fifteen years ago a full length seal skin coat could be had for S3OO or S6OO. The same coat to-day would cost from S9OO to $1,400. A three-quarter length coat would cost from S7OO to $1,200, according to the quality of the fur used. Cards of Introduction. 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