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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.
Beware about giving a card of in
troduction unless you know the one
who asks for it very well. It may
■bring unpleasant results with it.
Strangers have asked passing friends
for cards with the intent of making
business use of them.
A Quick Stimulant.
In cases of cold or overfatigue there
is nothing that so quickly acts as a
stimulant as a cup of hot milk. Heat v.
just to the boiling point and sip slow
ly. A little salt may be added to make
it more palatable.
Philanthropy.
"No," said the bishop, a wise and
broad man who had seen much and
suffered much. "I make it a rule to
perform marriage ceremonies free. I
have no desire to profit by other peo
ple's mistakes." —Puck.
Women and the Past.
Men look back to their days of
youth and innocence with regret and
longing, but women generally laugh
at the pictures of men taken in those
halcyon days.—Washington Times.
Cut Rates for Cut Legs.
It is some comfort to know that the
price of wooden legs has fallen to the
lowest figure in years. Now is the
tint'. 1 to saw your leg off and get. the
advantage of cut rates.
As Sure as Fate.
The man or woman who never wrote
a limerick is going to have an im
portant advantage when il becomes
necessary (o explain to St. Peter.
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