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Unjust Discrimination.
That suggestion which comes from
Cincinnati is too broad in scope, too
promising in its potentialities, to be
exhausted in the one case of Prince
Helie tie Sagan. To apply the provi
sions of the immigration laws to
merely one poor little gumdrop Euro
pean of title and not to all of them
would be invidious discrimination.
There is no doubt that most of these
would-be parties to advantageous in
ternational matrimonial contracts
come well within both the spirit and
the letter of the law's prohibitions.
They are worse off by the millions of
their debts than the status of having
no visible means of support. It
shouldn't be necessary to resort to the
expedient of deportation after they
have entered the country. They
should he held up when they seek to
enter. No doubt many of them would
have been held up before this had they
crossed in the steeerage instead of the
first cabin.
Kansas is coming to the front, in a
manner that speaks volumes for the
extent and variety of the public spirit
and enterprise of the Sunflower state.
Kansas is a great many hundreds of
miles inland and far from the custom
ary haunts of marine monstrosities.
Yet it has produced the bones of a sea
serpent, brought up from the bed of a
Kansas river. There is no sort, of
■doubt about the matter, for the skele
ton of the reptile has been mounted
and is on exhibition in the paleonto
logical department of the University
of Chicago, and if there is anything on
which that great institution of learn
ing is an authority it is sea serpents.
So Kansas may lay claim to a new
glory. It is a commonplace thing to
find a sea serpent at sea, but when
such animals are resurrected "far out
upon the prairie," and in a prohibition
stale at that, the achievement is one
to arouse special wonder.
Since the city waterworks of Cin
cinnati were moved ten miles up the
Ohio river, the number of typhoid fe
ver cases has fallen tiff more than 5C
per cent. It is an achievement that
fully justifies a feeling of deep satis
faction.
Bishop Fallows said to a Chicagc
congregation that "People ought to be
ashamed that they do not live to be
100 or 120 years old." Rut there art
some who ought to be ashamed that
they have lived as long as they have.
It might be a good plan to have
pome American naval officer lose a
certified copy of the Magdalena bay
target records out of his pocket in
Yokohama, when the fleet gets there
Fred \\. Wolf., the oldest active let
ter carrier in the United States, died
iu Troy, N. Y„ recently. He was 7°
years old, and had been a letter car
rier 51 years.
Alfred Testom's new play, "Gioaceti
no Rossini," which was recently per
formed for the first time, is describe!]
as the "life of the great master o!
music."
From all parts of Germany sharp
advances in the prices of the neces
sities of life, especially in foodstuffs
end fodder for live stock, are reported.
Tidings from our great universities
demonstrate that the scholar is very
much in politics and that ho is getting
a good deal of fun out of it.
The latest index figure shows a drop
'n the cost of living of 12 per ient.
from last year. How different fror'i the
provision bills'
If the mothers are the supreme
assets of the nation, who are the lia
bilities and how tlo they compare with
each other?
By avoiding Alaska and northern
Siberia the automobile racers will
scve themselves a lot of trouble and
numerous cases of cold feet.
We can now safely take it for
granted that there is no brick under
neath the hat of spring.
GOOD TIMES AHEAD
i
RETURN OF GREAT PROSPERITY
IS ASSURED.
Country's Progress Upward from Re
cent Financial Depression Assured
—Confidence and Hope for Fu
ture Seen On All Sides.
In a country of such extent and such
varied interests and conditions as
must always exist, in the United
States it is futile lo hope for uniform
progress upward from the depression
following a business crisis. There
will necessarily be mixed and contra
dictory reports, especially (luring the
early stages of recovery from panic
conditions. It is necessary to take
the general average, the weight of evi
dence, the margin on the right side
after balancing adverse against fa
vorable news.'
If the commercial, industrial and
financial situation is studied in Ibis
manner the weight of evidence will
be found hopeful and encouraging.
There are great and far-reaching rea
sons why the progress of business will
surely goon until it regains the full
measure of activity.
Farm work is well advanced for the
season. The weather conditions are
favorable, as a rule. Winter wheat
promises a fine yield. Fruit is in good
condition in the main. There is noth
ing to indicate that the vast agri
cultural interests of the country will
fare iil or fail to enjoy an unusually
good year in 1908.
Building operations gain ground
steadily in the largest centers of popu
lation, There are encouraging re
ports from New York of very remark
able activity in that line. Investments
are being made for other than imme
diate needs. Money is going into real
estate improvements with the back
ing of far-reaching confidence in the
future.
Railroad earnings are holding up
better than the pessimists have be
lieved that they could. Some of the
largest systems are planning costly
Improvements and extensions and
making ready for the rush of traffic
which their officers and principal own
ers believe to be assured, before many
months.
Other great industries and commer
cial interests tell similar stories of
more confidence, more hope of the fu
ture, far and near, more planning and
preparing for very active trade and
for the return of booming times.
Meanwhile the accumulation of gold
goes on steadily. The exports of the
last few days are trilling compared
with the production of the metal in
the United States in the months since
the great importation of specie from
Europe to meet the panic emergency
last fall. The surplus reserves of the
banks in the financial centers of the
country are mounting higher and
higher. Money market conditions are
more favorable for large undertakings
than they have been for a long time.
The balance of trade continues to
be heavily on the side of the United
States. The foreign markets for Amer
ican product B are wider and more prof
itable than ever before. The Ameri
can people are saving, gaining capital,
making ready for the tremendous
business which cannot be far ahead.
And the government is entirely
safe and sound and in a very com
fortable condition. The treasury sur
plus is so immense that there can be
no more question of adequate means
to meet all demands than there is of
the stability of the currency system
of the United States. The coming
national campaign is not going to up
set trade and industry. It can not
shake the financial position of the
federal government. It, will not re
verse or imperil any great economic
policies.
The American republic is bettering
its position steadily. It. is moving on
and ihji faster thau many of its own
citizens realize.
Stands for Tariff Revision.
The Kansas City Times thinks that
a commission of experts to study the
tariff and recommend schedules is the
only proper way of getting at the sub
ject. It continues:
"The United States will never have
a sound tariff law so long as these
laws are made in the old way—by con
gresional conimiltees composed of men
who are collectively unfamiliar with
the subject and more or loss subject to
political influence in fixing the duties.
Under the old way it was possible for
the oil trust, which has become the
most arrogant and powerful of all
monopolies, to receive protection
ranging from 100 to 250 per cent., al
though all its products were put on the
free list. The protection was ma' 1 '*
complete in the 'exceptions' put In
with the knowledge or because of t'.ie
ignorance of the tariff committee.
Tariff revision in the right way—by an
expert, non-political commission—
would not allow such an outrage to be
practiced on the people."
Bryan Free Trader.
Bryan was a free trader long before
he was a free coiner. He came to con
gress originally on that platform, and
all his early speeches were based on
the theory of a tariff for revenue
only.
The Omaha platform declares for ab
solute free trade because it advocates
such reductions as may be necessary
to restore the tariff to a revenue basis.
This is a distasteful plank to a large
percentage of Democratic leaders. It is
idle to think of a free tiade Democrat
making any headway in the manufac
turing state of New Jersey. Practically
all of the advanced southerners to-day
are protectionists within certain
bounds. —Chicago Tribune.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1908.
SEES NEED FOR LEGISLATION.
Chicago Record-Herald Urgent for
Some Form of Currency Statute.
After the experience of last fall
congress would be guilty of a de
plorable neglect of duty if it should
adjourn without passing some remedi
al currency legislation.
The Record-Herald lias 110 particular
liking for the Aldrich bill, which has
been tabled by the house committee
on banking and currency. It believes
that the La Follette amendment which
would prevent active business men,
the directors of corporations, from
serving as directors of hanks is ab
solutely indefensible; that it would de
prive the banks of the best possible
service they could have. It believes
that good commercial paper would
constitute a safe and desirable basis
for the issue of notes, and that the
plan for a combination of clearing
house associations iti various dis
tricts to put out notes on this basis
is sound.
But it protests against a campaign
| against any measure that wastes all
| energy in destructive criticism.
I With the great mass of such criticism
j there is no assurance that the critics
J could agree among themselves upon
| any constructive legislation, and what
| they are doing makes for nothing now
| and forever. The people may well bo
j bewildered by the wrangling experts
I and may well : t .y that, any prrctical
I working measure which would provide
j for an emergency circulation under
j proper restrictions for the protection
of the public is not only better than
I nothing, but highly preferable at the
j present time to endless debates over
a series of pet projects.
Under all the circumstances it will
certainly not do to insist too much
upon perfection. For most legislation
is imperfect, and the question before
us is not one of perfection at all, even
if we could know the perfect. It is:
Shall we have (he assurance of an
emergency currency to meet the possi
ble needs of the month or the year,
or shall we goon and possibly come
I very soon to another of those psycho
. logical crises in which credit is de
stroyed as if by magic and still have
j no recourse beyond what we had last
j fall It would seem that there could
be no difference of opinion over the
problem, and especially now, when we
are entering on the agitations of an
other presidential campaign. The
people who are completely absorbed
with imperfections are as irrational
J as a man would be who should refuse
to depart from a burning building by
j means of the crude devices of a rope
I and bedpost and so perish in the
I flames with a last despairing cry on
j his lips for the latest improved fire
escape.
There is no objection to the appoint
| ment of a commission to work out the
I perfect plan, but, commission or no
j commission, there should be a new
i emergency currency law before con
j gross adjourns, if there is none the
session will close with a crowning
triumph for folly that should shame all
sensible men and patriotic citizens. —
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Dead Man's Tax.
This country has only begun to ap
preciate the value of the inheritance
tax. President Roosevelt has urged
it and some of the states have laws
that, get small returns from large for
tunes, but they are mere trifles com
pared with what should be got.
During the present year Mrs. Rv
lands, widow of the great millionaire
merchant of Manchester, died in
England. She left a fortune of $17,-
000,000. The English law exacts es
tate duties of ten per cent, on the
first million of pounds, and 15 per cent,
on all above that. There are also
legacy duties. So, in this instance we
find the taxes amounting to $".250,000,
which goes into the public treasury.
In the United States we are facing
I a deficit, in the national finances,
j Great Britain has just ended its finan-
I cial year with increased revenue of
J $7,500,000. "This phenomenon," we
J are told by the London Mail, "is main
ly accounted for by an increase of no
less than $4,150,000 iti the estate and
deatli duties and by an increase of no
less than $2,535,000 in the property
and income tax. That a half a mil
lion sterling more of income tax
should have been collected in the past
quarter than in the corresponding
quarter of last year is doubtless due
to the increased pressure which has
been put upon the income taxpayers."
j The treasury winds up its year with
j a surplus of $17,500,000. And the in-
J crease has come not from new bur
' dens upon real estate and 1 usiness.
j hut from the nation's wealth —from
| the great fortunes divided among
| heirs and from the owners of fortune
j who are well able to pay and who
should be made to pay.
' When .lay Gould died he left a for
-1 tune of $70,000,000, and yet he had
i been paying taxes on less than a mi!-
| lion dollars. The public did not bene
; fit from his wtvilth. Every day lar*je
I American fortunes reported to the
courts show that they had dodged
taxes for years, and there is n«< Ihw
to reach them and secure for the pub
lic the share that it ought to have.
The English and French handle
these tilings better than the Ameri
j cans. We should be guided by their
j experience.
Denver will erect royal tigers for
' the Democratic convention. But th».v
i will not be very serious tigers—simply
| papier mache. They are like Bryan's
I principles. They look fierce, but
• there's not much in them.
* It is hinted that Mr. Bryan is not
! going to do anything to prevent the
i New York donkey from kicking itself
[to death. Mr. Bryan has now an<*
| then taken a very sensible stand it
i politics.
SECURES HE IS SUPREME
ROOSEVELT SAYS HIS AUTHORI
TY OVER ARMY IS ABSOLUTE.
Letters Written by the President to
Three Members of the Senate
Cause a Commotion.
Washington, D. C. Three mem
bers of the United States senate have
received letters from President
Roosevelt within the last few days
declaring his supremacy, as com
mander-in-chief, in all matters refer
ring to the control of the army and
navy. The letters have created in
tense feeling in the senate and it is
not unlikely that they will precipitate
a conference of Republican members.
The letters in every case are in de
fense of iiis course in discharging
without honor the negro soldiers he
believed to be guilty of shooting up
the town of Brownsville, Tex., and his
action in banishing Col. William F.
Stewart to an abandoned military
post in a desert section of Arizona.
The third letter came to Senator
Stewart of Vermont. A few days ago
during the debate on the Brownsville
case Senator Stewart asked a ques
tion indicating that he had doubt as
to the wisdom of extending to the
president the power of passing on the
Innocent a or guilt of ex-soldiers ap
plying for reinstatement, in view of
the fact that it appeared the presi
dent. still believes all the negroes to
have been guilly of complicity in the
affray.
Tiie senator was surprised to re
ceive from the president on Friday
a letter bearing on both the Col.
Stewart and the Brownsville cases.
Attached to the communication were
letters to Senators Rayner and Will
iam Alden Smith, the one to Mr. Ray
ner asserting chiefly the president's
right, as commander-in-chief, to deal
with an officer in such manner as he
pleased, while the one to Mr. Smith
was confined to the Brownsville af
fair and reiterated the president's be
lief that he had dealt with the case
as conditions demanded.
The president went farther still in
his letter to Senator Stewart, in addi
tion to repeating much that he said to
the other senators. He declared that
Senator Stewart, from the question
he asked in the debate, appeared to
be proceeding under a misapprehen
sion of the duties of the president of
the United States in connection with
the army and navy. He quoted the
law as he understood it and denied
that lie was under any obligation to
give to the discharged negro soldiers
or to Col. Stewart any court of in
quiry.
THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS
Proceedings of the Senate and House
of Representatives.
Washington.—The senate on the Gth
passed a bill prohibiting the employ
ment within certain hours of children
under 14 years of age, in the District
of Columbia. The conference report
on the army appropriation bill was
adopted. By a vote of 167 to 46 the
house went on record against the re
establishment of the canteen in na
tional soldiers' homes.
Washington.—ln the senate on the
7th Senator Teller denounced the for
estry service of the department of ag
riculture, while Senator Depew de
fended it. Senator Carter spoke in
favor of the bill to establish postal
savings banks. The house completed
consideration of the sundry civil ap
propriation bill.
Washington.—The house agreed to
the conference report on the army
appropriation bill during its session
on the Bth. The bill carried an ap
propriation of $7,000,000 for increased
pay for officers and men of the army.
The sundry civil bill was also
passed. The senate spent the day in
debate of the agricultural appropria
tion bill.
DUN'S REVIEW_OF TRADE.
Financial Conditions Improve and
Failures Are Less in Nunjber.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Weather conditions have exercised
much influence this week on retail
trade in seasonable merchandise and
dealings at the leading commodity ex
changes. Low temperature checked
the demand for light wearing apparel
in a market that was already back
ward, and heavy rains started re
ports of damage to the crops, yet
there was 110 evidence of great injury.
Manufacturing conditions show lit
tle change, much machinery being
idle and new business coming for
ward slowly. In some industries
there is still a disposition to wait
for lower prices.
Financial sentiment improves as re
strictions are removed from commer
cial credits and sales of bonds pro
vide funds for structural work. Fail
ures decrease in number, While lia
bilities in April were smaller than in
an/ month since November.
Four Lives Lost in Fire.
St. Johnsbury, Vt. Mrs. John
Wilson, her two small children
and her sister, a Miss Lee, lost their
lives Friday as the result of the ex
plosion of a gas stove in a tenement
house here.
$1,500,000 Fire Loss at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga. Two solid business
blocks of Atlanta are in ruins
is the result of a fire which
threatened for a time to wipe out
the entire down-town district. The
•oss is $1,500,000.
BISK OFFIGiftL
IS ARRESTED
PITTSBURG MAN IS ACCUSED OF
EMBEZZLING $429,000 OF
BANK'S FUNDS.
IS RELEASED ON $50,000 BAIL
William Montgomery, for 20 Years
Cashier of the Allegheny National
and a Prominent Politician,
Is the Alleged Defaulter.
Pittsburg, Pa. William Mont
gomery, cashier of the Allegheny Na
tional bank for over 20 years, was ar
rested late Thursday on a charge of
embezzling $429,000 of the bank's
funds. He vas arraigned before Uni
ted States Commissioner Lindsay and
lieid for the federal grand jury under
a bond of $50,000, which was fur
nished.
The financial standing of the bank
is in nowise affected by the defalca
tion, as it is in a position to b'*ar
the loss without embarrassment.
The alleged defalcation was discov
ered and the complaint filed by Na
tional Bank Examiner William L.
Folds. Soon after the close of bank
ing hours the warrant was issued and
the arrest followed.
According to Examiner Folds the
peculations have gone on for several
years and were covered up on the
occasion of each visit of the examin
ers by means of a cashier's check.
The recent defalcation for more
than $1,000,000 by two employes of
the Farmers' Deposit National bank
is said to be indirectly responsible
for the discovery in the Allegheny Na
tional. Since the exposure of the
peculation in the Farmers', it is said,
most of the banks of the city have
been shifting clerks from one posi
tion to another for the purpose of dis
covering irregularities should any ex
ist. Through such a shift suspicion
was aroused in connection with af
fairs of the Allegheny National.
The Allegheny National is one of
the older and generally regarded as
one of the strongest institutions of
the city. It. has been more or less as
sociated with the policies of western
Pennsylvania and its directors' room
was the scene of many important po
litical conferences, particularly dur
ing the life of the late Senator Quay.
Mr. Montgomery has always been
prominent in politics and was a close
friend of Senator Quay. He was also
prominent socially. News of his ar
rest came as a shock to his acquain
tances and caused a sensation.
Examiner Folds expressed the be
lief, after making the charges, that
Montgomery had used the funds of
the bank to assist friends who were
in tight places financially. Those who
know the cashier feel positive that
he did not personally profit by his
peculations.
Harrisburg, Pa. —The state treas
ury has a deposit of $532,221.81
in the Allegheny National bank. State
Treasurer Sheatz said last night that
the state was fully protected.
A GRAND MILITARY PARADE.
Admiral Evans Leads 8,000 Sailors
and 2,500 Soldiers in a March
Through Frisco's Streets.
San Francisco, Cal.—Eight thou
sand blue jackets and marines—the
largest armed force the American
navy has ever put ashore in time of
peace or war—were landed Thursday
from the combined Atlantic and Pa
cific fleets, now lying in the harbor,
and marched through the streets of
San Francisco in the most notable
parade the city has ever known. For
four miles and a half along streets
lined and canopied with colors and in
review of a. never ending crowd, the
fighting men of the fleets made their
way to the martial tunes of their
shipmates' bands, to the cheers that
began with the first command to
march and ended only when the sail
ors had again embarked in the small
boats that returned them to the bat
tleships and armored cruisers in the
roadstead.
Twenty-five hundred soldiers of the
regular army acted as an escort to
the men of the sea and were liber
ally applauded. Rear Admiral Evans,
commanding the fleets, and the six
other rear admirals in command of
squadrons and divisions, rode in car
riages. Admiral Evans was quickly
recognized by the thousands in the
immense reviewing stands and was
constantly cheered as his carriage
slowly moved at the front of the
marching columns. Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf, Gov. Gillett of Califor
nia and Mayor Taylor of San Francis
co rode in the parade and afterwards
reviewed it as it countermarched
down Van Ness avenue.
Wyoming Instructed for Taft,
Lander, Wyo. Wyoming Repub
licans in their state convention on
Thursday nominated Frank W. Mon
dell for re-election to congress and
instructed the delegates to the na
tional convention to vote for Taft.
Four Killed; 12 Injured.
New York City.— Four persons
were killed and 12 injured Thursday
in a fire, believed U. be of incendiary
origin, which practically destroyed
the five-story tenement house at 101
Orchard street.
TH RTY WARSHIPS IN PARAGE
ATLANTIC AMD PACIFIC FLEETS
MEET IN FRISCO HARBOR.
Crandect Naval Fageant Ever Dis
played in American Waters Wit
nessed by a Multitude.
San Francisco, Cal. Through the
rocky portals of tin; GoMen Gate into
the harbor of a city of a hundred
hills, into a new San Francisco, risen
from the ruins of two years ago, the
Atlantic battleship fleet 011 Wednes
day steamed in review of a multitude
unnumbered. It was the same impos
ing pageant of immaculate whita
ships that sailed from Ilampton Roads
nearly five months ago, but with the
splendid accomplishment of a record
breaking cruise of more than 14,000
miles and three weeks of wonderful
target work behind it.
The flag of the secretary of the
navy, flying from the mainmast of the
gunboat Yorktown, fluttered the wel
come of the navy, while the governor
of California, the mayor of San Fran
cisco and the people of a hundred
towns voiced the greetings of the en
thusiastic west.
San Francisco, Oakland and other
cities took a holiday to welcome th*
fleet. There was a complete cassation
of business and the streets in the*
downtown section were absolutely de
serted.
A welcome sign spelle.l in letters 50-
feet high topped the heights of Tele
graph Hill. The sun, which all morn
ing had been obscured by heavy gray
clouds, broke through just as the
ships were passing through the Golden
Gate and shone with noonday brillian
cy on the pageantry of fighting craft.
The fleet threaded its way through
the crowded harbor, past the islands
and ferry lanes and, reaching far out
to the Oakland shore, turned at last,
when opposite Hunter's Point ami
pointing back toward the Golden Gate
to face the incoming tide, steamed
into anchorage formation.
The battleships, having the right of
line, were first to let their anchors go.
The 1G veterans of the Atlantic cruise,,
augmented by two battleships recruit
ed here for the remainder of the trip
around the world—the Nebraska and
Wisconsin —occupy the two inside
lines nearest the Oakland shore, while
the six little black destroyers of both
the Atlantic and Pacific fleets are
berthed close in toward the San Fran
cisco water front.
FOUND FOUR MORE CORPSES,
Additional Evidence of Murders Is
Discovered on the Guinness
Farm Near Laporte, Ind.
Laporte, Ind. A possible solu
tion of the Guinness farm mystery,
which was deepened Wednesday when
four additional bodies were found in
the barnyard, developed last evening.
Evidence tending to show that the
nine dismembered bodies unearthed
Tuesday and Wednesday had been
shipped to Laporte, probably from Chi
cago, came to light. Testimony of
draymen who had carted trunks and.
boxes to the Guinness home lent col
or to this supposition. Laporte police
also received information that two
trunks, consigned to "Mrs. Belle Guin
ness, Laporte, Ind.," are held in an
express office in Chicago. Assistance
of the Chiaago police in unraveling the
puzzle was sought at once.
Two of the nine mutilated bodies
were identified Wednesday with rea
sonable certainty. Antone Olson of
Chicago viewed the body supposed to
be that of Jennie Olson, the IG-year
old foster daughter of Mrs. Guinness,
and pronounced it to be that of his
daughter. A sister of the girl, Mrs.
Lee Olander of Chicago, confirmed
the father's identification.
Ask K. Helgelein, whose inquiries
regarding his missing brother, An
drew. led to the first discoveries 011
the death-haunted farm, became sure
Wednesday that the largest and best
preserved of the corpses is that of his
brother. Against this identification,
however, is the result of the autopsy
performed on this body by Dr. J. H.
.Meyer. He found conditions which to
his mind proved that the man per
ished long after Andrew Helgelein dis
appeared last January. Dr. Meyer said
that the corpse showed signs of hav
ing been in the ground less than two
weeks. Ask Helgelein, however, re
fused to ba convinced by these find
ings, and his certainty led the cor
oner to accept his identification for
the present.
Roy Lamphere, who is held on a
charge of first degree murder as a
result of the fire that destroyed the
Guinness home and caused the death
of Mrs. Belle Guinness and her three
children, gave no new evidence, de
spite repeated questionings. Ralph
W. Smith, prosecuting attorney, last
night asserted that a confession is
not necessary so far as Lamphere is
concerned. "We have evidence in the
shape of letters connecting Lamphere.
with alleged murders at the Guinness
farm," he said.
An Illinois Town Is Flooded.
East Alton, 111. Wood river broke
through its banks after rising over
four feet in four hours Wednesday
and half of East Alton is under wa
ter. The high water covers an area
five miles long and a mile wide.
Tucker Is Acquitted.
Topeka, Kan. A jury in the case
of H. H. Tucker, charged with
using the malls in a scheme to de
fraud in promoting the Uncle Sam
Oil Co., last night brought in a vct>
diet of not guilty.