2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Evory Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year 12 00 Y piud in *d\inn 1 i>o ADVERTISING RATES: Aav«<ii<emeuts arc published at the rate ot •nc flul.ar per syuare for one insertion ami lift y k«Bt* ver square for each subsequent insertion. Rave* by this yeif. or for si* or three months. (ifß-low and uniform, anil will be furnished on hptdlcatiou. L.e«nl and Official Advertising per square three timesw less, «!: each subsequent mser- Itc.i . 0 < cuts per square. Local notioes iti cents per line fnr one inser •ertlon: ft cents per line lor each subsequent •en-eoutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per Hue. Simple announcements of births, i;;:ir- Tißtres fjnd deaths will lie inserted free. Business cards, flse lines or loss. *5 per year. «ver live lines, at the regular rates ot adver tising. No local inserted for lo*s than 75 cents per Issue. ' JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Prfsr is complete •nd affords facilities for doing the best class of Pakhuiii.au Pakhuiii.au attention paidto I.aw Printing. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub- Eher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Misfit Education. The educators and parents who are now renewing the old struggle for a thorough revision of the high school curriculum have taken as their guid ing maxim "A place for everything, ard everything In Hi place." An ex cellent principle il it, especially de serving uf application to the task of Jiigh school "lucation in these days, when impulsive apostles- of "liberal education" are trying to find a place for everything in a high school cata logue without concerning themselves very seriously over the vexatious problem of putting courses in proper places. The appeal must he heeded, says the New York Tribune, not sim ply for the sake of the young people •who are seeking an education, but also in order to check the wholesale desertion of city high schools, which is disquieting teachers and school ■boards all over the country. Plainly ■written on the face of enrollment sta tistics is the warning that unless mis fit courses are dropped the magnifi cent establishments adorning the high school systems of a hundred large American municipalities may soon be tenanted only by the relatively few pupils who wish to prepare for col lege. Overeating. When prudently followed, the prac tice of fasting is most beneficial. Many people really never feel the sen sation of natural hunger. All they have is a morbid craving for food, "which conies of habit rather than from any actual need ft'lt by the stomach. Natural hunger, declares the New York Weekly, stimulates the palate, and is felt in the mouth as well as in the internal organs. It makes the plainest food seem delicious and, when .being satisfied, is a source ef such enjoyment as the average well fed man rarely experiences, Some suffer, it is true, from insufficient food but not so many as those whose ills arise from excessive eating, their digestion being continually overtaxed. A habit of judicious fasting would do wonders for them. The system would recover its lon tone, and —in the case of mental woi ke:s —the brain would work with an ease and lightness that would surprise them, for the brain is one of the chief sufferers from the practice of overeating. Gratifying evidence of the extent to ■which public interest in the matter of protecting the natural resources of the count ry is being awakened comes from many directions. One of the powerful instrumentalities in this direction is the work being done by scientific soci eties, college professors and organiza tions and similar agencies. Thus the Scientific association which met at jMiddletown, Conn., considered the subject at considerable length and then adopted resolutions offered by Prof. William North Rice, professor of geology at Wesley an university. The: e resolutions set forth that the association recognizes the necessity of *'a radical change of administration by which, so far as may be practica ble, our rivers and our forests, our mint rul wealth and the resources of ■our lands and our waters, shall be con served for the benetit of the whole people and of future generations." Most. Americans get more for their money than any other people of any other age. In a recent lecture, a teach er tof economics told more than half the story when she said: "The thing thjit has increased is not the cost of living, but the scale of living. The change is not in the price at which ex istence caw be maintained, but in peo ple's ideas as to what are necessaries cf life." "Cuba libre" has long been a war cr: and watchword. A new kind cf "Cuba libre" is reported by Gov. .Ma goon, who declares, after a careful in vestigation, that the island has not a single case of yellow fever. That is a better kind of "free Cuba" than even its liberators dreamed of. The Tacoma ledger has discovered that "the art of letter writing has suf fered with the introduction of picture poet cards," but it isn't noticeable yet in the divorce courts. IS NOT LUMINOUS SOME CONFUSING POINTS IN CRYAN PLATFORM. Alto Convenient Leek of Memory Can Be Seen in Neglect to Indorse Policies Heretofore Upheld by the Candidate. Mr. Hryan. it is said, intends that the Omaha platform shall be the plat form of the national convention of the Democratic party. He may consent to some slight alteration or to some addi tion. but the voice of Omaha is to be, if he can have it so. the voice of Den ver. Naturally enough. At Omaha the Nebraska state Democratic convention beheld in Mr. Bryan, so the resolu tions read, "the ideal American, the ideal Democrat," and it "rejoiced that the principles which he has ably advo cated have been gladly received and are now generally accepted by the American people." Of course, the faithful at Omaha did not "resolve" and "rejoice" that "all" the principles advocated hv Mr. Bryan are now gen erally accepted by the American peo ple. Reference to free silver was shrewdly omitted. Government own ership of railroads was not mentioned. For the lest, with a few exceptions of no great moment, the platform of the Nebraska Democrats might have been b nit I '•» convent" nof radical Repub licans, so little distinction is there now between the parties, and so cordially lias Mr. Bryan indorsed the Repub lican leader. To be sure, the Omaha platform de clares in one place its "opposition to the centralization implied in the sug gestions now frequently made that the powers of the general government should be extended by judicial con struction," but in other places it de mands centralization. Yet it does not enlighten us as to the methods by which the constitutional authority of the judiciary is to be decreased. We are left to suppose that this-is an un important detail. Omaha "favors the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, and regards this reform as the gateway to ail other national reforms." We do not see eye to eye with Omaha on this point; and Omaha and Mr. Bryan will, of course, tell us that our difference of opinion is a matter of no impor tance. Still, wo are entitled to hold our opinion. We have yet to see that the popular election of senators, as pursued in certain states, has in creased the ability or exalted the char acter of the senate, and we are unable to see how or why people of any states that elect incompetent or venal legislatures can be relied upon to elect competent and trustworthy mem bers of the national senate. Private monopoly is, naturally, de nounced by the Omaha platform, and legislation is demanded which shall "make it impossible for private mo nopoly to exist in the United States." Private monopoly, it. seems, is a. busi ness which controls more than 'JH per cent, of the product in which it deals. This is a curious definition, even for an assemblage of politicians, to con coct. But more curious still is the fact, that a few lines farther on, the platform declares that no corporation shall control more than !>0 per cent, of the total amount of any product consumed in the United States. We do not easily see the logical relation of these percentages. And we wonder why 45 fl-10 per cent, can be virtuous and the other tenth vicious, even criminal. Sees Danger in Tariff Revision. It is impossible for congress to un dertake the revision of the tariff with out thereby creating a condition of suspense. No matter hov.- moderate may be the published program there can never be any assurance that it will be strictly followed, that the emenda tions to be made will be confined with in the prescribed limits. As they can not tell what to expect, business men are consequently constrained as much as possible to circumscribe their op erations. They live as nearly as they can from hand to mouth, with the re sult that trade of every kind is re duced to a lyinimtim, to the universal loss, and what are known as hard times supervene. What the American people are more in need of just now than anything oise is a rest from unnecessary anxi ety. After the distressful crisis through which they have lately passed they want a chance to recuperate, to recruit their energies, to consolidate their interests, and it is precisely of this chance that the inception of a tariff tinkering agitation would de prive them.—Philadelphia Inquirer. "Lean" and Swollen "Fortunes." Borrowing President Roosevelt's phrase, "swollen fortunes," the Demo crats at Omaha ask for a national in come tax, also a national inheritance tax. They do not say that, if the na tional government is to have these taxes, the stale governments shall not also have them, and thus the "swollen fortunes" to doubly taxed. Oddly enough, the Democrats at Omaha, while formulating contradictory defini tions ef monopoly, did not even at tempt to decide the figure at which a tort tine becomes "swollen." The skill with which they impaled monopoly upon the horns of two percentages halted confused befc.re the contem plation cf fortunes. When is a fortune lean? When is it "swollen?" Mr. Bryan, happily, has a fortune. We re joice over his pleasant estate. Hut is his fortune "swollen?" We do not. know. Omaha probably paled at the thought and desisted from any further attempt at definition. Which was just as well. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1908 TURNING FROM FREE TRADE. Drift of Sentiment in England Clearly Toward Protection. The British Liberals, although elect ed on a free trade platform, have taken the first step towards protection in the new patent law, which requires the manufacture of the patented article in Britain, if the reasonable re quirements of the public so demand, 011 pcin of the forfeiture of the patent. This will affect American trade to a considerable extent, as numbers of American inventors have patented their inventions in Britain and been manufacturing their goods in the United States. Notably is this the case in shoe manufacturing machinery, in which America leads the world. The manufacture of the parts has been al most exclusively done in the United States, the assembling being the only process carried on in Britain. Under the new law any person con nected with the shoe trade can de mand the establishment within three years of a factory in Britain for the manufacturing of the machinery. The board of trade hears both sides and if it believes a prima facie case has bom established it refers the matter to a special court, which investigates thoroughly and decides whether the needs of the trade demand the grant ing of licenses on such terms as the court may deem reasonable to some person who will numufactu; 0 the all eles !ji the i". .nit:.", r.r demands »ht revocation of the patent altogether. A strict interpretation of this law woln! Eh lit Cut from 11-0 United Kingdom every foreign manufactured product which could be made and which the British preferred should be made in their own country. We have no right to object to our British cousins adopt ing a protective policy, but it would be more honest to do it openly instead of by a side wind. Advising Murder. The general assembly has been asked to pass a law making it a felony for any one to advocate publicly by word of mouth or in writing the mur der of any person in Illinois or else where, says the Chicago Tribune. If there were such a law, it would be possible to send to the penitentiary anybody who printed in this state a paper similar to that anarchist pub lication in Paterson, N. J., which was thrown out of the mails for giving murderous advice. If there were such a law, any man who got up in a pub lic meeting in this state and sought to impress upon his hearers the desir ability of murdering some policemen or public officials could be sent to the penitentiary. At present he could be charged only with a misdemeanor. It is to be hoped that nobody in the legislature will see in this meas ure an invasion of ihe right to free speech or a free press, or will as sert that the present penalties for recommending murder as a panacea for alleged social ills are adequate. It is true that the men who applaud the murderers of kings, presidents,' and policemen, and urge others togo and do likewise, are not in the habit of lisking their own necks. They leave the assassin's hazard to others. Their violent speeches and writings stir up others to commit bloody deeds. If t' e fiery counselor of murder knew that the penitentiary awaited him he would not be so prodigal with his ad vice. He would not court tl.e mar tyrdom of hard labor. The Invisible Exchanges. Recent statistics of our foreign trade show an enormous excess of exports over imports. "in raising the scale of exports, and in simultaneously low ering that of imports," writes Charles P. Speare in the Van Norden Maga zine, "we have had no difficulty, since October, in creating a balance of trade amounting to $;i28,000,000." The sit nation is one to renew inter est: in the ever recurring discussion of the invisible exchanges. Evident ly we cannot take all and give noth ing. If at any one time we could drain foreign countries of their money we should then have to wait for future sales of our produce abroad until those countries had regained their purchasing power. It has been shown that without our big sales we should be very badly pinched indeed, and there is this hint at the close: "With the United States the question of future trade balance depends on her ability to en large foreign markets and to travel along a pat h of stricter economy." "A Grave and Studied Insult." The president's positive anti-third term declaration made at a private dinner the other night in the presence of representatives of foreign nations and other prominent people is becom ing known and exciting interest. Ho declared with measured deliberation and great positiveness that he was not a candidate now for the presidency; tiiat he would not consider the nomi nation if it were offered, nor accept it if it were given him by the con vention. By way of emphasis, in order that there should be no chance for a mis understanding. lie declared with heat that the question was not discussable, and that the mere suggestion that he is now a candidate or could become a candidate was a grave and studied in sult. —Washington Dispatch to the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Webster's dictionary says to fili buster is "to delay legislation by dila lory motions or other artifices." Mr Bryan and John Sharp Williams hold that a filibuster is the best politics, vound statesmanship and an improve ment on majority rule. Nevertheless, the dictionary makers will hold their ground. CLASS ISSUES FROM POLITICAL PLATFORMS 18 SOUGHT BY MANUFACTUR ERS' ASSOCIATION. A REVISION CF THE TARIFF Is Advocated by the National Conven tion, Which Also Asks that Anti- Injunction Legislation be Sidetracked. New York City. Following up the important action of its earlier ses sions, protesting against political agi tation calculated to set capital and la bor at odds, tiie National Association of Manufacturers iu annual conven tion here Tuesday took a decided stand against the raising of class is sues by the great political parties of the nation. This action was in the form of a resolution introduced by John Kirby of Dayton, 0.. as follows: "Resolved, that the president of this association be Instructed to se lect such r.( rubers ; he 111; y deem p.o,ec to 112 ive with him :»s \ com mittee to represent this association before the national committee:; of the two political parties, and that he in vite :he co-operation of committees from other -issociatiom; to the <nd that class declaration plauka may be omitted from the platforms of both parties." Close upon the heels of this move by the manufacturers came the tak ing 011 their part of a decided stand against the advance In freight rates which the trunk lines of the country have announced to be impending. The manufacturers seek an amicable adjustment of the matter with the railroads, but failing that, announce their intention of resisting the pro posed advance in the courts by pro cess of injunction or otherwise. The association after a spirited de bate went on record as indorsing the formation of a permanent tariff com mission to revise tariff schedules up on the principle of "international costs." An appeal to Speaker Cannon to use hi;: power and influence against any anti-injunction legislation was made. The appeal was made in a telegram which was sent to .Mr. Can non after its contents had been ap proved by the convention. It read: "The National Association of .Man ufacturers, regardless of political af filiations, urges upon you to use your power and influence against any anti injunction legislation whatever." TH£ NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington. The house 011 the 20th adopted »hc> report of the special committee that investigated charges made by Representative i.illey that members of the house had been im properly influenced in connection with submarine torpedo boat legisla tion. The committee reported that Lilley had violated his obligations as a member of the house and had acted in bad faith. The senate passed the public buildings appropriation bill carrying $35,000,000, and a bill tr prevent desecration of the American flag. Washington.—The general deficien cy and military academy appropria tion bills were passed by the senate 011 the 21st. A joint resolution was adopted creating a monetary commis sion composed of nine senators and nine represenatives. The house passed a bill establishing in the in terior department a bureau of mines also a bill providing for the appoint ment of a national forest commission. Washington.—ln the house on the 22d a campaign contribution publicity bill with an amendment providing fct a reduction iu the number of eon gressmen from those states having disfranchisement laws was passed by a strict party vote. There was a long debate in the senate on the power ol congress to regulate commerce. A Disastrous Deluge. Carlisle, Pa.—A severe cloudburst swept the town of .Mt. Holly Springs Friday and with the deluge of water Laurel dam gave way, car rying bridges from their abutments, damaging the big viaducts leading from the dam to the paper mills and flooding all the houses in the low sec tion of the town. The mills were so badly damaged that they wili be com pelled to suspend operations fcr a time. Lightning Struck Church Spire. Philadelphia, Pa.—During a store, on Friday the spire of the historic old Christ church, on Second stiver, was struck by lightning and damaged by fire to the extent of $15,000. Killed His Father and Suicided. New York City. Bicause he war about to be married again, Georgf Sterry, years of age, was shot and killed Tuesday by his son. Gee r,;- Sterry, jr. The younger man com mitted suicide. Night Riders Eurn a Earn and Pray. Lancaster, Kv. Kneeling on tht ground in the moonlight v/itl their heads bowed, while their leadei offered prayer, a band ef "Night Rlc ers" on Monday night, destroyed tb big tobacco bare of H. G. Maddox. REFUSE 10 MOGfiSE BRYMJ PENNSYLVANIA STATE CONVEN TION TURNS HIM DOWN. Col. Guffey, National Committeeman, Wins in Contest for Election as Delegate at Large. Harrisburg, Pa. After one of the hardest fights within the party in several years, the Democratic state convention here Wednesday decided not to instruct its delegates at large to the Denver convention tor Bryan. It was a clean cut victory for the Democratic state organization, head ed bv Col. James M. Guffey of Pitts burg, the Pennsylvania member of the national committee. Col. Guffey maintained all along that he and his friends would control the convention, but their claims were always dis puted by the leaders of the faction who were in favor of issuing binding instructions for Bryan. The Bryanites, under the leader ship of the executive committee of the Bryan Democratic league, had a large following and they fought to the bitter end. While feeling ran high in the convention, which was at times very disorderly, no personali ties were indulged in, and when the followers of Bryan found that they were in the minority they acquiesced and the convention ouickly earne to a "lose. •Jo!. Guffey and h's aup porters be lieved that the fight made to instruct the delegates at large against his ad v i< o was more of a contest to depose him as the state leader than it was a contest in the interest of Bryan. Guffey was greatly pleased with the outcome of the convention and he an ticipates no trouble in being re-elect ed national committeeman by the Pennsylvania delegation at the na tional convention. Aside from the defeat of the Bry anites, probably the most important happening of the day was the'drop ping by the Democratic organization of ex-State Treasurer William H. Berry of Delaware county. Mr. Ber ry, who was elected state treasurer on the fusion ticket three years ago, was the first to call attention to the alleged state capitol frauds and be cause of this was considered popular among the democrats of the state. For this reason he had been picked to be one of the delegates at large on the organization ticket, although he was a Bryan man. Later the Bryan ites placed him on their slate as a delegate at large. As he did not object to being on the tickets of opposing factions, he was informed by the organization leaders that they did not intend to name him on the ground that in a fight like the one that, ended Wed nesday no man could consistently go along with both factions. There were seven names presented to the convention for delegates at large, among them Mr. Berry's, and he received the smallest number of votes. The delegates at large chosen by the Guft»-y people are Col. Guffey, State Senators J. K. Hall of Elk coun ty and A. G. Dewalt of Lehigh coun ty, and John G. Harmon of Columbia county. INDICTED FOR GRAND LARCENY T. A. Mclntyre, New York Broker, Is Arrested and Held in $25,- 000 Bail. New York City. Upon the find ing of an indictment against him by the grand jury, Thomas A. .Mclntyre of the failed brokerage firm of T. A. Mclntyre & Co. was arrested Wed nesday upon a warant charging grand larceny in the first degree. He gave ball in the sum of $25,000 and was re leased. .Mclntyre's arrest was made In the face of vigorous protest by his phy sicians at the sanitarium where he has been a patient since shortly after the failure of his firm. They de dared him too ill to be removed, but after the officers had offered to take him to Bellevue hospital in an am bulance as a prisoner, he went with detectives to police headquarters. After his arraignment before Judge Uosalsky and the furnishing of his bond by a surety company he was taken back to the sanitarium Mclntyre's Indictment was the out growth of an investigation into the affairs of his firi;i which had been proceeding in the United States court for some time. Assistant District Attorney Train said last night that there were more than 100 complaints against the Mc lntyre firm in his ctfiee, involving be tween $.100,000 and $400,000 worth of securities turned over to the firm by investors. These securities can not be found. Dayton Woman Suicided. Dayton, O. Despondent and dis couraged with the effort to sup port five small children, Mrs. An na Boliman, 3G years old. committed suicide Wednesday by taking paris green. Piatt Denies All the Charges. New York Citv. — Physically so feeble that practically ho had to be carried in and out of the court room, United States Sumter Thomas C. Piatt was at times a spirited witness Wednesday when he appeared to tes tily in his own behalf in Mae C. Wood's suit for dVei ( from him. His denial of all th* charges brought by Miss Wood ir he:- suit was em phatic and when prodded too hard by tlx* plaintiff's counsel the aged sena .1 r proved himself capable ef vigor .us response. 'MAE 100 IS SENT TO PRISON FOR ALLEGED PERJURY IN HER DIVORCE SUIT AGAINST SENATOR PLATT. JUDGE DISMISSES THE CASE. Sensational Climax Comes in a Trial that Attracted Great Attention— Expert Testimony Led to the Woman's Undoing. New York City. Mae C. Wood, whose suit for an absolute divorce from United States Senator Thomas C. Plait has been on trial in the su preme court for several days, was committed to the Tombs prison late Thursday after Justice O'Gorman had dismissed the complaint in her action and ordered her held In $5,000 bail on a charge of perjury. The decision in Senator Piatt's fa vor and the sudden and sensational end of the suit came after a day which the defense occupied largely ■with tiie introduction oi expert and Other testimony ftttiiklng the au thenticity of the documents by which the plaintiff was seeking to establish her alleged marriage to Piatt. A handwriting expert testified thst In his opinion the body of the letter In which Piatt was alleged to have ad mitted his relation as husband to the plaintiff was added after the sena tor's signature had been affixed. More telling still for the defense were the depositions by engravers and stationers called by counsel for Piatt that the blank form upon which the alleged Piatt-Wood marriage cer tificate was published was not litho graphed until three months after the date upon which the marriage of Miss Wood to Senator Piatt was alleged to have taken place. Miss Wood was recalled to the stand in rebuttal. She was asked if, after hearing the testi mony about the marriage certificate, she still reiterated that the defendant gave her the certificate as she previ ously testified. "I still reiterate it," she replied. At the district attorney's office last night it was said that Miss Wood's case would speedily be presented to the grand jury and pressed for trial if an indictment was found. A FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE. Sixty People Killed and 100 Injured in a Collision on a Belgian Railroad. Antwerp, Belgium. One of the worst railroad accidents in Europe in recent times occurred at Contich, a station six miles southeast of this city, Thursday. The latest estimate places the number killed at 60 and 100 wounded. The catastrophe appears to have been due to a defective switch where the main line crosses a local line. At this point a train carrying a large number of pilgrims on their way to a local shrine was standing. Into this the Antwerp-Brussels express dashed at a speed of 50 miles an hour, liter ally leaping on top of it. The heavy coaches of the express crushed the lighter coaches into splinters. The sides of the express cars were torn from their fastenings, the floors prac tically collapsing, thus precipitating the passengers to the side of the track uninjured, whence they fled, frenzied, across the fields. But for this fact the death roll would be much great er. Few of the occupants of the local train escaped alive. Those that were not killed were badly injured, many of them mortally. TO GIVE SHIP SUBSIDIES. An Amendment Will Be Added to the Postoffice Appropriation Bill. Washington, D. C.—Congress on Thursday took an important step looking to the payment of ship sub sidies. the conferees on the postofHce appropriation bill having agreed to accept the amendment by the senate authorizing the postmaster general to contract with steamship lines run ning to ports of South America, the Philippines, Japan, China and Aus tralasia for the carrying of mails and to pay vessels of the second class the same rate that is now paid on Ameri can vessels of the first class to Eu rope, and to vessels of the third class the'rata now authorized for vessels of the second class. There are no American lines of the first class to the countries named, and the effect of this legislation will be to encourage the establishment of passenger and mail steamship lines to those countries. Senate Refuses to Supplant Woman. Washington, 1). C. —The fight made by Georgia and Texas senators against supplanting women postmas ters with male employes resulted on Thursday in the rejection of three nominations which had be.-n before the senate since last December. The nominations rejected are T. W. Scott, to succeed Hattie F. Gilmer at Toc coa. Ga.; John A. McCullom to suc ceed Mary A. Melton at Couyers, Ga., and Everett Johnson to succeed .Tr-an nctte 1). McConnell at Jacks la. ro, Vex.
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