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Some scientist has found that
there are 5,200 ways in which death
may come. We wonder whether ht
lias included being mistaken for deet
by reckless hunters?
Efforts are made to encourage cattlf
raising in Scotland. Still, it is llkelj
that a large proportion of the roasl
beef of "old England" will continue
to come from the United States.
When the Dutch have captured Cas
tro will they please hold him and noti
fy the nations of the earth so that
there may be pulled off a chaste and
orderly international spanking match'
Fritzi Scheff is to become the wift
of a literary man, and it is only res
sonable to expect, therefore, that thf
stories sent out by her adv«nce agent
will in the future "oe properly
edited.
Judge Thompson of the I'nit• mI
States court v as decided at Cincinnati
that imitation whisky must be so
labeled as to show just what it is.
A simpler way would be just to label
it poison.
It was from New York that Horace
Greeley advised the young man to"Go
West!" The advice now comes from
3,000 miles farther eastward, and is
addressed by Israel Zangwill to an au
dience of Jews in London. He lold
his fellow religionists the other day
that they ought to migrate to the
western states of America, where
there is room for them.
The most enduring memorial ol
Hishop Potter is the great, unfinished
cathedral of St. John the Divine on
Morningside Heights, which will have
cost, it is estimated, over $20,000,000
when it is completed, well on in the
present century. This was his own
conception, and it was his influence
alone that secured the financial back
ing which made its commencement
possible.
Persons who wear orange-colored
garments are supposed to be less sus
ceptible to heat than those wearing
other colors. To test the theory, the
war department is having 5,000 suits
of underwear colored orange for the
use of soldiers in the Philippines. An
orange hat lining is also being pre
pared, that the heads as well as bodies
of the men may receive whatever ben
efit there may be in llie color.
In a New York court a policeman
arraigned a chauffeur who, ihe officer
testified, was towing two "dead" au
tomobiles and speeding at the rate of
20 miles an hour. "Three machines,
each going 20 miles an hour?" said
the magistrate. "I should figure that
ihe prisoner was going GO miles an
liour. I'll hold him for trial." And no
body punished the magistrate fr<, his
unprovoked assault on physics and
mathematics.
The millionaire automobilist who
went crashing with a 120-horse power
flyer through carriages in crowded
streets at Long Branch the other day
will liave his license revoked, and war
rants were procured for his* arrest.
Tho reckless speeder is as much the
enemy of the moderate autoist. as of
the rest of the public, and all should
combine against him. It might be
even justice to some of the
merciless scorcher:, to their own v<
hides and set them going on a steam
railroad track, where they would meet
something of their size.
And now the directoire gown is to
be accompanied by a bracelet worn
just below the kuee. The necessary
number of tings for the fingers ant'
bells for the toeß will also be strict
ly iu style.
We can see how perfected flying
machines distributed all over the
world, and so low in price as to be
within reach of all, if not quite so
low in flight, might cause the custom
house officials along ihe frontiers of'
he various countries to accumulate a
>ck of steely, premature gray hair.
opkeopers in Paris with various
•s of high life for pale at. ruin
■ : ie< s will be pleased lo learn
'ing Leopold has sold the Congo
'ate and lias the money for il
side pocket.
ichtenberg may be sincere
ief that he can drown the
'stivlus, but has he calcst
force of the superheated
t.he would generate? As a
riment lie might try sweep
lie waves of the ocean wi;i
SEEING THEM ALREADY
News Item.—A Large Black Snake Was Seen at Fairview Crossing Bryan's
Path.
NEED NO SYMPATHY
AMERICAN FARMERS ARE NOT
"OPPRESSED."
Bryan's Efforts to Create Feeling of
Discontent Among the Agricul
tural Classes Not Likely to
Be Very Successful.
Mr. Bryan's address to the Nebras
ka farmers at the Lincoln fair as
sumed that the farmers are an op
pressed people. Mr. Bryan was sym
pathetic, and pointed out some of the
outrages committed upon the farmer
by an insolent or inept national gov
ernment.
What would the farmers think, he
asked, if he were to tell them that for
every dollar sper.t on the agricultural
department $25 was spent on the
army and navy, and then he counseled
them:
"Read the amount spent on ships
and figure, if you can, what portion of
that gets to the farmer."
This is a typical example of Mr.
Bryan's thoughtless method of agita
tion. It would be difficult to say, of
course, just what portion of the na
tional expenditures on the army and
navy "gets to"the farmer or to the
clerk or lawyer or physician or to any
class or variety of American citizen;
and it is monstrous, in making an ad
dress to an inland agricultural com
munity remote from the ocean, to play
to any hostility to the navy on the
theory that the farmer does not owe
nr is not willing to give Just as strong
and patriotic support to the country's
navy as any other class of citizens. It
Is an insult to assume that farmers
are so narrow as to object to proper
expenditures for a navy if they cannot
be convinced that the profit to the
farming class from the appropriation
is direct, immediate and to be meas
ured in money.
The farmer has not been abused by
the Roosevelt administration nor by
the McKinley or Cleveland or any
other administration, if huge appro
priations have not been made to
farmers, they do not need them, and
are certainly no more entitled to
them than are the clerks, the school
teachers, the business men and many
other classes of workers. It is a
thoroughly vicious notion to assume
that Hie farmer or any other class of
producers, is hostile to the govern
ment unless it may be shown that the
government is always doing something
for them. It is not the province of the
government to be eternally supporting
the people; it is rather the province
of the people to support the govern
in -nt.
The farmers are not in immediate
aid of largess. Their products have
been extremely high for several years
and farm values have risen sharply.
When they need aid Mr. Bryan's no
lions are not calculated to help ihem.
In IS9O he predicted doom for the
farmer unless free silver triumphed,
and asserted with the utmost confl
dence that the maintenance of the
gold standard would drag down
wheat. Silver and wheat must flour
ish together. The silver fallacy died
and wheat thrived, and so did the
farmer. If the credit of the country
had been impaired and the currency
had been debased the farmer's plight
would be sad to contemplate, and the
farmer is likely to receive just as
much profit from Mr. Bryan's present
grandiose and impracticable schemes
as he would have received from the
adoption of the free silver lolly..
Chief Cause for Worry.
Col. Bryan laments the "discrimina
tion that has been going on again.st
the fanner" in electing HO few tillers
of the fr.'MJ to -ongress and the sen
ate. VVhar troubles him chiefly, how
ever. is the discrimination which the
whole American nation exercises
against a cert aft; farmer of Lincoln.
Neb., in declining to elect him to the
White House.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY OCTOBER I, 1908.
BRYAN ON CLEVELAND.
Wrote Eulogy of Ex-President Without
Intending to Do So.
Mr. William J. Bryan describes in
an article in Collier's some of the
qualifications of the model president.
He says he should have "moral cour
age." He should be able "to detect
the sophistries" that are always em
ployed by "special interests" seeking
"unfair advantage." He should look
on himself as "committed by his plat
form to certain principles, and those
principles are binding."
Mr. Bryan could have given life and
emphasis to his observations by men
tioning a president—a Democratic one
at that—who possessed these presiden
tial qualifications in ample measure.
Few occupants of the White House
have equaled Grover Cleveland in
moral courage. He was an intense
party man. He gloried in his party's
triumphs and mourned in its defeats.
But he had the moral courage to stand
up against his party when it went
mad over free silver. He knew that
he would be excommunicated, that
most Democrats would vilify and curse
him, and that his course would con
tribute to the defeat of his party. Yet
he never faltered. Mr. Bryan never
has favored the public with any mani
festation of a moral courage approach
ing that.
Cleveland was able "to detect the
sophistries" of the silver mine owners
and dishonest debtors who hankered
after 50-cent dollars. He was not tc
be moved by the appeals of "special
interests" for free-silver legislation.
Certainly Mr. Bryan did not intend
that, his disquisition on the qualifica
tions of a president should be read
as a eulogy of Grover Cleveland, whom
he greatly hated. Cleveland did much
to prevent his election. But the intel
ligent reader will think of Cleveland
rather than of Bryan when he readi
the article.
BRYAN FORGETS SOMETHING.
Repudiates Himself When He Attacki
Republican Expenditures.
Our platform also calls attention to th«
fact that 09,000 new offices have been cre
ated, at an expense of $70,000,000 a year,
as against an Increase of 10,000 new of
llcos, with salaries amounting to $6,000,-
000, in tlie Cleveland and McKiniey ad
ministrations.—William J. Bryan, at St.
Paul.
Granted; what then? How did the
increase come about? What started
it? Whither is it tending? And why?
The answers are plain on the face
of things. Government inspection,
government regulation, and govern
ment control have been expanded and
extended as never before—that is the
why and where and how.
Some of this expansion and exten
sion has been for good; some of it for
evii; but whether for good or for evil
it has been the part of the Roosevelt
policies which Mr. Bryan himself has
applauded most heartily while it has
been in progress—which he has even
gone so far as to accuse I ho president
of borrowing from Hie Bryanite
Democracy.
It increases a civil list enormously,
it. piles up appropriations immensely,
to control and regulate and inspect
and supervise !>0,000,000 of people, and
Mr. Bryan must have realized this fact
when he proclaimed the expediency of
it nil.
Why then complain of lite conse
quences now, especially when in the
same breath he advocates a further
extension and expansion and expense
by establishing the vast additional ma
chinery of i'nited States postal sav
ings banks throughout the country?
We can't have our cake and eat it!
We can't transfer the Individual bur
dens of private life to the I'nited
States government and then avoid giv
ing the government the money neces
sary to carry the load.
Mr. Bryan has taken the wrong line
of attack. He is simply repudiating
himsfcjf when he advances such argti
ments. He must have forgotten some
thing.
ANSWER TO BRYAN
FROM PRESIDENT
TAKES UP PRAIRIE STATE OIL
AND GAS CASE.
HE SCORES GOV. HASKELL
Declares Hl'n Unfit for Association
with Patriotic and Moral Men
—Hot Reply from the
Oklahoman.
Washington. President Roose
velt Wednesday night, following
upon a prolonged conference with
members of the cabinet at the While
House, prepared and gave out his re
ply to William J. Bryan, the Demo
cratic candidate, relative to W. R.
Hearst's charges that Gov. Haskell,
treasurer of the Democratic campaign
committee, had represented Standard
Oil interests both in Ohio and Okla
homa.
Mr. Bryan had demanded proof of
the charges, promising that in the
event of their substantiation Gov. Has
kell would be eliminated from the
campaign.
Dismissing the Ohio case, which in
volved an allegation of attempted
bribery, with the explanation that he
had made no direct charge against
Gov. Haskell as regards that particu
lar instance, President Roosevelt takes
up the matter of the Prairie State Oil
& Gas Company, and argues that
Gov. Haskell's action in stopping legal
proceedings begun by the attorney
general of Oklahoma demonstrates
conclusively that he was controlled
by the great corporation to which llie
Oklahoma company was subsidiary.
Declares Haskell Unworthy.
After contrasting Mr. Bryan's de
fense of Gov. Haskell with Judge
Taft's repudiation of Foraker in con
nection with Ihe Hearst charges
against the Ohio senator, the president
proceeds to declare that Gov. Has
kell's "utter unfitness for association
with any man anxious to appeal to
the American people on a moral issue,
lias been abundantly shown by .other
acts of his as governor of Oklahoma."
Haskell Makes Reply.
Guthrie, Okla. Gov. C. N. Has
kell Wednesday night issued a
statement in reply to President Roose
velt's letter to William J. Bryan, deal
ing with four specific charges against
Mr. Haskell, namely, that he is sub
servient to Standard Oil, that lie ve
toed a child labor bill; that he dealt
extensively in Creek Indian lands, and
that he had allowed politics to domi
nate him in the removal of members
of the faculty of the state university
and the appointment of others to suc
ceed them.
Gov. Haskell took up *he four
charges as dwelt upon by President
Roosevelt in turn, dealing with each
in a characteristic manner.
The Prairie Oil & Gas Company
charges Gov. Haskell declared to be a
"joke on Roosevelt's stupidity," as
serting that he had done nothing
which would confer upon the Standard
Oil subsidiary company more authori
ty than it already possessed under a
franchise granted it by Secretary
Hitchcock.
Declares He Acted Properly.
Continuing. Gov. Haskell says:
"President Roosevelt comes to Ok
lahoma and finds a substitute for his
Ohio failure. Does he, in the case of
the state against the Prairie Oil &
Gas Company which he complains 1
compelled to be dismissed?
"Yes, I did have it dismissed. We
all know that the Prairie company is
a Standard Oil offspring, and don't for
get the president claims to have
known this also, and I charge that the
political allies, Hearst and Roosevelt,
both knew that I acted properly.
"First, the Prairie Oil Company got
its franchise in the state not from me,
but from Roosevelt's secretary of the
interior, long before statehood began,
and had its main line built and operat
ing, and congress in our statehood bill
was careful to declare that our new
state when organized must respect all
such vested rights and existing fran
chises. That was all I did, and the
federal courts stood ready to call me
down if i violated the Roosevelt terri
torial franchises. . . .
Sarcasm and Abuse.
"The president comes to the local
affairs of our slate and assails me for
vetoing a child labor bill. True, I did
so. simply because the bill went too
far and included things not desired by
our people. Union labor representa
tives approved my veto. 1 hope the
president will survive this veto of a
local bill and permit us to run our lo
cal affairs.
"The president complains that we
removed certain professors from our
state university, our three state nor
mal schools anil preparatory school ia
violation of civil service rules. That
is. the president in his usual impetu
osity and reckless disregard of others,
misstates ihe facts. IA J SS than one
fifth of the faculties are changed. All
changes were for good cause.
His Indian Land Suits.
"The president complains that there
are several suits pending against, nie
to reclaim Creek Indian land. The
president should have gone farther
and said that I was not a dealer in
Indian land and only came in as a sub
sequent purchaser and only incidental
ly a party without personal interest
at all, and especially lie should have
said that it is quite apparent that
those who are being sued in those
land cases appear to be and apparent
ly are the victims of political chican
ery which t lie pi resident can better
xplain than 1.
TWENTY DIE IN TRAIN WRECK
PASSENGER TRAIN RAN INTO A
FREIGHT, TELESCOPING CARS.
One of the Worst Accidents in the His
tory of Railroading in
the West.
Livingston, Mont.—Plowing through
a snow storm eastward bound, a
Chicago, Burlington & Quiney pus
senger train running over the
Northern Pacific railroad on Friday
crashed head-on into a freight train
at. Young's Point, where the trains
were to pass, and in the demolition
th;.® resulted a score of lives were
crushed out and 20 persons were in
jured. several probably fatally. The
freight flagman failed to signal the
passenger in time to prevent the col
lision, because of the blinding snow.
The express car telescoped with the
smoking car and most of the fatalities
and injuries were of persons in the
latter ear. The express car was raised
over the platform of the smoking car.
and (he superstructure swept the seats
away. Not a passenger in the smok
ing car escaped death or injury. Pas
sengers in other cars escaped with
cuts and bruises.
Fireman Ora Babcock jumped and
was killed, striking 011 his head. Milo
Halloway, a brakeman, was killed. The
smoking car's debris was hopelessly
mixed with heads, bodies, legs and
arms, presenting a horrible sight. In
one place seven bodies were so tight
ly wedged together that they were
separated only with great difficulty.
It was impossible to succor the in
jured without trampling on the dead.
FORAKER ATTACKS TAFT.
Accuses Him of Associating with
Standard Oil Magnates and Also
Assails Roosevelt.
Cincinnati, O. Senator Foraker
gave out a statement Friday night
replying to the recent charges made
by William R. Hearst and President
Roosevelt. In addition he bitterly as
sails Hearst, Taft and tlie president,
charging Taft with consorting with
Standard Oil magnates himself and
declaring that President Roosevelt's
actions indicate a guilty conscience.
In the opening paragraph Mr. Foraker
declares that the president showed
bias in accepting as true ail the
charges.
He denies that he acted improperly
in accepting employment from the
Standard Oil Co., says that there was
no secret about it.and produces let
ters to prove that after the govern
ment began its attack upon the Stand
ard Oil Co. he declined to accept a
retainer from it. He charges that Mr.
Hearst had other letters in addition
to those which he gave out, and that
these other letters if made public at
the same time would have showed how
harmless was his connection with the
Standard people.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Volume of Retail Business Increases
and Factories Extend Op
erations.
New York City.—H. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
While the temperature has been too
high for best results in fall retail
trade, the volume is steadily increas
ing. and manufacturing plants have ex
tended operations still further. There
remains the drawback of low water
that retards some mill work and river
transportation, while valuable timber
has been destroyed by forest fires.
.Most jobbing houses report a tendency
to prepare for the future on a larger
scale, and woolen mills have less idle
machinery; but shoe shops find diffi
culty in securing the higher prices
made accessary by a firm leather
market.
Several orders of importance have
been placed this week for finished
steel and the usual supply of small
contracts appeared, but the waiting at
titude is still conspicuous among the
large buyers, especially the. railways.
HASKELL RESIGNS.
Treasurer of Democratic National
Committee Quits Mis Job.
Chicago. 111. Gov. Charles N.
Haskell on Friday night resigned as
treasurer of the Democratic commit
tee. His resignation was announced
by himself three hours after his ar
rival in Chicago from Guthrie, Okla.,
and after he had conferred with offi
cers at the Democratic national head
quarters. In giving out his decision
Mr. Haskell declared he did not de
sire to be responsible for any embar
rassment which might result to the
Democratic party by retaining the of
fice of treasurer.
That his resignation is the direct re
sult of the charges made against him
by W. R. Hearst and President Roose
velt Mr. Haskell also admitted. At
the same time he did not by his resig
nation intend to admit that any of the
charges were true.
Five Stock Brokers are Arrested.
Now York City. Five mem
bers of tlie firm of A. O. Brown & Co.,
stock brokers, which failed recently,
were arrested Friday on charges of
grand larceny preferred by a former
client, of the firm. The men arrested
each gave bail in $2,000 and were re
leased.
Jersey's Governor Is Lucky.
Trenton, N. J. Gov. Fort has
been left $260,000 by the will of
Mrs. Abby Reasoner, which was pro
bated here Friday.
SATS VAN CLEAVE
TRIED TO BRiBE
GOMPERS. LEADER OF LABOR
FEDERATION, MAKES START
LING STATEMENT.
INDIRECTLY ATTACKS TAFT.
Gompers Tells of Being Followed by-
Detectives and Spies Employed
by the Manufacturers'
Arrociation.
Washington, D. C. —In a room In
the building occupied by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor in this cit>
Samuel Gompers, president of the fed
eration on Thursday introduced the
name of ex-Secretary Taft and made
serious charges against VV. .1 Van
Cleave, president of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers.
The charges were made as a part
of Mr. Gompers' testimony in connec
tion with the proceedings against
himself. Vice President Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison of the federation
on the charge of contempt in vio
lation of the injunction decree
of the supreme court of Hie
District of Columbia, directing them
not to publish the Bucks Stove and
Range Company of St. Louis a* "un
fair." Mr. Gompers was at the time
under cross-examination by his attor
ney, Jackson 11. Ralston.
In the case of Mr. Taft, Mr, Gom
| pers in effect charged that he had
I supplied the sentiment behind the in
junction decree, while the direct
charge was made that Mr. Van-Cleave
! had had Mr. Gompers and other fed
\ eration officials shadowed b\ detec
tives and had undertaken to h;,ve
Gompers bribed to desert the cause
of organized labor and join its ene
mies. Mr. Ralston's efforts vv->re di
rected towards showing a conspiracy
by the manufacturers to destroy trade?
unionism.
Gompers said:
"Men have been suborned to sp\
| on their fellow laborers in shops, fac
I tories and mines; to report thr pro-
I ceedings of union meetings; to spy on
i the personal conduct of workmen after
; working hours, and to follow from
place to place labor leaders visiting
| other cities than their homes. Money
has also been used to bribe represen
tative labor men to cease their con
nection with labor organizations."
St. Louis, Sept. 25. —J. VV. Van
Cleave is not in the city, but when
the dispatches telling of the testimony
of Samuel Gompers in the contempt
proceedings against him at Washing
ton were tnken to Mr. Van
oftlce. an unequivocal denial of the
charges contained therein was made
by F. C. Schwedtman, who is secre
tary to Mr. Van Cleave.
HEARST BRINGS NEW CHARGES
Adds a Chapter to Story of Standard
Oil's Control of Congressmen—
Independence League Names
State Ticket.
New York City. William R.
Iliarst. addressing on Thursday night
the state convention of the Indepen
dence league party, as the Xew York
state branch of the national Indepen
dence party is officially known, re
newed his attack upon members of
the Republican and Democratic par
ties, and produced another batch of
letters which he said were written
by, or to John I). Archbold. of the
Standard Oil Co.
One of the letters was addressed
to ex-l'nited States Senator John L.
McLaurin of South Carolina, and
there was also a letter from ex-Sen
ator McLaurin to Mr. Archbold in
which the writer declared he could
"beat Tillman if properly and gener
ously supported."
Mr. Hearst read a letter from Rep
resentative Joseph S. Sibley to .Mr.
Archbold and a letter from Archbold
to a "rep. senator," whose name did
not. appear.
Renewing his assault upon Gov.
Haskell of Oklahoma, Mr. Hearst de
clared that not only was he a "Stand
ard Oil tool and promoter of crooked
railways, but was one of the organ
izers of the steel trust." Ho quoted
from what he said was a court record
of a suit brought by John P. Bailey.
Mr. Haskell's law partner in Ohio,
against the Illinois Steel Co. and Fed
eral Steel Co. for services rendered
b\ Mr. Haskell as attorney "and or
ganizer."
Clarence I. Shearn, personal coun
sel to William K. Hearst, who has
taken a prominent part in the Inde
pendence league movement since its
organization. was nominated by the
convention for governor. All of the
offices on the ticket were tilled by can
didates chosen b.\ "a committee on
candidates," the slate being unani
mously ratified by the convention.
Wu Is Going to Lose His Job.
Peking. China. Tang Shao Yt
left here Thursday on his much her
alded trip around the world. He is
accompanied by Chung Men Yew, who
is to succeed Wu Ting Fang as Chi
nese minister at Washington.
Will Sue Delinquent Corporations.
New York City.—ln a letter to
Corporation Counsel Pendleton, Comp
troller Metz announces his intention
to proceed against all corporation
debtors to the city for non-payment
o! special franchise taxes.