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Good Influence of Matrimony.
Statistics seem to show that crime
ja less frequent among married men
than among those enjoying bachelor
sxistence. Close observation shows
that property rights are more general
ly respect<*d by the married than the
single. The married man does not
commit the graver offenses against
property, such as robbery and fraud,
go much an the less dangerous crimes,
such as receiving stolen goods, break
ing the laws of trade, and fraudulent
bankruptcy. Men who are married at
an early age—from 18 to 25 —offend
against property more often than the
unmarried of the same age, and mar
ried men who are older. This is prob
ably explained by the pressure of .'am
lly expenses. Offenses against morali
ty are far more common among un
married men—a fact that was to be
expected. Offenses against human
life are more frequent among the un
married, though the disproportion is
not so great as in the matter of rights
of property. It is interesting to note,
says the New York Weekly, that the
criminality of widowers decreases with
advancing years, although this is prob
ably true of all men. Widowers, how
ever, contribute a greater share of
crime between the ages of 30 and 50
than either of the other classes. This
may be an argument either for or
against marriage, according to the
point of view. The longer man is mar
ried, the more law-abiding he becomes.
This may be accounted for not only
by the benign influence of matrimony,
but also by the fact that the burden
of married life incident to the larger
birth rate at that time and the finan
cial straits of the parents is greater in
the early years than. it. is later. This
is indicated by the fact that the rate
of offenses against property falls off
rapidly with advancing years among
the married.
Saving the Game.
With the revulsion of sentiment has
come scientific legislation for the pro
tection of such game as remains, and
in most states the more intelligent
huntsmen have themselves been in
strumental in promoting the legisla
tion. Hut a great deal of educational
work remains to be done. The im
provement of guns and ammunition,
above all the cheapening of their
price, has placed weapons in the
hands of thousands of undisciplined
hunters, who lust, as did their prede
cessors of 30 years p.go, for "records."
The violation of the game laws is not
considered a crime by them," says the
New Orleans Times-Democrat. Their
only care is to evade detection and
prosecution—not a difficult task, be
cause of the relative scarcity of game
wardens and the trouble experienced
in securing evidence to convict the
violators of the law.
In the future, more than in the past
American industries will have to rely
upon the especially developed and in
structed ability of American working
men, including the superintendents
and highest managers of industrial es
tablishments. Natural resources, de
clares the Cleveland Leader, will play
a less important part than in the past.
The most formidable competition of
the coming years will be encountered
from Germany and other countries
where technical education is most ad
vanced, and this country will need
workers similarly trained to meet it
England's suffragettes have been
quiet for a few weeks, but they have
only been making ready for another
attack on the house of commons. This
movement was looked upon as a farce
at first and the idea prevailed that it
would bo short-lived, but it Ims grown
stronger until thousands of women
have joined it, among them many of
culture, education, rank and title. It
can no longer be ignored, and, though
the methods employed may not be
commended, the earnestness and de
termination of itg adherents cannot
be called in question.
The first Amerlca.ii company for th<-
manufacture of airships has been In
corporated in Newark, say a I lin New
Haven Evening Regibter. That lonki
like bringing the thing down out ui
the uir to a pus'nesa start, anyway.
THE NATION'S JOY
WILL REVISE TARIFF
PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT HAS
GIVEN PLEDGE TO COUNTRY.
"Tinkering" Can Have Nothing but
Bad Effect on Business—Some
Evils That Call Loudly
for Correction.
The incipient agitation which ap
pears to have sprung up for immediate
tariff revision at. the next session of
congress and the biting insinuation
that revision promises were largely for
the purpose of buncombe are prema
ture. It is reasonable to give Mr. Taft
a chance, lie did not promise revision
at the December session. His platform
declared for a revision of the tariff at
an extra session of congress, to bo
called immediately after March 4. Mr.
Taft's sincerity was impugned during
the campaign, and in several speeches,
notably in one of his chief speeches in
Kansas, he set all doubts at rest by
declaring that he and his party had
pledged tariff revision; that revision
undoubtedly would be "down," and
that to the best of his ability he would
fulfill the pledge to effect forward
legislation which should express the
deliberate sense of the nation.
The deliberate sense of the nation is
what is wanted and needed, but re
vision in a haphazard and tentative
way at the nexi session, at the fag
end of the Roosevelt administration,
might prove to be nothing more than
a very hazardous sort of tariff "tinker
ing," which would prove troublesome
to business interests and wholly un
satisfactory to everybody. It is now
recognized by Mr. Taft's party and by
every class of political thought that
something must be done with the tar
iff, and that the task must be under
taken and performed in perfect good
faith; but free traders, tariff-for-reve
nue men, moderate men and high pro
tectionists can perhaps all stand on a
platform which decides for peace and
pause this winter and for a program
which avoids haste, waste and hys
teria.
The exaction of inordinate prices for
commodities which affect the railroad
activity, and indirectly the purses and
prosperity of the whole people; hun
dreds of indefensible schedules which
bear with hardship upon the consum
ers, and the maintenance of artificial
high prices in many fields, are evils to
bo corrected. Nobody, even on the
stump, now seriously contends that
the foreigner pays ihe tax, and revi
sion has been inevitable from the day
that President McKinley declared in
his lHtffalo speech:
"If, perchance, some of our tariffs
are no longer needed for revenue or to
encourage and protect our industries
at home, why should they not be em
ployed to extend and promote our mar
kets abroad?"
The country will demand and il will
have tariff revision, but only a doc
trinaire will lose Bight of the fact that
the tariff is intimately bound up with
the whole fabric of our commerce and
industry, and that the relation is so
close and complicated that tariff re
vision will affect every element of the
population, directly or indirectly, and
every industry, whelber it he directly
related to the tariff or not. "Big stick"
and snap judgment methods are not to
be desired in dealing with the tariff.
The country voted for .ludgb Taft be
cause be represents in the public mind
as clearly as any man can deliberation,
wisdom and common sense. It is right
that the administration under his guid
ance should have complete control o!'
(ho tariff question, not merely because
his administration must shoulder the
responsibility, but because the country
has confidence in his wisdom, modera
tion and courage.
May all food fortune attend William
11. Taft, the friend of labor, the friend
of capital, and therefore the friend of
pros I erotiH America. No better man
or higher type of citizen ever received
at the polls the indorsement of his
oouutrynun for their highest service.
CAMERON COUNTV PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1908.
PLEDGED TO ENFORCE LAW.
No Possible Misunderstanding of Posi
tion Taken by Taft.
"The earlier all combinations of
wealth understand that under a Re
publican administration they will be
held strictly accountable to tho law
the earlier will business conditions get
on a basis that will be a solid founda
tion for the building of a new prosper
ity."—The President-elect.
Mr. Taft takes this early occasion to
sound the keynote of his administra
tion—the strict enforcement of the
law of the land. At the same time he
makes plain that the reforms initiated
under the present administration will
not. only be enforced but perfected
and made fully effective, and that
progress on the lines laid down under
President Roosevelt in ameliorative
social legislation will not be stayed. A
broader statement of policy as to labor
has never been given by a president
than by Mr. Taft when he announces
his purpose to do everything possible
"to put labor on an equality with capi
tal and to give labor an equality of op
portunity in the negotiations between
them."
That the next president's powerful
influence will also be thrown in favor
of national revision of the tariff is also
assured. The battle of the schedules
will be waged hotly, but much can be
done on behalf of the general welfare
in this clash of innumerable special
Interests if the president is strong
and convinced, as Mr. Taft is.
Elihu Root for the Senate.
The report that Elihu Root, by gen
eral agreement of New York Repub
licans, may be chosen to succeed
Thomas C. Piatt as United States
senator is one that pleases all think
ing Americans throughout the coun
try.
Elihu Root is recognized as one of
the foremost intellects in American
Tiubiic life. As secretary of war he
effected a real and beneficial reorgani
zation of that department. As secre
tary of state he has conducted our
foreign relations with dignity and
power.
It is time that the great state of
New York should be worthily repre
sented in the senate, as it has not
been of late years. Its junior senator
has been more ornamental than useful,
to say the least. Its senior senator,
despite his faithful and commendable
services to his party in former years,
presents the sorrowful spectacle of an
old age without respect.
There are other worthy and capable
men in the Republican party of New
York, but there is none who stands be
fore tho country for so much of ability
and integrity, and who has such a rec
ord of great service well performed, as
Elihu Root. He is on his quality and
hi» -ecord, without regard to the acci
dents of office, easily the foremost
citizen of New York.
Thinking Republicans and patriotic
Americans throughput the nation sin
cerely hope that the Republican legis
lature of New York will see clearly its
opportunity to place that state again
in the forefront of the national coun
cils on the legislative side as it has
been on the administrative.
By sending Elihu Root to the sen
ate the Republicans of New York will
convince the country that they can
and do think nationally and in honor
ing him will honor their state, their
party and themselves.
With a man so pre-eminently capable,
also available, there ought to be no
question about the next senator of the
United States from New York. —Chi-
cago inter Ocean.
"A Man of Stability."
The people can be depended upon to
stand for their own interests. They
have made it manifest that they
realized that more was to be secured
through the election of a man of sta
bility, and possessed of a fair and
judicial mind, than there was to b<
.'"cured by lite election of a man who
shifts bis views with the wind arid
who lucks the most vital clemen'
requisite* in a sidesman.
BRITISH STEAMER DESTROYED
100 PERISH IN BURNING SHIP OFF
ISLAND OF MALTA.
Disaster in Plain View of Those on
Shore, Who Were Almost Pow
less to Help.
Valetta, Island of Malta. —A ter
rible disaster, in which more than
100 persons lost their lives, occurred
at the entrance to this port Wednes
day within sight of the whole popula
tion of the city, who were powerless to
give aid. The British steamer Sardinia
of the Ellerman lino, hailing from
Liverpool and bound for Alexandria,
with a crew of 44 Englishmen, 11 first
and six second cabin English passen
gers and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims
aboard, caught fire and within a few
minuteß was a roaring fu-nace sur
rounded by clouds of black smoke,
through which flames burst upward to
a height of 200 feet, from frequent ex
plosions of naphtha in the hold.
So rapidly did the fire spread that
the frantic efforts of the crew to oper
ate the fire apparatus proved useless,
for it seemed but a moment before the
upper works and masts crashed down
upon the deck, while the ship's boats
were crushed by the falling debris or
set on fire and quickly burned.
Safety lay only in the sea, for no one
could save himself except by jumping
overboard and taking chances of being
picked up. Assistance was hurried to
the burning vessel from all the war
ships in the harbor and from the shore,
but the work of rescue was greatly im
peded by the strong tide that was run
ning. Even the naval launches, which
came as fast as they could be driven,
were unable togo alongside. Among
the Arabs there was a panic that could
not be controlled. Many of them were
too terrified to jump and they were
burned to death. Others cast them
selves into the waves and were
drowned.
The crew behaved with admirable
courage, serving out life preservers to
the last, and working the pumps.
When the pumps became useless, Capt.
Charles Littler, commander of the Sar
dinia, took the helm and directed his
ship towards the shore so long as it
could be navigated. He perished.
ITALIAN CAR WAS VICTORIOUS
Driven by an American, It Won the
International Light Car Race.
Savannah, Ga. —An Italian car with
an American driver, William H.
Hillianl of Boston, on Wednesday
won the first international light car
race ever held in this country. The
record set was 52.56 miles an hour for
the 196 miles. Robert Burman, driv
ing a Buick car, finished second, more
than six minutes behind the winner.
The 15 cars starting in the race—l 2
of American, two of Italian and one of
French manufacture—were sent away
at half minute intervals and kept fn
clusters throughout. At times there
were as high as four of the little
racers in the home stretch in view of
the stands. The race was run under
sapphire skies and in the warmth of
a summer sun. A crowd of many
thousands filled the two big grand
stands at the finish line and other
thousands lined the course. But the
crowd remained at a respectful dist
ance, for 600 militiamen under martial
law were thrown about the racing
circuit and they kept the pathway of
the cars absolutely free.
The only serious wreck came at the
very close. Easter had been in trou
ble early in the race and was driving
along pell-mell on his fourteenth lap
when he lost the road and went
crashing into a ditch. The mechani
cian, Frank Thompson, was hurled
from the car and slightly injured.
TROOPSGUARDING FACTORIES
Six Strikers Are Shot Down by
Deputies.
Perth Amboy, N. J.—Four com
panies of troops of the state mil
itia took possession of Keasbey last
night and every precaution has been
taken to prevent a repetition of the
rioting that occurred in that little man
ufacturing town Wednesday when six
strikers were shot down by deputy
sheriffs at the plant of the National
Fire Proofing Co. All of the saloons
have been closed and the streets are
practically deserted except for the
presence of the soldiers. Guards have
been placed at all of the factories and
the soldiers who are not on duty have
been quartered in the factories.
Perth Amboy, N. J. —The troops
guarding the works of the Na
tional Fireprooflng Co. at Keasbey,
where six men were shot down Wed
nesday, opened fire on a party of
strikers Thursday night and several
men were wounded. The strikers
made an unexpected attack on the
factory while most of the troops were
sleeping inside. The strikers carried
no fireams so far as is known, but
sticks and stones were hurled. The
soldiers on guard in the enclosure sur
rounding the building saw men climb
ing over the fences and immediately
opened fire.
Two Harvard Professors Die.
Cambridge, Mans.—Prof. John 11.
Wright, professor of Greek at Har
vard nnd dean of the graduate
school, died Wednesday of heart trou
ble. He was born in Urumlah, Per
sia, February 4, 1852, the son of Be v.
Austin H. Wright, a missionary. lie
was assistant professor of ancient
languages at tho Ohio Agricultural
nnd Mechanical college front 1873 to
I *76. Prof. George A Bartiett, for
n : ny years connected with tlx- Ger
man department of Harvard college,
Jicd ut his home here Wednesday.
FATAL CRASH
INJENSE FOG
; VESSEL RAMMED OFF SANDY
HOOK AND SINKS, THREE
PERSONS PERISHING.
SHE CARRIED 85 PASSENGERS
Thick Weather Responsible for the
Collision—Ship Floated but Ten
Minutes After the
Accident.
New York City.—ln the thick of
| a fog off Sandy Hook yesterday the
! stout steel freighter Georgic of the
White Star line rammed and sank the
i lightly laden Panama line steamer
j Finance, outward bound with 85 pas
sengers. The Finance went down
within ten minutes after the collision,
carrying to their death three of her
pessengers and one of the crew. The
rest of the passengers, who included
19 women and 14 children, as well as
others of the crew, were rescued by
the boats of the Georgic. The
freighter was not damaged.
Of the passengers lost one was a
woman, Miss Irene Campbell of Pan
ama, who clung frantically to the rail
of the sinking vessel and could not be
persuaded to release her hold, nor
were the men who manned the small
boats able to forcibly remove her.
She was seen clinging determinedly as
the vessel was engulfed. William H.
Todd, third assistant engineer,
jumped overboard and was lost. When
a roll of the passengers of the Finance
j was called it was found that Charles
j H. Schweinler, a policeman of Panama,
| and Henry Muller, a railroad conduc
| tor of Panama, had disappeared.
The disaster occurred in the main
; ship channel off Sandy Hook as both
; vessels were groping their way
I through a fog that has held up mari
| time commerce in local waters for the
j past three days. The Finance was
j picking her way down the Swash chan
| nel when the whistle of an approach
j ing liner was heard. The Finance was
l immediately ordered astern and was
slowly backing when the Georgic, in
bound from Liverpool, loomed out of
| the fog and a moment later crashed
| into her.
LAMPHERE GUILTY OF ARSON
Sentenced to from Two to 21 Years In
Pen—Will Appeal.
Laporte, Ind. —Ray Lamphere, who
i was charged with arson and the
j murder of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her
j three children by setting fire to the
; Gunness house on April 28, was last
; evening found guilty of arson by the
I jury which had had the case under
| consideration for 24 hours. Within
i five minutes after the verdict was re
ported, Judge Rlchter sentenced the
defendant to the state penitentiary at
I Michigan City for an indeterminate
| term of from two to 21 years. He will
be taken to Michigan City to-day to
begin his sentence.
Attorney Worden for the defense
i said that a motion for a new trial
would be made and should it be re
fused, an appeal to the Indiana su
| preme court would follow. He de-
I clared the verdict ridiculous. "If he
j was guilty at all," said the attorney,
j "he was guilty of murder."
Lamphere said that he was confi
dent the dead body in the fire was
j that of Mrs. Gunness, although his
| counsel had tried to prove otherwise.
; He reiterated his innocence of setting
; fire to the house, though admitting
i that he was on tho road and saw the
fire that night.
Murder Case Stirs Paris.
Paris, France.—The arrest of Mad
ame Steinlieil Thursday following
, her confession that for months since
the murder of her painter husband
and Madame Japy, who were found
strangled in the home of the artist on
the morning of May 31, her attempt to
find the assassins and the innumer
able fantastic clues furnished the
police and the newspapers were pnly
a desperate farce to conceal the real
author of the crime, whom she knew,
affords Paris the biggest sensation it
has had for years. The excitement
produced from time to time by the
Humbert, Dreyfus and Syveton affairs
pales into insignificance by compari
son, and the revelations which
crowded thick and fast during the
day, pointing to the possible exposure
of a national scandal, promise to at
tract world-wide attention.
Wagner Won the 402-Mile Auto Race.
Savannah, Ga. —Tho power of six
score horses, crashing and roaring
in the cylinders of the Italian Fiat car,
sent plunging through changing fog
and sunshine over 402 miles of oiled
roadways by the experienced hands of
Louis Wagner, on Thursday won the
most spectacular, the longest and the
fastest international automobile race
ever held in this country.
Rear Admiral Russell Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa. Hear Admiral
Alexander Wilson Russell of the
United States navy, retired, died at. i
his home here Thursday, aged 84
years. I >«-atli was due to heart failure.
Ho first served in the navy on the
sloop of war Saratoga.
Society Woman Accidentally Shot.
Sherman, Tex.— Miss Ixxiise Gates,
prominent in society in this city, wa.->
accidentally shot to death Thursday
with a tai et rifle in the hands of n
t'lrl companion,
R. 6. DUil & CO.'S BULLETIN
PROGRESS MADE TOWARD NOR
MAL COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY.
Collections a Little Better—Money Is
in Stronger Demand for Com
mercial Purposes.
New York City.—R. O. Dun & Co.'j
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Although the holiday and unseason
able weather handicapped busbies:
this week, further substantial progrc
was made toward normal commercial
activity, especially in respect to th»-
number of orders for spring and later
delivery next year. In retail trail.'
there is a good deal of irregularity,
though the advent of rains and snows,
followed by colder weather, helped to
improve conditions as the week ad
vanced. Southern trade, however, was
rather dull throughout, due to warm
weather and the low price of cotton
and even in parts of the west, as well
as tho entire eastern half of the coun
try, retail buying might be better. In
some lines of trade, especially iron and
steel, there is a disposition to regard
tariff discussion as a bar to fullest ac
tivities. Collections are better, except
at the south, and money is in better
demand for business purposes.
Higher prices for leather, a turn in
the tide of shoe shipments, predictions
of freer buying of railway materials of
iron and steel and higher prices with
smaller sales of raw wool are leading
events of (he week. Business failures
in the United States for the week end
ing November 26 number 193 against
258 in the like week of 1907.
UNCLE SAM AND JAPS AGREE
To Pact Covering the Policy of the
Two Countries in the Pacific—
The Open Door for China.
Washington, D. C. —Despite oflieial
reticence, information from reliable
sources has been obtained of an
agreement of far-reaching importance
between the United States and Japan
covering the policy of the two coun
tries In the Pacific.
The agreement is based upon the
idea of encouraging and defending free
and peaceful commercial development
in the Pacific. It. contains only, a
mutual guarantee to respect each
others' territorial possessions there,
but defines the attitude of the two
countries towards China, binding each
to defend by every peaceful means
China's independence and integrity,
and to give equal commercial oppor
tunity in the Chinese empire to all na
tions. But more important still, the
agreement, in the event of complica
tions threatening the status quo, binds
tho United States and Japan to consult
each other with a view to acting to
gether.
The agreement has been drawn up in
the form of a declaration and consists
of five articles. There is a mutual dis
claimer of any aggressive designs, and
also a definition of the policy of each
government both as directed to the
maintenance of the existing status quo
in the Pacific, and the defense of the
principle of equal opportunity for com
merce and industry in China.
100 LOST IN VESSEL'S WRECK
Steamer in Philippines Carrying Na
tive Laborers Reported Sunk.
Manila, P. I. —A coasting steamer
carrying laborers from Narvacan to the
rice fields in Pangasinan province
struck a rock and sank during a storin
off the town of San Ferdinando. One
hundred of the passengers and crew
of the steamer were drowned. The
steamer Vizcaya rescued 55.
A patrol of constabulary which was
established immediately after the ac
cident picked up 15 bodies and many
were coming ashore. It is not known
whether any Americans or Europeans
were aboard the wrecked steamer.
High Financiers Sentenced.
Chicago, 111.—William and Chaun
cey L. Graham, officials of the
American Steel Rail Co., were sen
tenced Friday by Judge Chetlain in the
superior court to one to 20 years in the
penitentiary on charges of conspiracy.
The arrest and conviction of Tilden
and Graham was a sequel to the fail
ure of the Milwaukee Avenue State
bank a few years ago, the two men be
ing found guilty of having promoted
the Steel Ball Co. by means of ficti
tious notes of the bank amounting to
nearly $175,000.
Tuberculosis Exhibition.
New York City.—As the basis for
what it is declared will be the greatest
campaign against disease ever waged
in a city, the international tuberculosis
exhibition, at which the work of 15
foreign governments in controlling and
stamping out the "great white plague"
is to be shown, will be opened at the
American Museum of Natural History
in this city November 30. Three en
tire floors of the museum are devoted
to the demonstration of methods and
results in dealing with the disease.
Lad Suicides.
Columbus, O.—William B:iriihou.se,
the 18-year-old son of Mrs. Lil
lian Barnhouse, was found dying
Friday in John Lane's yard. He died
soon after. Death was the result of a
dose of carbolic acid, apparently taken
with suicidal intent.
Hitchcock to Be Postmaster General,
Hot Springs, Va. —Frank 11. Mitch
cock has been offered and lias
accepted the position of |KH>i iiiCMier
general In the Taft cabinet that i