2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. 11. MULLIN. Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year 82 00 paid la advance I !>0 ADVERTISING RATES: AdTeMlßfnents are published at tli- rate of pne dollar per square for one Insertion and fifty pants per square for each subsequent Insertion Rates by the year, or for six or threo months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legnl and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, 42: each subsequent inser tion JO cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line fur one inser aertion; 5 cents per line for each subsequent aoniecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over fly* lines. 10 cents tier line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. llaslness cards, five lines or less. 15 per year, over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS iseomplot* and affords facilities for doing tho best class of work. PARTICUI.AU ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear agea are paid, except at the optiou of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid for in advance. To Teach Obedience. Nearly every boy who enters busi ness life without the advantages of a good education regards the position of office hoy as the most natural, if not the only dcor; and in the main this is true. There must always be office boys, no matter how many new busi ness appliances are invented; but the supply, although equal to the demand in duantity, is unsatisfactory in qnali ty. In the hope of improving this con dition somewhat, the Children's Aid society of New York has undertaken a school for office boys. The pupils will be taught many Ihings, but above ail, obedience. "The first thing we shall instil into a boy," says the head of the school, "is the understanding that he must do exactly as he is told." An office boy with the idea of obedience firmly fixed is already pretty well equipped for his duties, says the Youth's Companion. In a western city a boy lately entered the office of. a business house from a good home. One day his employer told him to do a cer tain thing, and having found it undone later in the day, asked the boy why ho bad neglected it. "Oh, I didn't feel like it,"was the answer, made naturally and without any thought of being im pudent. But the employer promptly knocked the boy down. The interest ing sequel to the story is that when the boy went home, it was not to com plain of the employer, but to upbraid his parents for never having taught him to obey. His complaint was not unjust. To whom should a boy look for the great lesson of obedience, if not to his parents? A generation ago he might have got some knowledge of the value of discipline from the schools, but. the abolition of corporal punishment and the changed public at titude toward punishment of any kind have robbed the schools of most of the disciplinary value they once had. Only the other day the old teacher died who was credited by the late Roscoe Conk ling with having made him a United States senator by a thrashing he once gave him in school. The responsibility of parents in inculcating obedience is greater now than ever before. Not even a school for office boys can do all the work. Frederick Peterson, nerve specialist, in Collier's, opines that the extent to which the influence of mind on bodily health may go is as yet little known, even among the medical fraternity. He tells af a Vienna physician who told a young woman patient that he would place a small plaster on her back which would produce a blister in a few hours. He actually put on only a postage stamp and the blister appeared, as suggested. This recalls the trick played by Dr. Morton Prince on a lady who always had a violent at tack of hay fever whenever a rose was brought into the room. One day he brought in an artificial rose, and the usual symptoms followed, lie then showed her it was made of paper and had no pollen, and ever after all symp toms of hay fever disappeared. A favorite method of arousing one's country to progress is to show how much better they do things in other countries, it is a good method and ap plicable universally, for no nation is best at everything. Last month a sci entific congress in France, in order to interest the government and the peo ple in refrigeration, pointed out how much better cold storage is under stood in America. Meanwhile the states of Illinois and Wisconsin and other regions rich in stock farms were bearing from experts how backward we are in measures to insure well bred horses, as compared with what the French government lias done for the Percheron. Cooking schools are an old story, and special courses in domestic science have been in operation for some years in more than one city. Probably the first institution, already established for general culture, to undertake household economics for women i.- King's college, London. The university housewife will receive her degree foi three years' work in all that a mis "si ol' a home needs to know, from rntory practice in scrubbing to tl• •of home decoration and the landlord and tenant. HEAR MESSAGE DFPRESIDENI DOCUMENT FROM CHIEF EXECU TIVE READ IN CONGRESS. URGES CHANGES IN LAWS Present Currency f System Declared Imperfect—Control of Corporations the Province of the National Gov ernment—Conduct of Labor Lead ers Criticised—For Postal Savings Banks. Washington.— In his message to congress, read in both houses Tues day, President Roosevelt makes im portant suggestions as to what he considers necessary legislation. The president congratulates the na tion on its present excellent financial standing, but calls attention to the need of remedying defects in the cur rency system. He says: The financial standing of the nation at the present time is excellent, and the financial management of the na tion's Interests by the government dur ing the last seven years lias shown the most salisfaetory results. But our cur rency syslern is imperfect, and it is ear nestly to be hoped that the currency commission will be able to propose a thoroughly good system which will do away witli the existing defects. During the period from July 1, 1901, to September 30, 1908, there was an Increase in the amount of money in circulation of J902.591.399. The increase In the per capita during this period was $7.06. Within this time there were several occasions when It was necessary for the treasury de partment to eome to the relief of the money market by purchases or redemp tions of United States bonds; by increas ing deposits in national banks; by stim ulating additional issues of national bank notes, and by facilitating Importations from abroad of gold. Our Imperfect cur rency system has made these proceedings necessary, and they were effective until the monetary disturbance in the fall of 1907 Immensely increased the difficulty of ordinary methods of relief. By the mid dle of November the available working balance in the treasury had been reduced to approximately $5,000,000. Clearing house associations throughout the coun try had been obliged to resort to the expedient of Issuing clearing house cer tificates, to bo used as money. In this emergency it was determined to invite subscriptions for $50,n00,000 Panama canal bonds, and $100,000,000 throe per cent, certificates of indebtedness authorized by the act of June 13, 1898. It was proposed to redeposit in the national banks the proceeds of these Issues, and to permit their use as a basis for additional circu lating notes of national banks. The moral effect of this procedure was so great that it was necessary to issue only $24,631,9X0 of the Panama bonds and $15,- 43ti,500 of the certificates of Indebtedness. During tho period from July 1, 1901, to September 30, 190S, the balance between the net ordinary receipts and the net ordinary expenses of the government showed a surplus in the four vears 1902, 1903. 1906, and 1907. and a deficit in the years 19li known views of the president that the control of great corporations, espe cially the railroads of the country, should be vested in the national gov ernment. lie says: I believe that it is worse than folly to attempt to prohibit all combinations as is done by the Sherman anti trust law, because such a law can be enforced only imperfectly and un equally, and its enforcement works al most as much hardship as good. I strongly advocate that Instead of an un wise effort to prohibit all combinations, there shall be substituted a law which shall expressly permit combinations which are in the interest of the public, but shall at the same time give to some agency in the national government full power of control and supervision over them. The railways of the country should be put completely under the interstate com merce eomrn'.ssion and removed from the domain of the anti-trust law. The power of the commission should be made thoroughgoing, so that it could exercise complete supervision and control over the issue of securities as well as over the raising anil lowering of rates. As regards rates, at least, this power should be summary. . . . Kates must be made us low as is compatible with giving prop er returns to all the employes of the rail road, from the highest to the lowest, and proper returns to the shareholders, but they must not, for instance, be re duced in such fashion as to necessitate a cut in the wages of the employes or the abolillon of the proper and legitimate profits of honest shareholders. Interests of the Wageworker. Turning to conditions affecting the wageworker and the man of small means, tho president says: Postal Savings banks will make It easy for the poorest to keep their sav ings in absolute safety. The regulation of the national highways must be such that they shall serve all people with equal justice. Corporate finances must lie supervised so as to make It far safer than at present for the man of small means to invest his money in stocks. There must he prohibition of child la bor. ...minutlon of women labor, short ening of hours of all mechanical labor; stock watering should be prohibited, and stock gambling so far as Is possi ble discouraged. There should be a progressive inheritance tax on large fortunes. Industrial education should he encouraged. As far as possible we should lighten the burden of taxation on the small man. There should no longer be any paltering with th • question of taking care of the wageworkeru who, under our prcs , « * CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 17 1908. ent industrial system, become killed, crippled, or worn out as part of the regular Incidents of a given busi ness. As far as concerns those who have been worn out. I call your attention to the fact that definite steps toward providing old-age pen sions have been taken in many of our private Industries. These may be In definitely extended through voluntary association and contributory schemes, or through tho agency of savings banks, as under the Massachusetts plan. Urgent Need of Reform. Our present system, or rather no sy«. tem, works dreadful wrong, and Is of benefit to only one class of people—-the lawyers. When a workman is Injured what he needs is not an expensive and doubtful lawsuit, but the certainty of relief through immediate administra tive action. No academic theory about "freedom of contract" or "consti tutional liberty to contract" should be permitted to interfere with this and similar movements. I renew my recommendation that tho principle of the eiglit-hour day should as rapidly and as far as practi cable be extended to the entire work being carried on by the government; the present law should be amended to embrace contracts on those public works which the present wording of the act seems to exclude. Judges Too Poorly Paid. Coupled with a eulogy of the Ju diciary of (lie nation the president urges that, beginning with the su preme court, the judges should have their salaries doubled. As was to be expected, the attitude assumed by certain labor leaders dur ing the recent election comes in for bitter criticism. The president as serts that demands made on congress for legislation were unjust and im practical and could but work harm to the cause of labor. While declaring that our judicial system is sound and effective at core, the president says: There are certain decisions by various courts which have been exceedingly det rimental to the rights of wage-workers. This Is true of all decisions that decide that men are, by the constitution, "guar anteed their liberty" to contract to enter a dangerous occupation, or to work an undesirable or improper number of hours, or to work In unhealthy surroundings; and therefore cannot recover damages when maimed in that occupation, and cannot be forbidden to work what the legislature decides is an excessive num ber of hours, or to carry on the work under conditions which the legislature decides to be unhealthy. There Is also, I think, ground for the belief that substantial Injustice Is often suffered by employes in consequence of the custom of courts Issuing temporary injunctions without notice to litem, anil punishing them for contempt of court in instances where, as a matter of fact, they have no knowledge of any proceed ings. Organized labor is chafing under the unjust restraint which comes from repeated resort to this plan of procedure. Injunction Must Remain. The power of injunction is a great equitable remedy, which should on no account be destroyed. But safeguards should he erected against its abuse. In substance, provision should he made that no injunction or temporary re straining order iesue otherwise than on notice, except where irreparable injury would otherwise result; and in such ease a hearing on the merits of the order should be had within a short fixed pe riod, and. if not then continued after hearing, it should forthwith lapse. De cisions should be rendered Immediately, and the chance of delay minimized in every way. Moreover, I believe that the procedure should be sharply defined, and the judge required minutely to state the particulars both of his action and#of his reasons therefor, so that the congress can if it desires examine and investigate the same. Harm Worked by Law. Discussing measures necessary for the proper control of giant corpora tions operating in defiance of law, the president says: Real damage has been done by the manifold and conflicting interpretations oi the interstate commerce law. Con trol over the (?reat corporations doing interstate business can be effective only if it is vested with fuil power in an administrative department, a branch of the federal executive, carrying out a federal law; It can never be effective if a divided responsibility is left in both the states and the nation; it can never be effective if left in the hands of the courts to be decided by lawsuits. The courts hold a place of peculiar and deserved sanctity under our form of gov ernment. Respect for the law is essen tial to the permanence of our Institu tions: and respect for the law is largely conditioned upon respect for the courts. It is an offense against the republic to say anything which can weaken this re spect. save for the gravest reason and in tiie most carefully guarded manner. In no other nation in the world do the courts wield such vast and far-reaching power as in the United Stales. All that is nec essary is that the courts as a whole should exercise this power with the far sighted wisdom already shown by those Judges who scan the future while they act in the present. Forest Preservation. The manifest necessity for forest preservation is pointed out as a duty the present generation owes to its de scendants, and the president cites the case of China, where reckless defor estation has resulted in creating des erts, as an object lesson. Inland Waterways. Immediate action by the present session of congress for the improve ment of our inland waterways the president declares to be imperative. He recommends the creation of a per manent commission authorized to co ordinate the work of all the govern ment departments relating to water ways, and to frame and supervise the execution of a comprehensive plan. Postal Savings Banks. Urging the immediate institution of postal savings banks, the message says: 1 again renew my recommendation for postal savings banks, for deposit ing savings with the security of the government behind them. The object is to encourage thrift and economy in the wage-earner and person of mod erate means. It is believed that in the aggregate vast sums of money would be brought into circulation through the in strumentality of the postal savings banks. Parcel Post. ■» The much-discussed advisability of the establishment of a parcel post service is thus dealt with: In my last annual message I com mended the postmaster-general's recommendation for an extension of 111<• parcel post on the rural routes. The establishment of a local parcel post on rural routes would be to the mutual benefit of tho farmer and the country storekeeper, and it is desirable that the routes, serving more than 15,000,uu0 people, should be utilized to the fullest practicable extent. Education. Dealing with the important subject of education, the president says: With the limited i.leans hitherto pro vided. the bureau of education has rendered efficient service, but the con gress has neglected to adequately sup ply the bureau with means to meet tho educational growth of the country. I earnestly recommend that this un fortunate state of affairs as regards the national educational office be reme died by adequate appropriations. This recommendation Is urged by the repre sentatives of our common schools and great state universities and the leading educators, who all unite in requesting favorable consideration and action by the congress upon this subject. The president points out the neces sity of better organization of the •*ari ous bureaus responsible for the public health, and urges the placing of all soldiers' homes under the jurisdiction of the war department. Statehood. On the question of statehood the president says: I advocate the immediate admission of New Mexico and Arizona as states. This should be done at the present session of the congress. The people of the two ter ritories have made it evident by their voles that they will not come In as one state. The only alternative is to admit them as two, and I trust that this will be done without delav. Interstate Fisheries. An international agreement con cerning interstate fisheries is at pres ent being attempted, and in this con nection the message continues: I call the attention of the congress to the importance of tho problem of tho fisheries in the interstate waters. On the Great I.akes we are now, under the very wise treaty of April 11 of this year, en deavoring to come to an International agreement for the preservation and sat isfactory use of the fisheries of these wa terr which can not otherwise be achieved, l.ake Erie, for example, has the richest fresh water fisheries in the world; but it is now controlled by the statutes of two nations, four states, and one province, and this province by two different ordi nances In different counties. All these political divisions work at cross pur poses, and in no case can they achieve protection to the fisheries, on the one hand, and justice to the localities and In dividuals on the other. Country's Foreign Policy. This nation's foreign policy is based on the theory that right must be done between nations precisely as between individuals, and in our actions for tho last ten years we have in this matter proven our faith by our deeds. Wo have behaved, and are behaving, to wards other nations, as in private life an honorable man would behave to wards his fellows. I take this opportunity publicly to state my appreciation of the way in which in Japan, In Australia, in New Zealand, and in all the states of South America, the battle fleet has been re ceived on its practice voyage around the world. The American government can not too strongly express Its appre ciation of the abounding and generous hospitality shown our ships In every port they visited. Our Southern Neighbors. Tire commercial and material prog ress of the 20 Latin-American republics is worthy of the careful attention of the congress. The International Bureau of the American Republics is doing a useful work in making these nations and their resources better known to us. and in acquainting them not only with us as a people and with our pur poses towards them, but with what we have to exchange for their goods. Panama Canal Being Rushed. The work on the Panama canal is be ing done with a speed, efficiency and entire devotion to duty, which make it a model for all work of the kitid. The men on the Isthmus, from Col. Goethala and his fellow commissioners through the entire list of employes who are faithfully doing their duty, have won their right to the ungrudging respect and gratitude of the American people. For Ocean Mail Lines. I again recommend the extension of the ocean mail act of 1891 so that satis factory American ocean mail lines to South America, Asia, the Philippines, and Australasia may be established. Should Develop Hawaii. T call particular attention to the Ter ritory of Hawaii. The importance of those islands is apparent, and the need of improving their condition and de veloping their resources is urgent. Progress in the Philippines. Real progress toward self-government is being made Jn the Philippine islands. I trust that within a generation the time will arrive when the Filipinos can decide for them selves whether It Is well for them to become independent, or to continue under the protection of a strong and disinterested power, able to guarantee to the islands order at home and protection from foreign invasion. Good Work Done in Cuba. In Cuba our occupancy will cease in about two months' time; the Cubans have in orderly manner elected their own governmental authorities, and the island will be turned over to them. Our occu pation on this occasion has lasted a lit tle over two years, and Cuba has thriv en and prospered under it. Our earnest hope and one desire is that the people of the island shall now govern them selves witli justice, so that peace and or der may lie secure. The National Guard. Urging continued efforts to In crease the efficiency of the National Guard the president continues: Now that the organized militia, tho National <3''ard. has been incorporated with the army as a part of the national forces, it behooves the government to do every reasonable thing in its power to perfect its efficiency. It should be assisted in its instruction and other wise uided more liberally than hereto fore. The continuous services of many well-trained regular officers will be essential in this connection. A bill is now pending before the congress creating a number of extra officers in the army, which if passed, as it odght to be, will enable more officers to be trained as Instructors of National Guard and assigned to that duty. In case of war it will be of tho utmost importance to have a large number of trained officers to use for turning raw levies into good troops. For More War Vessels. The navy is the last subject dealt with. In that connection the presi dent says: I approve the recommendations of the general board for the in crease of the navy, calling especial attention to the need of addi tional destroyers and colliers, and above all. of the four battleships. It is desir able to complete as soon as possible a squadron of eight battleships of the best existing type. 1 most earnestly recommend that the general hoard lie by law turned into a general staff. There is literally no ex cuse whatever for continuing the pres ent bureau organization of the navy. The navy should be treated as a purely mili tary organization, and everything should be subordinated to the one object of se curing military efficiency. 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