2 CAMiiRON COUNTY PRESS, i M. H. MULLIN. Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. »er year. W <*} Vpaldln advance ' «"» ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of «D« dollar per square for one Insertion and llfty n«nls per square for each subsequent Insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on Application. Legal and Offlcial Advertising per square, three times or less, 42; each subsequent inser tion fO cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one Inser •ertlon; 6 cents per line for each subsequent •on«eoutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will lie inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. »5 per year, over Ave 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 Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear figes are paid, except at the optlou of tho pub- Isher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for In advance. The Good-Will Habit. A habit of holding a kindly attitude of mind toward everybody has a pow erful influence upon the character. It lifts the mind above petty jealousies and meannesses; it encircles and en larges the whole life. When we meet people, no matter if they are stran gers, we feel a certain kinship with and friendliness for them, if we have formed the good-will habit. In other words, says the New York Weekly, the kindly habit, the goodwill habit, makes us feel more sympathy for everybody. And if we radiate this helpful, friendly feeling, others will reflect it back to us. On the other hand, if we go through life with a cold, selfish mental attitude, caring only for our own, always looking for the main chance, only thinking of what will fur ther our own interest, our own com-, fort, totally indifferent to others, this attitude will, after a while, harden the feelings and the affections, and we shall become dry, pessimistic and un interesting. One of the teachers in the Vevay schools the other day asked her class the origin of the word stateroom, as applied to berths on steamboats. Not /me in the class could answer the question, and we doubt if there are many people who could. The word, says Vevay (Ind.) Reveille, originated with the newspapers many years ago. At that time a magnificent steamer was built and 35 sleeping rooms were made alongside the cabin. At that time there were 35 states in the union, and a room was named for each state. Later the state of Texas was added to the union, and the sleeping apartments set aside for the officers of the boat was dubbed "Texas." The wisdom of sending the fleet into the Pacific and to the far east has been triumphantly demonstrated from every point of view, declares the New- York Herald. It has enormously in creased American prestige, given as surance of peace and promoted friend ly relations, which will have the emi nently practical result of stimulating and expanding American commercial interests. If the Highland Park housewife who bought two gallons of water for floor polish will just drop In a couple of bars of soap and let it stand over night, says the Detroit News, she will have something that, with elbow grease ad lib., will just make her floors shine. P. S.—Slice the bars of soap. The dowager queen Margherita will give a piece of lace and an old veil to Miss Elkins for wedding presents. People who feared the dowager's pres ent might be a lemon are, therefore, resting easy again. It is painful to learn from a distin guished English source that the game of football as played in America is "antiquated." But we shall cling to the belief that our college yells, at least, are comparatively modern. The wear and tear on the world's metal currency is two tons of gold and a hundred tons of silver. We can pro duce a man ready to stand the wear and tear. The tattooed blush on the cheek of beauty must be highly inconvenient when the circumstances require lhat the wearer should suddenly turn pale. There is one mill that is not being •putin operation owing to ttie return of prosperity. We refer to the South Dakota divorce mill. It takes all kinds of people to make a world, including those who actually buy those green hats you see in the shop windows. A New York man is being examined as to his sanity because he made ex pensive gifts to his wife. Let us take warning. Let the jungle cheer up. Mr. Roose velt :-ays he doen not intend to kill more than two elephants. The trouble with many a man's in tegrity is that it needs constant vindi cation. PEACE WITH JAPAN ACHIEVEMENT OF SECRETARY ROOT A WORTHY ONE. Americo-Japanese Compact, Brought Into Being by Republican Ad ministration, Is of Immense Moment to the World. The United States and Japan have set down in black and white their mu tual sentiments concerning the points ! upon which their interests touch. Thus briefly, save in one important particular, may be summarized the meaning of the identical notes which Secretary Root and Ambassador Taka hira exchanged in the state depart ment, at Washington. The two govern ments wish to encourag'i the free and peaceful development of their Pacific commerce; they desire the mainte nance of the status quo upon these wa ters; they have no plans for aggres sion upon each other's territory; they seek equal trade opportunities in China, and they will use all peaceful means to assure the integrity and in dependence of that empire. These are simple formulations of friendship. The sole clause which is more than this is the mutual pledge of the two powers to communicate with each other with the purpose of reach ing an understanding, should any event arise to distrub the principles above set forth. In this "interchange of notes" there is no technical treaty between this country and Japan. Yet its moral and political effect will almost certainly be far greater than that of an intricate, devious and ponderous agreement worked out after the fashions of the ancient diplomacy. For this is the new diplomacy at work —in its "shirt sleeves," if you will —upon the broad est problems of progress, seeking its goal direct and scorning the mental and verbal mazes of mediaeval state craft. In ils largest sense the thing which Elihu Root lias given us is an Americo- Japanese peace compact. It brings to a fitting close not only his own career as secretary of state, but also the of ficial record of Theodore Roosevelt, pacificator. It follows up the work of the treaty of Portsmouth and it adds another link to the chain of peace agreements which is quietly encircling the earth. It justifies the altitude of our people toward Japan in the war with Russia and it knocks the ground from beneath the feet of jingo alarm ists of the Hobson type. These are results, clear, tangible and permanent. The people instinct ively approve of theui and they want more like them. It will be an unwary statesman who tries to overthrow the work of Root and Roosevelt this win ter upon the technical plea that the sacred privilege of tho senate has been invaded. The Postal Savings Bank. A bill embodying Postmaster Gen eral Meyer's recommendation for pos tal savings banks is on the senate calendar for consideration soon after the opening of the short session. The bill came from the senate post office committee at the last session by a unanimous vote, and a majority of the senators are openly in favor of the bill. Whatever opposition there might have been in the house will be greatly diminished by reason of the pledge of the Chicago convention in favor of the plan and because of ad vocacy of the plan throughout the west as a preferable alternative to the scheme for the government guar antee of deposits in national banks. Misapprehension of the postal bank as a competitor of national banks or of existing savings banks has been cleared away, and the advantage of the plan as an extension of existing agencies for the encouragement of saving are generally recognized. Congress and the Tariff. The Republicans should allow their opponents to monopolize the racket about the tariff. At this time it is legitimate game for them. Naturally they are anxious to throw things into confusion, in the hope of reaping fu ture benefit. It seems altogether like ly that the fight for the Sixty-second house will turn on the tariff, with the coming revision as the basis of action. The Republicans must stand on the record in respect to the good faith and thoroughness of their revision, and the Democrats, no matter what that record may be, will challenge it. They can not afford to be satisfied with it, and will not be. What they desire is a tar iff for revenue only. What the Re publicans are instructed to give the country is a new law, eliminating or reducing duties wfiich time and manu facturing developments have wholly or in part rendered unnecessary and con sequently burdensome and injurious, but still recognizing the principles of protection. The two parties are head ing in different directions. Tariff Hearings. Chairman Payne's reply to Mr. Van- Cleave is clear and sufficient. The program of the ways and means com mittee as to bearings was widely ad vertised. Everybody was invited. Come one, come ail. Producer and consumer were respectfully requested to step up and state their case. Some have complied. There is yet time for those who have not complied. The hearings are not closing. The new committee of the new house may seel; information in the same way. it is that committee which will draw the bill, and the new members of it may want to do a little investigating on their own account. The battle has not begun. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 24, 1908. IN FAVOR OF COMMISSION. Plan of Business Men to Secure Genu ine Tariff Revision. It is reported fr6m Washington that the ways and means committee of the house intends to ask congress for au thority to subpoena witnesses and Job tain testimony by compulsion. Among the woes of the "converted" standpat ter:. who are complaining of distrust and premature criticism is the indis position of leading manufacturers to appear before them. Experts like Messrs. Van Cleave, Miles and Car negie have declined for various lea sons to give testimony to the commit tee, and pretty plain intimations have been made that the methods pursued by it, as well as the time allotted to important schedules, do not admit of satisfactory and trustworthy results. Instead of resorting to subpoena threats, however, the converted stand patters might with advantage ponder the significance of the resolution just adopted by the directorate of the Chi cago Association of Commerce. Here is an influential and powerful body of business men proposing to congress "the creation of a nonpartisan tariff commission to which shall be intrust ed investigation and recommendations introductory to tariff revision." The manufacturers and merchants of the middle west evidently share the skep ticism of their fellow business men of New York and other industrial centers as to the sort of revision likely to re sult from the present hearings and the existing machinery, says the Chicago Record-Herald. The directors of the Chicago Asso ciation of Commerce have wisely asked the other commercial organizations of the country, or such as have not yet expressed themselves, to adopt resolu tions similar to theirs. Let the com mittee and the converted standpatters in congress understand the position of the business community. If they are really "converted" they will favor non political, nonpartisan and scientific in vestigation as the condition of "genu ine" revision. A fit and nonpolitical body would not need to drag witnesses to its hearings or to appeal to any legal "big stick." Men of ideas and knowledge would be only too glad to appear before it and submit their data and their recommendations. Taft's Problem. President-elect Taft is already face to face with the same perplexing dif ficulties that have harassed the pres ent national administration. The par ty opponents of that administration have been the first to try to "take Taft into camp." They want no tariff tinkering, no currency legislation, no postal savings banks, no labor legislation—in fact pretty nearly every one of the planks of the party platform they would like to have thrown onto the wood pile of political reminiscences. Judge Taft is essentially a man of peace. He deprecates war. He will fiu;ht only when honor is at stake. He wants no conflict with his party breth ren. But if these men ask him to repudi ate his solemn pledges and the prom ises of his party, we imagine his pon derous fist will come down with sig nificant emphasis and there will come forth something that will sound very much like an explosion.. Judge Taft despises sham, and hypocrisy, and dishonesty. He is kind, generous, self-sacrificing, but he must not be expected to stultify himself. He must not be asked to violate his sacred word. He will not do it—he will be true to the people who have placed him at the head of the nation. Campaign Publicity. Mr. Bryan thought he was scoring heavily when he ordered his party to report its receipts before election day. But he was mistaken. To the extent that he had imagined, the country had not accepted the statement that the presidency had three times running been bought, and w»s in danger ol being sold a fourth. Now as to tho two reports. The Re publican national committee received about $1,600,000, the Democratic com mittee about $600,000. But those f*«? ures do not represent all the money that was spent in the campaign. Some of the state elections, and especially where the saloons were active, must have been expensive; and money spent on state tickets did its share in promoting the fortunes of the kindred national ticket. Still, when everything has been taken into account, it is plain that cor ruption did not stalk abroad in this latest campaign, and the conclusion seems safe that it did not stalk abroad in the campaigns of 1896, 1900 and 1904. Publicity is all right, and serves a good purpose, but, alone, it will not eliminate money as an improper agency in our elections. The problem remains unsolved. Better Wait for New Congress. Since Mr. Taft has announced his determination to have real tariff re vision there have been a number ol ' hurry calls" from the highly protect »d interests clamoring for revision by Cie present congress. The same in terests now pleading for haste have for years demanded and secured de lay. And why not? Would they not fare better with a hurried revision by a congress that has been friendly to them than with a more careful re vision by a congress elected on a pledge of honest tariff reform? But the country is now disposed to wait I for the new congress. The tariff ought to be revised by the friends o revision, not the enemies of revision J and there are more friends and fev/e | enemies in the congress-elect than i' i the congress current.—Kansas Cil j Star. IDE FIGHT FOR SENATOR IS HOT CANDIDATES OPENING HEAD QUARTERS AT COLUMBUS AND CLANS GATHERING. BURTON IS ON THE GROUND Charles P. Taft Expected to Arrive Monday—ls Now in Washing ton—Foraker Looked for Saturday. Columbus, O. —Congressman T. E. Burton of Cleveland arrived here on Thursday to open his campaign for the United States senatorship to succeed Senator Foraker. He will stay here until the legislature meets, with the ex ception of spending a few days in Cleveland during the holidays. He said that there had been no break be tween himself and President-elect Taft and that he is in the race for the sena torship to stay. Notwithstanding assurances from Mr. Burton that there has been no dis agreement between Mr. Taft and Mr. Burton, that idea is not accepted by the followers of Charles P. Taft in Co lumbus, and they are more pleased than otherwise that this is the case. It is stated now, following the announce ment by William H. Taft that Mr. Burton is not to be in the cabinet, that the recent interview between the two was not of the most pleasant nature in the world. Friends of both men were intensely interested in it, and were anxious as to its outcome. Close friends of Taft feared that Mr. Burton would look on the offer of a cabinet position in the nature of a bribe to in duce him to leave the senatorial con test, and it was expected that the situation would be most embarrassing for both gentlemen. In the light of later developments the supposition is that this is just the way Mr. Burton did look at it, and probably that he said so, and that as a result the presi dent-elect resolved to remove tempta tion from the path of tho Cuyahoga congressman by withdrawing the offer of a cabinet position. Charles P. Taft will arrive Monday morning to open headquarters. He has gone to Washington and will remain there for a day or so, delaying his ar rival at Columbus. THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Proceedings in the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington.—The president's Pan ama canal message was read in tho senate on the 15th. The postal sav ings bank bill was discussed. In the house some bills were passed relating to the District of Columbia. The bill to revise the penal laws of the United States was considered. Washington.—The senate devoted considerable time on the 16th to a discussion of the president's course in placing strictures on congress in the matter of secret service. The house spent most of its time in considera tion of the bill to revise the penal laws of the United States. Washington.—ln the senate on the 17th the postal savings bank was dis cussed. A message from the presi dent relating to the government of the District of Columbia was read. The house passed a resolution asking the president for evidence in the se cret service matter. TURKISH PARLIAMENT OPENED Elaborate Ceremonies, Gorgeous Cos tumes and Varied Races Mark the Event. Constantinople, Turkey. A new constitutional Turkish government was inaugurated Thursday with cere monies attending the opening of the new parliament which was elected un der the constitution promulgated by the sultan last July. Two hundred deputies and senators, together with the chiefs of various religious com munities, a large number of other state dignitaries and ministers and the heads of the diplomatic missions, were present. The sultan opened parliament in person with elaborate ceremony, fashioned after the customs of older similar assemblies. The scene was perhaps one of tho most remarkable in the political history of the world. All the creeds and races of the Turkish empire sent their duly elected repre sentatives. Rockefeller Charges Libel. New York City.—On a charge of •criminal libel made by John D. Rocke feller, jr., S. S. Carvalho, president of the Star Co., publishers of William R. Hearst's New York American, was ar rested Thursday and arraigned in po lice court before Magistrate Finn. Car valho was paroled in the custody of his lawyer until December 20 for ex amination. Letters to Santa Claus. Washington, D. C. —Postmaster Gen eral Meyer announced on Thursday that he would not renew his order is sued in December, 1907, permitting de livery to charitable organizations of letters addressed to "Santa Claus." Boston Councilman Surrenders. Boston, Mass. —Leo F McCullough, president of the common council of Boston, has surrendered himself to the police. He is charged with perjury and conspiracy to defraud the city out r,f S9