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The Job department of the PrtEssiscomilete and affords facilities for doing the best clu .s of work. P-UITICULAK ATTENTION PAIDTO I.AW Phistino. No paper will te discontinued until arrear »g's are paid, except at the optlou of tho pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance. There is comfort for the murderers of the king's English iu the latest con tribution to periodical literature by Mr. Lounsbury, emeritus professor of English ai Yale, excusing and i:i a measure justifying some of the so called vulgar mistakes iu orthography and grammar committed by unedu cated people. According to Prof. Lounsbury, there is, or was, the best of authority for saying pint for point, jist for joist, ile for oil and bile for boil. Our'n and your'n and his'n are upheld by ancient usage. The double negation is similiarly vindicated and there are a dozen instances of the use of learn in the sense of teach in Shakespeare. It is gratifying to note that the professor draws the line on "I done it." There are limits to what are euphoniously termed archaic forms of speech, it seems. Ellen Emerson, oldest daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and for years his close companion and assistant, died at the home of her sister Edith, wife of William M. Forbes, in Milton, Mass., on January 16, aged 70. Miss Emerson was active in the social and literary life of Concord at all times, and especially in the affairs of the Unitarian church. Besides her sister, a brother, Dr. Waldo Emerson of Con cord survives her. Frank Wentworth of Winsted, Conn., has doped it out that in 2,000,000 years the human race will have developed so far that, instead of walking on a pair of alternate pendulums, as now, men will have on their lower extremities wheels actuated by turbines driven by hot air. Here's a chance for some peo ple to get just 2,000,000 years ahead of the rest of us, merely by standing on their heads and talking rapidly. According to the Elektrotechnischer Anzeiger, a company in Berlin is fit ting a steamship which runs on the Oberhavel, with a system of electric propulsion. The equipment consists of a suction gas plant, consuming an thracite; a gas engine coupled to a direct-current generator; a battery of accumulators and electric motors on the propelling shafts. Siam has recently passed a law giv ing women the right to vote in'certain cases. , While this may seem an ex traordinary step for an Oriental peo ple, the Siamese women themselves explain that it is the teaching of Bud dhism. Corsets cause the biggest war cloud now on the horizon. American cerset makers have invaded Paris and the local artisans fly to the defense of what they treat as a vested right. Well, a war of the corsets would add a new feature to history. The latest news is that the Duke of Abruzzi is determined to marry the girl of his choice, either as a royal prince or as a private individual. That is the sort of lover whom all the world loves. An Indiana piano player played for 25 hours in a contest ;«d then fainted. Report fails to state how many of the neighbors were similarly ptat out of business. During the year I!M>7 the additions to the Russian railroad system amounted to 1,167 miles, an increase of three per cent., bringing up the to tal to 40,438 miles. The total deposits in American sav ings banks diminished by less than one per cent, during the last fiscal year. Mrs. L.1.. Gillogly of California has the distinction of being the first lay woman to take an active part in a Pan- Auglican Church congress. Mme. Curie, who helped her hus band to discover radium, has just been elected a corresponding ineinbe. of the St. Petersburg Academy *if Seiem With wireless telegraphy on the job henceforth there will not be so many mysteries of the sea. Dr. Wiley (peak's guanlediy, but, of course, his real opinion of benzoate of soda would not look well in print. UPHOLD REED'S RULE CONGRESSMEN RECOGNIZE RIGHT OF MAJORITY. Order of Congressional Procedure, as Laid Down by Great Repub lican, Will Be Retained by Lower House. Mr. Hepburn's valedictory was on the subject of tho rules. He spoke from personal experience of both the old rules and the new. Ile retire <1 after a long service, and in a mood which made him hope for a new order of procedure in the making of laws. In speaking of the Heed rules —the present rules—Mr. Hepburn described them as made for the mob. That is to say, they were made to rescue tho house from the power of the mob. The language is strong, but not too strong. Under the old rules the house could be, and often was, thrown into the ut most disorder by members so dis posed. A premium was put upon ob struction. At times all that the speaker possessed was the gavel in his hand, and that was only a weapon for pounding the d'Sk. The mob held the field. Mr. Reed, who was both a resolute and an astute man, saw his oppor tunity when he became speaker, and improved it. To be of the proper serv ice he must have some authority. He must be the speaker in fact as well as in name. As he thought, the majority, through the speaker, should be able to do business at all times.. The argu ment was sound, and the new house supported him in the position ho took. Those who witnessed the inaugura tion of the new policy must retain a lively recollection of the scenes. For weeks there was almost a daily col lision between the speaker and the minority leaders, and on several oc casions a riot looked likely. But time and public opinion came to the speak er's aid, and the new rules prevailed. Nineteen years have passed, and Mr. Hepburn holds that experience has shown the necessity for changes in the rules then adopted. The mob spirit, he thinks, has been permanent ly quelled. It is the general desire now that the house do business, and with that end in view he favors modi fications of the present procedure, al though he is withdrawing from the scene. The subject, for a year or more, has been gaining upon attention, and by next December it may come up for ac tion of some kind. But two things will probably mark whatever action is taken: (1) Provision will be mads against, the power of mere obstruc tion, and (2) the majority will shape the changes ordered. A return to the old mob methods is out of the ques tion, and equally undesirable would if be for the Republican!* to so divide as to lose exclusive control of the situa tion. With Mr. Cannon in the* chair again, and up-to-date rules in force, the busi ness of the new house should be trans acted swiftly, smoothly and satisfac torily. World Conservation. This, the western hemisphere, has an Immense array cf convincing object lessons furnished by the countries that sustained the ancient civilizations of Europe and Asia as to the righteous ness and wisdom of the conservation policy which Mr. Roosevelt has been so* insistently urging. Some of the mountainous areas in the older sec tions of the old world, once covered with forests of cedar, spruce and oak, are now bare of tree life and in conse quence are bare of soil. When these once thriving hill regions were en tirely shorn of forest growth the rains and the floods soon melted away the soil. Much may yet be accomplished in the way of conserving economy in the sections of the earth where mankind has for many centuries been drafting upon the stored-up resources, and the invitation which President. Roosevelt formally extended to foreign powers to participate with this country in a world conservation convention, to be held at The Hague, will undoubtedly meet with such a responsive accept ance as its importance deserves. The conference, which is set for next September, while not planned especially with the thought of promot ing world peace, will in its practical effects work to tha conservation of peace and good will among the na tions. It is full of hopeful promise that world conventions are being called in these twentieth century days to consider schemes for the betterment of human kind, rather than for arrang ing the rules and regulations of the international war game. It is a most beneficial augury that world attention is being directed to methods of preser vation and restoration rather than to methods of destruction. There may not be very numerous signs of the coming of the great peace millennium, but. surely the assembling of The Hague conservation congress will con stitute one sign. Democracy's Chief Trouble. Col. Bryan announces that he is much encouraged by the spread of Democracy. It is spread so much, however, as to have become too thin. — Philadelphia Press. Mr. Bryan's political arguments are largely of a mathematical nature. They consist in taking date of a previous presidential election and adding four years to it. Mr. Bryan will realize SIOO,OOO from his lectures this year. There, you who have been criticising his opposition to a SIOO,OOO presidential saalry. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1909. TAFT AND TRUST LEGISLATION, President Recognizes Necessity for Change in the Laws. In a recnt speech President Tafl touched upon what is to be the ques tion of questions in this government. The question of private property, its limitations, and its relations to our present civilization and institutions formed the subject of his address. He asserted that with the exception ol personal liberty, the Institution of private property has had more to do with the upbuilding of the race than any other institution He recognized, however, that conditions had changed the last few years, making necessary a change in the laws of administration governing the control and use of pri vat" property. As a solution of the problem, there are those, on the one hand, who would destroy all private property and make impossible all com binations of capital. On the other hand, there are those who would let well enough alone, and allow the ut most liberty in these combinations. The problem to be worked out is "tn lay the line of limitation which shall interfere as little as possible with in dividualism and freedom of property 011 the one hand, and shall stay the progress toward injurious combination and injurious monopoly on the other." President Taft recognizes (he seri ousness and vastness of the problem, and his words of counsel and warning and words of wisdom and statesman ship when he says this problem is tc be "worked out not through denuncia tion, not through mere rhetoric and eloquence, but by (he careful consider ation of the operation of the limitation as it shall be stated in a statute and interpreted by a court." OUTLAY IN TIME OF PEACE. Immense Sum Annually Expended by the United States. The army appropriation bill, which has passed the senate, provides for an expenditure of $103,000,000 for the next fiscal year. The navy bill appropriates $137,000,000. The total is $240,000,000, which is within a few millions of the military and naval estimate of the German empire for the year ended March 31, 190 S. Germany is a great military empire. We are a republic at ( peace, professing and maintaining a policy of peace. The total enlisted strength of our army is 77,000, staff and line. The peace strength of the German army includes about 014.000 combatants of all ranks. Evidently a mark in Germany goes farther than a dollar in the United States in provid ing for the maintenance of land forces. We are not aware thai the American people complain particularly of tin 1 cost of their army and navy. It is a fair subject for inquiry, however, whether with the example of Germany before its. ways of reducing expendi ture without reducing effective force be discovert <l. Hut even in a time of peace we are paying a tremendous bill of costs for past wars. The pension bill, as it passed the senate, appropriates $ 162.- 000,000. Pensions, army and navy, will use up $400,000,000 of the taxpayers money in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, Our expenditure for pensions since 1864 reaches the prodigious total of $3,691,230,624. —Chicago Tribune. Secret Service Bubble. President Roosevelt probed the probers. He progged the report ren dered by Senator Hemenway, of the senate committee of appropriations, and let out all the material of inflation. The result has been a collapse of one of the most improbable stories of in sidious conspiracy against the free dom of citizens from espionage' thai was ever concocted. It is charitable to those who pictured the secret serv ice men marching along in a serried column 3,000 strong and with banners flaunting to the breeze appropriation figures of $20,000,000 to believe they were so overcome by the surcharged atmosphere of the senate chamber as to be incapable of seeing facts singly and in order. Mr. Roosevelt said slmplj' that in stead of an increase of the secret service since McKinley's time from 107 to 3,000, there has been an in crease from 1,200 to 1,900; instead of an increase in expenditure of twenty fold or more, the increase has been less than 50 per cent. With these matters of fact let the anti-secret serv ice agitation be dismissed. But not before the adoption of the committee's recommendation for placing the force under the department of justice, a plan that, seemingly without, the sen ate's knowledge, has been repeatedly urged by Mr. Roosevelt. The Panama Report. There is nothing but encouragement in the report of the engineers who ac companied President Taft to Panama to inspect the work on the canal. They assert without equivocation that the work is progressing favorably and that the right type of canal has been select ed. The Gatun dam, for the control of Chagres river floods, is pronounced thoroughly safe with a good founda tion. We are not so sanguine :«s to as sume that this report will put an end to criticism, to forebodings, or to controversy. It is just as well that it shall not do so. A certain amount of fault-finding will act as a spur to the engineers on the job, of whom the investigating engineers re port that they are, if anything, over cautious. Hut the report will serve to assure the mass of citizens that they are getting what they are pay ing for. "Mr. Bryan sees hope for 1912," says a southern contemporary. We all set hope for I'Jl2. In fact, we ai'e almost sure it. will come. MEN WHO FORM PRESIDENT TAFT'S CABINET / L* jPI \j>H/L/t/VO£A. C.KNOX teAMKL/N //«c VtAC*/ \ ' I ffiAA/JC H H/rCA'CO G£OR<3£ w£. A/£Y£& CO—r<p QP <2J£Cte£ -rrfszy COMMENCE. -»- President Taft's cabinet of nine men is headed by Philander Chase Knox, secretary of state, who was born In 1853 at Brownsville, Pa. He graduated from Mount TJnion college, Ohio, in 1872, and three years later was admitted to the bar. During the years 1876 and 1877 he served as as sistant United States district attorney for the western district of Pennsyl vania. In the latter year he formed a law partnership with James H. Reed which still exists and which has rep resented many large corporations, in cluding the Carnegie Company. Mr. Knox entered President McKinley's cabinet as attorney general in April, 1901, serving until 1904, when he was elected United States senator from Pensylvania. The latter position he resigned to become the head of Presi dent Taft's cabinet. He was a candi date for the presidential nomination in the Republican national convention of 1908. Mr. Knox is recognized as one of the foremost constitutional lawyers in the country. MacVeagh for the Treasury. Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, was born on a farm in Chester county, Pennsylvania, gradu ated from Yale in 1862 and from Columbia Law school in 1864. He be gan the practice of law in New York city but ill-health forced him to aban don it and in 1865 he went to Chicago and engaged in the wholesale grocery business. In this and other commer cial pursuits he has amassed a large fortune. Before entering the cabinet he disposed of his holdings in the big grocery firm and resigned as director of the Commercial National bank of Chicago. Mr. MacVeagh has always been interested in movements for the public welfare, locally and nationally. He has been president of the Chicago Citizens' association, the Chicago Bureau of Charities and the Municipal Art League, vice-president of the American Civic association, and chair man of the immigration department of tho National Civic Federation. Mr. MacVeagh formerly was a Democrat and In 1894 he was nominated for United States senator by the Demo crats of Illinois, but was defeated in tho legislature. He supported Grover Cleveland, but afterward changed his party allegiance because of the atti tude of the Democratic party on the money question. Dickinson Is War Secretary. Jacob M. Dickinson of Tennessee and Chicago, the new secretary of war, was born in 1851 at Columbus, Miss. He graduated from the Uni versity of Nashville in 1872 and after ward studied law at Columbia college, at the University of Leipsiz and in Paris. Ho served several times by special commission 011 the supreme bench of Tennessee and was assist ant attorney general of the United States in 1895-97. For ten years pre- vious to accepting the place in Mr. Taft's cabinet he was general counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad Com pany. When not living in Chicago, Mr. Dickinson makes his home at the Hermitage, the estate upon the out skirts of Nashville, Tenn., once the property of Andrew Jackson. Like Mr. Roosevelt, he is very fond of hunting and fishing. Though a Demo crat, Mr. Dickinson has always been an opponent of Bryan. Wilson Retains His Place. Only one member of the Roosevelt cabinet retains his portfolio under Mr. Taft. That is James Wilson of lowa, secretary of agriculture. So ex cellent had been his work in that posi tion that there was no serious talk of making a change. Born in Scotland in 1835, Mr. Wilson came to the United States in 1852 and three years later settled in lowa. In 1861 he engaged in farming in Tama county. He was a member of the lowa assembly for three sessions and speaker of the house for one session, and also was a member of the lowa state railway commission. In 1873 he was elected to congress, serving two terms, and was sent to the national legislature again for one term in 1883. He was regent of the State university of lowa in 1870-74, and in 1890 ,was made director of the agricultural ex periment station and professor of agri culture at the lowa Agricultural col lege, Ames, la. In 1897 he became secretary of agriculture. Postmaster General Hitchcock. The first cabinet officer selected by Mr. Taft after his election was Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, who gave up his place as first assistant postmaster general to manage success fully the Taft presidential campaign. He has been given the office of post master general in the new cabinet. Mr. Hitchcock was born at Amherst, 0., in 1867, and graduated from Har vard in IS9I and from Columbia Law school in 1894. Since 1891 he has been a government official, having served at different times as chief of the division of foreign markets of the department of agriculture; chief clerk of the department of commerce and labor, member of the government ex position board and first assistant post master general. He is a member of many scientific antl social organiza tions and is the author of numerous bulletins, reports and circulars 011 for eign trade and customs tariffs. His work in the post-office department un der President Roosevelt was especial ly noteworthy. Nagel Has Commerce Portfolio. Missouri has been rewarded for its switch to the Republican column by the appointment of Charles Nagel as secretary of commerce and labor. Mr. Nagel is a leading lawyer of St. Louis and the west. He was born in Texas in 1849, moved to St. Louis when a child and graduated from the St. Louis Law school in 1873. He has been senior member bf the law firm of Nagel & Kirby, professor in the St. Louis Law school and a trustee of Washington university. In 1881-83 he was a member of the Missouri house of representatives, and in 1893-97 was president of the St. Louis city coun cil. He is a member of the Repub lican national committee and for years has been an intimate friend of Mr. Taft. He was one of Mr. Roosevelt's most enthusiastic supporters. As an attorney Mr. Nagel was identified with several important cases dealing with the numerous complications in the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the then Indian territory. Navy Under Meyer's Charge. President Taft's secretary of the navy, George Von L. Meyer of Massa chusetts, has had wide experience as a business man, legislator, diplomat and cabinet officer. He was born in Boston in 1858 and graduated from Harvard in 1879. He then entered business and has been prominently conected with a number of financial and mercantile concerns. His career as a public official began in 18S9, when he was elected to the Boston common council. He then served on the board of aldermen, and in 1892-96 he was a member of the Massachusetts isgisla ture, the last two years being speaker of the house. In 1900 Mr. Meyer was sent to Italy as American ambassador, and in 1905 was transferred to Rus sia. In January, 1907, President Roosevelt called him home to enter his cabinet as postmaster general. Balilnger Secretary of Interior. After about one year's service as commissioner of the general land of fice, Richard A. Ballinger of Seattle, Wash., has entered the cabinet as secretary of the interior. He is a native of lowa, having been born in Boonesboro in 1858. After attending the University of Kansas and Wash burn college at Topeka, he went to Williams college, graduating in ISB4 and afterward studying law and re moving to Washington. He was United States court commissioner in 1890-92 and later was judge of the supreme court in Jefferson countv Wash. Attorney General Wickersham. George W. Wickersham, who be comes President Taft's attorney gen eral, has bad the reputation of being one i>f i lie ablest lawyers in Now York city. Born in Pittsburg in ISSB. hn studied civil engineering in Lehigh universHy and in 1880 graduated from the liw school of the University of Pi-niisylvania. For two years he prac ticed law in Philadelphia. In 1884 he became associated with the law firm ol Strong & Cadwalladare, to which Heyiry W. Taft, brother of the prtsi dent, belongs.
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