2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MUI-LIN, Ed.tcr. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. rt y«ar 'J p® paid In advance „ 1 ADVERTISING RATF.S: AdTtttlsemenjs are published »' the rate ol sue dollar per square fur one inscrUoi a ;id lifty E«bu v*r square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or thre. 1 months, are low a.id uniform, and will be furnished on > ppllcation. Legal and Official Advertising per sq iare tbres limes or less. *2; each subsequent inse?' »ioa tO cents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one I'.scr sertion; i cents per line for each subs'quent •coi'ecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over Ave lines cents per line Simple announcements of bmbs, mar riages an l deaths will be inserted fr.-e. Business cards, flvo lines or less. »5 per var: over five lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 7J cents per tssu*. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Priess is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. pARTICXI.AIt ATTENTION I'AIDTO I.AW Printing No paper will be discontinued until arrear tges are paid, except at the option of the pub sher. Papers sent otit of the county must be paid lor In advance. THREE GREAT POWERS SUFFER. The grc't sufferers from Austria's diplomatic triumph are Russia, Eng land and France, who lind an impor tant change made in the map of Eu rope without thcr consent. Germany's favor was sufficient to enable Austria to carry it through, against the wishes of Russia. England, France and Italy, just as her opposition sufficed to block France's effort to retint the map of Morocco recently, though these same four powers stood by the French pol icy in Morocco. The Servian incident is really a diplomatic triumph for Ger many, since Germany's support alone saved Austria from defeat. It shows what power to-day exercises the dom inating influence in the sphere of con tinental politics. Germany does this in virtue of her possession of the lar gest and most efficient army in Eu rope, while her navy is inferior. If a hill now pending before the New York legislature becomes a law the chronic "drunk" will be shipped to a farm colony, with an inebriate hospital attached, where he can be scientifical ly treated and at the same time be made to work for his board. The plan is the outgrowth of the resentment of Bellevue hospital in having to treat the same old topers over and over again, and of the weariness of charity organizations in dealing with them. It is a good scheme, for in all this tem perance movement the man who hab itually gets drunk and makes a beast of himself should not be overlooked. And there is some reason to believe that the chronic drunkard will not im mediately pass out of existence even in "dry" communities. According to a Rutland dispatch the attorney general of Vermont having got a verdict of murder in the first de gree left the courtroom in tears. The Americans seem to have the tenderest lachrymal ducts of any people in the world, though the Vermonters have been thought to be of sterner stuff. Still, having done his duty, the attor ney general was entitled to the solace of weeping; and it is a fact that the poor, prosecuted and usually acquitted murderer or murderess is the sure onion for the sentimental eye. Nobody else approaches him as a player upon the sympathies and a tear bottle. There appears to be a revival of ferocity among some of the more fanatical peoples of Asia. Following the stories of murder and destruction by Moslems in Armenia are reports of a massacre of 2,000 persons by Turco man tribesmen at Astrabad, Persia. It is most sincerely to be hoped that the accounts may prove exaggerated, al though the atrocities perpetrated by the Turcomans on other occasions leave room for the worst apprehen sions. Perhaps there'll come a time when the laws of different states will show uniformity in treatment of automobile owners. Then the man who starts out on a tour will know what to expect. At present every car needs to take along a library of laws and town regu lations. New Hampshire has just fixed a flat rate of $lO for car owners. Con necticut lias a sliding scale ranging from S3O to $6, according to power. Another proposition of the Simple Spellers is to scatter a small army of persuasive talkers over the country to give public addresses and push' the cause along, in simple spelling termi nology they will probably be called "Spelbinders." Britain does well if it catches more than a wink of sleep these nights, now that Russia and Austria also have gone feverishly to building Dread noughts. Nevada will stand for prize fights occasionally and gold-mine promoters most of the time, but it is beginning to shrink from the get single-Quick di vorce business. It will be hart! for anybody to find a better or more stirring exhortation than that xhich Gen. William Booth on his birthday sent broad cast —'Go forward." NOT YET A NATION PORTO RICO NEEDS GUIDANCE OF THE UNITED STATES. Present Unendurable Situa'.ifcn Shg>\'.d Ee Ended by Follow ing the of President Taft. When the lopresentatives of the people in parliament or u colonial as sembly have refuued to vote supplies unless salutary legislation should be enacted history lias approved of their action. It is another matter when the politicians who rule the Porto Rican house of delegates try to use its con *trol of the purse strings to force the enactment of vicious legislation. Any thing which savors of taxation with out the concurrence of the taxed — unless, indeed, they are women- is re pugnant to American ideals, but some of those ideals do not work out well among people who have not been reared in an American atmosphere— the Porto Ricans, for instance. They are not so far advanced politically as it was supposed they were. The legislation which the native politicians who run the popular branch of the Porto Rican legislature have been trying to secure has not been described in detail, but it is said to be redolent of graft. Congress re served to itself the power to annul any Porto Rican laws when it seemed advisable. But the executive council and the governor cannot, in order to get the appropriation bills through, give their sanction to bad laws in the hope that congress will annul them. Great harm might be done before con gress, which moves slowly, could get around to the matter. It is better to admit that a mistake was made in granting too much power to a politically uneducated people and rectify it at once. An exceeding bit ter cry may be heard from the cor poral's guard of anti-imperialists. They are still laboring under the de lusion that the inhabitants of any country, even though they he only half civilized, are fully prepared to take a respectable place among the nations of the earth when equipped with the ballot, a model constitution, and a flag. The antis may say that the proposition to deprive an ignorant and venal set of men of the power to stop the wheels of government unless their corrupt measures shall be acquiesced in is iniquitous. It is meant for the good of the Porto Ricans. They would suffer greatly from the administrative paralysis which is threatened through the re fusal of the house of deputies to vote the appropriations. Congress should come to the assistance of the inhab itants of the island bv the prompt en actment of the legislation recom mended by President Taft.—Chicago Tribune. Senator Cummins' Bad Break. It is unfortunate that Senator Cum mins, in the heat of debate, should have made reference to"the lamp post" as a possible method of com pelling tariff revision in the interest of the consumer. Senator Cummins has long been an ardent champion of tariff revision, and he contends for a revision that re vises. That is all right. He is en titled to his views, just as any man is, and lie is abundantly able to pre sent these views, forcibly and attrac tively to the country. But when he talks of lamp-posts, if his views are not accepted and adopt ed, he lowers the dignity of his plea and weakens the force of his appeals, lie treads on dangerous ground. He enters the domain of the firebrand demagogue. Xo one knows better than Senator Cummins that we are in no danger of the reign of the lamp-post in this coun try, and if we were it would be the duty of the senator and all other patriotic citizens to stamp out the peril at once. Lamp-post legislation must not get any footing in America and no loyal citizen will appeal to the passions of men to fan the Haines of lawlessness. We trust we are right in believing that Senator Cummins' break was a slip of the tongue or an unguarded ut terance in the heat of debate. Must Answer to Constituents. The voters laid down in the last election a simple rule to govern tariff revision. There are numerous duties in the Payne and Aldrich bills which seern to them to violate the rule. They would like to have them explained, if there be an explanation. They do not wish their representatives to accept submissively Senator Aldrich's as sumption that the tariff question is too deep for them. Xo senator or rep resentative should vote for a duty the justice of which lie cannot make plain to his constituents in the next cam paign.—Chicago Inter Ocean. No Alliance with Democrats. The Democratic proffer of a work ing alliance with the insurgent Re publican senators 011 the tariff has been respectfully declined. Messrs. Cummins. La Follette, Bristow and the other Republicans who have been attacking some of the Payne-Aldrlch schedules know that the Republican party has been commissioned to con trol the government for a few years longer, at leas., and they wisely de sire to remain jiart of the govern ment. Notwithstanding. President Tail's administration . oenis to 1) 1 wise and sound thus far, notwithstanding the paucity of Mr I'ryan's criticising. Kansas City Journal CAMERON COUNTY THURSDAY, JUNE 3, i 909- GET AFTER PRINCIPALS. I lf Sugar Tr uS t Officials Were Cogni * zant Employes' Dishonesty, le 'y Must Be Punished. I'y discharging and deserting its s 'ven indicted employes, the sugar trust is not making the favorable im pression calculated on. It must make an honest and visible effort to discuss the really responsible men. It is impossible to persuade any rea sonable person that these dock work men who manipulated the doctored scales by which tlie government was systematically cheated out of millions in withheld duties acted of their own motion and out of their zeal to help the company make money. The com pany profited enormously by t lie frauds, it confessed the frauds by dis gorging over $2,000,000 in loot, and the unavoidable conclusion is that some comparatively high placed of ficials instigated tlie crooked work at the docks. It is utterly incredible that company ofllcers higher up did not know of the steady series of differences for 12 years between the purchase weights and the duty weights of its sugar a difference in its own favor to the tune of some eight or nine millions in cus toms duties. In the test case which compelled the restitution agreement it was attested that these now indicted company weighers or checkers got more money in their pay envelopes than was marked on the outside. That, it would appear, was their little share of the swag. The company got the millions. Now somebody higher up in the company corrupted these dock work men—that inference is scarcely avoid able. The public wants to know and the department of justice means to find out the principals in this system of sneak thievery from the govern ment at the company's Williamsburg docks. "Taft and Economy." The assurance from Washington that economy is to be the watchword of the new administration is grateful to the ears of people who realize that reckless extravagance can no more be practiced by nations than by indi viduals without suffering consequences always unpleasant and sometimes dis astrous. President Roosevelt always was impulsively heedless of expense. He showed this in the plans for the , rebuilding of the White House. He ■ showed it in his naval policy, lie set a pace and made an atmosphere for reckless expenditure in all the depart , ments of the government. Under the administration of Presi dent Taft a new attitude toward the public treasury is expected to prevail. , In the first place the president is threatened at the outset of his term with the necessity of borrowing to meet a deficit. That is a situation which might curb impulsive desire to , spend. But President Taft is not new in the business of public administra tion. He knows its success often de pends upon careful financial manage ment. His colonial administrations have succeeded to admiration, and his national administration Is likely to succeed. The word has gone forth to the cah inet and through members of the cab inet to head of bureaus in all the de partments that estimates of the money needed for the next fiscal year must be cut to the bone. Congress will have to be more circumspect at this session than it was at the last. —Mil- waukee Wisconsin. The Panama Canal. The opening of the Panama canal will mark a date of the highest impor tance in the hitory of the world. Whether the work of construction is 1 to cost the United States £35,000,000 ! for a lock canal or double that sum for a sea-level canal, the money will • have been well spent. The canal will give the rnited States, for practical purposes, a continuous coastline from the state of Washington to Maine. By • digging a waterway 50 miles in length • the United States will, in fact, double the effectiveness of its navy without increasing its numerical strength. I Commercially the effects of the can.al will be equally far-reaching. Despite a tendency toward closer political and ; social relations, the United States and i South America have remained in mat - ters of trade on comparatively distant terms. Especially is this the case with those communities that lie be tween the Andes and the Pacific t ocean. New York is as remote by sea 112 from Valparaiso as Liverpool or Harn i burg. The Panama canal will bring i them thousands of miles closer.—-Lon - don Times. r A Great American. t At 5G Secretary Knox stands as one of the greatest of Americans. The . dinner given him on his birthday was a splendid tribute to his many accom > plishments. No finer tributes have , ever been paid any man of mod ern times than those showered upon by the secretary by great Americans and great men of other countries. Achievement and character are embodied in the physi cally small and intellectually great Peunsylvanian.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Of course, as the advance agent of prosperity, Mr. Taft is somewhat ahead of the procession, as was Will iam McKinley in 1897. But he is the advance agent of prosperity just the same, and the procession is there just the same. Bet everybody save his breath, keep up his courage and in a j few months he will see the vanguard j clambering over the heights and into 1 the new light of better things! I Mr. Bryan's paper prints three ; ages of a speech lie delivered In con , "ess in 1894. By the time Mr. Hryat • : .;aches his silver orations he wil j ..ever lack something to All up with NICARAGUA AND 0. S. SIGN PROTOCOL LONG PENDING EMERY CLAIM WILL BE SUBMITTED TO ARBITRATION. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CLAIM Nicaragua Annulled a Concession Granted for Cutting Mahogany Because of Alleged Violation of Its Provisions. Wellington, D. C.—A protocol for submission to arbitration of the Emery claim has been signed with representatives of the Nicaragua gov ernment at the home of Secretary of State Knox. In the protocol is a provision that during four months from this date the representatives of Nicaragua will have the opportunity to endeavor to reach a definitive settlement of the claim directly with the company subject to the approval of the government of the United States. Failing in such a set tlement the course of arbitration will begin at the expiration of the four months. Description of Claim. The claim, which lias been long pending, arose out of the annulment by Nicaragua of a concession granted for cutting mahogany because of an alleged violation of its provisions. About two weeks ago Pedro Gonzales arrived in Washington as a special messenger from President Zelaya of Nicaragua, to settle the claim either by compromise or by arbitration. Soon after Secretary Knox came into office he sent to Senor Espinoza, Nicaragua minister here, a communication gen erally regarded as an ultimatum, whereupon President Zelaya an nounced the appointment of Senor Gonzales as a special ambassador to settle the claim. In receiving Senor Gonzales on May 17 last, President Taft said to him at the White House in part: "In performing the acts which con stitute your mission I need not assure you that you will be received by this government with that equitable and kindly disposition which has always characterized the attitude of the United States towards Nicaragua, and which, coupled with mutual trust, sin cerity and regard for justice is the only sure ground of continued rela tions." TWO MEN SHOT TO DEATH A Four-Cornered Duel Among Promi nent Citizens of Laurel Town ship, N. C. Charlotte, N. C. —Arthur and Andy Franklin were shot to death in Laurel township, a remote section of Madison county, in a four-cornered duel in which the Franklins were arrayed against the Tweed brothers. Robert Tweed and Arthur Franklin met at the store of Arthur Franklin and. resuming a quarrel several days old, both opened lire. Andy Franklin endeavored to stop the tight, it is said, but Maj. Tweed interfered and both drawing pistols, the fight became gen eral. Andy Franklin was killed, Ar thur Franklin died of his wounds and Maj. Tweed received a serious wound in the thigh. Beverly Stanton, a by stander, was shot in the thigh. No arrests have been made. The four men were among the most prominent citizens of the county. ADMITS THE GUNNESS CRIME American Sailor Held in Norway Con fesses Helping Woman Murder and Then Slaying Her. Christiania, Norway. A young American sailor is under arrest at Frederikstad, near Christiania, as a self-confessed murderer. He told his captain that he helped Mrs. Belle Gun ness kill four persons on her farm near T.a Porte, Ind., and that he then killed Mrs. Gunness herself. The man did not impress the cap tain as being insane, but as one forced by his conscience to tell the truth. The sailor is now under observatioiv as to his mental condition. The case has been reported to H. 11. D. Pierce, the American minister to Norway. Negro Hanged Pole. Pine Bluff, Ark. lgnoring the threats of Judge Grace of the Jef ferson county circuit court, as he called them by name and pleaded with them to spare the life of Lovette Da vis, a negro, and let the law take its course, 300 determined employes o. the Cotton Belt shops here hanged Davis to a telephone pole. Davis en tered the home of H. 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