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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.
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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. Knowlton Pad
gett, a Cotton Belt conductor, during
his absence and attacked Miss Amy
Holmes, Padgett's 16-year-old niece,
who was alone and asleep in lier bed
room. The lynchers made no effort
to conceal their identity.
One "Dry," Another "Wet."
Bloomington, Ind. —Monroe county
has voted "dry" in a local op
tion election by a majority of 500.
Bloomington, the seat of Indiana uni
versity, gave a majority of 27 for the
"wets."
Writer of Verse and Prose Dead.
Baltimore, Md. —Mrs. Lizzie York
Case, a well-knowrt writer of ver9e
and prose for newspapers and
magazines, died at her home near this
city, aged 72 years. She was a native
of Philadelphia, Pa.
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