2 CAMESGj county press. H. H. M U I.LIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ftr year H 00 y pai« ic advance l t>o ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ot mb* fljLar per square for one Insertion and fifty Mats per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates,by the year, or for six or three month*, fcre low and uniform, and will be furnished on Legal atid Official Advertising per square, ttrat times or less, t2; each subsequent, inser tion fO cents per square. Local notices to cents per line for one lnser •ertlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent ••nseeutive Insertion. Obituary notices over fire lines, 10 cents per Use. Simple announcements of births, mar* rlages and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, 15 per year; ever five lines, at the regular rates ot adver tiling. No looal Inserted tor lest than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Prias Is complete rfnd affords facilities for doing the best class ot work. Particular attention paidto Law r*INTINO. No ..paper will be discontinued until arrear age* are paid, except al the option of the pub- Usher. Paper* sent out of the county must be paid lor la advance. FIGHTING FOREST FIREB. Fighting Forest Fires. Sometimes they do things very well In Michigan. As everyone is aware, Michigan, like New Hampshire, is very solicitous for her forests. Again, like New Hampshire, Michigan is dis turbed from time to time by forest fires, and every loyal Michigander is expected to prove his willingness, whenever occasion may demand, to join his neighbors in fighting those fires, says the Manchester Union. In fact, a Michigan statute specifically provides punishment for refusal to as sist in suppressing a forest fire. Never, however, until recently, has it been found necessary to invoke this statute, ar.d then a man was sentenced to 90 days in the Detroit house of correc tion. It is, of course, conceivable that a rigid enforcement of such a law as that might work severe hardship in some individual cases. For example, it would be obviously unjust and in human to impress into fire-fighting service one whose physical condition plainly incapacitates him from that service, or one who is occupied with the care of the sick. On the other hand, it is always to be expected that careful judgment will be exercised in the enforcement of this law, as of any other. One effect of the warm weather has been to promote the fruit and berry industry. The weather recently has provided great growing and ripening conditions, and the effect is plainly Visible. The Delaware-Maryland peninsula, which is the seat of an im mense strawberry-raising industry, re ports a record-breaking crop. The shipments have aggregated 1G,67G,00C quarts, with 2,600,000 quarts more than for the same time last year, and this notwithstanding heavy rains that tended to offset in part the favorable influence. The supply of material for strawberry shortcake and strawberry jam, to say nothing of just strawber ries and cream, is abundant and should add largely to human happi ness. The strawberry season is very brief, but this year the fleeting joy of it should be exceptionally intense. Intimations that the disclosures in the "Black Hand'' conspiracy in Ohio may lead to the exposure of a far reaching plot and that the trail if fol lowed may end in the discovery and punishment of men connected with the assassination of Lieut. Petrosino, the New York police officer who was mur dered in Sicily, are not surprising. There seems to be no doubt that a criminal organization exists, and when that fact is established and the proper threads are found the whole mystery may be unraveled. And when this is accomplished there is likely to be a blow dealt at "Black Handism" that will teach a greatly needed lesion. There is a 'lttle comfort for friends of American whipping in the news that a company running steamships to Ha waii has contracted with an eastern concern for three new vessels of large dimensions. These ships will be of American construction, operated by Americans under the American flag, and for this much the American peo ple may be proportionately thankful. May the new craft be such inspiring object lessons that more of the same sort will follow speedily. France appears to have caught the warship fever. The cabinet has ap proved a program which involves the expenditure of $000,000,000 in ten years for naval construction and the building of twelve big battleships. That country is thrifty and has money in abundance, if not "to burn." But is not that a costly proceeding even for a nation so well fixed? The difficulty of intelligible conver sation with Mars is suggested by a sci entific theory that the canals of that planet may be signals to us. Here is the possibility that while we think of talking to Mars by electric flashes of mirrors Mars may be speakiLg to us by canals. Two different languages, you see. WITH THE PEOPLE PRESIDENT TAFT'S POSITION IS NOW WELL UNDERSTOOD. Chief Executive Properly Puts the In terest of the Many Before That of the Few—lnsists on Proper Tariff Revision. President Taft is not disposed to have his ante-election assurance of a downward trend oi rates in the re casting of the tariff nullified, and to this end he is bending his endeavors. He believes that the things that touch the lives of the people, that enter into the common necessities of existence, should be lightened of their burdens. He entered into the plan to have a corporation tax amendment adopted, so as to secure revenue easement in order that there might be no excuse for the retention of excessive rates after the conditions calling for the duties had changed. He stands square ly for the people, and has the acu men to see that this stand can never fundamentally affect the real inter ests of any industry. The apparent interests of some may be affected, but in every case the good of the many goes before that of the few, the good of the country before the good of any group of manufacturers. Mr. Taft is determined that the con ference committee shall not play fast and loose with the schedules, using the corporation tax as a ruse. He would have been glad to have had en acted an inheritance tax; but, lack ing this, he conceded virtue to a cor poration tax. Certainly the virtue of cutting the ground from under the feet of those who sought subterfuge for the loading of industry with taxa tion in response to the cries of those who seek to have sky-scraping rates for hides, lumber, oil and the like. Now he is ill-disposed toward any con nivance looking to the setting aside of the corporation tax and the up holding of the senate's excessive schedules on such prime articles of consumption. That he has protested against such a course is likely enough, although his honest and unflinching attitude should carry conviction with out the necessity for him to enter spe cific protest against the violation of good faith with him and the country. Mr. Taft has reiterated his position with sufficient frequency to be un derstood. The fact that he has not pursued back-breaking tactics, has not attempted to cudgel his opponents into the light, does not detract in any way from the calm and determined pur pose to have the tariff bill reflect his views as he has imbibed them from that great element of the American public that in these days is coming Into its own—the consumer. President Has Made Wise Choice. President Taft has been searching for the right man to serve the United States as minister at the Peking court He has experienced considerable diffi culty, judging form several indications and reported declinations, but his ef forts have at last been rewarded with conspicuous success. In .Mr. Charles it. Crane of Chicago,* who has been selected for the post and has accepted the appoinment, the right man has been found for the right place. Mr. Crane is a man of affairs as well as of broad culture, exceptional interest and experience in internation al concerns, great public spirit and unique social gifts. Has has traveled much, observed, studied events, per sonalities, tendencies; he has culti vated acquaintances in almost every stratum of society in every country to which business or recratlon has ever taken him, and there are few American embassies or important con sular offices which he has not visited. A man of advanced views in politics and civics, an enemy of graft, greed, corruption and all forms of special privilege, a practical and generous worker for good government and so cial amelioration, Mr. Crane is par ticularly well qualified for the duties and responsibilities of the Chinese mission, for during the next few years the paramount question between China and the great powers will be the intelli gent and honest enforcement of the principles of the open door and re spect for the Integrity and independ ence of the empire. The issue between President Taft and the tariff conferees of the two houses of congress is growing nar rower and more clearly defined. Re sponding to the pressure which the president has already brought to bear for a ision of the tariff downward, the < ...erence committee of senate and house is already showing a dispo sition materially to reduce the duty on hides, coal and lumber and to ad mit iron ore and petroleum entirely free of duty. Air. Bryan, and Governors Harmon. Jonnson and Marshall attack Senators Bailey, Bacon, Daniel and other Demo crats who have been breaking away from their old creed on the traiff. Perhaps the solid south will be broken in 1911', after all. No Compromise Possible. It is well to have the rumor denied that the indicted sugar trust officers had made a proposal to the govern ment to plead guilty provided they were promised immunity from prison sentences. Such conditions would be inconceivable. For the government to accept them or even to permit their discussion would utterly destroy pop ular l'aith in the purpose of the admin istration and the courts to enforce Justice without discrimination be tween the rich and the poor, the pow erful and the *"eak. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUCiJST 12, 1909. WANT TO SEE THE PRESIDENT Feople Welcome His Visits and Are Always Willing to Pay Expenses of Tours. The Democrats in the house of rep resentatives have misrepresented their constituents. They did it by talking and voting against an appro priation of $25,000 to defray the trav eling expenses of the president. Through mental perversity they fan cied they were scoring a point in the game of politics, a game they do not play well. If they were to talk with the voters of their respective districts, both Dem ocrats and Republicans, they would speedily find out two things. One is that the people, comparatively few of whom can goto the xiresident, wish him to come to them. Nothing inter ests and excites an American com munity, north, south, east or west, more than an announcement that the president is to pay it a visit. Towns which are on his line of travel at once begin asking him to stop so that they may see and perhaps hear him. If the contemplated two months' trip of the president through the west were to be given up, the people of that re gion would suffer acute disappoint ment. Another thing which the Democratic congressmen would find out would be that the people, without distinction of party, do not wish to make the pres ident pay his traveling expenses, even if his salary is now $75,000 a year. They do not wish the places he visits to pay them. They wish the nation to do it. It is not for his own amuse ment that he travels. It was not for recreation that he went to the inter national celebration to commemorate Champlain. His western tour and possible meeting with the president of Mexico will not be made to serve party ends, but to aid him in the discharge of his presidential duties. The Democrats in the house have at last found something they can agree on. It is so mean and picayunish a proposition that it will not endear them to the members of their own party. President Taft and the Trusts. A few days ago a federal grand jury returned indictments, not. simply against the sugar trust, but also against the officers of that great cor poration. This, as the newspapers have pointed out, is a new method of procedure. Hitherto the practice has been to proceed against the corpora tion —-as in the Northern Securities case, the Santa Fe rebating case and the Standard Oil case—the idea seem ing to be that all that was necessary was either to, enjorn or fine the corpo ration. President Taft, on the other hand, apparently believes that crimes are committed by men and thinks that when a corporation violates the law it does it through its officers. Instead of trying to have a trust subjected to a fine which it would, if it paid it at all, pass onto the consumers of its product, he is of the opinion that the best way to stop rascality is to pun ish the rascals. So far, at least, he has not demanded that any individual be exempted from prosecution. He has not complained of the unwilling ness of grand juries to indict, or of petit juries to convict. Rather he seems to feel that if a crime has been committed and is proved the Ameri can people, as represented by Juries, can be trusted to uphold the law. Will Meet the President's Views. It is now generally appreciated that the president has acted with a wisely discriminating tactfulness in reserv ing his say on tariff questions to the final stage of readjustment of the schedules. His predecessor undoubt edly would have poured in hot stuff upon the extra session from start to finish, but while the special messages would have contributed to the gayety of the debates, it is more than doubt ful if in the final stage of the read justment any concessions would have been made in response to such meth ods. President Taft has once again given a demonstration that behind that sunny smile with which he is accus tomed to tackle difficult problems there is a tremendous power of insist ent and persistent earnestness. The tariff is going to be reshaped by the joint conference to meet the presi dent's views, and when the redrafted measure is submitted to vote, it will pass in both the house and the sen ate —the president will 'get the votes." The President's Position. President Taft's statement of his position with reference to free raw materials and downward tariff revis ion will, we think, be enthusiastically approved by the Republican party and by the country. It is sane, logical and broad-minded, embodying conclu sions reached by t,he great body of the people, who want to see the tariff revised for the benefit of the nation as a whole, not for the promotion of the selfish interests of certain sections or certain classes of producers. It seems that the president under stood the Republican platform to mean downward revision, and it is re called that he was giving pretty close attention to such things at that time. Tariff by Commission. The statement comes from Wash ington that this is the last tariff meas ure which congress will ever try to construct. This summer's experience has been sufficient to weary the mem bers, just as congress has wearied the country. As a result of the present feeling it is predicted that here:\fter tariff measures will be constructed by expert commissions. Congress will so decide in self-defense. The commission will do the work. Congress then can undo as much of it as it sees fit. But even so, the net result will doubtless be to the gain of the country. TOWN CELEBRATES FIRST SETTLEMENT PRODUCTION BY A CAST OF 2,000 PLAyERS OF"THE CANTER BURY PILGRIMS." AN ELABORATE SPECTACLE Pageant Given Near the Site of the House of Roger Conant, First Governor of the Little Gloucester Colony. Gloucester, Mass. A spectacle unique in the annals of New Eng land and probably the most elab orate of its kind ever seen in this country, brought to a close the cele bration of the first settlement of Gloucester, 286 years ago. Seated in a natural ampitheater overlooking the harbor, 5,000 persons witnessed the production by a cast of 2,000 players of"The Canterbury Pilgrims," a pageant. "Gloucester day" celebration is an annual fixture in the local calendar, but this year an unusually elaborate program was arranged, as it was thought that the occasion would be marked by the presence of President Taft. The inability of the president to come on account of the pressure of tariff affairs in Washington, caused much regret, and some slight changes in the program were necessary at the last moment, but the arrangements as a whole were carried out as orig inally planned. The pageant was given near the site of the house of Roger Conant, first governor of the little Gloucester col ony. Percy Mackaye, the author of "The Canterbury Pilgrims," was as sisted in the production by Eric Pape, one of the summer colony of artists here, and Walter Damrosch, director of the New York Symphony Orchestra. The open air stage was 175 feet long and 680 feet in depth. There was no curtain, but a display of colored fire screened the stage between the acts. The inusic was by a band of 65 pieces and a large pipe organ built for the purpose. At certain periods in the performance the bells of the city chruches, connected electrically with the organ, sounded their chimes, while a salvo of artillery from the warships in the harbor was a feature of one part of the play. OLD MEN MUST STEP ASIDE Younger Blood Will be Enthused in the United States Weather Bureau Stations. Washington, D. C.—Old men, make way for younger blood. This, in ef fect, is the "intimation" which has been sent along the line of the United States weather bureau field service by Chief Willis L. Moore. It means in plain English that the day of men over three score years of age occu pying higli positions in that service is passed. Young men of vigor and snap are being pushed to the front to fill the places once occupied by gray-haired veterans of the service. Men who have reached the age above indicated will not be let out of the service, but will take less important stations. Striking illustrations of the fact that this is to become the settled policy of the weather bureau is indicated by changes which have just been made in the stations at Philadelphia, Indian apolis, Cincinnati and Nashville, all of which posts have been filled by men whose ages are between 60 and 70 years, but which from now on are to be occupied by men considerably younger. ANCIENT CUSTOM IS REVIVED Murderer Publicly Beheaded in the Boulevard Fronting a Prison in Paris. Paris, France.—A sudden official an nouncement that a public beheading would take place in the boulevard fronting the Sante prison, created a sensation in Paris, which had not seen an execution in 15 years. Im mediately immense crowds gathered at the scene. Parisian sentiment long has been opposed to public execu tions, for in the past they were ac companied by scandalous scenes of revelry. Despite this sentiment parliament refused to abolish the death penalty in France, and in view of the revolting crime of the man executed, President Fallieres refused to commute his sen tence to life imprisonment. The vic tim was one Duchemin, aged 23, a butcher. In 1908 he stabbed his moth er and this not resulting in her death quick enough he finished her by stran gulation. The motive for the crime was robbery. The victim was seized and thrown under the knife. In a flash all was over and the crowds dispersed without disorder. "Blue Laws'' Repealed. Hartford, Conn. —Both branches of the Connecticut state legislature have passed a bill repealing the so called "blue laws" relating to Sunday observance, which forbid almost every form of recreation and secular ac tivity. Auto Kills Little Girl. Altoona, Pa.—Mabel Walte, eight years, was struck and killed by an au tomobile. The little girl became be wildered when the car bore down up on her and ran in front of it. Keystone State Jots New York City. Orders for steel rails are improving. The demand is more uniform than it has been in ser eral months. The B. & O. is in the market for 20,000 tons and the Harri nian lines also have an inquiry in the market for a considerable tonnage. New York City.—The yachting col ony at Larchmont is of the opinion that it is being victimized by a Raffles disguised as a yachtsman. Follow!ng the mysterious appearance in the se lect colony of a stranger wearing full yachting regalia, several burglaries have been committed. New York City.—Quan Yick Nam, the Chinese interpreter who gave his services to the police in their efforts to solve the murder of Elsie Sigel, has informed the district attorney's office that his life has been threatened by certain of his countrymen if he does not withdraw from the case. Albany.—Notice was filed in the ex ecutive chamber of the appointment of Dr. Frank A. Kendall of Saranac Lake as treasurer of the New York State Hospital for Treatment of In cipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis at Kaybrook, in the Adirondacks. He is to succeed William E. Minshull. Albany.—The largest cheese ever manufactured in the Mohawk valley was shipped from here recently. The cheese was built in the usual shape, but, it measured 32 inches high and 45 inches in diameter and weighed 1,950 pounds. It took about ten tons of milk to produce it, and it was pressed into shape by a specially constructed press. Albany. Attorney General O'Mal ley announces that Charles G. Bald win of Syracuse, who was appointed a deputy in June, has resigned because of pressure of private business and James S. Kiley of (Hens Falls has been promoted to fill the vacancy at an annual salary of $4,000. Deputy E. E. Rlsley of rtica has been pro moted to the place made vacant by Mr. Kiley's promotion, annual salary $3,000. Woodbury.— E. H. Harriman has purchased three miles of a public roadway from this town and now it will be impossible for a stranger to approach closer than five miles to Mr. Harriman's magnificent new country mansion. Mr. Harriman deeded to the town in exchange a private road'five miles long which he had built at his own expense and which covers a con tiguous territory but in a roundabout manner, lie is also said to have paid ' a big cash price. The Harriman fam ily desires seclusion from strangers. The family is expected home early in September. New York City.-—Dr. John Walter Wood, health registrar for Richmond, is abed at his home minus his lower front teeth, with cuts all over his face and a broken wrist. Half an hour af ter he answered a hurry call to the residence of Frank Cameron, persons near the Cameron house saw the front door open and through it Dr. Wood described a parabola over the stoop and to the sidewalk. Cameron and his brother-in-law were raining blows on Wood. Neither assailant would make a statement at the police station or in court. There is said to be a woman in the case. Albany. Supreme Court Justice Fitts announced a decision of import ance to trust companies and other cor porations required to maintain de posits with the state banking depart ment. He denied the motion of the Central Trust Company of New York for a writ of mandamus figainst Super intendent Williams of the state bank ing department to compel him to ac cept a certain mortgage. The trust company offered a mortgage for $25,- 000 to Superintendent Williams as part of the security required to be de posited by trust companies receiving deposits of money in trust. The bank ing law provides that such companies must keep on deposit with the super intendent of banks security at all times equal to 10 per cent of their capital stock, and if doing business in New York City, not less than SIOO,OOO in value. The mortgage presented in this case was made originally to the Lawyers Title Insurance & Trust Co. of New York and assigned by that company to the Central Trust Co.. The attorney general, through Deputy Letchworth, contended that under sec tion 15 of the banking law only mort gages made directly to the trust com pany offering them could be accepted by the superintendent of banks, and that this mortgage, not being made originally to the Central Trust Co., did not fulfill these requirements. Justice Fitts sustained this conten tion. New York City.—E. H. Harriman's health is greatly improved, his condi tion being better than for several years. It was learned that Mr. Har riniau will reach here from his trip abroad about September 10. Albany. Commissioner Porter has authorized the establishment of, a tu berculosis camp at East Bloomflold, Ontario county. 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