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The Job department of the Press Is complete rfnd affords facilities for doing the best class of Work. PARTICULAU ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW Pbintiho. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub b#r' Papera aent out of the county must be paid lor In advance. The New York authorities are mak ing matters lively for reckless automo- I billsts. Monday a chauffeur who, while j intoxicated, had driven his machine on Madison avenue in such a manner as to endanger the lives of a number of passengers in a street car with "which he narrowly escaped collision, was arrested and locked up. The fol lowing morning he was taken before a police magistrate, who sentenced him to six months' imprisonment and informed him that on his return from "the island" he will be subjected to trial in the court of special sessions on the charge of operating a machine without a chauffeur's license. Whole some severity in such cases can hard ly fail to have a good effect. Sunday on our naval vessels has been a day of relatively close con finement, inspection and worship ! when possible. When ir. port the day's demands have been stricter upon officers and crews than those usually put upon landsmen. Pressure for re lief has at last led naval department officials to let up on the rigor of the day, and to recognize that it should give an opportunity for legitimate rec reation and social life, when vessels are in port, which crews and officers shouki have. An order to this effect will soon be issued, so it is said; and the "bluejacket," like the rest of man kind, will look more kindly on a day that was made for him, and not he for It. Something of the magnitude of the postal card business may be inferred from the announcement that the post master general at Washington has just awarded a contract calling for the sup plying of 3,457,000,000 of these articles for the four years beginning with Jan uary next. These are the ordinary postal cards, such as are furnished through any United States post office. When to these are added the innumer able "souvenirs," domestic and foreign, from which no one can escape, there is no occasion for surprise that a big part of Uncle Sam's mail consists of postal cards. The partial destruction by lire at Liverpool of the Cunard Liner Lu cania was an example of the main danger of big ships which are secure against ordinary sea dangers, except ing collision, which is inseparable from navigation during fogs. The aim of the builders of big passenger steamers must hereafter be in the di rection of fire-proofing. The latest palatial steamers on the Hudson river are fi»e examples of work of the non combustible type. A Pittsburg report says prisoners are going insane by wholesale in Riv erside penitentiary because of en forced idleness. A great reform in this respect is needed in many states. In the south convicts are set at con structing roads, thus rendering import ant public service and being b' nefited themselves by "ational occupation. A Montreal paper has figured that in dancing at a ball beginning at ten o'clock at night and ending at five o'clock the next morning the distance covered is more than 11 miles. Yet the average girl prefers it to a day at the washtub, where there is very 'little walking. Portsmouth, W. Va., is offering a silver medal for every child born itherein. This may sound comical, but it has a serious aspect, for Ports mouth, Va.. is an ultra-American city, 'and depends on American blood, and not on immigration for its prosperity. About how many people in Chicago know the difference between ordinary ' corn on the cob" of the restaurant ;and the delicious sweet corn «>* grand mother's table? The kaiser is so tired of perpetual peace that he has ordered football in troduced in the German army. Here and there on a sunny after noon one may see a vacant lot without a baseball game on it. The aeroplane infringement wa* ;ias begun. AS PARTY MEASURE PRESIDENT TAFT ACCEPTED THE PAYNE TARIFF BILL. Reat Possible Under the Circum stances and He Believes It Will Meet the Full Requirements of the Country. It was most appropriate for the president to save his tariff speech for the home of Representative Tawney. No other member of the house was 9.1 severely criticised for his support of the Payne bill. The only member of his state's delegation to take that posi tion. Mr. Tawney was told that by it he had sealed his fate, and advised to invest in a shroud. It is too early to say what the Re publicans of the first Minnesota dis trict will do at the polls next year, but if the president's recommendations have weight they will return Mr. Taw ney to congress, lie stands with the president on the tariff question, has in fluence on legislation by reason of his committee assignment, and should again be chairman of appropriations if his party controls the next house. Speaking at Winona the president's explanation of why he signed the bill and his exposition of the attitude of Mr. Tawney were in the spirit of the party leader. The president saw the necessity for tariff action. A failure to legislate meant party "demoraliza tion." And not only would this be felt as respects the tariff, but as to other matters awaiting attention. Important as it was, the' tariff was not "the whole thing." Last November's com mission carried a large and varied re sponsibility, and the president was looking at the entire program. In a word, the occasion called for a compromise, as so many legislative occasions do, and the president made the best compromise possible. Ho could have wished for different rates here and there, but realized that, upon the whole, he was making good terms and so signed the bill. Had the president stopped here he would have left his party on the de fensive. But he added an indorsement of the new law which is a challenge to all of iis opponents, Republicans as will as Democrats. In his opinion the I 'new measure is the best of its kind I his party has ever framed, and he ex- 1 pects it to meet the full requirements | | of the case. Still he does not consider the tariff ! question closed. The operations of the [ Payne law will throw new light on the ! controversy, and there will be time for ! additional changes should it be shown j that they are necessary. Rut he points | out to those Republicans who desire I such changes that they should strive i for them within their own party if ! they, sincerely believe in the policy of | protection. The one party is commit | ted to the support of that policy, while j the other advocates a policy directly 1 in conflict with it. Drain on Our Gold. Even those who have been most in ! telligently and loyally for the reform ! of our defective and inadequate cur | rency system have had, during the J last decade or more, the consolation J that financial danger and even dis comfort were modified by the enor mous international trade balances in I our favor, resulting in a constant flow j of foreign gold to us in settlement, i After the deduction every year of in ! terest owed abroad by us, of ocean | freight bills paid to foreign bottoms, i of the spendings of American tour j ists, of remittances by our newer ; population to relatives left behind, | there has still been a goodly sum due J us on the difference between our ex j ports and our imports. This differ | ence has been settled in gold coming j here to fortify our money supply and j to assist our lame currency. in the last three months the hal | ance of trade has been against this country. The excess of imports over | exports has not been large—a few j millions. But a small balance against j us, instead of a large balance in our i favor, makes an enormous difference | in our comparative financial condition, j Thus, a more $7,000,000 of bal | ance against us for a given time, as ; compared with an $18,000,000 bal j ance in our favor for a corre j sponding period of the past, makes j our actual financial condition on that I account worse by $25,000,000. When j we must pay gold for ocean freight | charges, gold for tourists' spend ; ir.gs, gold for interest, gold for j our trade settlements, etc., where j before we cleared the accounts with j our excess shipments of commodities | to foreigners, the drain upon our specie ■ —the only world money—nuist become insupportable. If the recent record of imports in j excess of exports is to continue, we ! shall be forced to hasten currency re ! form. It is an ill wird that blows no body good. Said So Themselves. President Taft is doubtless aware that to Democratic and free trade critics of his good words for the Payne bill he can retort, "why, you j said so yourselves!" Most of us will remember that when the bill was first published it com pelled a good deal of commendation from the opposition press. Let us re call one striking example. That hardy old free trader, the New York Evening Post, in a burst of candor called the Payne bill the best tariff measure ever framed by the Republican party. Now at Winona the other day Taft almost echoed those words when he pronounced the bill the best tariff tlie country has ever had. He might have added, "even our ooponents have ad mitted this " CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1909. MR. BRYAN AND THE TARIFF Commoner's Call 16 Belated and j Raises the Issue in Almost Lifeless Form. William .1. Bryan's call in the Com- | moner to the Democratic party to take up a fight against the principle of pro tection is curiously belated. It has a worse defect than that from a prac tical standpoint, for the issue in the form he would raise it is almost life less. For many, many years Mr. Bryan has kept the tariff distinctly in sec ondary place. He has no doubt an out and-out record as to his principles, but he has not a fighting record on this subject. Now, however, that a distinct beginning at tariff reform has been made by the insistence of the progressive element of the Republican party, and that this same progressive element proclaims that it will fight steadily for more in the way of re sults, Mr. Bryan seems to think it a good time to take an extremist's posi tion. Surely this time he cannot claim that others are reaping where he has sown. Ratjier that relation is re versed, so far as his attitude goes. That any large amount of atten tion can be attracted by a fight on the protective principle as such seems al most impossible. Every one recog nizes that the political problem has to do with concrete tariffs, and that the real tariff fight is not one fight but a hundred fights, with divided armies in each case. The Democrats in the sen ate were never consistently against all duties. Clarke of Arkansas is the only senator who never voted with Al drich, and he was absent most of the time. The Democratic senators aver aged 11 votes apiece on the Aldrich side. They averaged 27 votes apiece against Aldrich. Statistically we may say, therefore, that they were 12V6 per cent, protectionist. Whether it would be better politics or not, it would probably be more ef fective work for tariff reform if Mr. Bryan would adopt more closely the position of the progressive Republi cans and make tariff revision, not tar iff obliteration, his cry. No two pro gressives want exactly the same amount of revision and Mr. Bryan need not limit himself by anybody else's standard. But the way to get ahead is by attacking particular rates of duty because they are evil and not by attacking all duties because they j are duties. LOOK TO REPUBLICAN PARTY Virginia Begins to Rc?lize That Or ganization Is the Friend of American Industries. A Washington correspondent who | has been making inquiries in Virginia : reports a growing spirit of political toleration in that slate. Children are no longer threatened that the Repub licans will get them if they don't watch out. The elimination of 50,000 or more negro voters by the election law has removed partly one Virginia prejudice against the party. President Taft's popularity has helped some what, but the chief factor has been the increasing industrialism of the state. Here, as elsewhere in the south, the growth of industrial operations has turned attention to Republican princi pals. The same influences which have convinced the industrial centers of the north that the Republican party Is the friend of American industries is ' leavening the south, slowly, perhaps, but none the less surely. The support of protection by southern Democrats has merely recognized that sentiment. It may be a long day before Virginia goes Republican, but this correspond ent thinks it may come. An especially encouraging feature in Virginia is that the Republican organization is not offi cered by or dependent upon federal office holders. The movement is In the hands of the younger element 1n business. There is not one federal office holder on the executive commit tee, and but 20 of the 120 county and city committee chairmen are in that category. The Republican campaign is for the present educative, but it is making progress, and is based upon appreciation of principle rather than, as in some other southern states, merely marking time for the spoils men. The Presider-' on the Tariff. The president is standing by the tariff measure which has been enact ed by congress and which he lias signed and the completion of which has been followed by a marked degree of buoyancy and cheerful anticipation on the part of business men through out the United States. He does not believe the new law is in every respect the best which could have been devised, but he does be lieve it is the best the country has ever had. IJe believes in valuing it by its merits, not ignoring its merits and concentrating attention on its de fects. Recognizing Congressman Tawney, the only Minnesota delegate in con gress who voted for the bill, as hav ing been actuated by the same senti ments with respect to it which have shaped his own course, the president took advantage of his first opportu nity of speaking to Minnesota people ] to assure them of his respectful opin ion of Representative Tawney. There were those who thought the president would dodge on the subject of Tawney if not on the subject of the 1 tariff, but he is no coward. The Main Question. That New York plan to "reunite all ■ ihe Democrats" may work as soon ar i j there is a satisfactory answer to ■ I "What Is a Democrat?" —St. Paul Pi<> "1 neer Press. [siiin i OF A j i WEEK'S EVENTS i • • : : • Latest News of Interest • I Boiled Down for the • * Busy Man. « e • PERSONAL. George A. Edes, veteran editor, who in early life was associated with Hor ace Greeley and Mark Twain, died at Oakland, Cal., of cancer of the throat, aged 69. His great-uncle was associ ated with Benjamin Franklin in the publication of the Boston News Let ter. Charles T. Ripley, a graduate of the University of Illinois in the railway electrical engineering department, has been awarded the first prize in an electric car design contest conducted by the Brill Company of Philadelphia. The prize is the .lohn G. Brill medal and $250. Clyde Fitch, the playwright, left no will and his property will goto his father, W. G. Fitch, of Hartford, Conn By some the estate is estimated at $1,000,000. Samuel Gompers was accorded an enthusiastic demonstration at Wash ington in honor of his return homt from Europe. Representative A. W. Rucker of Colorado was injured severely when he was struck by the boom of a boat he was sailing in Lake Lano in Miu dinao in the Philippines. Dr. .1. H. Shober reports through the Journal of the American Medical asso ciation a substitute for radium in treating disease. It is cocoanut char coal after it has been charged with a current of air from a solution of radi um bromide. According to Rev. Charles L. Good ell, pastor of Calvary Methodist church of New York, old age begins at 45 years, and from that age a man is in his decline. Two sisters, Mrs. Clara Pfeltsen meier of Chicago and Mrs. Minnie Lehmann of Brooklyn, found a long lost brother at the Hudson-Fulton cele bration in New York. He is a second lieutenant in the German navy and his name is Fritz lleyl. GENERAL NOTE 3. The New York Globe publishes a copy of affidavit made by Edwin N. Barrill. who accompanied Dr. Fred erick A. Cook at the time he an nounced reaching the summit ol' Mount McKinley in which Barrill states that Cook never reached the summit and charges the explorer with forcing hiin to change dates and fig ures in his diary. Dr. Cook, at At lantic City, N. J., emphatically denies the charge and says proofs of his climb are buried on the summit of the mountain. President Taft has accepted the resignation of Charles R. Crane as minister to China, thus upholding Sec retary Knox in the controversy. Revolution has broken out in Nica ragua, and in a battle between gov ernment troops and rebels at Grey town, 19 of the former were killed. In the sixth game for the world's championship Detroit defeated Pitts burg 5 to 4. Edward Singer, aged 155, of Chicago, has been arrested for rifling merchan dise mail pouches. The twelfth annual meeting of the Eastern Illinois Teachers' association is being held at. Danville. A high-salaried appointment soon to be made by President Taft will be Panama canal commissioner to suc ceed ex-Senator Blackburn of Ken tucky, whose resignation is expected. The position pays $14,000 a year. Of the 285 county reporters who re port crop conditions to the bureau of statistics of the department of agricul ture, 194 have served in that capacity more than twenty years, according to the official crop reporter. George Shima, the .Japanese potato I king of Stockton, Cal., gave his sec ■ ond annual banquet to potato buyers. I Shima sent his launch, the Shima I Maru, for his guests, lie has the largest potato patch in the world. 14,- ; 000 acres. i An unnamed* honor has pledged $150,000 to the proposed $600,000 en ! downient fund for Wooster (O.) uni j versity, according to the announce j meat of President Holden. The gift | is conditional on the collection of the | remaining $450,000 by January 1. 1911. Ten thousand dollars is the booty ' estimated to have been carried away I by the robber who entered a Great ! Northern express office at Seattle and bound two men. The National Nut Growers' assocla Hon held its eighth annual convention in Albany. Ga. Mark Twain has cabled a London newspaper declining to take an active part in the Kongo reform agitation because of the condition of his health. James M. ISarrie, the novelist, has been granted a divorce from his wif< on the ground of the latter's conduct with Gilbert Cannan. a young author An order of foreclosure nd tor the sale ol the Western Maryland railroad was signed by Judge Morris in the United States court at Haiti more. Six sailors lost their lives when the steamer George Stone of Cleveland was wrecked off Point Pelee, Ont., in upper Lake Eri«- In an interview at Buffalo, Explorer Cook reiterated that he would bring the Eskimos who accompanied mm 10 the north pole to this country in order to disprove alleged distorted declara tions in Commander Peary's state ment. Pittsburg won the fifth world's championship baseball game from De troit by a score of 8 to 4. The Pirates now lead the Tigers in the series by one game. The second national convention of the Congregational Brotherhood of \merica is in session at Minneapolis with a very large number of represen tatives present from all parts of the country. The constitutionality of the Illinois iwo-cent rate law is attacked in an action brought in the federal court at Springfield by the Chicago, Peoria & St. Paul Railroad Company. Milwaukee for ten days will be the .Mecca of the dairy farmers and per sons engaged in allied interests as the National Dairy show there is now on. A famous portrait by Velasquez, pur chased by a wealthy American abroad, will soon arrive in this country, ac cording to H. it. Duneen. an art deal er, who has returned to New York from Europe. He says it is likely to become the most noted picture in America. The name of the owner is not revealed. Marvin Hughitt, president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, was elected a director of the New York Central. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and Michigan Central roads to succeed the late E. H. Harriman. The general understanding in Wash ington is that the court of appeals will render its decision in the con tempt case against Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor within a week. Rankers from all over Illinois gath ered in Decatur for the yearly conven tion of their state association, over which James McKinney of Aledo pre sided. Episcopal churches in nearly all the larger cities of the union were repre sented in the national meeting of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at Provi dence, R. I. The Norwegian Sterk, a small freighter, foundered off the coast of Norway. The crew of 12 was lost. President Taft arrived at Los An geles, Cal., after his three days' trip in the Yosemite valley, much re freshed and enjoying especialy good health. The annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland was held at Chatta nooga, Tenn.. Washington Gardner of Michigan delivering the oration. St. Charles, Mo., is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary as a city with an elaborate program of parades, sports and receptions. It is known in reliable quarters at Washington that Minister Charles R. Crane, whose sudden and mysterious recall by Secretary Knox as he was about to sail for China, was occasioned by developments involving the ques tion of Mr. Crane's fitness for the post of minister to China. He has reached Washington and will have a confer ence with Knox. The fourteenth annual state confer ence of charities and corrections is in session at Peoria, 111. Census bureau authorities at Wash ington expect that fully 75 per cent, will pass of the number to be exam ined October 21) for the 3,000 addition al temporary positions in the census office. The government has instructed the postmaster at Tampa, Fla., to refuse to receive Cuban newspapers contain ing advertisements or accounts of drawings in the Cuban lotteries. Charles R. Crane of Chicago, min ister designated to China, was prac tically deposed by a demand from Sec retary Knox for his resignation. The latter charges Mr. Crane with indis cretion. The latter had already ten dered his resignation to President Taft. Five hundred homes were destroyed, more than 100 ships wrecked and many churches and cigar factories de molished at and around Key West by the recent hurricane. The loss of life appears to be very small. Judge Anderson at Indianapolis dis missed the proceedings against the proprietors of the Indianapolis News who were resisting removal to Wash ington for trial on charge of criminal libel in connection with the sale of the Panama canal to the United States. It has developed that the shortage in the Mineral Point (Wis.) First Na tional bank failure will reach nearly $•100,000. It. is said that Vice-Presi dent Allen has lost heavily in mining investments. President Taft' has left California and is now on bis way east and south. Maj Gen. A. E. Bates, retired, who was stricken with apoplexy in New York, remains unconscious and there is no hope of his recovery. Separation of state institutions from politics was announced as his policy by Lawrence Y. Sherman, chair man of the new board of administra tion, in an address at the Illinois con ference of charities at Bartonville. Gov. Brown of Georgia, in reporting Ihat the state will face a deficit of $728."566.59 on January 1. 1910. advo cates a constitutional amendment per mitting the issuance of SOOO,OOO in bonds. H. E. Burnharn. city attorney; I J. Dunn and John Ryne, representing Omaha in a lawsuit, were cited by the supreme court for alleged contempt in unwarranted criticism of Judge T. B. Kose, who wrote the opinion in the case. The Eastern Illinois Teachers' asso ciation held its twelfth annual meet ing in Danville, 111. LOST CHILDREN TURN UP THEY'WERE KIDNAPED FROM ST. LOUIS LAST AUGUST. Detective Finds Them Wandering Aimlessly on the North Side of City of Chicago. Chicago, 111. —Two Italian children, identeified from photographs as To masso and Grace Vlviano, who were kidnaped from St. Louis August 1! last and who have been sought since by the police of many cities, were found October 15 wandering aimlessly on the north side of the city by Detective Stephen Parodi of the Chicago Avenue police station. The children when found were sit ting on a curb stone at North Halsted and Reese streets. Both were weep ing, the little girl, who is less than four years old, sobbing bitterly, and Tomasso, her cousin, who is 7 years old. trying to comfort her. Detective Parodi took the children in his arms and asked them where they lived. Tomasso said that he did not know. Remembering the Viviano case he asked Tomasso if his name was Vivia no. The boy nodded his head as if to confirm his identity. The detective hurried with the children to the Chi cago Avenue police station. Photo graphs of the missing St. Louis chil dren were procured from the central detective bureau and Inspector O'Brien was convinced on comparing them with the homeless foundlings, that they were the long sought victims of the St. Louis kidnaping which had taxed the ingenuity of the detectives in many cities for weeks. Tomasso, the elder of the two chil dren, was asked by the inspector and Capt. Rehm where he and Grace had been since they were taken from their home in St. Louis. The child could give no intelligent answer. He said he did not know where he lived and could give no account of his abandon ment. Inspector O'Brien notified the St. Louis postoffice of the recovery of the children. PRESIDENTS EXCHANGE VISITS Diaz Leaves Mexico to Meet the Head of Sister Republic and the Latter Returns the Call. El Paso, Tex. —On October 16 was witnessed the most spectacular inci dent in President Taft's long trip the meeting between him and Gen. Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mex ico. For the first time in his long reign as head of the sister republic. Gen. Diaz left the confines of his country. To do honor to the chief executive of his great neighbor he crossed the Rio Grande river and set foot on the foreign soil of the United States. Not to be' President Taft immediately returned the call by crossing over the Ciudad Juarez, thus breaking what was long consid ered an unwritten law that the presi dent of the United States should not leave this country during his term of office. Moreover, Mr. Taft again crossed over into Mexico late in the afternoon to attend a banquet. PAYROLLS KEEP EXPANDING Improvement Is the Order of the Day in Trade, Collections and Industry. New York City.—Bradstreets says: Improvement is the order of the day in trade, collections and indus try. Colder weather, freezing temper ature, light snows or killing frosts, coupled with freer crop movement, have helped retail trad/; and collec tions at the west and northwest, while lower temperatures and high prices and free marketing of cotton have helped distribution at the south. Job bing trade lias been coincidently bene fited by reordering to lill broken stocks, and tin- distribution trade side presents a very favorable appearance. From industrial lines the same story of full order books and of longer hours now comes, payrolls are expanding and available skilled labor is reported closely employed, with less idleness noted than for two years past. Wanted to Kill President. Albuquerque, N. M. —Shouting vainly "Where is Taft? 1 want to kill him," Thomas Thorp, an aged prospector, ap proached Policeman Guvera a few min utes alter President Taft ana party had reached Albuquerque. Thorp was arrested. Nurses Goon Strike. Charlotte, N. C. —Eleven nurses, claiminc ill-treatment, constitut' -1 ' ii><> antired staff of St. Peter's hospital, ex cept for the head nurse and superin tendent. have struck.
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